Spokesperson, San Francisco mayor london breed said we cant ng n respondedpresident s threa intercede. Interceding means cutting budgets to help support services to get people off the street. Hes within very successful. Reporter San Francisco now spends 300 million a year on trying to solve the homeless crisis. A phenomenon that mr. Trump said started two years ago. We may be wrong about that. But it is true that in the past two years the number of homeless in San Francisco has gone up by 17 . As people continue to walk past a problem that will take years to fix. Reporter both garsetti and newsom say they welcome any help the Trump Administration wants to make to try to skoff this problem which they now call a national issue. Abc7 news. A large group of i San Francisco today demanding President Trump close down immigration detention centers. Abc7 news was there as the crowd blocked an intersection before marching to the federal building. One of more than a hundred protests planned arou
Also, right here in kensington. Hey, welcome to fox 29. Here we are swanson street. Area surrounding north swanson street in kensington is unfortunately much of what youd probably expect. Theyre crime concerns and drug issues. But one street is doing what they can to change that stereotype one block at a time. They play. She play witness kids some. She close down the street. She give the lunches at 12 and the snack at 3 00. Marry anna bernard doesnt speak much english but with her daughter translating she told me that with philadelphias play Streets Program as a partner shes up every day closing her block to traffic and giving the neighborhood kids a safe haven. Its wonderful thing. She can do this. To help other kids. Not only kids adults too they hungry whatever. Reporter with all the negativity we hear about certain neighborhoods its easy to forget that most are filled with good people and some tough circumstances and thats exactly what i saw on swanson street. With the street close
Hackers are threatening to meet the new pirates of the caribbean film to hit theaters this friday. They say they want a ransom that disney will not pay up your latest developments coming out. For blogger to put to some good support. Big news today. Shares are up on the news. Plus we are keeping an eye on retail today. Home depot earnings didnt expect to be a bright spot for the sector. Earnings and revenue to rise from year ago in home depot shares at 157 in change. The fast food giant taking how big your way to a whole new level with the latest menu of offerings. Well have the details. Maria nasdaq and s p 500 coming off of record highs. Down industrial south, s p 500 down to five. Nasdaq up fractionally. In your Upcoming European indices this morning. Mixed performance theirs as well. Ft 100 a pop of 1 . Cac quarante up almost half of 1 . Japans nikkei average is up a quarter of a percent of the shanghai of three quarters of a percentage sign it. Stories coming out this morning. A bi
It. When you look a little bit closer on ultimate doppler you can see that counterclockwise swirl creating that spin in that environment that is why were still see very heavy rain and some of those poe then shall tornadoes but nothing in our region right now. We do have flash floor warning in effect for kent and says sucks county in delaware and Cumberland County new jersey until 6 00 oclock tonight. S were he look closer 2. 4inches of rah nine dover. Over 5inches in Cumberland County where we have flooding occurring near for tess ski and 3. 6 just to the south of millville. As we widen out you can see on ultimate doppler this area of low pressure and that area of low pressure is going to continue to move toward the north and east and as it does, it will pull all of that rain along with it. But guess what . We still will have a few lingering showers this evening. It will be slow to clear across the Delaware Valley but heres the bright Silver Lining in that cloud. The weather only gets
Insurance and theyre blaming obamacare. Government raising costs, but the news on the economy is solid, far fewer layoffs, more private sector jobs. The market takes no position in this debate and stocks will go up a little more at the opening bell today and varney company, yes, about to begin. Call it a hit to traditional brick and mortar retailers. Macys planning to Close Five Stores and layoff 2500 workers. More in a moment. Bed bath beyond lowering earnings for the year. Following the announcement it will be down again in a few minutes. Not all bad news for retailers. If you have an online presence, back to macys, they plan to hire for online. Theres no stopping amazon. They closed up 400 and its going to go up more this morning. The writing is on the wall. Online king. Traditional bricks and retail mortar hard keeping up. Income inequality, Sheila Jackson lee, democrat, texas, on redefining welfare. Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something, a Transitional Living fund.