chamber to lay hands on the ema and to pray. that practice change suddenly when the state for a bag any religious adviser from the chamber. ramirez and other inmates fought to preserve the religious exercise rights to spiritual adviser presidents. and while these challenges proceeded, the state withdrew ramirez s 2022 execution date in exchange for withdrawals petition, the state we said the execution, followed two months by that by a reversion in chambers on spiritual adviser presidents. the state them waited months more to reveal the rule on touch. later, a panda spoken word. the delayed revealing of these restrictions or, worse, adding them piecemeal while ramirez sought redress, and either way the state system render that unavailable. the state now argues that the resort to litigation came too late but also six days to early. the history of tdjc and the approach of the federal government and states like alabama prove that texas s restrictions are not the least restriction
cheryl, larry? sandhya, see you in a few minutes. several days of heavy rain caused problems on the roads in san francisco. a sinkhole at sixth avenue and lake street and this thing is huge. yeah, about ten feet across and 40 feet deep. abc 7 news reporter carolyn tyler is at the scene with the details. reporter: that sinkhole has now been stabilized so it should not swallow up any more of the street. people who lost their water service, most of them have that back and now the sewer pipes are being repaired. one neighbor says he s been worried for months about a small hole on lake street that s now this big sinkhole. it s bubbled up because it was a patchwork piece of asphalt that was done a long time ago. reporter: police say this morning a driver s tire fell through the asphalt. she wasn t injured but the accident set off a chain of events involving a 110-year-old water pipe and an aging sewer system. when a sewer pipe collapses, that has a lot of storm water
we ll see you then. let s begin our live team coverage now from our abc7 news reporters in the field. flooding is bad people are told to just stay home. you can imagine, people found that message unusual and alarming. police tell me they want peopled to stay home to lighten traffic so crews might get there on time. mill valley resident spent the morning walking rather than driving. doing her best to stay off the roads. i called to see if i can reschedule but he had just driven two hours to meet me. it should be a 10 minute drive. the mill valley police department sent out this tweet, due to heavy traffic congestion and flooding everyone is advised to remain home. unless you must leave. i was surprised by it. we have storms idea was to get people to work and crews where they needed to be as fast as possible. for public safety they re trying to get these open. it s just less traffic, more we can mitigate everything. this was gridlock for miles storm mixed with h
and this day did not arrive without a warning. the homeless knew for a while that this day was actually coming. i heard from a merchant nearby here around the encampment, she told me the homeless are now hanging around her bar here on story road and key street in san jose. she says they ve told her they re waiting for the cops to leave the area and then they ll come back and maybe reinhabit the homeless encampment. i don t see any more police officers so chances are those homeless might be back. cleaning up after the flood. that s the story across the bay area tonight. one shopping center in the upscale city of tiburon was among the areas hardest hit. we have live team coverage tonight. jeff ranieri is tracking this new storm. we begin with mark matthews who is at the cove shopping center in tiburon with more on the damage done there. reporter: we were here yesterday and we showed you the u.p.s. store flooded down at that end of the shopping center. we didn t know at the
accountability. with more demonstrations expected in nearby oakland, police are preparing again. we certainly are here to facilitate free speech, protests, first amendment rights. and we want to create a safe environment for them.aku but also at the same time, it reporter: last night s demonstrations largely peaceful. but last week some protests ended with vandalism and arrest. with just over 700 officers, police say some are working their 12th day. it drives the overtime up as well as it really stresses and maximizes the officer. now, we just came from days off council. we re going@qp? back to days of council because we re anticipate mortgage protests is. reporter: other agencies like the chp have been coming in to assist. the officers do come from other areas as well, not just m oakland chp office. we do have minimum staffing levels at all of our offices which we do maintain, no ma4 reporter: now back here live, oakland police[w say they re feeling very lucky to