Bay area from abc 7. You rarely see this amount of stolen stuff at any one time. Its all worth about 2 million. The criminals were breaking into cars, homes, and stores to get it. Authorities label this effort operation low focus lens. Its their third big bust. The others were called operation tangled web this past october and operation wrecking ball last december. Good evening im dan ashley. Laptops, cameras, phones, and purses were just some of the stolen items authorities displayed in San Francisco today. Melanie woodrow is live in union square where some of the items are believed to have been stolen. Melanie. Reporter thats right. This is retail theft, package theft, and of course in San Francisco car break ins. Heres one of the things that these criminals were supposedly doing. They were taking stolen cell phones and then wrapping them in alumin aluminum foil in an attempt to block the signal and avoid detection. That didnt work. Tables of electronics, home care items, and womens
Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is going to get us through the commute in a bit. First meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the fire dangers in our area as well as some of those controlled Power Outages. The controlled Power Outages, the high heat, low humidity, were all the things that were watching this morning and well have to start out with some mild temperatures as you get ready to head out the door. We have some upper 60s in the trivalley, all clear skies. We also have some unhealthy air quality in the inland east bay as well as the south bay, and we want to make sure were trying to do our part in reducing the ozone emissions and Carbon Emissions as well. Our temperatures today in dublin will reach the low 90s by early afternoon. Well continue to go up from there, reaching the triple digits again today in many of our inland spots. Well talk more about this and the fire danger in a few minutes. Mike there are a couple issues in the north bay. There are. On the
The slow areas to start. Well track the trivalley. The Speed Sensors around the rest of the bay are showing a lighter flow of traffic including highway 4 which is at speed. There is a build starting subtly at the bay bridge. Developing on capitolill this morning, House Speaker nancy pelosi announcing a formal impeachment inquiry in to President Trump. The House Speaker accuses mr. Trump of betraying National Security and the integrity of american elections with his conduct. Today in the bays tracie potts live on capitol hill to break down what it all means. Tracie . Hey, laura, good morning. So what it is and what its not. Its not a finding of wrongdoing or even a charge for President Trump, but what it is, is a step forward for democrats in this impeachment journey. It is a formal inquiry now, so everything they do, the hearings, the testimony, the evidence, is now part of a formal process to determine if the president broke the law. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official, lawmak
We do have a few brake lights towards the high rise. Otherwise youre looking at a 14minute drive across from san mateo yo over towards foster city. Well look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Southbound you have four lanes of the commute direction, and just two lanes of the northbound direction. No fog. Perfectly clear out there with the almost full moon and traffic is light over the waldo grade into San Francisco. Well check on a motorcycle accident on the Altamont Pass in our next report. Uber says the bill likely to become law that would make its drivers employees doesnt apply to them. And this and other Gig Economy Companies are vowing to fight the sweeping changes. Jobina fortson is live at lyft headquarters. Good morning. Good morning. Lyft, uber, door dash and other Gig Economy Companies are vowing to fight a Ballot Initiative that would everturn this bill that would force them to reclassify drivers as employees. Ab5 was passed by the state assembly and moved over to governor newsoms o
Reporter overhead, davids friend and wingman, owen circled. He says he stayed calm but had terrifying moments. Once the plane sunk, it became really hard to spot them floating in the water. So there was one point where i actually lost visual contact of david, and i started flying away whe from where he actually was. Reporter david and kayla spent 45 minutes in the water with jellyfish stinging them. It was pretty cold water. Reporter the coast guard rescued them, hoisting them in baskets to a chopper. Now somewhether this was an accident or stunt, especially since david so calmly videotaped the ordeal and is known for posting stunts on social media. Consider the fact that i spent a quarter 34million on a plane. This was my baby, and i was pretty excited to be flying it everywhere. I have no interest in, you know, ruining my new airplane and putting it into the ocean. Reporter davids plane is now at the bottom of the pacific, with no plans of retrieving it. That means that ntsb investig