Now, the winds are going to be a factor. Look at them right now. Theyre gusting to 23 miles an hour in novato, 23 miles an hour at the airport. A brisk day today, cooler, sunshine. The sun is up at 6 23. Numbers early this afternoon, 60s to near 70. The clouds increase tonight. We have rain perhaps in the offing. Ill talk about it coming up in a few minutes. Happening now voters in france and abroad are reporter a contentious here in the bay area, french citizens are getting a chance to cast their ballot with some even lining up for hours. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson has the story. Looks like well move on to our next story and well have more details a little bit later in the newscast. Now, cafe ba steel in downtown San Francisco is opening at 10 00 to broadcast the results of the french president ial election. The final Runoff Election between the top two candidates will take place on may 7th. Back here at home, in the south bay, investigators are trying to determine the cause of a
Approval ratings reach an all time low. Burning for fuel, with devastatings consequences for environment. Hello, gunmen have killed 36 workers on an attack on a quarry in kenyas are mondehan are province. Katherine soy jin joins us. Whos claimed responsibility . Darlene, let me start out by saying the 36 bodies have been moved from the scene and are now in the mandera town. This attack happened at about midnight. The work has most of them who are not residents of mandera, they come from other parts of the country to mandera, they were sleeping at that time when the gunmen about 20 of them surrounded them and ordered everybody to get out of their tents and they lined them up and shot many of them. Some of them were told were beheaded as well. A person i was talking to at the scene said he saw two decapitated bodies. There were passers by, five of whom said they hid in a trench. There is a crisis meeting, being headed by the president , still waiting for official response. Why has this a
Airplane that disappeared over the java sea. Ftc and greek bailout. From london to sid any to san francisco, journalists and the world have stopped work and called on egypts government to set our colleagues free. It was a year ago today that al jazeerasaljazeeras peter greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested and imprisoned. Andrew simmons has more. Al jazeeras doha headquarters parking an anniversary we find hard to absorb. Reporting arrests of three of the networks journalists in cairo. Then 12 months behind bars for just doing their job right across the world there were newsroom vigils, protests outside egyptian embassies. Associate them with what egypt described as terrorists. All charges against correspondent peter greste, bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and producer Baher Mohamed were false. Bahers wife speaking from her home in jeement spoke of frustration. My life is wrecked and those of our children. In prison for a year for no justification or crime. Peter grestes par
Antigovernment rallies in germany. Opening day win details later in the program. The u. S. Justice department has charged two u. S. Citizens with conspiring to carry out a coup against gambias president. Let me remind you what happened on december the 30th. A group of soldiers attacked the president ial palace in the capital and four people were killed. President yah yah jameamay returned to the capital and announced the attack was based on disdenlts from thedissidentsin the u. S. Rob reynolds, tell us about this. Two dissidents came back from gambia and were arrested by u. S. Authorities. Their names are papa foul and cherno njae. A texas businessman. He according to alleged coconspirators was to have assumed the presidency of gambia if the plot had succeeded. He also financed the operation and purchased weapons to be sent to gambia. The plotters were trying to overthrow, as you mentioned yaya jamae who has ruled gambia with something of an iron fist for 20 years as part of his polici
Barr in london. A g7 meeting cancelled. A thrilling ticket at the world 2020 championship. Action from bangladesh coming up later in the program. Hello, malaysias Prime Minister has announced that the missing plairve airline malaysit went down in the southern indian ocean. There is no doubt none of the passengers survived. Based on the new analysis, aaid have computed that mh 370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the indian ocean west of perth. This is a remote location. Far from any possible landing site. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that we must inform you that according to this data, life of 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. While the news ends hope for the relatives of the missing most of them are from beijing, thats where Margot Ortigas has been following the situation. An hour before the Prime Minister of malaysia made the news public that the flight was indeed lost somewhere over the south indian ocean. This is