Year and still going through the justice system. The most prominent one the case of lisa weston from 2011, serving life for the cruel exploitation for four mentally challenged people. Forcing them to have sex with men and forcing them to fight with each other and stealing their social media. This is something thats that flown against the radar and i think that is nationally. Money could, look for major Ongoing Operations in this area that many believe is too low profile for far to long. Im vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. We are following developing news out of houston, texas, where both former president , George Hw Bush and his wife barbara are hospitalized. Bush sr. Was in the icu and had to under go a procedure after experiencing respiratory issues and the aide says the former first lady went to the same hospital after not feeling well for two weeks and that move was precautionary. Meanwhile, president elect donald trump is less than 48 hours from taking the oath of of
Right after the power went out around 9 00 this morning. Are you all right . Yeah, im okay. When they finally came and cracked it open enough where i can give him a bottle of water. Were restoring the electric. Reporter pg e crews doing their best to move through sluggish traffic caused by dark signal lights. While construction crews on Union Square Subway station had to adjust their work plan. We cant occupy anything underground and everybody has been evacuated. Were continuing work. Reporter businesses as big as macys were reduced to all day closures and scribbled door notes. They cant open this door for two reasons. Reporter how much business do you think youre losing . A lot. Probably 10,000 for now. Reporter doing his best to keep the restaurant running. Customers dining in the dark. He says without electricity, they can only do and serve so much. They decided to close seven hours early. Reporting in San Francisco, kate larson, abc 7 news. Good news, while kate was reporting we ju
My 17yearold are in there. Theyre not allowed to come out. I cant go in. Its concerning to see Police Outside with their guns drawn, right . I mean, we all want to be safe. But this is a little nerveracki nerveracking. Reporter the Police Station is very close by. This is berkeley. You see a lot of protest and Police Officers often, but nothing quite like this. Its pretty intense when its your block. I came home and saw the police tape up. Theyre telling me i cant go home and my family is inside. Im talking on the phone with my family and hoping that nobodys running around with a gun in my back yard. Were berkeley. We support the protests. Were the center of free speech but i want my family to be okay. Reporter again, a shelter in place. As i look around we can see a number of young people that are just sort of walking back on this Sunny Afternoon and also people just wrapping up today, finishing up their day from work and trying to get home. But police are going home to home searching
On this map. Reporter were at this perimeter at mckinley avenue. I want to take you over head to sky 7 live right now. Police officers have been going home to home. Theyve been searching backyards as well. They have canine units with them. They are looking for this gunman who was reported to be Walking Around this neighborhood at some point this afternoon. You did mention those shelter in place orders. Those are for four blocks. Theyre the 2200 block of mckinley. The 1800 blocks of austin and grant. A lot of people are just now getting home from work. Rather than being able to shelter in place, theyre sort of standing around waiting to see if theyll be able to go into their homes. One of them is katie. Youre outside but your family is in one of these homes right now. Tell me about the conversations youve been having with them. Im telling them get away from the windows, get upstairs. Make sure the doors are dead bolted and that theyre safe. My motherinlaw, my husband and my 17yearold ar
Eletrical equiptment was making it hard to put out so they brought in a Carbon Dioxide truck. It suffocates the fire and removes the oxygen and cools it downafter several hours the fire was finally put out and pge could tell us the cause of both that. And the massive power outage that effected such a large swath of the city. We had a Circuit Breaker fail it created a fire around the breaker the insulation around the breaker burned and thats what created the situationpge says exactly why the breaker failed is still being looked into. But its age relatedits simply old equiptment. They are in the process of spending 100 Million Dollars to upgrade that substation. Which is scheduled to be done at the sometime next year. maureen live no one was injured in that fireand so far theres been no reports of any injuries or traffic accidents related to this widespread outage. Maureen kelly kron4 news vicki the massive outage also took a toll on people and traffic in San Franciscos financial distric