Train hurtles down the tracks on a collision course with a truck. The quickthinking hero who ran through the cars and saved countless passengers. And good morning, america. Busy friday morning. Two big stories to get to. Overnight the news of a Major Development in the nations Public Schools. Thats right. The president is ordering an important change to the issue of transgender rights for children and were going to have much more on that in a minute. We do begin with Donald Trumps high stakes meeting with paul ryan. The big question can they bring the gop together and jon karl has the latest from washington. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning. There was lots of talk of unity at that meeting yesterday but republicans remain deeply divided and are struggling to come to terms with their nominee. Overnight donald trump declared his Charm Offensive with paul ryan a budding success. I think for the most part we agree on a lot of different items and were getting there. Reporter trumps f
And knock on wood, friday light. We will look at the bay bridge backup. From hercules this morning, highway 80 is now welcome open after being shut down after a bad crash. Question is this another highway shooting in the east bay . We are in hercules this morning. We are welcoming to get the answers for you, and we had several cars into the c. H. P. Waiting do hear back. Here is what the crash lacked like. It happened at 10 30. This is on eastbound 80. In hercules. Before the highway four exit. Officers closed all lanes on eastbound 80. They have reoccupied the lanes after the investigation. One person was taken to the hospital. In the crash involved a shooting, it would be the second one this week. A pregnant woman was shot and kill on highway 4 in pittsburg on wednesday. No one was arrested. The shootings on highways are happening more and more. It was the 19th shooting on a bay arealy since november. When we asked the officers about the dangers of this, they say that there is no nee
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. A winddriven fire in the east bay. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. It started along Santa Barbara way. Tonight crews are still on the scene. Leslie brinkly is on the scene as well with developing details. It is still dark here and there is no electricity in the neighborhood. Fire crews are patrolling for flying embers by some of the houses that were destroyed. Police are protecting the neighborhood from vandal. It was fuelled by the grueling winds. With the wind it could have been worse. Crews will stay in this culdesac all night to make sure embers dont reignite and blow to other house rekindling a frightening fast fire. It roared to life at 3 45 from what Fairfield Police say was a homeless encampment along the hiking trail. It went through the grass to a redwood fence. I grabbed the house and i am trying to put it out. Neighbors said they could see the flames. I have seen it travel from tree to tree and then it caused the house to
The drizzle passes at 10 00 or 11 00. Quiet this morning. Our camera shows the winds are blowing ashore so we will have a widespread this afternoon, from 58 at the coast to 82 inland. Sue . Good morning, we will look at a couple of problems at the healdsburg area, bigrig with brick on fire and off to the right hand shower, fortunately, 101 at dry creek, no lanes blocked. We have road work with a ramp closed northbound 280 to westbound 92 until 7 00 this morning and they have a detour in place. Just getting word of an accident westbound 4 in concord and i will update that in a few minutes. Heartbreak for shay he family. A pregnant mother of four was shot and killed on highway 4 in pittsburg. The family spoke with abc and our reporter has the latest on the investigation. Amy . Good morning, yes, police now are have thing two shoot evening that have happened on this stretch of highway in the last in, and they say they do not think they are related. Yesterdays shooting killed 25 yearold mo
North by. 46 in novato. 50 in napa, 56 in Mountain View. This afternoon we have a warmup around the bay and inland. The coast is cool. Get set for low 80s inland. Low 60s on the coast. Frances . Good morning, everyone, here is a look at the map. Still quiet. That is good news. There is road work on the peninsula, northbound 280 to westbound 92 the connection is blocked until 7 00 this morning with detours detours in place situation every everywhere but tracy to dublin is 37 minutes. Thank yous frances. How much money did the bay area make hosting super bowl 50 . Yesterday we heard the numbers for San Francisco but for santa clara, you could have surprising news. Matt . Good morning, the super bowl certainly put a huge spot light on the city of santa clara and levi stadium and all of the hard work for super bowl 50 has paid off with a little bit of money for the city. But you will ask, was it worth it in the city council will discuss the super bowl 50 fiscal Impact Report at the meeting