Tonight we spoke to the heart broken family of three cousins who died in a car crash on highway 24 on saturday. One of them leaves behind a 1yearold daughter. We are wrapping up a weekend where we got soaked across the bay area. One storm moves out and were already tracking our next storm. Well show you when it arrives in the forecast. Now that a 13. 5 billion settlement has been reached with plead guilty sk pg e over the Northern California wild fires, some are asking will it be enough. Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc 7. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. A family is mourning the loss of three loved ones tonight. They were killed when their car slammed into a tree early saturday morning. Why it happened is still a mystery. But we know all three men were related. We learned tonight that all three men are cousins. They were driving back home from a church event in concord where they played music to raise funds for an upcoming trip
To that story in just a minute, but first the latest battle between the Trump Administration and california. The Trump Administration carried out its promised today to revoke californias authority to set admission standards higher than federal levels. In a series of tweets President Trumps that his action would create jobs, as he predicted americans would buy more cars. He said the new cars will make the air cleaner by taking older models off the roads. However the epas own estimates dispute that claim. Californias governor and attorney general say they will fight the row back in court. We cannot afford to backslide in our battle against climate change. For us, this is about survival. Our communities are screaming for help to address the climate crisis. Governor newsom said the administrations move is intended to benefit oil companies, he said many automakers are on board with the lower emissions and higher mileage requirements under a deal made back in july. To make a San Francisco wo
Job. Thats a big if, frankly the fed should be cutting. I would say they should say at a minimum 100 basis points. Over a period of time. Not at one time but over a period of time well, im not talking about doing anything at this moment, but indexing is something that a lot of people have liked for a long time. And its something that would be very easy to do. A lot of people have been talking about indexing for many years. And its something that i am certainly thinking about i can say a majority of people they like indexing its something im thinking about. Payroll taxes ive been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time whether or not we do it now or not is its not being done because of recession were legitimately, if we had a cut in Interest Rates by the fed, if they would do their job properly and do a meaningful cut, because they raised toovz, you would see growth like youve never seen in this country if you go from the election, the great november 8th day, if you go from novembe
Were gettg a look at the u. S. Coast guard stopping smugglers on the high seas. Nbeuspect incredible vi drug smugglers hiding 17,000 pounds of cocaine. Heres abcs pierre thomas. Reporter what youre looking at is a coast guard Interdiction Team in hot pursuit of suspected drug smugglers. A crew member screaming in spanish stop the boat. That boat on the run, a submarinelike vessel called a semisubmersible designed to keep a low profile. It had been spotted by a marine patrol aircraft hundreds of miles off the coast of the ecuadoran colombian border in the eastern pacific. Waves crashing, the coast guard finally pulling alongside. A member of the team dressed in Tactical Gear boards the vessel. Then pounding on the hatch demanding that the smugglers surrender. Inside the coast guard discovers five suspects and in excess of 17,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated 232 million. The same week that cocaine was confiscated in june, u. S. Authorities discovered this ship in the atlantic car
54. 55 right now. 50s for others as well. Livermore looks like they will hit the 90 degree mark today. That is above average for the first time in a long time. 60, foggy and cool at the coast. Warm to hot around the bay with some 80s. Inland, upper 80s near 90 degree. San jose, 86 or 87. At the airport we are going 82. Monsoon moisture is kicking in with some of it making it to Southern California, las vegas and creeping up the sierra. That in mind if youre headed up to tahoe or chucky. Fog is on the coast continuing with 50s on the tabs. 60s for a few bu. Also in campbell. Westbound t that strong. I expect it to decrease. Breeze but still low 90s. A lot of the moisture stays to it looks like cooler weather early next week. 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Youre focusing now on the tracy commute. People coming and going from the valley. It is Vacation Time of the year. Mostly coming in right now. We have flowing at 580 which is typical. Not very long. But there is some slowing. Once you get to l