For accountability. People have lost their lives because of these decisions. And these people are still in their jobs. This has to end. There was some talk about accountability today, not just from Assembly Member levine, but from the governor himself. Some fingerpointing over who is to blame for the messed that was produced at san quentin. We will talk more about that at 6 00. There is plenty of blame to go around, but isnt entirely up to the state, is it just the es rnsibility . Ly in hocalifornia pris system there is a federal receiver involved here, and that gentleman was called out a couple of times today. We will talk about that coming up at 6. The fingerpointing is not settled. Thanks, great reporting. The San Francisco mayor london breed has tested negative for covid19 after being exposed at a public event. The mayor wont be making any public appearances for about the next 10 days and will get retested. She says she is lucky to have a job that allows her the flexibility to work
Climbs. It is unacceptable. Andrea burton is the ceo of home first which serves more than 5000 on housed individuals in Santa Clara County annually. She attributes that rising death toll to the aging homeless population. Is the age they are coming down with heart issues, lung issues, and unfortunately they are dying. More people than ever before are aging into homelessness. Back in the 90s only 11 of people experiencing homelessness were over the age of 50. Now more than 50 are, more than half of those people became homeless for the first time after turning 50. Most people in Santa Clara County are living on the edge, check to check in only 400 away from becoming on housed themselves. Every year it is harder. For this 86yearold man, it was having nowhere to go after being acquitted and released from prison. It was difficult, yes. 54yearold jose mendez says an expensive surgery caused him to lose housing. I had colon cancer, they took my stomach out. While 21 of homeless deaths from las
With the ridge of High Pressure building in. Here is the Treasure Island camera with mainly clear skies in the 50s to the 60s. Upper 50s for oakland and san jose, mid 50s in livermore and San Francisco and santa rosa is at 50 degrees. Through the afternoon, 73 in San Francisco, 80 in oakland, 87 in san jose and concord is at 95 this afternoon. Highs are about 5 to 9 degrees above average for this time of year. Will talk about how hot it will get through the rest of our week. Details on that are coming up in a few minutes. Were looking live at San Francisco city hall. We are getting word that mayor london breed test results. They were both exposed to somebody who has tested positive, so it is mayor breed and supervisor shamann walton. They know that they were together at an event on tuesday but apparently, they were supposed to someone who tested positive at an event later on that evening. They were informed yesterday and they took these tests and n mayor breed says she has a moderate t
Tom we are live at the capitol right now where the sitin, is going on, on the right side of the building right here. Basically this started around 11 30. It was the democrats who wanted to vote on a gun control measure in the wake of what happened in orlando. Basically, they wanted to vote on a measure that would have blocked some people who are suspected of being terrorists from getting guns. It would have expanded background checks. It didnt look like the vote would happen before a weeklong break by the house. So for that reason the democrats are staging their sitin, which is still going on at this hour. Reporting live outside the u. S. Capitol, tom roussey, abc7 news. Leon thank you, tom. See what plays out there tonight. Now todays sitin got a reaction from president obama. He sent out a tweet directed at representative john lewis saying, thank you, john lewis, for leading on gun violence most. Now to the weather where we are looking at the damage caused by yesterdays storms. Resid
Today to take closer look at the damage. And good morning midlands. We still do have rain that is moving through the midland. Really late in the parts of central and central calhoun, and some sprinkles and far southeastern sumter county. Outside of that, so more rain is coming out of georgia. Not out of the woods yet, and we are dealing with milder temperatures. And 56 degrees in the head off to school, and hour by hour, we will be dealing with the showers and temperatures that will actually start to drop. 56degrees by 10 00, 55 by lunchtime and as we get into the lunchtime, 53 degrees. Start to taper by 6 00. Temperatures down to 50 degrees. As we get ready set out for the thursday morning commute, give yourself extra time. The roads are wet but traffic is light. Interstate 26 by pine grove road, traffic in both directions is looking pretty well. The accidents on the thoroughfares. There is a slow down as you come off of dekker boulevard, about 11 Miles Per Hour is soon as you get pas