Abc7 news starts right now with live, breaking news. Good morning, im Carolyn Tyler, breaking news. Crews are a battle a three alarm fire in the Mission District near 16th and sharkwell. This is a driver picture from the south beach camera. The fire broke out just before 8 00 this morning at an auto bodyshop. You see the flames under thick, black smoke that had been rising into the sky. We are waiting on word from the San Francisco Fire Department on whether any residences are threatened or if there are any injuries from this blaze. And we have video from abc7 news viewer nina. This is another view of that chick smoke. You see its really black there and some flames. Firefighters are worried the building may collapse. We are joined right now on the phone by abc7 news photographer who is at the scene. Ron, can you tell what is fueling the fire . Is it tires or what is going on . This is a tire shop. Its a wheel repair service. They do wheel repairs, but mostly it is tires. So that seems
At that time. Tonight were learning he may not be the only one. Attorneys in the San Francisco Public Defenders Office tell us theyre seeing a disturbing number of cases against innocent people who were exonerated by video evidence. Vic lee is here with the story. In three cases, suspects have been arrested and charged with nel any crimes only to have their charges dropped because they were not the one thats committed the crimes. The public defender blames police for failing to investigate thoroughly. Police arrested danu damaron. He was jailed for two weeks before public defenders and investigators found security video that exonerated him. One camera recorded him hanging on a corner near the robbery. A block away, this camera showed several men walking toward the victim on the right of the screen. One grabs his phone. Both cameras have the same time stamp. In other words he couldnt be in two places in the same time. Mr. Damaron has nothing to do with the suspects. This man was accused
To making it to the president of the United States. Welcome everybody, im neil cavuto and this is your world and a crazy world at that. When investors see that some are or are not. Hard to peg this to the election or the hopeful closure. With the advance today and Technology Stock sewing back, stimulus could be on the way. Pinch me how many times youve heard that before. Following what is this incredible turnout that is happening everywhere. Hey, and neil. You see those stairs behind me. Up there on the second floor could be where the selection is decided possibly tonight, possibly in the next couple of days. I want to show you whats happening up there. Hundreds of thousands of mailin ballots are being counted there right now. They are being scanned for signatures and going into this extraction machine. Of the 3. 1 million absentee ballots requested statewide in pennsylvania, 81 where returned. That is huge. Pennsylvania could not count any of those ballots until today which is why you
Thats a strong indication he wants to come out. The president did tweet the Vice President is going to be doing this. If pence is out there and the president has already indicated he wants pence to take the lead, but this is a president even when he does come to the cameras to make a statement and says no questions, he ends up taking questions and engaging with the press. I dont think its a controversial statement to suggest that the president enjoys interaction with the press and sometimes cant help himself. Thank you, hans nichols. Now my panel, dr. George penjamin, exact director of the Public Health association. Elaina beverly is a former National Deputy director of american african outreach for the obama administration. Joe watthouse, under george h. W. Bush. And jameel for rolling stone. Many of us have been critical about how the president has handled this coronavirus situation from the beginning, starting with saying it was a hoax, then gradually coming closer and closer to rea
Force is preparing for a press briefing set to start at any moment. Youre looking at live pictures from the briefing room. The Vice President , mike pence, and other are expected to give an update on the federal governments response to the coronavirus. Were going to have live coverage as soon as it begins. Well see if the president shows up, as well. It comes as we see the number of cases spreading across the United States, now over 3,300 reported, with 63 deaths. Meanwhile, the white house is imposing new travel restrictions on the uk and ireland tomorrow, thats on top of current constraints already in place for much of europe, which has become the epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic. Right now, airports across the United States are facing huge delays, long lines, some hours and hours long greet americans being screened before reentering the United States and being allowed to go through customs. Lets begin our coverage right now with the latest efforts of the Trump Administration t