happening right now, hurricane isaac makes landfall punishing winds and heavy rains have hit several gulf cities tonight. the impact could get worse. and here in the bay area a woman is kid mapped and sexually assaulted by a man posing as a police officer. the warning for residents in one normally quiet east bay city. i m dan ashley. i m carolyn johnson. the rapist posing as a law enforcements officer may not be the only one preying on women in pleasanton of the alan wang is live at the intersection where a police impersonator pulled over his victim. alan? carolyn, this where the fake cop reportedly pulled over his victim on august 5th. she was so traumatized being raped at gunpoint she didn t report it until recently. this is actually the second sexual assault this month. highly unusual for the town of pleasanton. it is pretty shocking. i have lived here a longtime, and i haven t heard of any violent crime here. news of a rapist posing as a police officer has pleas
medley sprang into action. good evening. that fire happened on lake drive just before 9:00 o clock this morning. vick lae hash@ñ the story. we saw the house was on fire and there was a person at the window trying to, calling the emergency number. reporter: gomez was with other workers next door at a house under construction. that was about 8:45. when the fire started in the split level home here at the end of a cul-de-sa cul-de-sac. firefighters had yet to arrive. so the workers took matters a into their own hands. they went to the rescu rescue. of the person in the second floor bedroom. we ran and got a ladder. we got him down. then he said there was a child in the back room so we ran to the back and broke a few window trying to get in but there was no dark with smoke so we couldn t get in. reporter: gomez told us the second flar hallway was engulfed in flames and that the child was in a back bedroom which opened up into the hall wait a minute he told us that there wa
southbound 280 on the off-ramp here s a live shot, bay bridge toll light now. it is monday, a lot of kids are off school. hope you had a good one, 5:01. i m katie marzullo in for eric thomas. it is a sight to behold, but don t look. amy hollyfield is live on treasure island. what is going on? reporter: they say it is going to be impressive, but you are not to look when you are driving up there so we want you to look now so you don t have to peek when you are up there. we have an animated version of what they are going to be doing. so look now. they will be installing a 2047 foot long cable, going to take rq to put night place. authorities are putting out an urgent plea that you don t look when you are driving up there they say you will be able to see it when you are up there that s why they provide add animation there will be a live camera feed online we ve provided a link to all of that on abc7news.com. it is going to take them a few days to get this into place. this
come home by the end of the year. after nearly nine years, america s war in iraq will be over. the thing i wouldn t do that the president is doing is telling the enemy how many troops you are going to bring out and when you are going to bring them out. i don t think that is a good strategy. iraq wanted american troops to stay but they would not be immune to prosecution but some will stay to guard the embassy in baghdad. today the war has cost the lives of 4400 american fighters and more than 32,000 have been wounded. in terms of money, the united states has spent more than $700 billion on the war but the president s decision now comes the debate on the timing and what was accomplished over there. jonathan bloom is here with that story. the one thing that everybody seems to agree on, they are glad that our troops are coming home. as for what the war accomplished, we found optimism as very frank criticism. that was inside and outside the u.s. military. you have to ask t
it is. and kind of making plans for what you re going to do. and raising a family and all that kind of stuff. you don t know really what to do when it turns out that s not going to happen. gupta needs a bone marrow transplant and friends are organizing marrow drives like this one in his name. his mentor to finding creative solutions to marketing problems is upping the ante. i said very simply, i care very much about amit. so here s the deal. if you end up being a match, i d like you to make your own decision about whether you want to donate or not. that s none of my business. but i d like to reward you for taking action right now today, so if you re the first person that s picked as a match for amit, i ll give you $10,000. now the reward is up to $30,000. it s not payment, that would be illegal under federal law. but rather an incentive for people to take the time to register. particularly south indians because there are so few of them in the national marrow registry.