if you have been to italy and know there are many ancient buildings and part of the charm is what has made the earthquake so destructive: the buildings have crumbled. there have been strong after shocks, the strongest are 5.5 magnitude. this video of a woman being rescued and you can see rescuers finding her dog trapped in the rubble, carrying the animal out. the mayor of this town where the epicenter struck has said it is "no more." >> the search continues at this hour for survivors. we will bring you updates when we get new information. >> thank you, jessica. we have new information moment by moment on the story so stay with us for continuing coverage on air and on-line with details as they come in. can you follow us twitter@abc7newsbayarea. you can see a map of

myammar, which is where another earthquake happened, a 6.8 earthquake that struck that area of the world, and the machine shows the epicenter of the earthquake about 15 miles with shaking felt several hundred mills away in the capital of anyway land, and the u.s. geological survey said there was a depth of 52 miles. it is early but right new no initial reports of damage or casualties and we are monitoring that situation and bring you more through the morning. >> we are making the second anniversary today of the 6.earthquake in napa, and residents are still coping with the impact. 50 buildings are red tagged because of, damage and 25 other structures were destroyed. 1,400 victims received $5.5 million in cash payments. city foes have decided to put aside $2 million for the next disaster or emergency. now in san jose, police have

arrested one of their own, they say he was providing intelligence to gang members. this is part of a bigger sweep called "operation gang of throne s." matt is at police headquarters. >> we expect to learn more of thissation as a press conference later today here at the san jose police department. we know that one officer was arrested in this gang sweep. this investigation began in march of this year. police say they were targeting a vietnamese street gang called "operation gang of thrones," which is believed involved in numerous crime including assault, gambling, drugs, and public corruption with multiple arrests, including a 9 1/2-year veteran of the san jose police department. the officer and identified at derrick anthony booked in jail on five felony counts of

unauthorized computer access and accessory after the fact. the press conference is scheduled for 3:00 today. san jose police chief garcia will be there along with representatives from the d.e.a. and the f.b.i. thank you. new this morning police in daly city are investigating an overnight shoot that left a man critically hurt. it maked at 12:30 this morning near hillcrest drive. the victim was in his 20s with a gunshot wound in his stomach. he was taken to san francisco general where he had surgery. police are investigating what led up to the shooting. people in general -- in jenner are reeling from the death of two young sisters when their vehicle plunged off the highway into the russian river, four-year-old hailey and

six-year-old kaitlyn died after the vehicle skidded on the road and slipped into the river. >> a guard rail will be a great help to stop the cars from going over the edge. can you see how steep it is. cars go straight into the water. [ inaudible ] when there is a heavy mist, it is slippery. >> markus broke the window to try and save her girls. the vehicle sank before anyone could reach them. grief counselors and therapy dogs are on hand at campus at the school today. >> investigators in san francisco are trying to determine what caused a taxi driver to drive on to a busy sidewalk in the middle of the day. this morning, the driver is out of the hospital but the two people he hit are still there. here is that story. >> 66-year-old has shined shoes in san francisco since 1999. at the stand by the bart station

elevator, he and his assistant were struck by a yellow cab that bear recommend on to the sidewalk to market street. this woman is a good friend who was in her jewelry stand four feet away. i heard a crash. i saw the old man flying up in the air like out of a movie, something unbelievable. >> she called 9-1-1 as people stopped to help. the cab driver stumbled out and collapsed the san francisco police are investigating the cause of the accident including the possibility that the cab driver suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel. but witnesses say the cab was speeding down market street. >> he was going 60 miles per hour. sometimes more. to get to the next destination. >> commuters took pictures of the corner where the kiosk was destroyed and the some shine stand where he was giving a homeless man a job. the man who new is in critical

condition. >> he was always smiling and behind the shoes and making an effort. >> everyone who was used to seeing them is praying for their recovery. >> now to your voice your vote. democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton will be fundraising in the bay area again today knowing she has opened up a huge lead in the battle green state of virginia. a new poll has her 16 points ahead of donald trump after being tied there in may. supporters in piedmont snapping photos. some have waited two hours to get a loom. one opinion everheard saying it was worth the wait. hillary clinton has a fundraiser in redwood city and another in silicon valley with apple c.e.o. >> donald trump is campaigning in florida today. in texas yesterday, he called hillary clinton "a bigot," say

she only sees communities of color as votes. donald trump told the crowd in austin that board are security is the most vital issue. at a townhall meeting he suggested he is open to softening laws dealing with people who are in the united states illegally. >> a south bay city council member is out on bail after being booked on suspicion of domestic violence. according to our media partner, campbell police arrested the councilman yesterday morning. a woman shed up the at police department and told officers she was involved in a domestic violence incident with her fiance. police investigated and arrested him. he posted $20,000 bail and was released yesterday afternoon. >> san francisco police say they are keeping a close eye on twin peaks after two more tourists were robbed enjoying the city view. no arrests have been made. a map threated two machine with a gun. it is the latest in a string of problems on tin peak in the last year. in january,% snatchers pepper

entried a tourist. in december, two people beat and robbed an 812-year-old man. >> caught up in delays on bart yesterday afternoon? this could be the ron why. lafayette police were searching for this man, a suspected bank rubber who hit the bank near first street. it happened at 4:45 and trains were not stomping at the station. police are still searching to this morning and released photos showing what he looked like and what he was wearing. >> now, temperatures, you can see in san francisco, when you were at west portal from 5 and castro 56 and same in the mission, and glen park and ocean beep, 58, and mist at 58 in the financial district if you are heading that way. we have a the love 58s, richmond, walnut creek, pittsburgh, santa clara, delaycy, 60s around san

leandro, and palo alto and 64 in petaluma. here is what will happen in san jose, the average high is 83 degrees, starting off at 5959 6:00, and at lunch, delightful 71, and get ready for upper 70s to low 80s from 2:00 all the way through 5:00. now, for the rest us we are going to see 70s around the bay and 60s along the cost into san francisco and sausalito, and 80s inland and even 91 in antioch, minimal best compared to yesterday. cooler an the bay tomorrow, and the warm the will retreat inland by friday. we will look at the when forecast next. alexis? >> good morning to all of our emeryville drivers filling in on westbound 80, for major issues there. i want to take you over to the altamont pass, we are seeing red volumes there on the inbound side and i necessity the reason, heavier than usual. we are hearing about a disabled vehicle on westbound 580 right

around the area near the altamont pass as you get through it, we have one lane down and we have a tow truck on the way to the scene and hopefully they will get that cleared. we will look at drive times in 10 minutes. >> a new kind of claim for a stinky problem on bart that will not quit. all the judge in the stanford swimmer case is under more fire this morning. the action his opponents are ta

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>> it is 4:43. activists were again called for removalling of judge persky at a rally in san francisco. western outside the building in june when a group gathered demanding justice for sentencing former swimmer brock turner to only six months in jail for sexual assault. activists are expected to carry giant pink slips right after the judge recused hill sell from another sex crime case. our reporter has more on that. >> judge persky filed this motion recusing himself because of doubts about his impartialness setting off a firestorm early which year when he sentenced brock turner, a former stanford swimmer, to six months in jail after a jury fond him guilty of sexual assaulting an unconscious woman.

we republicanbly question his impartialness. >> professor dauber is accusing him of favoring white men, in this case, robert got four daze for possession of child porn. owe no other judge gives less than six months, and in other judge invited the defendant to come back for a misdemeanor. >> the defendant was supposed to go before persky on thursday to try to get the felony bumped down to a misdemeanor. now another judge will hear the case. public defender defends persky's decision. >> a it is refreshing to see a judge look at the defendant in the case for his individualized circumstances opposed to just issuing the standard expectation. >> persky opponents have to take the recall effort to voter in 20 17. >> a case drawing similarities to the brock town are case is

unfolding in massachusetts a sentencing for a star athlete convicted of sexual assault is triggering outrage right now, and that 18-year-old david becker plead guilty to assaulting two unconscious teens. a judge sentenced him to two years probation and no jail. the lawyers argue he had no previous criminal record and deserved to go to college. prosecutors wanted him sent to prison. >> police are asking for your help to track down two people who are responsible for killing a local musician. police hope this photo is enough to trigger someone would knows this man and this woman. officers say they were seen with the person suspected of shooting and killing the musician. the musician was killed in april of last year. he was loading band equipment outside the golden bull bar when a stray bullet hit him in the neck. someone arguing on the street opened fire. the suspect got away driving a

four door mercedes benz. acalifornia is a step closer to ending a tack on him anyone hygiene products and is headed to the governor's d.c. it was passed with strong support from both democrats and republicans. the senate areserved it last week and the governor has already signaled he does intend to sign the measure. in so it will take effect next year. all the sun is is thing on the chance to dump detail height savings time. the california state senate fell four votes short of placing the initiative to get rid of the time containing on the ballot. on pops say putting california four hours behind during some parts of the year would be an issue for businesses who do a lot of commerce with the east coast. a scots cost has until next week to get law mays to change their mine. >> a story that many of you know, the smelly part elevators. they double as public toilets.

according to the age there is a new but unconventional trick to deal with the smell. bacteria eating enzymes, and spraying enzymes down the shafts once an hour, and the station is a guinea guinea pig station. there will also be urine resistant floors. >> apologies if you are eating your breakfast. >> $1.6 million is being spent to make sure an avenue is more accessible in berkeley to those with disabilities widening the sidewalks and make sure that the curbs and street crossings are wheelchair accessible between 7th and shattuck avenue. it is also a state highway. >> now, to mike nicco. are we misty this morning? or not so much as yesterday?

>> not as much as yesterday along the coast, did not run into anyone coming through the east bay hills it is cloudy in san rafael southbound 101 but as you head up to petaluma the visibility is down to a mile so watch out for the patchy fog as you commute. we will go from clouds do sunshine account cost today is warmer and the cost today, more clouds tonight, and patchy drizzle and that will start the slow cooling trend last thrust weekend. the next six hours we are not expecting organized areas of wet weather. now, at look at cloud cover, and even faster than yesterday, pulling back to the coast, sunshine is everywhere, even up in some of the coastal valleys leading in to petaluma we are clear up quickly. we will see what it does to the temperatures, back to average in the south bay with 82 at san jose, to morgan hill at 86 and sunnyville at 76. on the peninsula, 72 in san mateo, a last mid-to-upper 70s along the cost in the mid-60s and in san francisco, breezy during the afternoon hours at

66, and the sun will set at 63, and in the north bay highs are climbing a little bit barely noticeable but we will see 80s in sonoma and santa rosa and along the east bay, we will have 71 in oakland, shy of average, castro valley at 76 and young city 74 and inland, warm to hot with upperrity to low 90s. here is my seven-day forecast, you can see by the welcome we are still expecting temperatures below average and the bay and inland. we have a day game for a's fans. >> and we kick off wednesday morning drive and it is light on san mateo bridge on the westbound side between hayward to foster city. i want to flip over and check out our drive times, we had a disabled vehicle continue minutes ago, westbound 580 near north gasoline adds you get through the altamont pass but it is cleared from the board so trying to confirm that it has cleared from the right lane and we are seeing some...medium delays at 50 minutes for the drive from tracy to dublin, and

antioch to concord is green and southbound 101 san rafael to san francisco is 17 minutes. >> pokemon go took the world by storm and we are coming up next and losing some of its buzz. >> and berkeley controversial soda tax. >> steph curry making major moves right now but not on the hardwood a high-tech venture he is take on. by, first, techbytes. >> checking in after italy's earthquake. america is traveling or moving in italy can use facebook to let friends and relatives know they are all right and tell us if we have friends in central italy, check safety check to reach the page. domino's stock opens high because they are courting millennials using technology.

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higher and increased prices have a greater impact on purchasing patterns. the american beverage association said there is no indication the tax is a measurable impact on public health. >> do you t on the board or with speech recognition? a new study show as drastic difference in speed. researchers put 32 texters against speech recognition software. after typing and speaking 100 phrases in english and mandarin, speech recognition was they times faster where lower error rate. they knew it would be faster but not that fast. now they want to emergency engineers to take better advantage of the technology. >> only the strong survive is the trend for pokemon go with everybody gagement dropping from the peak of 45 million to 3 million last week. that is accord to analysis. they expected a drop after it was name the most popular app. pokemon go does not look like it will go away. it is still google play store's number one flow app.

it is number two in apple's app store. >> steph curry is expanding the profile in the technical world. he new is a partner at a new face of press play, digital media start-up that offering video of steph curry to fans in china. he is an investor in a start-up that lets parents book private coaches for their kids and the special steph curry emoji for smart phones. >> from abc7 morning >> the golden gate bridge in your travels take you across, expect west wind at 13 miles per hour and increasing clouds and fog as we head through the morning. we will go to the grabs you can see what i am talking about as far as today. we are warmer average inland concord but everyone else is 1-5 degrees short of average. at game this afternoon you will need the sunglasses with a

necessary breeze from the west at 10 miles per hour and temperatures in the mid-to-upper 50s to 60s at 4:00 at coliseum. >> looking pretty good with no major incidents to talk about and the first check of the south bay is filling in just slightly northbound 101 at 880, but the no blocking issue is for the san jose area. we are getting word that we have some debris, a large cone or barrel from construction on westbound pa 80 leaning the castro valley area right around fairmont drive a vehicle hit that and was able to continue driving the we watch that and look at drive times in a few. >> an arrestist is making progress on the public art roth in san leandro, "truth is beauty," that will be 55 foot sculpture of a naked woman. only the feet last week were installed, but the sculpture is

located near the san leandro bart station and the artist hops this sparks a conversation about humanity women. >> a new report on the staggering number of guns confiscateed in america's airplanes a record 81 firearms at security check points between august 12 and august 18. also, 70s were loaded, 31 had a round in the chamber. last week the tally brings the total number of guns from carry on baggage this year to 1,900 amounting to eight firearms a day. >> day lit is reviewing the devastation after a powerful earthquake the incredible new images of the damage we are seeing as rescuers sent for mountains of rubble for survivors. >> sisters with an inseparable bomb 18-year-old twins are calling a van home and you can help them change that.

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>> good morning, east bay this is abc7 morning. >> good morning, it is august 24 , i amendment natasha zouves. >> i am regular. >> and we have alexis smith and mike nicco. >> you can see what going on with live doppler hd. necessity need for an umbrella. there could be mist the next couple of hours on the coast. from the pier 15, marine layer is 1,500'. the day planner is 55 to 61 through 7:00. 59 to 76, you need the sunglasses at