Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM 20171103 : compar

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM 20171103

Im kristen sze in for ama daetz. Strike in protest of what workers call unfair labor practices by negotiators for the city. Forced some City Services to close early. All head start and early head start, parks and reck facilities, after School Programs and public libraries. Police and fire not affected. Laura anthony with the story. Laura . Reporter hi, kristen were over where the mayor is going to give her state of the city address. Islamic center of Northern California on madson street. Traditionally a night for the mayor to shine, celebrate the progress the city has made under her leadership but this year the message will compete with this loud demonstration outside. Anyone wanting to attend the mayors speech has to cross this picket line. After nearly six months of negotiations, these oakland city workers say theyve seen enough, enough to prompt them to stage a oneday walkout. We dont get no contracts, they dont get no peace. Reporter a large protest timed to coincide with the annual state of the city address. Im hopeful that oaklanders will still come to the state of the city address tonight. I want them to be aware there will be a picket line there. Reporter Service Employees International Local 121 represents about 2,000 city workers, half on parttime or temporary status. Im going to make mistakes. Thats what is happening. Theyre holding our members accountable for that, but should be hiring more people. Reporter city says oftening 4 lot of of living increase over two years and benefit enhancements. City shares many of the same concerns that workers do. We all want a clean, beautiful, safe city. All believe in the dignity of work. Reporter union claims city Staffing Levels are the same as this the recession of 2008. Want to be seen as equal partner in continuing to provide services the city needs. In order for that to happen, we need the numbers, the people. Eporter and were back live out here. Kind of awkward as guests arrive, folks out here begin chanting do not cross the picket line. Mayor is expected to speak between 6 15 and 6 30, these demonstrators will be out are here throughout the speech and stay until last guest dpartz. By appearances would think the negotiations have broken off. They have not. Lengthy negotiation session today. In oakland, abc7 news. Pg e says a power outage in San Francisco was caused by equipment failure. More than 5,000 customers affected at height of the outage around 4 00 this afternoon. Traffic lights out causing issues. All power restored after 5 00. New at 6 00, Berkeley Police released pictures of people they say were responsible for violence at antimarxist rally. More than a dozen people arrested at that rally. Anyone with information is asked to call Berkeley Police. Now details on deadly shooting in fremont. Told abc7, our internal investigation has led us to conclude the shooting was indeed justified. Consistent with your training. Killed him and family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court. Workers called Fremont Police saying suspect grabbed a phone, hit employee and threatened to kill him. Officers say when they confronted him, got in physical fight and had to shoot. Brother says he was suffering from Mental Illness but never violent. Today the prosecution rested in kate steinle murder trial, shot and killed by undocumented immigrant with stolen gun on the waterfront two years ago. Lyanne melendez joins us with todays testimony, included some show and tell. Lyanne . I was calling it o. J. Simpson moment, prosecution tried to prove the gun could fit in the pockets of what the alleged shooter was wearing. This cell phone video shows what he was wearing when arrested. Black jacket, tshirt and two pairs of pants. Prosecutor diana garcia asked lieutenant anthony to place in pocket of the jacket and pants. Fit nearly perfectly in both. Prosecution wanted to prove that garcia sayre oughty could have have had it with him before he got to the pier. Whether the gun is in the clothing of the defendant is relevant to whether he intended to pull the trigger. Reporter but his attorney asked if clients clothes had been tested for gunshot residue. Answer was new. If the park ranger had used it previously at firing range, would have some residue. Defendant said he found it under the chair on the pier where he was seated. Investigators never believed him. Where could he have gotten it . Anywhere except there. Thats not compelling to me. I dont think its ent intellectually honest. Reporter autopsy report found bullet must have ricochetted. Marks on the pavement not where they suspected near her body but 78 feet away from where she collapsed. Trial continues on monday. In San Francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. A new lawsuit filed today says pg e is to blame for at least one of the north bay wildfires. Attorney for three families announced theyre suing the utility and suing for negligence, lost homes in mendocino county. Says they failed to keep trees, bushes and shrubs trimmed. Lines need to be in location where if they fall they will not fall into dry tinder that will ignite. In an emailed statement, pg e spokesperson writes were aware that lawsuits have been filed. Wont speculate on the cause of the fires while investigation is ongoing. Pg e will continue to comply with the investigators. After the flames, another danger, toxic waste likely to find anywhere anything has burned. Wayne freedman is live with inside look at cleanup effort. Reporter for the starters, its a hot and dirty job. Has to be done in and around every burned down structure. Not stuff you think is dangerous but everyday household stuff that changes in course of a fire. No way people can clear them out until its out there. Use your imagination, might look like scene from Science Fiction movie, men in suits insulated from dangerous elements, sweating away pounds every hour. I believe youre soaked to the bone. But i have a few of these shirts. Reporter contract worker hired by Environmental Protection agency and flown in from idaho, one man among hundreds clearing toxic waste from another burned out building in sonoma county. Bosses face a daunting task. Dispose in efficient manner with all the other waste. Reporter collection facility near windsor brimming and toppling over with nowtoxic products from hope. Propane, cans of paint. Solvent, bleaches. Ammunition. Reporter where an army of firefighters toiled, contractors from across the nation fill the gap. State and county Emergency Declaration allow them entry into never private property. Look for what i need and exit as fast as possible. Some start at 4 00, others start at 6 00, go to 6 00. Reporter its a long day. Do it again and again. Multiply by 6,000 zrukts in sonoma alone, fema will have paid tens of millions of dollars for the work. Shooting for end of november. Reporter betting man, would you put money on it . I dont bet. Reporter abc7 news. North bay is concerned about incoming storm and affect of the rain on the burn areas. Looking across the bay area, will see raindrops starting tonight. Spencer christian is tracking. Pretty calm right now. Live doppler 7, increase in clouds right now, relatively mild, low to mid60s but cooler in north bay. Look at storm impact approaching system, rarngs one, light intensity but may see brief locally heavy downpours. 10 to. 60 inches. In the hills a little bit more. Midnight tonight or 12 00 friday, pockets ofhowers scattered beginning of the morning commute. Some areas of wet pavement greeting morning commuters. Midday, little bit more widespread and heavier in some spots. Closer look at how much rain we can expect coming up later. Dan and kristen . Thank you. Tesla customers learning art of delayed gratification. What production delays of the new model 3 are doing to their image and place in the electric car industry. Thousands of 24 hour fitness members could be getting a big refound. 7 on your side investigation ahead. Is College Really Worth the everything we stock at grocery outt has crazy loprices. Do you know how we do it how . Bargaimics say, if california has a bumper crop and produces too many oranges. Or a winemaker in sonoma sudden has 1000 bottles too many. Weve t namerand, topqualitgrocers priced 4070 off every day. Bargainomics. Thats our business model. And our busiss mod pricedis. Delicious. Y day. Grocery outlet bargain market its a turbulent time for tesla, latest Earnings Report show its taken a huge hit and telling customers they have to wait longer to receive their new cars. Joining us live from tesla showroom in san jose. Janine. Reporter tesla has a higher price tag, why so many people were excited when they started offering a lower cost model last year. But having trouble getting it to customers. When tesla fans found out 35,000 for electric car, lined up to put down deposit. Ceo elon musk promised 1,500 would be made by now, only 220 produced. Hesitate to buy tesla because they fired lots of people. Dont know where the company is going. Reporter those who plunged down the deposit received email informing them when they would receive the model 3. Employees and tesla owners receive priority. In december and if not, 2018. Its getting further delayed. I understand its not easiest thing to do, so bound to be road blocks you have to get past. Reporter released Earnings Report, showing the company lost more money than expected. 619 million, musk explained that problems in facility in nevada contributed. Management professor tammy madson is monitoring the performance. Raises the question whether they have the capability to serve the mass market with the model 3. Reporter still expects to increase production dramatically, up to 20,000 a month, but not until march, three months behind schedule. In san jose, abc7 news. Donald trump disappeared from twitter today but not for long. 4 00 p. M. , this is the message looking for his page. Sorry that page doesnt exist. Within 11 minutes it was back. See it live. Twitters team tweeted explanation saying inadvertently deactivated due to human error. Tax republicans bill out could have impact on californians, allow homeowners to only deduct 10,000 in property taxes. In high tax states could have impact. Nancy pelosi was asked why California Republicans are voting for it. Theyre hoping constituents dont know what is happening here. Point that leader made earlier, hoping to masquerade as fiscal conservatives. Would dramatically lower the mort kbaj interest deduction. Cap from current 1 million and since bay area median home price is 750,000, could impact almost every purchase. Is College Worth it . New poll finds mixed results. Half of adults say its necessary to be successful. Almost as many, other ways. Republicans more likely to support alternatives. All saying that Public Education is going in wrong direction. Saying price of college keeps qualified students from attending. We feel its important for people in sacramento and policy makers and legislators and heads of the systems to know what californians are feeling. While there are concerns about cost, arent about quality. Majority of those surveyed gave top parks to uc, csu and Community College system. Beautiful day around the bay area today, things are changing though. May want to find that umbrella. Spencer christian with the time line. Get out beautiful umbrella, lot of chances of rain. Raindrops are falling right now, chances are supposed to pop up in front of me, thats not happening so live doppler 7. Ill tell you more. At moment it is dry, few clouds that will become thicker overnight. Then rain developing before the morning commute. Live from the rooftop camera at abc7, over embarcadero, partly cloudy, 61, gilroy at 64, 57 at half moon bay. East bay hills camera, sun set but sky still aglow. Napa 61, mid60s. Golden gate, bright skies but clouds getting more prominent. Rain arrives overnight. Arly morning. Dry break saturday afternoon at tonight and tomorrows rin. Then more rain middle of next week. Break over the weekend sandwiched between periods of rainfall. Approaching system coming in tomorrow and early saturday rang ranks one on our scale. Light to moderate rainfall. Three quarters of inch to 1 1 4 in the hills. Pockets of light rain and showers and some areas of wet pavement for morning commuters. 5 00 tomorrow afternoon, more widespread in some areas and heavier locally, especially across the santa cruz mountains, east bay, north wbay, another wave. Widespread rain saturday and locally heavy downpours. Tapering off and break continuing into sunday and perhaps beyond. 5 00 tomorrow, most locations will have under a tenth of an inch of rainfall. But saturday, totals will grow up to about half inch in San Francisco, third in many locations in the peninsula and east bay. North bay, a third to half inch. Overnight, low temperatures low to mid50s. Highs range from upper 50s at coast to low 60s around the bay and low and mid60s inland. Sierra, its going to snow, winter storm warning in Effect Tomorrow through saturday, gusty winds. Accuweather sevenday forecast after the snowfall totals. Cumulations up to about a foot. Now accuweather, wet weather tomorrow and early saturday. Little bit of a break for remainder of the weekend. Set your clocks back to standard time. Oh, yeah. Next wave of rain the middle of next week. Up next, music with a message. Happening now in the mission, a special sell brafgs dia de los muertos. Loved ones brought by flowers and mementos to remember people they lost. Going to start a procession. Organizers invite everybody to the celebration. Golden gate symphony kicking off another season in San Francisco. Doing things differently. Using sound of music to speak out against president trumps proposed border wall. More on their efforts. Reporter for a special chorus visiting San Francisco, a personal appeal as they seek to spread their message. There is more music that we can share and we can learn and theyre going to love it. We hope so. Reporter alongside members of the golden gate symphony, performers from jalisco, mexico, take us back to different time. Not like i know now to speak spanish, learning new way to accent words. Reporter special concert at hertz theater. Defiant tone prompted by president trumps proposed border wall. Music knows no borders, done all over the world. Wherever you go, you can do music. Great vehicle to break down borders. Reporter called viva mexico, beyond border walls. Hope that music will connect others beyond the president s rhetoric. And for local talent, chance to introduce others to more than mare yauchy. I love Classical Music and also latina of mexican heritage. Reporter sharing culture and compassion with anyone who wants it. Chris nguyen, abc7 news. Great. They sound good. 7 on your side started investigation into 24 hour fitness after members came to us about fees. Resolution of the case that will cost the gym more than 1 million. Bigger is not always better. Features on this fire truck for San Francisco streets. What is different about pomegranates aftft my shoulders carry a lot of names some i deserve others i dont but in the end only one name really matters because shoulders were made for greatness, not dandruff ayep, and my teeth are yellow. . Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and fectiv and they whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. 7 on your side has been looking into customer complaints against 24 hour fitness for more than a year. And now were seeing results. Major settlement has been reached into verbal promises some customers say were made at locations for National Fitness club that gave them lifetime memberships at fixed rate. Michael finney broke this story this morning on abc7news. Com. Weve been looking into it for more than a year. 24 hour fitness has agreed to pay 1. 2 million fine and provide restitution to potentially well over 100,000 members. 7 on your side investigation found annual membership dues were increased despite customers saying there were verbal promises that would never happen. Shared the good news with some of the members. Elated. I knew this was wrong. Thats the reaction from sherry gordon, paid upfront fee of 545 and received verbal promise her annual membership fee of 69 would never be changed. James bailey joined to increase the strength of his knees, paid 450 upfront for annual membership fee of 45. Didnt think anything would come of this. Surprised. District Attorneys Office launched investigation with orange county. After talking to many employees became clear there was pattern of selling these contracts with verbal promise. From 2006 to 2009 backs of the contract stated annual dues could be raised but sales reps continued to make the promise they would never change. 24 hour fitness told us it was time to move on. In a statement said 24 hour fitness denies any wrongdoing, this resolution nonetheless addresses concerns raised by some members who say that sales presentatives made verbal representations inconsistent with the contract terms. District Attorney Says the message is clear. Sends a strong message. If youre not truthful with consumers, there will be consequences. Thank you finney on your side for helping us out. If anybody can help us out, you guys can. Members will receive notice with information. How to get memberships reinstated under the original membership dues. 7 on your side hotline is open monday through friday and reach me on facebook and through abc7news. Com. Good work as always. Thank you michael. New at 6 00 p. M. , San Francisco Fire Department is welcoming newest member of the fleet. In the financial district this afternoon when officials officially unveiled engine 13. Solar panels on top, 360 degree camera and much better turning radius

© 2025 Vimarsana