Group Patriot Prayer said the potential for violence isnt worth it. The founder joey gibson Just Announced on his Facebook Page his group will not hold the rally at crissy field. He said, they felt peoples lives would be at risk and extremist groups from both sides, and temper and white nationalists would not be turned to write. It seemed to be a set up, he said. They will meet at 2 pm in the city at alamo square park. They have canceled the crissy field ryal rally. San Francisco Police have been preparing at crissy field and this switch could throw a wrench in their plans. Tara moriarty joins us. Reporter you can see the fencing is up here at crissy field, where the group was to have had its rally. They have changed locations. There having a press conference in march at alamo square park. That is raising more security concerns. Our rights are not a threat to yours ask god now your bigotry is a threat to hours extra Reporter City leaders sent a message to anyone planning to attend satu
Our voices. We have to stand out. We arent calling for violence, the violent people are the fascists and the White Supremacists. Police are making plans to keep the Opposing Side separated. The mayor of berkeley urges people to stay away and instead attend a counter demonstration at uc berkeley. Counter rallies started today hundreds turned out at city hall. Tara moriarty was there. Reporter the fencing is already up at crissy field. It looks like the rally wont happen here but at alamo square. Thats causing security concerns. Our rights are not a threat to yours your bigotry is a threat Reporter City leaders are sending a message to any white supremacist planning to attend saturdays prayer rally. To those who seek to understand undermine our spirit and think the First Amendment protects their violence, you are not welcome in San Francisco its important that we are here together the day before hate shows up on our shores reporter leaders were concerned the rally slated for 2 pm at cris
It just made second landfall, the eye of the storm came back and hit another area along the coast. Here in galveston, this area has actually escaped much of the brunt and the for us, we are not getting much rain here. We were getting it in waves. It has been quite a while since we have seen one of those waves of rain. We are getting a lot of wind, trees are blowing around, and if we were out a little farther, it would be hard to even stand up. This area has not seen a lot of rain. That is important because if you are people were really worried about flooding and storms. I would stress that this is a serious storm. Hurricane harvey is now monstrous. We are predicting extreme events. I am worried about flooding. Last minute evacuations have been taking place all across the gulf coast. It is not worth the risk, not with our kids. We were not going to risk it. With Hurricane Force wind moving in, there is a possibility of several days of heavy rain and record flooding, which could cause ma
It has now made landfall overnight. Residents are facing a very long wet weekend. Thats galveston this morning. Its wet and the winds are strong. This is the strongest year came to hit the United States in more than a decade. We will talk about its path, the damage and how the government is responding. Rosemary is keeping an eye on that for us. Much calmer here. We still have our own weather issues. I will track Hurricane Harvey coming up on the next break. As you said the heat is going to be on and we have heat advisories in place. For parts of the weekend. Lets take a look. We have a beautiful shot from San Francisco. The low clouds have filled in once again. We are likely to see sunshine later this morning. And in the afternoon. Temperatures will begin to warm. Heres a look at the two advisories we are tracking. Excessive heat warnings for the hills. For our northbay hills and east bay hills, and down through the day yeah blow range. This stars a little this morning. It will go all
And were looking at 65 in concord and livermore. So that was our east bay hills shot, mt. Diablo, temperatures climbing through the 90s by noontime. 106 in our inland east bay. And we will be almost as hot tomorrow. So a bit of a relief throughout the middle of the week. But dont get used to it. More heat comes into play as we welcome in september. Chris . Lisa, thank you. This morning, San Francisco police are calling the city safe after officers helped prevent two right wing protests from happening. The focus moves to berkeley where an anti marxist rally is planned this afternoon, but yesterday thousands of people turned out in San Francisco to promote an anti hate message. Abc 7 news has a roundup of the protests. Reporter the fencing and barricades went up and heavily armed police were on the streets and rooftops. San francisco was ready. Im very proud of how we have communicated and how we have responded to the will of the people to get out and express themselves, but do so peacef