Highway 9 and alba road because the investigation is still ongoing. We have reached out to both the Sheriffs Office and Police Department for more information but so far we have no details yet on any injuries. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. A black lives matter rally on the Golden Gate Bridge became much more than organizers intended and left some drivers stopped in their tracks. Abc 7 News Reporter chris reyes is there now and has the story for us live. Chris . Reporter good afternoon. Organizers believe this was the first black lives matter march across the Golden Gate Bridge. From 12 00 to about 3 00 p. M. This afternoon they marched, they cheered, they were peaceful. We talked to the 17yearold activist who helped put it all together. This is sky 7 over the scene at around noon on the Golden Gate Bridge. A peaceful march and a powerful turnout. One that tiana day, the 17yearold coorganizer behind the protest, did not expect at all. Literally thi
Microphones. Well have an update later on in the newscast. The World Health Organization has called a pandemic. Officials say it underscores the seriousness of coronavirus and that countries need to step up the fight even more. Bringing you back locally, the grand princess cruise ship is still offloading passengers for a Third Straight day at the port of oakland and there are still hundreds of people onboard. Some are getting very anxious and very angry. San francisco has banned large gatherings of more than a thousand people. That means the Golden State Warriors will play tomorrow nights game at chase center without any fans inside. Unser hasan is live with the latest. Reporter when San Francisco first made the recommendation to ban all large gatherings, it was voluntary. Now it is mandatory. That includes all events here at the chase center. Post malone was scheduled next week. The weekend after, springfest. Also it includes the warriors games. So basically the conversation was reall
Dan noyes has been on the pg e beat, and he joins us with the latest developments. Dan . Ama and dion, it took two twt days for pg e to announce another one is probably on this way this week. The reaction to pg es announcement of more blackouts, the second round this month was fast and angry. What pg e is supposed to be doing is taking the billions of dollars we have been giving them and trimming the trees and taking care of their grid so we dont have to have these shutoffs in the first place. Just this past friday, a parade of pg es top executives appeared before the California Public Utilities Commission to defend the blackouts two weeks ago that affected more than 700,000 customers. Pg e president and ceo bill johnson described the longterm outlook for what the Company Calls Public Safety power shutoffs, or pspss. Our goal over the next ten years is to eliminate these kind of psps events. Ten years of blackouts does not sit well with the governor, some lawmakers and state rate payer
63 in San Francisco. We will climb to the 70s downtown today, and looking at numbers in the 90s inland. We are talking upper 90s by sunday afternoon. Details on the rest of the weekend and next week coming up. Thanks, lisa. Many of the democratic president ial candidates are making their way through San Francisco this weekend. They are here for the Democratic National Committee Summer conference. The dwindling pool of candidates is now down to 21. Abc 7 News Reporter liz kreutz spoke with some of the president ial hofuls. Friday night with president ial candidates. Can i show everybody . Yes, you can. Reporter kamala harris, cory booker, sttom steyer, andrew ya, some of the hopefuls seen maneuvering from caucus to caucus, making their pitch to Democratic National members. What do you need to win over voters . Work, work, work. We can afford to make public colleges and universities tuition free. Reporter in this warehouse, Bernie Sanders addressed supporters on college affordability. Ha