Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM 20170927 : vimars

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM 20170927

Highway 101 and into a parking lot where it hit a number of people. Im dan ashley. And im kristin in for ama daetz. One of those hit was a pregnant woman. This all happened in a parking lot in an in and out in kneel valley just off 101. Abc 7 News Reporter wayne freedmon live on the scene. Reporter we have an update, i just spoke with andrew barkley, the california Highway Patrol hes not sure if its six, seven or eight people. Six of the people involved if this accident were in this car. This is a rental car, not all the people were in it but this is the first one that was hit in the accident. Lets show you some pictures from what had happened earlier in the day. It happened 2 20 this afternoon. A large pickup truck crashed through the fence, a bus hour where later kids could have been standing. It kept going and hit that one car and ricochetted off others. The first car hit was that mini van driven by bret jeff who had a family of six with him. I have in the back getting some clothes and i heard a screech, i looked over and seen a puff of smoke. And then he just it was and he was on top of us. Best estimate from freeway speed he came off the freeway at full speed. Through the fence . Across the frontage road up over the sidewalk through the shrubs into into the parking lot. Did he hit any people . From what i know right now, no. Todays my birthday and i think im pretty damn lucky today. Rorp its his 45th birthday on a day he feels he has been born again. Not only is it 45th birthday hes here from canada and to oh pushuate a wedding. This is the path the car took on the way through the in and out burke burger. There are no skid marks on that street back there, no indication the driver tried to stop. They believe he had some sort of medical emergency. Theyre telling us right now hes in the hospital and is okay. As for the rest of victims, theyre being spoken to one at a time trying to determine what happened. Bottom line is it could have been worse, there could have been school kids waiting for a bus right there when that car came through. Were fortunate this story is not sadder than it already is. Live, abc 7 news. New details on a breaking story we first brought you at 4 30. A San Francisco Police Officer in Good Condition after being stabbed at sfo. The officer is responding to a call of a suspicious man at the delta at the baggage area. As the officer went to arrest the guy the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the officer in his face aleg and cut his face. The 23 veteran of the force expected to be okay. A train admitted a person on the tracks near ripple avenue. Its a few blocks away from the station. Slow in the area right now. The incident happened about one hour ago. The person who was hit has passed away. The latest on the free speech show down in berkeley. Four people were arrested as a prominent free speech advocate kept his promise. Abc 7s Laura Anthony live on the scene right now. Reporter two dozen supporters were able to have a peaceful rally here, but when it started it looked like things were going in a completely different direction. [chanting] reporter it was contentious from the starting Patriot Prayer leader joey gibson walked through at uc berkeley. Police officers and a ten set up in front of the campus. There gibson took on his critics face to face. I dont care about the color of your skin, i car about whats on the inside. Reporter protesters say hes a white supremacist, an altright by gibson claims hes not. Im in the middle im a moderate. Im trying to bring them together. So we get rid of the nazi, antifa so the moderates can come together and reasoning move this country forward. Reporter after a brief scuffle on campus counter protest leader evette and several others were arrested. Gibson finally stopped at peoples park for a rally with his supporters. The crowds with the torches and such, some of those people from charlottesville are right here in this rally with those people. Some of the same white supremacist that were marching with torches are right here. Reporter though the free speech rally was cancelled in berkeley, laurie , abc news. Jeff sessions stepped in on the free speech today, sessions the protest saying freedom of thought and speech are under attack. The American University was the center of academic freedom, a place of robust debate, a competition of ideas. It has formed to a chamber of political correctness, a shelter for fragile egos. Sessions later told student he doesnt see a con diction between his defendants speech and president s criticism held for athletes. Flames burn dangerously close to homes in Oakland Hills today. Sky 7 was overhead and abc 7 was live bringing you the latest there afternoon. People had to evacuate homes off campus driver. Abc 7 News Reporter katy euless. Reporter dozens of firefighters are still on scene mopping up hot spots. If you take a look of the steep steep hillside behind me, you can see a helicopter crew drop firefighters off midway up the hill, they hiked up and you can see the flame retardant ridgeline. Some of the firefighters will be posted overnight and into the coming days. 22 acres burned. Firefighters say it has the potential to be double the size. Its getting close, right over here. Reporter youre looking at video taken by a return shortly afternoon when this fire started. 100 homes evacuated. Two to three dozen homes threatened by fire. The fire moved quickly up the hill towards campus drive and 320 people responded from fire and police agencies. This was a wellkoort nated effort among many individuals and many agencies and we had excellent incident command that helps us mitigate this incident in a quick manner. Upon our last update, fire is 60 contained, the cause is under investigation. There is a building under construction at this development and crews evacuated as the fire broke out. Some homes on campus drive are still evacuating tonight. There is no time line for when those homeowners might be back in. Majority of those vac wees have been bought back in. Zero injuries on scene and zero structures lost. The Fire Department will have another update at 6 30 we plan to stream that for you live on abc7news. Com and my colleague cornell bernard will be picking up the story. Katy thanks very much. This fire could have been much worse because of weather condition. Anchor christian shows you what makes today perfect fire weather. Youre right. We had fire conditions warm and breezy. And those factors, chance of fire. Com. Heres a look at live doppler 7, winds gusty right now but its been breezy all day and the winds have been coming from the north. An offshore of winds flows down the hill it becomesdrier. Youll see the temperature change indicates its to 16 degrees warmer in most locations. All those combined to elevate the risk of fire. We have a red flag warning in effect until 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. Thats mainly for the north bay and east bay hills. Look for gusty wind tomorrow and warm conditions. Warm right now as we look out over the bay. 80 degrees here in San Francisco, 80 oakland, 88 san jose, 98 and 81 at half moon bay. Looking at a clear golden gate. 92 degrees at santa rosa, 87 in napa. 90 nevada. 91 in concord. Looks like this war is going to hold on for a couple more days. Sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Sky 7 was over that fire for hours this afternoon and we were live on the air bringing you updates. We also set out push alerts through the abc news app to find out whatsappening where you live download the app. Its free and works on both apple and android devices. This year the officials were worried when the president ordered travel restrictions. New numbers may offer them so relief. Plus the bay area family stranded in a foreign country with no where to stay. Im michael fen any with 7 on your side at an air bnb nightmare. Diggi deep to see having talks over the lehigh stadium curfew. The state authorities regularly has meeting but ed they are ran cancelled his show because of a 10 00 p. M. , weeknight curfew. Its a 10,000 for breaking the curfew. Residence are losing out on millions of dollars. A lawsuit filed against equifax for failing to protect the data of californians. Abc 7 News Reporter melanie wood row has the story. Reporter equifaxs massive data breach impacted 143 million americans. Impacted 15 million californians alone. Reporter which is why San Francisco attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit against equifax this morning. It says the Company Fails to implement security procedures and also timely notice of data breach until six weeks it learned its system had been compromised. When equifax did provide notice it failed to private complete, plain and clear information to consumers. I think this was a cascades of wrongs and it would be their incompetent would be comical if the impact was so serious. Reporter on the same day the lawsuit was filed, equifaxs ceo Richard Smith stepped down. Herrera is the first City Attorney in the country to sue equifax over the breach. The numbers were talking about are in many many millions of dollars. Reporter its not clear what portion will go to consumers. The most important thing is to take steps to ensure california consumers are protected. Reporter in anmail a Spokes Person for equifax writing we cannot excellent on litigation but want to ensure kplurs we are remaining focus to navigate the situation. Despite worries the president s travel restrictions will hurt San Francisco tourists this year the numbers are up from last year. In 201620. The Million People visited the city. They spent 8. 9 billion. After the president instituted a travel ban San Francisco counters with a tour called always welcome. They were more than there were more than this year than last year as well. California has been addressing public pension shortfalls in the state, now the legislature is taking a closer look at the unfunded liability of Health Benefits that School Districts are facing. In the area of San Francisco if nothing is done were all going to end up paying for it. Reporter spending on retiree Health Benefits for School District employees in california has doubled over the past 13 years. These are the benefits that employees are entitled to from the time they decide to retire to when they actually reach 65 and or eligible for medicaid. According the legislative analyst office, some california School Districts has a sizable unfunded liability when it comes to their retiring health before the. So, what does that mean . Lets say i have 1,000 in future payments obligations but up to now ive only saved 800. This means i have a shortfall of 200. Across all districts the unfuned liability is 24 billion. On the top of the list is los angeles unified with expected short fall of 13 billion. If the bay area, San Francisco unified as an unfunded lbility of 604 million. What it cost to unify 332 million. This kind of glooms over us so we take into account what this is going to mean for our district. Reporter the legislative analyst offer that districts begin reducing their future cost while setting aside more money. We are not walking away from that responsibility at all. We need to be able to do both. Reporter wen these shortfalls occur californians are on the hook to cover them, which means less money for other state programs. In San Francisco, lee an melendez, abc 7 news. It was much warmer today. Yeah it was. Were going to take a look at the High Temperature trend over the next seven days in oakland. The temperatures will be well above average, oakland which has an average high of 74 this year. Much of the bay area are l see a shore drop in temperatures on friday. The temperatures bounce back up throughout the average range. Live doppler 7 you can see we have mainly sunny skies across the bay area right now. This is a live view from amory vil. These are our forecast futures, autumn warmth, our postsummer warmth continues tomorrow. A high fire danger alert. Well see muc cooler weath beginning on friday, and thats the good news. A live view from east bay hills camera looking through the golden gate. The poorest air quality tomorrow will be in the east bay and air quality will be moderate at best in other regions of the bay area. Over night lows clear by middle, low temperatures in the upper 50s. Cooler in the valleys where lows will drop into the low in mid50st. Tomorrow expect another day much like today, itll be warm from coast to inland. High of 80 in half moon bay. 88 in San Francisco, oakland and san matteo. Fremont, 90. North in santa rosa in the eastbound and low to the 90s. Not too much change on thursday, it will be almost as warm tomorrow, maybe two degrees cool ner some location and a few degrees cooler than that on coastal areas of thursday. All areas cool down on friday, that continues into the weekend. The accuweathereven dsevenda forecast. Around the bay well see highs in the upper 80 to 90s. Notice the big cool down on friday, new clouds in the area, itll be breezy, cooler and the fire danger will diminish and that pattern will continue into the middle of next week. Nice. Not everyone loves the tab. Not everyone loves the tab. Coming up next why the cost of at at t, we believe in access. Not everyone loves the tab. Coming up next why the cost of the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, weve created access from at t. California households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Visit att. Com accessnow to learn more. The fourth chapter in ubers 180 days of change leads tonights bay Area Business watch. The changest effect uber pool to help streamline the shared ride process. Since june uber has been on a mission to improve for drivers. More ways for drivers to customize their trips. A new test for twitter, the character limit doubled for some. A select group can chose 200 characters now. Twitter says this is to address language differences, some languages, especially english use more characters than others. Today twitter stock dipped slightly. The dow also dropped. The nasdaq wen up. The warriors owe the city of oakland more than 1 million for two championship parades. Back in june the teams coowner says it will pick up the tab for the city. According to our media partner the bay area use group the city reduced some charges, lower the bill by 25,000 the tal is almost 780,000. The city is asking the warriors to reimburse 244,000 for the cost for the 2015 parade. Some east bay homeowners got a huge surprise. Uncovered whats buried underneath their homes. Next. And find out why today is betting people to the polls. We havent given up on changing the American Healthcare system. This not given up but not getting it done. Announcer live where you live, this is abc 7 news. The fact theyve been aware of this for 7 years and its obviously now coming to light through investigate journalism is a problem for them i think. Buyers of new homes in fremont did not know the ground had unearthed skeletal indians there. Now that project is opting to take traffic actions. Dan nori has the story. Reporter dan gale home of california is finishing off 14 hopes in el began fremont with floor plans, priced at 1. 2 million. The team is now confirming with the native American Heritage commission that construction crews first found indian remains at that site more than 2 years ago. Throughout this area we found a good number of bodies. Reporter and unearthed 32 skeletons. It looked like a very old skeleton. Van dale followed state rules to ensure the remains are handled properly. Id really like to know whats going on. Wed like to know how you found out. Come on mother. Reporter ramona didnt want to talk even though the builder referred me to her. Im happy to address your questions. Thank you very much. What they found was 32 skeletons . Im happy to allow ramona address my question. Okay you you said you were happy to answer my question and now you wont answer. Thats how i like to allow her to address your questions. Why would the journalism be so turned about keeping this quiet . Sales. You dont want vandalism during construction nor appropriates there. Protesters . Protesters say what a horrible thing this developer is destroying our ancestors by digging them up. It was very hush hush on finding a body at all. And i asked are the owners of these houses being told about it. And they said well, it will probably be a small line at the bottom of a contract. Reporter several buyers told me the disclosure form listed art facts found at the site. Most thought it meant pottery or arrow heads not skeletons. Thats news to you hew . I never heard. Reporter breaking news of the indian skeletons, value daele sent this letter says artifacts and human bones found underneath the community. The remains will be stored in this storage of a big white box, just outside the lumbers iving f two home. The builder offered should you wish to terminate the policy of your home, the company will be required to return all of your properties. Golden Gate University law professor Mark Greenberg says the disclosure is better now than never. The buyers had a right to know about this from the start. For example lets say you bought the property wanted to put a Swimming Pool in the back and doing so might disrupt a grave. You need to know that in advance. That was dan nori reporting. The Company Refused to be interviewed as did many of the buyers. They told the team they a

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