Serve as the executive director. There are several Reform Efforts put forward in california following the death of george floyd and other people. I wanted to ensure the policies we implement our driven by data and not by fear. It commit to healing and not narrow focus on election. Booty got the job after desk owned sponsored the significant reform and San Francisco. Hes in a close battle with jackie lacey to have the largest District Attorney office in the country in l. A. This is not being soft on crime but being smart. Its also bipartisan. Tori salazar is a republican. She dropped out of the District Attorney association, the largest association of prosecutors. They said they were out of touch. There was not an organization i could go to and get support and an exchange of ideas. We received a response this evening from San Francisco Police Officers association. They called it a slush fund for selfpromotion. They also want to know who the donors are funding the prosecutors group. In t
After 30 inches of rain in the forecast with four Southern States already declaring an emergency. Landfall is expected in the next 6 to 7 hours and the big concerns tonight are flooding and potentially life threatening storm surge. Here is a look at the satellite loop sally expected to make landfall near the alabama Mississippi State line. Right now is it is a category one hurricane with 85 mileper hour winds. Reporter that rain continues to just constantly following top of us, really soaking me and drenching me all neethling long. We have this Tropical Storm force winds over and over again. But the storm, as he said, is pushing to the east. That means some folks are going to be released. Others are now going to be in harms way. Waves pick up along the gulf coast as Hurricane Sally inches closer. The storm is packing 85 mile perhour winds, threatening Southeast Louisiana to the florida panhandle. With devastating storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. Sally is expected to make la
Parked across the bay area. We are entering week five of this unhealthy air. Lets get right to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. What are you seeing, jeff . We are seeing some improvements here as we head through the next 24 and 48hour timeline, but its going to be a little bit slow going. We are still in the unhealthy range here for much of the bay area with that smoke and that haze staying pretty constant. But we have started to notice a key change as of the past several hours, and thats a look at these smoke plumes. You can see how the smoke plumes today were moving more off to the north and the east from the fire near fresno and also those two large fires to the away, an this storm system developing off the coastline. This is a real slow mover. Its going to take its time getting here, but as that surface cold front and the upper level low pressure system moves across, it will begin to change our air quality. Tomorrow morning we are still forecasting some unhealthy air, but in the c
Bill martin is tracking the timing. Yeah, heather. This is gonna be the strongest storm weve seen in nearly a month. We have had weather come through but its been very weak. This system is gonna bring significant rainfall right on the morning commute. A half inch to two inches of rain a possibility. Two inches in the coastal hills. About an inch in places like San Francisco. Its a fascinatemover but lingers fastmover but lingers until about noontime. 6 00 am, 9 00 am will be the heaviest rainfall. And accumulations are gonna get there. Were going to see pooling of water on the royce. Things like that. On the roadways. This isnt an out of control system, but its the strongest system we have seen. In the mountains, that means the winter storm warning. There will be chaining up throughout the day tomorrow in the lake tahoe area. The morning commute is gonna be a mess. Just based on the rain coming from the sky. Heaviest rains from about 5 00 to 9 00 am tomorrow morning. Bill, thank you. Y
Thank you, spencer. In the east bay the heat is causing concern about growing fire danger. Were live in San Francisco, this fire caught by sky 7 this Cornell Barnard abc 7 news. Cornell be careful there with afternoon. Fire dep 7 news traffic behind you. Have they figured that out yet, or are we just in the early brink lee is live at fire stages . Good question. Station one. That perfect trifecta of fire early stages at this point. Supervisor haney says theres danger, high temperatures, low humidity, high winds. Lot of work to be done. We certainly have the heat. Leavenworth, jones street we have the high temperatures. I can attest to that. Certainly are contenders. We talked to the mayor about its not quite in red flag what she thinks of this territory but there was a scare proposal. Were going to have what she says coming up tonight at 5 00 a couple of hours ago on the on the abc 7 news. Thank you. We will see you at 5 00. East side of mount diablo. A huge Monterey Cypress that midda