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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600PM 20170422

My 17yearold are in there. Theyre not allowed to come out. I cant go in. Its concerning to see Police Outside with their guns drawn, right . I mean, we all want to be safe. But this is a little nerveracki nerveracking. Reporter the Police Station is very close by. This is berkeley. You see a lot of protest and Police Officers often, but nothing quite like this. Its pretty intense when its your block. I came home and saw the police tape up. Theyre telling me i cant go home and my family is inside. Im talking on the phone with my family and hoping that nobodys running around with a gun in my back yard. Were berkeley. We support the protests. Were the center of free speech but i want my family to be okay. Reporter again, a shelter in place. As i look around we can see a number of young people that are just sort of walking back on this Sunny Afternoon and also people just wrapping up today, finishing up their day from work and trying to get home. But police are going home to home searching for this gunman. From sky 7 you can see they are going into backyards, they have canines with them. We will keep you posted on the latest here. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Now to developing news. In san jose today police shot a man who was holding a knife. It happened tlrhis afternoont lewis road and center road. Reporter we moved here because we heard the police chief is going to brief the media some time later this evening. Heres a look at the scene from earlier this afternoon. About 12 30 today Police Responded to a call about a man with a knife at senter and lewis. When they arrived on scene, there was some sort of confrontation with a police officer. One of the officers fired a shot at that man. The man was struck, he was taken to the hospital, but we dont know his condition at this time. Homicide unit, San Jose Police as well as the d. A. Is investigating everything. The last we heard from police is that the chief of police is going to brief the media about everything that happened earlier today some time tonight. That is the very latest. Hayward police were also involved in an officerinvolved shooting that wounded one person inside a home on rockaway lane near russell way this afternoon. The person who was shot has nonlife threatening injuries and has been taken to a hospital. Now to the news thats dominated todays headlines. Perhaps you were affected. Close to 90,000 pse g customers in San Francisco were without power for almost the entire day. The outage started around 9 00 and the lights came back on for everyone about an hour ago. Reporter we got that word that 100 of the customers had been restored just seconds before our 5 00 newscast began. 8 8,000 customers lost power because of a fire at the lark larkin substation because of a faulty part. What should have been a 9 00 to 5 00 workday became a day in the dark in San Francisco with 88,000 customers knocked out because a Circuit Breaker failed in this substation. When the circuit break, it created a fire around the breaker. The insulation around the breaker burned. Reporter firefighters were there in minutes but it tookics t extra effort to put the flames out. We did notice some flareups. Then we applied co 2 to the fire. Reporter if the breaker was working properly, there should have been no fire. Pse g blamed the age of that substation and says an upgrade is planned. The facility upgrade is a 100 million project that will be completed in the Second Quarter of 2018. Reporter at its peak, a quarter of the citys Traffic Signals were out as were the montgomery street bart and muni station. We are focusing our efforts around the ridbridges to facilie traffic as much as we can. We checked our trauma centers, all the hospitals, all the clinics and its good news that there have been no major injuries reported in. Reporter unless of course youre talking about the bottom lines of some of those businesses that were dark for nearly eight hours. Pse g has a map online that shows current paower outages. You can see markers all over San Francisco and a large red swath. Those markers gradually decreased. This is what the map looks like now. The outage caused street lights to go out and that created traffic jams all over the city. It also forced some businesses to close early. One eat ery estimated it lost more than 10,000 today. Firefighters got several calls of people getting stuck in elevators including at this building in union square. I was making sure that he was okay. Calling him name out. Id say you all right . Yeah, im okay. Im stuck in an elevator. This woman tweeted out video of herself in total darkness while she was stuck in another elevator. Firefighters say nobody was hurt from being stuck in an elevator. Try navigating in an underground bart station in the dark. This is what it looked like inside the montgomery station during the outage. Bart closed the station until power was restored. Todays power outage affected a huge portion of San Francisco. That included the financial district where it was threatening to do serious damage to the evening commute. Jonathan, hows it looking out there . Reporter this neighborhood just narrowly missed becoming a commute nightmare. About a minute before 3 00 the traffic lights over here came on and traffic started flowing normally. What were looking at now is pretty much an ordinary friday evening commute. Anybody that works in this neighborhood will tell you the commute tonight is about the only thing all day that could possibly qualify as ordinary. I have a pasta salad. Reporter it was supposed to be for potluck. No power. Yep. Reporter in a part of town thats typically all business. You know theres just so many people outside and theyre all talking to each other. Its kind of awesome. Reporter with meetings cancelled and the sunshi shinin passing the time but not helping the bottom line. We lost a lot of business today. Its a big day for us, friday. Reporter ziggys burgers lost something else. All this got to go. Reporter a fridge and freezer full of food, none of it cold enough to keep. Unfortunately the only thing we can offer is ice water. Reporter its a bummer for the few still at work. No coffee, no lunch. Reporter just back to work . Back to the grind. Reporter but the liquor store is open. Theyll even take credit cards. If only the whole rest of the block werent closed. How has business been . Terrible. Reporter the outage snarled traffic around market street. I would say the pedestrians and the drivers are being really consid considerate, for the most part. Reporter there are things that cant wait. We had drills for this and were very well prepared. When it happened, we knew just what to do. Reporter st. Francis hospital cancelled nonurgent procedures and doctors appointments. Emergency surgeries continued on the generator power. We have enough fuel to power the generators for several days. Many people raised concerns that this outage was maybe connected to one in new york city that jammed up the subway and last nights outage in long beach that temporarily crippled business at the port. San Francisco Police tweeted it understands concerns regarding outages in other cities. Pse g identified that the power outage is due to equipment failure. As widespread as todays outage was, it was not as bad as the one that happened three days before christmas in 2003. That outage was also caused by a fire at a pse g substation. Retailers lost millions of dollars because they had to shut down during the busy Holiday Shopping season. After more than 20 years in business a walnut creek consignment store abruptly closed this week. We tracked down customers who say theyre owed money, in some cases thousands of dollars. What could stop those free trials from turning into automatic charges when they expire. Get ready for a little weekend cooldown. The accuweather forecast coming up. By the time you get to work, youre ready. It works for her. When you hear the evidence barking up a bicycling commute, you might make the switch too. Happening now, Silicon Valley comicon. An estimated 85,000 people are expected to jam the Convention Center in san jose new through sunday. David . Reporter this is Steve Wosniak has been here signing autographs. Now to the City National civic where William Shatner is on the stage right now. Its tough to decide which is the bigger draw, the fans who show up dressed in cosplay or steve wozniak. Hes charging 100 to a,000 f td dollars for charity to fund a dog park. We could always dream huge. But well be happy with whatever comes our way. Reporter there are other comicons but what woz as others have started here has a wider focus. The people that come and dress up in kcosplay are the sae people designing the you know, doing the engineering at nasa. Its the same group. These two passions really overlap. Reporter the latest in personal robotics here also. Also good to speak with a fellow scientist. Were going to do some great work together. Trust me, im a genius. Reporter fans are also serious about collectibles. I wouldnt be surprised for someone to find something thats caught their eye. Its easy to be normal. It takes a lot of effort to be different and weird and have people in blue hair and stuff. But people notice you and its more fun to be weird. Reporter in san jose. Getting rid of free trial offers before they expire and start charging you money could soon get easier. A bill to do just that passed the state senate yesterday. If it becomes law, companies would have to notify customers that that the free trial is about to end and that charges are imminent. If you signed up online, they would have to give you the option to cancel online. Attorneys are drafting a lawsuit against uc berkeley right now after the University Said it doesnt have a secured venue for ann coulter. This is about berkeleys persistent refusal to honor the constitution when it comes to conservative speech on campus. The sa the same hassles, unconstitutional requirements. Reporter in a letter the universitys Legal Counsel says after initially cancelling coulters visit the university proposed a may 2nd alternative, a date she says she is not available. Berkeley permits limited use of its space for certain viewpoints, it is required under the constitution to provide equal access to other groups. Reporter a third group that initially invited coulter, does not. To take this to court when theyre trying, at least making some efforts is not the right solution. Reporter in its letter the University Says its actions have been wholly consistent with its obligations under the constitution to protect free speech rights and the safety and security of the university community. Former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at the university in february but the School Cancelled the event because of protests. He said the free speech week will feature activists, writers, politicians and social media stars from all political affiliations. Now your accuweather forecast with spencer christian. We had an almost summerlike wave of warmth today. Heres a look at live doppler 7. You can see maybe a thin haze of clouds beginning to push through, but its still bright and sunny across most of the bay area. As we widen out the image, you can see a few clouds out to sea that are moving in toour direction. First, lets look back on some of todays highs. A high of 78 at lakeport. 79 at antioch. Redwood city, 72 was the high. Pretty warm day. Lets take a look at santa cruz beach. Its currently 69 degrees here in San Francisco. 71 in oakland. Mid 70s at mountain view, san jose. 61 at half moon bay. Check out the bright western sky. It is 74 at santa rosa, 73737373 napa. A live view from sutro tower looking out over mostly sunny skies. Well see partly cloudy and slightly cooler conditions this weekend. Isolated sprinkles may hit the north bay coastline over the weekend. But we dont expect any measurable rain until tuesday of next week. A few high clouds may pass through the bay area sky overnight. Near the bay and near the coast, well see lows down around 50 degrees. Tomorrow as the high clouds move by, well have filtered sunshine, still a mild day with highs ranging from low to mid 70s at the coast to upper 60s around the bay. Tomorrow morning we might see a little bit of moisture dotting the north bay coastline there. We expect dry conditions even as the clouds move by through most of the day tomorrow and into sunday. Sunday morning we might see a couple little sprinkles dot the north bay coastline. Its going to be a dry weekend generally speaking across the entire bay area. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast. A bit cooler on sunday even though skies will be brighter on sunday. Then on monday we get increasing clouds. And on tuesday slight chance of some light rain with a system of a relatively weak storm ranking one on the storm impact scale. Next week we get sunny and mild conditions all over again. Chips, candy and contraception. You can find each of them at a vending machine. And uc campus is sweet cinnamonsugar on the outside, crazy on the inside. Crave those crazy squares. Sweet cinnamonsugar on the outside, crazy on the inside. Crave those crazy squares. A popular consignment store in walnut creek has shut its doors. Consignment plus is just north of downtown. Customers are concerned they wont be paid the money theyre owed totaling hundreds or even thousands of dlafrs. Reporter alicia fenster is angry and upset. She dropped off several pieces of Waterford Crystal for consignment. Some sold. The rest now locked inside. Shes due a check for 476. About a week ago they gave me a call and they had some funds for me. They asked me if i wanted to either come in and pick up or what have you. But never indicated that they were going to be closing. The doors are chained and it says permanently. Reporter shes been shopping here for years. She just came to look this time, but thats not going to happen. This has always been a very interesting and wonderful place to come to. Its closed. Its disappointing because i really like this store. Its unfortunate. Consignment plus Home Furnishings is permanently closed. Reporter the message on the phone line gives customers little guidance except to wait for a call or letter with further instructions. So far no one we talked with has received that information. Is this anyway to do business . Absolutely not. Im so disappointed. Reporter we reached out to the owner patti evans, but so far no response. 7 on your side has information for the hundreds of people who have goods locked inside the store or money owed to them. The chapter 7 bankruptcy means all assets go to a trustee for distribution. The store owners attorney tells us the trustee may allow people to go in and retrieve unsold items they left there on consignment. However, there probably arent enough funds to pay everyone whose i dont wants did sel whose items did sell. Is your commute a killer . Depending on how you get to work, it could really be taking time off your life. Some methods can extend your life. We have the research to back it up. Its a learning period. 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You know, were berkeley so we see a lot of protests and we support that. But its a whole different thing when you have a gunman in your neighborhood running around. Streets are still blocked in the area and police are still urging residents to shelter in place. Well post updates on this breaking story on abc 7s mobile apps. Make sure to enable push alerts to receive those breaking updates. President trump is making ambitious promises for the next week as he closed in on the first 100 days of being in office. The president is pushing for action on the new Health Care Deal and promising to unveil a massive tax cut package. There have been accomplishes, slashed regulations and a Supreme Court justice confirmed, but this president hadnt managed to get congress to pass any major bills yet. No particular rush, but well see what happens. Health care is coming along well. Government is coming along really well. Lot of good things are happening. Republican congressional leaders face a much more urgent deadline on april 29th when much of the federal government will run out of money. Theyll need to reach an agreement next friday to keep government open past midnight. In a tweet this morning President Trump said the media will never acknowledge the accomplishments of his first 100 days. Its really only been 91 days. Some uc berkeley scholars are keeping track of what President Trump has and has not accomplished so far. Reporter when it comes to his health care plan, President Trump has a different tone than the one he had during his campaign. Repeal and replace obamacare act. We have a good chance of getting it soon. Id like to say next week, but i believe we will get it. Reporter today at this uc berkeley

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