Holding a rally together for the First Time Since becoming the official gop nominees. Lets heard it for the next president of the United States of america, donald trump. Reporter but today some of the focus still on the speech given by Melania Trump on the opening night. A trump staff writer apologizing for the similarities to the Michelle Obama 2008 speech. You work hard for what you want in life that your word is your bond, and you do what you say reporter she wrote in a statement it is her mistake saying she read her some passages from mrs. Obamas speech as a example of the messages she wanted to share and i wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. Mciver saying she offered her resignation but it was rejected. With more protests today in cleveland, a different kind of tension inside day three of the convention as two of trumps most attacked rivals, those he dubbed lion head and little marco is addressing a party st
Person called for help, hopefully well have that information on abc7 news at 11 00. Reporting live at pointos in San Francisco. A fire on the tracks at the walnut creek bart station brought service to a halt. The fire is out but Service Remains slow. Lisa amin gulezian is live from the station. Reporter a lot of progress has been made in the past hour or so. Take a look. You can see crews are working right where the fire started on the third rail on platform 2, the westbound side. Now, everything, however, is being singletracked from platform one. This whole thing start after 3 00. Thats when the fire was first spotted. Smoke could be seen for miles. The fire ran about 50 feet and took firefighters about 30 minutes to put it out. They think a faulty power pickup paddle is to blame. Those paddles move and send power into the train. Sometimes thats get stuck in an up position and if they do, they make contact with that fiberglas covering, which would have the potential to set it on fire.
Sounds that greet delegates most of the time. [ music playing ] reporter street musicians and vendors hocking their goods. Even with todays incident, chief williams told us things have been nonviolent at the Half Way Point of the convention. Pretty calm so far. It has. Folks are out here to exercise their Constitutional Rights and were here to protect them. Reporter and in the end two Police Officers suffered minor injuries and three arrests, three times more than there have been up until to point. And the show in the arena is going on and started on time. Were hearing from Florida Governor were hearing from the Florida Governor as we speak. Many bigname speakers on tap for tonight, some of them formerly bitter rivals of donald trump. Well have more tonight on abc 7 news at 6 00. Live in cleveland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Marco rubio among them. Thank you. A longtime trump staff writer is taking the blame for melania Trumps Convention speech controversy. Mir dig mciver took responsi
Sutro baths. Rescue teams quickly mobilized using jet skis and boats. The person who called for help said a man fell into the water off 50 to 100foot cliff. A coast guard rescue boat was able to retrieve the man but this rescue did not have a happy ending. The units retrieved the victim from the water ask and he was transported by the coast guard to marin, the base for the coast guard. Unfortunately the adult male has deceased. Reporter at that time battalion chief says this is unfortunately not the first water rescue they have had to respond to out here recently. He warns the cliff and coastal winds can be tricky and visitors should stick to the trail. Theres a few details we do not know, including how the person fell into the water and an identity of the person and the person called for help, hopefully well have that information on abc7 news at 11 00. Reporting live at pointos in San Francisco. A fire on the tracks at the walnut creek bart station brought service to a halt. The fire
Hot inland. Temperatures a big range out there by 4 00. 62 all the way to 100 degrees. As i mentioned, most areas a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. Livermore was 102. And rafael, forecast high of 83 degrees. Well talk more about the cooler forecast with the weekend outlook. Sal is standing bit mark, it has not changed that much. Just minor data. Mine more changes are temperatures here. Some morning fog, sunny, 60s to 100s. We have been saying that for the last four or five days. Since monday. Thanks. Finally new material this weekend. Thank you, mark. Appreciate that. Lets go out to the macarthur maze. Looking pretty good here at the maze coming around the corner to the bay bridge toll plaza which has not been really busy. This is a look at some track here. About a fiveminute delay. Definitely is a little bit better than normal. Driving through the livermore valley, not a bad commute here. Traffic continues to look good as you drive over to san leandro, hayward, east bay commu