Mornings, im gasia mikaelian. And im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. I saw 5 or 6 raindrops. Actual rain. The windshield had a couple sprinkles, and i didnt turn them on because i didnt want to wipe them away. More clouds than anything else. Well take it. Theres been some with another beautiful sunrise over the city. These tropical clouds coming up from the south. This low has been all over the south for a couple weeks and a few reports some of rain. We had more so south of gilroy to be honest, but a little bit in monterrey and north of santa rosa. Mainly up around northern napa county, sonoma county, lake county, mendocino county. Theres been some very light rain on the peninsula. More sprinkles than anything else. Most of that is falling apart. The heaviest is holister down south of gilroy and looks like thats where the focus is going to be. In the valleys, the best bet wrapping towards santa cruz. Its keeping us relatively warm, mostly cloudy, warm, possible scatter
Crews are cleaning up two downed trees at highlands park. Trees are also a problem in San Francisco. Thats where abc 7 News Reporter lillian kim joins us live with details. Reporter its no longer raining where we are but from falling trees to clogged storm drains, city crews were busy. This is what a clogged catch basin looks like. Workers with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission have been clearing one after another in hopes of preventing the street from flooding. In most cases they find leaves and litter but this time it was just plain dirt. [ inaudible ] you do the best you can. Reporter at lombard street and buchanan, workers cut up a large ficus that crashed on top of a parked prius and blocked all southbound lanes. The roots were up in the air as it rocked over the car. But it just went right across all lanes of traffic. Reporter ficus trees have been problematic in San Francisco this rainy season. The weight of all the water on the already topheavy trees causes them to
The deal is final ahead of tomorrows deadline to close but of course, there is a tweet elon musk writing just about an hour ago. The bird is freed. We get the developing story from ktvu Jana Katsuyama live outside twitter headquarters in San Francisco, jenna. Mike i spoke with some twitter employees off camera and they tell me that they were given no advance notice internally before news about this transition broke tonight. Just before nine p. M. In San Francisco elon musk posted on twitter. The bird is freed. It came just minutes before the midnight deadline in delaware to close the twitter deal. Musk started the day thursday with a message on twitter to advertisers, saying the reason he required twitter is to have quote a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner. He said. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more heat and dividers society. Bu
Social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and dividers society. But musk did not say how he envisioned creating that town square on twitter, which already has fractured echo chambers or how to moderate users who do incite violence and how content would be curated to avoid the spread of lies or misinformation. The Electronic Frontier foundation says. Those are Critical Issues concerned that there were risks to human rights and personal safety. Any time any Single Person has complete unchecked control over policies affecting almost 400 million users would love it if they brought their International Guidelines here to the u. S overseas. The hate speech is much more monitored, reportedly told employees during his visit wednesday that he does not plan to lay off 75 of the 7500 workers. But on thursday he did fire the ceo ceo. Oh policy head and general counsel twitter struggle. Called to be a place that handled their moderation we