We belong we belong together we belong hulu on disney . Available with disney bundle. Plans starting at 9. 99 a month. Forced to ditch their cars and evacuate on foot as a truck catches fire. The fight over who gets to claim San Francisco bay, a proposed airport rebrand, has San Francisco threatening to go to court. A celestial show to remember tonight. People who traveled across the country for the perfect view of the total Solar Eclipse say it was totally worth it. Abc seven news at 11 starts now. Always live abc seven news starts right now. And right away we begin with breaking news tonight. A large fire in the east bay. You can see flames shooting out from the roof. This is just west of 880 in hayward on hall road at industrial parkway. This fire started a little more than an hour ago, and firefighters are just getting a handle on it. It does appear to be some kind of industrial building. There are no reports of injuries right now, but of course we will keep you updated as soon as we learn more. Moving on now to that developing situation on the roads, the posey tube, alameda back open after a fire stopped traffic with that we say, good evening, im dionne lim and im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. It was a scary situation for drivers forced to leave their cars and walk out through the smoke. The tube connecting downtown oakland and alameda just reopened in the last two hours. A car fire stopped traffic about 730 tonight. Abc seven news caught video of crews pulling that burned truck out of the tunnel. Fortunately, the fire did not spread and no one was hurt, but it made for a frustrating drive for people stuck in the tube than forced to evacuate and leave their cars behind on foot. The posey tube reopened just after 9 00 tonight. All right, our other top story tonight, a community once plagued by violence. Thats really pulled off a major turnaround tonight. Community advocates in East Palo Alto are trying to make sure Violent Crime doesnt make a comeback. This impacts everyone in the community, the family, the friends, the police. The police are trying to solve their first homicide of the year and investigating whether a death today is criminal as well. Abc seven News ReporterLauren Martinez has the latest. A Death Investigation is underway in East Palo Alto. Police say they found a man off newell road on monday. The chief of police said its too early to determine if a criminal act occurred last year, East Palo Alto had zero murders. The chief called it a momentous milestone for a community once marked by adversity. In the early 1990s, it was once known as the u. S. Murder capital. The resources were not there always. Since the late 1980s, Margaret Petros has helped families of murder victims in East Palo Alto and throughout the bay area. Families tend to be scared. So were here as a community organization, doing it on behalf of the families, on behalf of the community as well. This year, police are asking the publics help to solve the citys first murder of 2024. East Palo Alto Police said. A man stabbed on february 8th died from his injuries a month later, the department is still looking for his attacker. They released this surveillance video. It shows a white suv stop and appear to witness the attack on the corner of University Avenue and bell street. Police are asking those who were inside that white suv to come forward. They may have vital information. Margaret petros is organization mothers against murder is offering a 10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible. There is always hope and if some reward can help, then were willing to justice to the family , justice to the primary victim and to keep our community safe. Its well worth it in the south bay. Lauren martinez, abc seven news. Tesla has settled a high profile case involving a driver who died after his model x crashed while the autopilot was on. Jury selection for the wrongful death trial was set to begin today. Former apple engineer walter wong died when his tesla hit a concrete highway median in the south bay back in march of 2018, the ntsbs investigation found that the car had been on autopilot for nearly 19 minutes before the vehicle veered off the highway. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed in foster city tonight. The faucets are flowing normally again after a leak in a water main. Crews finished emergency repairs about 9 00 tonight. They found the break yesterday morning and had crews working along east third avenue overnight to deal with this. The city declared a local emergency and asked people to limit water usage as it drew from reserves. Well, now that its fixed, the backup plan of an overnight water shut off will not be necessary. New developments tonight in the battle between two bay area airports, sfo is fighting to stop Oakland Airport from adding San Francisco bay to its name. San franciscos City Attorney is now threatening to sue to stop the rebrand. The port of oakland board of commissioners is due to vote on the name change just days from now. Abc seven News Reporter tim johns has been following the story for us since last week, and looks at the latest escalation in the branding fight. If oakland chooses to move forward with its proposal, we will have no choice but to pursue legal action. Harsh words monday from San FranciscoCity Attorney david chu. Earlier in the day, chu sending a letter to the port of oakland commissioners over the potential name change of Oakland Airport. We also believe the currently proposed name infringes on sfos trademarks. Sfo has been in operation for almost a century. Since 1927, weve used San FranciscoInternational Airport or San Francisco airport throughout most of that history. Last month, the board announcing its intention to rename the east bay airport to San Francisco bay oakland International Airport. In a statement monday, the port doubling down on the proposal in a statement that reads the proposed name modification will clarify, not confuse. The new name identifies where okay is actually located, which is on the San Francisco bay. If the proposed name modification is approved by the board, the port will take all appropriate measures to defend its right to use this accurate geographic identifier. While the possible name change has gotten a lot of condemnation in San Francisco, across the water in oakland, many local leaders have come out in support, several citing the economic benefits it could bring by attracting more tourists. Adding San Francisco to it certainly makes it more attractive or more recognizable to those that are traveling. Traveling from out of the state, out of the country. But that could be exactly the problem, says henry hertefeld, that if they go forward with this, its going to be a disaster. Its going to absolutely be a Customer Service disaster. Hertefeld is a travel industry analyst and marketing expert. He says if it goes through, he thinks the name change would cause confusion for travelers, many of whom he says might even accidentally fly to the wrong airport. Thats going to create frustration. Its going to create Customer Service problems for airlines and it risks leading to a lot of unhappy, frustrated, travelers who could badmouth the bay area. As a result, the port of oakland board of commissioners is set to meet thursday to consider the potential name change in San Francisco. Tim johns abc seven news. Part of building a better bay area is finding Sustainable Solutions to fight climate change. A new analysis found. The bay area is leading the nation when it comes to cutting emissions from transportation. San jose came in at the top spot, according to streetlight datas report. The south bay ranked high for cutting the number of miles traveled and ev adoption. San francisco and oakland ranked third among metro areas. Transportation is still the biggest driver of planet warming emissions around the country. The east bay is about to get an influx of new ebikes. Lyft and the metropolitan Transportation Commission are set to announce tomorrow. The expansion of the bay wheels bike sharing program. 500 next generation ebikes will be rolled out in oakland, berkeley and emeryville, along with 24 new docking stations. Lyft says they hope this expansion will grow ridership and reduce operational costs. And there it is, complete totality. Amazingly beautiful. Once in a lifetime. I had no idea we would see this much of it here. Its so cool. Im just grateful to be here. Its a blessing. The incredible show that we waited for and well wait a long time to see again. Millions of people spent the morning looking up as the skies went dark for that total Solar Eclipse. Now, here in the bay area, we didnt have that 100 totality view even so, people still packed the viewing party at the exploratorium to admire the rare celestial event and truly, weve seen so many amazing images from the eclipse from all around the country. We really have just incredible. The excitement has built up for weeks, and the solar show certainly did not disappoint. We know so many people traveled a long way for the perfect eclipse experience. Thousands of miles for that perfect shot. Abc seven News Reporter j. R. Stone talked with people arriving home to the bay area after their eclipse trips. Travelers headed every which way at San FranciscoInternational Airport monday. The Better Believe that some of them just saw the total Solar Eclipse and other parts of the country. It sort of like see the eclipse and then go to the airport. Or how did that work exactly . It turns out you can schedule a lyft or uber ride to pick you up right at the end of the eclipse, and it will scoot you back to the airport just in time to catch your flight. And thats just what dan russell of palo alto did. He managed to take these photos of the eclipse monday in austin, texas. Russell stopped there on the way back from raleigh so he could see friends and of course the eclipse. It was cloudy, but every so often there would be a little parting in the clouds and youd see it, and then it would go away and youd see it and go away. So it was really nice, actually. I talked to several people who flew to other parts of the country to see the total Solar Eclipse and told me theyre not flying back monday or tuesday because of the high prices. Mark ziegler of concord, who i spoke with sunday night, was one of those individuals. Hes not flying back yet, but did send me these images monday of what the total Solar Eclipse looked like 2500 miles away in ohio. He described it as breathtaking. Everyone online and off the plane, talking about the daytime darkness within the path of the total Solar Eclipse. I came from texas and i and i looked at the eclipse. It was really dark and a duration about three four minutes going from like a middle of the day and then to the middle of the night. So got pretty dark. Yeah, very dark. It was surprisingly dark. It wasnt. It was very slow to get dark. And all of a sudden it got very dark. Street lights came on, the birds went away. It was really dramatic. Was it worth it . Absolutely, absolutely. You should have gone. Maybe next time. Dan, at sfo, j. R. Stone, abc seven news. Maybe next time or you couldnt ask for better eclipse viewing weather here in the bay area. And were just Getting Started with the warming trend. Yeah. Abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel joins us with a look at your 24 hour accuweather forecast. Hi, sandy. Hi there. Yeah, dion and dan we had spectacular weather and we just cant get enough of that partial eclipse. So let me show you a view from a follower out of foster city who actually captured this through the cell phone. Just an amazing view there. And it is looking stunning from our sutro tower camera as we look at the golden gate bridge, a sign of whats to come. 7 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Mostly clear skies, a few patches of fog, temperatures in the 40s. By noontime its already milder, and in the afternoon were going to have that spring warmth with a lot of 70s around the bay and inland, breezy at the coast and cooling later on in the evening. Heres a look at your san jose high temperatures 78 tomorrow. Even warmer on wednesday before the temperatures start to slide. And its going to be a dramatic cool down on friday. Average high of 68. So ten degrees above average. 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All right, women in los angeles are fighting a legal battle because they posted about a bad date on social media. Now they say they were just venting to other women about some all too common experiences with the man, though, that they posted about says its defamation. Yeah, this is all centered around a Facebook Group growing in popularity. Are we dating the same guy . Its basically a crowdsourced background check for women on the lookout for toxic men. All right. Olivia berger posted there after she went on a date with a man named stuart lucas. Murray now, murray claims berger lied. He is suing her and other women who reacted to her post today. A judge granted one of them whats known as an antislapp motion, a way to quickly dismiss a meritless lawsuit around free speech. Theres more people that could possibly be pulled into this. And so, its great news, the ruling, and were excited to be done with this. Now. 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