President at the oakland as will be speaking to reporters shortly about the big announcement this morning that the team has chosen the site for its new ball park. The team wants to build its field of dreams right next to leiny college. Our new sky map 7 on sky 7 shows exactly where it is between lake merit and interstate 880. The area has warehouses, parking lots, and offices. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is live at the site, matt. Reporter kristen, city leaders expect mixed feelings this morning about the proposal. Theyre excited that the as to want stay here in oakland, but theyre not sure that the peralta site is the best place to build in their city. Look at this video from sky 7. You can see the area that were talking about that you just described. The as are looking at breaking ground in 2021 and opening the new ball park in 2023. Of course a lot of other things have to happen before that including permitting, environmental approval, and ball park design. They also need to buy
More democrats in attendance than republicans was what he is vowing will be included in the plan and what wont. And he will be wining and dining Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi. All part of his strategy. Details and reaction from washington weighing in this hour, art laugher, and howard kurtz. A lot of good people. Dave dow driven higher by chevron, walt disney and verizon. Lets go to nicole pedallides on the stock exchange. Nicole a record day if your 401 k s and iras, Dow Jones Industrial average finishing higher by the 7 points, record across the board, dow, nasdaq and s p led by energy, lets look at apple, apple is the big story, stock is down 7 trading days, scooped up a lot of apple even though the doubled down today, big picture of the analysts very impressed with the latest developments in the iphone. We finally got it, a lot of anticipation, the iphone 10 is out and the 8 and the 8plaps and improvements to the tv and watch. And look at mcdonalds which has been under pressure th
Was on land. Five marines in critical condition. This is third major accident involving marines in the past three months. Two air crashes in mississippi and australia killed a total of 18 marines in july and august. New at 4 00, a supervisors committees has passed registration that would hide bar codes. Hd the reporter is live at city hall with the story. Reporter well, the bar code legislation is part of the citys war on car breakins. It is the most unique aspect of this war. And it falls right in line with police chief scotts vision. His focus. Which is prevention. Were seeing suspects who are organized, there are multiple groups. It is like it is the crime of the day. The crime du jour. Crime burglaries. So far this year more than 17,000 cars have been broken into. Some 3,600 more than the same time last year. And the thieves, theyre getting bolder. Richard hash moto is with the downtown merchants organization. He just breaks in nonchalantly and takes whatever and leaves. Theyre eas
Did they request a government plane for their honeymoon overseas . Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. And we begin with that horrific headline that emerged today, several days now after Hurricane Irma hit florida. Eight residents of a florida nursing home have died. The center evacuated this morning after an emergency call. Three people had been found dead inside. The home using generators no air conditioning in that sweltering heat. Everyone else then taken to the hospital today, which was right across the street. Several others passing away there. Their aging ranging from 71 to 99. Of course, the question tonight, how did this happen . And heres abcs chief National Correspondent tom llamas on the scene in florida tonight. Reporter from the air, a cruel scene. Senior citizens still in their beds, rushed to safety. Doctors and nurses surrounding them. A life and death situation at this nursing home, the Rehabilitation Center at hollywood hills. Th
Kristen sze. The traffic nightmare in the east bay is not going away any time soon. It began when one semi stalled, got hit by a car and clipped by a second driver of the secondses dead. Even now lanes are open. Abc 7 mornings traffic anchor alexis smith, any word on a full reopening night . No, they have not given us a solid timeline. Theyre working on it, thats gridlock on westbound 580 approaching eden canyon in the Castro Valley area. Getting close to seven hours now we have had total total total the roadway. Two lanes open as kristen mentioned, new as of 15 minutes ago. Looks like theyre making quite a bit of progress. Its a major project, having to offload the semis, get the cargo out of there. This is a long tedious process. Again, the two right lanes are open. Two left lanes are still closed. Theres a look at the work caltrans workers and chp doing doing. Obviously theyre not done yet. Zoom in on the traffic maps, 13 mile backup to state route 84 in livermore. Speeds, 2 miles a