Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20170118 : comparemela.c

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20170118

The day, right there, you can see from 580 between dublin and hayward all the way up to napa, even the slight chance of a heavy, brief downpour there on 80 from about richmond all the way up towards vallejo. Lets see which way this is moving. Absolutely moving quickly. In fact, it will be out of here in about 30 minutes and then well transition over to just some scattered showers for the rest of the morning. You can see the rain picking up in right now. 43 to 50. Moderate 50s. Windy conditions, even a chance of a thunder storm this afternoon and evening. Lest finds out if its affecting the commute. Not yet but it seems like well have something pop up here soon. No incidents on the board so far this morning, mass transit is looking goods so it is feeling a little too good to be true with conditions pretty soggy at the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights yet, that usually happens about 5 30. Westbound 580, tracy to dublin, 35 minutes out of the Central Valley, still wide open, 680 and 85. Not quite as soggy in the san jose area this morning. Still have a few weatherrelated closures from last week. Talk about those coming up next. Developing news in the east bay. Police investigating a driver who struck a house. Find out that hes been shot and killed. Abc7 News Reporter lonni rivera is live for us in antioch. Reporter good morning, natasha and reggie. We just got here on scene on east 13th street and you can see the lights behind me where the street is blocked off. They just towed that vehicle from the scene, and we do know the victim is a 27yearold man from martinez. Police first responded to a call last night about a car running into a house here. When they arrived on scene, about 9 30 last night, they found the driver inside the car suffering from a gunshot wound. He died. There were residents inside the house at the time. Police say those people were not injured. So, this morning, Antioch Police are asking anyone who knows any information about what led up to this to contact them. That is the very latest, live in antioch, lonni rivera, abc7 news. As mike told us, yeah, some places still drying out but several more storms are headed our way right now. And in marin county, residents and businesses are busy proeping. Lets go to downtown fairfax. Just about every business there with sandbags ready out front. Who can blame them. In novato, barricades of sandbags protect homes on lauren avenue after a nearby creek overflowed last week. In sonoma county, officials are going to be watching the rain. They dont anticipate the Russian River will reach flood stage this time. Many neighborhoods were left underwater just days ago. Caltrans crews are scrambling to secure a hill near scotts valley. Theyre installing chain link fence there designed to hold back beach ball sized rocks and bolders from crashing down on to cars that are going northbound on the highway. The slope is stable at this time. Just the soft stuff that got left behind. We couldnt reach when we were cleaning up. This is a protective system against that. There is further assessment to check the stability of the slope and come up with a permanent solution down the road. It was at this spot where you may remember last week one of our own abc7 news vans was crushed by a slide shortly after 3 00 in the morning. One of our colleagues is hurt and he is recovering. Orinda city council has ratified a local state of emergency because of this large sinkhole. It was caused by a huge storm that moved through the weekend before last. The repair is expected to cost about 1 million. The declaration lets the city allocate money to fix that sinkhole and the work going to take about a month. It is a good time to remind you that a lot of communities have sandbag filling stations set up already and most places theyll give you the bags and the sand but you want to bring your own shovel just in case the location doesnt have one. List of sandbag locations on our website for you, abc7news. Com and download the abc7 news app to keep track of the weather where you live. The app features a constantly updated live doppler 7. Make sure to enable push alerts when you download to get weather alerts sent straight to your phone. Breaking news out of houston this morning where former president george h. W. Bush is in the hospital. He is being treated for shortness of breath. Weve learned the 92yearold was taken to houstons Methodist Hospital on saturday. His spokesman confirmed that news about two hours ago. Bush has had Health Issues in recent years and is confined to a wheelchair because of a form of parkinsons disease. His spokesperson says president bush is resting and could go home in a few days. Well continue to watch other breaking news happening in houston. This time, it has to do with the weather. Flood waters are rising fast. Jessica monitoring the situation from the live desk. Yes, these live images coming from houston, i want to point out two things to you. First, this suv right over here, you can see that, again, this is an suv and the water all the way to the rooftop and then this bus, which is where we saw just a few moments ago people being rescued and i want to get to that video so you can see what i was watching just about ten minutes or so ago. And you can see this guy climbing out of the bus window, being taken to safety. We just learned, minutes ago, that this was actually a really dangerous situation that unfolded that when the bus stopped, water started pouring in, it started filling up fast, and they had to jump out of those windows to get out to safety. Some of the passengers seem to be elderly people. We also know that it was a passenger who helped get the bus driver out. They are all safely at a mcdonalds now just off to i can show you here on our live image. Just off to the right of your screen. That is where they are safe and sound. Our abc reporter on the scene says these waters are still rising, so im going to continue watching the live images for you and ill keep an eye on the situation. Well get you any updates if there are any. Back to you. That was a crazy picture. Im glad that man was rescued. Happening now, a group of protesters who are a part of the antipolice terror project are camped out in front of San Francisco city hall. They vow to be there until tomorrow, trying to talk to city officials. Our goal is for them to indict the officers who killed emill lopez. That is our goal. Its to put pressure on him to do his job. 21yearold waut mallen immigrant was shot six times in the back by San Francisco Police Officers last february. Police claim he was trying to stab them. Witnesses said preslopez was defending himself against a group of men. The fight over obamacare takes center teenage today as the number of democrats opting out of the inauguration of president elect donald trump continues to grow. Heres abc in washington. Reporter at a d. C. Dinner mr. Trump joked about the confirmation hearings and his pick for secretary of state, rex tillerson. Its tough dealing with these politicians, right . Hes going to be so incredible. Reporter today, the senate takes up another cabinet nominee, congressman tom price for health and Human Services amid growing concern about the potential repeal of obamacare. Representative prices approach is moving us in exactly the wrong direction. Reporter the Congressional Budget Office estimates 18 Million People could lose their insurance. D. C. Is making the final preparations for inauguration. The number of democrats boycotting continuing now to rise. One in four democrats in the house saying they will not attend on friday. And there could be another problem for representative price. Democrats are asking the s. E. C. To investigate a trade he made last march. He also introduced legislation that benefitted that company, but price says that it was all done by a broker without his knowledge. Abc news washington. Abc7 news anchor dan ashley is making the trip to d. C. Hell be there tomorrow and friday with live reports on president elect trumps inauguration. Storm watch this morning. Hi, everybody. San pablo avenue right there, benicia road, railroad avenue, like herman road, all this, 680, 780, getting soaked right now, some ponding developing allegation on 242, 680 and highway 4. Ignacio boulevard, and all the way down 680 through the san ramon boulevard too. About foothill road there. Not into the sunol grade yet but its almost there. Temperatures, 42 in san ramon is the cool spot, 45 in pleasanton, the warm spot. And mid to upper 40s every where else. 14 degrees warmer. Oakland 50 for the warm spot, San Francisco about 48. Out and about with your activity planner, yeah, its going to be pouring. The rain is going to increase this afternoon and evening, wet and choppy on the water, especially the afternoon hours and ponding this morning, nothing like the pondsing were going to deal with later on during the evening commute. Temperatures around 53 to about 58 degrees. Tonight, we see things will be a little bit quieter. Scattered showers out there, mid 40s to 50 out there, about the same as this morning. Hour by hour todays forecast, let you know how much rain were going to get and how fast those winds are going to be. Lets see if rain is affecting the commute yet. It is starting to. Not too bad in walnut creek. So heres a look at 680. Pretty soggy but those speeds just fine right now this morning but you can see that heavier patch along 680. That yellow, that orange, that mike just explained tl. And we do have a new crash, southbound 680 just before you get to el pintado road, three vehicles involved, an suv hit the Center Divide and a couple other vehicles were hit after that so weve got the far left and right lanes blocked as you head towards danville. It is coming down there right now. So certainly use caution through the area and i will keep an eye on it. Also still hanging around from last week, highway 84, eastbound and westbound at 280, alternating lanes just oneway Traffic Control in effect while that cleanup from a slide last week continues so hopefully we wont have further damage from storms today. Mass transit could be impacted. Its looking good this morning but ill talk about later hours coming up at 5 20. A member of the San Jose Earthquakes grabs a cab to the airport. The generosity he showed to driver that has earned him a far for life. The 49ers are in a race against the clock to find a new head coach. Its a sign that they may have found their man. Warriors turn, the Ground Breaking for their breaking for their francisco arena into an an anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Live look outside at a wet Golden Gate Bridge this morning and if you think its a little rainy now, wait until you see what the storm has for you today. If you take photos or videos of the weather where you live, post them with abc7now. Listen to this story. A 21yearold San Francisco woman now faces charges after police say she stabbed another woman over a parking spot. It happened monday night in san mateo at a 7 eleven on east 3rd avenue and south delaware street. The victim is 18 years old. The woman arrested faces attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. This next story could alarm you if you ride b. A. R. T. A group of seven people robbed a woman at the palo street station. They used a taser to do it. Four men and three women approached the 49yearold victim. They grabbed her phone, pushed her and took out the taser before snatching the phone and taking off. The victim fortunately was not hurt and those suspects havent been caught. This is dash cam video from a spearman, texas, Police Officer cruising oun a highway on monday night. Seems like a fairly normal patrol. Things went wrong very quickly as youre about to see. Keep your eyes on the road ahead off to the right. A huge blinding explosion lights up the night sky. The officer flipped on his lights and sped toward that direction. Turns out it was a gas pipeline that exploded and one nearby house had to be evacuated. No word on what sparked that explosion. Authorities just let the fire burn itself out. For the first time, we are hearing from the teen who was kidnapped from a Florida Hospital as a newborn. Mobley disappeared in 1988. She was raised by her kidnapper in South Carolina all these years. Authorities broke the case using leads from the National Center for missing and exploided children. Mobley was reunited with her biological parents over the weekend and she still cant fully process what happened to her. You go with somebody your whole 18 years of living, and have them snatched from you. Wouldnt you know, it wouldnt go well for anybody. So, its not going well for me. Mobley bees kidnapper, who she believed to be her mother s now behind bars. She will open up on her experience in an exclusive interview. Gma starts on abc. Lawmakers are trying to make it easier for marijuana businesses to pay taxes. They introduced this bill yesterday. That legislation would increase the number of places where taxes can be collected. Thats because of the current law only allows marijuana businesses to pay their taxes and fees at one of the 22 state board of equalization offices. Most of the dispensaries will be cash only ask that will force operators to drive hundreds of miles to comply with the law. 5 17 now and it appears the 49ers are down to just one candidate for their vacant head coaching job. Our Sister Network espn reports the niners plan to offer the position to Kyle Shanahan once the falcons season ends. The 49ers plan to request a second interview with shanahan next week after atlanta plays the packers in the nfc championship game. Nfl rules allow a second interview following the conference championship. Yesterday seattle offensive line coach tom table decided to stay with the seahawks after his interview with the 49ers. Construction understood way on the warriors new arena in San Francisco. The team brouk ground yesterday and put on quite the show. I have never seen anything like this. Points for creativity. Look at this. Thats really amazing. That is incredible. Choreographed excavators and fireworks and lions and tigers and bears. They werent there but kevin durant was there. He joined the team for the ceremonial shoveling. Theyre acting like theyve never had a shovel before. That got a little awkward. Team owners president ial nominationed more than basketball games at the chase center, that includes concerts and graduations and political events as you know. San francisco doesnt have an arena right now. This is going to open in 2019. Well, a san jose earthquake Soccer Player is being recognized for his generosity right now. The earthquakes posts this photo on instagram of him and the cab driver. He found that pedro, who you can see holding a check, was two months behind on his mortgage. So, he wrote not anymore hes not. He tells fans to pay it forward to someone who needs your help and i love stories like that. Lets talk about the series of storms that we are getting because its already hitting us. Goodness gracious, mike. Yes. Weve known about it for a while now so hopefully everybody is mentally prepared for it. Heading out this morning we talked about there would be some downpours you can see one rolling through walnut creek right now. The heaviest rain has moved to the east, heading up 242 and out highway 4, 160, pittsburg, bay point, antioch, oakley, brendawood, discovery bay, all the way into the Altamont Pass, back across 84, through the sunol grade it starts to taper as you head down into san jose where yes, youre getting some of the rain too. Youre not being left out of this first round. Look at 101 and 880 so everybodys dealing with some slickness on the streets but the periods of moderate to heavy rain are still to come and the gusty winds. Storms, the next heaviest ones will be friday and sunday with scattered showers thursday and sunday. Storm impact scale is a 2. Moderate on this one with heavy rain this afternoon, Power Outages possible. You can see as we head towards 9 00, just some drizzle to light rain after the initial push and then the moderate rain up in the north bay and then for the rest of us starting at 4 00 but notice the reds in there. Thats the possibility of some really heavy downpours, even a chance of thunder as we head through the 7 00 and look at the 9 00 to 10 00 hour, one rolling through and by midnight, it is finally over with just some scattered showers for tomorrows morning commute but all the roads will be wet because were going to have ponding during the evening hours, Power Outages, those are my highest concerns. Heres my accuweather 7 day forecast, the accumulating effects could create more Power Outages, more stream and creek flooding. Okay. Just put it on repeat from last week, everything is going to be out on the lookout for the roads as well. Easy for me to say. Heres a look at live doppler 7 on top of our traffic maps, that heavier stuff really pushing into the trivalley and much of the east bay and we do have slick roads. Southbound 680, the far left and right lanes blocked, still not much of a backup. Eastbound 80 just before highway 4, the countercommute direction but the far left lane is blocked there as well. As of right now, mass transit is looking great but San Francisco bay ferry is saying they are monitoring the storm and they will provide a Service Update at 1 00 p. M. This afternoon. So they have a backup plan in place if theyre not able to have normal vessel operations because of the weather. For now, everything is normal but we should get an update early this afternoon. 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