Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20150902 : comp

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20150902

Area. Good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im amma. Im dan ashley. New development tonight following our exclusive report here on 7 news last night. The family of kate steinly took legal action today against officials they believe could have prevented her murder. Late today just as vick lee was about to go live at 4 00 oclock during our news cast, kates mother brother and father revisited the scene where she was shot to death july 1st t. Vick has more now on the legal alaska the stiply took today. Late this afternoon the steinly family walked on to pier 14 to the spoke where the kate was killed. Whatever they said whatever they thought this must have been on their minds. I know that shes proud of what we are doing. We just want to make her proud. Liz was referring to the legal action they took this morning. As she fell she said help me dad. Jim could do nothing to help his daughter. She lay dying in her fathers arms. Today two months later the steinly family fulfilled kates last wish. They took legal action against those they believe should be held accountable for their daughters death. First sheriff who released Lopez Sanchez illegal immigrant charged with shooting steinly whoychlt in the right mind would let a 7 year felon undocumented violent felon lasts on the streets where you people and i are standing. Reporter the sheriff notified his deputy not to notify ice on detainee except in rare situation. Order made himself the king judge and jury and somebody who directly violated federal law. The second claim against ice agency that enforces immigration laws. The family claims the agency knew about the sheriff policies and yet did nothing to retrieve sanchez. Third target in the legal action the federal bureau of land management. The gun sanchez used similar to this one was stolen from a parked car of blm agent. If that weapon wasnt there if it wasnt if it was secured properly the this wouldnt have happened. Reporter the sheriff ice and blm said they could not respond to the legal action but extended the sympathy to the steinly family. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Special task force arrested retired High School Teacher after officers say they found child pornography on compute interwalnut creek. Five retired from teacher at the school in lafayette. Members of the Contra Costa County internet caims against Children Task force serve a search warrant at piper home today. Investigators dont believe any of five former students linked to the case. Police need your help tonight to solve mystery after man was seen grabbing woman and putting her in the trunk of a car in oakland. Witness saw it happen along sterling drive just after 10 last night. Police are hoping someone will file a missing person report see in want to ensure that whatever happens tell that person advertise safe. If they need any medical or Police Assistance we want to be able to identify and locate the person as soon as possible. Police believe the car is 2000 model black 2 door and window appear to be covered with blue paper plates. Investigators dont know yet what make that car is. Warning tonight about the video we are about to show you. Man you will see in it survived without serious injury. Sf. This is the explosion of steam pipe at san Jose Construction site. Happened a year ago but the latest chapter between Santa Clara County and company that is rebuilding valley medical center, the feud t. David has the rest of the story. Him if cell phone video latest twist in very public finger pointing campaign at Charter Construction which is in charge of multimillion dollar expansion at valley medical center. It show a vault where new steam pipe extended to heat a new being. But the sounds precursor of something very serious about to haichlt maybe you should step out for a minute. Worker joel starts to climb out of the underground vault. Popping noise hot steam building up pressure and then the worker was saved from being scalded and coworkers pulled him out. County says Turner Construction was the designer and builder of the steam pipe project. Turner said they have a good Safety Program and they may have a reason Safety Record over all but in this case and this project there are details attention paid to and the Safety Program isnt taking care of it. Safety agency has no record of the incident. Worker still has active Worker Compensation claim for neck an nerve distress. Same vault one year later. Turner redesign the system as creating delay. One of several that the coin says has put this building 2 years behind. 2 sides had 2 meetings yesterday the eastern out differences. Spokesman for turner told us that turner continues the work and offer pro active solutions while some county officials are attempting to divert attention from the mismanagement of had project. County threatened to fire turner by theen of the week. In san jose, david louie abc 7 news. Pg e filed for multimillion dollar rate i hope crease. Did that today and proved would it boost the utility revenue by 2. 7 billion dollars over three years starting in 2017. Pg e needs the money for Technology Upgrade and improved preparedness. Customer could expect increase of about 4 dollars per month in the first year of this proposal. Tonight San Jose City leaders voted to explore the idea of rent control to slow the city sky rocketing housing market. Average rental praise has gone up 54 percent in the last 5 years. Current rules only regulate rent increase on pro the with 3 or more units built before 1979. About a third of all rental in san jose. Advocate want the council to cap logical almost all rent increase and make it more difficult to evict tenant. Help people who are spending at least half half the income open the rent and the possibility of being dispoliceed or even being homeless. Landlord contend the cost are also sky rocketing and lowering the allowable rent 0could lead to run down property. City Council Plans to hold more meetings between tenant and landlords. Hope to have a plan by january. Ship traffic back to normal at port of oakland tonight. Port today report add 6 straight day of in waiting after summer long buildup of ships in the bay. As many as 13 ships filled San Francisco bay in july. They were delayed by large shortage, labor shortage that slow loading unloading. Influx of add until long shore labor over the past 6 weeks has helped eliminate the backlog. We have much mr. Ahead for you on this tuesday night. Just when you thought it was safe to invest again wall street take as sharp turn south. Latest from asia where the market are already open. Also. First it was the monster in the mission. Now its the beast on bryant. Critic claim victory tonight over stopping another Big Development plan. Zappedia is here with our weather. And the temperatures fell few degrees today. Ill let you know how much cooler it will turn. The rest of the work week. You heard right. Numbers are coming up. Thanks. Get yourself ready for a spectacular sight in the sooit night sky. When you see sooit night sky. When you see a very rare 12 we keep a watch on asian stock market tonight. Shanghai index is up just slitly. Its off half percent and japan average is up about one and a half percent. Fallen Chinese Market blamed in part for today big drop on wall street. Dow fell 4 69 points almost 3 percent today. Down almost 1500 points in the past two two weeks. Bay area company take the biggest hit today including google down 20 dollars a share. Tesla down 10 dollars and netflix down 8 . Lee ann has a look at whether this will spill over into the rest of the economy. You. Jack richard a truck driver knows whatever happens in china will have an impact on his livelihood. Cant get tonight here thats no work for the driver that are going into the part and bottom line is the end customer wont be getting the product on time. The asian country the port of oakland Major Trading partner at 76 percent. China is a at the top of the list. Im not making money. Not paying my mortgage or car payment. I can afford health insurance. So that is big. The. Reporter same applies to commodity sold to china. Such as california agricultural product. Weak report in china one piece driving down stock. I think we have a difficult earning season. We have news from the fed. A lot of things that continue to have volatility be very high. Some tech company have seen the stock tumble which then affect mye and their purchase. If you have this is shares rapidly correct it gives awe moment of pause before you are going to rush out and buy multimillion dollar house in San Francisco. Reporter already some people we spoke to are in caution mode. Definitely discourages me from purchasing a car or really anything big. Reporter economist predict if this correction gets any worse in investigators will not see a quick rebound. In San Francisco, abc 7 news. Class action lawsuit against uber by the driver over whether they are employee not independent contractors is moving forward tonight. The judge this afternoon said the plaintiff in the lawsuit could include drivers who have worked for uber x, black and suv since august of 2009. Uber is arguing the workers have the flexibility to set their own schedule meaning they didnt need to be considered myes. Second im in two week controversial Housing Project in San Francisco Mission Neighborhood is on hold. Socalled beast on bryant street at bryant and 18 was up for city approval next week but with so Much Community open 0signatures the develop every is taking a step back now. Back to the drawing board for project opponent had dubbed the beast on bryant street. This warehouse slated to become a Housing Development target of protest as symbol of the affordability crisis in San Francisco. Especially in the rapidly mission district. Developer was scheduled to go before the Planning Commission next week hoping for approval. But instead decided to put things on hold until the temperature cools down. For us the larger issue is how do you get to project that people can be comfortable with. Thats process that needs to be done out of the eye of political heat. Needs to be done in a collaborative way and need time to do it and we ran out of team. Project calls for 2 74 apartments. 47 of them below market rate. Critic say thats not enough affordable housing. Small Manufacturing Business currently on site would have to leave fight we tip to good down the road building the luxury condo which essentially what the beastn bryant was proposing if those exacerbate the problem and make this placement worse. Rare move the San Francisco building and Construction Trade let it be known they did not like the project and voted against it early this year. A lot of our members live in the mission. Latino l largest component of the work force. Group now in conversation with the developer about changes to the project. We have of intention of coming back at some point. But theres a wild card. In november voters weigh in on measure that could temporarily stop this project and others in their track. In San Francisco, Carolyn Tyler abc 7 news. Its going to get more expense i have to put initiative oe california baath ballot. Governor signed a bill that raises the filing fee from 200 to 2000 dollars. Lawmakers are hoping it will discourage some of the outrageous initiatives we have seen in recent years. Last year theres one that called for the execution of gay and lesbians. Other measures have include add ban on alimony and withdrawing california from the u. S. San Francisco College savi significant milestone. The congresswoman nancy pelosi heard update on the city kinder to College Program that began 4 years ago. Since then sexual abuse frap has automatically created savings accounts for kindergarten never. It begins with 50 dollar donation from the city. Parents who contribute their own money can then get matching funds. We even match a habit of savings if they meet every month another bonus in the account. The incentive is working. So far San Francisco parents contributed 1. 3 Million Dollars of their own money into the Kid College Fund thats great. All right. Time to turn to our weather september. Where did summer go. Sandhya is here. I guess its still officially summer. It is officially summer but its the meteorological fall. September october novice when we watch the temperatures. Obviously we have 3 week to go before fall. L already starting to feel lake changes in the air. Let me show you radar. Cooled off today and most case it was 1 to 7 degree drop. San rafael dropped 15 degrees. This was pretty good drop today. 73 in san are fechlt you look at live doppler 7hd we have a little bit of fog starting to show up and we see the fog layer expanding the marine layer its deeper about 2,000 feet deep so we see pushing along and what push it along west wind gusting to the sfo wind and 23 open shore breeze contributed to the drop in the temperatures today. The anything but a drop in temperature for august. We take a look back at San Francisco. Half of the entire month of august we had record high minimum. So warm you recall this. So many days. 6 days of new records and 9 were tied in San Francisco. And part of the reason for this is that warm the, warm ocean water off the coast line contributing to that and also we are keeping an eye on el 19 o. This had nothing to do with our record high minimum but el 19 0continues to strengthen near the equator and head towards winter we keep a close eye on this so we can tell you what it might or might not bring. We show you the live picture from the emeryville camera. Pretty good visibility to 62 in San Francisco. Mid 60s oakland Mountain View and a Half Moon Bay at 61 degrees and sutro tower cam are giving you nice view of San Francisco t. Low mid 60s to santa rosa to no vat o. 67 in fairfield. 66 currently in livermore. Live picture from our sfo camera not too many visibility restriction right now but we look at fog high clouds overnight tonight. Cooling trend through friday and warming up for your Holiday Weekend plans so heres water vapor imagery. This is area of low pressure that is going to reinforce the cool down that started today. And cool trough will continue to sink south as it does you will notice that the temperatures will run lower than where they should be for this time of year so cooler than average for the start of september as we head to tomorrow morning. One thing you want to watch out for is the fog. Temperature starting out most areas in the upper 50s to low 60s but we see a few spots like santa rosa dipping to mid 50s. In the afternoon you certainly will feel the difference in the air. 77 in san jose. Still pleasant just not as warm as today in the south bay. 76 sunnyvale low 80s on the peninsula. Mid 70s for redd with city. 65 pacifica. 76 fremont. Inland spots 81 in livermore. 80 concord. Accuweather 7 day forecast. Temperatures falling well below average. As we hit friday 80 for warmest spot. Mid 60s coast side. Nice recovery and time for Labor Day Weekend. All right thanks sandhya. Well still to come on 7 news at 9 00. New milestone for bay area gas praises. Good news coming just in good news coming just in if making plans for labor day we should remind you here that bart will not run across the bay from saturday through monday. Thats because critical repair will take place on the track leading to the transbay tube. Bart will provide transbay bus service from saturday morning through late monday night. Buses will run between the temporary transby terminal in San Francisco and bart 19th street station which is in downtown oakland. Chp says officers out in force over the labor Holiday Weekend as they always are. Look for drunk drivers. Impaired drivers and of course assist motorist in any trouble. All starts on friday at 6 00 p. M. And continues through monday at midnight. Last year chp officers made more than 1 1100 arrests for driving under the influence. If traveling this Labor Day Weekend this week gas prices are in your favor. In berkeley gallon of regular unleaded gas is 2. 95. Triple a reports the afternoon price for fuel in the bay area range from 3. 0nip in vallejo to 3. 22 in San Francisco. Cost of gallon of gas in the bay area was 3. 80 last year. These are the lowest gas praises for this weekend since 2004. Because of the decline in the cost of crude oil. Rare super moon Lunar Eclipse is ready to appear this month for the First Time Since 1982. Night of september 27 is when the super moon and Lunar Eclipse will happen at the same time. Super moon make full moon appear larger and brighter than usual and eclipse occurs when the moon passes into earth shadow often turning kind of a blood red color. Nasa says the next event of this kind wont

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