Home to find massive destruction. Israels 29 day offensive left 1,865 palestinians dead, most of them civilians, and more than 3,000 homes destroyed. With talks set to take place in cairo, is a longterm deal reachable . We will speak to author norman finkelstein. Then president obama signs a bill to send 225 million in emergency funding to israel for its iron dome defense system. But does the iron dome system work . I would not spend money on an intersector that has near zero chance of intercepting artillery rocket. The interceptor probably costs in excess of 100,000 per interceptor and it is maybe achieving a 5 rate, maybe. Could be lower, against rockets the cost may 1000 or 500 thousand dollars each. We continue our conversation with mit physicist theodore postol. Then the new york medical Examiners Office has ruled the death of eric garner a homicide. A new york man. [indiscernible] once again, the Police Beating up on people. Two weeks ago eric garner died when a new york police p
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning at 5 00 on tuesday. Back do work. Thanks for joining us. I am kristen sze. I am eric thomas. With traffic. And meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. Cloudy this morning. Check out winds blowing to the west. The wind property the clouds back as we expected and they have made for a mild morning temperatures are running in the upper 40s to mid50s. The 12 hour day planner shows clearing inland by noon and cloudy elsewhere, 56 to 60. And cloudy at the cost at 4 00, 54 but mostly sunny elsewhere in the mid60s. Enjoy the mild evening lowtomid 50s. Leyla is the traffic injuriable . Holiday is over. The long weekend over. You can see the toll plaza cars backing up and the center laps are lanes are moving fine though. Headed up to Mineta San Jose International airport we do not have delays and no accidents to report. We certainly hope it stays that way. Right new we have breaking news, the coast guard and agencies are brin
Personnel. She was taken to the hospital. A short time after that, a 54yearold man was found in the water and he was brought out of the water and was unresponsive. We were just told the family were notified that he has passed away and he died at the local hop l is a 22yearold man still out in the water and that is what is keeping the people out here. They will bring in the boats and the coast guard and start the search over hopefully when there is light out and they can get fresh crews and boats to continue the search. We will update you all morning right here. Sad situation. Developing news a pizza Shop Employee was shop by robbers in a brazen hold up at Little Caesars in el cerrito at 8 30 last night. Two armed suspects in hoodies entered the store and demand money from the young Woman Working there. She gave it to them and was shot in the hand as they took off. The suspects were seen running across the paing lot. The woman is expected to recover. At the Security Guard shot to death
And it is Little League day as well. Thank you. A 6 million wardrobe change for sfpd. They will all wear body cameras. They detailed a list of investments in the Police Department and the office that investigates police misconduct. With the current lack of trust between the public and Police Something has to be done. Chief greg says body cameras will keep everyone accountable. Its a win win situation that protects good people from bothsides of the lens. The officers know they are wearing them so their behavior is going to be better. By telling the citizens they are going to be on camera the citizens can behave better too. The price tag, 6. 6 million. Sfpd has to develop a body camera policy and purchase the equipment. Coming up at 6 00 back biting in the city. Why the San Francisco sheriff says the mayors plan is incomplete. Now to the weather. The summerlike weather in the bay area. In San Francisco, the temperatures pushed into the 80s today. Further away from the coast, much hotter.
Airlines, what have you. Theres two things that happen. Once a commission interests itself in a particular area, puts a sign out that says open for business, which is basically what we did when we did the open Internet Order, right . What happens . Firms realize, oh, i dont get to make money looking at customers and making investments, i make money by going to the regulators and getting them to favor me and disfavor others. The phrase economists use for this is rent seeking. And thats what it does, it opens up rent seeking. For 30 years we never had any complaints about interconnection. Since 2010 weve had a number of complaints. Why . Open for business. The second thing that happens, and this is, i think, the most dangerous part of it, is even though the commissioners may say, well, we want to limit how much we regulate, okay . That wont happen. They will be under constant pressure to expand the regulatory writ. And weve seen this happen now. Level iii, for example, in 2010 said lets