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KGO ABC7 News 400PM August 23, 2016

Skid marks, that is where the truck went off the road and then from there into the Russian River below. A pickup truck pulled from the Russian River, a photo held by residents showing two little girls who died inside. A mother and driver who distraught that she did not leave the scene for almost six hours after it happened. The kids were just darling and a lot of fun. Oh, two of the most beautiful little children in the world. And they are our hearts and our only children in jenner who live here. Reporter and how and why this pickup left the road is the mystery. Pavement was wet and the air foggy and mothers en route to school where they attended and she worked and the truck remains submerged in 12 feet of water. Witnesses dove in and tried to help but didnt succeed. The first divers arrived half an hour later but too late. I was unsuccessful in getting the door open and one of my lifeguards came and scott was able to get in through the drivers side window which was open or broken, and he was able to open the door and then bring the two victims out. Reporter in jenner, this closeknit community, when one person hurts, they all do. And when it is a family the family is everybody. Reporter from jenner, wade freedman, abc 7 news. Sky 7 is live over breaking news on San Francisco Market Street right now. That yellow taxi jumped a curb at market and sutter hitting three people standing next to a news stand. Could you see the cab knocked over and smashed a large advertise kiosk at the corner. This is right by the montgomery street b. A. R. T. Station on market. Three people are in Critical Condition and all three are the pedestrians who were hit. Firefighters tweeted photos of the aftermath showing a large cab with a dented hood and the smashed kiosk and debris all around. Part of the intersection is closed right now, at least one lane of market and it appears all of sutter is closed at Market Street. We have a reporter arriving at the scene and well bring you more information as soon as we get it. Now you are looking at the damage caused by a man with a golf club this afternoon at the west oakland b. A. R. T. Station. These photos show several broken windows on the platform, really a mess. Reports say the man also took some swings at a train. It wasnt damaged and no one was hurt, however service was disrupted between 1 30 and 2 00. Police say the man is now in custody. This man, former santa clara guard jimmy tri is now free, after being arrested on charged that he assaulted an inmate. He is due back in court next month. He aadmitted to kicking an inmate in the face during 2003 but claimed it was in selfdefense. He was forced to leave the Sheriffs Department last year. Five former deputies face charged of beating inmates and three also for murder. One inmate, michael tri, died after a con front deputies. A judge behind the sentencing of a former stanford swimmer is recusing himself from another case. The case involved a san jose man trying to get a child pornography conviction reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. The judge filed a statement with the court saying some doubt there was doubt that he could be impartial. Perske made National Headlines when he san antonioed bro he sentenced brock turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman. The chimney fire continues to grow on the central cost where more than 2400 people are under evacuation orders and it has burned 68 square miles in the county and that is not all fires are burning across the west. Dania backus has the rest. Reporter across the west, the fire fight doesnt seem to be ending. At yellowstone in wyoming, the flames are growing bigger and more firefighters are being called in to help n. Washington state, several fires have burned more than a dozen homes. Crews there working on the ground and around the clock to establish containment lines to protect buildings. Evacuation orders are in place. People there watching and waiting anxiously. Six fires are burning across the state of california. Hundreds of homes destroyed. 10,000 firefighters trying to make sure that number doesnt rise. On californias coast, flames charring more than 50 miles of droughtdry brush. Thousands there forced to leave their homes. In it a week after it started, the destructive blue cut fire finally at full containment, but crews continue to monitor the area for any hot spots and flareups. With wildfires spanning several stace states, officials from firefighters to air tankers are running thin. Dania backus, abc news, los angeles. New concerns that rise in wildfires caused by Climate Change will expose tens of millions of people to high levels of air pollution, according to a new study by yale and harvard. By mid century more than 80 Million People were experiencing consecutive days with high air pollution caused by wildfires. Sky 7 was over lake county when firefighters batmed flames in battled flames in kelseyville at about 10 cloon 30 this morning, two propane tanks exploded but the flames never spread to the nearby woods. A cabin and shed used as a workshop were destroyed but there were evacuations for a short time but no one was hurt. Did you notice how much warmer it is near the coast and bay than yesterday. Take a look at live doppler 7 hd, we have the usual marine layer near the parts of the coastline but check out the black and white image sewing the line south of the golden gate was exposed to sunshine which accounted for a bit of a warmup so here is the 24hour temperature change. Five degrees warmer in San Francisco, hayward and palo alto at this hour yesterday and two degrees warmer at half moon bay. So a little bit of a warmer effect by being exposed to greater amount of sunshine. Here is the view from our rooftop camera here at abc 7 looking at blue skies over the bay and 64 lear in the city. 69 across the bay in oakland, 73 in Mountain View, san jose 77 and 82 in morgan hill and 61 at half moon bay. This is how is looks from the emeryville and the low clouds building near the coastline. 72 degrees in santa rosa, and napa. 73 in petaluma and 80s in fairfield and concord and livermore and i have a cool weekend that is really cool. Ill have that later. Thanks, spencer. Well now to your voice, your vote. And the race for big money. Hillary clinton is back in the bay area and it is all for fu fundraisers. We are live in piedmont where the president ial candidate is expected to arrive in a few hours. Laura . Reporter that is right, dan. This is actually the same home that president obama visited four years ago on a fundraising mission. Tonight the minimum to get into this fundraiser and this does include a picture with secretary clinton is 33,000 per person and the price goes up from there. Hillary clinton was all smiles on jimmy kimmel last night as she returned to california and the bay area to stock up on money. We are the atm and when hillary comes through, it is hold on to your checkbook. Abc 7 news political analyst said it should be no surprise that clinton has made yet another swing through the bay area. Especially given how lucrative the golden state has been to date. And none of her stops are open to the public. Shes been here, bill clinton and tim kaine has been here and it wouldnt stop from now until november because this is the mother load for the Democratic Campaign for a couple of reasons. Tech does not like donald trump. Reporter so far clinton has raised nearly 46 million in california, 22 of all of her individual contributions. That is compared with just 1. 5 million for donald trump. Voice of every day people is not part of this process. Reporter dan knewman is the president and cofounder of map light which tracks political spending in california and across the country. If you want to go to an event with Hillary Clinton, you have to pay a thousand dollars. If you want to be a part of her small reception, you have to pay 27,000. The number of people who can afford to pay even a thousand dollars to a president ial candidate is very small. Reporter now that 1,000 will not get you into tonights event. There is a 1,000 minimum for a event tomorrow in redwood city. To give you an idea how inaccessible these fundraising events are for most people, a recent study by the Federal Reserve revealed that half of americans cannot come up with 400 even in the case of a family emergency. Live in piedmont, laura anthony, abc 7 news. That does it all right. Talk about money and the cost of these things for a moment, some towns likagerton sent out a bill for extra Police Expenses when president obama comes to town and does piedmont have any plans to do that in this case. Reporter it is interesting, it is a trend recently and cloverdale hosted a Bernie Sanders event and they received payment from the Bernie Sanders campaign for the extra police and Security Services that they used there. In this case, in piedmont, i talked with the city this morning, they do not plan to bill the clinton campaign. They have told me this is a pretty lowbudget affair in terms of their Police Services and in fact theyve seen maybe one or two police cars drive by. All that weve seen so far are just little signs out behind me here on the street. So they do not plan to build a campaign for this one. Interesting. Laura, thank you very much. East bay mud will pay 426,000 in penalties for a cement spill that clogged a creek in the oakland hill after the agency accidentally left open a valley and dumped what amounts to 12 truckloads of cement into the creek last year. The district has already spent about a Million Dollars to clean up and restore the creek. Coming up here next on abc 7 news at 4 00, a school shakeup. Were very concerned about their own teacher. Teachers and patients borent about the future at Livermore Charter schools. Plus the expedition off the coast right here in the bay area. Well take you 2600 feet under water to look at the uss independence. And going faster and farther in a tesla. The big announcement today. And checking our traffic across the Golden Gate Bridge on this tuesday, moving in both we want to update you on the breaking news we brought you near the top of the newscast. Part of Market Street is shut down at sutter after a taxi cab jumped the curb b and hit two people. The driver and both pedestrians were taken to the hospital in Critical Condition. This is near the montgomery street b. A. R. T. Station. Police had to ask for pedestrians and drivers to stay out of the area as they respond. Is there is no word on why the cab driver lost control. We do have a reporter arriving at the scene and well bring you more information as we get it. But again, you could see the situation there from sky 7 live right now. Terrible scene. Moving on at the movement, hundreds of students are transferring out of Livermore Valley and livermore preparatory. We have a look at parents concerns. It is very sad. A l a lot of tears and stress. Reporter the superintendent said about 400 parents have decided to pull their kids out of the Livermore Charter schools this week and put them in public schools. And she said some teachers have also called her. We did meet with about 28 teachers who are very concerned from the Charter School who were worried about payments and worried about the paychecks that had come late sometimes. Reporter administrators say they have been investigating the schools since february and are doing their best to try and get the school back on track. It is almost never in the best interest of students to shut down schools. And so that is not a direction that we want to go. We want them to fix the probl s problems. Reporter the problems, according to administrators, include not paying rent, not paying teachers, and transferring Foreign Exchange students to stockton, against their will. That last one has drawn the attention of prosecutors who will looking into whether a crime occurred. From my understanding, it is also present and we take this serious. There were still plenty of parents rushing into class this morning at the Charter School. One mom said she has confidence the school will survive this. Weve gone through a lot of things in the last ten years and weve made it through and i think well make it through this time zbrshlgts. Reporter yes asked strofs if it looks like they will fix the problem. They are doing some things that are positive. It is unclear as to whether or not they are going to be financially viable. Reporter i asked him whether parents should pull kids out of the Charter School and he said, it is up to them, you have to do what is best for your child. I reached out to the company that runs the chaert school at this point and i have not heard back n. Livermore, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Today tesla announced a electric car that is faster than a ferrari but a fraction of the cost. Elon musk said the model sp100d sedan will go from zero to 60 are you ready in just 2. 5 seconds. It will cost 135,000 and have a range of 315 miles on a single charge and also a crossover version we are told. Both going into production next summer. Musk said sales of the expensive vehicles will help fund the development of cheaper mass market electric cars. Tesla is expanding the lease options. At least for a little while. The carmaker is offering a twoyear lease in addition to the threeyear program it has. The twoyear lease will be available until september 12th on model s. And model x. Suv. A fascinating expedition just wrapped up off the coast in north korea. Kristen zse is here to show us the incredible footage. I think this rivals the titanic. Take a look at uss independence on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and no one has seen it in 65 years but thanks to Amazing Technology were getting a closeup of the wreckage. This was the Aircraft Carrier and played a role against japan until it was scuttled and intention ally sunk 30 miles from the half moon bay. The u. S. Found it 40 years later while mapping the sea floor. Now for the past days scientists led been a san jose native wearing the hat there, james delgado, and they used two rovers to explore the wreckage. It was broadcast live on the welcome back until 2 00 p. M. To look at it. Most of it in tact and upright. That is an antiaircraft weapon, all amazingly preserved. Now look, this is one of my favorite, a rover arm here. It is collecting they want to leave the pieces of the ship in tact. And what they are doing let me bring you back to the next one, these are massive sponges that are all over the ship on the hull and they want to bring that up and test it for radioactivity. It was involved in the testing of Nuclear Bombs but they say the contamination risk because water is such a great buffer so little for us to worry about, but look at that. What a sight to be hold, dan and ama. Kristen, thank you. Federal regulators are proposing a ban on swimming with the hawaii spinner dolphins following concerns voiced by scientists who say they deprive the dolphins the rest they need. The ban put ford by the National Marine fishery does contain some exceptions given that they sometimes approach people. The final decision is expected sometime next year. And check out this seal. It hopped on to a boat of whale watchers to escape become orca food. It happened in british colombia. It fell off twice and decided to stay on and until the whale gave up and swam away. To see that video again go to abc7news. Com. And check out this beautiful picture sent to us by instagramer wed blur 94 and share your pictures with us. Look at that great color and mysterious andage eerial. Use the hash abc 7 news and see it online at abc7news. Com. That is really something. And spencer is talking about a cool forecast for us. For the weekend in particular. For the weekend. It will warm up first and then cool down. So a little bit of something on the weather menu for all appetites, all tastes. A live look at live doppler 7 hd and i hope you are in a taste for the marine layer to the coast and over the bay and inland as it has last few evening so this is the picture right now. Lets take a live view from the east bay hills camera looking toward the east southeast under clear skies and these are our forecast features. Well see clouds overnight, increasing and patchy morning drizzle and warmer inland and then the cooler pattern comes in and that will settle in for friday through the weekend and into early next week and overnight with areas of low clouds and fog across the bay and inland and low temperatures mild in the upper 50s to near 60 in some spots around the bay and then in the inland east bay and up in the north bay, valleys will see lows in the mid50s at napa and santa rosa. And then we go to a forecast animation starting at 7 00 this evening, there is the increase in low clouds and fog rather rapidly late tonight and into early tomorrow morning. So 5 00 tomorrow morning, as the morning commute begins, reduced visibility in many locations and that way for a couple of hours. Even up to 7 00 a. M. , well see lingering low clouds and spotty drizzle. Mainly near the coast. But by mid morning to midday we see the clouds pull back to the coastline giving us mainly sunny skies once again over the bay and our inland areas. Maximum temperature trend over the next several days starting with thursday outlook shows slightly cooler weather on thursday inland areas and still cooler on friday with below average temperatures just about everywhere, right on into saturday with little change there. But for tomorrow, our microclimate will be on display. 64 at half moon bay, 66 downtown San Francisco. Across the boy in oakland, milder at 71 degrees. Walnut creek, a high of 85 and antioch will top out at about 90 degrees

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