Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20171207 : comp

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20171207

Famous getty museum. Im dan ashley, ama daetz is off. Five active fires burn right now. No deaths thankfully. Comes right up to houses, freeways and world famous landmarks. Biggest is thomas in Ventura County, jumped to 90,000 acres. 150 homes burned but fire officials expect that number to rise. Skirball fire scorched about 500 acres near the wealthy community of belair. So far four homes burned there. Marci gonzalez with more. Reporter raging flames threatening commuters along the busy 405 freeway and charring multimilliondollar homes in elite belair neighborhood. Really frightening. Lot of homes here. Reporter one of four major fires burning out of control. Of course im worried. Reporter nearly 200,000 people ordered to evacuate, including this nursing home. Number expected to climb as flames spread. More than 80,000 acres scorched so far, fuelled by strong santa ana winds. Kicking up to 70 miles an hour. Thats Hurricane Force winds. Reporter neighbors pitching in to save each others homes and pets. This horse rescued from a house where more than two dozen more died. Exhausting days for resident and firefighters. Theyre again preparing for a long tough night ahead. Strong winds not expected to let up before end of the week. Abc news. Just as we experienced in the north bay wildfires, extremely dry air and strong winds down south creating one of the highest fire risks in Southern California in decades. Lisa watching it closely. Been a prolonged event. Seven days of gusty offshore winds. Animation here, notice winds 30 to 36mileperhour gusts right now. But going into the morning hours, 40mileanhour wind gusts. And warmest and second driest season on record for Southern California. Dry conditions, gusty winds. Watch the color contours, doesnt let up through friday. Into friday afternoon, still looking at gusts in excess of 20 miles an hour. This is going to take us through the next 24 to 30 hours with red flag warning. Looking at over 5 Million People affected. Locally seeing our own gusty winds, 20 to 30 miles an hour Berkeley Hills to mt. Tam. Will influence high temperatures tomorrow. Also freezing temperatures to talk about in Early Morning hours. All coming up in full weather segment. Meantime, other things. 3,000 oakland city workers will be on strike for a third day tomorrow after no progress was made on a deal. Both sides accusing each other of unfair labor practices. I continue to be extremely disappointed that unions have chosen to strike when we have not reached impasse. City is investing a lot of energy and filing charges against us to try to get Court Injunction to bring us back to work. Want city council to agree to one year deal with 4 salary increases and set aside other issues for later negotiations. President trump issued warning of possible Government Shutdown this weekend and blaming democrats. Mr. Trump says the shutdown is possible because democrats are demanding to have quote Illegal Immigrants pouring into our country. Come a day before meeting aimed at averting the shutdown is scheduled. Funding to keep federal agencies operating runs out midnight on friday. Two days from now. Remember this from last Government Shutdown four years ago . Vandals took advantage of furloughs of National Park service workers, no one patrolling, graffiti on signs, benches on the roads in marin headlands. And could close alcatraz, a big letdown for visitors who get tickets in advance. Last time had to refund a lot of unhappy customers. Impacted reservations and all the visitors couldnt come out. Unfortunate. Hope it doesnt repeat. Also would shut down marry time historical park at hyde street pier. Also rosie the riveter museum and John Muir National site. Programs that check Work Authorizations would be suspended. Post office will stay open. Social security and Food Assistance checks also still go out. Tonight we have new details about a carjacking suspect shot and killed by San Francisco police officer. New information about that officer. Shooting happened friday in the citys bay view district. Vic lee has information only on abc7 news. Not saying what the young man did wasnt wrong. It was wrong but not justification to blow his head off. Reporter chandler is a Community Activist in the neighborhood. On friday she and her friends at scene of the shooting here at Housing Development at 10 30 in the Morning Police say kita oneill carjacked a state lottery van at 23rd and arkansas, drove to Alice Griffith as police responded. Shooting on 1,000 blook of fitzgerald avenue. Patrol car with side window shattered and blood and clothing near the vehicle. Officer fired at least one round killing oneil. He was running, trying to get out of this gate. Officer, in his police car, blew the window off with the gun. Shot and shattered the wind and hit him in the head. Reporter source with knowledge of the investigation gave abc7 news the same scenario, and also that the suspect was not armed. Were also learning that the officer graduated from the Police Academy just three days before the shooting. Police also detained four others seen in gold suv traveling with a stolen van. Abc7 news has learned all four have since been released from custody. Police officials have retrieved bodyworn cameras which officers here were wearing at the time. Being reviewed for further evidence. Abc7 news. Nine people hurt after trolley rearended a bus on market street. Metropolitan Transportation Agency tells us that f line trolley rear ended a bus. Eight taken to hospital, another refused treatment on the seen. Several busses rerouted as investigated. Regular Service Resumed little bit more than an hour ago now. Back to the drawing board for oakland as. Peralta Community College district shot down proposal to build new stadium on land it owns near lainie college. Reporter oakland as fans have had their own ideas where to play if they leave coliseum. This site or bay front property. Reporter thought they hit a home run with this in west oakland. Instead struck out. Never a done deal. I think ive been very clear. We had no commitment, deal or contract. Reporter district says money wasnt why they declined, internal opposition may have been. Students and administrators voted against the idea. Neighbors worried about traffic and gentrification. In a statement the as say shocked by decision not to move forward. All we wanted to do was enter into a conversation about how to make this work for all of oakland, lainie and peralta Community College. Were disappointed we wont have that opportunity. Appears to put the as back at square one, but also opens door a crack to citys plans to build new stadium on the existing site. We have a coliseum site for them to continue to play now and dont miss a game, a beat. And continue to build a brand new stadium right on site. Reporter in a Statement Today mayor libby schaaf says oakland remains fiercely determined to keep the as in oakland. Unfortunate the discussion with peralta ended abruptly but working with as and community to find right spot for ballpark. In oakland, eric thomas, abc7 news. More to come here. Alternative juror speaks out. He saw the kate steinle murder trial up close. Why says his colleagues made right decision. Also why researchers so thrilled to see this Mountain Lion in her cub in the video. More to the story. How verdict in the kate steinle murder trial has caused a lot of outrage after the defendant, undocumented immigrant, acquitted of most serious charges against him. One of the alternate jurors spoke with Lyanne Melendez in defense of those who deliberated behind closed doors. I think the law was upheld. Different people can interpret that as justice or not. Reporter says his fellow jurors made the right decision to acquit jose inez garcia zeralte. He was alternate jury. Requested why the jury was asked to consider frs degree murder, includes remeditation. No sign of that. Second required malice aforethought. Reporter also rejected. Never proved intended to kill or harm kate steinle. No notimotive given. No history of violence and bullet ricochetted before hitting her in the back. Not just ricochet, a bad one. If he intended that shot he just got really lucky. Reporter why not Involuntary Manslaughter . Reason prosecution had to claim that in the act of committing the crime he was brandishing a weapon. Waving it. No evidence presented during the trial. Reporter no witness on the pier saw him Holding Anything in his hand. Acknowledges it wasnt easy to see the steinle family in court. I knew had to separate feelings about that. Reporter jurors couldnt tell anyone they were involved in steinle trial, not even wi s wives, husbands or partners. That tightlipped. San Francisco Police searching for two dogs they say are a risk to public safety. Surveillance photos of them. Unleashed when they attacked a woman and her dog on brunswick street monday november 20th 4 30 in the afternoon. Woman was hurt and dog died from injuries suffered in that attack. If you kno owner, asked to call San Francisco police immediately. Coyote avoid capture after spotted in heart of downtown San Francisco, near yerba buena. Lost sight after took off down fullsome, coyotes sightings are normal this time of year. Sometimes end up in areas like this by mistake. Mountain lion and eightmonthold cub survived the wildfires. Monitored by researchers in Sonoma County but trail cameras destroyed by flames. Team was thrilled when new cameras picked up the pair First Time Since october. Near bennett valley, looking healthy. Go back to the weather. Up here its chill in the air that lisa arthen gen is looking. It is. Our own winds locally mix it down to the surface to mitigate the overnight lows. Looking at cool side. As we go through next several hours overnight, coolest spot is up in north bay valley. Temperatures dropping through the 40s. Right after sunrise in upper 30s. Better than this morning. 29 in santa rosa, close to freezing in livermore and napa. Look for winds to work in our favor. Gusty winds this time of year still always cause a concern. Prolonged in bay area in upper elevations. Live doppler 7 showing how clear it is. But california is dry and huge dome of High Pressure from northwest down to mexican border, camera shaking from live shot here. Upper elevation winds common, 20 to 30 miles an hour. Working to keep temperatures at coast in the 60s. This panel, 55 in San Francisco, mild. 51 in oakland. Mountain view 50. North bay, cooler numbers. Drop into the 30s. Not as cold. No freeze or frost warnings tonight. 40 by delta. 45 in novato, 40 in santa rosa. Upper elevation winds, over 20 miles an hour, atlas peak, mt. Tam is stronger. Berkeley hills, gusting to over 34 miles an hour around mt. Diablo and just above half moon bay. Offshore winds allowing for warm coastal temperatures. Near freezing in a few valleys and dry pattern looks to persist into next week and maybe even third week of december. Lows, 45 in San Francisco, san mateo, warmer along the coast. Santa rosa, chilly in morning, warming, upper 50s, 68 by afternoon. Highs in south bay warmer. 70 degrees, flirting with records. Eight to ten degrees above average in bay area. San francisco looking at 65 tomorrow. North bay, upper 60s. Santa rosa. Mid60s in oakland and inland in concord. Atmosphere is stagnant. Air quality decreasing in north bay as High Pressure puts lid on the atmosphere. But winds helping a little bit to mix things up. Some of you have allergies with very little wind, sometimes the wind can be helpful. Download our accuweather app. Look at trends. Forecast shows a dip on friday but mild and sunny through next week. Very little change. Very concerning in Southern California. Be watching that for you. A week of these winds . Really bad. Thanks lisa. Coming up next, robot that cal trans is holding a meeting tonight to show off a new plan to speed up traffic along highway 101 from san bruno to santa clara. Plan is toll lanes. Operators would be able to adjust the price of travel depending on congestion and number of occupants per vehicle. Carpoolers with three or more persons exempt. May of 2019, finishing about two years later. Meantime senator Diane Feinstein says traffic in bay area is intolerable, once again calling for new bridge to be built across the bay. Floating around since 1940s. Feinstein brought up in 2000, southern crossing, san bruno and san leandro. Sent a letter saying should be funded by ballot measure. Pwell have more much on abc7 news at 11 00 on channel 7. San francisco startup zen place is making it possible to check out rental with help of robot. Starts with app, see a house to check out, text number for unlock code. Once inside Real Estate Agent controls robot remotely to show you around. Trying to reinvent Property Management making it more convenient for everyone. Customers and agents alike. If you like what you see, robot can give you application on the spot. Coming up next, update on the fires in Southern California, flames still spreading with new threat of strong winds. Take you to fire lines. Also ive judged this course of action to be in the best interest of the United States of america. Major policy shift for United States in middle east, protests and controversy over the move in israel. Mystery solved, know who paid for the rare da vinci painting. Stay with me. Today were out here to test peoples knowledge about type 2 diabetes. So you have type 2 diabetes . Yes i do. True or false. Type 2 diabetes more than doubles your chance of dying from a cardiovascular event, like a heart attack or a stroke. That cant be true, can it . Actually, it is true. And with Heart Disease, your risk is even higher. In fact, cardiovascular disease is the 1 cause of death for adults with type 2 diabetes and Heart Disease. But there is good news. Jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit. Jardiance is proven to both significantly reduce the chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in adults who have type 2 diabetes and Heart Disease and lower your a1c. Thats good to know. Jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. This may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing. Ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may be fatal. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, and trouble breathing. Stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of ketoacidosis or an allergic reaction. Symptoms of an allergic reaction include rash, swelling, and difficulty breathing or swallowing. Do not take jardiance if you are on dialysis or have severe kidney problems. Other side effects are sudden kidney problems, genital yeast infections, increased bad cholesterol, and urinary tract infections, which may be serious. Taking jardiance with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. Isnt it time to talk to your doctor about jardiance . Absolutely. Ask your doctor about jardiance. And get to the heart of what matters. Good evening once again. Begin this half hour with the emergency unfolding in Southern California. Five major fires, out of control. New fire erupted today in fact catching rush hour drivers by surprise. Shut down one of americas busiest highways, 405. Flames creeping close to getty museum. Look at that scene, looks like something out of a movie. California fires already destroyed nearly 200 structures, homes, apartment buildings, even a hospital. Matt gutman. Reporter major new wildfire crowning famed Hollywood Hills with fire. Really frightening, lot of homes here. Reporter some of the most expensive reports in america. Engulfing interstate 405, one of the busiest freeways, hellish commute, threatening the getty center and priceless artwork. Firefighters on the ground and swarmz of aircraft. Been years since anything burned at all in this area. Reporter churning into neighborhoods. Engulfed and smoke is noxious, like breathing in tear gas. Helicopter overhead right now dropping water. Might get wet. Dumping everything they have on this fire. Can you see from the helicopters, see that hose over there. Right behind me blasting away at this fire with whatever they can, trying to save these homes. Reporter some overcome by heat and smoke. Hot . Hurt . Hot. Reporter many residents racing to pack up, get out. Nursing home evacuated, patients parked in wheelchair outside. But staying behind with help, fighting to protect neighbors homes. Like a war zone in back yard. Fires coming all over. Reporter one of four major blazes scorching california. Creek fire at least four firefighters injured. This horse rescued from ranch more than two dozen others didnt survive. Thomas fire is out of control, flames marching to the pacific ocean. Repo

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