Being challenged more than 100000 of you have watched and commented on the story that we did earlier this week about china unloading part of its share of the u. S. Debt that it owns right it did so because it believes that the United States dollar is about 4 to be horribly devalued because of what the fed is doing by printing so much money seemingly out of fair is probably right u. S. Dollar will undoubtedly at some point be worth less and may eventually be pushed out as the only world currency probably by china maybe in the next 10 to 15 years. But heres todays development it appears that theres another player in the world stage thats making a similar move russia is now sending signals of no confidence in the u. S. Dollar as well and its doing so in a different way see the Russian Parliament has now officially cleared the way for the country to double its supply of gold what it is essentially doing is its removing the barriers including taxes so that russia can accelerate its gold buy
In San Francisco a 79yearold woman was struck and killed by a taxi driver. Witnesses say she was pushing a cart with cans before she was hit. Get set to sweat this week as hotter temperatures are about to move in. Well let you know how warm he get and how long in the accuweather forecast. Im kate larson in San Francisco where theres a major bus reopening here at the Salesforce Transit Center. What it means for your commute. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area. From abc 7. Tonight were learning new details about the woman who was hit and killed by a taxi in San Francisco last night. She is the 15th person to die while walking or biking on the city streets this year. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Thanks for joining us. Dion is off tonight. The crash happened just before 9 00 last night at fifth and market in the citys tenderloin district. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena went there today and talked to some witnesses. Luz . Reporter were learning more ab
The coast. Mid 60s there as we head in noon to 4 00. 77 to 86 at noon around our bay and inland neighborhoods, 78 to 82. I think well see more 80s. Im going to have to change that. As we head to 7 00, still hanging on to the 80s inland. Mid to upper 70s around the bay and low 60s at the coast. We could have triple digits for a couple days. Lets bring sue back in for the morning commute. Good morning. We have a couple of trouble spots unfortunately. An accident cleared to the righthand shoulder 580 west as you come off the altamont into livermore should be clearing or improving slightly, although theres plenty to look at there. Better news traveling eastbound in towards vacaville before manuel campos, we had a big rig and truck get into it there. Thats been cleared. You can see the green sensors. No slowing here. A Major Investigation is under way into the apparent suicide of jeffrey epstein, a well connected financier accused of sex trafficking. He died inside a federal prison early sa
No eastward push except for one theres no sign of clouds or fog little bitty push of fog across anywhere. The golden gate this morning. 57 to 61 at 7 00. Mid to upper 80s through the mid to upper 60s at the coast south bay. Low 90s for los gatos, morgan today. 77 to 87 at noon and 82 to 93 hill and gilroy. Up the peninsula, we start in bay and inland by 4 00. The mid to upper 80s, down to 82 still in the upper 70s to mid at millbrae. Upper 60s along the coast, even 80s at 7 00. Lets see if theres any hot spots on the roads. Near 70 in daly city. Here is sue. Unfortunately, yeah, we go 74 to 78 downtown, south san back to the peninsula. Francisco. North 101 at marsh. Low to mid 70s along the north bay coach. All lanes blocked temporarily kind of breezy. Temperatures nearing 90 through while they clean up the most of the north bay valleys. Accident. Youre seeing traffic stacking along the east bayshore, low to toward willow. Ambulance on the way, tow truck on the way. Mid 80s. They proba
A bay area woman has a rare form of diabetes and depends on a service dog. Her helper led her to discrimination by ride share company. I am eric thomas. The woman says lyft drivers refused to give her a ride. Shes calling the company to do more to educate its drivers. Liz kreutz is live in the newsroom. Reporter taliah lubin moved to San Francisco to start law school. She taken three rides with lyft and each time she had drivers cancelled on her or given her a hard time. We spoke with her today in her apartment. Reporter taliah lubin has type one diabetes. Her dog is her best friend and guard y guardian. Shes sassy and saved my life a bunch of times. Reporter taliah says she faces discrimination. Most recently from lyft, three different drivers refused her service because of astra. When Something Like this happens, it feels it is so painful. Reporter the irst incident happened earlier this year. The lyft driver pulled up and say astra and drove away. The following two incidents happene