And website. Im so excited to be here. Reporter the robin hig den and crew are in casper, wyoming, where viewing for the eclipse will be amazing. The exploratorium and nasa will provide a live stream of the event. Well see stars ab planets and then the beautiful corona of the sun. Reporter it stretches from oregon to south carolina. Where an estimated 7 Million People are expected to travel to prime viewing locations. Creating miles of grit lock traffic. Eclipse viewing glasses selling fast. In total we will have sold 26,000 glasses. Reporter San Francisco opthalmologist said dont even try to view the eclipse with the naked eye. The consequences in vision could be anywhere from just a slight distortion in vision to actual dark spots on your vision. Reporter be aware of counterfeit glasses. Don posting this message to vendors to provide document and look for this seal from the International Standards organization telling you they are safe and legit. Abc 7 news. Tonight it is hazy above
195818 was last time a Solar Eclipse stretched across the united states. After monday it wont be viewable until 2045. We are live in the exploratorium with details. The countdown is on to eclipse mania. That is what everyone around here is calling it. The exploratorium holding a viewing party on monday and handing out pairs of the eclipse glasses. But not many because they ar super hard to find these days. And what is an eclipse without music. If the eclipse had a soundtrack. It would be this. The sun is providing will give us some sonic back drop. The quartet is rehearting this 30 minute score written for the eclipse. Images will be son fied and turn into a stellar background. The music could be heard on monday on the exploratorium app and website. Im so excited to be here. Reporter the robin hig den and crew are in casper, wyoming, where viewing for the eclipse will be amazing. The exploratorium and nasa will provide a live stream of the event. Well see stars ab planets and then the
Now from abc7 live, breaking news. And that breaking news is in san jose where spewing flames forced more than half a dozen homes to evacuate. The video up loaded to instagram shows a dangerous scene facing firefighters. Good evening. Im dan ashley and ama daetz has the night off. This house fire forced the evacuation of an entire city block tonight. It started at dinner time, about 7 15. One viewer shared this video showing flames and thick black smoke filling the air. A power pole and gas meter caught on fire. All homes were evacuated. Abc7 news was in the neighborhood as the smoke still filled the air nearly two hours after the fire started. Look at the scenes. The gas meter complicated things for the firefighters. When we have a gasfed fire we cant put the fire out until the gas stops flowing. We had to call pg e out to get the gas turned off. They couldnt get their gas guy to turn off the gas until the electricity was secured because the power pole was on fire. As i said it was co
We cant put the fire out until the gas stops flowing. We had to call pg e out to get the gas turned off. They couldnt get their gas guy to turn off the gas until the electricity was secured because the power pole was on fire. As i said it was complicated. They shut off electricity to 350 customers so they could turn off the gas and then put out the flames. Despite the mayhem no one was hurt and four people are out of their homes tonight. When you see news where you live use the hash tag on social media and you may see your picture here on abc7 news. A tuberculosis scare at an east bay high school. Officials sat Skyline High School in oakland held an emergency meeting for parents tonight after word a student has been diagnosed with active tau tuberculosis. Alyssa harrington went to the meeting and is in the newsroom. Health officials plan to test hundreds who may have been exposed. They are focusing on skyline and are investigating other schools and businesses where this person may have
The right medicine, and with doctors who help keep me healthy to begin with, we will thrive. I am beautiful in every single way words, cant bring me down now from abc7 live, breaking news. And that breaking news is in san jose where spewing flames forced more than half a dozen homes to evacuate. The video up loaded to instagram shows a dangerous scene facing firefighters. Good evening. Im dan ashley and ama daetz has the night off. This house fire forced the evacuation of an entire city block tonight. It started at dinner time, about 7 15. One viewer shared this video showing flames and thick black smoke filling the air. A power pole and gas meter caught on fire. All homes were evacuated. Abc7 news was in the neighborhood as the smoke still filled the air nearly two hours after the fire started. Look at the scenes. The gas meter complicated things for the firefighters. When we have a gasfed fire we cant put the fire out until the gas stops flowing. We had to call pg e out to get the ga