Residents are uniting to help the victims of hurricane maria. This morning an organization looking to help the people of puerto rico is holding a donation drive in oakland. Kron 4s Camila Bernal is live at the jamtown Basketball Center with more on how they plan to help. camila good morning marty, as we have reported, the people of puerto rico are suffering. Many lost their houses. They dont have water, food. Thats why a group of bay area Puerto Ricans formed a coalition called sf for pr. They plan to do as much as possible to send money and donations to the island. Many of these bay area residents have family members in puerto rico who have been directly affected by hurricane maria. Sf for pr is asking people to donate things such as bottled water, canned food, firstaid kits, blankets and more. Theyll be at jamtown from 11am until 4pmtheyre asking people to help as much as they can by bringing these donations. Reporting live in oakland Camila Bernal kron 4 news. marty thanks camila. W
The state, hundreds of thousands of people will be in front of the bluegrass stage. Get the idea . Ko corn Cornell Barnard looks at what we he can do. Check it out. One of fleet weeks first events happening in china basin. Exercise from the Landing Craft unit. Bringing trucks in just in case there was a natural disaster. This is only a drill here. Fleet week is here. Other events converging at the same us uss ussessex. Itll be open at pier 3032. World famous blue angels take to the skies friday through sunday. A busy time for san francisco. There is security and Traffic Control to other events converging at the very same time. Hello, open world closing down Howard Street. Over 60,000 people. Cutting the ribbon for the oracle conference, Howard Street is closed between 3 rd and 4th. Follow the signs, detours are in place. Heavy traffic through downtown is already happening. I actually dont drive in the city that often. He will miss his train. But not a huge deal. Oracle says bear with u
Effect for the north bay hills until 5 00 tuesday and the east bay hills until 11 00 monday night. Right now winds gusting at about 23 on knoxville, the same in spring valley. We do expect the numbers to increase area wide over tonight tonight with wind gusts 20 to 30 miles per hour. But the highest threat is in our hills above 1,000 feet where gusts would be 35 to 50 miles per hour. That will bring low humidity. That means under those conditions fires can easily start and spread. Well talk about when the winds subside and warmer air moving in coming up in the forecast. Drew, thank you very much. For immediate notifications of wildfires where you live, download the abc7 news app. New details tonight about a double shooting in San Francisco. Police identified the man and woman found dead yesterday. They are 20yearold susanna robles and 24yearold. Police say its being treated as a homicide. But no indication the suspect is on the loose. Police are looking for three men who beat a cal stu
Surprise. Battleship big. Uss epic warship was set to cross under the golden gate bridge. San franciscos fleet week is read requesty to begin now that the fleet is here z big fan of the fleet week i saw it for the first time in manhattan. Reporter many cities have fleet week, but San Franciscos, the biggest. It began in 1981. Ever since then, it has been a big deal, attracting millions of visitors. Remembering his fleet week. No one could get around or cars. Everybody was walking. Bands setting up at different places. Artists everywhere. The city was filled with people, however, it was too many people. Reporter there is a serious component to fleet week. The navy and San Francisco First Responders train together on disaster drills. You are seeing it happen right now in florida, houston, puerto rico. During times of disaster, most ports will shut down. They are damaged beyond capability its important that we train our First Responders and Emergency Management on how to get them into the
America is truly a nation in mourning. The president refused to discuss gun control but today democratic lawmakers, including nancy pelosi rallied outside the white house with gun supporters. Tonight we have the story of victims who didnt make it through attack. First a story of survival. They were feet away from gunfire at the route 91 music festival. Abc 7 reporter alissa herring ton have their story. Reporter david of newark sounded like popping noises. The stage went dark. I knew then, this is bigger than what we all are maybe thinking at this time. About that time is when everyone started screaming and running. Once he stopped playing you could really hear that automatic gunfire. David and his wife was in las vegas with his friend and some family members. They were celebrating wedding anniversaries but found themselves running for their lives in the middle of the countrys deadliest mass shooting. We ran. As we were running there were people falling left and right. Reporter david i