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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 400PM 20240714

Pedestrians in the crosswalk. Today in front of San Francisco city hall, a moment of silence for those pedestrians and bicyclist who have die this had year after being hit on city streets. Lucy morales. Nancy ing. While this chart shows the number of People Killed has dropped over the years, city Officials Say more is needed. We need real enforcement on our streets. The mayor put out a directive which we support to focus on the five most dangerous traffic behaviors and increase citations. Reporter but San Francisco is often criticized for being reactionary yet failing to follow through with enforcement. Heres an example. A few months ago, police were stopping people on 19th avenue caught texting while driving. Today there is no enforcement in that location. Last may citations were given out to uber and lyft drivers who double parked to pick up passengers. If you will go today, theyre no longer there. The driver of the car that hit the two pedestrians was charged with involuntary vehicular manslaughter and running a red light. Those charged often face minimal penalties even if caught speeding or driving carelessly. Scott we knower says that is too has to change. California state law honestly, when you read it, its as if people who arent driving cars barely exist. Reporter now, in most cases, unless you were found or charged with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol or you fled the scene, it is very, again very unlikely you will only be charged with a misdemeanor. Im live in San Francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. Do we have an update on kelly dean. How is she doing at this point . Reporter well, i called the hospital this morning. And one official told me there that, of course, shes still under the care of doctors at San Francisco general hospital. She is surrounded by family members. But one thing is that her family knows that people here in San Francisco are praying for them. For sure. Thank you, lyanne. Reporting live in San Francisco. Stories about this tragic crash have been some of the most clicked on abc7news. Com. We have more information about the victims and whats being done to try to prevent a crash like this from happening again. To get the latest, download the news app so you get all our breaking news alert. In the east bay, a big rig slid down a hill in pleasantton just after 11 00 a. M. Near a. M officials havent said what caused that big rig to slide. Track is slowly getting back to normal on 80 in the east bay. You can see a crash around 1 30 p. M. Blocked several lanes in that eastbound direction Near University avenue in berkeley. At least three vehicles were involved. Its not clear if anyone was hurt. All lanes reopened just about 90 minutes ago. New details on the canyon fire still burning south of ber r lake berryessa. Nine homes have been evacuated but no damage reported at this point. Highway 128 from monticello damtom rag canyon road is closed in both directions. Lets get to drew now for a look at conditions near that fire right now. Drew . Were tracking temperatures still rather warm right now. In the upper 80s. Current conditions, 87 right now. Humidity at 34 . One benefit for firefighters the wind direction has been pretty consistent account last 24 hours. Out of the southwest right now, currently gusting to 18 miles per hour. As you go through the next 24 hours our fire danger will be on the rise. You like to take a look. By 6 00 tomorrow evening especially in parts of napa, solano, contrata and alameda counties moderate to high fire danger with the blunz an yell lowsen 0 your screen. That correlates with warmer weather tomorrow, as well. Right now from sutro tower, low lying fog. Well switch on over to the santa cruz camera right now. Folks enjoying tons of sunshine on the sand right now. Lots of sun. It has responded with temperatures already in the 90s and tomorrow, its even warmer than today. So well look at the numbers how hot it will get where you live. Thank you, drew. San Francisco Mayor lonn agreed toured chinatown today in an effort to reassure merchants and residents there would be more police, security cameras along the busiest street where violent assaults and car robberies have taken place. Vic lee has that story. Were going to have to do something. Reporter the mayor came to than city hall would be doing it all it can to protect them. The street crimes filled the entire front page today of the world journal. This after a Heated Community meeting here yesterday. Frustrated and angry, merchants and residents asked for more police. This video shows a man with a stick smashing windows of cars along stockton street. These stills taken last week shows a chooz community lieder on the you ground after he was talked by a group which stole his gold rolex watch. He waits for an ambulance which witnesses say took a half hour to respond. This video shows channing being beaten by the same assailants on the same crosswalk. He told me today he ran over to help the victim, a close friend of his when someone from the group punched him in the face. After the events of what just occurred, i know that theres a lot of fear. Fear flches kevin khan own the Fortune Cookie factory, a chinatown institution always crowded with tourists. He wonder whats this will do to local business. Who want to come to chinatown when they hear all this bad stuff happen to them . Reporter this realtor heads the chinatown neighborhood association. He and others want a police box on stockton street and hes offered space rent free in his building. Those guys wants to make troub, theres a Police Station there. Reporter the captain says he prefers his officers to walk their beat instead. For the officers to be mobile abthroughout chinatown is probably better. Reporter the mayor says. The cameras are going up, add are more beat officers and thats something ive been fighting for reporter. The Crime Prevention group will have cameras up and running in eight weeks. Theyll run along stockton street where the attacks occurred. Vic lee, abc7 news. Thank you. Activists hit the streets of chinatown today to educate the Asian Community about the 2020 census. Speakers highlighted the importance of the census and the Resources Available to help people fill it out. Language barriers can prevent members of the community from participating. Others just dont trust the system. Folks that are immigrants with green card status are afraid to fill it out. They also have this distrust of any government form or survey, especially if they dont speak english. An Organization Called the asianamericans advancing justice claims one in five asianamericans lives in communities at risk of being undercounted because of income and limited English Speaking ability. The city of richmond is considering joining several other bay other cities in banning electronic cigarettes. The mayor is it expected to introduce an ordinance during the city council meeting. The meeting starts at 6 30 tonight in the Richmond City council chambers. Oh, my gosh. I never ever thought this kind of stuff would you happen. Yeah. Falsely accused, a terrified woman accused of shoplifting. But she didnt steal a thing. Her story in her own words. Dmv reform, the effort to speed things up at the dmv. And a mystery safe, a safe uncovered after all the flooding in guerneville. The question is whats inside of it. Opening that mystery later this hour. And checking our traffic. It is 4 09 on this tuesday. This is looking at walnut creek 680. It is really slow. On the lefthand sld northbound traffic. Normally a little bit heavier around this traffic. O ozempic® oh oh announcer people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. 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When she left the kohls here, she says she was approached in this parking lot by two large men ho did not identify themselves. They were security guards. They told her she had shoplifted. When she started recording, they threatened to call the police and ultimately they did. I come here and i shop all the time. I spend a lot of money here. But because i look like a broke mom with a backpack, an you guys target me. Reporter this is yolanda montoya, a nurse and mother four who says she was racially profiled and wrongfully accused of shoplifting. She recorded the incident on her phone and shared on facebook. Please explain to me what i did. Reporter it has been shared hundreds of times. It she explained what happened. Im so mad like im shaking because i just couldnt believe it. And in my head, im like obviously i didnt steal anything. Where could they have thought i even stole anything. Im like oh, because i took clothes in the fitting room, because i have a diaper bag, because i look a mess and i look like i might need to steal. I dont know. I dont know. But this was something more than just me going because clearly theres no cameras. They didnt see me take anything. So why me . Reporter how has kohls responded . They called. They did call and they apologized. I told them that there needs to be a no tolerance policy for this kind of behavior. I feel that you cant just slap somebody on the wrist and just say, this is just a mistake. Everybody should feel like they can walk into a fitting room and leave their belongings behind without being accused of stealing. Im just a normal mom trying to go to the store and shop and now im felt that i need to present myself a certain way, cant carry a certain item or a bag because im being judged. Reporter and theres a lot of questions still, why did they not check her bags immediately and see that she didnt steal anything or do a more thorough check of the dressing room. When she was released she went to the dressing room and found the items she tried on still there. Im going to show you the statement kohls provided. They said kohls prides itself on Customer Service and creating a welcome can experience for all customers. We take allegations very seriously. We have apologized to the customer directly and in frequent dialogue working toward a resolution. Thats the response from kohls. Liz kreutz, abc news. Yolanda said ta kohls apologized to her. Does she feel thats enough . Whats next . Reporter as you can probably tell from what will she said and the fact shes speaking with us, it is not enough for her. She wants the security guards to be disciplined and said she plans to take legal action. After she posted that video on facebook, shes received responses from several people from some even at this kohls and this is a larger issue that needs to be address and she is ready to take it on. Cal train unveil aid draft of its longrange vision for improvements in service for the next 20 years. 65,000 people ride cal train each day. The goal is triple that and provide service to 180,000 people by increasing the number of trains from five to eight during peak hours and running express baby bullet trains every 15 minutes. Cal train estimates it would need an extra 90 million a year for the upgrades. The governor announced new leadership for the dmv one day before all employees will be retrained. Steven gordon will be the new directorer. He was the managing partner of a Consulting Firm when the governor took office, he announced the creation of a strike team to review the department. Their report was released today outlining the progresses already made including a decrease in wait times. Last august you would have been spending 58 minute more waiting for a transaction than you would today. The long wait times had a lot to do with the complications caused by real i. D. S which will be required october 1st of next year for air travel unless you have your passport. The recommendations include revamping dmv technology, training and processes. All offices statewide will be closed for a half day tomorrow. Employees will be training to process the real i. D. Transactions as well as improving Customer Service. The offices are scheduled to reopen at 1 00 p. M. The new terminal one at sfo is officially open. We were inside as the first flights took off. The terminal named in honor of harvey milk, the first openly gay politician elected in california. Nine gates will be open for now, but when the renovation is complete in 2023, there will be 25 gates. Shopping on the rise at airports. Big brands like estee laud area, jack daniels and colgate are expanding foot prins in airports to get travelers to buy imsuls pullsively. Travelers on average have nearly travelers on average have nearly an hour of free time translating to 30 minutes of shopping time. New details on the Pennsylvania School district that threatened to send children to foster care if their lunch bills werent paid. The School District we jected the offer from a ceo of a Coffee Company to cover the cost. He says the School Board President told him it the money system owed by parents who can afford to pay. The district is is in a suburban considering filing liens on property to get the lunch bills paid. Goodness. So our heat continues here. Not as bad as they had it in the midwest and east coast last week. A little bit of heat for us. Tomorrow searching for 100 degrees. Here we go. Something for everybody. Dont like the heat, go to the coast. Larry loves to be by the beach. Santa cruz beach looking pretty good too. Live outside, live doppler 7, a quiet scan. No precipitation but some Coastal Cloud cover right now over parts of San Francisco and parts of the half moon bay. The picture right now is a gorgeous one. You can see a light chop on the bay waters. Ba baby blue skies. Its a perfect night if youre headed to oracle park. The cubs in downtown once again. Later on this evening, a lot of sunshine. Temperatures in the low 60s. As the sun goes down, well introduce some fog later on by 9 00. Temperatures start to dip into the upper 50s. If youre going to the game, have the hoodie or jacket with you as temperatures start to cool off. Microclimates in full effect. 59 in half moon bay. 3 concord, 80 in san jose. 94 in fairfield. 85 in santa rosa. San rafael coming in at 86 degrees. Heres live doppler 7 along with satellite. You can see monsoon season is in full effect right now. Look at this. High pressure over the four corners supplying to bring showers in parts of arizona, even las vegas getting rain right now. And parts after southern california. Some showers on the map. For us, what this high will do, it will bring that warmer weather inland tomorrow. And also gives it that muggy feel in the morning as it will feel slightly humid for bay area standards. Overnight tonight, fog limited to the coastline and some isolated areas of fog around the bay shoreline. Plenty of stars. Mid 50s to low 60s overnight tonight. Lets show you the 12hour day planner tomorrow. A carbon copy forecast in terms of sky condition. Cloud cover first thing in spots. Then a lot of sunshine throughout the day. By 4 00, it is hotter inland. Temperatures getting very close to 100 degrees in our warmest spots. A closer look at highs in our microclimates. South bay 89 in san jose tomorrow. Warm in the south bay. 94 for morgan hill, 86 for cupertino. 85 for sunnyvale. 38 redwood city. 76 in san mateo. Downtown San Francisco 68. A little bit warmer in south San Francisco going for a high of around 0 degrees. It will be hot in the north bay. 90 in santa rosa. 99 in clover dale, 58 in sonoma, 87 san rafael. 79 in vallejo. East bay 76 oakland. 89 in fremont, 83 the high in Castro Valley. Inland we are breaking with temperatures nearing 100, 9 in brentwood, 98 pittsburgh. 94 the high in pleasanton. The sevenday forecast, hotter inland tomorrow. Some high clouds streaming in on thursday as temps take a bit of a dip to finish the week on friday. All indications saturday and sunday is trending warmer across the entire region. A lot of sunshine, the fog goes away. Even the coastline starts to warm. The fog will return early parts of next week. Or the weekend. Its a

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