For 50 years the Environmental Protection agency has granted waivers to california, allowing us to set emission standards that exceed national limits. Those standards were adopted by so many state, automakers began building cars to the california standard rather than the national standard. Today Governor Newsom says the president s rollback is about one thing and its not jobs. Its about the oil industry, period, full stop. Its not about the car manufactures. Its not about consumers, not about the health. Its not about our economy. Its about oil companies. And there is more. The epa administrator and department of transportation secretary say theyll make the formal policy announcement tomorrow at 5 00 a. M. Our time. California attorney general Xavier Becerra says as soon as that happens, his office will be filing the lawsuit to block it, arguing the announcement violates due process. This will be the 51st time the state of california has sued the Trump Administration over a policy issu
Control the city is violating environmental rules. He made his comments tonight aboard air force one as he was leaving california. The president s new plan involves fining San Francisco. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney is in the city for us with the details. Terry . Reporter President Trump saying hes going to nail San Francisco for environmental violations, hes going to announce the entire punishment sometime in the next week. But right now he is saying it has to do with too much waste going into the sewer system, needles going out to the bay. Yes, he is singling out needles. Take a look at the president. Not exactly in town yesterday but just down the peninsula visiting for a fundraiser. And tonight hes calling San Franciscos homeless problem a total disaster the issues been well documented certainly by the nbc bay area investigative unit. Its a story that received national attention. Now, what the punishment would be for the alleged violations, unclear. I went on the epa website, and
We have not heard of any injuries or structures being damaged. You can stay up to date on the wildfire and any other breaking news by downloading the a brks krrc 7 news app. Enable the push alert feature to get updates as soon as they come into our newsroom. We dont see any flames there. We saw a lot of pyfires breakin out early in the afternoon. A caltrain struck and killed a person in burlingame. The station is near california drive and burlingame avenue. The person was hit where the north lane crosses the tracks. Here is visit owe from the citizen app with a person on the scene. Commuters should expect delays as long as 90 minutes. Caltrain tweeted ten minutes ago both tracks are open in the area where this incident happened. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. A date a couple marked as a wedding anniversary turn into a tragedy. They were crossing the street yesterday when they were hit by a car. The husband 39yearold Benjamin Dean was killed. His wi
Clayton, one of three in fairfield. One or two in concord. Those were the hotspots, inland areas heating up. Always amazing to see the temperature spread with at 103 in fairfield, it was more than one degree per mile if you go from there to San Francisco, 39 miles as the crow flies. That would be a chilly crow by the time he made it to San Francisco. 63 degrees at chrissy field for a hike today, 20 degrees cooler than fairfield. How may times of the hit 100 . Concord that is the fourth time we are above last years pace through july 24th we had triple digits of three times but look at two years ago, we had 100 degrees 11 times. Nowhere close to that. Coming up i will explain why we are up to 10 degrees cooler tomorrow that is coming up. See you then. Live look now at the wasco. E countdown a septgrop the new area will host concerts, an arena rather will host concerts for metallica and the San Francisco symphony. New arena, traffic. Concern the already congested area will only get worse
Bay area to try to help those suffering in hawaii. Hello again, everyone. Im julie julie haener. And im alex savage. The efforts come as hundreds are still missing, as crews continue to search through the rubble. The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency abruptly resigned today. Herman and daya came under Harsh Criticism for failing to use tsunami sirens to warn residents about those fires. He said he feared the people would try to evacuate. Uphill toward the flames 111 people are now confirmed dead and hundreds more remain missing. And there are questions about the cause of the fire. Critics say despite the high winds and fire danger warnings, Hawaiian Electric kept power lines electrified. It was not an accident. Accidents dont happen with this electricity. When we have red flag warnings, thats when you act and you make sure your equipment is in order. The utility is facing at least four lawsuits. Hawaiis attorney general says it outside group will now be conducting a review i