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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon July 14, 2024

This morning, coast guards you, search efforts. And it is and 24 hours. And nobody finds stressful debris. Our authorities have recovered. And other were spotted last night. They were unable too roach them, so officially 14 people remain miss missing who were presumed dead. The majority of the victims were from santa cruz or the san jose area. The fire broke out around 3 40 monday morning on the 75foot boat named the conception. . Investigators will collect dna samples for comparison purposes n. All, family members have been connected with the sheriffs office. Only four families of the 34 passengers have not yet been i connected with investigators. One of the people reportedly missing is kristy sims. She is listed as a guide on the worldwide diverring website. They are the ones who contracted the boat and posted on facebook that she was leading the diverring tour. The they are students and parents that were onboard that boat. We are learning that a nurse and two other former Staff Members from a hospital in stockton are believerred to be on the boat. Most of the passengers are when p. We understand that there is a family so people can get information and support. Thrive our studio this noon hour, ktvu fox 2 news. You ktvu is tracking the storm. Inching away from the bahamas and moving its way a little bit north and west. This is a threehour time lapse, and if you pay close attention, you can kind of see how the last few hours just begin to move in this direction. Still, there are going to be pummeled with rain over the bahamas today and the winds. Those devastating winds will continue. Now, as far as areas over florida, 60 miles from the center hurricane windings you can see off the coastline. Tropical storm winds are 175 miles agray the eye and there you can see. The peninsula being guarded with some heavy wind and scattered shower able at this time over areas of florida. Hire is a look at the current status. A category two. It has weakened just a little bit. At least the wind force has, but it continues to grow. Its winds are 110 Miles Per Hour moving northwest at five Miles Per Hour. Meanwhile, Business Owners are boarding up in anticipation. Take a look at this American Flag planted in the ocean off florida still standing. In the bahamas, dorian turning deadly after the slowmoving storms pummeled the high island for more than 24 hours turning roadings into rivers. Entire communities were flattened and massive trees ripped from their roots. The International Red cross says nearly every person on the island will need some form of human tar yan aide. Nearly 7000 liver on those islands. The red cross will be focusing on supporting 20,000 of the most vulnerable people. Forecasters urge to move up the coast and in cocoa beach florida, fox 2 news. Nurses are on standby in florida. They volunteered to help with any medical emergencies caused by dorian. They are all members of the registered nurse response network. The nurses say they are willing to go to the bahamas. The group they finished searching his home. He started a country on the Las Vegas Mass Shooting because he thought it would be safer for his family. And he said the love life and had a gift for lifting people up with laughter. He is a very positive man. You arco is survivorred by five children and six grandchildren. His family plans to hold a Public Memorial Service in the bay area september 14th. Some democratic president ial candidates are toughening their stance on gun control. The former texas congressman has been calling for a complete ban and buyback of assault weapons. Yesterday in iowa, south bend united mayor called for universal background checks, red flag logs and a band on military style weapons. Frontrunner joy biden echos his proposal and calls inaction from the president and Congressional Republicans disgraceful. Khalid put on a benefit concert in his hometown of el paso. The concert took place on sunday flight and raised 500,000 for the El Paso Victims Fund and the El Paso Community fund. Actor Matthew Mcconaughey and democratic president ial candidate orourke made appearances. 22 the people were killed and 20 others were wounded in that shooting that happened august iii. First responders were Holding First responder drills. Walnut police and Concord Police along can when the contra costa Fire Protection district are holding two deals a day through friday. They are working to conduct the training. More than 200 workers from the hospital are volunteering for the exercise. Organizers say they hope they never face this situation in real life. If they do, it is important they are prepared. We are trying to make it as realistic as possible. Were stationing people in different spots where they might be in a realistic environment whether it was a clinic or actual doctor visit. The drills are taking place in a vacant building located at the walnut medical campus. You. We started the day kind of cool, but things have brightened up. We do have a lot more sunshine out there. Giving you a look over San Francisco. San francisco is only 60 degrees. Take a look at sfo with some cloud coverage alongs with the blue sky. Oakland at 67. Livermore upper 70s. Some very pleasant weather for our inland communities. Meanwhile, closer to the coast, temperatures are a little on the cool side. Take a look at how much cooler we are right now. By ten degrees in fairfield. Nine in napa. By ten. A notable drop at this noon hour compared to yesterday at this time. Here is a look at cloud cover along the coastline. North bay just a bit of a break. And make partly sunny, partly cloudy. We are still stocked in pretty good. We have sunshine in santa cruz and we have mostly sunny skies for our inland cities. If we move closer. Partly sunny. The Golden Gate Bridge is still covered. Looked like a partly sunny area. Winds are onshore. A west breeze at oakland at 5 00 and napa reporting nine. Getting into the next few days. Low 60s at the coast for today. Well go near 80 degrees for some of our warmer spots around the bay and nearing 90 for warmer locations inland. Temperatures are continuing to drop. It looks like we level off right about wednesday and thursday timeframe. Were back up for friday. It doesnt really look like it is going to last. Afternoon highs will go 80. 65 expected for downtown. Mild. Burkely. 74 as well as oakland. Inland going to be a warm day. 90 degrees. As we shift into the south bay, we have 79 in mountainview. 80 degrees for san jose and we have some sunshine there. Here is a look at the extended forecast when it comes to the numbers. Temperatures for the coastline are not going to drop off a whole lot more. Around the bay, well do go upper 70s to near 80 degrees tomorrow as well as thursday. Our inland cities continuing to cool down. We have mid to upper 80s for tomorrow and dropping into the low 80s on thursday. We rebound into friday. A nice little taste of summer there but it doesnt last getting into the weekend. Temperatures will remain in the 60s for our coastloin. Upper 70s to near 80 degrees detected inland. Santa cruz are seeing an crane crease in the number of people who are homeless and tourists are taking note. What is happening at the citys most popular beach. Tech songs at a decline. Bewe see the dow spent the entire session on the negative side of things and is now town by almost 300 points losing well over 1 . Three quarters of a percent drop on the s and p. The nasdaq is down by about the same persist as the dow. China files a complaint over the Trump Administrations tariff. On sunday, the u. S. Imposed another 15 tariff on chinese gods. The first round affected mostly componentings. The new round is getting finished goods and analysts say prices will go up for consumers n. Response, china increased its tariffs afternoon a number of products inclouding soybeans and crude owl oil. Another round of tariffs is expected in september during the important holiday season. The u. S. Economy could head into recession. The next round of trade negotiations is set to take place later this month in washington d. C. The british Prime Minister is threatening to call a special election flexion month if parliament votings to block his van for the plan for the uk to leave the European Union on october 31s even without a dial. Members of parliament have been debating the issue all day today. Some members of johnsons own party are joining with the Opposition Party to draft a deal to stop a Nodeal Brexit from happening. The debate has been raging in britain since 2016 when a slim majority voted to leave the European Union. Since then, parliament has not been able to grow on a deal to lever the eu. Hong kong leader denyings she wants to step down because of antigovernment protests which have turned the city into crisis for the past three months. This after loiters released leaked audio cently telling Business Leaders that she would quit if she had the choice. At a News Conference today, she criticized the leaking of her comments as unacceptable and said quitting is the easy way out and said she is determined to stay the course. Now to a couldbe bad news for holiday travelers. United airlines is announcing extension to the cancellation of boeing 737 max flight by another month. Those jets will now remain grounded until december 19th. United previously told sold 737 max jets from the flight schedule through early november. Now without those max jets, they are expected to cancel some 2800 flights in november and add another 1700 to december 19th. More and more parents are buying School Uniforms for back toschool shopping even for their toddlers. The Washington Post reports that more Public Schools, charters and Childcare Centers are requiring uniforms now. More than 40 of the nations Public Schools and preschools now use uniforms. And that is forcing retailers such as walmart, target and amazon to rethink how they stock and market backtoschool wear. Some stores such as old navy have created uniform hubs in all their u. S. Stores. Calling off the search. Details on an announcement coming from coast guard officialings late this morning as they presume 34 people are dead in a morning boat fire and an update on those recovered. Also as we take a live look here at Daytona Beach in florida, fema says it is ready to respond when dorian makes landfall in the United States. Why some say the agency is up for the challenge. A find the brands you love from nordstrom. Up to 70 off at nordstrom rack. Thats fashion at a fraction. Shop anytime at nordstromrack. Com and get easy returns in store. Nordstrom rack. What will you find . The Golden State Warriors new arena is days away from opening in the public. Today marks an important milestone. Ktvu is live in San Francisco with what happened and what comes next. There was a ribboncutting ceremony. It ended with daytime fireworks on top of the new chase center at the grand finale. Take a look. Now, that dramatic ending followed a 20minutelong song and dance production. Earlier, the whole ceremony started with executives, california governor Gavin Newsome speaking to officially open this new chase center. The 18,000 feet arena will be home to the warriors and a line up of brigname concerts and events in the months and years ahead. This was more than a billion dollars in seven years in the making. That is how long it took to plan and complete this project. We spoke with the president. The completion of the product. Youll hear in him first. Then youll also hear from mayor london breed thanking the late mayor for his contribution to this project. 4 00 when i was texting my friends about how excited i was about today. It has been seven years since we came back to San Francisco. Every step of the way, the mayor pushed for this project to happen. I know we would not be here today had it not been for his incredible leadership. The mayor said the late mayor considered the chase center his legacy project. We know he died unexpectedly in 2017 of a heart attack. His wife, anita, attended todays ribboncutting ceremony. The first event that will happen here at the chase center is this friday. Metal that will perform with the symphony and basketball preseason will officially start on october 5th. That is when the warriors play their first game here against the rangers. Ktvu fox 2 news. And Hurricane Dorian approaches the United States, fema is preparing to help people impacted by the storm. Reporting from washington, everyone is waiting to see exactly where the hurricane now a category two will fall. More than i million americans now ordered to evacuate from florida up to South Carolina as Hurricane Dorian is now the second most powerful atlantic storm ever recorded inches further north. Unfortunately, if it does hit, you know, were ready to do something. Right now it is making sure we have our plans and communication where our states are in order. The federal Emergency Management agency says it is led i did to respond as fema continues making preparations. Dorians latest path is expected to sideswipe several South Eastern States over the next several days. I dont put a lot of confidence until that forward speed starts to pick up. Once that happens, the model guidance starts to pick up on the storm, better understand the atmosphere and have a better understanding of where this thing is going to wind up in the next five days. The acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security hitting back over the Holiday Weekend that claims his agency is distracted with bringing the president s border wall ambitions to fruition. Aim not district that tracted and i can asure you the fee ma leadership here is not distracted. Reporter President Trump monitoring dorians progress from the white house retweeting updates from the National Hurricane center. The latest advisory released this morning is revealing widespread destruction and flood ago cross the bahamas. Well have the latest track to show florida may avoid a direct hit. Lawmakers caution the Sunshine State is not off the hook. So far, five u. S. States have declared a state of emergency as dorian approaches. In washington, ktvu fox 2 news. Several nonprofits are working around the clock to help pack with medical care and a place to stay as Hurricane Dorian is hitting the bahamas. The Humane Society of the United States is coordinating the evacuation of 80 animals. In all, more than a thousand an pals have been evacuated and shipped to other shelters for safety. Some of the other nonprofits include wings of rescue. The Humane Society maples and greatergood. Org. Now to Southern California where there is new information to bring you this noontime on the diver boat fire that happened across the coast. Officials have called off the search for survivors and most of the victims are from the san jose and santa cruise hears. Crews have shifted to recovery mode and divers are trying to stabilize the boat so they can go inside and look for bodies. Our hope is that we will be able to penetrate the wreckage today, stabilize the vessel, penetrate the wreckage, conduct an investigation, search it, and then recover any remains that are in the boat. So far, 20 bodies have been recovered. 14 people are still missing or presumed dead. The coastguard says the boat is required to be inspected annually and says it met all requirements. The ntsb is at the scene and investigating the cause of the fire. That is 75foot boat was anchored about 60 feet off Santa Cruz Island on the Channel Island between Santa Barbara and los angeles. It was fully engulfed when rescuers arrived. One of the people said to be missing is kristy finstad. She is listed as a guide. Her brother posted on facebook that she was leading the diving tour. Now to oakland where a new jury in the warehouse trial is back at the courthouse continuing deliberations today. The jury had to restart deliberations last month after three jurors were removed from the panel for misconduct. The new jury deliberated without reaching a verdict. The judge then gave them some time off. They are each facing 36 counts of involuntary manlawsuiter in connection to that kid deadly wire warehouse fire in december of 2016. Our coverage from the courtroom continues today. Henry lee is there. You can also read a daily blog about the trial by going to ktvu. Com. Across the bay, police in San Francisco are looking for a man who carjacked a woman as he was being chased by officers. It started yesterday afternoon when Police Spotted a car that had been involv in several car breakins in the city. When officers tried to pull the car over, the suspect drove off an

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