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. happening now, pride weekend has begun. more than a million people are expected to pack san francisco. it is the biggest celebration of its kind and it kicked off tonight. good evening, everyone. abc 7 news reporter is live in the castro district with more. hi, sergio. reporter: you can tell that thousands of people are starting to come in for the start of gay pride weekend. lots of members of the local lgbt community turned out in the tender loin to honor a special place named after a special person. the transgender parade began the kickoff of gay pride weekend. ed lee was the one sending off the marchers. our city made sure we remember the lgbt. organizers expect more than a million people to circulate through. preparations for the biggest party on sunday have begun. this marks 45 years since the rights in new york have been accepted as the start of the gay rights movement. tonight another street riot. in the tender loin it is being commemorated. they ....
tomorrow. breaking news this morning out of concord, where a woman and a baby have been killed in a car crash. it happened around 11:00 last night on willow pass road. investigators say it appears an suv and a large sedan were traveling in opposite directions and crashed head-on. a woman, believed to be the driver of one of the vehicles, died at the scene. baby girl died shortly later at the hospital. five other people were taken to hospitals with major injuries, but they are expected to survive. no word yet on what led to the crash. developing news in antioch, one person is dead following a shooting. it happened on sycamore drive around 9:30 last night. responding officers found a man on the ground who had been shot multiple times, he was pronounced dead at the scene there have been no arrests and the shooting remains under investigation. also developing this morning, investigators are looking for people who might have been involved in an explosion and fire at an ....
person. the transgender parade began the kickoff of gay pride weekend. ed lee was the one sending off the marchers. our city made sure we remember the lgbt. organizers expect more than a million people to circulate through. preparations for the biggest party on sunday have begun. this marks 45 years since the rights in new york have been accepted as the start of the gay rights movement. tonight another street riot. in the tender loin it is being commemorated. they set a police car on fire and burned the newsstand on the corner. at that riot at the corner. they fought back against police harassment and a portion of the street was named after her friend, vicki, a long time performer who passed away in 2011. i am overwhelmed and excited. i got to live this. a name on the street. my best friend and to see the young kids with their mother. this is a big deal for the community that has not always been well-accepted. it s inspirational. in the pride marches, even ....
ktvu, channel 2 news starts right now with breaking news. good afternoon, i m christina. the golden gate bridge officials approved multimillion dollar to build a suicide barrier on the iconic span. ktvu s tom vacar was there and he joins us now live. tom? reporter: very big decision. it was a unanimous vote. a unanimous vote after many emotional appeals from those who lost loved ones to the bridge. perhaps most relieved in the crowd was kevin heinz who survived his own jump from the golden gate to the bridge into the ocean below. it s a sense of hope that when this happened, you realize that if we can do this, we can do anything. and if we can put out suicides in the golden gate bridge, we can fight suicides globally. reporter: because this was a major joint project of the federal government, the state government, the bridge district and all of that stuff, it s going to make years to complete because they ll have to be undertaken to actually install the stainl ....
crowds. a symbol of freedom for the lgbt community. i m feeling good about myself and that i m accepted. reporter: this lesbian couple biked in from patterson. they say it s a celebration of the changes. reporter: mary then living in the central valley, pride weekend is about being with like minded people. it s a lot easier for us to walk down the street and say hey nice to meet you this is my wife. it was not hard to come out at 38. reporter: a transgender work singing opera at the park. pride weekend is street theater at its most colorful. seems to be the effect of the city. reporter: friday night is the transgender community to be themselves. ever since i moved to san francisco i ve felt good about being myself. reporter: and the majority of this weekend s patrons will be from out of town. happy pride. people dream about coming to san francisco with all its history of gay rights and human rights and the openness of all the people who live here ....