Larry beil. Check out the super bowl sign behind us, its wonderful. Super bowl week is finally here. Live overlooking super bowl city from the top of our abc 7 broadcast center. Yes. The weather people have given us permission to be up here. For now. All right. We begin with an afternoon scare for the Denver Broncos today. Two buses carrying players were involved in an accident following their practice today at stanford. Happened at southbound 101 at ellis street south of moffitt field. The team was heading back to the hotel in santa clara when one bus ran into another and a chp motorcycle officer ran into one of the buses. The officer had minor injuries. The team says no one from the broncos was hurt. Outside linebacker Demarcus Ware tweeted the photo of players standing alongside their bus. He posted to keep the day interesting, we have a small wreck. Looks like everyone is okay, though. Yeah, more interesting than they would prefer. I think so. The super bowl is creating obviously a
Broadcast center, this is abc7 news. Now at 11 00, activist action just steps away from super bowl city. Hundreds of protesters hit the streets in San Francisco to call attention to the citys homeless crisis. Plus, super gridlock. Super bowl road closures combined with that protest made the evening commute a slow crawl for bus passengers. But the show goes on. Thousands of football fans packed into super bowl city tonight. We are now just four days away from the big game. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Lets get to abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow who is live with our developing story. Melanie . Reporter ama and dan, it is incredible the difference it makes. Things are relatively quiet here, but earlier this evening if you were in this city or if you were trying to get out of the city it is a different story. Your San Francisco super bowl city experience depended on where you were at rush hour. Outside super bowl city hundreds of protesters marched. Sfpd was directly along
Homelessness. Reporter the protest is designed to grab tourists attention, but those near the freeways know there is ajf cri. Some might be persuaded to move into this 150 bed shelter that could open tomorrow. The director of Human Services says its an effort to protect them from the coming storm. Many have been on the street for a number of years, we need to get them indoors irrespective ofym whether there is a super bowl. Reporter he hopes this protest will capture attention and lead to more permanent solutions. We have a 15 Million Party there we werent invited to. Now, a live look from the visa everywhere cam, over super bowl city, everyone protestors and fans are hoping to stay dry. Spencer christian is live with the coming rain, spencer . Weve got scattered showers in the bay area now, it was looking like a fairly decent storm earlier is now dissipating. You can see over last hour, everything is shifting from west to east, pockets of light rain and showers, so at the moment we d
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So far the focus is just about shift down to levis stadium. Azenith smith is in santa clara where street closures are already in place. So how close can you get before you are turned away from levis stadium . Reporter not too close. As you can see here, theres a perimeter around levis stadium. The drive is closed in front of the stadium. Officers are working overtime to ensure no one gets inside. Come sunday, all eyes will be on levis stadium in santa clara. Massive vip tents are in the parking lot complete with signage, big screens and a super bowl 50 sign at the entrance of great america. Helen line is visiting from australia and says she has never been never seen anything like this before. Its really different to what we have. It is really grant, big scale. Its awesome. Good exposure. Reporter a Software Engineer mostly traffic closures, this whole week driving to work, the normal route is closed. So traffic detours, lots of loud noise and helicopters overhead. Reporter from the air