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With water. Reporter when this he went to drain the system, two leaks, one seen in this picture, began spiing water onto the muni tracks and on the b. A. R. T. Train and platform below. I realized oh, theres something wrong. There was like water dripping on my shoulders. I was like oh, theres something wrong. I had to check twitter. Reporter he was late to work. While b. A. R. T. Eventually resumed service at the emba embarcadero station, muni had to repair the leaks by capping them. Instead muni passengers were diverted by taking b. A. R. T. B. A. R. T. Is giving you a free ride to month domry station. Reporter muni is still trying to determine what will caused the leaks in the system. So even though youre seeing above on the board no predictions available as to when muni here at the embarcadero will reopen, i can assure you it has reopened. Lets all these people, nice to see you, welcome, so it has again reopened. Thats also good news for commuters and also for people who are traveling from the east bay who get on b. A. R. T. , then muni to go to the baseball game, larry. So thats a big relief for them, as well. Go giants. Giants playing tonight. Lyanne melendez, abc7 news. Correct. You should know. I love all the friendly people behind you. Theres a question though. Water and electricity do not mix. Was there never any danger . Reporter yeah. Youre right, absolutely. I asked that same question and the response i got was that remember, they make all these repairs very early in the morning. They shut down the entire system. When there are no people, no service. No electricity, nothing power, of course, to avoid anything big happening. And for security reasons so thats what they told me. All right. Lyanne melendez on b. A. R. T. Welcoming committee. Shes good at it. The San Francisco police are investigating a deadly hit and run that involved a big rig. It began around 5 40 this morning when police say a man crossing the street at eddie and machb was hit and then dragged two blocks to fifth and market. An ambulance rushed him to zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center where he later died. Abc7 news was there when officers stopped the driver of that big rigging about two hours later at broadway and battery street. The driver has been detained. Were told he is cooperating with police. The San Mateo County Sheriffs Office is mourning the death of a correctional officer. He drowned yesterday afternoon at zephyr cove in lake tahoe according to Douglas County officials. The 34yearold served in the army and an iraq war veteran. He joined the Sheriffs Office in 2017 after working for the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office. He leaves behind his wife terry and two children. This next story senior rather unusual. It is. A couple living in the former iranian consulate building at washington and walnut streets in the Presidio Heights neighborhood has been evicted. Theyve paid their rent on time but thats not the problem. Abc7 news news anchor kumasi aaron with a look at the issue here. Reporter this couple was paying 5500 a month to live in this beautiful mansion but the government says thats not enough to cover all the repairs that this house needs. And neighbors here that i talked to said they would be so sad to see this couple go and this house empty. Its a 15 million home. Eight bathrooms, 8700 square feet. And the government says the people who have been rentin it for nearly 35 years have got to go. Alexander and bruce owens started theyring the home from the state department in 1984 and renewed the lease several times which included a provision that subjects the home to rent control ordinances. It used to be the iranian could be sue lat so iran owns it but the u. S. State Department Takes care of it. According to the lawsuit filed by the state department, a government inspector toured the property in june 2018 and found the mansion needed 5 maryland in repairs. Thats a lot higher than the rent. So the government decided to take the property off the market and moth ball it. Californias ellis act allows landlords to evict tenants if that happens and they were given 11,000 and told to leave by june of this year but they havent left. Now the u. S. Government is suing to get them out. The attorney representing the couple told me the couples devastated. And says the house is more than liveable. The place does need some razor but they live in it nicely. 5 million worth of repairs to bring it to an incredible Pacific Heights mansion type but they can continue to live there for years with much, much much less in repairs and want to. Reporter and he told me the couple is still living in the house and plan to keep doing so. He said the only way they can be forcibly removed is if they lose the case. Kumasi aaron, abc news. Why are the neighbors concerned about the couple possibly being evicted . Reporter well, its twofold. First of all the people i talked to said theyre great neighbors and been here in the community for a while and they would hate to see them go. Also, they said theyre concerned about the house being empty. Theyve had issues with squatters here in the past and said thats something they dont want to deal with again. Makes sense. Thank you. The rinters were paying far, far below market rate for that mansion. Comparable mansions with six or more bedrooms in Pacific Heights are going for anywhere between 17,000 and 25,000 a month. Thats according to real estate website zillow. Crazy. For the 5500 that the family was paying for the mansion every month, it would get them a twobedroom, two bath apartment elsewhere in the city. New information today about the shuttered russian consulate in San Francisco. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told a Russian News Agency tas that is moscow is kring options to reopen what he calls unlawfully seized properties in te u. S. The Trump Administration ordered the closure in response to moscows decision to cut u. S. Diplomatic staff in russia. Black smoke could be seen rising from that building consulate staffers turned firefighters away at that time saying there was not any problem inside. Plans to clean up the february landslide . Sauce lit tote are being delayed till september. The city council rejected bids from seven Construction Companies after a staff member noticed a requirement wasnt met in the bidding process. They were concerned it cld jeopardize federal funding for the project. They are expected to open a 30day win for bids next week. The San Francisco Planning Commission deciding on the future of the citys flower mart whether tore approve the project south of market. Calls for demolishing ten existing buildings. Theyll be replaced with three large mixed use towers with more than 2 million square feet of office space as well as room for a brandnew wholesale flower market. Developed doors have signed onto the plan but will be moved to an interim location during construction. A hearing in the city of oaklands antitrust lawsuit against the teams move to las vegas. Lawyers for owner mark davis, the league and owners will ask a federal court judge to dismiss the suit filed by the city last december. At that time, oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker called the move to vegas illegal claiming the team and league brazenly violated federal antitrust law, and the leagues own policies when they boycotted oakland as a hostci the raiders want approval to move in 2017. The vote was 311 for League Owners and plan the move for the 2020 season. I an tanker overturned on the richmond overpass above the 80 causing spilling of liquid asphalt. Richmond fire tweet the this image. It happened just after 5 00 this morning. Chp closed the parkway offramp from eastbound 80 for several hours. All the asphalt was cleaned up. Look at these photos sent to us by the marin county ha Sheriffs Office. A man stole 25,000 of bikes from mikes bikes in sausalito. He broke into the shop early saturday morning. Call the marin county Sheriffs Office if you have information. Bittersweet set of photos brought tears to the eyes of one Northern California couple. Mark and mary taylor lost all belongings in the camp fire including their 20yearold wedding album. She tracked down account photographer who shot the wedding photos to see if maybe they had copies. They found it the photographer richard brigs who not only remembered the wedding but actually kept the negatives. They came back to me and said, we found them. We have them. And mark and i had i told mark, my god they have them. We both started crying. She says theyre going to remake the album and give it to us. We were just like that, doesnt happen. Amazing. Briggs hand delivered the album to the couple. He kept all negatives dating back to the start of his career in 1985. So nice of them. App safety. Youve heard about the privacy concerns with the app that ages you. How to protect your privacy in other apps. Steph and aisha curry, how they hope to help all bay area kids. Theburg ser back. Itits crepe day. Day for our family at dennys. A Family Tradition we started about 22 minutes ago and now we can continue that tradition at home with dennys delivery. See you at dennys or dennys. Com but in my mind im still 25. Thats why i take osteo biflex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. It nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. Osteo biflex now in triple strength plus magnesium. Steph and ayesha curry are on a mission 0 help build a better bay area by helping ki ts al aut eating, learning and playing. Anchor dion lim was joining us live with a closer look at the program. Hi, dion. Reporter hey there, larry. Eatsing, learning and playing is what the kids got. The festivities wrapped up about an hour ago or so. I will tell you steph and ayesha made a promise to the community they were going to love the children here and dedicate their time and energy and making this place better for their lives for a very long time to col. Lets welcome maybe stand up and give account loudest applause possible to aisha and stephen curry. To a crowd of nearly 1,000 kids from r Youth Development town camps, this is a moment years in the making for the currys. If you ever doubt yourself for a second, you have two people in your corner. Eat, learn play are the three pillars of an their new foundation kicking off at the park, a collaboration of their passions that gets kids out from behind screens and gives them everything they need to succeed. Obviously for me the nutrition side of things is very important. I feel like that that gets the ball roll for them to have a great education. The sports for me, was huge in learning about his and red ororthildrthyoo d meeng here to help us. Reporter keeping a program like this in oakland where it is so needed even when the warriors move across the bay is what iso. It does mean a lot. The. As young philanthropists its saying to a group of millennial leaders how to taking what youve been blessed and share that. Reporter at the end of the day, a little play at the dunk tank for the currys. Oh reporter who had a special surprise for each and every child here. I think everyone should get and the longer lasting gift the currys themselves and the people who make eat, learn play possible for oakland. Thank you, steph and aisha. We love you. Reporter how could you not love them back. One of my favorite moments after that shoe sush price when was i overhead a little boy saying those shoes were the nicest he has ever owned. The foundation touches about 4,000 kids in the community and they plan to offer free breakfast to those in need. Back to you. That event looks fantastic. I love the look aisha shot steph when he was cheering when she got dunked. Look out, steph. You mentioned free breakfast. What else is in the works and maybe expanding to other parts of the bay area, dion . Reporter she had fire in her eyes during that look. Speaking of whats next, the foundation they say they want to focus efforts on oakland and this community,ndeaet iup and nng and yes, they are expand together bay area, other parts. As to when and where are, that is to be determined, dion lim, back to you. Thank you. And tonights he sewed of abcs Family Food Fight features a bay area family competing in a blind cooking challenge. San franciscos victoria, may lee and amanda lee will he fight to avoid elimination by trusting teammates to guide them in the kitchen. Lowest rated home cooks will link up for a sausage making contest. Get it, link up . The lee family has a chance to take home the 100,000 prize. Watch tonight at 9 00 right here on abc. In the south bay, kids have a new art making space to explore and express creativity. In san jose at the Childrens Discovery Museum for the dedication of the newly renamed Leroy Niemann art studio. Hes the late american artist known for colorful screen prints of athletes and expressionist paintings. 250,000 grant from the niemann and good tidings foundations made possible the upgraded look, layout and function of the spacictures of how beautiful these studios can look. Its more fun to see the kids using them. Its just great. The Leroy Niemann art studio will open to the public tomorrow. Did a sketch of me in the late 1980s. One of my most treasured possessions hang on my wall at home. Thats awesome. One of the greats. He was amazing. Wow, i didnt know that story was coming up. Great clr weather worth framing. Heres a look at live doppler 7. Mainly suppy skies. Coastal low clouds and fog hung around for much of the day. Gusty conditions, gusts up to 28 Miles Per Hour at napa, 29 at fire fairfield. Surface winds being pretty strong 24 hour temperature change shows most locations much cooler than this time yesterday. 11 degrees cooler at naphtha, 10 this i westward n concord. One r from emeryville under partly cloudy skies. Oakland 2. 80 redwood city and san jose and morgan hill. 61 half moon bay. This is a view of low clouds at the golden gate. Track seems to be moving nicely. Its 78 at and sa rosa. 82 petaluma. Fairfield 83. 82 at livermore. The view from our rooftop camera at abc7 under mostly clear sky, and well have foggy and missy areas overnight and tomorrow morning. Cooler than average going into the weekend. Friday and saturday. Gradual warming begins on sunday and that will continue into next week. Our forecast animation starting at 7 00 this evening. Quite a bit of coastal fog. During the overnight, it will push locally across the bay. As the commute gets under way, there might be patches of low clouds and fog having moved inland. Maybe misty in some spots, as well. By 8 00, the fog getting thinner and by 11 00 a. M. , most of the fog back at the coast. Nice and sunny overer the inlan. Overnight lows will be mainly in the mid to upper 50s tonight. It will be relatively mild again with a chance of spotty drizzle near the coastline. Highs tomorrow range from low 60s at the coast to mainly low 70s around the bay shoreline, perhaps a mid70s. Inland, it gets a lot milder tomorrow. A few locations will top out above 80 degrees, concord, livermore, morgan hill about 81, clover dale high of 86 likely. Looking ahead to saturday, pretty much the same range. Not much changing from friday to saturday. It will start to warm up a few degrees on sunday. A couple locations inland in the upper 80s, fairfield, livermore. Warmer still on monday as that gradual warming trend moves into next week. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. And notice that it will warm up to more seasonal lebs beginning sunday and monday. By tuesday, wednesday, going into the middle of next week, well see a fairly steady pattern of 90, 92 degrees, inland about 78, 80 around the shoreline and low to mid 60s around the coast. Till cal pattern for mid to late july. You should tweet out a picture of the Leroy Niemann. Ill go take a picture of it at home tonight and tweet it out. I was wearing my microphone because i just interviewed him and he named this sketch spencer on camera. So its pretty cool. Awesome. Thank you, spencer. The newest Kennedy Center honor res named today and a popular childrens show made the list. Celebrating 70 years of abc news from the protests to the musi Kennedy Center honor this year. The awards are given for Lifetime Achievement in the arts. Class of 2019 includes actress salley field, singer Linda Ronstadt and the band earth, wind fire. The gala will take place on december 7th. Presenters and performers are usually kept secret until the show. Our celebration of abc7s 70th anniversary copies this week as news and shore dan ashley focuses on the 1960s. This was a decade of change innovation and protests in the bay area. At a time that began to demonstrate the emerging power of local television news. By the time the marchers seiched the have i vic center the police estimated their ranks had swoleton some ,000 strong. The 1960s three tumultuous years that included protests against the vietnam war and the music of dissent. One, two, three. What are we fighting for. Dont ask me i dont give a darn. At San Francisco state, a massive student boycott shut down the campus was protests are depending the University Hire more teachers of color. There were were violent clashes with Law Enforcement as the strike dragged on five months. Across the bay, the black panthers fight for Racial Justice was leading to deadly confrontations with oakland police. I think that either the of attitude of racist america will change o