Save up to 15 at the ikea kitchen event. Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A grim discovery in the east bay has the family of a missing San Francisco man desperate for good news tonight. And i just hope and pray that body part doesnt belong to my husband. Good evening. Im kate larsen in for eric thomas. San Francisco Police confirm tonight that human body parts were located in a hayward warehouse, and that warehouse is associated with a person of interest in the disappearance of piseth chhay. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard is live at San Francisco Police Headquarters with the new developments. Reporter kate, it could take several days to identify those remains. The family is helping with dna samples. For them, so much anguish about a missing husband and father and a good friend they thought they knew. And he said they found a body part today. Reporter rattana kim talks about a call from San Francisco police. A grim development in the case of her missing husband. 48y
Two years ago. He is still awaiting trial. Backers of the bill say he should have never been in the u. S. But critics say this would not have prevented her death because he served 15 years in federal prison and was only in San Francisco because of a mistake by the bureau of prisons. In recent years, Border Patrol caught him every time he attempted to cross. He was only in the city because the u. S. Justice department failed to do its job. Not all democrats are opposed to the bill. 24 democrats voted for kaits law. The Steiner Family lives in his district. In a statement today, he said this bill is not perfect and its shameful that the republicans did not allow any debate debate to improve it. But it does improve our ability for individuals who break the law. He hopes kaits law will pass the senate but it will take 60 votes. Another version of daits law came up short in the senate last year. Have you heard any statement or comment by kaits family. Reporter we were able to reach represen
Christi, theyre on the lens, before 7 00 our time with sustained times. Thousands of people has a dire warning to residents saying if youre not evacuating, write your name and Social Security on your arm. The president signed a disaster declaration. Lets take a look at live doppler seven right now. This is a life threatening storm and made land fall. Land fall was at 7 00 our time. Near rock port texas and the eye of the hurricane continues to turn on shore with bands of heavy rain. And warnings are up and tornado as this tremendous amount of water moving on shore with this category 4 storm as this hurricane, quite a bit of moisture. Current winds sustained 130 miles an hour. It is going to be days of rain, if you take you through the rain fall projections from now until wednesday, up to 40 inches of rain expected in isolated areas, 15 to 30 inches 0 f rain from any part. They did report a wind gust of 132 miles per hour, storm surge will be dangerous. The wind gusts will be powerful.
It has now made landfall overnight. Residents are facing a very long wet weekend. Thats galveston this morning. Its wet and the winds are strong. This is the strongest year came to hit the United States in more than a decade. We will talk about its path, the damage and how the government is responding. Rosemary is keeping an eye on that for us. Much calmer here. We still have our own weather issues. I will track Hurricane Harvey coming up on the next break. As you said the heat is going to be on and we have heat advisories in place. For parts of the weekend. Lets take a look. We have a beautiful shot from San Francisco. The low clouds have filled in once again. We are likely to see sunshine later this morning. And in the afternoon. Temperatures will begin to warm. Heres a look at the two advisories we are tracking. Excessive heat warnings for the hills. For our northbay hills and east bay hills, and down through the day yeah blow range. This stars a little this morning. It will go all
Now, from abc, tracking storms, and already, heavy rain and wind have caused damage, thousands are without power. Half a dozen homes had to evacuate. Emergency responders are at the scene. First. A strike on syria. President trump fires back, just days after the country used deadly chemical weapons on its own people. That attack tonight, to destroy an air base in syria was an effort to stop the country from launching any more chemical attacks. Syrian tv is calling it an act of aggression and there were deaths. We have team coverage. Reporter an attack on syria. The United States rapidly responding to the Syrian Government suspectly chemical attack on their own people. President trump ordering the strike, a show of military might against assad. Theres no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons and violated their obligations under the chemical weapons convention. Reporter u. S. Officials say it was the same base where the plane carrying the chemical weapons took off t strike happ