Devastating wildfire. How a bay Area Organization is trying to help those who lost everything. And cutting the cord with and how the bay areas largest city is looking to create its own Utility Company and what it would have to do to get the approval. My from jaclyn square. This is morning time to the nine and good morning. Todays tuesday, august 15th. Were looking live at the bay area here. A little bit of congestion or i would say congestion, cloud cover coming over the bay. You see the san mateo bridge in the background. We have to continue to follow the news out of hawaii where its now been one week since the deadly fires broke out in maui. And crews are continuing to sift through the ruins of lahaina. The confirmed number of deaths has now climbed to 99. And keep in mind, hundreds of people are still unaccounted for in a city where about 12,000 people did once live. As jake kerr, alexis tells us only about 25 of the burned out area has been searched so far. A week after the deadlie
Local officials look to pump the brakes on waymo after state regulators gave the driverless car service the green light, despite local opposition. Good evening. Im ama daetz and im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Well have that story for you in just a moment. But were going to start here with a serious situation today. Inconvenience certainly at sfo traffic just came to a standstill for hours today at the International Terminal. Propalestinian activists demonstrating outside and inside the terminal demanding a ceasefire in gaza. Abc seven News Reporter suzanne fawn has the impact. The protest had on both travelers and airport business. They sang, they clapped, they drummed. Hundreds of protesters shut down part of the International Terminal at San Francisco airport to get their message across. Today heres how things looked from sky seven. We cannot stay an orderly any more. Demonstrators say it was part of a global day of action to demand a permanent ceasefire in gaza and an end to
Handling this race . Well, as far as liccardo . Hes very happy to be in a clear first place. Now the two candidates fighting for second place are saying, lets wait and see what the results are. Those results you just gave, by the way, came in just under an hour ago. Different from what we reported earlier at for these updates coming in fast, but all the eligible mail in ballots, like you said, have been received. Of course, every count is going to matter in this race, but we heard from the candidates and a political expert about what happens next. Sam liccardo, evan lowe and joe simitian have been leaders in the race for the district 16 congressional seat. The spot is opening up for the first time in more than 30 years, as representative anna eshoo retires, with liccardo leading lowe and simitian by a relatively wide margin. The Associated Press already called the election in his favor, but the battle for second place is far from over. Whoever wins will advance to novembers runoff to r
Some Business Owners say so far this year its happened 19 times in counting. Our hands are tied because theres really nothing we can do besides sit around and wait for pga to do better. No electricity twice on monday, once out during lunch, then during dinner, leaving hungry customers and busy cooks in the dark. We have checks that need to be paid out. We have guests who are sitting and not sure what to do. We have a kitchen thats halfway through their tickets, cant see what theyre making. Its tough on the restaurants because you know, we have so much refrigeration and equipment and people say, why dont you get a generator . And its like, i need 20 children. Rubio, owner of petes brass rail, says food is spoiled and thousands of dollars has gone out with the garbage in recent months. The biggest fear now, not knowing when or if it will happen again. Im like rushing today, trying to get, you know, ring some credit cards in before i think the powers going to go out because once that goes
Safety advocates say theyre fed up. That hit was,eaction when i saw here we go again. Weve had two pedestrians killed in redwood city in the last month, two cyclists killed. A little bit further south. They wrote a letter demanding san mateoucounty take action. The only way to solve these problems is much more investment and safe street infrastructure. They also filed a condition at e represents a rather dangerous hazard. And this group of two. E the driver responsible might live nearby for that reason. Weve been out here every day leafleting. The Highway Patrol has returneduto the scene, knocking on doors. Were hoping to find in or that someone else will. We want this guy to face the he did and for what he failed to do. The victim in this case has been released from the hospital and is road to recovery. Chp is handling the case, and theyuask that anyone them. Greg or julie. Hopefully this leads to some mateo county and thank youn well, new at five tonight. Seven people were hurt when