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KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM February 17, 2017

Resigned. There are only four members left on the Advisory Commission of asianamericans and Pacific Islanders. Melanie woodrow found members who left and one who stayed. Their perspectives on all of this. The commission is basically a liaison between the asianamerican and Pacific Islander community and the government. The commissioners who remain say they want to see projects underway to completion. Those who have resigned say the lines of communication between the commission and the president are closed. Of 20 commissioners, 16 have now resigned. 6 resigned when President Trump was elected. 10 more yesterday. Including the now former chair. We were told that there is basically no way to communicate information to the president unless its con grew end with his policies. Policies dr. Winn says he and other commissioners do not support. The most substantial Border Security measures in a generati generation. Weve ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with health care law. 2 million asianamericans didnt have Health Insurance before. The closed line of communication to mr. Trump is the reason they resigned. It gives you pause. The goal is to be patient and wait for that communication to occur. When it does, we need to take the work weve done and ensure it flourishes. Another commissioner said, im staying on, because im working with the White House Initiative on a few remaining projects and wish to complete them. I respect them very much, and their decision to stay. Dr. Winn says he will either appoint replacements, create a new commission or do nothing at all and let the Current Commission lapse. In San Francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Today abc 7 news was in san jose where the Largest School district received a lot of calls from parents saying their student was going to be absent. Its part of the National Day Without Immigrants protest. You have a lot of immigrant family families and student notice district. We reached out to san jose unified this afternoon. Some students were missing because of the protest, but would not give us official numbers. We checked with other districts, San Francisco says absences were not anything unusual today. Oakland told us, nothing significant. Napa valley reported 1100 absences, by comparison last thursday, there were 270, so big difference there. There were about 10 more ab senses in their district than normal, which only includes middle and elementary schools, the superintendent just spoke with us about what a difference that makes. The high schoolkids are the ones that are more freer to these kinds of things. Elementary students it is very. Its a message from the families, not a message from the kids. So i think that thats quite significant. Of course, its not really clear if all of these absent students were taking part in todays protest or if they were out of school for a different reason. Many Bay Area Stores and restaurants are stayinglosed today in support of the protest, aria a korean tap as restaurant shared this photo on instagram showing they closed today to recognize a day without immigrants. Its one of many examples and well share some more at 6 30. Theres a lot of uneasiness district. Crews continue working atop the high rise on tahama street to repair the concrete wall that was in danger of collapsing. Cornell bernard has the latest on the fix and what some officials want done to make sure it never happens again. Still lots of questions tonight. The city just slapped a builder with this violation notice. Tahama street still closed tonight between first and second as repairs atop the high rise take place. The building is safe, the crane is stabilized. The danger is over at a Downtown High rise. Sky 7 was over 33 tahama. A giant concrete slab leaned. The accident caused panic in the financial district wednesday afternoon. The order was lifted hours later, when the slab was stabilized, except for this tech firm at the base of the build billing, thats still off limits. If they say its safe i guess it is. David adele works in the shadow of the high rise, many of his coworkers didnt show up today. And for now, hes taking precautions. Staying away frat skylights and maybe the top level. Trying to stay as safe as possible. Our city has issued a notice of violation on 33 tehema. This notice halts construction of the building except for the repair work thats still going on. It gives the developer 48 hours on the status report. Its a one off incident or is there something systematically at issue with our inspection process that allowed this oversight to take place. The buildings texas developer says the situation is safe. The forms are now in a stable condition. Cal osha says lend lease, the buildings construction firm, received five citations since 2011, involving worker safety, and keeping some machinery in working order. Cornell bernard, abc 7 news. New at 6 00, new orders for all Oakland Police employees. Police officers and civilian employees were told they must report any parties going on without a permit. And any illegal Living Spaces in converted warehouses. Officers went inside the warehouse, in some cases, and the conditions were never reported to other city agencies. The directive tells officers to send an email to their supervisor and area captain. A series of storms that will last for a week. While it looks calm Spencer Christian is already tracking some weather advisories. Heres a closeup look at live doppler 7. We have calm finishes. It will arrive tomorrow morning. Obviously, impacting the morning commute. Strong gusty wind will accompany this system. Notice by 5 00, tomorrow morning, well see areas of moderate to heavy rain all over the bay area. It will become more widespread. It will be wetter across the bay area. We wont see the moderate to heavy rain ease up until afternoon. The winds accompany this storm will be quite strong we have a wind advisory in effect from 7 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. A closer look at the 7 00 day forecast coming up. Authorities are now responding to a case of tuberculosis in fairfield. Theyre working together on what theyre calling an active tuberculosis case. Theyre not releasing any information about the patient. Its important to note that there is a difference between an active tb case and a tb infection. People with a tb infection do not have the disease and are not sick because the back teer yar inactive. Seven years of economic growth. And the news comes just as apple says it will return its World Developers conference to san jose. Lonnie rivera is live outside the Mchenry Convention Center with the story. The last time that Developers Conference was here, that was more than a decade ago. The Convention Center is much larger there are new housing and apartments here. All reasons everyone is excited theyre coming back. Cars cruise by several tech companies. This busy workday brings some good economic news. Weve had several straight years of growth, this is an amazing economy. Our growth is outstripping the state, the nation. Thats according to the 2017 Silicon Valley index. Jobs, income, Office Construction are growing in Silicon Valley. San jose really is the heart of Silicon Valley. The news comes on the same day apple announced its worldwide Developers Conference is coming back to san jose. Since 2003, the International Conference has drawn thousands of developers to san jose. It brings thousands of people from throughout the world. A new tech startup recently opened an office in north san jose. They specialize in entertainment content, smart tvs, bikes and cars. We have capacity for people here in well over 500 offices. Along with growth comes some growing pain. People are losing amazing amounts of time in traffic. The economy shows no signs of slowing down. Lonnie rivera, abc 7 news. Help arrived by the truckload today in california. Well see what it looks like when fema steps in to help out at the oroville dam. The differences are visible from space. Im kate larson, neighbors would like to see a toll system to reduce traffic on their street. Tourists on the other hand not tourists on the other hand not so [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh the price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh the price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. A story we brought you minutes ago has already changed. Oakland Police Officers and employees were being told to report any illegal parties or residences inside converted warehouses. A statement was just released, the e maim with those instructions was distributed prematurely. We will stay on top of this changing situation and bring you whatever happens next. Popularity has its problems. Its part of tracking down on lombard street. A city supervisor and a Neighborhood Association would like to see a toll system go in here on lombard street, the money from that would go to pay for more policing in this very congested and sometimes dangerous area. Even though this process is at least two years away from being implemented. A lot of people in the neighborhood are concerned. I moved in a decade ago, we didnt have this amount of traffic. Reporter terrys address may be famous, for the past nine years, her life has become increasingly chaotic. The last two years, the amount has increased to the point youll see this, yes, this is an every day occurrence. And at night it increases. 2 million visitors a year, double what muir woods gets, we have zero infrastructure in place. Mark farrell wants that infrastructure to come in in the form of fast track toll readers and camera. If you drive down the street without one of these, you could be charged more. Its really about what will reduce the demand to drive down the streets. Break ins, every other day. Dennis accepted a job as a building manager last year, he hopes reducing traffic will reduce crime in his new neighborhood. I see fights, thats what i see most of the time. Police need to come to my building, check the security cameras once in a while. One of the only free attractions will soon have a price tag. Bad idea. San francisco is too expensive for tourists. Others say they may be willing to pay a small amount. No more than 10. I wouldnt pay more than that. 5 would be reasonable. Remember, the whole purpose of the toll is to deter at least some of the tourists from jamming up the hill. Not to find a price that everyone likes. Reporting on lombard street, kate larson, abc 7 news. Residents of san Mission District celebrated 25 years of day laborers in the city. A renovated facility on Ceasar Chavez street. A medical services we can connect them with housing services, we can connect them with a food pantry. The Center Offers classes for day laborers and Domestic Workers to improve their career skills. Californias Drought Conditions continue to improve. The beige color on these maps correspond to moderate drought. Many change to yellow, which indicates areas that are only abnormally dry. Abc 7 news anchor kristen sze is here with new satellite images that show the differences. This is from last april, coming off a dry winter, lets focus on San Pablo Bay right here. Now, lets bring up this week, also San Francisco bay, we want you to focus on San Pablo Bay once again, the water is so brown, that is sediment, washed in from the sierra and the central lley, what a dramatic difference, right . Lets check out, further north, split screen here, last november, on the right just this week. You see on the right, we have quite a robust water flow here right into sassoon bay. Thats from just this week. How about a few months ago. Can you see where the water flow would be . Not really. You cant tell theres a river unless i bring up the sketching for you. You can see the other differences, look at the water. Green, brown, brown not necessarily bad, its the sediment, it looks not as pretty. What a dramatic picture. Dan and amma. Certainly dry conditions, were not going to be dry very long, thats the pattern were in these days, the dry spells are infrequent. Looking out across the bay, and over the embarcadero. Current readings are fairly uniform. San jose, gilroy and half moon bay. Another live view from our emeriville camera as we continue, temperatures remain. One more live view at the Golden Gate Bridge you can see that skies are cloudy. These are our forecast features, it will be rainy and windy for the morning commute. This wet pattern will continue through the middle of next week, our approaching storm ranks one on the storm impact scale. It will certainly have an impact on tomorrows morning commute, we expect moderate and heavy rainfall in the morning hours, and the storm will be accompanied by strong gusty winds, heres our forecast animation. Notice this storm or this wave of rain is coming up from our south. In the south bay, it will get wet first, 5 00 a. M. , the morning commute gets underway, all parts of the bay area will have received some rainfall we move right through the central part of the bay area. It wont start to ease up until the early afternoon, by late afternoon, into the evening hours, well see Little Pockets of trailing showers, finally that will wind down late tomorrow night the gusty wind will accompany the heaviest of the rain. Well see wind gusting from 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Well see gusts from 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour generally. Well see gusts exceeding fairfield. We project rainfall totals will range widely just over a quarter in san jose. High temperatures tomorrow, mainly in the low 60s. Over in the sierra by the way, snow will be falling, we have the Winter Weather advisory in effect we expect 6 to 12 inches of show. Hazardous travel conditions. Heres the accuweather 7day forecast. The storms for the next three days will rank one on the storm impact scale. Well see some sunshine. It wont last long. Just in time for president s day your threeday weekend will wind up on a soggy note, well have additional rain wednesday, tuesday and wednesday. But not next thursday. Running out of juice tesla stock is slumping. Stock is slumping. Why stock is slumping. Why when you find something worth waiting for, well help you invest to protect it for the future. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase, so you can. Abdominayou may have ibs. Ask your doctor if nonprescription ibgard is right for you. Ibgard calms the angry gut. Available in the digestive aisle at cvs, walgreens and riteaid. Were looking live at San Francisco international airport. You could get a free meal. Starting march 1st, delta will begin providing free meals from San Francisco and jfk. Delta tested out food offerings last year, and found a big increase in customer satisfaction. American airlines debuted its none stop flight from phoenix to sonoma county. On the ground, teslas stock value slipped a bit today. Following united autoworkers to unionize. The head of the union is reaching out to workers at tesla, uaw president tells reuters, any effort to unionize tesla workers will be determined by the employees. Teslas stock price fell by 11 today. Overall, the Dow Jones Rose slightly. Today is thursday, its the 16th of february, its a day without immigrants. See who supports the idea and how long it took for us to find someone in San Francisco who opposes it. Im Jonathan Bloom here, where theyre staging at Travis Air Force base. Dont be fooled by the cle with the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Its okay to cry, right . No more we dont want anymore [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh everyday price and no extra monthly fees, unlike cable. Speeds up to 45 megs, for 30 a month. Shut down just for one day, this is what the protest called a day without immigrants looks like it was a protest and a strike. Some workers decided to protest as a way to show how vital they are. For some businesses, closing shop was an act of support. How the day went in San Francisco. The staff made a tough decision today, cancelling reservations to stand behind a few of their workers who took the day off. Not only to make a part of the workforce, with it comes a special skills set. The nationwide event called, a day without an immigrant was felt most in the predominantly hispanic Mission District where many businesses closed shop. Zunis cafe opened but made sure their clients read their message. Immigrants make america great. Very few people were not behind the concept of workers staying home. I dont think its going to change how the politicians feel. One Business Reopening today was the nonprofit, day labor program. It will continue to provide casual work for people regardless of their status. Theyre gaining the skills they need to gain, getting access to dignified work, and they dont have to be

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