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KGO ABC7 News 600PM July 12, 2024

In a statement safeway added, we are conducting a thorough investigation of this incident which involved a Third Party Security guard at the Diamond Heights store. He was cited by San Francisco police but says the charges have been drop. What she wants now for the guards to face consequences. Time will tell if they handle this properly. Hes still working there and im disgusted hes getting a paycheck for attacking women on the job. Safeway add that had it is pre mature to discuss the outcome of the investigation. In San Francisco, luzatbepee taouv queen ab a ctopher rotunda. The statue has been in sacramento since 1883. Christopher columbus statues, as you know, have become more polarizing since the death of george floyd which brought Racial Injustice issues to the national consc consc consc consc happening now, San Francisco police chief bill scott and the District Attorney are beginning a Virtual Community forum to discuss police reform. It is being broadcast live. People who tune in will be asked to join online breakout rooms after the forum to discuss what was said and how they can get involved. Accusations of racist comments made at a b. A. R. T. Board meeting are heating up today. The family of oscar grant had comments. Abc7 News Reporter stephanie is live with more. Stephanie . Reporter well, ama, oscar grands family made it very clear they want to hold the b. A. R. T. Board member accountable. Have her not only apologize for the comments last week but they want her removed from her seat. Heres what they had to say to us earlier today. Grant who was murdered on the platform. Im also here to let you know that he was not the only one murdered. Reporter the uncle of oscar grand speaking out for the First Time Since racial comments surfaced last week from the Board Meeting. I spoke with him earlier today. We can no longer be ashamed to say youre racist in your statement. Reporter he wants the board member Deborah Allen to be held accountable for what he considers decriminalizing the murder. B. A. R. T thats not true. Statements made like this right now at a time of such turmoil and unrest really, i can only guess are just politically motivated. Reporter grand was killed by b. A. R. T. Police officers on 2009 on new years day. For george floyd to be murdered the way he was, he had his knee on oscars neck also. Cracked the bones in his face. Reporter the 18yearold black teenager stablds by a white man at an oakland b. A. R. T. Station. And a man killed by b. A. R. T. Police in january 2018. All share the same page. When you shoot someone three times in the back with their hands raised, and theyre complying to the officers commands, what else would you call it . It is very traumatizing to see people slaughtered by people that are supposed to protect us. Abc7 reached out to allen for an interview but was sent the following statement. Calling my defense of the police racist in the face of such accusations does a grave disservice to those office heres work very hard every day to respect the public. Police need to be held accountable for their mistakes but they should not be made political scapegoats by elected officials with their own personal agendas. She needs to make adjustments or leave b. A. R. T. As long as a person like that exists, there will never be no peace. Defunding b. A. R. T. Police was another big topic brought up today. The families want that money to be rerouted for programs as free ridership minority programs. The b. A. R. T. Board of directors made it clear, funding will not be reduced for 2021. All right, thank you. A Stunning Development in the death of a Security Officer at the Federal Building nearly three weeks ago. Law enforcement announced murder charges against two men and the case is now officially connected to the killing of a santa cruz sheriffs deputy eight days later. Dan noyes has the very latest on this. Reporter well, according to this explain filed in federal court, an active Duty Police Officer left Travis Air Force base that day and went to oakland with an accomplice to kill cops. Bullet holes are still visible at the guard post where 53yearold Security Officer Pat Underwood lost his life and his partner was seriously injured may 29. In that same complex today, federal Law Enforcement officials announced charges in the attack. Pat underwood was murdered because he wore a uniform. He wore that uniform to signify his authority to protect the federal courthouse where we are gathered here today. Reporter the explain contains photographs of a white vandal that parked at an intersection across from the guard post. It says 30yearold Robert Justus was the driver. A man later identified as justus walked around the van and around for nearly ten minutes in a way suggesting that he was conducting surveillance. Reporter the explain says after 17 minutes, the van pulled into the intersection and the 32yearold Stephen Carillo from Travis Air Force base slid the back door open and fired whats called a ghost gun. Parts purchased separately. The firearm used in these crimes was a privately made firearm with no markings or serial number. Has the mnl gun which had a silencer taxed to its barrel. The federal agents confirmed the same van and gun were part of the ambush that killed the deputy dame only gutzwiller on june 6th. The ballistic vest he had that day bore this patch. A symbol of the movement. It is used by extreme. Is to represent a violent uprising, or impending civil war in the united states. Reporter the explain contains this photo alleging that carillo wrote on the hood of the car before the arrest and some of the movement sayings. It says they met on facebook and the morning of the attack, carillo commented, go to the riots and support our cause. Show them the real targets. Use their anger to fuel our fire. Think outside the box. We have mobs of angry people to our advantage. Agents are studying this video from sky 7 that may show the van shortly before the attack. There is no evidence that they had any intention to join the demonstration in oakland as some in the media have asked. They came to oakland to kill cops. Reporter the fbi said agents had rob justus under surveillance. That they watched his parents drive into the fbi headquarters in San Francisco to turn himself in. For the iteam, abc7 news. Quickly, do both these men face same possible penalty in all this . They face the same penalty. It is possible life in prison or the Death Penalty and well see how that turns out in court, of course. A land mark day for pg e pleading guilty to 84 deaths in the deadliest wildfire in california history. See what punishment they face. Plus highway 1 shut down all day after an explosion in stinson beach. We are tracking warmer weather about to arrive tomorrow. Stick around forevdays, too. That could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Yeah yyeah yeah hey, hey the wind in your hair. The feeling of freedom that drives us to go out and discover. At chevy, were committed to getting you there with confidence and peace of mind. Thats why your chevy clean dealers commit to using enhanced vehicle cleaning measures with cdcapproved cleansers. If you need a new equinox, get 0 apr for 72 months or, four thousand five hundred dollars cash allowance on most models. You may even shop online and take delivery at home where available. So you can find new roads with confidence. Our efforts to build a better bay area are focused on four key areas. Our health, education, economy and our changing work places. The coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic effect on all four areas and we are slowly recovering. Today San Mateo County received permission for advancing are. Only five california counties are not taking this step. Within the bay area, those two counties with the highest cyrus cases rates when bringing population into account. Take a look at this graph. The orange line is the number of cyrus cases per cam at a statewide. The top blue lines represent san mateo and San Francisco counties. The bottom line, that is napa county. Thats encouraging news because they may match the reopening move this friday allowing gyms, nail salons tarks too shops and more to reopen. Do we know when those places will reopen . Reporter the Business Owners here are in limbo. All around me here in down napa, there are people dining indoors, people getting haircuts. Thats all been in if he can here. But everyone assumed by friday, june 19, when the state technically allows the businesses you describe like nail salons and tattoo parlors to reopen, would it happen here in napa. The Health Department said theyre not ready to make that decision yet. We thought we would go back a couple weeks ago. Our phones were blowing up. Reporter shes ready to go with plenty of ppe and signs. Masks required to enter but clients would take them off, of course, for a facial. Thus some innovations. I have this new shield that my coworkers husband made for me that isnt required. I think it will help for a barrier. Reporter getting the clients back doesnt seem to be a problem. They have 50 people waiting for an appointment. If write coming in to get a facial, the first thing is check in, get your temperature taken. Then there is a release i have to fill out saying im not s ihl will be trial and error. I want to make sure. I would imagine people wont come in if theyre not comfortable. Reporter next door theyre toward use every other chair for pedicures. Sanitize when we they come. The Health Department says theyre waiting to review the epidemiology. Current hospitalization rates, test results and case numbers before they make a decision later this week. For tattoo parlors, nail salons and spas, a lot will be riding on their perceived health and safety before the covid crisis. Ive been here 13 years so people know how clean it is. It will be cleaner. Sterile like Doctors Office or a hospital. So if the state decides how to reopen, sets the guidelines, and then its each county like napa county, deciding when to reopen. Thats still up in the air. And so complex and intricate. How do these businesses prepare to open with no official start date . I asked them. I talked on nail salon owners. Some of they will are booking appointments and then figuring if its believe open by friday or monday, theyll cancel them. Others have a waiting list. Some are banking on not opening until next week. Just hours ago we learned Solano County will reopen nail salons. In addition, watching, piercing salons and others can reopen. Also sports games will be allowed to resume as long as there is no live audience. Tomorrow, hair slonls and barber shops will be allowed to reopen in contra costa county. On july 1st, contra costa expects to allow indoor dining, bars, gyms and hotels to reopen. We mentioned earlier that franl is one of five california counties that has not received state permission to advance plans to reopen. The county supervisors are discussing that very idea at their Board Meeting which is underway right now. One place is desperate to. The zoo. Reporter the video released by the San Francisco zoo shows some of the safety guidelines already in place. As it prepares to reopen. The zoo has lost all admissions revenue which accounts for more than 70 of its annual operating budget. The cost of taking care have every animal there is about 30,000 per day. They said we need to be able to generate earned visitor revenue in the near future. As it stands, the zoo falls under the category of businesses set to on july final. Things may change quickly. The board of spoofrs is expect to vote, asking for a variance to reopen certain businesses. It allows a time line of reopening conneced to what were seeing in San Francisco as opposed to just having to follow whateve the state tells us. San francisco has never asked for one. Now that the number of covid cases in the city have stabilized, last friday the mayor said it is time for the city to act independently. We cant continue to completely allow our economy to be closed. It doesnt mean they need to open right away but it gives them the power to do i had. The curta itas sedonclude 37 performances of fively ceer. They expect 2021 season. Weve seen a lot of changes to keep track and keep up. A massive explosion in fires destroyed two buildings and damaged several others. Destroyed buildings. Not xhaexactly the image theyv been promoting. Devastating. It damaged eight buildings in all. Five seriously. Possibly from a propane tank. The local Fire Department arrived in 30 seconds. From four doors away. It blew through the air like shrapnel. At least the tourists and beachgoers had yet to arrive. It would not be the same event. We certainly got lucky. It happened in an upstairs apartment above a real estate office. A woman was inside. She was okay. I was there when the windows popped. His family owns the business. It has become an iconic hub of the town. It is out of business now. Across the street, Bonnie Sullivan felt grateful to have only lost a window. A broken window. Im lucky. During shelter in place, you take it day by day. And hes still coming to grips for another one. Im lucky im alive. Reporter so is stinson beach. Abc7 news. The first major awards show during the apple will be hosted by jimmy kim dlefl hell host the emmy awards in september. It is not clear how it will be held. Last year they went without a host. You can see him Host Jimmy Kimmel live every week night at 11 35. Its nice today. The winds died down a bit. Yesterday was crazy. It sure was. Awfully crazy. We start another week here. Drew . Reporter yeah. The winds will shift and that will allow for some warmer weather to move in and it will last several days. We have tons of sunshine, a cloudfree sky. The breeze is still with us. The clouds are shaking along the coastline. We have those winds, about 20 to 25 miles an hour. The job shore breeze today kept temperatures on the comfortable side. 66 in the city. 71 in oakland. 77 in concord. 77 in santa rosa and 77 in brentwood. Tonight we will see the winds shift. That will drag in some warmer air this will last until thursday morning. The combination of the winds, warmer weather, drier, humidity levels. Well be on the watchful it would start and they could spread pretty quickly. Breezy in our hills. The numbers in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Tomorrow, it is tons of sunshine from start to finish. You can see the sunrise at 5 47 a. M. It is just warmer compared to today. Our warmest spots going to the 80s and mid 90s. 90s are making a comeback. Highs in our micro climate. Starting with the south bay. 88 in san jose. 85 for sunny veil. Along the peninsula, 85 in palo alto, 86 in mountain view, 80 for san mateo. Down in the city, hitting 76 in the afternoon. The north bay is a hot one. The 80s into the 90s. 91 in napa. A warm day tomorrow. 84 in oakland. 85 in hercules. And inland, the 90s do make a come back. 95 in brentwood, 93 in pittsburgh, and 90 for the high in fairfield. So planning the next seven days for you. It stays hot. The heat persists. Our marine layer begins. It cools at the coast but you can see for fathers day and early next week, were staying in the 90s. At least through next tuesday. Okay. Thanks so much. The deadliest wildfire in californias history claim more than 80 lives. Today pg e took responsibility for those deaths. Hear what punishment the utility faces. Looking for a bargain . Second hand stores and sure, some renovations can require a bit of compromise. But, theres no settling here. At floor and decor, she gets to fulfill her vision while i get instock products at budgetfriendly prices. All in one trip. Plus, we get the installation materials we to get it done right and right on time. Its a winwin. Now thats shopping like a pro. Explore floor and decor, now open for safe instore shopping and curbside pickup. Heres what we want everyone to do. Count all the hugs you havent given. All the hands you havent held. All the dinners you didnt share with friends. The trips you havent taken. Keep track of them. Each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. So for now, keep your distance. But dont lose count. Well have some catching up to do. We saw the earthquake grace in bold was offering a grant program. I signed up and i was actually selected it leaves the house in tack. You now know that in the next earthquake your house will be standing and we also got a discount on our earthquake insurance. If there is an earthquake. Our house has a better chance of surviving in. It is the worst fire in california state history. The most kess destructive and the deadliest. It can be blamed on Electrical Equipment nflt the fire rimmed through the up to of paradise not far from chico. Melanie had the results of the Court Hearing today. Reporter these are the images most people have seen and remember of the 2018 camp fire. Today in the courtroom, the will images displayed were the victims. The names were read as bill johnson entered a guilty plea of Involuntary Manslaughter for evil pg e needed guilty to one count of unlawfully starting a fire. Im still pretty angry about the whole deal. Specially for the people who lost their lives. He lost his home and a family pet in the fire. I didnt have any family members pass away. I think this day in core is for those people and their families. In

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