in san francisco a 79-year-old woman was struck and killed by a taxi driver. witnesses say she was pushing a cart with cans before she was hit. get set to sweat this week as hotter temperatures are about to move in. we ll let you know how warm he get and how long in the accuweather forecast. i m kate larson in san francisco where there s a major bus reopening here at the salesforce transit center. what it means for your commute. abc 7 news starts right now. announcer: now news to build a better bay area. from abc 7. tonight we re learning new details about the woman who was hit and killed by a taxi in san francisco last night. she is the 15th person to die while walking or biking on the city streets this year. good evening. i m eric thomas. thanks for joining us. dion is off tonight. the crash happened just before 9:00 last night at fifth and market in the city s tenderloin district. abc 7 news reporter luz pena went there today and talked to some witnesses. luz? re
mateo jail on the rape charge. also false imprisonment. we tried to talk to the suspect at the jail, but he denied our request for an interview. police arrested 46-year-old tonye kolokolo in san bruno yesterday. a 25-year-old woman told police she called lyft for a ride early saturday after becoming intoxicated and that colocolopicolocol colocolopicked her up, but instead of taking her home he drove her to him home over an hour away in tracy and raped her. nbc bay area found a possible address for kolokolo in this tracy neighborhood and neighbors recognized him right away. he does right over there. yeah, i ve seen him before, and i see the lyft there all the time, yeah. reporter: neighbors say they ve never seen any police activity at the home and aren t close to kolokolo who they say has lived next door at least since 2017. we probably spoke two, three times in the past two years. reporter: the accusations unnerving to say the least. it s pretty terrifying, yeah.
and it is great to be back here all the time. a few years ago, after agreeing to write a book celebrating the centennial of grand central terminal, i casually suggested an audacious but catchy subtitle, how a train station transformed america. and almost immediately i was struck by second thoughts. individuals and events shape history, but could a single building? luckily, grand central s 100 year imprint on commerce and culture, its pivotal role in urban development, and codifying landmark and air rights, in shifting manhattan s cultural center of gravity from downtown in midtownstep manhattan, turned out to validate the subtitle after all. aell, a building, albeit monumental one, was one thing. could a single object be transformative? that question arose after the british museum and the bbc collaborated on the history of the world in 100 objects. that inspired a spate of collections on subjects including bird watching, the first world war, cricket, the future, the beatles,
where bolts are lighting up bay area tonight. this is kpix5 news. a show in the skies where bolts are lighting up the bay area tonight. good evening. i m ken bastida. i m elizabeth cook. brian hackney is here with a look at where the lightning will be most intense in the coming hours. you bet, liz. boy, theist a different kind of strike at at&t park tonight they saw a different kind of strike at at&t park tonight. viewers sent in from about 6:45 tonight there was amazing shots of lightning over the bay area. that s from south san francisco. if you were out of the fog and had a good view toward the west and the ocean, you saw some of it. there s a little more on the way tonight, even more tomorrow, hi-def doppler showing pretty good cells extending about 100 nautical miles offshore, but the heat of the sun is gone. that means a lot of the energy is taken out of the thunderstorms. if you look towards the south bay, right around cupertino on 280 west of san jose there
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