They object to her based on her background on the Police Commission and say the appointment is unfair. There are people running to become the district attorney. One of them is that women. By appointing her they are giving her the privilege to get elected over the other ones. Reporter one protester did manage to make it inside. The mayor defending her move to put loftus in place saying the office is too important to leave vacant. I dont want to leave the District Attorneys Office unattended. So that is really why we need to make sure that we have somebody who understands the office and knows what to do from day one and that is suzy. Reporter other candidates are speaking out saying the move could backfire. I dont think it will give an unfair advantage. I think the backlash will be swift and sizable. We have been getting new volunteers and donations from people that i dont know who they are. Nancy saying she is seeing a surge in interest and donations. Will it help her . I dont know. The
Cannot take anything for granted. Rose how special is around here, when you think about the championship and all of the great players. Will still have seven curry and dream on green. What a crazy day of a free agency. Lawyers teams that will open at three centers this year will look a lot different than the one the closeout oracle this month. The biggest name not coming back is indeed, kevin durant who announced on his Instagram Page that he is leaving golden state to sign a max deal with the brooklyn nets. It will be a sign and trade still, meaning he will side with the lawyers and e will team up with kerry irving once he recovers. Rent resume with the warriors is awfully impressive. To nba titles, to final mvps, and the member of one of the greatest collection of stars ever assembled on one team. Lawyers are not walking away emptyhanded. Drinks to the site and trade the wires will get former brookland guard the until russell. In a move that no one saw coming. Also reportedly get a fo
Were doing everything we can to move as many people as we can and were still encouraging people to use alternate means of transportation if they have them. Reporter in this video provided by bart you can see crews have been hard at work replacing a series of aging transfer rails floor the west oakland bart station that leaded to to transbay tube. That is why Train Service under the bay had to at the stopped this weekend. According to bart the crews are making pretty Good Progress and bus bridges will continue through regular service tomorrow and then monday morning trains will continue their regular service through the transbay tube. Theyll be doing this again labor day weekend. Reporting live in San Francisco. Abc7 news. Thank you. San Francisco Bay ferry ridership is higher than usual this weekend because of the transbay tube closure. The alameda, oakland, San Francisco ferry, experience ted jump in ridership this morning from its usual 2,000 passengers to nearly 2500. The vallejo Sa
Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc7 news. This is the first mandatory evacuation that weve had on the Northern Edge of the fire along highway 20. New evacuations in that massive fire burning in lake county. Two dozen homes have now been destroyed. And thousands are in danger. Good evening, everyone. Im katie marzullo. The biggest fire burning in california right now is the rocky fire in lake county. And it continues to grow tonight. It has now burned more than 27,000 acres. It is still just five percent contained. 24 homes have been destroyed. Along with 26 outbuildings. Another 6,000 buildings are threatened at this hour. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow is live in clear lake with the latest. Reporter the top priority for firefighters overnight will be to make sure that this fire does not jump highway 20 or highway 16. Firefighters tell me they are treating those two highways, the enter section of them, like a box, and they want to keep the fire inside. The rocky fir
Transbay terminal with more on how things are going. Reporter so far those passenger whose have taken the bus bridge tell us not much of a problem. Theyre getting plenty of directions on the ground by a small army of street guides guides and the buses of the bay bridge have their own dedicated lanes. A lot of the street guides have been here since early this morning to help passengers to connect bart trains to the embarcadero and then walk to the transbay terminal to continue to trains to downtown oakland. Passengers from oakland told us the bus rise was not crowded. 25 to 30 minutes across the bridge. Bart says typical ridership is down 50 and they have a fleet of buses to provide shuttle service. We have a total of 94 buses leaving every 45 seconds so were doing everything we can to move as many people as we can and were still encouraging people to use alternate means of transportation if they have them. Reporter in this video provided by bart you can see crews have been hard at work