Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc news. It is unanimous. Berkeley city Council Passed an urgency ordinance aimed at improving the safety of balconies in the city after last months deadly collapse. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Dan ashley is off. The collapse at an apartment complex killed six students and severely injured seven nearly a month ago. Abc7 News Reporter katie is live at Berkeley City Hall with the late breaking developments. Katie . Ama an attorney representing ashley donahos family says they called for balcony inspections every year. You can see the line of people posed to speak. A series of proposals to improve the safety of balconies from the frequency of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to be approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years. The donaho attorney called for every year. Th
Together, were building a better california. Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc news. It is unanimous. Berkeley city Council Passed an urgency ordinance aimed at improving the safety of balconies in the city after last months deadly collapse. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Dan ashley is off. The collapse at an apartment complex killed six students and severely injured seven nearly a month ago. Abc7 News Reporter katie is live at Berkeley City Hall with the late breaking developments. Katie . Ama an attorney representing ashley donahos family says they called for balcony inspections every year. You can see the line of people posed to speak. A series of proposals to improve the safety of balconies from the frequency of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to be approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years.
President obama expected to defend the Historic Nuclear Deal with iran later today at a news conference. But republicans in congress are blasting that new deal vowing they will derail it. Abcs bazi kanani joining us now from washington with more on that opposition. Good morning to you, bazi. Reporter good morning, t. J. Good morning, reena. It has taken years of diplomacy to get iran to the negotiating table and many months more to work out this deal, but the fight is not over yet. On the streets of iran, celebrations, the crowds hopeful for a Better Future after negotiators emerged victorious announcing they had finally struck a Historic Nuclear Deal with iran. The basic outline of the deal, iran will voluntarily cut back most of its Nuclear Activities for the next decade and submit to constant international inspections. In return, the u. S. And its allies will lift the sanctions crippling irans economy. But its not a done deal unless its approved by congress where the republican majo
Earths first look ever at the faraway icy world. The interstellar driveby nearly a decade and more than 4 billion miles in the making and what people are seeing on the surface of the former planet this morning. Good morning, america. Lets take a look at those photos. As you said nearly ten years in the making. There is pluto. Former planet. Its not a planet, right . Not a planet but look at those photos. 13 hours for those to get back to nasa. Huge cheers when it happened. Theres bill nye. That is so incredible. Were going to have so much more on those stunning images. We begin with a fourth straight day of Severe Weather thats been tearing a path across the country. 23 states hammered by those storms and nearly 900 storm reports in just the last 48 hours. Ginger has been following all of it for us. One of those states, arkansas, more than 80mileperhour winds knocking over trucks, certainly tree limb, a lot of folks without all that power and its hot too in a lot of these places. Almos
Of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to b approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years. The donaho attorney called for every year. There may be other buildings with this same design issue and problem out there. Why do i say that . We know these same contractors have had similar issues with other buildings that were built at the same time in other locations. Building organizations represents also spoke and they would like to form a task force to make sure changes made to the Building Code dont have uninend ited consequences. Unintended consequences. They asked them to pause after looking into the collapse. There were code amendments that make sense for the bay area for berkeleys nd. The city plans to hire certified professionals to do the additional inspection. At this point there is no word on how much it will cos