Happening now, the commanderinchief is in the bay area. A short time ago president obama touched down at San Francisco international airport. He is resting tonight. Tomorrow he has a big day collecting big money for democrats. Good evening. Im dan ashley. The president s trip will be brief, but lucrative for the party. Abc7 News Reporter alan wang is live at sfo. Alan, it is a whirl wind trip. Yes, it is, dan. The president flew in here from seattle as part of a threeday west coast fundraising trip. The goal is to raise as much money as he can for the Upcoming Elections because they are threatening democratic control of the senate. Now air force 1 touched down at sfo around 9 18 this evening. There were no dig gnaw tear dignitaries here to greet him. The president stepped off air force 1 and headed to San Francisco where we believe he is stays at the heavily guarded inter continue nell Hotel Inter Continental hotel. He will head to a lunchen at the loss altos home of the real estate ho
To communicate to residents what had happened so they feel safe. Police have not said if the shooting was connected in anyway to a pair of hit and runs that injured three people not far away. The driver and the passengers were arrested. And an unusual summer storm put on quite a show overnight. Take a look at this lightning. It lit up the sky near the giants ballpark in San Francisco. The Oakland Coliseum was actually het by lightning. The strike brought down power lines. In the north bay lightning struck a redwood in kentfield causing the tree to really explode as you can see there and splitting it into splipters. The splinters. It knocked out electricity there as well. People in the neighborhood say it sounded like a bomb. Here is a eleven look from ourmg exploratorium camera along embarcad the embarcadero. So far no lightning tonight. Abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is here watching live doppler 7hd. Sandhya, any repeats coming . No, dan, we are not expecting a repeat. No reru
Evening. There were no dig gnaw tear dignitaries here to greet him. The president stepped off air force 1 and headed to San Francisco where we believe he is stays at the heavily guarded inter continue nell Hotel Inter Continental hotel. He will head to a lunchen at the loss altos home of the real estate home of george marcus. Guests are paying 10,000 for a lunch with obama. The upcoming election says they are poised to take control of the senate and the house which would complicate the president s last two years in office. The president would lose whatever relatively limited bempleg he has beverage he has over legislation. The senate with the democratic majority has been his main strength. Looking at the tail section of air force 1, it would hinder the president s nominations and appointments in the final years. California has always been obamas money tree and he will be off to los angeles for one more day of fundraising. His train is scheduled to leave here at 1 20 p. M. Reporting liv
Your extended forecast is complete up of 50 bids. george we are starting with a look at the bay bridge west ball. Them back up is not so bad. Drive times are well under 20 minutes. We are looking at slowly and additions, seeing things really start to slow down to 70 minutes drive times. 17 min, for the Golden Gate Bridge we are seeing more fault of the spirit. If you are heading it to corporate you will start to see a backup for across lanes. james are said investigators are on their way to the scene of the fire. will . Developing news this morning. they need our said investigators because the school and shut down for the night. The school is not in operation right now. The fire started around 530 a l u and see some of the damage right there are the quarter. The Fire Department received a phone call from one of the neighbors. They died of the slaves put out the fire and right now theyre pretty balky of. They are going to have investigators go through the building to find out what cause
Have high clouds over said the system right now in the cloud cover reduce it will be gone by early afternoon. In fact today is expected to be 10 of 15 degrees at woman over experience yes to that. Bell is not ask him if in fact it swung to the high for not talking about money conditions of last week. The dry conditions around the area. san rosa has high of 86764 have moaned day. We will continue with this one was headed until tomorrow. Upper 80s base that. Slightly cooler conditions for the weekend and there will still be a toast to one. More on your developing forecast coming up in a moment. Belbel the san mateo bridge will take 12 to 13 minutes to go across the span and no problems with the building gave rich. james the flight has disappeared from radar and they lost track of the planned 50 minutes after takeoff it was carrying a hundred and 10 passengers. An emergency plan has been launched. James the south bay dennis lost 30 family members to douse the. Israel launched an invasion