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KGO ABC7 News 400PM August 12, 2016

Worries about a key battleground state that is a mustwin for the president ial nominee. And pressure is mounting on trump to release his tax returns. Abc News Reporter Karen Travers live in washington with the story. Reporter good afternoon. Trump was fired up today on the campaign trail. It was a complete 180 from his events yesterday. Hillary clinton was not campaigning. But she did release those tax returns as well as tim kaines, clearly sending a message to trump that he should do the same. Pennsylvania shaping up to be a mustwin state for trump. We win pennsylvania and well win it. Reporter but polls show he is trailing Hillary Clinton by about ten points and endueterred trump keeping up his attacks. Because i know what to do. Hillary doesnt know what to do. Did you see her yesterday. She has no clue about what were talking about. Reporter and amid reports of tensions between trump and the republican party, today a strong show of support from rnc chair reince priebus. And dont believe the garbage you read, let me tell something, trump, the republican party, all of you, were going to put him in the white house and save this country together. Reporter last night on fox news, trump brushing off questions about his campaign strategy. But i think people that really want to vote, they are going to get up and get out and they are going to vote for trump. Reporter Hillary Clinton today releasing her 2015 tax returns. Running mate tim kaine did the same. Ten years worth. The democratic ticket putting public pressure on trump to do the same. So far he has refused. Im release them when the audit is completed. Reporter at justed gross income was 10. 6 million and gave over a million to charity and almost all to their own foundation. The federal state and local tax rate was 43. 2 and they paid 3. 6 million in federal taxes alone. And what a difference a year makes. The clintons combined income dropped by 17 million in 2015 compared to 2014. That is because when Hillary Clinton started campaigning, she stopped giving paid speeches. Larry and kristen. Karen, lets talk about the move about clinton and kaine, do you think it might force trump to release his tax returns . Reporter it certainly doesnt seem like it. He has insisted because he is being audited he will not release anything. Until that is completed. And asked whether that would happen before the election, he wouldnt say. Just saying when the audit is done, then well talk. But larry, it is also important to note that when George Stephanopoulos asked him to say what his tax rate has been, his quote right back to him was, thats none of your business. That is a big hint. Thanks, karen. New polls out show clinton leading in four key swing states. The nbc wall street journal and mar is surveys have her leading in colorado by four points and built up to 13 points in state of virginia and nine points in north carolina. Clinton holding a five point lead in florida that is down two points since last month. Former president bill clinton will be in napa tonight raising money and in oakland tomorrow. And according to the washington post, trump will be in napa and San Francisco at the end of the month for two fundraisers. With the latest on the Campaign Stops here in the bay area and across the country, be sure to download the abc 7 news app and enable push alerts. In other news, sky 7 was above redwood city apartment after a Traffic Accident caused that building to be red tagged. That means people could not stay inside of their homes on chestnut streets blocks from the Courthouse Square area. One car hit two parked cars which then pushed the parked cars into the building. It it did major structural damage to the front part of the building and we are worried about the wiring and gas lines damaged and then it will be unable to occupy until thor and the owner and the contract yo repair it. 27 people live in the fiveapartment units and are all off limits. Paramedics took the driver to the hospital after the wreck. Sky 7 hd was above fremont after a pickup truck slammed into a dennys restaurant and police told us this could have been much, much worse. A driver backed out of a parking space and just kept on going. The man backed across part of the avenue before hitting the building. Now the truck stopped near the front desk at dennys. This is all around 10 15 this morning. An employee went to the hospital and they want the driver tested before they could drive again. And this man wearing a suit on the right offyer screen looks like a legitimate customer but quite a few restaurants want police to stop the man they are calling the serial refund scammer. Abc 7 News Reporter melissa hairington is live with the story. Reporter hes hit cafes and up and down clement street and Business Owners are sick of it and he is a scammer and trying to take advantage of a hardworking employees. He looks like a customer but Inner Richmond knows him as the serial refund scammer. The man who calls himself ali in nourish cafe on tuesday demanding a refund for an order workers say he never bought. He said he was in the day before when we were closed that day zblrvegs t day. Reporter the coowner said he could not produce a receipt and his story kept changing and he got aggressive and she filed a Police Report and alerted the clement Street Association to find out that ali has been at this for years and tried to pull the same trick at 13 other businesses. He is just a bully. It made me angry that he treated his staff that way and that he felt he could go around the city and do this to other businesses. He calls first, usually said there was a hair in his food and then shows up in person but could never provide proof of purchase. His plan did not work at this bake shop. The way that technology is, even small mom and pops like us have tracking systems to pull up transactions about. But he did get a few fee pizzas before employees caught on. That is a medium Pepperoni Pizza and it is always named ali and it is always the same problem, it is a burnt pizza. Reporter they hope getting the word out prevents other business from getting scammed and they want ali to leave them alone. The clement Street Merchant Association said employees should ask for a receipt before giving a refund and when in doubt, contact a manager. Live in San Francisco, abc 7 news. Before you go, even though hes only hit San Francisco, so far that we know of, there are lots of restaurant rows here in the bay area, so in other cities, are they thinking about contacting the other Police Departments . Reporter well police are just focusing on San Francisco. They are actually out along clement street and geary street right now interviewing some of the Business Owners, trying to track this guy down. Larry and kristen. For now. Alyssa, thank you so much. And we do have breaking news in San Francisco. Sky 7 is live over columbus avenue in the north beach where the Fire Department said a 36yearold woman was just hit by a falling tree limb. So we are over that scene. Could you see the yellow tape they have put up over where that limb fell. Were told this limb weighed 100 pounds and fell from 50 feet and crews transported the woman to the hospital. No word yet on her name or condition but you could get the latest by getting the abc 7 news app. Family and friends attended a funeral in san mateo today for a College Baseball player who was gunned down while playing pokemon go. Calvin reilly graduated from Sarah High School before going on to play at San Joaquin Delta college in stockton. He died at the San Francisco aquatic park on saturday evening and police have not made any abc 7 news was at save city hall today as the assemblymen and others urged the legislature to pass a bill for tour bus safety. They will fund safety inspections of tour buses. After last years tour bus crash in San Francisco that injured 20 people. Without inspections, there is no regulation. Some of the companies are operating faulty buses without the proper licenses. Currently the chp handles tour bus safety infectiospectio due to funding only 30 of those have had an inspection. And lets talk weather. Driving in from the east bay, mid90s. Cooking. Another spare the air day, too, right spencer. Spencer christian looking at the accuweather forecast. Larry and kristen, this is the second consecutive spare the air day and tomorrow is the third. So the air quality is declining as the temperatures rise. A look at live doppler 7 hd. A unusual low clouds and fog are clinging to the coastline. This is the view from sutro tower over San Francisco where it is 62. 23469 oakland. 79 in mountainview. 90 in morgan hill. 57 at half moon bay. The view from mt. Tam under blue skies with the fog over the bay. 85 in santa rosa. Napa 79. 77 at petaluma and the east bay, 91 concord and 92 livermore and 95 in fairfield. It is hot out there. The view at the golden gate where the clouds are low and the traffic is flowing nicely. Foggy near the beaches and the bay in the morning, spare the air again tomorrow, third consecutive day and hot days inland through next wednesday. So ill be back later to give you a look at the complete accuweather sevenday forecast. Thank you, spencer. Now to the news, as folks are commuting home but b. A. R. T. Is still single tracking planes between sfo and the station with delays systemwide. After a equipment problem triggered major problems during the morning commute. Matt keller with the story from the sfo station. Reporter it was a waiting game for b. A. R. T. Passengers after a track component failed at 4 45 a. M. And sparking fires between the stations. First thing was, let me tell my boss im going to be late. Well, i cant do nothing right now but wait. Reporter and wait he did, along with other passengers at the end of the line at the millbrae station. At about 7 00 a. M. A train finally arrived but people were disappointed once again. I dont think much of it at all right now. Im very unhappy with it. Reporter at one point during the delay, b. A. R. T. Officials recommended people trying to get to sfo for a flight to find alternate transportation to the airport. Eventually trains were arriving and stress levels were high. Ive been here about 20 or 30 minutes. It is just stressful because you are trying to time everything and then the next thing you know, there is a b. A. R. T. Delay. Out of all days, the b. A. R. T. Has to be delays on the days im going on vacation. It is stressful. Reporter b. A. R. T. Will single track between daly city until the end of service and plan on doing repairs overnight. At sfo, matt keller, abc 7 news. This has never been done before. A Silicon Valley corporation will build a high school on its own campus to help train the future generation of techies and engineers. The school is called Design Tech High School. And the company is oracle. This was an idea proposed 17 years ago by the Ceo Larry Ellison. Lyanne melendez shows us how this school is so different from the rest. Reporter the land was donated and the building for the Design Tech High School will be paid for by oracle. The Company Knows they will come. It was an idea oracles Ceo Larry Ellison shared with his staff more than 17 years ago. To better prepare students for the workplace of today and tomorrow and again to be the designers of solutions to peoples needs and the worlds problems. Reporter before oracle gets all of the credit, we should clarify that the concept and model of the school already existed. The school had been operating in burlingame since 2013 when it got the attention of the oracle education fund. They knew it had to be part of the new way of teaching, models after stanfords school of design. It is not necessarily a Product Design or a Fashion Design or interior didesign interior design, it is a way to solve a problem. Reporter problems like global warming. Our projects in how we learn, it is done through projects. It is not you are sitting in a classroom and getting a lecture, you doing a handson activity to reinforce when you are looking in the classroom. The school wants to attract more students of color and girls. While it is open to anyone, families living in the san mateo and secoy Union High School districts would have pry order. If there are more reg strabts, there then there is a blind lottery. They will open in september of 2017, the first lesson will be to design a future where everything is possible. In redwood city, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Speaking of school, San Francisco Public Schools start on monday and today interim police chief Toney Chaplin unveiled a back to School Safety operation. Our goal is to mo moat the promote safety and that traffic violations will be enforced through this critical week and throughout the school year. The chief joined chp and health and traffic and crossing guards in announcing the new safety operation. Through the next week, officers will crack down in neighborhoods with the highest injury rates and target these actions that threaten kids safety, speeding, failure to yield to pedestrians, bike lane violations, passing a school bus with flashing red lights on, Health Officials remind us children are more prone to serious injuries. If there is one thing you take home for today, we are asking you to please slow down. Pay extra attention as you drive around the city when our children and your children go back to school. This operation is part of the citys Vision Zero Initiative to have zero trax related bike fatalities by the year 2024. Teslas showroom is open for business in San Francisco. Abc 7 news got an in side look at the tesla store at the corner of van ness and oferal. It will give customers to sit in the video seat while they run video and they have a Service Center and a section to educate customers about electric vehicles. It is hard to be moved by luggage but this one might do the trick. We are getting an up close look today at moto bag. It is part suitcase, part scooter. The Southern California man who invented it brought it to sfo to show it off. We actually first showed it to you here on abc 7 news a couple of weeks back. I would like to see it. I would like to get on that for a spin. Well jonathan gets first dibs. If it is hightech, he is on it. And the inventor said the bag gets those to their destination five times faster and reaching speeds of 8 miles per hour. That doesnt sound that fast but it is better than dragging your bags through the airport and jonathan will take us all for a ride tonight on abc 7 news at 6 00. But i dont think it is advised for Spencer Christian on the roof. We might be launching him. We dont want that to happen. It is a little rough and bumpy up here. But a lovely day. Lets look at live doppler 7 hd under sunny skies. Low clouds at the coast as usual. This time of the day. And right now looking at a temperature range of upper 50s at t at the coast to 70 at the bay and 90s inland. And tonights projected low temperatures as the fog reaches across the bay, not very expansive tonight. Lows in the upper 50s, pretty mild to about 60 in palo alto and 60 in antioch. Cooler in the north bay valleys but lows drop into the low 50s. Here is our forecast animation at 11 00 tonight and 6 00 tomorrow morning and fog along the coastline and patch of it will pushed locally across the bay. So 6 00 in the morning over in oakland, down into hayward, might see patches of fog but it will pull back to the coastline quickly and well have a sunny day with hot conditions in our inland areas. Lets move along and take a look o look at highs in the south bay. In the 88 and upper 90s in gilroy and highs in the peninsula in the low to mid80s so 81 at redwood city and 82 at mountain view. On the coast, low 60s. Downtown San Francisco high of 67 tomorrow. In the north bay, highs of 89 at santa rosa. 84 napa. 82 at san rafael. East bay shoreline. 76 at oakland. 78 at san leandro. 80 at union city and the east bay will see highs in the mid to upper 90s, 98 at antioch. Our air quality is czech lini declining. The poorest air quality in the inland east bay and the High Temperature trend looks like this. Sunday cool at the coast and hot inland with highs in the mid90s and warmer on monday. Actually pretty much the same inland. Mid90s but warmer around the bay. And then tuesday quite hot with the heat increasing to upper 90s and near 100 in the warmer inland spots. So here is the accuweather seven. Highs inland over the weekend, mid to upper 90s, upper 70s to low 80s around the bay. Low 60 the in the coast. Just a slight dropoff in the inland temperatures on sunday but look at how they bounce back on mond and tuesday and then uber 90s once again and low 80s around the bay and mid 60 the in the coast and the temperatures moderate and settle back into a more seasonal range by the end of next week. Larry and kristen. Thank you, spencer. Up next, dramatic rescues as Severe Weather slam

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