1400 nationwide as cases surge in the midwest. Plus, controversial policies in two states and some say put nursing home residents at risk. Ride of a lifetime. Two astronauts who made history, crude mission on a private rocket. Safety issues they say need to be fixed before the next flight. First heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Suddenly, we heard a very loud explosion. The build iings, all the glass just went down. It was raining glass all over the city of beirut. The massive blast in beirut, lebanon. As the death toll keeps rising, Lebanese Health minister says thousands are injured. This coming as an investigation is under way into what cause this had tragedy. Isaias is leaving a path of destruction on the east coast. People confirmed dead. All of a sudden it felt like the end of the world was coming. Turn the attention to the upcoming electric, the president says he supports mailin voting in florida spl theyre so well run. Florida is a very wellrun state, low taxes
Toll at a staggering three to seven and a half billion dollars. Officials do not activate emergency sirens before or during the fire. And a lot of questions and in the bay area sirens are being used and in others like San Francisco, sirens are offline and not working read. Abc 7 News Reporter Leslie Brinkley looks at the role simons play in emergency warnings. You hear a siren and you know something is wrong. Joe is an expert on design and operation of disaster at the universe of research signal but they need to work in tandem with other warning systems. News reports and text messages. Maui has scores of towers that can sound a steady tone to mourn of Natural Disasters like tsunamis and fires as to why officials did not sound the sirens. They have the technology but they do not have the policy or Decision Making in place to know when they would and when they would not activate those systems. In San Francisco sirens are taken offline 2019 because they were vulnerable to Cyber Security t
In the united states. That number is expected to go up. 85 people tragically died when the campfire tore through butte county. The flames have destroyed 1700 buildings, many of them homes. Nine boats sank in the harbor. Residents were allowed to return today and saw the devastation firsthand. Melissa don is following the developing story on maui. Reporter those raging wildfires are now hawaiis deadliest Natural Disaster in the states history. Tuesday, the flames torched several areas on the island. And police described how she survived spending more than four hours in the water. I climbed over the seawall into the ocean. While the fire was happening and the cars were exploding, we would duck into the water. Reporter residents returning to find their homes reduced to piles of ash and rubble. More than 2200 structures damaged or destroyed. More than 85 were residential. Hundreds and hundreds of cars are lined up, waiting for that opportunity to go back to their community. Its been four d
Longtime Business Owners saying this is the worst they have ever seen. This is survei shared by the owner of this liquor store. He said last week carloads of young men stormed into his store at 5 00 a. M. Wearing black hoodies. He said six state outside, six came inside with garbage bags and methodically stole other cigarettes and high end tequila, cognac, and champagne, ransacking the place. Not far away, this liquor store on redwood road had a similar invasion. Several people in the store stealing cash and cigarettes, and only the expensive alcohol. Last week, a car rammed into the front window and door of this Convenience Store on 23rd avenue, again with six people and three vehicles involved. At 4 00 a. M. Yesterday, a similar highest caught on Surveillance Video at a 7eleven in downtown oakland, with more than a dozen suspects in hoodies arriving in multiple vehicles. There try to take the safe, but they didnt succeed. They took all the cigarettes and tobacco products. Its happeni
Warnings from 8 00 tonight to 8 00 saturday morning over the higher elevations. We will give you a closer look at how bad it will be in a few minutes. Thank you, spencer. Live in the east bay where schools are adjustings schedules and pg e is gearing up for outages. Most noticeable things today is the haze in the hills in central contra costa county. Leslie . Dan, you can see mount diab low for the first Time Starting to emerge from a heavy haze. It is obscured all afternoon long. Almost invisible from every angle. Because of that haze coming from a distant fire. Things here are just starting to warm up. As it heats up on the outside, it gets even hotter on the ideas of this dry cleaners in walnut creek. With just a light breeze, workers are surrounded by hot steamers. We have the staff come in early in the morning and begin all of their pressing and the cleaning process. What are time early . Normally we start at 6 00 a. M. Today being a hot day we start at 3 00 and 4 00 a. M. That ar