To make sure that they do not have the virus that they have had deter cinci located and then then they have the right to enjoy themselves here. Is. A very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me and if you airing. Turkeys landmark Hagia Sophia Museum which through its long history has also been a cathedral and a mosque has been converted back into a place the muslim press. Change i mean like hold of the mosques the doors of the hagia sophia will be open to all locals all foreigners muslims and muslims to feel humanitys common legacy will continue to embrace everyone with its new status and a more sincere and more unique way by finalizing preparations quickly we plan to open hagia sophia for worship on friday july 24th 2020 with friday prayers since worshippers have to wait another 2 weeks for the hiking safina to reopen suppress this friday so im gathering outside the newly reconverted mosque the president s announcement comes shortly after techies high court an old a 9
Well keep digging for answers and come back with them as we have them. Julian glover, abc 7 news. Getting people off the grand princess cruise ship is taking longer than expected. This morning some passengers are still onboard and others had to wait on charter buses before they got to go. Amy hollyfield joins us in oakland with that part of the story. Good morning, amy. Good morning, jobina. Hard to imagine there are more than 1,000 passengers still stuck on this ship. And many of them say they are tired of being onboard. They are ready for land. The ship got here on monday. Here we are on wednesday. But unloading it has been a slow, tedious process. Health care workers are screening everyone and then determining where they need to go. A military base for quarantine, a flight back to their country, a hospital, so, organizing everyone is taking a lot of time. We talked to some people who are still onboard. They are sick of being there and they are really sick of the food. I think the ma
101. So at 7 00, 57 to 34i6. Milder temperatures that will spring board us to 71 to 75 more brighter skies by noon except for the coast where we stay in the low to mid60s. A warmer afternoon seeing us push into the mid70s to low 80 frs the bay and inland neighborhoods but a comfortable evening on the way in the 70s. Got a little bit of a heat wave this weekend. Well talk about that coming up next. First over to alexis. Good morning, mike. Were looking at bay bridge toll plaza slowly starting to fill in. So that is the norm. Well see if the metering lights flip on early but most likely making it to 5 20 and the car pool is open and cash lanes not too bad, better than the last couple of days. So maybe they have a few more cash booths open. Drive times lookin good, southbound 101 santa rosa to petaluma 13 minutes and from Castro Valley to the maze and northbound 101 through downtown san jose, 280, 680 split to highway 85 in the green at about 11 minutes. Might have a new problem in richmo
Conditions, cal trans sent out this video with the caption in case youre wondering why interstate 80 is closed. That makes it clear. The storm is exiting. The bad news, we continue to see streams and creeks on the rise. You can see the back end of the steadier showers moving through the heart of the bay area. So well zoom on into street level. Light showers after what had been a wet evening. From san ramon to hayward. Youve go a lone downwapour the. This evening were seeing light showers out there right now. We do have a Flash Flood Warning to talk about in Alameda County along the alameda creek. This will go until midnight tonight. The river, or i should say the creek, rather, is overflowing its banks. We continue to see numerous Flood Warnings in the north bay. We have numerous Flood Warnings. This means we already saw water ponding on the roadways in these areas and will continue to see that as we go through the evening hours. Watching our rivers as well. The Russian River in guerne
And the fire is still raging out of control. Firefighters here saying that of course with the tripledigit temperatures, along with the fierce winds, that is just going to add fuel to the flames here as tens of thousands of people are being told that it is still not safe for them to return home. The blue cut fire is showing no mercy to San Bernardino county. Walls of flames destroying everything in its path, sending people running for cover. Fastmoving. Very fastmoving. We barely got our stuff and got out. Oh, god, i just pray. Reporter as others watched helplessly while the flames surrounded them. There was a clearing there and right there, the flames all around us and we had to keep the windows open because we couldnt breathe and the smoke was so thick and as soon as the smoke cleared, we could see that everything was gone. Reporter more than 82,000 evacuated and even more expected. Deputies are asking people to follow the mandatory orders and get out. If we ask you to leave, you have