Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20180110 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20180110

That storm scale does not want to go away. A little bit of fatigue. Its a light storm. Areas of light rain, not all of us are going to get wet. Its going to be less than a tenth of an inch. Its not causing any damage. Its becoming mostly cloudy. It looks dry. Dry and nice and not very vesful. As we head through our day planner, it exits the south bay. Enjoy an evening thats going to be dry with low to mid50s. Need the rain though. No problems here. No metering lights. Yes, it is dry. That is nice for the roads. Highway 4 to San Francisco from hercules. Youre looking at under 30 minutes. Its a great time, at least the roadways are cooperating. We have this stalled big rig, the lucky drive off ramp is completely blocking the off ramp. You want to use sir frances drake. Thank you, sue. A late night announcement, San Franciscos 9th District Court blocks the president from ending daca. It protects children of undocumented immigrants. The president wanted to stop the program in march. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in berkeley this morning. Reporter good morning, jessica. Yes, uc berkeley is one of many places where young people will be impacted by this. They dont have to worry about possible deportation in march. Thats when the program was scheduled to end. It stands for deferred action for childhood arrivals. It gives legal status to immigrants brought to the u. S. As children. President trump brought lawmakers together to discuss a potential bill. It should be a bill of love and we can do that. It also has to be a bill were able to secure our border. Reporter daca covers about 800,000 people. The judge says his ruling must stay in place and protect daca until a lawsuit against the Trump Administration plays out. Californias attorney general calls the ruling a step in the right direction. He has scheduled a press conference for later this morning to discuss this. Reporting live in berkeley, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. New developments at uc berkeley, controversy over undocumented immigrant named mora. The university is working to help the student detained at the u. S. mexico border. She says she reached out to students working to secure his release. The group rising immigrant scholars through education or r. I. S. E. Is spearheading the release. They wait add week to issue the statement. They say chryst has not reached out to them posting on facebook this. To this day chancellor christ has not sent any message directly to any of the students who have mobilized in support of louis mora. Her silence has been absolute. At the live desk our team tracking the story. Search and rescue efforts continue after drenching rain. At least 13 people are dead and that number could grow. At least two dozen others are still missing. Yesterday morning flash flooding, debris flow and mud slides hit communities devastated by the fires last month. Officials say several dozen homes have been either destroyed or damaged. We are getting a closeup look at the grueling work by First Responders. The spokesman for Santa Barbara fire is documenting the aftermath and dramatic images on social media. Here is a look. Reporter at times success. People trapped in the rubble saved like this girl covered in mud. A 14yearold girl among the survivors seen here on the bottom right between two rescuers. Adding in the Search Rescue dogs. Riley looks for victims where homes once stood. Military vehicles roll in to move those rescued. Other images captured the scope of destruction this is highway 101 in montecito, a big rig stuck in its tracks. And after the rains, the sun setting behind highway 101 at an overpass that remains flooded. The calm after the storm as the process of recovery begins. Thinking about those people down in Southern California, what a mess. It really hit them hard yesterday morning and it is a lot of work still to get done today in that rescue effort still under way. Switching gears to an olympic figure skater. One of the latest victims of the auto breakin epidemic in San Francisco. Thieves actually busted out her windows on monday. Tiffany wilson explains what priceless items she lost and why she is pleading with the thief to come forward. Reporter a u. S. Olympic figure skater spent monday sightseeing in San Francisco. When she left the restaurant she made a devastating discovery. It was a sheer moment of panic. Reporter the window of her rental suv was smashed. My turquoise roll bag was gone, where my costumes and skates were. Reporter the skates custom made, her costumes hand crafted. Each dress costs about 1,000 to make. They are priceless in emotional value. Without them i feel incomplete. At first, oh, my god, this is the worst thing that could possibly happen to me. Reporter the breakin happened just hours after chief bill scott announced a new plan to combat property crimes. We had over 30,000 car burglaries. Reporter this resident has had enough. Three out of four yesterday. These breakins is ridiculous. Reporter he is hoping the thief will come forward. These are figure skating dresses. They mean the world to me, to everyone in my sport. Reporter however, they dont have much retail value. In San Francisco, tiffany wilson, abc 7 news. All right, good morning. Lets take a look at the temperatures. Well start with our inland east bay neighborhoods. Some of our coolest temperatures here in places like danville and san ramone. Up in the hills, its 41. Everybody else in the mid to upper 40s. Lets take a look at the rest of our neighborhoods. Mid40s, oakland 45. Hayward, san jose, mt. View 46. Novato, 52. Napa is 46 degrees right now. Look at the bay bridge, though. Yeah, theres a lot of cars. Well talk to sue about the commute. Lets talk about your activity planner. On the bay today, breezy this morning. Theres a possibility well be wet with those chances of light rain moving through during the mid morning to midafternoon hours. Exercising, go out and do it anytime. Know you may get hit by random rain. Its not going to be a soaker. You may not need to take the umbrella. Temperatures start at 50. Cloudy conditions all day and a chance of a light rain through about 4 00. On the peninsula we may see 49. So its cool there. 57 by 4 00. And lets take one last look and that will be San Francisco where well have 51 this morning to 56 this afternoon. Maybe even a little bit of sunshine by the time it sets after 5 00. Heres sue looking at some east bay issues. Lets go first to walnut creek, a southbound 680 with the taillights headed towards the 24 junction southbound. If you continue on 680 southbound we do have reports of an accident, apparently a big rig clipped a couple vehicles. The big rig moved on, didnt realize hed done so or that person, the driver, had done so and now theres several vehicles in the middle lanes southbound 680 near livorna. Chp is en route. Traffic is getting by. Well come bck and come back with more details. Sue, we will check in with you shortly. The threat of the tsunami in the caribbean is now over. An advisory was first issued last night after a magnitude 7. 6 earthquake hit in the sea near honduras. There are no reports of damage from the quake. A big honor and thank you to firefighters and First Responders for their service. Abc 7 news was in santa rosa for a special ceremony. The Sonoma County board of supervisors presented the brave men and women with a commemorative challenge coin. Its to show gratitude for selfless and heroic acts during the october wildfires. Heroes who dodge flames and went house to house making sure people got out. Frankly, there were so many heroes and people who came to the aid. We want to find a way to recognize everybody. While the coins were a thank you from the county, it turns out the county did not pay for them. Thousands of dollars came from an anonymous donor whose house was saved by firefighters. Amazing. A small token of gratitude but very symbolic. Oracles headquarters on the peninsula just opened a new and unusual expansion, a high school. Also a local star ending his partnership with h m following this advertisement. And from a wine bottle opener that doesnt open the bottle to a driverless car that looks more like a living room, we are showing you the best from we are showing you the best from day o we take a walk back in time, december, 26 dry days. We barely received any. Now look at january and so far 6 of 9 days rain with a whole lot of rain monday and tuesday. Well take a look at todays chance of rain up next. Heres jessica and reggie with more news. Youtube respond to go that controversial video posted by online personality logan paul. Paul apologized for posting a video shot in japans forest that showed him discovering the body of a man hanging from a tree. It drew widespread criticism for making light of suicide. Youtube says he violated Community Guidelines and his video was taken down. Content moderators are looking at further consequences. Youtube says we know the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so well have more to share soon on steps were taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again. A rapper is cutting ties, launching a new clothing line with the retailer last month. He backed out of the deal yesterday citing concerns about a controversial sweatshirt modeled on a young black child read coolest monkey in the jungle. H m apologized and pulled the product after backlash. I cant allow for my name and brand to be associated with a company that could let this happen. Today will be the second day of classes for a new Peninsula High School campus. Yesterday was the official first day of school at the newly built Design Tech High School in redwood city. The Charter School located on oracles corporate campus. The school has been operating in burlingame since 2013. Oracles cofounder came up with the idea for a school where students learn to think 20 years ago. Talk about a leg up in the tech world. One day im sure they will be at the Consumer Electronics show. We get to see some absurd and outrageous creations. Take this one, for example. This device that lets you pour from a bottle of wine but without opening it. You may have seen these ads already. This is a new version that comes with an app. The thin needle keeps the bottle seals and it can preserve the remaining wine for years. For the app you can pick your favorite food or activity and it pairs a wine with it. It should be available for a cool 999. 99. For free ale come over and drink the whole thing. Me, too. And you wont have to store it. Thats just me helping you out. Panasonic thinks this is what Driverless Cars will look like in the future. No Steering Wheel or pedals, just a cabin that is huge. It looks like a living room with chairs and display screens. Guess you want to watch whale sharks around town. The chairs can face Different Directions or you can face each other and draw on the screen. Panasonic envisioned a version with a surround sound system along with side and ceiling screens for movies and music. That is bigger than a lot of peoples living rooms in San Francisco. Okay, if youre not comfortable with riding one of those, how about a selfdriving car that delivers food to you. Ford and dominos unveiled a specially equipped ford fusion that comes with selfdriving technology and an oven. Customers will enter a number on the touch pad near the back window. The window then lowers revealing the pizza. Ford and dominos have been testing them out for a few months. Then it doesnt come to my door. You have to go to the car. You have to take off the pjs, put on sweatpants so put out. Weve seen extreme weather and its giving us incredible footage like this. Alligators encased in ice at an animal park. This happened in north carolina. Would you assume that animal was dead . I would have. In extreme cold alligators slow down their body functions in hibernation like process. They peek out. They have now thawed out and are perfectly fine. So bizarre. Okay. And you are looking here at a rare snow in one of the driest and hottest places on the planet, the sahara desert. This is from a town in algeria and reportedly this is only the third time in 40 years theyve ever seen snow. A photographer says it started snowing on sunday and it was cold enough that it stayed on the ground and didnt start melting until the evening. What a sight. The same storm that slammed us in california is doing the same in nevada. Yikes. Part of the Las Vegas Strip looks more like a raging river. This is the parking garage at the hotel. After going four months without a drop of rain, vegas is getting much more than it bargained for. Its incredible video but i will say this. Whenever it rains that parking lot floods. I lived in las vegas for five years. Every time it rains that particular. I dont know why something hasnt been done. It is crazy. You are never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Here is meteorologist mike nicco. Is that the kind of advertising you want . Hey, its making the news. A look at walnut creek. 42 degrees under a mostly cloudy sky. Clouds will gather today keeping us cool and also bring us a chance of light rain. Fog will form. It will be patchy because the clouds arent going to completely clear. A dry and warmer weekend with temperatures nearing 70 somewhere. 60 is as warm as today. Places like palo alto, san jose and morgan hill. 71 in santa cruz. The rest of us from 56 in lake port. Tonight 50 in San Francisco. Mid to upper 40s around the bay. Low to mid40s inland. Some areas may drop into the 30s. Now they havent told us yet but with cloud cover and low clouds some arrival delays into sfo. Youve seen live doppler showing rain and snow as it heads to mt. Shasta and over to tahoe. The leading edge of random with the bulk. By noon more of its into the bay. And then by 4 00 as it moves into the south bay it starts to fall apart. Your commute, dry this morning. Mainly dry this afternoon. Maybe not quite as much as this morning. If one of those random light rains hits you. Across the north bay tomorrow and a look at brighter afternoons and temperatures hitting the coast. Lets turn it over to sue, some issues out there. Whats going on . Highway 37. Apparently this was a problem yesterday with malfunctioning signal lights at 121 by the racetrack there. They are flashing red. They thought they had them fixed yesterday but theyre flashing red today. Fourway stop could be slowing your drive this morning. A traffic break near livorna. A big rig swiped a couple of cars. It is cleared of lanes still on the side of the road but not causing any delays there. Causing any delays there. And back to napa. Closed between vichy and Wooden Valley road. The sig alert is in effect. Thank you, sue. Todays gma first look British Airways making a major change to its seats. Forget taking the snap on that flight because some passengers will no longer be able to recline. You have no choice anymore. Reporter in this mornings gma first look British Airways ordered planes with seats that dont recline at all. In the 1950s and 60s we had three to six more inches of space between our knees and the end of the seat in front of us. And every year that amount of space keeps shrinking as does the size of the seats. Reporter why . Apparently unreclining seats are lighter saving fuel, but could the savings be passed on to the customers . I cant see any way this will lead to lower fares for consumers. Thats the marketing spin. Reporter this will, in fact, enhance the flying experience saying these new nonrecline seats will only be on short haul flights, at least for now. Will the other Airlines Follow suit . I dont like that. I sleep on every flight. Im remaining silent because i dont like it when people come down and recline in my space. Remind me not to sit in front of you. The seven things you need to know to start your day. The candidates who will run for mayor of San Francisco in june. There could be someone new in office next week. An orphaned Mountain Lion cub getting a Second Chance at life in the east bay. The abc 7 storm impact scale. Todays storm is level 1. That means light rain. So keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. All because of a burst water pipe in their house that ruined the Hardwood Floors in their kitchen. Luckily the Geico Insurance agency had helped them with Homeowners Insurance and the inside of their house was repaired and floors replaced. They now fetch sugarfree vanilla lattes with almond milk. Call geico and see how affordable Homeowners Insurance can be. Call geico Weight Watchers how Freestyle Program . T the new you can have anything you want. Its real food. The new Weight Watchers Freestyle Program has over 200 foods that are zero points now you can count less anenjoy more. Join for free and lose 10 lbs on us offer extended to january 15th we know that when youre spending time with the grandkids every minute counts. And you dont have time for a cracked windshield. Thats why we show you exactly when well be there. Saving you time, so you can keep saving the world. Kids safelite repair, safelite replace its 5 25. Whether youre just joining us or about to go out the door, number one, 15 people are now confirmed dead following flooding and mud flows in Santa Barbara county. 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