Department said its too early to definitively say it is arson. We want the evidence behind the facts. If we have to say that it is and arson case, we are able to take that with complete confidence. Reporter a letter posted on the churchs website, they informed Community Members about 4 00 a. M. Thursday morning. It said somebody set the church of ways. There was a molotov cocktail thrown on the church. I was very upset. I did not want anything to happen to our church. Reporter he was somewhat relieved when the church itself was spared. Ins dead, the fire gutted the neighboring property used as Church Offices and a Gathering Place for Community Members. As you can see the devastation is too much. I was not expecting it to be this bad reporter this is a second act aimed at this community this summer alone. In july a vandals crawled vulgar graffiti. Church leaders are concerned that the two incidents are part of a disturbing pap. We think there is a connection. It cant be haphazard. Its c
Ban on evictions in place really big win and just a huge relief for tenants across the city in a district overwhelmingly filled with renters city supervisor dean preston says he introduced the legislation to protect people. He feared without covid19 rent forgiveness, a wave of evictions would follow the small Property Owners of San Francisco weighed in on their failed attempt at suing the city over the eviction ban saying in part quote we are very disappointed in the decision we are not looking for ways to evict people we simply want the same rights in access to the state courts that any other citizens have the county board of supervisors has overstepped their Legal Authority they have the right to appeal and maybe theyll do that, but thats up to them but in the meantime, we know that for the foreseeable future this law will take effect it will stop any evictions preston has maintained the law does not mean the rent is wiped out renters will still have to eventually pay whats owed but
The credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. After an impressive lightning show earlier today, theres threat for more lightning overnight tonight. Well have the latest timing in the accuweather forecast. Pg e says customers need to be prepared for rolling blackouts. Hearing from people in bay area without power all weekend. American canyon, 18yearold employee was shot and killed, coworkers say he was delivering groceries. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Tonight the bay area still suffering from this weekends heat wave, which is far from over. Brace yourselves for another round of lightning, fires across the region and looming threat of Power Outages. Good evening, thanks for joining us, im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Right to busy abc7 meteorologist drew tuma with heat and lightning. Ingredients still in place to see more lightning next 12 hours. Was ac
Scale and scope of the crisis either. Reporter oakland was the last stop on the governors tour. The backdrop for his visit, 15 travel trailers, former fema trailers now owned by the state. The first of 100 to be deployed. I am thrilled to announce today that the city of oakland is accepting 15 trailers from the state of california. Reporter newsome says the trailers will provide temporary shelter for 70 people. Six of them will house homeless youth. The other nine will stay right here near the coliseum to house homeless families. The governors event was held just a few miles from one of oaklands largest encampments near the home depot on high street. There we found leroy silva trying to secure plastic tarps in the rain to protect what little he owns. The 50yearold told us he was born and raised in oakland and has been homeless in his hometown for 13 years. Hes not sure 15 trailers will make much of a difference. They put a lot of rules on everything that they want us to do. Thats why a
Max harris. Many family members clearly upset by what happened. We spoke to family members of two victims who died and heres what they had to say. Its just disbelief, im in shock. I dont know what else to say. We were hoping for justice. We did not get justice. Personally, i feel that its because the city has so much to do with it, they couldnt just find these two people guilty. Imad, im just upset, my son and his girlfriend died, and its just in vain . Ive been here almost every day for over five months. For the jury to come back with this . Its just upsetting. There is no other word for me to say. Im just upset right now. The key question is will the Alameda County va retry Derick Almena or decide not to retry him. The key question here is that 10 jurors were in favor of guilty, two were in favor of acquittal. The key thing is whether or not the das office has the resources to do this again. I spoke with it chief assistant da and this is what he had to say. Since the beginning of thi