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KGO ABC7 News 500AM July 17, 2017

Was driving for a Ride Hailing Service like uber or lift said he hit something on southbound 101 but continued on to drop off his passenger. He eventually called 911 and met the chp at the San Francisco hall of justice. The body was found on the shoulder of southbound 101. All southbound lanes were shut down for a time, but a couple reopened at 4 30 this morning. Theyre now up to three lanes open. No word on the identity of the body or if the driver could face charges. Theyre expecting to be out here for at least another half hour or so for their investigation. Reporting live in south San Francisco, matt keller, abc 7 news. Thank you. And alexis, it looks like were not seeing as big of a backup as we did even 15 minutes ago. Things are really starting to improve. If three lanes open, two lanes closed and the fact its only 5 . 1 in the morning, were looking at minimal backups. When we had all lanes blocked, traffic was diverted off at the oyster point ramp. Use some caution and stay to the lefthand side, but were keeping a close eye on this. Chp saying the earliest theyll have all lanes open is 5 30 this morning. Southbound 880, all lanes closed, should we opening soon. We have about a 2 1 2 mile delay, so stick to 580 if youre about to head out the door. Lets check in with mike. Thank you very much. Hi, everybody. I know the big question when is the heat going to break. If you notice the lack of clouds, the marine layer is out there, but its not very stout. Mt. Tamalpais showing how clear it is. Let me talk about the 12hour day planner. Starting off 54 to 65 at 7 00. The bottom line, thats the coast. Well be in the 60s by 4 00. The middle line, you can see upper 70s to low 80s from noon to 4 00. Then the last line, that would be our inland neighborhoods. Upper 80s by noon. In the 90s at 4 00. Were back in the 60s, 70s for most of us by 7 00. Thanks, mike. Happening today, a little tougher to get to work for some people in the east bay. A popular cutthrough is getting shut down this morning. Morgan territory road needs Major Repairs and its going to take months to do the work. Amy hollyfield is live in clayton this morning. Good morning, amy. Reporter hi, natasha. Heres the sign that residents seem to have mixed feelings about, telling you the road will be closed starting today and not set to reopen until midoctober. Heres why. Damage from the wet winter. Its time to do the repair work, so this detour is going to be in place and going to add about 15 minutes, maybe up to 30 minutes to the drive through here. So residents really need to plan for this. We found that people are bummed about the extra time, but also relieved that something is finally being done. I think were all prepared for it. I think its good to see everything moving forward. Its good. Finally get the road finished and done. Looking forward to kind of getting somewhat back to normal. Reporter the winter storms caused the earth to slide. The area is just now stable enough for them to start the work. There will be improvements, two new retaining walls, new drainage and a water main are all part of the plan. First, the work and the detour. This is a popular cutthrough to livermore and antioch. Signs will guide you around it. You need to add in extra time for the next three months. Live in clayton, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Thanks for the warning. A man drowned while trying to save his son in morgan hill. This happened yesterday in coyote creek near coyote creek trail. Investigators say they were told a man went into the water to help some kids and he didnt come out. Firefighters describe the creek as having a fairly swift current. Were told the victims son is okay. On to developing news in San Francisco. Police are looking for a suspect who stabbed a store employee on market street. It all started shortly after 7 00 last night at nicks foods. Police say a clerk tried stopping the suspect from shoplifting and the pen pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim who is expected to survive. Investigators are now looking through Surveillance Video. A terrifying incident in San Francisco. An apparent stranger takes someones baby and got on a muni bus. Abc 7 new was there when Police Caught and arrested the suspect. Heres reporter melanie woodrow. Within 30 minutes of getting a call for the kidnapping of his baby girl, police were patting down and cuffing a 36yearold suspect. Everybody got involved. This was a big deal. Just before 9 00 a. M. On sherman street, police say a 6monthold was inside this vehicle while her father prepared a bottle for her a short distance away. Thats when police say this woman snatched the baby and boarded a muni bus. Think she saw an opportunity and she took the baby. Police alerted sfmta. Our operators are trained to respond to emergency siterations like these, and these operators did just that. When the first bus stopped, the woman got off and boarded another. This is a very rare situation. The second bus driver also stopped. Abc 7 news was at bay shore boulevard and Police Escorted the woman off the bus. Did you kidnap a baby . No. The babys mother rushed to the scene where officers consoled her as she was reunited with her child before being taken to the hospital for an evaluation. Police say no report of injuries to the baby. Also that the relationship between the babys family and suspect is unknown. One second, one minute, that baby can be gone. They say they have turned over Surveillance Video from the muni buses to police. In San Francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. An assistant professor at usf who died last week in a plane crash will be remembered. William goldman died last week. Sf gate reports there will be a Memorial Service today. Donations will go to the International School where goldmans two children go to school. The Service Starts at 10 00 this morning on hey street in San Francisco. A driver faces accusations of drunk driving and car theft after several people got hurt in a headon crash in eastern contra costa county. You can see what happens on highway 4 near sand creek road and brentwood saturday night. The impact crashed a minivan carrying seven people. Highway patrol investigators say the driver of a stolen car was going the wrong way on westbound 4 when he hit the minivan. Eight people got hurt, including two small kids. The suspected drink driver is now in jail after being released from the hospital. A wildfire threatened several homes in antioch, and youre looking at cell phone video of smoke looming over a row of houses near highway 4. People first reported the fire at 6 30 last night and you can see how big the flames were next to the freeway. Crews had the fire contained a little more than 40 minutes after it started. It burned about 30 acres. Governor brown has issued a emergency proclamation for Santa Barbara county. It will make response and Recovery Funding available. The larger of the two fires, the whittier fire, started nine days ago. Its destroyed 16 residences and 30 structures. The Congressional Budget Office will not be releasing its analysis of the Gop Health Care bill today as originally planned. That announcement came down yesterday from the Senate Budget committee, although they didnt give the reason for the postponement. This comes after Mitch Mcconnell said he will delay a vote this week on the bill, citing arizona senator john mccains eye surgery. The analysis is expected to include the estimated cost and scope of the insurance coverage. Im going to take you back to our fatality investigation. Southbound 101 in south San Francisco around oyster point, we do still have a sig alert and were working to confirm with chp, it sounds like were down to just one lane closed, the far right lane, for this investigation. A car versus pedestrian crash just after 3 00 this morning. So well update you on that, but clearly, not seeing too much of a backup if you want to skip this entirely, you can use state route 82, El Camino Real, or 280 instead. Southbound 880 between 23rd and 29th, all lanes closed overnight for road work. Its slowly getting some lanes back open. Just a slight improvement in the speeds, but if i were about to head out, i would stick to 580, and a quick check outside. 101 and 880, san jose, really quiet in the south bay so far this morning. Well look at drive times coming up next. Right now, lets check in with mike nicco. A lot of us were wishing we had ac this weekend. Come on over. Where is my invite . I didnt get one . Its a standing invitation. Ia know. All right. Come on over any time. Plenty of nonalcoholic beverages for you since youre with child, and whatever else you need. Hi, everybody. A look at 280 in san jose. Im using that as the backdrop for the activity planner. If youre at the beach, a lot of sunshine. Around the bay, faster breezes north of the bay bridge. A Small Craft Advisory. If youre out and about, exercising, washing the dog, extreme sunshine. Lets talk warm temperatures where they have air conditioning, pittsburg, 79, antioch, brentwood, concord at 74. 71 right now in lafayette. 72 in danville. Then you get to san ramon, make the corner and turn to livermore, were in the mid 60s. 60 in oakland. 80 in los gatos. 64 in Mountain View and san jose at about 57 in San Francisco and all the way up to santa rosa. Yesterday, we set a record high in san jose. Today at noon, around 83. Well top out in the upper 80s, but for the most part, in the upper 80s. We also sets a record high yesterday in oakland. Look at this, temperatures closer to average with just 72. Well be in the low to mid 70s for most of the afternoon hours. Well take a look at the accuweather sevenday forecast and i think youll like the relief thats coming. Thanks, mike. Ann coulter versus delta airlines. The weekend tirade forcing an aggressive response by delta. Nevada legalizing nevada legalizing recreational pot is having 5 13. When i first saw this picture, i wasnt sure what i was looking at. This is in fact a car on top of a house. An suv crashed through the roof. Thankfully, no one was inside the house at the time. A witness said the driver was going at least 80 Miles Per Hour when he tboned a curb, flew up an embankment and that gave him enough launch to land on top of the house. He said the driver never hit the brakes. The homeowner found this mess after coming home from the gym. The driver of that vehicle is in critical condition. Officials dont know why he was speeding. Wow. Moving tribute to the four young men found murdered and buried in a philadelphia suburb. 00offs families, friends, and Community Members gathered for a vigil last night. They honored the lives of the four bucks county men shot and killed on a farm. Investigators found their remains buried in a common grave last week. Hurts for everybody. Everybody is heartbroken, and its a shock to everybody. And ienchd was just like, wow, we lost our best friend. Im sorry. Cosmo dinardo confessed to his parts in the crimes. He told authorities he killed the men after they came to his farm to buy marijuana. They also arrested his cousin in connection to the four deaths. A data breach is reported at dow jones. The personal information of more than 2 million customers has been exposed. That includes subscribers to the wall street journal. They said an error in a Cloud Computing service is to blame. It does not believe any data has actually been taken. A close call for an air canada flight at sfo may have been even closer than originally reported. The National Transportation safety boards preliminary report found the altitude was below 100 feet during the july 7th incident. A previous figure put the jets altitude at 100 feet. It flew right over a united plane holding the taxiway below. Ntsb investigators have arrived in the bay area as part of their review. A totally Different Airline story, delta is firing back after ann coulter really tried to drag the airline over the weekend because of a seat mixup. The conservative pundit called delta the Worst Airline in america after a disagreement on saturday. It happened on a flight from new york to florida. She was asked to move from her prebooked seat to her spot. Then she took a photo of the woman who took her seat and began a tirade against her and delta. The carrier said they would refund coulter the 30 for her preferred seat and the added insults on the customers and employees were unacceptable. Investigators are trying to figure out how a Million Dollars of pot ended up in a ford fusion at a dealership. They were made in mexico and shipped to ohio. Nats where they discovered marijuana stashed in wheel wells in 15 cars. Theyre investigating. Legalizing Recreational Marijuana is affecting the black market in colorado. More users are buying pot from streets. Dispensaries have raised prices. Theyre offering incentives to offset costs. Medical marijuana users say many people still cant afford it. Are you looking to make a few extra bucks . It seems like many of us are. There is a growing sector of the American Economy known as a side hustle. From baking to driving, as many as 44 million americans are taking on a second or even a third job to supplement their normal income. Well, that money making tactic does come with a warning. Financial experts say you can become overly independent on the extra money and begin living beyond your means. Side hustle money should be used to pay down debt or beef up your savings account. I just want you to say side hustle again. If you watched the celebrity golf tournament, you find out, steph curry is good at everything. And her dad dell pays up on his debts. Steph beat his dad, winning a bet between the two of them, so dell had to jump into lake tahoe, and yeah, he did. Mark mulder won the tournament for the Third Straight year. But fourth is not bad. Look, he does a leap into the Shallow Water there. Certainly hot enough throughout the bay area to jump in the water wherever you could. Lets go over to alexis for a look at traffic. We are still keeping track of this fatal collision in south San Francisco. Southbound 101, just before oyster point. Thats where we had that fatal collision between a car and pedestrian a little after 3 00 this morning. Still have the sig alert in effect. It does sound like were getting close to having all lanes open. I believe were down to just the far right lane. And just checked in with matt keller at the scene. He said everything should be clear in the next 30 minutes. Certainly staying on top of that wrun. Also, southbound 880 between 23rd and 29th in oakland, road work scheduled until 5 00. We should have a couple lanes back open now. We could have two closes until 6 00 this morning, but 2 Miles Per Hour. Youre just crawling. 73 Miles Per Hour if you want to stick to 580. That is definitely the better choice. And a quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights yet. A stackp on the right side. Those should be flipping on in the next five to ten minutes. Lets check in with mike nicco with a look at the forecast. Hi, everybody. Open the Weather Window on san rafael. One of those areas with record warmth yesterday. Kind of clear, and it looks like the camera is having a few issues. Bright skies, warm to hot today. Clouds coming, so is cooler weather. The extended, looks like its hot again this weekend. Temperatures like what were seeing and feeling, from the mid to upper 90s. Keep the ac on. 97 in antioch. The warm spot. Lets go up to the north bay. 93 in santa rosa. Hot there, but notice as you get closer, the breezes are going to keep sausalito at 73. San rafael, 85. Thats down from the record high yesterday. Vallejo at 85 also. In the south bay, 88. Record, we had a record high in san jose. The record today would be 107. That was 1988. You dont want to get near there, do you . San mateo, sunshine, 76. Still sunshine on the coast. Half moon bay, 66. Pacifica, 67. Today, redwood city, 84, the warm spot. No more records. Oakland, we had a record high yesterday. Alexis, heres your temperature today, 76. Hayward also, the same thing, and as we look at downtown, 69 in San Francisco. Spot on. Marina district, 67. Mission, 68. Richmond, 65. Tonight, look at this, great sleeping weather for all of us, from 51 in santa rosa to antioch at 59 degrees. My sevenday forecast, heres what were looking at. Temperatures going to drop another say four to 12 degrees tomorrow. Then well hold pretty steady wednesday, thursday, and friday. You can see a little warming trend. So far, no 100s for the coming weekend. Thanks, mike. In todays gma first look, officials in florida keeping a close eye on a huge sinkhole that already swallowed up two houses. An update to a story we brought to you as breaking news on friday. Heres victor. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, a massive sinkhole just north of tampa, florida, swallowing and destroying two homes. Neighbors capturing the second the roof comes crashing forward. The sinkhole now stable, officials say. Five homes remain evacuated but now the big concern, water contamination. Officials testing the drinking walter of at least 15 homes in the area. Emergency officials calling it the biggest sinkhole in at least three decades. The gaping sinkhole is 225 feet wide and 50 feet deep. I see a big hole and a lake. And i see that were in the middle of it and thats probably not a good thing. You can see from our drone, all thats left of a bathroom, roofing, and even a boat. A disaster rare yeah now filled with mud, sewage, and to

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