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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20240712

Drizzle out there. Its something that jobina and i will be tracking throughout the morning commute. The marine layer is thicker this morning. Its touching all neighborhoods and infused with more moisture. No areas of organized rain you can see on live doppler 7. Theres some drizzle. Its been measurable. In the east bay hills, up to 0. 06 inches so far. Heres a look at the exploratorium. We have another spare the air day, right now everybody is good, which is green or yellow, that is moderate. So well go from drizzle this morning to just a random light shower possible under a mostly cloudy sky this afternoon. If you liked yesterdays temperatures you should like todays. It will be a up more humid. 60s around the coast and bay with 70s inland. Kumasi . Thank you. So this is the top story on abc7news. Com right now. This man caught on camera robbing a woman as she pushed a baby stroller in the middle of the day in sunnyvale. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover is live with what neighbors are saying about this. Juli julian . Good morning. A disturbing crime of opportunity caught on camera in sunnyvale. This morning the person behind it is still out there. Want to get to the video. Two women walking midday on wednesday, one of the women you see there has a stroller. Then you see a man in a hoodie walk up to the woman, pretends to trip. Thats when he lunges to the woman in the pink jock ket, rips a necklace from her neck. The necklace snatcher runs off. Residents are stunned by what happened in this city. She got attacked. Literally, she got attacked. Youre not prepared for Something Like that. This street is so busy with people walking all day every day, night and day. The little stroller was out in the street. Now the department of Public Safety is warning people to do their best to protect themselves from this terrifying crime. Really common stuff, telling people to cover up bracelets with long sleeves and hide necklaces perhaps with a scarf if youre out and about, especially if youre on a walk by yourself. Pricey possessions are not as visible then and dont attract robbers and make it easy for people to target people like this in an awful attack. Julian glover, abc7 news. Thank you. San francisco leaders are condemning attacks that have targeted asian americans. City officials calling for eart to prevent future violence. There is nothing that should be protected any stronger than the right of a person to walk safely down the street in their community. A man accused of the two assaults in the tenderloin remains in jail pending trial. 34yearold Michael Turner is charged with attacks on two women, a 71yearold and a 78yearold last month. It is still not clear whether President Trump and joe biden will have another debate ahead of the election. With just a few weeks left to go, the president says he doesnt want to have a Virtual Event so he may be heading back on the campaign trail as soon as tomorrow. Heres andrew dymburt. Reporter the fate of president ial faceoffs is not only up in the air but looking doubtful by the minute, this stems from President Trumps positive coronavirus test from a week ago. The Debate Commission saying its moving the next contest to an allvirtual platform setting off a domino effect that could end the debates altogether. One week after testing positive for covid19, the president declaring himself cured last night telling fox news just saw the doctors today, they say im in great shape. Reporter he has not been seen in public other than white house produced videos and said he is continuing with a powerful steroid to treat the virus. I think ill try to do a rally saturday night. I feel so good. Reporter joe biden and Kamala Harris are back on the campaign trail in arizona. Joe had a plan for covid since march. Reporter trump blasted harris calling her a monster. I couldnt be prouder. Reporter the surprise decision from the president ial Debate Commission next thursdays scheduled contest in miami would go all virtual. The commission saying the move was to protect the health and safety of all involved. After the announcement trump immediately shot it down. Im not going to sit behind a computer and have somebody feed him answers. Reporter now Trumps Campaign manager says the president will be fully cleared by saturday and would be ready to debate in person. The trump team said they would be open to changing the date, the Biden Campaign said theyre opposed to rearranging the dates. Its possible these two candidates will not take the stage again before the november election. Andrew dymburt, abc news, washington. And also in washington, nancy pelosi will introduce a bill to create a panel to make sure the president is fit for office. Pelosi questioned if the treatment including the use of a steroid impaired his judgment. The legislation would establish a process to give congress the say to remove a president from office under the 25th amendment. New developments in a vacaville barbershops ability to stay open during the pandemic. The man reopened his shop in may in defiance of local health orders. On monday the state sent him a cease and desist order with photos documenting his defiance. Im not trying to make money by staying open. Im trying to provide for my family. Allow my barbers to provide for their families. Show the American People an example of how not to live in fear and to stand your ground. He will go to court to contest the order and he says if he loses hell go to his customers homes to cut hair. We made it easy for you to keep tabs on whats open where you live. This reopening tracker is on our website, abc7news. Com. Louisiana bracing for hurd whi hurricane delta which is expected to make landfall today. Jobina fortson is tracking that. Thank you. Hurricane delta is a category 3 storm. It takes aim at xhun communitie still reeling from hurricane laura less than two months ago. This is new orleans. This is the riverfront there. Definitely calm before the storm, you can notice slightly that the camera is shaking. Southwest Louisiana Residents are under mandatory evacuation orders again. Faced with the poetential of hurricaneforce winds and flooding, one couple decided to move up their wedding date. We were supposed to get married saturday with over 300 people. We knew about the storm we were like, eh, it wasnt supposed to come to us. Then it was coming right to us. Of course i got hysterical and my little superman here came in and swooped the day. When hurricane delta makes landfall it will break the record for most storms to make landfall in one season in the continental u. S. It will be the tenth hurricane or Tropical Storm to make landfall this season. The president approved emergency declarations in louisiana and mississippi and now i want to bring in our friend, mike. You are telling us just over and over and over the hurricanes keep coming. Its nonstop. Drip, drip, drip, for the last several months. These poor folks in louisiana, you saw the blue tarps if you have been watching our news or the news with david muir. Most of these areas are damaged from laura and have not been fixed and theyre fragile because of that and more susceptible to damage even more so with this storm which is t e taking almost a similar path. It did increase in strength overnight. Its up to a major category 3. 120 Miles Per Hour to 150 Miles Per Hour winds. It is moving rapidly which will help i wont minimize the damage, there will still be plenty of damage but it could be worse. Gusts to 140 Miles Per Hour, 11foot coastal surge and the loss of life and property, theres an extreme risk. Up to tennessee now we have the flooding potential. The cone of probability keeps shrinking. Lake charles to lafayette is where the fastest winds and the most dangerous threat of tornadoes and storm surge will push through. Back here we have drizzle at home. Temperatures 54 to 57 across San Francisco. Pretty much mid 50s to near 60. A little milder and more humid this morning. The its going to be a great day if youre working from home. You have some free air conditioning there. Comfortable conditions for the kids and if youre exercising just monitor the air quality. Heres a look at future radar you can see green blips this morning. Just some random green blips this afternoon. As you head towards the evening hours, quiet but drizzle will develop overnight and be heavier and more widespread tomorrow morning. You can see a better chance of random showers tomorrow before sunshine and warmer weather hits us on sunday. Well show you how much wet weather to expect in the smoke forecast coming up. Lets get back to jobina and talk about the morning commute. Thank you. We have not seen too many problems due to the drizzle in the area, just a heads up to take your time out there this morning. We want to bring in a look at our map. Overall we dont have too many slow spots in the bay area. Just specifically coming out of tracy and then 880 you can see there in oakland. Well bring in our live camera so we can see the area between northbound 880 between 23rd and 29th avenues. Just a little bit out of frame here. You are going to run into a bit of a slowdown due to roadwork and that should be picked up by 6 00 a. M. Then lastly here before i send it back to reggie and kumasi, checking out the san mateo bridge, it looks a little off right now, but if you can see on the far right corner, we do have a lot of brake lights for people making their way westbound. Thank you. Coming up, when could we see a return to normal . Dr. Fauci, a sobering message during his virtual uc berkeley event. Also what a wild story. Plot foiled. The plan to kidnap the governor of michigan that ended in more than a dozen arrests. All right. How about this. A solution to trick or treating during the pandemic. The Business Owner turning trash say yes. To the best bargains ever at ross yes oh, yeah yep. Yesss savings on savings on savings . Thats yes for less. At ross. Oh, yeah theres always somethiat ross. N store yep. Oh yeah say yes to those looks, the best brands. And check you out bargains savings from top to bottom thats yes for less. At ross. All right. Welcome back. A live look at sfo where its cloudy, drizzle and about 59 degrees. Well use this as the back drop for our day planner. Temperatures about 56 to 60 through 7 00. Only low to mid60s at noon with barely sunshine. Higher humidity is what you will notice this afternoon compared to yesterday afternoon as temperatures will be relatively the same. Air quality, we are yellow to green just about everywhere. So were starting off with much healthier air than yesterday where napa and santa rosa were poor or for the sensitive groups unhealthy. It looks like it will be the north bay through saturday that has a possibility of some of that unhealthy air. The smoke forecast, you can see it pushing away as we head throughout the day as that new air mass comes in. Saturday looks quiet. Again sunday behind that cold front those northerly winds develop we could see an increase in smoke sunday. Reggie . Thanks. In todays gma first look Police Arrested more than a dozen people accused of picking part in a plot to kidnap michigans governor. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, new details on the failed plot to kidnap a michigan governor, Gretchen Whitm whitmer. Two Militia Groups who were preparing to kidnap and possibly kill me. Reporter the fbi and state police seen here raiding the home of one of the suspects took action after they say the men met this week to exchange Tactical Gear and to pool their money to allegedly buy explosives. The alleged mission, attack the governor before election day. Tensions have been high in michigan with militia members some of them armed at one point descending on the state house this spring. Coming up this morning, George Stephanopoulos goes oneonone with Gretchen Whitmer. Im alex peres, abc news, lansing, michigan. Facebook removed hundreds of fake profiles tied to a pro trump group. The site says 276 accounts were posing as rightwing americans. Accounts would flood news articles with comments in favor of the president. Facebook permanently banned an arizona Digital Communications firm behind the accounts. The firm was making the accountses on behalf of a group called turning point action. The leading Infectious Disease expert is helping uc berkeley officials navigate the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony fauci was part of a fire side chat about the pandemic. Katethe sobering prediction of when we might see a return to normal. Well, were involved with today is a divisiveness, the likes of which ive never seen. Reporter that coming from dr. Anthony fauci who has advised six president s on serious u. S. And Global Health threats. The enemy is the virus. Science knows no political party. Reporter director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the Coronavirus Task force, dr. Fauci answered questions at a virtual u. C. Berkeley event. How have conspiracy theories affected Public Health efforts . The examples of people not wanting to wear masks or if you do get infected its going to be meaningless because its a trivial outbreak. Well, how can it be a trivial outbreak if its already killed 210,000 people in the United States and a Million People worldwide . Reporter how can governments decrease Racial Disparities when it comes to the pandemic . Make sure theres testing there. Make sure they get their testers back very quickly. But then the big problem is what morbidities . Th that relates to the social determinants of health that minorities have had to deal with since the day they were born. Reporter what can colleges do to keep students safe . Test all the students before they come onto the campus, then do surveillance testing every few days. When a student gets infected, have the capability of isolating them. Reporter when and how wi . Will peopleto wear i would imagine if we get a good vaccine now, that we could have some degree of normality in the Third Quarter to the Fourth Quarter of 2021. Reporter kate larsen, abc7 news. Back to this year, what would halloween be without trickortreaters . As people try to figure out how to celebrate safely during the pandemic, this man in new jersey at a Flooring Company has an idea to keep the candy flowing all by social distancing. So, you know those cardboard tubes that they use to keep rolls of carpet standing. Marshal fox is cutting them up and giving them out to customers so they can use them as candy chutes. The installers would break them up in their van, put them in the dumpster. Lately ive been asking the guys to bring back the tubes. Whats your plan . I dont know. Put it down and shoot it into their basket. So the foxes are giving away the tubes for free. Theyre also accepting donations for make a wish. I feel like this was one of your ideas. Ill never tell if it was. I like my candy launcher. Thats my favorite idea. This one seems a little tame for reggie. It doesnt have explosives. Things arent flying through the air. Whats in it for me . The joy of watching the candy safely arrive. No. I want to see it fired out of a cannon from my shoulder. What do you want . Yeah. Work for that candy. No. Reggie will have to freeze his candy because when he shoots it out it will come out so hot it will melt. Stop giving me ideas. I could take someones idea and take it up a notch. Notcreative myself, though. 58 degrees. Not a stout sea breeze, but definitely a different breeze today. It will be more humid this afternoon. Thats why we still have a chance of a random shower after this mornings drizzle. Better chance of drizzle tonight and measurable drizzle at that. And then we have a chance of a shower saturday afternoon before some sunshine sunday. Heres the area of low pressure that we were counting on to bring us some rain. Notice its sinking more to the south. The models picked up on that the last couple of days. Thats why our chances of rain today are limited. But you can see that storm system, a more typical one coming from the gulf of alaska and coming down our way. More energy with that system. For today, 70 to 75 in the south bay. 62 to 63 along the coast, and mid to upper 60s for downtown, South San Francisco and sausalito. 71 to about 76 through the north bay valleys. Along the east bayshore, 66 in richmond to Castro Valley in fremont making it to 70. 73 to 78 in the east bay valleys. More green on the map tonight. Thats that drizzle for tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the mid 50s to low 60s. My accuweather sevenday forecast, increasing sunshine but possibly smoke sunday. Offshore breezes and another heat wave monday through thursday. Critical fire conditions remain low now. That is something well keep an eye on for next week. Enjoy the weekend. All right. Thank you. 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