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KGO ABC7 News 500PM July 14, 2024

Team could consider. Thats not stopping at least three president ial candidates from calling for an impeachment inquiry. That is putting pressure on Speaker Pelosi who addressed the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. We have more on pelosi and the mueller report. Talk about perfect timing, who could have known when the Commonwealth Club booked speaker of the house nancy pelosi, she would take the stage fewer than four hours after Robert Mueller made his remarks, giving audience members ringside seats. Im gravely disappointed in the Justice Department. Many constituents want to impeach the president. But we want to do what is right and what gets results. The speaker has felt increasing pressure from democratic colleagues to move ahead with an impeachment. Today as in the past, she urged fact finding before a rush to action. Everybody wants justice. Everybody wants the president to be held accountable. Everybody believes that no one is above the law. Especially the president of the united states. Mr. Mueller took 1208 words to make the Statement Today. Now both Political Parties are treating them hike a spoken ink blot colored by political opinion. The question to Speaker Pelosi. If you were to read between the lines of what he said today, is there anything between the lines . I think it was very clear. I think it is clear the president he would v but he couldnt. Speaker pelosi told reporters to say she disagrees with the sitting president cannot be indicted. She referred to that as a Justice Department policy. As for those would believe the president has protection and the constitution, she said fine. The other option then is impeachment. Wayne friedman, abc 7 news. Thank you. We have much more on Robert Muellers Statement Today on our website, abc7news. Com zbhchlt a woman is under arrest after police say she went on a collision course this afternoon. Meese say she was involved with at least five crashes leaving at least three people hurt. Police started tailing the woman after running the cars plate. The car was stolen. This video released by police shows one of the crashes that were talking about. You can see the kia sol plow right into the scaffolding after stops and starts. The driver then managed to get away. The chase ended ultimately with one final crash at sixth and claira in the south market neighborhood. Woman hit a police car. Police arrested the woman at that location. She was taken to the hospital after complaining of some pain. A fire that started on the third rail of the bart tracks shut down service between North Berkeley and for over an hour this afternoon. The Fire Department said they received calls of an explosion with black smoke coming from the tracks just after 2 00. Trains are moving slowly in that area. Th there was a 20minute delay. Take a look at the bay bridge. Traffic is moving again. Very different story this morning though. Traffic was a mess. After a terrible accident, traffic was at a stand still involving a box truck and a bus. We are live from the toll plaza with more. Leslie . With lanes closed for hours, 10,000 drivers instead of they abandoned their plans to go drive over the bay bridge instead they opted for bart and the commute chaos stemmed from just that one fatal a box truck with two colleagues. This is watt truck looked hike after it smashed into the rear of a golden date transit bus on the westbound bay bridge. The driver was headed to headquarters in the city to refill vending machines according to hiss distraught girlfriend. Two other passengers in the truck were seriously injured. Due to the severe injuries, i think the last thing they want to talk about is how it happened were focusing on what we can do to help them and comfort them. The truck struck the rear of a golden gate bus that departed from the mcarthur bart station at 4 09 00 a. M. To take 20 passengers to the Sales Force Transit Center in San Francisco because bart recently stopped Running Service between 4 00 and 5 00 a. M. For construction. Two passengers complained of pain and were taken to a medical facility after the accident. Another bus came by to transport the remaining passengers. For east bay commuters, it was stunningly shocking traffic with several lanes on the bridge closed for hours with 40 gallons of spilled diesel on the road. In terms of driving an hour and 50 minutes, basically two hours to get across the bridge because a big old accident. Then i have to drive down here and circle the block 50 million times. Desperate drivers gave up and opted for bart and it wasnt just work they were missing. This man was on his way to kaiser San Francisco for heart surgery. We thought for sure we would get to San Francisco and gary by 10 00. But then we suddenly saw, hey, there is a three hour backup. We decided to do bart. And now the trains are f bart says instead of ending the Commute Service at 9 00 a. M. , they extended it, looping extra trains into San Francisco to ease the crowds. It was none the hesstheless a c morning. More people taking the train to avoid having to cross the bridge. Abc 7 News Reporter chris reyes has the story live where the home bound commute is under way. How it is going . Good afternoon. Weve been watching people stead i had streaming into the station. You can expect it to go from this which is okay to bad to worse hour by hour. With so many commuters forced to ride the bart this morning, they saw an extra 10,000 commuters. 10,000 extra commuters are expected to night. A bart official had a word for riders and we spoke to some of the hucky ones wlucky ones thato get out of the city. What riders are expect to see is longer trains. More ten car trains than theyre used to seeing in the evening commute. We want to put out a word of warning though. The system is going to be crowded. Those systems are already at capacity during the evening commute. You should also expect metering and what that means is sometimes we ask that our riders stay behind the fare gates until the platforms can get cleared. This is the calm before the storm. This is the time i oftentimes if i can get into the train between 4 00 and 4 30, its not too craze qui down here. By 4 30, 6 00, thats when the craziness picks up. There will be 10,000 extra commuters on the bart our prayers are with those that officials took this as a plea to get more funding. Theyre awaiting on funding. Abc 7 news. Chris, thank you. Warriors hit the floor as they prepare to take the fourth chip in five years against the raptors. The twotime mvp candidate wont play game one. He is in toronto with the team. Cousins worked out on the court. He is questionable to start game one. The first time the warriors face a finals opponent besides lebron james and the cleveland cavaliers. Game one will be right here on abc 7 tomorrow night at 6 00. Remember to send us your fan photos on social media. Yeah, this is the first time the raptors made it into the nba finals. Were quite used to it. But as you can imagine, fans this are going wild. But the it is qui has a lot of respect for warriors star steph curry. Sure they do. Our reporter is live in toronto tonight. Why are they so impressed by steph . Canadians are so nice. The stereotype is so true. I may not come back to california. More so than anything, steph went to school and played basketball here in toronto for a very short time and it was during that time he had a very pro found infect on not only his coach but the entire Community Around him. Shot. Rebound. Good on the hard wood at this school an hour outside of toronto. Pump fake, hard drive. There is a special excitement for thursdays matchup between the Golden State Warriors and toronto raptors. But perhaps none the way you expect. My name is james lackey. I am a coach here up in toronto. I want to say how happy i am that you are here, dionne. I sort of felt alone the last couple of days. I think im the only warriors fan in the entire city. As steph currys eighth grade basketball coach, he is perhaps the person most closely linked to the warriors star zbhchlt were standing in a gym that he played in. And got to know the curry family closely when stephs father played with the raptors and holds on to these mementos. This is stephs actual jersey that he wore when he played up here in toronto. A star player back then, even if he didnt seem like one at first. The first time i met steph, i think he was about 52. So i was a little disappointed. But once he stepped on a basketball court, i had no concerns anymore. Steph led the saints to an undefeated season that year. Of his signature shots just taking shape. He was basically stepping over half court and shooting and would still go in. And i never seen anything like that before. But perhaps it was Something Else that steph became known for that affected all around him. He makes other People Better and want to be better. That character inspires not only coach lackey but also his players. When i see and think, wow, he did this thing. Look at how great someone else became of it. Coach lackey doesnt think he had any impact on steph during the short time together but steph sure changed his life. Every coach hopes that their mayors will players will be successful. But what steph has been able to accomplish is something that even a coach cant even dream of. Back out here live, showing off my warriors pastel themed nails, how about that . I should point out that james and his family, they try to make it to a warriors game every season and without fail even lom over years family rrio tingt all. Eur,op wh live in toronto, abc 7 news. Next time we want to see a full story on her nails. They look great. They do. Dionne as well as sports anchor and reporter will be live from toronto tomorrow before game one. And abc 7 is the only place to watch the warriors and the n nba finals. Our coverage begins tomorrow with our newscast at 4 00 p. M. Followed by the pregame show. And nba countdown at 5 30. Game one of the nba finals right here on abc 7 at 6 00. Be sure to stay tuned for after the game with sports anchor larry beal as well. Big day tomorrow. Hope youll join us. Still ahead, ubers new policy. Alexa, forget what i said. The new move toward privacy as california lawmakers crack down on all the store your voice. Do as i say, not as i do. That is essentially the message parents are sending to their kids about using their phones. Hope youre soaking up the hope youre soaking up the sun and enjoyin its no ordinary day at dennys its crepe day. A Family Tradition we started about twentytwo minutes ago. And from the looks of it, this tradition is going to last awhile. Dennys has new crepes see you at dennys. When it comes to reducing the evsugar in your familys diet,m. Coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. Were working together to do just that. Bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. Smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels and reminders to think balance. Because we know mom wants whats best. More beverage choices, smaller portions, less sugar. Balanceus. Org they call for grants and loans to Small Businesses so they can put up new signage, upgrade the store fronts and make the shops and restaurants ada compliant. The supervisor says the goal is to help Small Businesses compete with on line shops. In these times when we have amazon and all of the other home deliveries, we need to make it easy for businesses to not only survive but to prosper. They help Small Businesses pay for city permits and fees. The program will be part of the mayors two year budget that will be presented on friday. A democratic senator running for president is spreading her message against Large Technology companies. Abc 7 news was at fourth and townsend street where Elizabeth Warren is featured on a billboard calling for breaking up big tech. Warren wants to appoint regulators to dissolve mergers involving Large Tech Companies that bought the small competitors. They have more than 25 billion in annual revenue. Most of the democratic president ial hopefuls will be in San Francisco this weekend for the California Democratic party convention. 14 candidates have confirmed their attendance including senators camilla harris, bernie sanders, Elizabeth Warren and south bend indiana mayor pete budagudge. Joe biden wont be attending. Political observers believe bidens strategy may be to keep a low profile at this time. Uber is now ready to give riders the heave ho if they behave badly. Well hear more about this twoway street. Isnt that amazing . Wow. Starting to day, riders who receive ratings that are significantly below average could lose their right to ride. Before that happens, riders will get tips on how to improve ratings by being poe height, not leaving trash in vehicles, and not asking the driver to violate the speed a measure aimed at blocking smart home speakers from saving your voice recordings is making it way through the state legislature. The antieavesdropping act passed the state assembly today. It requires manufacturers to get written permission before the devices can store voice recordings. The bill would also ban them from sharing command recordings with third parties. Amazon says it is introducing new ways to delete voice reportings on its alexa enabled devices. Users can stored voice data by saying, alexa, delete everything i said today. A new survey says only half of College Students are confident they can pay off their Student Loans ever. That compares with more than 60 who feel prepared to tackle their actual College Course work. Only twothirds of them expect to pay off debts in full and on time. Thats a lot less than the 88 who expect to do the same seven years ago. Boy, thats depressing. That is tough. Thank you very much. Lets turn our attention to the weather forecast. Stunning to day. Were going to cool it down a little bit tomorrow. Okay, its not going to be a major change. I want to show you right now what it looks like on live doppler 7. You notice some fog inching close to the coast at this hour. And as we take you into the lake county area just north of there, we are seeing some isolated thunderstorms. But look at the bigger we have thunderstorms that developed strong around the Sierra Nevada and even into southern california. Let me show you a live picture from tahoe. It is dark and dreary. San francisco, 60 degrees. Youre in the 70s along with mountain view. The buildup north of lake county, can you see from the camera right now, 71 in santa rosa. 82 in fairfield. A little warmer today. I hope you got out to soak up the sun. 83 in concord. 77 degrees in liver more. Lets look at the temperature trend for antioch. Where are the numbers were talking 90s inland. It is going to feel like summer especially as we head towards early middle part of next week. Live look right now from our roof camera. The breeze has been kicking up. Gusts 35 miles an hour. Typical for this tichl year. Sunshine from san jose over the shark tank. Mipor cooling expected tomorrow. Warming trend for the end of the week. And we have hot conditions inland coming your way for next week. 7 00 p. M. Tonight, youll notice a fog near the beaches. Watch what happens. The marine layer deepens overnight and moves over the hills into our valleys tomorrow morning. Widespread coverage of the fog unlike this morning. Even some spotty drizzle at 5 00 a. M. This continues right on through 8 00 a. M. Before we start to see some of this peeling back to the coast. And then tomorrow afternoon, were watching for a system diving south from the pacific northwest. That is going to bring isolated showers, thunderstorm chance to sonoma, lake county, napa county over the Sierra Nevada. Showers and thunderstorms expected. Thats not a game changer. Be aware of the fact there will be the possibility of some showers and thunderstorms right around the north breezy at the coast. Clouds lingering. 67 in oakland. 78 in antioch. Download the app and can you track the temperatures any time you want. The warming trend comes back into play friday. Takes noo takes us into saturday. Sunday a touch cooler. And then the numbers do rise. Getting you up into the 90s inland, tuesday, wednesday. Yeah, thats summer like heat for you. The great thing is the climates are there. A nice variety to please everyone. I know the fog lovers here in the bay area dont like it too hot. So just want to mention well have our nice weather coming up. Thank you. Okay. Were not being that smart apparently when it comes to. You may want to take a few practice throws if you get to throw out the first pitch. Pitc. I cant decide whether thats the worst first pitch in baseball history or best pitch first pitch in for the this is the picture he took right before he got pegged. That looks great. Good start. Yeah. Its the finish though. Didnt end so well. Teenagers cant put their phones down. But many adults cant either. A new survey finds that smart phones extend far past bedtime. New numbers if Common Sense Media show that 12 of parents sleep with their phones and 29 of teenagers do. So were not much better than the kids. And a quarter of parents and over a third of teenagers wake up in the middle of the night and check their phones. Ive done that. Experts have warned against using screen an hour before going to sleep because it may help you it may keep you up. Majority of parents and teenagers dont follow that advice. Tey suggest putting your phone in another room. Those that use their phone as an alarm clo

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