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Something that we can put this person in a box. Christmas hill park, the site res ofndhrotinis b still, that has not stop people from dropping by the site, some to leave flowers and teddy bears. This group dropped off cookies and had a simple message. Thank you so much. Thats nice of you. Can i get a hug. What was your message . Thank you for keeping us safe. Reporter why did you feel the need to bring the family here today . Just to show our support to not just the local Law Enforcement but for everybody. Reporter some vendors have been able to pick up their vehicles. Dd mcdonald and kriste had a booth selling spiritual art and crystals. Theyve returned despite knowing they cant pick up belongings yet. Theyre just things at this point. You know . Its not whats important. Were here. I think the first couple days youre in shock and then yesterday it kind of really hit me. But no room for anger because thats what got us here. Those two women also dropped off cookies. They told me they intend returning in the near future to perform a cleansing ridgeal to take back their park. Theyre not going to let this tragedy claim their space. I can only imagine the rest of the community here in gilroy feel the same way. Chris reyes, abc7 news. Thank you. Today vendors and volunteers got another chance to retrieve cars left hinds at the festival. Abc7 News Reporter jobina fortson has those details an. Sandra and her husband roscoe are the couple behind the famous garlic ice cream. The truck they serve out of and their car was left behind as they evacuated Christmas Hill park sunday. We left the windows down. Everythings in our vehicle and now its been three days. We couldnt even get into our home. Sandra still cant get the ins of the tragedy out of her mind. The commotion started happening, all the shots and everybody running and stuff. We put as many people, you know, as many people as we could e w safe. Truck to make sure at least 20 people inside. The police came with their. Assault rifles. Assault rifles pointing at us to get us out of our car. They loaded into a shuttle with other festival attendees finally on the way to get their vehicles trapped inside the crime scene. Their first big step toward normalcy. Police allowed access to only two porking lots wednesday. No property is being released. Theyre happy to get anything they can. And thankful this is the only thing their family has had to worry about. I feel really bad for the people that died. I mean, this is something thats going to take awhile to get over. People can come in and pick up their carneytime between n and 6 45 tonight. You need your license, your proof of registration, and insurance for them to release your car. Ilroy foundation has established a special fund for victims of sundays shooting. Gilroy garlic festival Victims Relief Fund will help families of the victims and nonprofits providing a link. We have a link for more how you can donate on your website. I fant hospitalized in fairfield after newborn twins were discovered behind a shopping center. Police were called just 4 00 yesterday toompb pittman road. A woman was there with two infants who appeared to have been recently birth. Officers found the infants and unfortunately, one of the babies was pronounced dead. The mother was found around the corner. She was detained and taken to the hospital for treatment. California has a safely surrendered baby law first created in 2001. Now, this law aims to save the lives of newborns at risk of abandonment by encouraging parents to safely surrender the baby within 72 hours of birth, no questions asked. Safe surrender sites are hospitals or other locations like fire stations. As part of abc 6s take action campaign, we have Resources Available if youre facing a personal crisis. Go to abc7news. Com take action. Hes these young men and women who went to the ghost ship that night didnt know what they were walking into. They were just lost too soon. My family life has changed. My life has changed. Three and a half years after the devastating ghost ship warehouse fire, the case is in the hands of the jury. Deliberations began this be afternoon to decide the fate of derek all mane and max harris, the two men on trial in the aftermath of the dead lie fire. We have a look at all of the victims. 36 in the ghost ship warehouse fire. They were friends, musicians, artists, students came from all walks of life. The victims ranged in age from 17 top 61. And abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony has been following the trial and joins us live now with the latest development in this face of the trial. Laura. Reporter hi, kristen. Well, the jury is wrapping up their deliberations for the day. They are set to be off at 4 00 this afternoon. Before that, this morning, the prosecution had the last word. The chance to rebut what the defense claims was a flawed prosecution. Now, it is all in the hands of the jury and for the families for everyone involved, the wait could be agonizing. Were here for accountability. Reporter so the wait begins for the family who have lost so much and who long for some an ure of justice. Inferno inside a warehouse known as the ghost ship. Its nerveracking. But you just have to wait and hope for the best. Its just day by day, hour by hour. Reporter the trial ended with a Closing Argument from prosecutor autry james telling jurors Derek Al Mayne began breaking laws within days of signing the lease for the empty fruitdale warehouse in late 2013. He was indifferent to the consequences of his actions. It is not a defense that the defendant did not know that he was breaking the law. James also told the jury that al mane lied repeatedly about the fact that people were living in the ghost ship. The final argument of the prosecution was an emotional tirade. Emotional tirade is the last refuge of a dieing cause. Jam aoold that the defendants claims that arsonists set the dead lie fire dino enerate a m and hais f creating a dangerous condition inside the warehous t the ghost ship and the three dozen vips. If it was so safe, why arent those 36 people with us here today . Because it was a death trap. The relatives of the victims told us many of them are now extremely close. Im so thankful to all of you. Yeah. This is our larger family. And a guilty verdict wont bring our loved ones back but it will give us some peace. Reporter now, the jury began deliberating this afternoon about a half hour ago, they did have a question, a couple of questions for the judge. It was around the definitions of tenant, leaseholders, those sorts of questions. There is a lot of law for the jury to consider. So they wll be back at it first thing tomorrow morning. Laura, are the verdicts for both defendants going to be read at the same time . Yes, larry, theres been speculation about that but i confirmed with the court this afternoon that the both defendants have separate charges against them, 36 of involuntary man slotner both cases. Its conceivable the jury could decide on one before the other. If that happens, they will wait till both of the verdicts or the decisions made on both of the defendants are ready before reading them in open court. Of course, there are a lot of possibilities in this case. 36 counts of each defendant involuntary manslaughter. They could be guilty, not guilty and they could be a hung jury. All right. So they could have different results. Well find out at the same time or we expect to. Thank you so much. A little history now. The fire happened december 2nd, 2016. During a friday night electronic music show at the warehouse. Prosecutors announced charges against al mane and harris june 5th, 2017. Lawyers on both sides agreed a trial would be expensive and lengthy. A judge encouraged them to reach a settlement. It happened july 3rd, 2018 when both al mane and harris entered a no contest plea. Al mane would have gone to prison for nine years and harris would have been in prisoned for six years but that deal didnt last. Family and friends of the victims asked the judge to reject the deal saying the punishment was not harsh enough. Opening statements for the trial began april 30th of this year and now three months later the decision is in the hands of the jury. Download the abc7 news app to get the latest and a notification when the jury reaches that verdict. Be sure to enable push alerts. Family matter. The family of the teens accused of stabbing a Police Officer have arrived in italy. Our dan noise is there and he will have the latest. A vaping probe, is the Popular San Francisco Vaping Company is now facing an investigation. Whats behind the move. And miracle messages, short messages with a large effect. How the people behind them hope it will end the homeless crisis. Im spencer christian. A gradual warmup begins as the weekend approaches and august maybe you saw the smoke today at sfo. Auated aft a sending smokey into the air. That will building is north of the airport. It did not impact flights but the plume of smoke could be seen all over the peninsula. Unite sds assessing the damage. They evacuated us and they didnt tell us what it was. O smoke. Officials say the fire appears to have been an accident. And started in a heating and air conditioning unit on the roof. Nobody was hurt. A United Airlines flight from sfo to chicago has finally taken off more than six hours after it was scheduled. The big delay was caused by this. An emergency slide deployed on that boeing 757. The passengers had to dee plane. The slide had to be repacked. Flightainedents believe it deployed because of maintenance. Governor newsom is hiring nearly 400 firefighters and adding 13 new fire engines. He signed an executive ordertai fire. Cal fire and state Firefighters Union have said more firefighters are needed to face a fire season expected to be worse than last years season ky 100 people. Cal fire has around 6,000 firefighters. Were going to get a fourth member on these cal fire crews. I think thats going to help morale. Its going to help with rotation. Its certainly going to help with women and manpower as it relates to suppression efforts and mitigation efforts. Now, the state budget assigned by newsom invests nearly 1 billion in emergency preparedness, response and recovery. An effort under way to clean up a major fuel spill in marin county. Crews converged on a dry creek bed off of lucas valley road near san rafael today. A tanker spilled are facing de because of oneway traffic crows. Were still waiting to learn if the driver of the tanker has been cited for taking his poohfoot rig on the road where vehicles over 36 feet are prohibited. The investigation is expected to take at least two weeks. Exactly cost of the cleanup at there of point is unknown. The Federal Reserve did something today it doesnt done in a decade. It cut a key interest rate. They lowered the benchmark rate which affects many loans for household and businesses to a range of 2 to 2 1 4 . The outlook for the u. S. Economy remains favorable. This action is designed to support that outlook. Analysts see the move as an effort to head off a possible recession spurred on by global troubles and trade tensions. Americans can expect to see lower rates for credit cards, home equity lines and auto loans. Connecticuts attorney general is taking on the nations largest e cigarette ak Health Claims without fda approval. This as vaping among teens continues to rise. Heres abc News Reporter serena marshall. Reporter a new investigation into the countrys leading e Cigarette Company juul. The idea of going back to smoking. Reporter connecticut attorney general william tom wants answers to Health Claims made market. Protection against products and Marketing Efforts that may be designed and targeted for children and that may be intended not to help you stop smoking but to produce dependency and addiction. Reporter the product especially popular with teens. The cdc found one in five High School Students and nearly one in 20 middle School Students vape. A 78 increase since be 2017. Just last week, juul cofounder testified on capitol hill they never intended for their product to be used bid teens. Juul labs isnt big tobacco. Reporter two teenagers told the same committee that a juul representative told their ninth grade class the product was totally safe. Juul mains their products are not intended for teens but adults who want an alternative to the traditional cigarettes when trying to quit. Its that claim that prompt this had latest investigation. Big tobaccos investment and a onethird share in this company, you generally dont spend billions of dollars investing when youre trying to get people to stop using your product. Reporter juul said they will cooperate with the investigation and reiterated their product is not intended to help people quit nicotine but as an alternative to traditional cigarettes. Abc news, washington. The impossible is now possible for the Bay Area Company behind a popular meatless burger. Redwood citys impossible foods has reached a deal with an illinoisbased Food Production company to help ramp up production of its plantbasedburg persons osi group is expected to help impossible quads rubel production by years end. This is a huge boost for the local company. They struggled to meet booming demand from customers including white castle, burger king and spenceredit . Dot to sound like their marketing machine but it is amazing. It tastes like meat. Its juicy meat. Its not even a meat. We have to do this at some point. Saying were going to do this. Some day well do it. I may try this evening. Sounds good. Burger grilling weather. It is. I was going to say, its almost impossibly nice weather. No ones complaining because its mild but not hot. Its been cooling down at night even on the coast. We havent been getting a lot of fog on live doppler 7. Lets take a view from mount tam looking down onto the bay on this sunny wednesday afternoon. Final day of the month of july. 65 degrees right now in San Francisco. 71 in oakland. Weve got at redwood city, 79 san jose and morgan hill. 359 half moon bay. With the golden gate, a little bit of low cloudiness. It hasnt dropped low yet. 76 degrees up at santa rosa. Napa 73, 85 petaluma. Concord and livermore both collecting in at 89. Heres our view from the roof at abc 7 looking at blue skies over the bay. These are our forecast futures. Some areas of follow near the coast and bay overnight. Sunny and mild tomorrow. A gradual warming trend on friday and continue through the weekend. Overnight look for a little bit of fog at the coast, a patch or two over the bay. Overnight lows mainly in the mid to upper 50s. A little cooler near the coast. Tomorrow breezy at the coast. Lots of sunshine. Lingering low clouds. Highs range from mid 60s at the coast to mid and upper 70s around the bay shoreline and mid to upper 80s inland. Its going to get a bit warmer on friday as inland areas warm up and the warmest warps up into the low 90s. Then on saturday and sunday, a few mid90s popping up in our inland areas. And then after sunday, well see temperatures starting to settle down into a more seasonable range. Speak package of seasonal, this is hurricane season. We have one out in the pacific. Hurricane eric. Category 3 moving generally in the direction of hawaii. Theres been some concern about its path. Its projected to continue over the next three days far south of the big island several hundred miles south in fact, which means its affect effect on the islands will be rough surf, maybe rip currents. There have been no watches and warnings in terms of storm, Hurricane Force conditions issued yet. Thats good news. Onto the accuweather sevenday forecast. Mainly sunny skies through the sevenday period. The weekend warmup with inland highs in the mid90s on friday and saturday and low 90s on sunday. Well see some low to mid 80s around the bay shoreline those three days and mid to upper 60s on the coast. Early next week, well see temperatures gradually taper off a couple degrees or so. This is a beautiful pattern of weather i think going into the month of august. Going to be lovely. You would be right. Its great. Thank you so much. You two are both big baseball fans. Trade deadline today. A bunch of moves out there. 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