Ready to bring up the word impeachment just yet. pam grant lodes is here in studio tracking the latest in this fast developing story. Grant . grant the New York Times broke the story. The wall street journal, cnn and others are now corroborating it. And the allegation is explosive. Sending shockwaves through the political world and beyond. Tonight the white house says. Comeys account. Is wrong. Sources close to former fbi director james comey say comey wrote a memo following a one on one conversation with President Trump. In which the president asked him to end the investigation into National Security adviser Michael Flynn the president reportedly telling the former director quote, i hope you can let this go. Sources saying comey was so appalled by the request. He wanted to document it. The white house adamently denying the report in a statement reading while the president has repeatedly expressed his view that general flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the pre
Cool. Really a lot of people are outside. A lot of them telling me they are used to this. These are temperatures theyre accustomed to on a warm weekend here in the east bay. We talked to some people to see just how they were doing on this hot sunday afternoon. So, i was not staying cool. I was just burning up in the sun. Just walking around, going into toy stores and stuff to stay out of the heat. I saw that. Reporter that little boy we checked in with earlier today. He also told me his favorite ice cream flavors are strawberry, rocky road and birthday cake. Right about now i say yes to all three. Its pretty hot out here. Abc7 news. Thanks, melanie. Sounds good to me, too. If youre hoping for relief during the overnight hours, check this out. This is downtown walnut creek after 12 30 this morning. You can see the temperature is 77 degrees. Still quite warm out there. Also overnight, a warning about the fire danger because of the heat. San jose, a car fire quickly spread to the brush on
Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. We have a baby taken from a vehicle. Police radio dispatch puts San Francisco officers on alert to a baby kidnapping. Only on abc7 news was there when police rescued the child and arrested her alleged kidnapper. Good evening. Im kate larsen in for eric thomas. We begin tonight with the fast action that resulted in a happy reunion for that baby. Melanie woodrow is live at sfpd headquarters with details on how this ordeal for the babys parents ended with relief. Melanie . Reporter absolutely. San Francisco Police say this was a citywide joint effort to catch this suspect, and her choice of getaway transportation may have helped quite a bit. Within 30 minutes of getting a call for the kidnapping of this baby girl, police were patting down and cuffing a 36yearold suspect. Everybody got involved. This was a big deal. Reporter just before 9 00 a. M. On sherman street, police say a 6monthold was inside this vehicle while her father prepared a
Francisco to antioch has been feeling the heat. Abc7 was in san jose where nine cooling stations are open until 9 00 to give people a safe place out of the heat. Well begin our team heat with Melanie Woodrow whos at walnut creek. Are you hot out there . Reporter i am. Probably feels good in the air conditioned studio. In walnut creek its the best of the both worlds. You can be outside, get a little sun. If you get too hot, you can dip into any air conditioned stores around here. Just how hot is it . Take a look. We have a shot of the infamous temperature sign in walnut creek. About an hour ago, you can see it was 102 degrees. That was probably about 5 00. A little after 5 00 in the evening. Still over 100 degrees. Weve seen a number of people out here in downtown walnut creek. Of course, lots of them hanging onto ice cold drinks, ice cream, whatever they can do to keep cool. Really a lot of people are outside. A lot of them telling me they are used to this. These are temperatures theyr
Alongside a park. Thats on columbia square, near harrison street, south of market. The parents believed to be a homeless couple, had stepped away from the car. A couple here at the park decide to get some water for their baby, for the baby formula, and left the baby in the car seat. When they came back the baby was no longer there. Sfpd responded very quickly. Reporter witnesses saw the suspect get on a muni bus. Police quickly figured out which bus, and coordinated with muni, and eventually got the bus driver to stop at bay shore, and arleta. Thats where Police Arrested the woman for kidnapping. The baby is okay. The parentses are with the child now. Now as you mentioned, all of this happened within the course of one hour this morning. Thats why supervisor jane kim says shes actually going to honor the police for their quick work in recovering that kidnapped baby this morning. Reporting lie, joe vasquez, kpix 5. A high fire danger. Today in the south bay, a brush fire burned a little