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KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY August 19, 2016

Heres katie. Reporter the crowd out here just keeps growing. Everyone wants to get a picture with the naked donald trump statue and i have to tell you some of the poses not so pretty. But the big question right now is how long will the statue stay in place . The director of public works was here earlier assessing the situation said it would be taken down because it doesnt have a permit and nothing is allowed to be glued to the sidewalk. Also that people are standing in the street which is a hazar hazard. But a lot of people here and on social media clamoring for it to stay. They love it and certainly getting a lot of laughs. Activist Group Commission 5 statue and installed in 5 city this morning. San francisco. Los angeles. New york. Cleveland and seattle. They are of course antidonald trump statement intended to degrade the republican president ial candidate. Noi now i talked with the chairman of the San Francisco hispanic republican asciation he said the statue is worth a laugh but people need to stay focus on the leex and the issues. He also noted good or bad, the statue has people talking about donald trump. In San Francisco, katie, abc 7 news. There are Major Development in the race for the white house at rally tonight in North Carolina. First donald trump express regrets. Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you dont choose the right words. Or you say the wrong thing. Tive done that. And believe it or not, i regret it. Reporter also trump and his new Campaign Team now acknowledge they are behind in the polls after uncomfortable moment onable tv. Tom is with the campaign in charlotte, North Carolina. Today donald trump taking his law and order persona to a shooting range. Firing an Assault Rifle while in a suit and tie. Just went down to the range and we had a little shooting practice. Reporter g. O. P. Nominee impressing North Carolina sheriff. This man can shoot. Reporter we have to take his word for it. Camera not allowed to document trump the sharp shooter. Manhattan billionaire shaking up the campaign and now starting uphillclimb though some long time aide refuse to accept hes behind. You say its not a shake up. But you guys are down. And it makes sense. Says who. Polls. Most of the poll. All of them. Says who . Polls. I just told you i answered your question. Okay. Which polls . All of them. Okay. Reporter but now his new Campaign Manager admitting trump is an under dog. It helps us to be a little bit behind and we are. Lights a fire under us and remind us what we need to get this done. Reporter there is still time. First debate prime opportunity for trump to turn things around with millions watching. I look very much forward to it. I like being off the cuff. I have been at 11 debates. Never debated before. My whole life is a debate. Reporter today conway says trump will hold the first debate prep session this weekend more than a month before the show down. They already selected some one to play Hillary Clinton but they wont say who. That was the report. Former complaint major announcement saying the Clinton Foundaiton no longer accept foreign or corporate donation if Hillary Clinton is elected president. This comes as House Republicans have called for an investigation the essentially calling the Clinton Foundation a pay for play operation. Clintons vehemently deny that. Today Hillary Clinton went met with 8 leaders in the Law Enforcement community to discuss and focus on challenges facing both officers and the communities they serve. Everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law. Reporter according to the Research Center survey 41 percent of region sterld voters would support clinton 37 support trump today. Bay area. Small school bus with special need students on board collided with a truck in petaluma this afternoon. Fire Department Spokesperson says half ton pick up broadside the bus at East Washington street and maria drive. Boy on board the bus suffered minor injury and taken to the hospital. The woman driving the truck and her child were also hurt but not hospitalized. Now to the wildfires burning across california tonight. Blue cut fire largest one burning in southern california. Its being fanned by gusty wind and temperatures hovering around 100 degrees. Firefighters say conditions have been brute a. Even though temperatures have eased slightly did. Containment now 22 percent says cal fire after burning 36,000 acres. Some evacuation orders were lichted about an hour ago. Thousands of people are still out of their homes tonight. Police want to make sure everyone knows they are serious about cracking down on looters in the fire soechbility they arrested these three people this morning when officers caught them filling up the back of a truck at an evacuated home. Moving north. Clayton fire in lake county now 55 percent contained. But the lower lake county Water District is still without power and under an evacuation notice. Mandatory boil water order is in place and resident returning home being advised to take bottled water in with them. The fire destroyed 175 homes and nearly 100 other businesses and buildings. The fire has burned almost 4000 acres. A member of the u. S. Fencing team has no home to come back to because he lost it in the clayton fire. Matthew porter is the armor on the team meaning he provides and maintenance all of the equipment in rio. Few days before he left for brazil he and his wife moved from pacifica to lower lake and bought a new home. Go fund me account is set up to help them. Lower lake Water District says it is struggling because of the fire. Entire system is under a mandatory boil water order. The office is without power and under evangelism asian notch customers being told it will take great deal of time and work to recover from this fire. Exhausted pilots are hoping to get some rest after fighting the clayton fire all week. Leslie has behind the scenes look at what it takes to be a firefightersing pilot. Pilots flew 25 trips not clayton fire over the past few days and the air tanker with solo and coordinate with captain to drop retardant on the right spot. We are trying our best to save some people trying their best to destroys stuff. And thats very sad. Reporter knowing an arsonist set the clayton fires unsettling. Disturbing to know it was an arsonist behind a fire you put your life on the line for. Absolutely. But it doesnt change the way we handle it but you try not to think too deeply about that and deal with the task at hand. Reporter this one base in santa rosa pumped and dropped 80,000 gallons of retardant in a single day. Pilot say fighting a fire from above requires precise tactical choreography and dangerous. Two yourself ago long time pilot Jeffrey Craig hunt from san jose crashed and died near yosemite. Adding to the peril now are drones. Drones have been an issue this year. People flying drones in the fire area. Once we see those we have to satisfies all air operations. Reporter there have been more than 4 incidents involving drone that grounded Fire Fighting aircraft so far this year in california. You see more extreme fires. Oh, yes oh, yes. Reporter harder to fight. Yes. Of course. Needs more airplane. Needs more ground resource. Needs more everything. Reporter with 8 week of fire season ahead, cal fire wants the public to know you fly, we dont. In santa rosa, im leslie brin brinkly 7 news. Sheriffs deputy and canine partner being credited for major pot bust in sonoma county. Take a look. Picture of canine deputy jag in front of 108 pound of marijuana he sniffed out during a traffic stop last night near santa ros rosa. Authorities arrested two men from new york charging them with possession of marijuana for sale transportation of marijuana for sale and conspiracy. Pot has reported street value of up to half Million Dollars. Oakland students return to class on monday and they have to prove they have been immunized. District trying to confirm immunization for 4000 students. New vaccine requirements in effect and student within complete with missing records cant register or attend classes. The district says it is taking every measure possible positive assist families who havent completed the process. We have much more ahead on this thursday night. Coming up. How amazing it is take technology and people make this happen. Truly. She went out for a hike and came home in a completely different way than she had planned. Her story of survival is next. Also. Effort to keep memory alive. The fight to protect these the ghost bikes in honor of bicycle lists who died. As you see here stronger marine influence has started the cooling trend. Let you know if it continues the cooling trend. Let you know if it continues through the jeans. Thank you sandhya. And why fewer homes are being sold in the bay area. And why fewer homes are being sold in the bay area. 7. Helicopter needed to get santa rosa woman safely home after she suffered a stroke while hiking. She was on the john muir trail in Fresno County when it happened. Melanie explains what she was carrying that helped her get home safely. Reporter miss steel didnt intend to leave the trail by helicopter. But she says shes glad she was able to leave at all. Im so blessed. Im so blessed. Reporter her dramatic rescue a case of daughter knows best. My daughter required that i have some way of communicating with her so i had a beek on. Personal locate or beacon which turned out was really importan important. Reporter she used it to activate alert eighth day on the trail. She felt wobble tingling in her face and couldnt swallow. She was having stroke. Because she had had at the vice we knew exactly where she was at. My gosh and went back to base and got a guy willing to come straight down into the little opening to get me. I knew that landing near her was probably difficult. Reporter in the rescue video you can see what it looked like as deputy pilot john reyes lowered down. Can you help me well put her in a stretcher in a bag. Reporter as she was being rescued this is where she thought. How amazing it is take that technology and people can make this happen. Even if some one told me you are welcome to hike but you have a stroke, i think i probably still would have chose tone do it because that is a magnificent trail. Reporter even more so now. In santa rosa, Melanie Woodrow abc 7 news. Charges dropped against man accused of making Death Threats against San Francisco acting police chief. Donald hogan was arrested after allegedly sending tweet calling for the beheading of chief chaplain. Judge says there wasnt enough evidence in the case. Unique tribute to buy likeist struck and killed in San Francisco disappearing and some family say its happening with no notice. Now a call for city moratorium on removing ghost bike and for new policies. Carolyn has the story. Reporter if you have never heard of a ghost bike they look like this. Spray painted white. And chained to the spot where a bicyclist hit and killed. Julie and her family made one. For her 21yearold son dillon who died three years ago on the streets of San Francisco. After colliding with a garbage truck. People would stop and pay their respect. They would read it. People would slow down to see it. Reporter then one day it was gone. Very disrespectful. Like throwing my son in the garbage. Reporter warner organizes a ride of silence each year. Making stops whereby sick list have died. All over San Francisco shes noticed ghost bike tribute are disappearing. And as a member of the City Bicycle Advisory Committee she is introducing a resolution on monday calling on the Public Works Department to hold off for a year on dismantling the memorials. Would i like to work something out with the city that they would permit putting up of the ghost bike. Of course provide it that no ghost bike is closing being a public hazard. Reporter current policy is two week stay for all make shift memorials. But hes open to change. If its a piece of art or if its something that doesnt involve a lot of maintain then maybe there is some Common Ground we can look at and see what is reason. Reporter Julie Mitchell says the city should stop removing the ghost bikes or erect permanent memorial to fallen cyclist like her son. Carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. Federal judge today rejected a potential 100 Million Dollar settlement ub her worked out with the driver drivers. Agreement settled the Class Action Lawsuit with the drivers who claimed they were employees but some drivers objected to the terms saying they should be reimbursed for expenses like gas and vehicle maintenance. Judge called the settlement unfair to the drivers and says it was well below the total potential damages of 8 52 Million Dollars uber released a statement saying its disappointed in the decision. Bay area home prices slipped in july. Median price of bay area home was 700,000 dollars. Thats 10,000 dollars less than a month before. Also the total number of home sales slowed by 10 . Analyst with core logic that provide this data says its a scene of wing affordability, low inventory and moderately tight credit. Typical mortgabout 2500 dollars. All right. Time to get a check on our accuweather forecast t. Whats ahead. Reporter hi. We are going to get some free air conditioning for a change all right. The temperatures start to drop a little bit today. As we head into the next few days you notice the changes as well. Live doppler 7hd right now showing you where the fog is sitting. Around the coast and near the bay. South beach camera showing you this gray view here thats what the commute starts out like. 58 San Francisco. 61 in oakland. At 67 in san jose. Real mild still. 65 mountain view. 57 in half moon bay. Live look from our emeryville camera and i step a aside to get the full view there you notice the marine layer in the back drop there its about 2,000 feet deep and its going to hang around for the next few day so get used to it. 60 in santa rosa. In the mid 60s in places like napa. 72 concord. Livermore is warm and check out our full moon from our 7 news explore tomorrow camera at pier 15. Sturgeon moon in august. This type of moon obviously over large water bodies over lake there was aabundant sturgeon so when fishermen out and about they named it the sturgeon moon. Patchy drizzle. Wide range of temperatures tomorrow with spare the air again. Air quality is the worst in the inland east bay. Moderate rest of the bay area. If you can try to use Public Transit car pool bike or walk. Now first thing in the morning we start you out in the 50s to low 60s. There will be fog around this time around though its so deep that it is not dense and right down on the deck like we have been dealing with. 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow you see where the fog is sitting. As we go in closer here bay side communities along the coast down the peninsula you are starting out with over cast sky. For the afternoon the fog will happening around near the beaches inland areas you are seeing the sunshine. As far as the high for your friday in the south bay hazy sky due to all the fires burning. Not just down in Monterey County but also some of the fires around the southern sierra, smoke drifting in our direction due to south wind. 81 san jose. 87 morgan hill. 77 sunnyvale. Santa cruz 71 degrees on the peninsula 72 in san mateo o. 76 redwood city. Right near the coast foggy 59 pacifica. 60 half mp bay. Downtown San Francisco 64. Daly city you know you are used to the fog in the summer. 59 degrees. Keep you cool. Need the sweater. In the north bay 75 in san rafael. 80 santa rosa. Out towards napa sonoma upper 70s. East bay mix of high clouds and sun. 72 san hey andro. 69 berkeley. 70 oakland. Inland spots is going to get warm but not as warm as it has been. 87 in concord. 90 in livermore. 87 degree ins san ramone. Now check out the temperature trend for san jose. Afternoon high is 83 degrees. Next few days we drop you a little bit below average sunday monday several degree below normal in the upper 70s and then we bounce back up into the low 80s. Heres a look at the accuweather 7 day forecast low 60s to low 90s friday and saturday. We start to see those temperatures out of the 90s on sunday upper 80s inland mid 80s along the inland communities for monday and then we cool it down along the coast as well but tuesday through thursday back up in the 90s. Amma. All right sandhya thank you so much. Still to come on 7 news at 9 00. Iphone 7 could be released within a matter of weeks. When we might expect the announcement. Plus the unprecedented view announcement. Plus the unprecedented view the new you live life your way. We can help you retire your way, too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. There is still no official announcement from apple about the much anticipated release of the new iphone 7. Announcement will come september 7 with preorders starting two days after that. Apple has unveiled and released new i phones every september since 2012. And leak to at t memo has said september 9 and 23 as mainly restocking dates. Rover used to explore the titanic are about to be deployed off the Northern California coast. We were on board the Research Vessel nautilus as the group prepared to setoff

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