Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me. President obama gets quite personal in his first public remark after the verdict in the death of Trayvon Martin. Good evening. Im dan ashley. President obama tackle one of the most radioactive issues we still face. Race and bias in america after comments people posted these images of try von and the president as young man side by side. More now from jim avila. Reporters scramble. Half empty White House Press room jolted by a rare surprise visit from the president of the united states. Anybody else showing up . After talking to his wife michelle and calling senior staff that the oval office the president decided late yesterday to speak from the heart today about the consist of Trayvon Martin. When martin was first shot i said that this could have been my son. Another which of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me. 35 years ago. In highly personal remark equal part president and law professor but mostly African American male. Barack obama reminded the country why the zimmerman verdict cut so deeply in the black community. African American Community is looking that the issue through a set of experiences. And history. That doesnt go away. Is very few African American men in this country who havent had the experience of being followed when shopping in a deputy store. That includes me. Obama did not challenge the verdict but did talk about how Life Experiences maericans quesy are treated equally in the eyes of the law. That all contributes to sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario that from top to bottom both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different. The president suggesting more could be done. Split training to the avoid racial bias. Rae view of stand your ground law. Administration says may promote rather than prevent gun violence. And the bolstering of the selfesteem of young black men. Then finally i think its important for all of to us do some soul searching. In the end president obama went personal again. Hearten by the racial progress he sees from his daughter generation. As you know when i talk to malia and sasha and listen to their friend and see them interact, they are better than we are. Finally invoking the constitution itself as the nation continues 230 year struggle with the diversity. We are about becoming a more Perfect Union not a Perfect Union but more Perfect Union. This is abc news washington. Remarkable day at the white house. Web site political reports that obama staff cheered and did fist pump during this morning unscripted comments. Aide say he expressed strong opinion privately and reluctance to talk about the verdict surprised them. Trayvon martin parents release a statement thanking him for saying what he said about their son. They said it gives them strength. And the brothers of George Zimmerman says he too is glad the president spoke since so many people have been waiting for it. But Robert Zimmerman says he believes focusing on race alone quote does a disservice to the country. In response to the martin killing oakland students march in support of peace today. Kid from oakland Freedom School carried signs that said i deserve life and i am Trayvon Martin. And my life matters. We also talked to youth mentor who says he sees the effects of violence on black youth almost every day in his job at oakland funeral home. Too much killing going on. Doing a funeral for 2 men young men 23 years old. More going on. A lot of Trayvon Martin being buried today. More you go for the kid. Got a lot of anger and kids feel like life is over with for them. All they do is be with try von martin. Walker says he brings the kid he coaches to his fawn rall home to better understand the finality of death. Happening now in oakland tonight. We tack the pictures of several groups walking 4 miles from franco georgia Washington Plaza to the Fruitvale Bart station where demonstration and demonstrators right now holding a vigil to demand justice for Trayvon Martin. Location is symbolic of course because thats where oscar grant unarmed black man shot and killed by bart Police Officer in 2009. There is a large contingent of police surrounding that group trying to make sure it stays peaceful. Business ins oakland meanwhile are preparing for potential fall out from more protest coming this weekend. Business boarding up the window as you see and installing surveillance camera. 1,000 people are expected to democrat state against the George Zimmerman verdict tomorrow. Last weekend protest turned violent and one developer we spoke with is hopeful. I think everyone is praying for peaceful protest. Clearly there are some people who may not choose that path and i think our mayor here in Oakland Jean Kwan and chief of police come forward and said they are going to do what they can to mitigate that problem. Police of course will be out in force. Department has rent add fleet of white advance for moving officers if protestors get out of hand. On to other mothers tonight. The San Mateo County coroner says that an Asian Airlines passenger who survived the crash was killed by an Emergency Vehicle racing to the scene. It was taken it has taken these two week since the crash for student cuss of death to be specifically determined. More tonight from 7 news transportation reporter heathe heather. 16yearold girl was on her way to visit stanford and then to Christian Camp in Southern California when asian flight 214 crashed at sfo july 6. Most cruel twist of fate the coroner now says she survived the crash. Only to be killed when hit by an Emergency Vehicle responding on the runway. And the coroner says there is no way to tell what if any injuries she might have had from the crash before being run over. She has crash injuries consistent with motor vehicle. Another incident prior to that it would be very difficult that the time to find out which one of those were. Reporter her body was found near the left wing about an hour after the crash. Where she had been covered under at least a foot of Firefighting Foam exploratorium fire chief of says the kind of vehicle that hit her was likely one or more of the specialize aircraft rescue Fire Fighting rig stationed at the airport. Obviously this is very difficult news for us. We are heart broken. We are in the business of saving lives. And many lives were saved that day on july 6 related to flight 214. First responders were dealing with extraordinary circumstances at the crash scene. Some passengers and crew escaped uninjured some had to be rescued from the plane while fire and threat of explosion was growing. And there was a large debris field along the runway. In addition to her, the classmate 16yearold was eject from the plane and killed and 15yearold ping died from her injuries in the hospital last week. The coroner met with all 3 family yesterday. Haze white has offered to do the same. The chinese consulate issued a Statement Today that read in part we urge the involved part parties of the u. S. Side to deal properly with the aftermath of her death and investigate and fix responsibility for the tragic accident. All of the involved firefighters were given drug and alcohol tests after it was discovered that clearly a fire vehicle had run over this victim. Ntsb does really thorough investigation including interview of all the passengers and crew. Hopefully that Investigation Report might give us a better understanding when it comes out of exactly what led to this tragic accident. In millbrae, abc 7 news. And just this afternoon Asian Airlines flight 214 had to do a go around before landing safely. 214 is the same flight number as the plane that crashed earlier this month. Pilot was supposed to land on runway 2 8 left same runway where the crash happene happened. There is no explanation for todays go around. In other words abort the take off and go around again but the faa points out they are not unusual and can occur for a variety of reasons. Not always an emergency. 400 acre fire still threatening to shut down the grapevine section of interstate 5 in kern county. South bond license of the freeway is closed. Officials there have issued an Evacuation Order for about 2 dozen homes in that area. Chp says big rig on the side of the freeway may have sparked a fire. In the mean time fire officials are urging more people to evacuate because of the Massive Wildfire in the mountains here above palm springs. It his now grown to nearly 25,000 acres and still only 15 percent contained. Today fire officials issued evacuation warning for 700 homes in pine cove. Thats on top of the 6000 people evacuated three days ago from a tourist town of idyllwild. Officials say the fire is spreading in 3 directions so it is really challenging and tough to get a handle on. We are being impacted by the wildfire in Southern California as well up here. About a bay area and sandy is here with details on the smokey area that sandhya we see and breathe. Smoke traveled hundreds of miles from Southern California. Ill show it to you here in just a moment. Leif doppler 7 hd watching the fog near the cost. Inland year still clear and check out the latest satellite image. This is latest one available and you will notice that the smoke from the mountain fire worked its way up to los angeles bakersfield and all the way up to the bay year earlier this afternoon. In some of the tower cam we were seeing just thin layers of smoke. Now as you look at live picture from the exploring camera right now visibility looking good. We are expecting the air quality to remain on the moderate side at we head into saturday. Bit is due to ozone as we are expecting the heat. Ill be back with look at how hot and where you mate want to go if you dont lick the heat. Just in a few minutes. Okay thanks very much. One more weather note. This dust storm in phoenix late this evening provided these remarkable images. You can see how massive it is. It is the second one to hit the area in less than a week. Time to wash the car in phoenix. Mother nightmare is over thank goodness. Coming up. She is rae unitd with her baby taken from her at gun point. Story you see only on abc 7 news. Also ahead. Outrage tonight over the Catholic Church plan to put up luxury housing on this old cemetery. And star trek the real mcco mccoy. Locally developed did he vase inspired by the scifi he vase inspired by the scifi classic st. Domestic incident near summit hospital led to freight engine chase in oakland today. Caught on tv only by abc 7 new news. Father pushing his infant daughter in a stroller and carrying a gun in the other hand. Threatening to kill both the baby and himself. It was terrifying. 7 News Reporter laura thoip was there when the officers moved in. This is cull my initial of bizarre fat chase on the streets of oakland. After man took his baby at gun point from his girlfriend the childs mother. And ran down telegraph avenue with the child in a stroller. Running down the street with stroller and gun. Stroller gun and baby. Yes. Boyfriend girlfriend dispute. Shoot himself and the child if she reported Domestic Abuse to the authorities. Spokesperson for Summit Medical center tells abc 7 news after the threemonth old infant daughter was taken from her the mother ran in one of their medical buildings asking for help. Several Security Officers from the hospital then followed the man until Police Corner him gun drawn at telegraph and 36. I heard him say get down get down. Charles johnson lives nearb nearby. Pretty crazy to keep your own child in danger. Danger in the child life as well as yourself. That type of situation. With the about a he be in the stroller few feet away the suspect stashed his gun but wouldnt get down on the ground as order sod police tazed him. Few minutes later the mother was reunited with her young daughter. How is the baby. Baby is fine. Young baby has been reunited with her mom. Reporter the baby and mother were both checked out there at the scene. By paramedic. Also the suspect was examined after being tazed. He of course now faces multiple charges. In oakland Laura Anthony abc 7 news. New problem tonight for the bay bridge this time it is the western span but you can see in the live picture. Suspension part of the bridge. Caltrans says it will have to replace 96 giant seismic shock absorber worn out 20s as quickly as they expected. Shock installed as part of big earthquake retrofit in 2004. They were originally scheduled to be rae placed in 2000 24. Didnt last nearly as long as they hope. The fix will come from bridge toll. More work on the bay bridge. Okay. Sandy is np for spencer. We wouldnt have it any other way. Heat is back. Like it hot on the weekends but we also look cool and foggy in some parts of the bay area. We do. We have the full summer spread in the bay year. We give you the typical summer day for the saturday. With the 90s inland and the other upper 50s low 60s coast side thats what we did today. Do it all over again tomorrow. Live doppler 7 hd tomorrow showing the fog near the coast. Pushing in over parts of the bay visibility right now half machine bay down to 3 miles. Look at the high for today. 98 degrees in antioch. Got up to 94 in Fairfield Livermore 80 in san jose. Up to the north bay. Santa rosa. Triple digit middle town clear lake ukiah San Francisco comforted by a little bit of fog 67 agrees half man bay with cool spots at 59 degrees. Shoying the view we lack back out towards the bay there pretty good visibility there. 55 in San Francisco. Oakland 58. And it is currently very comfortable 63 in san jose. 62 if santa cruz. Check out the view from the kg o roof cam are. See the bay bridge there. Embarcadero a little bit of a breeze. Santa rosa. Napa upper 50s. Same thing for novato. Still mild in livermore. 73 degrees. This is morning may lack leak. We have some fog around as you look at the Golden Gate Bridge camera. Fog around the coast and bay tonight. Hot inland and mild near the coast for your saturday and a little bit cooler sunday through tuesday. All right happened with the hot air mass here today. Inland heat will actually peak tomorrow as the air mass sits over us and then we will see changes come about. Second half of your weekend. So tomorrow morning watch out for the fog and maybe dense in pockets. Temperatures in the low 50s to low 60s. Pretty good sleeping weather tonight. Not going to hang on to much of the heat but tomorrow afternoon it will warmup in the south bay. 90 in morgan hill. For san jose. 89 los gatos. 81 in milpitas. Dont like the heat just head to santa cruz. Its comfortable 74 degree day on the peninsula sunshine by afternoon. Palo alto Mountain View low 80s. 73 in millbrae. Coastal flats in the low 60s. Downtown San Francisco south San Francisco. Upper 60s. Sunset district 62 with some lingering fog in the afternoon and in the north bay 62 at stinson beach. Upper 80s around santa rosa, sonoma, 90 in calistoga. Triple digit staying well to our north. Ukiah at 104 degrees. In the east bay Oakland Hayward 70 mid 70s 79 in castro valley. Inland spots right around where you should be for this time of year. Slightly higher. Livermore 95. 98 antioch. 95 fairfield 95 in san a ramone. Hot no doubt bit. But we always provide you with the summer. Mick row climate with a place to good. Dont like the heat by sunday a little bit cooler low 60s to mid 90s and then we cool you off to the m id to upper 80s early next week with extra clouds coming in fromnd dan already knows this. Its the monsoon moisture. From the scenic arizona area. Coming in our way. Filter the sun and drop our temperatures. Sea breeze brought in. Aids walk San Francisco and abc 7 is once again a proud sponsor last year estimated 2 25,000 people gathered for the annual event in golden gate park. Walker this sunday see themselves on the abc 7 jumbotron when they walk by checkpoint 3. Bunch of us there and see you there. Streaming it leif on our web site at 7 news. Com slash live. A lot of fun that day. Please come join us on sunday. Bunch of from us abc 7 will be there with you. Still register call this number on the screen. Aids walk. Net or text walk sf to this number on the screen. Come on out. 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