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KGO ABC7 News 600AM July 14, 2024

Tomorrow, but warmer around the bay. You will find relief at the shoreline. Kumasi. Thank you, lisa. Developing news, Hurricane Dorian is a category 4 storm packing independence up to 145 Miles Per Hour. It continues to threaten floridas east coast and officials there are not taking any chances. Theyve ordered the first round of mandatory evacuations. Abc News Reporter Elizabeth Hur in Daytona Beach with the latest. Reporter good morning. All across florida everyone right now is waiting and watching with the track of the storm seemingly changing every day, but what remains unchanged is the message from officials, warning residents do not let your guard down. Overnight Hurricane Dorian growing stronger, prompting officials in florida to announce mandatory evacuations beginning tomorrow morning for residents in lowlying communities including brevard and martin counties. This morning the governor urging everyone to prepare for the worst. There is a danger to your life if you remain in these evacuation zones. Reporter in the bahamas the locals are now racing to be ready for anything with dorian set to barrel through that island before reaching the u. S. You never really are ready for a hurricane, but god is in control so we will do the best we can to be prepared and be ready. Reporter back in florida, the frantic rush also continuing with residents boarding up shops and homes and scrambling to stock up and gas up, leaving some stations at times running dry. Came early because last year when we came when we came for matthew, it was backed right up, the traffic was. Reporter reason why this time eileen white and her husband headed out of town for georgia early, while help from across the country is heading toward florida, from First Responders to utility crews, and these Truck Drivers already in position, ready to begin distributing supplies. President trump, who has already declared an emergency here in florida, is set to meet with fema officials tomorrow where he says a lot of decisions will be made then when hopefully we know more about where dorian is headed. Reporting from Daytona Beach, im Elizabeth Hur for abc 7 news. And, of course, that is the biggest question, where is dorian headed and where is it right now. Lisa has been tracking it. She is here with the latest. Hey, kumasi. A lot of uncertainty with this because for the past couple of days it looks like it would be a direct hit for florida. Now it is going to take a jog to the north, and it looks like it is going to flood the florida coastline, hug the florida coastline, perhaps flood it as well. Then impacting georgia and the carolinas. Winds are 145 Miles Per Hour, and we are looking at this movement to slow down and stall a little bit over the bahamas, which will look for several days of big storm surge, heavy rain, and then this is what is important. It could hug the peninsula here and then impact southern georgia, the carolinas with perhaps one or category two force winds. We will have to watch it for you. Right now 10 to 15 inches of rain, isolated 20 inches in that storm surge on track to hit the bahamas the next 48 hours. Kumasi. Thanks, lisa. So far dorian hasnt caused any Flight Cancellations to or from San Francisco international airport. Here is a live look there this morning. But you can expect that to change as the hurricane gets closer. Orlando international has already announced it is closing on monday and most airlines are waving the change fees for travelers impacted by the storm. Two members of the california urban search and rescue task force, three out of menlo park, theyre already in florida. The remaining team members are prepared to go if they need to for potential search and rescue missions. You can keep track of Hurricane Dorian with the abc 7 news app. All you have to do is download the app and make sure that you enable the push alerts so you can get the breaking news updates as they happen. This morning the man who assassinated robert f. Kennedy is hospitalized in stable condition after being stabbed in a california prison. 75yearold Sirhan Sirhan was found with stab wounds at the richard j. Donovan correctional facility in san diego county. He has been placed in isolation. Sirhan assassinated rfk during a president ial Campaign Stop in los angeles in 1968. He is serving a life sentence. Now to the kate steinle case. The gun conviction against the undocumented immigrant who shot and killed her has been overturned. Abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes has the details. The mistake was failing to instruct the jury on a specific defense theory which was that mr. Zarate only was in possession of the weapon for a moment. Reporter in a Statement Public defender Matt Gonzalez said this really wasnt a close call. We were entitled to the instruction and we should have had it. We thought that mr. Garciazarate would have been acquitted had the jury been instructed this way, so this is very gratifying for us. Jose garciazarate was a repeat offender and undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times when the gun he fired shot and killed kate steinle in 2015. We called the steinle family but they did not want to comment on the court ruling. Where was the sanctuary for kate steinle . Reporter in 2016 President Trump took issue with San Franciscos sanctuary city policy that kept local Law Enforcement from telling i. C. E. That zarate had been released from their custody a few weeks before the killing. Zarate was acquitted of steinles murder in 2017. In a tweet, the head of citizenship and Immigration Services said, how many more innocents will die before sanctuary cities stop harboring violent criminals . It is not as if he is going to get off free and clear, that he will be walking the streets of San Francisco again. Thats just not going to happen. But nevertheless, yeah, im sure the steinles are finding this to be yet another difficult day. Reporter zarate is currently in custody awaiting trial on federal gun charges. In the newsroom, kris reyes for abc 7 news. A deadly accident in in sebastopol send a car through a walk and into a house. Chp says the car drove through a wall, stuck in a tree and landed in a hot tub in the back i cant remember. Debris from the cinder blocks went flying everywhere and left all kinds of damage to the house. The driver of that suv died at the scene. The resident was home, but on the other side of the house so no injuries there. San jose police are releasing details about a major bust of a burglary crew. The group is linked to nearly 20 breakins in more than a dozen cities across the bay area. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del castillo has more on operation kickstand. Reporter San Jose Police say while theyve seen a drop in residential burglaries they noticed a spike in commercial theft. On thursday a multiagency effort put this crew in cuffs, people who now face charges of commercial burglary, possession of stolen property, conspiracy and more. 100 different burglaries are not committed by 100 different people. Theyre committed by crews such as this. Taking down one crew like this really will clear a lot of burglary cases up and prevent many more from occurring. Reporter sjpds burglary prevention unit led the effort, they uncovered ammo , stolen driver licenses and other property. They had been at it since january focusing on construction sites, School Districts and bike shops. We had two, what really fit the case. Reporter the bicycle shop owner shared this footage of a 2018 hit. The crook is seen carrying out the first of two 4,000 bikes. That amount plus the cost of repairs meant more money out of mardells pocket. If i get hit three or four times in a year, thats my salary. Im done. Im over. Reporter thursdays arrests offer release to businesses across the region. As this crew is tied to commercial burlg in san jose, burlingame, oakland, santa cruz and nine other cities. When we hear good news like this were like, thank you, i cant believe it is happening. Reporter chief garcia described one of the guns seized as an ar15type ghost gun. He says this outcome is why the department established a burglary prevention unit. In san jose im amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. If you plan on riding b. A. R. T this weekend you need to be prepared to give yourself extra time traveling between orinda and antioch. The trains are not running between orinda and antioch stations. B. A. R. T and county connection will provide buses serving the areas and the buses will stop at lafayette station. B. A. R. T is performing major upgrades to the tracks that run in the median of highway 24, so drivers may also see delays because of two east bay bound lanes that will be closed until tuesday morning. Starting today, hundreds of b. A. R. T station platform signs will have the ability to let riders know if the train is cancelled. Riders have been frustrated because, say it says that the train gets there in five minutes and the train doesnt come or it may have been rerouted, 400 of the signs will also list if it features twodoor cars or threedoor cars and theyre working on a delay notice for trains holding down the line to help riders plan their trips. Im one of those people that im like, okay, i got five minutes, im all right, then where is it. Time to freak out. We are hoping for a pretty nice Holiday Weekend for everyone, even though it will be warm inland, we will keep the cool and mild temperatures at the coast. That peens we hameans we have t spread happening. This is tam where it is clear. 60s at the coast, but we have 54 in santa rosa. Looking at 57 in fremont. Comfortably cool this morning. We are just as warm today as we were yesterday, but were hot inland and were cool next week. I will put it all together for you next with my accuweather sevenday forecast. Thanks, lisa. Also coming up next, relief could be coming to millions of california renters. The deal struck by state lawmakers. Orte i luz pena in pleasanton where a mom says her 5yearold son was able to squeeze through this fence and get off campus unnoticed schools are having acrto cut sports. Y, im tony the tiger and im on a mission to fix that. Bring back the tigers. Your mighty, mighty tigers. [cheering sounds] buy a box and help all kids be tigers. To make refreshing updates throughout your home. And with labor day savings, too. So you have ten years experience. I do. But no phd . First kid heres all the numbers, foods in the fridge, oh and lucas likes to pull on jewelry so you might want to lose the nose ring. By their second kid, parents are more likely to choose luvs. Live, learn, and get luvs. Welcome back, everyone. Actress Valerie Harper has died. She is wellknown as the funny, brash character Rhoda Morganstern on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Tonsil fairy come. Yes, doctor. Harper won four emmys during her career in television. In recent years she became one of americas most wellknown cancer survivors, battling lung cancer since 2009 and brain cancer since 2013. Then you probably remember this. At age 74, still in the throes of the disease, she appeared on dancing with the stars, pushing through to week four, and her bravery reduced everyone to tears. Valerie harper was 80. In the east bay, a pleasanton mom wants to know how her 5yearold son was able to squeeze through his schools fence and walk off campus. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to the School District about the changes they will be making. This padlock was from this chain, and instead of being linked here it was hooked on here. Reporter a gap that was big enough for christinas 5yearold son to fit through, and according to her end up on the other side. This all happened on thursday during recess at lydiksen elementary school. I found out about this from another parent, and my concern is if she hadnt told me i wonder if the school would have even disclosed this to me. Reporter according to pleasantons unified School District, the schools principal called the parent and said a teachers aide saw the student and he never made it off campus. Reporter has anything like this happened before . We checked with the school site and i checked with our maintenance team, and we havent received any concerns. Reporter now the proximity of the fence to the street is christinas biggest concern. Lets see how long it could have taken her son to get from here to the street. Lets time it. Over seven seconds. Almost eight. It is honestly my worst nightmare. Reporter the unified School District is gearing up to make changes after holiday. The school has tightened the fence so students arent able to squeeze through, to make it through the fence. Were also following up on tuesday to see if theres anything else that we can do. Reporter but the whatifs keep circling in her mind. I didnt realize how lucky i was to pick him up from school yesterday . Reporter min plesant ton, pluz pina. Abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. We have focused on housing and that includes rent. The governor announced a deal reached with apartment owners and developers limiting increases. If approved by lawmakers, rents would be capped by 5 plus inflation every year for the next decade. The law would include a provision to prevent evictions without landlords providing a reason. One of the issues that affects all of us is the bay areas housing crisis, and it is why we dedicated a week of coverage to the topic. You can find the stories online at abc7news. Com betterbayarea. In the meantime a bill that would have ended the long paper receipts was voted down in committee yesterday. Assembly member phil ting who authored the proposal said the plan would save paper waste, but restaurant and retail groups strongly oppose the deal, claiming it would limit customers access to coupons. He plans to reintroduce the bill next year. The mavericks bill wave surf competition may be done for good. The World Surf League announced they are pulling sponsorship, blaming various logistical issues. Founder jeff clark agrees with the leagues decision. Not various. A huge amount of logistical challenges. Finally the red tape is not worth cutting. Now, the cost alone of permitting that event grew to 80,000. The invitationonly competition started in 1998 but it hasnt been held for the past four years, but there is a bright side for surfers. Those big waves still will be out there this winter for all to enjoy. Time check now is 6 17. I think it would be more fun to watch them participate for me, lisa. I dont know about you. Oh, yes, absolutely. Huge waves. Totally. You know what . The beach will be pretty nice today with temperatures in the 60s to near 70 in some spots with a good amount of sun. Right now fog is just hogging the shoreline here, but i want to get you updated on the latest on Hurricane Dorian. This is a strong category 4 hurricane. It could potentially increase to a category 5 with the water temperature at 75 to 80 degrees. Remember, thats the heat engine that fuels the hurricane. Then we will see a discrepancy in the storm track. All along we were thinking it would be a direct hit on florida, the west coast, around west palm or boca. Now it looks like it will curve and make a jog to the north, impacting georgia, the carolina, right on through wednesday, maybe at the earliest. It is going to stall around the bahamas, the northern werth bahamas today, tomorrow, and bring anywhere from 10 to 15 inches of rain. Then as it hugs the florida peninsula here it weakens slightly to a category three, but it looks like it will stay rather strong with the energy from the ocean as it moves up into georgia and the carolinas. We are really not going to know until the next update, which is at 11 00, w8 00 our time and another one every three hours after that. Above normal is the storm surge for the bahamas. The damaging winds, and this could continue on through the u. S. As we go into wednesday. It looks like evacuations probably on labor day to create the end of the weekend pretty messy out here. Here is tam. You can see some of the fog there. Not a lot of it. 60, san jose. 56, gilroy. It is 60 in oakland, and a very pretty picture here from our sutro tower camera a lot of sun in the city. It will be a mild afternoon in San Francisco, getting hot inland. 63 right now in concord. This is walnut creek where numbers will be in the 90s for the next several days. So Labor Day Weekend shaping up mild at the coast, hot inland, and a cooler pattern that gets under way by the middle of next week as we get into september. So as we look at the coast here, a mix of sun and clouds with upper 60s, half moon bay. Mid 60s with some sun, ocean beach. Upper 70s for you in santa cruz. A lot of sun. Look at the water temperature, coming up into the low 60s there. As we get into your sunday afternoon, still hot inland. 95, concord. 80s around the bay. 70, San Francisco. So pretty pleasant with the weak or light sea breeze at the coast. Into labor day, very little change. It looks like the sea breeze will kick up a bit monday night into tuesday bringing a little bit of cooling, but not until we get to your wednesday, thursday time period. Today, 84 in fremont. 75 for you in richmond. 88 in napa. Look for 92 in santa rosa. It will be a warm one inland. The accuweather sevenday forecast keeps similar conditions today, tomorrow, even for the holiday. Mid 60s coast, low 80s around the bay, mid 90s inland. A little bit of a sea breeze on monday, and on tuesday a nice day with temperatures coming down inland and the rest of the week looks cool with temperatures in the 70s around the bay. It feels like fall but we know better around here. We get to jack up the heat come se

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