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live where you live, this is abc7 news. at 11:00, a major develop in the oakland warehouse fire. the recovery of the is now complete. crews have searched the entire building. the death toll stands at 36. the focus now turns to clearing the scene. >> we are on storm watch. live doppler hd is tracking the rain heading our way. we have the first spots green moving into the bay area. we will check with meteorologist mike nicco to see when the rain will hit your neighborhood. good morning, i am reggie aqui. >> i am kristen sze. but, first, aftermath of the deadly ghost ship fire.
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amy hollyfield is at scene with what comes next. >> they will clear out all of the debris and they will start to board up the ghost ship warehouse ending this sad chapter. we have a ways to go. after furlong around-the-clock days of tough emotional work first responders are tear down and can say this. >> the search for any additional victims has been concluded. unfortunately, the number remains a loss of lives of 36. this is the final number. >> there is still a police presence protecting the scene as evidence. the fire accident and a.t.f. will look for the cause and the crime in investigation is ongoing. the district attorney was look for surveillance cameras in the area that could have video from the night of the fire. >> several block will be closed because of the heavy equipment. we have investigators out here.
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part of the thoroughfare we expect to be open this afternoon. life hardly runs to normal. the pain is visible in the fruitvale district. city leaders say they are now focused on making sure it does not happen again. the building was permitted as a warehouse and the people were living here. fire happened during a musical performance. >> our prayers goes to the family but i assure you in the city of oakland we are already dressing the issue. we do need more fire marshals and code enforcement inspecters. that is our priority. >> the city council promised it will be a priority on the budget. all the firefighters who have been searching around the clock and seeing grim details the fire chief said they will deal with their emotions
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the next couple of hours, and i really think that light rain is going do develop later on in the afternoon. expect sprinkles through 2:00, as we look at rain developing in the north bay down to san francisco by 4:00, and it spread to all of the neighborhoods by 6:00, and it pecks up intensity by 8:00, and it becomes moderate at times so the later you are getting out for the evening commute, the more likely you will be on slick streets of the storm-impact scale is at 2:00 tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow with moderate rain and breezy conditions and minor urban flooding and i will show you the hour-by-hour look ahead. >> right now we have a traffic alert to tell you about. this is happening in san mateo. right now, the off ramp from eastbound highway 912 on to alameda is still closed due to an earlier big-rig crash that spilled dirt all over place, two other vehicles were involved, and right now, the carolinaup -- clean up continues and the
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off-ramp will be closed until about 2:30 this afternoon. all the woman who is representing the bay area in congress for 33 years said a fond goodbye on the senate floor. our morning anchor is here with the highlights of boxer's farewell speech. >> boxer gave a thoughtful and gracious and humorous 25 speech thanks staff and friends and colleagues who help her journey through the senate. he is the most liberal in congress and held her senate seat 24 years. >> as a first generation america on my mother's side and particularly as a woman, i never in my wildest dreams imagined i could be in the united states senate. it was an uphill battle. >> senator boxer gave her final farewell from the senate after two dozen years. >> this has been a dream. a dream to be in a profession that i think is noble, no matter
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how beaten up it gets. >> her career covered four decades and remembered moments from the run for marin board of supervisors losing the first time but want on to win in 1976. even as my position representing only 40,000 i was spoked to the national issues that required my attention. >> she reflected on early years as house of representatives dealing with the aids crisis of the 1980's, including the top accomplishments in the senate? she was the first ever school program receiving federal funding, a million acres of california wildness preserved and the first ever comprehensive combat casualty center in california. >> i am not only fortune to have had the extraordinary career, but i am also fortune to be going home to a state that stands for everything i believe
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in. >> she comes back to california with her husband, husban of 55 years. she "ecstatic," that kamala harris will replace her," and she is leaving, not bit are sweet, holding no bitterness toward any career and you can hear the speech on abc7news.com and on our news app. back to you. much more ahead including the new details on the trump transition, and what the president-elect is revealing on the heels of receiving a new around. >> plus --. >> a moment it is fair to say i will never, ever forget. >> you heard the story from jessica castro on barbara boxer's farewell. stay
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>> today is the 7235th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor and is remembered in alameda this morning. matt? >> the ceremony just wrapped up an hour ago. y. was a moving ceremon there are not very man pearl harbor survivors left so it was an on to meet one. >> george is living history, the mill valley naturive a pearl harbor survivor. >> i'm lucky to be alive.
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>> he was a third class radio operator for the coast guard in the diamondhead lighthouse on the southern cliffs in hawaii on december 7, 1941 he saw three planes with big red dots. >> it got exciting. he saw the attack from the distance, huge come ups of black smoke over pearl harbor and the sound of explosions. >> today on pearl harbor remembrance day, coast guard honoring survivors and the american whose lost their lives that day. [ taps ] >> music. inspiration. the placing of the pearl harbor wreath is overwhelming for someone like george larson, young in 1941, doing his duty, serving his country and witnessing history. >> i was not an important figure in all of this stuff.
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>> many would say you being here and your memories are important to educate everyone here and to be able to tag about it 75 years later. >> yes. amazing i am still here. >> another event for remembrance day is on uss hard net with a roundtable discussion with world war ii veterans. >> 75 years ago, president roosevelt called this "a day that will live in infamy," when he asked congress to declare war on japan. senators paused in prayer to remember the loss of life that day and world war ii. >> remember with soberness and humility the sacrifice of so many who offered their lives to preserve our liberty. >> a handful of pearl harbor
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survivors 10 louted their fallen shipmates in honolulu including a sailor who returned to service after being wounded on the uss arizona and this is at the ceremony at the uss arizona memorial at bottom the harbor serving as the final resting place for several hundred crew members. a year of surprise, the identity of the "time" magazine "person of the year," was a foregone conclusion, president-elect donald trump graces the cover. he was chosen among other reasons because he reminds america that demagoguery feed on despair. he is continuing to fill out the cabinet this morning and the "new york times" reporting that marines general retired john kelly is picked as the next secretary of homeland security security. >> we are in the process of putting together the all-time great cabinets ever been assembled in our nation's history. >> the president-elect has
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invited silicon valley leaders to a round-table discussion next wednesday. >> a lesson for all of us when weship and during the holidays a woman become as target for a chief with the scene unfolding before our eyes in a stunning video. >> a look from our exploritorium camera at pier 14 with meteorologist mike nicco tracking the next storm. it will be rainy, not too
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>> now the accweather forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. >> it is a "1" today but earlie i show you a "2" for tonight and tomorrow when the storm ramps up. live doppler hd shows where the winter mix is, it is pink. where this is snow falling, that is the white. a lot of this is not making it to the ground it is evaporated before it reaches the ground because the valleys are so dry, but, with all of the cloud cover, so far, no arrival delays into fog and we will keep our fingers crossed. the clouds are weaponing the temperatures down and we started off at 29 in santa rosa and only up to 42. upper 40s in other areas like san ramon and fairfield and can you see around fremont and san jose and los gatos and morgan hill, mid-to-upper 40s and san francisco is 49. now, this afternoon, low-to-mid 50s. that is it. we will stand well short of that
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when it falls into the dry area, it will evaporate and make the rain cooler. no frost. temperatures in the low-to-upper 40s. here is a look at what is going on from emeryville, the clouds are thick are by the moment and our first storm is about to arrive this afternoon. rain towns over to showers by friday and we get a break this weekend to get saturday and sunday dry before another storm on monday and tuesday. it is a "1" on our scale and it is light. at look, not much going on, now, and if you are following us on the app, live doppler hd is active and a lot of it will evaporate weapon the instead difficult rain develops. by 5:00 it is spreading through the heart of the bay is by 1:00 you can see the pockets of moderate rain continuing you overnight and there will be ponding on the roads, everyone will is a slick commute tomorrow morning. now, as we head through the day, notice the yellows go away and the intensity tapers and it lobbies us on thursday, and it will be light on thursday note
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into friday. the first rainfall you can see at 5:30, the commute all the way to the san mateo bridge, it is start to get wet and look what happens as we head through friday, we get the rain shadow, down in the south bay, quarter to half an inch and the rest of us .5" to an inch and a quarter and starting at 4:00, up to the sierra, we have a winter weather advisory through 10:00 tomorrow morning, freezing rain is possible, and ice east of the valley and up to' -- 1' of snow on monday can tuesday we are a "1" so an active pattern. >> continuing to look like a good ski season. >> we are 52% of average for today so we need a lot more. >> dramatic video from philadelphia reminds us to lock our card ors. >> a woman was unloading grocery
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ies after him but can only grab a door and, yikes, he drives away quickly and knocks the woman to the ground. >> and then what happens? police say, please, let that purse go, right? next, the outpouring of support for the oakland fire victims continues. details on fundraisers happening tonight. you can make a difference.
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>> now, breaking news. >> in hayward a police chase just ended when a suspect's car slammed into a husband happening on grove way in a part of hayward patrolled by the alameda county sheriff. our crew arrived on the scene as the damaged car was being hauled away. we do not know not driver was arrested. or in the driver last off. known in the home was hurt. the sheriff and the california highway patrol are looking into what happened. >> coming up at 4:00, the effort to stop the rise republicans in the south bay. all the voice of the oakland a's, bilking's enthusiasm for
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every gave he called gets official recognition tonight at 5:00. >> in oakland, mayor schaaf announced a $1.7 million grant to help artists like those backed by the ghost ship fire saying they will support affordable and safe space stations for the artists and organizations with an application due in february. >> two benefit concerts are held tonight to help the fire victims and their families, one is held at the bar on mission street in san francisco at el rio and one in emeryville. we have more information on abc7news.com. >> that does it for us. thanks for joining us.
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