New tonight tempers flare in Southern California after a call for police help. It ended with the death with another black man this week. This time the man was killed after he was tased not once but twice by police in pasadena. It started at 2 00 this morning at an apartment around orange grove boulevard. The girlfriend of the victim said was acting dysfunctional. Thomas was in distress. Question eight fire distinguish sure and he decided to call the police for help on his own. No one knew that his call for help with and in a tragedy. I woke up this morning to a bad dream. Two police came on the scene with a flashlight. They asked him to drop the knife and the fire extinguisher. Its not the first run in with him. He was a good father. They did not have to kill him. We hear that over and over again. We did not have to care them. He ignored the command and try to go inside someones apartment. Thats when the officers chased thomas. A fight started that ended in thomass death. After the fig
Showers but by 1 00 we clear out. Even the south bay, the start of the 49ers game will see a few light showers but by 3 00 we clear out. The showers will be quick, fast moving, and just produce enough to get the ground wet. Overall though, the thing you will notice today, more clouds in the area and cool temperatures. Were talking 60s for most of the bay. Wi monday could be another wet day for all of us to get wet and maybe even a little more rain. Well talk about that and rainfall amounts. Thank you much. This cooler weather could be great news for thousands of runners in the south bay this morning. The rock and roll Half Marathon is kicking off soon, which means driving around san jose could be a challenge today. Here is a live look in downtown san jose. Still quiet right now, just at the corner of santa clara street and almaden avenue where the race begins. Several streets downtown and the rose garden neighborhoods are closed this morning. Here is a look at the course. It goes throu
Check with meteorologist drew. It was great to see the images earlier this morning. Some light showers moved through. They have moved out. Live doppler 7 showing dry skies in the bay area. We still have snowshowers going on at this hour. From truckee to south lake tahoe. And this picture taken by rob in truckee of the snowshowers earlier today. Its a really nice sign to see this winter image. And hopefully more to come in the months ahead. Our next storm already rapidly approaching on live doppler 7. You can see it live offshore. Well talk about with this ranks on the impact scale and how it will affect your monday commute. One of them wont be dry. Well details the forecast coming up, thanks a lot. And you can find our weather resources on our abc 7 app. Its all there any time you need to know what weather is coming to where you lived. The giants were soaked today, but it was from champagne showers. After clinching a spot at the playoffs, they beat the dodgers 71 and will now meet the
Few blocks from the uc berkeley campus. The fire chief here told me they will be here all night, they said, trying to make sure these flames stay doused. It started small and got very big very quickly with flames shooting through the roof of berkeleys First Congressional Church going to four alarms within a matter of minutes. When we arrived we found smoke showing from the exterior rooftop. Fire crews went inside to try to make an aggressive interior attack, and we discovered that the fire was running through the attic. Reporter firefighters first tried to combat the flames from the inside but had to make a quick exit when it was clear the roof was about to collapse. We just saw, you know, little flames, but i thought it was containable and they came and put it out real quick. Those flames quickly engulfed the roof and took the chimney out and spread quickly. Reporter once the roof went, all firefighters could do from then on was pour water on the gutted structure from the outside. A D
Years. The flames are just a punch in the gut for parishioners. Yeah. First Congressional Church lies on the edge of the cal campus. Flames began pouring out of the church on channing drive shortly after 1 00 this afternoon. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony joins us live from the scene. Laura . Reporter hi, kristen. Lets give you the very latest here. Im standing at channing and dana. Behind me the first Congressional Church or whats left of it. I can tell you obviously the flames are out at this point. The fire is contained. They did manage to keep it from spreading to the main sanctuary, but obviously the Building Sustained some major damage. Its a fire that could be seen for miles. Heavy smoke billowing from a church thats just a few blocks from the uc berkeley campus. Nicole suarez told us she took this video just before 1 00 as she walked by on her way to class. At that point just a few flames coming out from a chimney area. It was a chimney fire that started right at the base of