Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600AM 20170514 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600AM 20170514

The day. Maybe a popup shower in the north bay. Otherwise 50s to upper 60s with breezy winds once again. Well talk about our first half of the week trending cooler than average. Our second half much warmer coming up. Now to breaking news out of fremont this morning. The northbound lanes of fremont boulevard between paseo padre parkway and ferry lane are closed right now after a crash that left one person dead and injured three others. One southbound lane has reopened. Fire Officials Say a driver was making a uturn when another car possibly ran a red light and hit that car headon. Officials say speeding was likely involved. One victim is in serious condition. The other two are expected to be okay. New details on the massive fivealarm fire in emeryville. Fire crews safely removed an unstable crane that burned at a construction site. The fire started around 5 00 yesterday morning at the location thats now burned twice in one year. Just after 2 00 this morning, the Alameda County Fire Department tweeted the crews removed the compromised crane. Abc 7 explains the danger it exposed to the area. Reporter it is a painstaking process that requires extreme precision. The crane suffered catastrophic failure with being exposed to the heat of the fire. So the instability of it means that it could actually fall at any time. Reporter Police Forced residents in more than one dozen apartments to evacuate. Not much i can do except get my stuff and get out of here as soon as i can. Reporter this is the second time in ten months that a huge fire erupted at the construction site of this condo complex. Both times fire engulfed everything in its path. Embers traveled as far as two blocks away where a roof caught on fire knocking out power to 400 homes and businesses. At avalon senior housing, many elderly residents feel unsafe in the dark. No internet service, no electricity, no power for our refrigeration. No phone service. We lost all of our flowers that came in yesterday because they were in the refrigerator. Reporter but the one with the most longterm loss is likely this man. He is the complex developer. Julys fire already set the project back nine months, and now for another fire to happen again in the same place makes Rick Holliday sure of two things. These fires were intentionally set, and he will finish this project. Whoever is doing this is not going to stop us from building housing. We had two armed guards and 12 cameras. Reporter in emeryville, abc 7 news. A man who worked on the construction for the condo cried when he saw the flames. Thats the second time they burn it down last year around this time in july. 4th of july they burn it down. Now they did it again. Why . He told us he cried because he thought of all of his friends who are now out of work, as well as their families. The developer has pledged to rebuild. Here is a look at what the building is supposed to look like in renderings on the developers website. The project is called the intersection and was designed to include 105 apartments and 25,000 sxwquare feet of commercial space. Holliday development previously said the building would be a dynamic space for creative entrepreneurs to work and network. It is on the site of the historic maz building. We first notified people about the fire yesterday morning with the push alert. For news updates any time, download the free abc 7 news app and enable push alerts for instant news notifications. Fire inspectors to expected to start checking properties in the oakland hill thomas. They need to make sure owners remove any weeds, tall grass, brush and tree limbs that could pose a fire hazard. Fines for Property Owners who fail to pass the inspection start at a minimum of 300. The oakland Fire Department has tips to reduce the risk on their website. New dtails this morning following a police chase that ended in a deadly crash in this clayton. Police have identified the suspect as being from antioch. She has extensive criminal history and kabts with Law Enforcement and arrested for felony evading. The vehicles stolen. And also vehicular manslaughter. The whole incident is horrible and the officers doing what they do, thank god that no one else was injured in this. The 24yearold passenger in the suspects car died in the crash. Abc 7 News Reporter Lonnie Rivera has the story. Actually shook the whole house, rattled everything. I had no idea what it was. Looked out the windows, just saw the smoke. Reporter neighbors along myrtle drive in concord heard a crash, then sirens. Then they saw police and fire securing the scene around this unrecognizable white vehicle. We just heard a loud like bang, then came around the corner and happened to see the car all tore up. Reporter the wrecked white jeep still had branches on it from smashing into a tree before landing in front of this montessori school. Inside you could see it appeared to be stuffed with suitcases, clothes and other personal belongings. Many residents waited to see if the driver and any passengers survived. I saw them carrying one of the bodies away on a stretcher. I think that she was alive at the time and then the other one i saw got pulled out. She had passed away. Reporter police spent several hours gathering evidence from the scene. Witnesses saw a Clayton Police car chasing the white vehicle which had no tags. They say the car was traveling well above the speed limit, struck a wall, went airborne, hit this tree, then landed in the driveway of the school. Just to give you an idea about the impact of this crash, one of these cinder blocks went flying into the yard next door. I believe this to be a cinder block that flew from all the way about 50 yards away and flew and shook the house when i was inside. Reporter looking at the wreckage, he could only wonder what if. Its a saturday. So no kids over there, thank the lord. Reporter in clayton, Lonnie Rivera, abc 7 news. Were learning more about the man arrested in connection with a string of car fires in the east bay. Yesterdays arrest comes after two more cars were burned on friday morning. One fire destroyed an acura in walnut creek. Then 11 minutes later a toyota suv was torched in lafayette. Investigators say they caught the suspect in the act. A 36yearold man was located in a residential area of benicia this morning. As officers arrived in the area, the suspect appeared to have possibly set fire to a vehicle in a driveway. He was stopped a short distance away and was taken into custody without incident and taken to concord p. D. For interviews. The unidentified suspect will be charged with 43 separate counts of arson. His bail is 3 million. Last week there were seven suspicious car fires in the east bay alone. The Law Enforcement community is mourning another Northern California sheriffs deputy killed in a car crash. Stanislaus county deputy jason garner and Community Service officer Rochelle Johnson died while on their way to a burglary call. The crash happened yesterday morning in modesto. Their patrol car went off the road, slammed into an auto wrecking business and burst into flames. Both were killed instantly. This all comes just a day after an Alameda County deputy died in a crash on interstate 580 near tracee. He was off duty and on his way home when a charter bus slammed into his car. Yesterday would have been kims 51st birthday. 6 08 the time. Happening now, crews are making runway repairs at sfo with the runway slated to reopen at noon today. This is a live look at the airport this morning. Be sure to check your flight status if youre flying out of sfo today. The airport has closed its secondlongest runway for the work. Airport Officials Say repairs to the runway should be completed by june 5th ahead of the busy Summer Travel season. If youre headed to lax any time soon, leave plenty of extra time. An alreadypacked airport is dramatically changing. 15 airlines will move to different terminals in the next five days. Six more have already relocated. The switch should bring fewer delays for takeoffs and landings. One passenger said the heavily advertised move caught him by surprise. I dont know. I suppose if you have enough time. Seems like people are nice enough and informative enough that can probably get along just fine. The airport provided plenty of helpful employees armed with maps to direct passengers and have plenty of shuttle buses as well. Time now approaching 6 10. A welcome site for dubs fans. Coach steve kerr returned to practice yesterday ahead of game one against the spurs. It was the first time many players had seen the coach in nearly two weeks. He underwent a spinal procedure nine days ago at duke university. Kerr was also present at a coaching meeting friday. He remains out indefinitely. Mike brown is coaching in his place. Dont forget, you can spend your mothers day afternoon with abc 7. Coverage of the game begins at noon with tipoff at 12 30. Then stick around for after the game with larry beil, and former santa clara coach kerry keating. Mike shumann will be live at oracle arena. We do have 56minute delays at sfo and a live look outside. Emeryville, few clouds right now. 50 in oakland. 53 in hayward with the low 40s in the north bay. Well talk about your mothers day today and a forecast thats changing once again from spring to summer. All in a weeks work. Well have your accuweather sevenday forecast when we return. Also coming up containing the comey fallout. President weighs if on the question of loyalty. And a special day planned at californias Great America for hundreds of courageous kids. To take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. To take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, this is violet. Shes been waiting for this moment for awhile. A moment other kids wouldnt think twice about. Her first bowl of cheerios. Because now that cheerios are gluten free, violet, and many others are enjoying their first bowl today. Well its a perfect nespresso hold on a second. Orge. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . Of being there for my sons winning shot. That was it for me. Thats why im quitting with nicorette. Only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. It starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. Every great why needs a great how. Developing news in that global cyber extortion attack. A 22yearold British Security researcher located the kill switch in the malware code and used it to stop the virus. An underground group known as the shadow brokers are believed to be responsible for the attack. It claims members stole the data from the National Security agency which is excreamily difficult to verify. President trump is trying to move beyond his decision to fire fbi director james comey. The Justice Department interviewed eight candidates for the job yesterday. The president meantime capped his rough week with a speech to a friendly audience. Reporter President Trump escaped the heat of the controversy in the capitol with a commencement address at liberty university. No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it cant be done. Reporter the president might have been speaking to the many critics still condemning his abrupt dismissal of james comey as fbi director. Mr. Comey was spotted briefly at his virginia home. Mr. Trump seems to think it will be easy to pick a successor. I think the process is going to move quickly because all of them are almost all very well known. Theyve been vetted over their lifetime. Reporter there was a steady stream of prospective recruits filing in for job interviews saturday at the Justice Department. Were you asked if you could faithfully serve the president . No comment at all . Reporter did the president ask comey for a pledge of loyalty as the New York Times reported . In an interview that aired saturday on fox news, he answered no. No, i didnt. But i dont think it would be a bad question to ask. I think loyalty to the country. Loyalty to the United States is important. Reporter as for his cryptic tweet that he might have recorded his dinner conversation with comey. I wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest. I hope he will be. Im sure he will be. I hope. Reporter comey says he is willing to testify publicly to congress. Abc news, new york. Following that sudden dismissal of fbi director james comey, former director of National Intelligence James Clapper and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley comes to this week. Watch their full interviews on this week with George Stephanopoulos at 8 00 this morning right here on abc 7. 6 16 is our time. A flash mob of about 200 demonstrators showed up to tramp National Golf club in los angeles to share how they feel about the president and his policies. They spelled out the word resist with their bodies on the property. The protesters are part of the Group Indivisible san pedro who have also been urging President Trump to release his tax returns. When the group formed the word, they reportedly sang god bless america. A National Movement to get President Trump removed from office came to berkeley yesterday. Abc 7 news was on the cal campus as the bay area chapter of refuse fascism held a mock trial against the president. Protesters presented a list of alleged crimes against humanity and the planet. Their goal is to mobilize millions of people. Weeks of training paid off yesterday for some in the east bay. Abc 7 news was for the Special Olympics. The athletes trained for eight to ten weeks for the chance to compete. There are medals but the goal for athletes is to do their best. It is not necessarily about winning with be though obviously they love it when they get the chance to win. Our Special Olympics oath says it all. Let me win, but if i cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. That volunteers supported Special Olympics for 29 years because she says she loves it. Top qualifiers advance to the summer games next month at uc davis. A bay area theme park will host hundreds of children battling cancer as well as their families for a day of fun. 600 children get to spend the day at californias Great America and meet former 49er ronnie lott. It is all part of the annual american cancer societys courageous kids day. Families can go on rides, build sand castles, watch a magic show and join in on the barbecue lunch. The event starts at 10 00 this morning. Good sunday morning to you. Happy mothers day. Hopefully youre making some plans to enjoy the day. We do have a little bit of cloud cover. Thats live doppler 7 showing you a little bit of low clouds in the south end of the day. It looks a little bit cloudy out there and we do have partly cloudy conditions in the city. 48 for you, 50 in oakland. 51 in Mountain View and san jose. Half moon bay at 48. Pretty pink picture, from our exploratorium camera, looking at calm waters right now. Could see a Small Craft Advisory did as the winds build and well have blustery conditions along the shoreline. In fact well see another 48 hours of this cooler than average weather. I think by tuesday things begin to turn around. 41 santa rosa. 42 napa. Numbers much cooler in the north bay. Concord and livermore at 50. East bay hills, you can see the moisture on the camera from the fog. But it wont last long. Partly cloudy skies. We have a slight chance of a shower in the north bay with an incoming weather system thats really going to work to reinforce the cool air. Thats whats going to happen as we go through the early part of the week with the secondary system. Breezy and cool throughout the middle of the week. By late in the day things are going to turn around for us tuesday, into wednesday when we get sunnier and warmer conditions. As for today, looking at partly cloudy skies starting out with the mid 40s inland, upper 40s around the bay. 60s by noon time. Few clouds around. Afternoon temperatures flirting with 70 in some of our warmer locations. Mid 60s in emeryville. 50s half moon bay. About 60 in San Francisco. Today were starting out with a few clouds. By the afternoon this weak weather system wants to build in a few more clouds, especially in the north bay. Then things will be quiet for your monday. But into early tuesday morning, this system, it looks like Northern California is going to see some showers, then it is going to skirt over into the sierra, nevada with snow levels 5,500 feet. Bay area not going to see much. In fact well be lucky if we see anything at all with some partly cloudy skies throughout the later afternoon. Lets get into friday. This is the warmth. We go from tuesdays cloudy and Cool Conditions to friday where we have 90s arriving. 70s in the city. So between now and then it is going to warm up. Things are going to get a little bit more seasonal. Today, 66 in santa clara. Numbers on the peninsula will be cool, breezy. 61 san mateo. San francisco. San leandro, 64 today. 69 san ramon. The accuweather sevenday forecast for today and tomorrow cool and breezy at the shoreline. Looking at maybe a chance of showers tuesday. But it looks like the system is weakening and well see increasing sun and warmth the rest of the

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