Tower of power were on their way to play at yoshis in oakland. Leslie brinkley has the latest. Reporter thats right, ama and dan. Tower of power had played ten out of the 12 shows they were scheduled to play at yoshis when this tragic accident occurred last night. Amtrak says the two musicians were not in a legitimate Railroad Crossing when this amtrak train came through and struck them at about 25 miles an hour. There are two train crossings by yoshis jazz club for pedestrians and for cars. Even a pedestrian bridge over the tracks. But two members of the tower of power band ran out of their hotel just before their 8 00 show was ready to start thursday night and apparently tried to jaywalk over the train tracks along with several others. A Freight Train passed. Then they ran out and were struck by another oncoming amtrak train. The drummer was rushed to Highland Hospital with face and head injuries according to a Facebook Post who also said a fillin bassist made it through surgery for
Reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc7 news. Also developing news this morning, this years mavericks big wave surf contest may be in jeopardy. Abc7 news has learned the competitions organizers, cartel management, inc. , and titans of maverickss, llc, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. The competition draws some of the biggest surfers from all around the world and they were just about to introduce a womens heat. An official told our media partner last night they will release new information this morning that will hopefully help with understanding the strategy overall. Mavericks has held surf competitions when conditions are ideal. This morning, republicans are applauding tmps nomination of judge neil gorjs. Theres already talk of a filibuster among the democrats. Reporter conservative Appellate Court judge neil gorsuch is president trumps pick for the Supreme Court. He has outstanding legal skills, tremendous discipline and has earned bipartisan ort. Reporter thats exactl
The south bay and head north, northbound 101 off ramp to shoreline is blocked right now. Sounds like that is due to a disabled truck. We also have a flipped semi in the gilroy area and another collision if youre going to be traveling through livermore. Next update coming up. Thank you, alexis. From hang 10 to hang chapter 11 . The organizations behind mavericks surf competition filed for bankruptcy. What a shock. Weve been expecting more information this morning about what that means for this years event. Amy hollyfield is live for us at Half Moon Bay. Reporter yeah, natasha, theres word that theyre going to put out a press release this morning to explain this bankruptcy and the strategy behind it. Thats according to our media partner, the San Jose Mercury news. There is a fear here in Half Moon Bay that the mavericks competition isnt going to happen this year. And there was a lot of excitement around it for the first time there was going to be a womens competition. Theres a new manage
Also be prepositioned ahead of the storm in places where outages are expected. You can track the weather with the abc7 news app. We have live doppler 7 on the app and you can enable push alerts to get any weather updates on your phone or tablet. Developing news this morning in solano county. Public Health Officials with trying to calm fears at a tuberculosis case at a high school. More than 200 students and staff may have been exposed. This letter went out to parents yesterday after the person tested positive last week. Now, the school is not saying if the person affected is a student or a staff member, only that he or she is affiliated with the high school. Officials say they may have been at the school for a few days. So they plan to notify everyone that came into contact with this person. A Public Meeting for concerned parents is scheduled on tuesday. An unexpected aboutface for oakland city leaders who issued a new policy only to then retract that new policy a few hours later. Here
Scale upgraded to a 2 late last night. Good morning to you on this friday, february 17. Im reggie aqui. Grab all of your rain gear, youre going to need it today. Lets go ahead and check in with mike nicco this morning. Ive got a few tweets from some folks who went and bought new boots. Good for you. Congratulations, styling while staying dry. Emeryville all the way up to berkeley to kinzington and richmond, were seeing some of the moderate downpours in the east bay freeway there and from San Francisco up to mill valley. This is marching northward. This is the leading edge of whats going to be periods of the moderate to heavy rain. As you can see on the richmond side of the richmondsan rafael bridge, it wil be moderate by noon, scattered by 4 00, still a chance at 7 00 but just like yesterday, this is going to be a morningcentered storm that will bring us more rain and more wind than yesterday. Thats why as reggie mentioned, its a 2. Heres alexis with the commute. Weve got about 20 issu