Stories of pedestrians on city streets. Traffic crashes have killed 21 people so far this year. Compare that to 23 in all of last year. The most recent death happened sunday afternoon on ofarrell and taylor streets. A couple visiting the city for their anniversary can be seen in the upper lefthand corner of this surveillance video. A black tesla hits them. We stopped the video before impact. But it claimed the life of benjamin dean. On thursday, 54yearold Michael Evans was hit while crossing the street a few blocks away. Advocates hoping declare a state of emergency will free up funds to make changes to high risk neighborhoods. Like the tenderloin. One idea theyre pushing for, take away all the oneway streets here. Its proven that when you have traffic, cars stretch much more slowly. And thats something that can save peoples lives, when speed is such a factor in fatal collisions. We want to lower speed limits in San Francisco. We believe in neighborhoods like the tenderloin that has th
Heard someone breaking into the home around 9 30 this morning and called police who quickly responded. Sky 7 flew overhead as investigators searched for evidence. We do a pretty good job of remaining vigilant. Were all active on next door and whats app. Neighbors identified the victim as a beloved grand foreknown by most of the people on the street. Is he believed to have been home alone at the time of the invasion. The manner in which he died remains unclear. Vincent sanchez family friend never thought something liking this could happen here. It was a completely sebsless act and its hard to believe that this happened in this community. Reporter and just moments ago, neighbors were allowed back into their homes. But at this point, a suspect has not been identified or apprehended. Live in san jose, chris nguyen, abc7 news. Thanks very much. Happening now in oakland, a vigil about to get under way to protest the pending i. C. E. Raids. This issue seems to have only two sides. It starts o
People in San Francisco have been rallying all day but we will start in the south bay with ann rubin workgroups wanted to make sure immigrants knew their rights if ic shows up. Reporter volunteers have been handing out cards and putting up posters. They said to report i. C. E. Activity and to see something and Say Something if you see someone being detained. Reporter in Santa Clara County the immigrant county community is when the steps happen i feel more scared than angry. Because i dont want to lose them. I dont want to raise my son by myself. I am 18. Reporter fear and panic is what Community Leaders want to avoid. They say that is why the Rapid Response network exist. Created after the 2016 election, it is a 24 hour hotline to give immediate help if and when i. C. E. Shows up. We can give you information at that moment and connecting with people who can be at your house within minutes. With legal representation as well. Reporter intended to inform people of the rights and the commu
Capital. Its definite now leaders somewhat difficult nations using the c. F. A. Front the 8 countries in the region under the west African Monitoring Union have decided to go ahead with the rollout of the proposed west africa single courtesy the aecl they said they are there for decided to go ahead with the process and any other country but wants to join or who are not decided to join can join later so in the next few months we will see the roll out of this currency in west africa that is going to be. Legal tender in this region a question was for to president ouattara the president of ivory coast and was president of this conference and he went on whether or not the new currency would be a problem with existing currency to which he understood the issues. The Exchange Rate between the existing front see if they and the euro will remain the same with the echo comes on board today the Exchange Rate is 655. 00 to the euro before the heads of state decide to join next year the rates will n
Say that this investigation is carrying on meanwhile the British Ministry of defense has decided that it is going to fast track the deployment of another war ship the h. M. S. Duncan which has been on drills in the black sea it is now heading straight to the gulf where you may remember there was an incident over the last few days where a british warship there the h. M. S. Montrose had to intervene so the british say between 3 iranian vessels that they thought were threatening a British Oil Tanker now this boosts the British Military presence or will do when the action is duncan gets there and is a direct response of whats happened in the rising tensions in the gulf the british feel that there is a direct threats to their shipping in the gulf and they have raised security levels to level 3 for Merchant Shipping there which is the highest possible level. Still have foiled the program Syrian Government forces are on the defensive off to rebel fighters launched a furious onslaught in hama