Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 400PM 20161207 : comparemela.c

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 400PM 20161207

This tedious and painstaking efforts to remain evidence from the seen continues. Lets show you what this looks like from sky 7. Earlier this afternoon one of the key elements to this today has been to get rid of, to remove, a wall that was teetering to the point of being too dangerous for crews to do their work so this afternoon we saw crews go in with a backhoe and actually not that wall down piece by piece. We were assured before this took place that there were no human remains in that area. They wanted to make sure that families especially knew that. Were going to be knocking parapets into the building. The appearance is that were knock heavy concrete cinder blocks on to victims. We have completely searched the area directly below where we are knocking these parapets down. Reporter in the meantime, we talked with a man who was inside this building when the fire started on friday night. He was lived here, he told us, for two years. He said he was in his room when he could hear people screaming for help. Lets hear what he had to say. I think its important for like the community to just keep building and to stay together. Theres just so much conflict, and we all really need each other right now. Were all suffering right now and i cant imagine how those families feel. Im suffering in a completely different way, and i cannot imagine what they are feeling. Reporter now jose told us he was only able to grab his two dogs. He ran through the building. He saw he saw one other would. He tried to lead her out to safety, and as we know now, the folks who got out, got out safely uninjured. Those who did not get out did not make it out at all. Well hear from ray kelly with the Alameda County Sheriffs Department at 5 00 tonight. He will describe what were learning today, some of the text messages, some of the final messages from the victims inside this warehouse to their families and the moments before they died. Well have that for you tonight on abc 7 news at 5 00. Live in oakland, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. That is just going to be heart wrenching. Laura, a little more on the time line. Any idea on how much longer they may be out there doing this work . Well, ama, they are winding down. Thats what they told us. At this point they have just 10 of the building left to go through. That is the portion of the building that weve shoen showed you where the backhoe was knock down the front wall there. They want to make sure they get that wall out of the way before crews go in and do a final search in the upper or the left corner, were told, of the building, to make sure there are no more victims inside the Fire Department which told us this afternoon that they dont know if there are any more victims in there. They are obviously hopeful there are no more. All right. Laura anthony reporting live. Laura, thank you. The man who ran the ghost ship Art Collective says hes incredibly sorry about what happened. Deric ion almeda was at the scene and he paused and looked somber and motional and he seemed to get agitated when he was asked about any responsibility he may share. I didnt do anything in my life that would lead me up to this moment. Im an honorable man, im a proud man. Im not going to answer these questions. I would rather get on the floor and be trampled by the parents. Id rather let them tear my flesh than to answer these questions. He went on to say the ghost ship was, quote, not a horrible place. However, some people who had been inside, even had lived it, described it as a death trap. Right now we know at least 36 people died at the ghost ship artist collective and were learning more about the victims and their friends and loved one. Sergio quintana joins us live with their stories. Reporter one of the featured performers friday night at the ghost ship warehouse was a young man who went by the fame of deejay nact and coworkers here at green apple books and mike simply knew him as johnny egaz. On saturday morning johnny was scheduled to work at green apple books at about noon, but as the morning went on it hit all the employees here johnny probably wasnt coming in for his shift. We had families and a lot of small children coming in to begin whats a joyous Holiday Season for so many people, and 15, 20 minutes after the store opened we started getting the reports. The coowner of green apple books says he quickly left an impression on music section of the store. He was a deejay who loved music and would often write postit notes for recommendations. Paul, his brother, conveyed to me how excited he was to be a part of this, that this really was his dream job. Reporter across San Francisco, lots of coworkers and friends are dealing with loss. Alex vega and his friend Mikayla Gregory worked together at this Urban Outfitters in the Marina District and the manager said everyone is too shaken up to talk on camera. Though his death has not been officially confirmed vegas family was told this morning his body was identified and that news provided relief. They will be holding a memorial for vega and gregory tomorrow at their home. He always wanted to be remembered by his work, so lets just celebrate him and his work. Reporter alex gasan was a documentary producer and contributor to kqed and was engaged to hana from finland who is among the missing. She recently helped organize a peace demonstration in helsinki. The mother of 32yearold Donna Kellogg says her daughter died doing something she enjoyed doing, dancing. Susan slocum says her daughter was strong and courageous. She was a musician and, unfortunately she died doing something show enjoyed doing. Donna kellogg was a native of chico and was working at high wire coffee rosters in berkeley and will be buried next to her brother who died when he was 18. And for more information on the victims go, to abc7news. Com. Can you share this badge or look through the Photo Gallery weve put together honoring the victims. Donations are pouring in for the victims that have fire. In fact, the outpouring of support has been so great Law Enforcement is asking that if you want to help do it online. Abc 7 News Reporter Jessica Castro has the details. They have been a bit overwhelmed by all of the support, so much so that during the press conference this morning the Oakland Police department asked wellintentioned folks to use crowd funding websites set up to help the victims. They said the pages were set up by the oakland Mayors Office and the red cross. Here at the site were experiencing an overwhelming apt of support. People bringing in food and asking how can they donate financially and it is overwhelming here and it is set up online and its where you can make the donations. Marquez assured the public the funds would be appropriately distributed. There are two youcaring sites to be used for medical and health expenses. There is a general fund and also a separate page thats supported by the oakland as, the raiders and golden state warriors. They say they will match up to 150,000. We have posted links to boast those crowd funding pages on our age abc7news. Com as well as can you find it through our abc 7 news app. Jessica castro. Abc 7 news. Well, weather is expected to be an issue for the Fire Fighters and crews who are investigating that scene in oakland. Spencer christian joining us now with a look at what we youre pecting ing what we to see weatherwise. Sub freezing temperatures and some rain. Live doppler 7. Partly cloudy skies and those clouds are going to increase overnight and during that time we also have a freeze warning in effect for parts of the bay area including the strait and delta and be sure to protect plants, pipes and frets this deep freeze. Morning lows tomorrow will drop down to 30 in santa rosa and 3 is in napa 357and 32 in fairfie. It will be a light storm generally and it will produce moderate amounts of rainfall with totals reaching from. 1 to half an inch. Notice tonight increase in clouds overnight, and by noon tomorrow well see rain developing already in parts of the north bay with some snow over the higher reaches of terrain there, and the rain is going to intensify and spread through the day and into the afternoon and evening hours tomorrow. There will be pockets of heavy rain at times, and it looks like tomorrows evening commute will be a treacherous one and more on ray. Ill give you a look a little later. Ama . Thanks so much, spencer. Flames gutted a home in novato this afternoon. Sky 7 flew above the scene on philip terrace where highway 37 crosses the petaluma river. The fire broke out around 2 30. It appears fire began inside the garage before spreading into the home. So far theres no word of any injuries. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00, the new effort to keep an eye on prisoners after four inmates escaped from the Santa Clara County jail last month. Up next, getting back on track after a terror scare on the los angeles subway system. And president elect donald trump says the plans for a new lift up your head and keep moving or let the paranoia haunt you . Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence i keep my feefifofum i keep my heart undone the strong in me, i still smile. Frisco building inspectors are looking into the cause of this wall collapse at a building under construction on crescent avenue just after 10 00 this morning. The damage is pretty extensive. No injuries though have been reported. Santa clara county supervisors are taking took try to prevent a repeat of last months brazen inmate escape at the county jail. Yeah, today they voted to install cameras at the facility. They say it isnt a sophisticated system but will do for now. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee joining us live at the county building with more on the story. Vic . Ama, the bottom sideline this. Nobody wants inmates running loose again just because a county wont spend money to put some cameras in the jail. It does carry unanimously in a 50 vote. Reporter supervisors voted to allocate 300,000 to install cameras in the main jail south. The old father silt where the four inmates escaped by cutting window bars and rappelling down bedsheets. The initial staff recommendation in june was to fund cameras and not main jail south which will be torn down and rebuilt. Supervisor cindy chavez had recommended including camera coverage then. It should absolutely be covered with the same level of scrutiny as the other facilities that we have. It was prophetic. The jail break happened thanksgiving week and Little Wonder her motion passed unanimously today. I think the evidence is out. So now the south jail will have cameras like the hundreds of cameras already in the main jail. Sheriff laurie smith bought the first seven with her own money from costco. All will be replaced with a more advanced expensive system, but it will take a couple of years. Already its paid dividends in the main jail. In march security cameras captured this huge jailhouse brawl. Up drawback, guards are not monitoring the cameras live. The images have to be downloaded and then viewed, so will it prevent another jail break . Under sheriff carl newsle believes it would be. Would have been a deterrent because the inmates dont know if were watching or were not watching. Well, the Sheriffs Office says the cameras will be installed in three to four months. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Vicious by temporary jail cameras, you mean this particular camera model is like the Home Security cram that we can buy from stores. Thats right, ama, they are called the lorax camera system and youre right. You can buy them in stores. They are basically controlled by a server and you have to download it to some kind of hard drive to view the video. They are not hard wired like the regular surveillance cameras you would expect in other jails and at the airport, for instance, where somebody is actively monitoring the camera but, you know, again, these will be replaced down the road by that kind of camera system, but in the meantime its better than nothing. Back to you. All right, vic. Thank you. Preliminary hearing is set for next month in the case of a 41yearold man accused in a fatal crash outside of San Jose City half. Ricardo gomez is charged with vehicular manslaughter and suspicion of felony dui. Authorities say gomez ran a red light at north for the and east santa clara streets last month and hit and killed a 61yearold pedestrian. Gomezs car collided with two other vehicles including an abc 7 news van. Two others were injured. Vallejo police have launched an investigation after a homeowner shot and killed a man who broke into his home. Investigators were on the scene at reynard drive as police and paramedics that you see crowding around there is the alleged intruder who was shot several times. Police say a 27yearold who flifs that house called 911 and grabbed gun when he heard the suspect kick in a door and walk up stairs. Once face to face, the resident opened fire and escaped out a window. The yettobe identified suspect was rushed to the hospital where he died. The man who fatally shot exnfl player joe mcknight is now in jail. The man was arrested today. 54yearold Ronald Gasser was charged with manslaughter. He shot mcknight during an alleged road rage incident in a new orleans prosecutors say cardel hayes committed murder by shooting smith eight times, including seven shots in the back after he deliberately rearended smiths vehicle last april. Hayes has claimed selfdefense. Los angeles commute verse seen extra security including bombsniffing dogs after a specific threat targeted a subway station. Mayor Eric Garcetti road red line to show riders it was safe. The threat said something would happen today. Sheriffs deputies increased their presence at station and searched some bags. Much of the country is feeling the winter chill but nasa says the arctic seas have been slow to freeze this year. According to scientists it took until the month of november to form the ice that usually forms in october and because of this the arctic ocean and neighboring sees setting both daily and monthly record lows for its ice cap levels and they blame it on the solar Energy Number the heat escapes in the atmosphere and sea ice cannot form. We want to get to our weather and its been pretty press and and change is on its way. Well feel a bit of a deep freeze and rain is coming tomorrow and then well have several days of rain coming our way. A look at live doppler 7. Partly cloudy to mostly clear right new and well see a gradual increase in clouds overnight and into the Morning Hours tomorrow so lets move on and take a look at current temperatures. Generally low to mid50s, fairly uniform range of temperatures. This is the view of clear skies looking northward from sutro tower but it wont stay clear very long. Some areas of frost and rainy patterns and vems tomorrow and into the weekend and more rain early next week. The storm approaching us ranks one on storm impact scale and generally a storm of light intensity and could produce periods of moderate rainfall and rain totals will range between. 1 of an inch and. 4 and heres the forecast animation starting at 10 00 and by noon well see rain reaching up to mendecino county and down through San Francisco and on into the peninsula with snow to the north and they are in lake counties and other counties to the north. But 5 00 as we get into the evening commute. Wet across the entire region and no doubt a slow evening commute. The rain intensefies into early thursday morning with pockets of heavy rain which continues into tomorrow mornings commute and the rain continues through the day thursday into the afternoon and evening hours with little letup. The most intense rainfall will occur between about midnight tomorrow night into about 3 00 or 4 00 a. M. Thursday but it will still be wet through the entire period. Rainfall totals we estimate by 10 00 night at 11 00. We expect another full inch of rainfall or more over the next day into earl elfrid morning so we have a period of very wet weather coming our way. Meanwhile the chill that settles in tonight will produce morning lows down to about 30 degrees tomorrow morning at santa rosa 357bd 1 at napa and 30 over at fairfield and right at freezing and well see mid to upper 30s in firstly all other locations except richmond and san mateo with lows in the 40s which is pretty chilly. Tomorrows highs, as the rain begins to spread will range from near 50 at the coast from low of to mid50s over the bay area and there wont be a wide range of high temperatures and Winter Weather advisory will be in effect from the sierra from 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow to 10 00 p. M. Thursday. We expect 4 to 6 inches of road. Slippery roads and limited advice ann. Accuweather sevenday forecast. Tomorrows rain ranks 1 on the storm impact scale and a more intense storm moves in on thursday and more rain on friday ranking 1 on the impact scale and sunday may be a mostly sin and dry day and more storms coming in on monday and tuesday and with all the storms coming our way you may want to track the storms do. That by downloading the abc 1 news app, and enabling push alerts. A lot to say but i have a lot to say. Thanks, spencer. All right. Coming up. Behind closes doors, the latest on the effort to keep the raiders in oakland. Plus, rergt victims of pearl harbor 75 years later. The comme the effort to reach a land dole that could help keep the raiders in oakland, thats coming to a head. The Alameda County board of supervisors met in closed session today where the Oakland City Pro Football Group headed by half famer ronnie lott. The proposed deal would give lotts Group Control of the coliseum property which would allow them to negotiate a deal directly with the raiders mark davis. The leader of the group forever oakland was there to lobe the supervisors. Ply message is to were going to encourage them to be hero and to make history and make oakland better by passing this term sheet. Reporter the city council is set to discuss the issue to

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