Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20171219 : comparemela.c

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20171219

Will be cloudy and dry at 4 00, 54 to 58. By 7 00 we will have light rain developing in the north bay, temperatures in the low 50s. Sue says its been pretty quiet so far this morning. We have a couple of accidents but none of them are blocking at least at this point. We will knock on wood for that. Back to the san matteo bridge, were getting a little busier with the taillights headed westbound across the causeway and up on the highrise over towards foster city for about a 16 minute drive from the tolls over towards the peninsula. Here we go with the east shore freeway, also a nice solid ribbon of head lights between University Avenue and the macarthur maze, no metering lights yet. We will check back with the bay bridge toll plaza in a couple minutes. We have been watching a situation in okay. If we come here to live desk, we have been watching a situation all morning long in washington tate. This was the scene overnight, you can see the train still the way it was left there, the train that derailed yesterday morning and actually just within about the last hour or so they were able to get some of those train cars up and out of the highway. I want to give you the latest. The ntsb is saying that the amtrak train that derailed was going 50 miles an hour over the speed limit when it went off the tracks. The train was going 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 zone. The president of amtrak says positive train control, the technology that can slow or stop a speeding train, was not in use in that particular stretch of track. At least three people were killed and dozens of others were injured. All but one of the trains 14 cars jumped the tracks. There was one person who in the car in front of us, they they were they were catapulted to the front of the car and they wre they were pretty badly injured. They were unconscious, but still breathing. But what i could see from the window was that we had disconnected from the other the back portion of the train. I could see that someone had been cat bulleted from the train on to the ground. Officials say it is still too early to tell why the train was going so fast. A Major Investigation still under way this morning. I will let you know as soon as we get updates. Developing news this morning, a suspect td robber has lifethreatening injuries after a Security Guard shot him in downtown san jose. It happened just before 8 30 last night at the wall greens at first and santa clara streets. An investigation is under way. Morae alligations of sexual abuse at a south bay high sch l school. We are expecting to hear the story of two more former students who say Presentation High School did not do enough to respond to the allegations. Matt keller is live for us in san jose. Reporter good morning. Students here at Presentation High School will be taking finals today, but later this morning more alligations of Sexual Misconduct are coming out about the prestigious catholic school. This press conference will be taking place at 11 00 this morning. Attorney robert allert says a mother will come forward to discuss the sexual abuse of her daughter in 2014. A student from the 20062007 school year will discuss her story of Sexual Misconduct by her math letter and a letter will be released alleging the high school responded to three Sexual Misconduct allegations by placing a higher priority on the schools reputation. All of this comes after two graduates came forward to accuse their alma mater not taking alleged sexual abuse seriously. Our entire Investigation Team has been astounded, shocked and frankly dismayed. Reporter the School Principal says presentation never covered up or condoned any instance of sexual abuse and conducted investigations more than 25 years ago and more recently for the newer claims. Todays press conference will take place in san jose. Reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. Reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. The law that allows Berkeley Police to use pepper spray during violent protests may be repealed. According to sf Gate City Council members are expected to vote today. Their move follows pressure by the citys Police Review commission. This law was just approved in september. Members believe that since factors like wind and volatile crowds can prevent officers from specifically pepper spraying an agressor they should not be allowed to use a deterrent at all. This is what it looks like inside of the city of pittsburg surveillance headquarters. They will need mormon torse because the city counsel has unanimously voted to install freeway cameras to try to stop freeway shootings, katie utehs has the story. Reporter surveillance cameras will be installed along stretches of interstate 80 and 84 in be couldnt costa free ways. The city of pittsburg has had cameras on our streets since 2005. Reporter city Council Voted for pittsburg pd to be the hub for the county wide Data Collection. Take a look inside, you can see the setup thats already in place for pittsburgs current program. The Data Collection will come from shot spotters, cameras and license plate readers. We will have eyes on the freeway basically in real time. I, too, have concerns about privacy. Several people raised concerns about privacy. There was a lot of vagueness about where all of this data is ending up. When youre dealing with mass bulk surveillance, as i stated, 99 of the data thats being collected here at least has nothing to do with any crime. Law enforcement will be allowed access to the system information on a need to know criminal investigation basis. Reporter caltrans is funding the surveillance project with 3. 5 million over three years. In pittsburg, katie utehs, abc 7 news. Surveillance video shows the danger officers face while monitoring a sideshow in oakland. A chp helicopter was assisting police during the sideshow when officers say more than one person behind green lasers at the helicopter and at cars in the sideshow. That can temporarily blind a pilot or a driver. Anyone arrested will face state and federal charges. A man taking photos of San Franciscos twin peaks was robbed at knife point. It happened on twin peaks boulevard saturday night. The 32yearold victim says he was taking photos when two men approached him from behind. One suspect pulled out a knife and demanded his bag, which contained camera equipment, his cellphone and wallet. The robbers believed to be in their early to mid 20s took off. Police are still looking for them. I was talking to sue and she says she has a new accident to tell us about. We will get to her in about a minute near. Weve got low to mid 30s in our inland valleys until you get to concord and pittsburg where we are in the upper 30s. Close to frost in pleasanton at a temperature of 33 degrees. A look at santa rosa 35, napa, novato and oakland at 36, 41 san carlos, 41 in san jose. Lets jump into our forecast for today. If you have some activities planned that take you out on the bay, light breezes there. If you are going to be doing exercising in anticipation of eating a lot of sugar, its not quite as warm outside as it has been. And shopping, a few more days and it will be dry until the sun sets and then get ready for the possibility of wet weather. My 12 hour planner for San Francisco, you can see the increasing clouds, temperatures in the low to mid 50s after starting off at 48 this morning, 48 at 8 00 in the east bay, 51 at 10 00 and mid 50s throughout the afternoon hours. Lets see if its different in the south bay. A little warmer down here. By noon we will be in the low and mid 60s in the afternoon hours, mid 50s during the evening hours. Temperatures will top out around 59 to 64 degrees, tonight not quite as cool but look at all that, green that means rain is on the way. Did you just say i could get exercise by shopping . I thought that may be what i heard. I like that. Should we try that . Yes. Lets check outside. We have this accident its in the san lorenzo area, san leandro, westbound 580 under the 150th overcrossing. They have tried to move that off to the right hand shoulder but chp is talking about doing a traffic break which means that traffic will be stopped temporarily to move that accident out of the way. Im not seeing any slow traffic according to the sensors, they are all green at this point in time. Tracy into dublin you are looking at a 40 minute drive up and over the altamonte pass. Not bad on westbound 4 to concord, san rafael into San Francisco a 17 minute drive. Just under 20 minutes for some of your drive times. We have mass transit issues, we will update in just a couple minutes. Airlines flying in and out of atlantas International Airport should expect flights to be on time today following that crippling power outage. Delta Airlines Says most passengers who were stranded in atlanta were rebooked on other flights that left yesterday. The carrier canceled 400 flights monday. The ceo of Georgia Power apologized for sundays day long outage. He blamed a faulty gear that started a fire that knocked out electricity to the worlds busiest airport. A major study leading to disheartening results when it comes to preventing dementia. What is that . We are learning new details from a navy pilot who says he saw something from out of this world and he is not alone. If you love checking out and he is not alone. If you love checking out Christmas Lights this is if yyou need to stay downeaway from it. Call 911. Let our First Responders come out and handle it. Police and fire will respond as well as pg e. Pg e will make the scene safe. And you smell gas, your first step is to get out, travel to a safe distance until you cant smell the gas anymore, and then call 911. The First Responders will come out, and theyll make it safe for you and your community. All right. Its 5 13 on this tuesday. Lets talk about the storm impact scale. Give you an idea whats going to happen with this storm tonight before i give you an hour by hour look coming up in about four minutes. It is tonight through tomorrow morning, it does feature light rain, less than. 02 of an inch of rain for most of us and it will be breezy at times. We will take a look at those speeds and see if they will cause any damage. Here is reggie with more news. This is what police are constantly talking about, Crystal Clear Surveillance Video shows a suspect strolling out of her car taking two packages off of someone elses front porch. Look at that, the victim saw what was happening. Ran after the car as it was driving off. This happened yesterday off apian way in union city. Since we have such a clear view of her why not show it. If she looks familiar call police. She probably stole 300 worth of items. A Southern California homeowner is crediting his doorbell for alerting him about a fire that was happening just outside his home. He had no idea. This potentially saved three peoples lives. In terrifying scene in Riverside County recorded by a home surveillance system. It features a doorbell that has a motion detector. So the flames triggered the detector and that meant the homeowner received several alerts on his phone app when the fire broke out. He and his fiancee were sleeping. We took down our Smoke Detector because we just repainted the entire house. So without the ring system in place and me getting these alerts i probably wouldnt have woken up. Okay. So also never take down your Smoke Detector. There is another lesson. The couple and his brother escaped unharmed. The cause is under investigation. Its 5 15. After disheartening news about dementia, according to a study that was published there is not a single thing at this point that can definitively prevent you from getting alzheimers over 80 years old. Diet, drugs, could go any training exercise, vitamins, it doesnt work for everyone. It does suggest that these things can be helpful. Exercise, managing diabetes, controlling high Blood Pressure and cholesterol at midlife. In todays gma first look we are learning more about the arrest of sarah palins son. Track palin reportedly beat up his own father during an argument and sara frantically called police. Here is lindsey davis. Reporter in this mornings gma first look Police Describe a chaotic scene at the family home of the former governor of alaska and 2008 Vice President ial nominee sarah palin. Her 28yearold son, an army veteran, arrested in alaska saturday night on assault and burglary charges. According to Court Documents obtained by abc news, sarah Palin Called Police just after 8 30 p. M. Saying her son was freaking out and was on some type of medication. Charging documents state track palin went to the house to confront her father todd to get his truck but his father told him not to come in. Todd told police he went to the door with a pistol to protect his families. Thats when track broke a window, got his father on the ground and began hitting in the head. We have much more coming up at 7 00 a. M. Facebook is cracking down on whats known as engagement bait. Its a tactic designed to artificially inflate a business reach on the algorithm. Spam posts that try to get likes, clicks and shares will be demoted in users news feeds. If someones post says like this if you are an aries. Facebook claims its algorithms can tell the difference between spam and sincere posts. There is new details in a jaw dropping story first reported by the New York Times over the weekend. The pentagons secret program investigating reports of ufos. Now the pilot that spotted what he believes was an alien spacecraft is recalling this out of this world encounter. Look at that thing. Its rotating. So we showed you this video of that sighting back in 2004 taken off the coast of san diego. The pilot is now retired commander david fraver. He says nothing in his 18year career as a navy pilot prepared him for what he is saw. He says ive seen pretty much everything that i can see in that realm and this is nothing close. I have never seen anything in my life, in my history of flying that has the performance, the acceleration. Keep in mind this thing had no wings. Theyre just going to leave us there . We keep doing these stories and they expect us to move on as if nothing else happened. Lets talk about Christmas Lights. Two elaborately decorated homes in marin are now in their final days after lighting up the neighborhood for decades. For more than 40 years this home has had a special place in peoples hearts. They are disney lovers. The bring out their collection every single holiday season. Age taking a toll for them which is why they decided this will be the last year of whats affectionately known as the mickey mouse christmas house. We cant do it ourselves, im not up and down the ladders like i used to be so we decided it was a good time to just go ahead and retire while were, you know, at the top of our game, you might say. Less than a mile away another homeowner will be saying goodbye after the holidays. The beloved bear house is moving to nevada next year. The family with the mickey mouse house, every year they add to their collection to include whatever new characters came into the disney family this year. They had moana this year. So they wont be able to add coco next year. Way to bring us down, mike. Thats sad. It is sad. All right. Well, have to make a road trip, wont we . Yeah. Absolutely. A little cheaper than going to disney lapped. Lets look at whats going on outside. Ridgy, are you hurt . Thats okay, im back. You look like that animatronic again. Here is a look from mt. Tamalpais. Increasing clouds. Light rain and breezy tonight and the breezes will hang around tomorrow even though the light rain will stop during the morning commute tracking another chance for christmas and the day after. Here is our cold front, you can see some moisture out there, not a lot but definitely rain falling in the pacific northwest. Notice the frequent ld nature of the clouds behind it, thats cold air, possibly the coldest air of the season on the way. 7 00 this evening you see scout showers ahead of the steadier rain in lake and mendocino county. Yellow is moderate rain, that goes away as it slides down into the heart of the north bay by midnight with scout showers ahead of it for the rest of us. From midnight through 4 00 its raining on us, but notice yellows do pop up. There may be an embedded heavier shower during the morning commute it will rain in the south bay, there will be scattered showers near the coast and into the north bay. By the time 9 00 rolling around we are finished. Specifically for come morning if youre headed out early for the commute at 4 00 everybody but the south bay will be driving on slick streets and then the south bay will become slick during the morning commute. My accuweather sevenday forecast so its a one on our storm impact scale, light. Temperatures mainly in the 50s all the way through christmas where there is another small chance of rain. We will talk more about that coming up. Here is sue with another new accident. We have a new accident, this one is actually a big rig blocking lane number two in the Santa Cruz Mountains of 17 southbound. Its past bear creek and right now just looks like it might be moved off to the shoulder. We were seeing some slow traffic in the southbound direction, so heads up there. They are in the process of scooting that off to the side of the road. Bart has 44 trains right now, no delays. Morning ferry, golden gate ferry, the 8 45 and 9 15 will be now until further notice at least running five minutes later. That

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