abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. a fatal accident involving a pedestrian has shutdown a lane on highway 101 near caesar chavez street near san francisco. it has been nearly two hours so far tonight. police say the victim was hit by at least two cars. this happened after 9:00. the lanes we are learning just reopened moments ago. good evening. other news now and preparations are underway for the annual 4/20 pot party at san francisco s golden gate park. last year about 15,000 people showed up and left behind a big mess. a traffic mess is expected tomorrow. it will be shutdown from stanion to lincoln. sergio is live with a lack at what is expected. 4/20 last year was on a sunday and they believe that s why there was such a big crowd. monday they are hoping for a smaller crowd but police already put out these barriers to try and get a handle on some of the crowds and to divert traffic. emergency crews will need easy access to the park so one lane of traffic
medical marijuana today. a new palm finds 53 percent of americans now support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. pew research finds 77 percent support for medical purposes with four state and washington dc legalizing pot use for recreation. 23 have legalized medical miles an hour juan including california. a pedestrian was on a freeway off-ramp in san francisco and was hit and killed by cars. it happened after 9:00 p.m. on the northbound 101 alameda boulevard off-ramp. the victim was hit by at least two cars. one lane of 101 was closed for two hours. uber driver is under arrest in a possible case of road rage. police say emerson hit a bicyclist on north point and in taylor yesterday afternoon in san francisco. the bicyclist yelled at the driver banged open the window and pushed the mirror in and the driver intentionally rammed into him and the bicyclist has a punctureed lung and broken ribs and broken shoulder. there was a fatal bicycle wreck in marin
thank you. a controversial san francisco religious leader received a strong show of support today. families ad winds archbishop shop coeone. chants and cheers for the archbishop. as he thanked several hundred catholics for their support. these are his catholic schools. all he is trying to do is to make sure they re catholic. eva organized the picnic as a response to backlash over proposed changes to school handbooks and teacher contracts. the archbishop wants morality language. i don t expect everyone in the world to believe in all the teachings of the catholic church, but we are talking bat catholic school, not the public school. we re talking about a catholic school. you may recall the full page newspaper ad call for the pope to removal the archbishop. because of the ad, because of the fact it s so absurd we thought, we have to do something these got up at 2:00 its morning to make the drive from southern california. the family is under attack. children in
check backyards and homes to make sure he was not hiding or breaking into a home but the area is okay and they did not have reports of anyone complaining of anyone breaking in or harassing them so they think he left the area. thank you. in the south bay investigators are waiting until dawn to determine the cause of a two alarm grass fire that threatened hopes in san jose. firefighters contained the flames on communications hill east of the freeway at 10:30. the fire burned for an hour and left five to seven acres charred. firefighter say the fire spread up a steep hill toward homes at the chateau mobile home park. crews determined the fire was completely out. in the east bay firefighters are trying to determine what sparked a 75-acre grass fire that burned a large area of speaker state 580 near livermore. we were over the scene as the fire burned along center divide near the north flynn road off-ramp at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. high winds made fighting the fire difficult
and girl power at the billboard music awards. taylor swift debuting her blockbuster new video and taking home eight awards. and did you see britney with iggy? the hottest act and the moment you didn t see, you will right here on gma. and good morning, america. busy monday morning here and robin busy monday for you up in boston. a chilly and foggy boston this morning, george. i am very excited to be speaking at a graduation in emerson. a lot to share from here. so many incredible speeches over the weekend. so we ll have that and a whole lot more coming up from boston this morning. george. looking forward to that. but we want to get to that deadly shootout in waco, texas. it broke out in a restaurant parking lot and quickly became deadly leaving behind a gruesome scene, nine gang members killed. the families inside terrorized and abc s newest correspondent phillip mena is on the scene, good morning, philip. reporter: george, good morning. this unspeakable act of v