it opened about an hour ago, people are streaming in. this is the main staging area. that s the podium that he will be speaking at. about 500 people and we still have an entire hour to go before the first speakers start. ernie sanders is expected at 1:30 p.m. i want to look at the crowd here. very interestingly, everyone keeps saying that the supporters are primarily white, young college kids, and this crowd we found a very diverse crowd, athletically ethnically and both young and old. the gates open around 11:00 this morning, people streaming in for about an hour and they have a multitude of reasons, they told this way they came today that today. why so are sorely ? i go to school in new york s york so i did see her in a couple weeks ago. i just got back from some summer break break and its it s would say seeing him, it s my first time voting. i want to see him one last time before he vote. the think he has a chance christmas ? i waited to to be out the
hour. around 70 flights have been canceled. most of the travel trouble has come with short-haul routes. track today s storms with the abc7 news app, just download for free and enable push alerts. a high school student is facing charges after video of a campus fight went viral on social media. millions have viewed this video of a girl taking down a boy with a knee to the face. this happened at sonoma high school. leanne melendez has new developments. leeanne? reporter: students telling me the girl in question was targeting a male students when his best friend tried to defend him. he was the one who ended up getting attacked. facebook still refuses to take the post down, and this doesn t end here. it s not surprise thing video has gone viral. it was shot on a cell phone and shows a teenage girl taking down another student and twice kneeing him in the face, then landing on him. the 17-year-old girl does not attend the high school. a teacher ran after her. just as alarmin
abc7 news begins with breaking news. we are tracking breaking news from vallejo. a tragedy. a family lost their baby overnight. our reporter is at the complex. amy? yes, reggie. you can see the burned out unit? upstairs unit? that is where the baby was found. it has severe fire damage. it looks like that is where the fire started. a man and a woman and a four-year-old escaped from the home but could not get to the baby. the woman suffered cuts during her escape and the first was spread when the firefighters arrived and it went to a third alarm. the fire department got on the scene and we had a second story unit fully involved and another second story unit catching on fire. the fire was brought under control and conduct add primary sent because it spread . [ inaudible ] we are having technical difficulty. a terrible situation in vallejo. we are tracking another big story, the bay area waking up to scattered showers right now. we will get out through a quick chec
we don t have areas of heavy rain as you can see, just a few scattered areas of light shower activity from san francisco, and spotty showers in the inland east bay. but there are areas of wet pavement on some of the roadways, after the santa cruz mountains. that s basically what it is, light rainfall and pockets of isolated showers. rainfall totals, virtually no measurable rainfall at all in the east bay. this storm is a light storm, ranks a one. spotty, light rain lingering for a few hours. here s the forecast at 4:00 this afternoon. the front continues to fall apart, taking us into the weekend. so once again, although the storm is winding down, bear in mind, it could be a hazardous evening commute as there is wet pavement in some places. spencer, thank you. here is a look at conditions in the sierrasierra. right now there are chain controls, you can see here the roads are wet and could be slick now. if you re headed up there this weekend, have chains in the car just in ca
now, i m here. reporter: what do you know about the people shot? i heard one is dead and three got shot, including a son. reporter: that man tells me the victims are a family, a mother, father, and son, they believe is younger than nine years old. the body of the victim is still here at the scene. and investigators are right now here questioning neighbors and gathering evidence. we ll have more information for you as it becomes available. i m allen wong reporting live, abc7 news. thank you very much. and breaking news now from the east bay. the case of a missing woman in hayward now a homicide investigation. a 22-year-old disappeared saturday night. last seen at a party near jackson street in hayward. police believe aguilar was murdered but they re not revealing why. she has not been found. police say they have not arrested anyone at this point. we re hearing from the son of a man just released from prison for a crime he didn t commit. the son talked to abc7 news ab