As women opted to stay home in protest. We checked in with San Francisco unified school and a representative tells us they had a typical amount of substitution requests no, no more than usual so schoo in session as planned. The International Womens day is being observed not just here in the bay area but across the country and around the world. Jessica castro is here with the round up around the world. There are many events going on. In fact, i want to give you a glimpse. This is a live image from new york right now where there is a march through manhattan and actually their in front of the Trump International hotel and tower right now. You could see many of them holding up signs, a lot of the marches have turned political. But i do want to show you other images coming in from earlier this morning, also in new york. Where several women took to the podium to share stories and that is the case across the world. This is an event that wrapped up just within the last hour or so. This is was
Member told abc 7 news hes known as friendly, regularly attends wednesday and sunday prayers. Today at the family home friends stopped by to pay respects. How is everyone doing . Just sad. My cousin came here. So i dont know. What would you like people to know about her . She was a very nice woman. Reporter as we speak, he sits in the Solano County jail without bail. Hes expected to be by the weekend. Did the suspect confess right away . No. According to the chief, he was calm in his demeanor. He was in the house according to the police when his two sons arrived home, they found this woman dead in the garage. The suspect was in the living room of the home with his wife and the 2yearold child. It was only later here last night at Police Headquarters where he started to according to police open up about what really happened. Laura anthony reporting live in si sun city i. A bad accident this afternoon. An suv that flipped over and then ran into two other cars this afternoon. Sky 7 flew ov
And stand up for the gender equality but i also support people supporting Small Businesses owned by women. Reporter todays event is organized by the same group that put together the Womens Marchs in january. This strike will draw attention to inequalities of women in the work place and reproductive rights. We know the event is starting around 5 00, there is also a march expected around 5 30. There is going to be an illuminated banner that will say women strike. Any word where they are going to march . Reporter no word yet but they typically march to broadway, then to 19th and then they come down to the plaza. I want to mention that the Oakland Police department has officers out here. They are here to keep an eye on things, they are foalg the march to see where it goes. Thank you christina. Hundreds of women also gathered in the south bay today but the large crowds could be deceiving when it comes to the numbers of women working in the hightech industry. We are live outside of city hall
Like if all women stayed home . Women are known for their emotional labor that they do at work. They are nurturers. They make your day better. Women have such a huge part in every type of job that there is. If every woman left, there would not be a world. Reporter thank you for joining us, i wanted to give you guys one more look, this is a strike against sexism banner. It will be lit when it gets dark. There are a lot of groups organizing for this event. They are marching to the alameda sheriffs office. They will end up back at the plaza. A large crowd for International Womens day in oakland. As you look at the crowd, you can see that some guys show showed up as well. Reporter yes, the majority here are women but there is aftereffort by both men and women. Thank you christina. Now to San Francisco where a crowd of 500 men and women attended a rally and marched to the immigration headquarters. The crowd is angry that President Donald Trump is stepping up deportations. There were other r
Mountains. The second one is coming developing rapidly behind that. Well get some morning rain. Could be a light more steady rain starting to develop a little bit to the west and weve had a few reports to the north but its kind of hit and miss here up to lake county. Were waiting for that to kind of moisten things up. And then they will all pick up throughout the day. It will be later on as that whole system develops. Right now things are pretty quiet. Look for cloudy skies and by tonight thats when this all develops rapidly and were already seeing signs of that. 60s, upper 60s, low 70s. Theres a really big difference in the high temps. All right allie. 5 01 things still quiet or picking up . Things are picking up. With a little bit of rain tomorrow thats when we all see those spin out crashes. I think tomorrow might be a different story. lets start with today. Your commute coming through tracy. Its getting a little more crowded as you head through westbound 580. Although its a litt