Friend, speaker emerita nancy pelosi. Abcs seven News Reporter Tara Campbell had a chance to speak to the congresswoman today and joins us live from the newsroom. Tara . Yeah, stephanie, i actually spent time this evening at the late senators former home and the funeral home where she arrived tonight and really the mood is best described as peaceful in anticipation of her arrival home. Ready to all uniformed personnel pre set put a salute for late senator Dianne Feinstein set to be laid to rest in San Francisco. Were so happy to have her have the appropriate welcome home to San Francisco. Speaker emeritus nancy pelosi among a handful of Close Friends and family gathering. We thought was one with great sorrow but great pride in dianne. Her body arriving at San Francisco International Airport sunday evening and escorted to sinai memorial chapel. Theres no one like her. She was wonderful. All we want to do is pay respects to her. We wanted to recognize this moment in history and in San Fr
For the children. That full exclusive report in around half an hours time. And defence secretary sir Michael Fallon has confirmed he was once told off by a journalist for putting his hand on her knee during dinner. We bring you reaction. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11. Latest breaking news and developing stories as always this morning. Plus, a little later well look at claims that some of britains most successful paralympic athletes won their gold medals unfairly. Uk athletics stand accused of manipulating the classification system in order to win medals. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The government has proposed reducing the amount of money that can be staked on fixed odds betting terminals, to protect players from racking up huge losses. Betting companies earn about £i. 8 billion a year from the machines, which
Prue leith apologises after revealing the winner of tonights Great British bake off on twitter. Good evening. Theyre called the crack cocaine of gambling fixed odds betting terminals on which you can currently gamble up to £100 every 20 seconds. They made nearly £2 billion last year for the betting industry and hundreds of millions for the treasury. But now the government is considering limiting the amount that can be gambled at any one time to as little as £2, in an attempt to deal with problem gambling. Jim connolly reports. A few months ago, nathan would have struggled to walk past a bookmakers. His gambling problem started with fixed odds machines. He has stopped betting with help from gamblers anonymous. I found myself suddenly with debts that i could not cover at all. I lost about £5,000 in 48 hours. You lose all sense of time around you. The moneyjust. The money becomes a number on a screen. Youre de sensitised to everything that is going on. Gamblers anonymous was my last r
Good evening, im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Our Live Team Coverage will take us from berkeley to pacifica. We begin with Spencer Christian, tracking live on doppler 7 hd. Rain has been pouring in buckets in the south bay. This has been going on for hours now around gilroy and into watsonville area and into salinas. Nearly three inches so far, over a quarter inch in san jose. And nearly an inch at mount st. Helena. Ranking the storms, 1 through 5, next storm coming our way tonight ranks number two on the storm impact scale. That will be accompanied by strong gusty winds. You can see at 8 00, 9 00, down to the golden gate and beyond by 11 00 tonight. And there is more on the way. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Take a look. This rock slide caused three vehicles to crash this afternoon. The southbound lane of highway 9, near felton was blocked by the slide. The roadway was cleared just after 2 00 p. M. Abc7 news was in oakland when a fallen tree blocked t
You can see at 8 00, 9 00, down to the golden gate and beyond by 11 00 tonight. And there is more on the way. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Take a look. This rock slide caused three vehicles to crash this afternoon. The southbound lane of highway 9, near felton was blocked by the slide. The roadway was cleared just after 2 00 p. M. Abc7 news was in oakland when a fallen tree blocked the off ramp from highway 13 around 8 30 until caltrans cleared branchs from the roadway. And waves are pounding pacifica. The city just declared a state of emergency. Lyanne . Reporter well, the city manager made that declaration this afternoon and that means that pacifica will be asking for both state and federal assistance and when you see this video that we shot this morning, youll understand why. The coastline has been hit hard by the storms, their infrastructure has been failing and there just hasnt been enough money for repairs. Sorry, its windy out here. Just aft