francisco general hospital. she is in critical condition. her two children have been united with her father who was not here at the moment. we are told that she actually does live in this neighborhood. we do know that the father and the two children have since gone on to san francisco general hospital and they are with her right now. what they are trying to figure out is the relative health of this tree. we are told that it had been asessi assessed by the city arborist and deemed safe in 2010. we ll have further details coming up at 6:00. and continuing on through our following newscast as well. live in san francisco, i m sergio quintana, abc 7 news. thank you very much. and breaking news in santa clara county, striking court employees and county officials reached a tentative deal to end a strike. the union leaders will ask workers to approve a new contract and they will vote on the new pack this weekend and if they ratify it they will return to work on monday. hundre
the hospital right now after being hit by that fallen tree limb. it happen in washington square park at columbus avenue in san francisco s north beach. the woman is in critical condition at san francisco general hospital that happened before 4:00 this afternoon. police say the mom was on a bench watching children on the playground when suddenly the 100 pound limb fell on top of her from 50 feet up. and the report was a tree branch fell off the tree and landed on top of her. a pretty big branch? branch fell, hit her in the head, we believe, and so we were arrived, she was in and out of consciousness. and she s in critical condition, and an arborist was sent to the scene. they are examining other trees to look for other potential problems. the woman s two children have been handed over to their father. a 15 acre fire near morgan hill. cal fire calls, and david sent e ground showing the fire fighting efforts. we ll have a live update ahead on abc 7 news at 11:00 on
designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. we re coming to you tonight from the studios of ketc, our pbs affiliate in st louis, missouri. for the second time in this year s race for the white house, republican presidential candidate donald trump has publicly raised the specter of violence against his democratic opponent, hillary clinton. campaigning in houston, texas, today, trump was silent on the subject. but last night, at his rally in miami, trump stated incorrectly that clinton favors abolishing the second amendment right to bear arms. and then he said this: i think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. the
bad right statement, it was spotted in san pablo bay. it was a mile long and 40 yards wide, enough to prompt the ferry to temporarily halt service from vallejo to san francisco. there s only two buses running. it will take all day. nobody has that kind of time. officials at the phillips 66 refinery confirmed there was another sheen by a terminal. one discovered just after 8:00 this morning. the tanker arrived in rodeo on monday. a phillips 66 smokes pan said operations at the marine terminal have been temporarily shut down. we are working closely with the coast guard and other agencies regarding the response. by midday, an orange boom was going around the ship. california fish and wildlife and bay keeper confirmed they have teams on the way. there s a lot of sensitive wetland communities in that area. want to make sure the areas around point san pablo and pa knoll are protected and that the wet lands aren t inundated. there s no reports of injured or oiled wil
now from abc7, live breaking news. the breaking news is from north carolina. teargas x fires and s.w.a.t officers in riot gear. tonight a state of emergency as the charlotte protests grow out of control for a second night in a row. good evening. i m kristen sze in for ama daetz. i m dan ashley. the north carolina governor made the emergency declaration after a prayer vigil for the man shot and killed by charlotte police earlier this week turned violent. these are some of the images playing out courtesy of our charlotte abc station. lilian kim is monitoring the unfolding situation. lilian? reporter: kristen, the protests tonight are worse than the night before. one man is in critical condition for what they say was a civilian on civilian confrontation. there were clashes between demonstrators and police in riot gear. the worst case scenario in charlotte. police launching teargas into the crowd. we don t know what that was and if that what is a flashbang or what tha