hit the pole and then people were just scattered everywhere. a witness describes the panic when a car plows into a crowded bus stop in san francisco. good afternoon. i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm dan ashly. ama and larry are off today. we'll begin with developing news in san francisco. sky 7 is over the scene where a car careened into a bus stop in san francisco's chinatown at stockton and clay street. >> several people were seriously injured, and in that section of stockton street is still shut down right now. we have live team coverage both on the victims and exactly how the crash happened. >> we begin with abc 7 nuts reporter vic lee at the scene. >> we want to start by looking at surveillance video at the scene. people running towards the bus shelter. look at the top left corner of

the screen. slowing down the video so you can see a car plowing into that bus stop and people from a nearby market rushing in to help. what are you hearing there? >> well, it was a chaotic very -- i mean, it was a fluid situation here. you know, couldn't have happened at a worst time. this part of stockton street, the 800 block of stockton street is still closed and no word on when police will reopen it, and behind me you see the bus shelter and the car that's in it. as i said, it was a terrible scene here. lots of people shopping. lots of people going to restaurants and walking on the block and suddenly this terrible accident happened. >> he hit the pole and people were scattered every sfwhoor tom was one of many, many witnesses to this horrific accident on stockton street near clay in the thick of chinatown just near the height of the lunch hour.

12:45 in the hour. the gray toyota crashed into a bus shelter. somehow that vehicle veered and hit another. another vehicle and subsequently hit the muni structure. >> reporter: this man saw the whole thing. >> the car just rushed off. as fast as it hit the garbage can and there was a bus stop there so the car was at the bus stop >> reporter: car apparently side striped a parked mercedes and struck the white knee stan before plowing into the bus shelter. tom was right in its path. he was lucky he wasn't hit. >> i saw the car coming and i said that's it. end of my day, you know, and got lucky that he kept riding towards the pole. >> reporter: aaron peskin who represents chinatown happened to be nearby. in fact, he helped load one of the injured into an ambulance. >> many of them on the ground

and bleeding. there's blood all over the sidewa sidewalk, pretty horrific scene. >> reporter: nine people were injured two critically and police say five suffered moderate injuries. police were interviewing this person after it happened and a person who was seen getting in and out of the car which hit the bus shelter. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> and our team coverage continues with abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley live at san francisco general hospital. what can you tell us about the victims? >> all right which have a new word here there might be step injured. we are confirming that five of them were brought here to sf general by ambulance. four of them women and wan man and their range in sages from their 30s on up into their 80s. a spokesperson for zuckerberg sf general says four are in serious condition and one is still being

evaluated. the injuries are what you would expect after being struck by a vehicle multiple fractures and victims are being analyzed for internal injuries as well. . they are all in a lot of pain right now but the good news is their vital signs are good so it looks as though they are likely to survive this crash. four women and one man here in the hospital and of course we'll keep you updated on the condition in the afternoon news. reporting live, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> thank you, and we first told but this accident with a push alert from the abc 7 news app and can you get news updates as they happened. just download the abc news app and enable push alerts. >> flamed ripped through a wrecking yard reducing hundreds of cars to charred shells. abc 7 was in richmond moments after the fire started spewing as you can see thick black smoke that can be seen for hours and it prompted a shelter in place horde. abc 7 news reporter laura ant i?

there live with the late on the investigation with how this happened, laura? >> reporter: hi, dap. investigators still don't know exactly what caused the fire. it could be something as simple as all the rain water getting into a car battery. in the meantime thanks to the high winds today. the smoke dissipated really quickly and zshau all this fire fighting many foam behind me. the thick black smoke could be seen for miles and the flames were designed by hoses on the ladder trucks to consume them. >> woke up the whole neighborhood. and neighbors woke to loud popping sounds as the auto wrecking yard at the richmond parkway. >> paint and the gas tanks exploded and it's really shocking. >> reporter: big el challenge of the fire with this with the smoke and wind is the community actually because the vehicles, they are already, you know, dismantled obviously. this is a young yard.

>> the multi-agency response included crews from the nearby chevron refinery which supplied the foam that eventually put the flames. teams from contra costa county haz-mat and the u.s. environmental protection agency were all on scene to assess the aftermath including potential contaminants in the smoke. >> you get particulates in the smoke and products of combustion, dioxins and things that happened when the components in a vehicle and lots of modern vehicles can burn when they pre-douse these things. >> reporter: though not mandated by law officials first visited the deal auto wrecking yard in march, owner cited for two violations both abated by may. laura and the any, abc 7 news. >> an alert went out to residents downwind from the fire to shelter in place. residents as far as the northern el cerrito, and city officials

were left frustrated with another hazard warning. >> thank goodness it was not the refinery. and in richmond we're trying to move towards -- moving these kind of operations out of the city. >> caught up with one contra costa area who was monitoring the air outside of richmond no. hazardous substances were detected in the air at that point. >> our abc 7 roof and traffic cameras were rolling when the fire broke out and we can see the richmond yard fire from different spots around the bay area. these are four different perspectives of the fire from san francisco to emery sglil people nearby have been sending us their photos of the fire as well. these are some of the snapshots that our viewers and followers have been sharing with us is. if you want to share your photos with us, use the #abcnewnow. construction of a suicide net on the golden gate bridge

will be. -- will be awarded to a contractor after. some emotional testimony >> you see all the people come admire the bridge. it's nice to see, that but, you know, me knowing that my son died here and there are people that will be attempting to come here and die. >> the $204 million project was awarded to the joint venture shimmic danny which is based in oakland. it will take three years to build. well, our powerful storm is long done, and it's leading damage in its wake. what happened in portola vale, a large tree limb crashed into a home and frmd the limb went right through the roof. there was someone inside at the

time, but no one was hurt. one of the hardest hit areas from the storm san anselmo, one of the hardest hit homes. a massive tree came down around 10:00. as you can see it, just crushed a car port and several cars as well. people nearby band together to help the family affected by the damage. >> we have much less concerns than our neighbor dozen right now and we'll make sure they are okay and will go to work. >> reporter: the marin county sheriff's office says the public safety dispatch area took 1,100 calls during yesterday's storm. aches 7 news was in flowment as penally crews worked to restore thousands of powers and we spotted this worker fixing a streetlight on peralta boulevard. there's currently no significant outages. overnight about 3200 customers across the bay area were in the dark. a well traveled blank between silicon valley and santa cruz county is partially closed right now. yesterday eats heavy rain caused

the asphalt to give way. look at the huge sinkhole. this is what locals call old san jose road. these slides are pretty common on the stretch of road and in the santa cruz mountains but they are dangerous. if the driver is not paying attention, their vehicle could easily plunge more than 300 feet down tomorrow socal creek below. part of this highway will be closed on monday after a large rock slide in that area. trees, mud and rocks fell on to the lanes south of wooden valley road. krnz says 121 will be closed between vichy avenue and wooden valley and suggest using highway 128 as an alternative. >> what a difference a day makes. live doppler 7 showing sunny skies across the bay area after

a big storm that has now departed the bay area. rainfall totals over the last 24 hours and notice the shift between the totals in the south and the totals in the north. san jose half han inch and palo alto under half an inch and napa 2.5 and kentfield 5 inches, over 4 at st. helena and now we're dealing with the big chill 24-hour temperature change shows it's 7 degrees cooler right now in "the new york post"a, half moon bay and 8 degrees cooler in mountianview and livermore. the biggest chill has yet to settle in. tomorrow morning we'll experience the coldest air of the season so far as many locations will see low temperatures in the 20s and low 30s. be sure to protect plants, pipes and pets because this is going to be really, really cold. i'll give you a look at the seven days ahead in a few minutes. dan and kristen? >> thanks, spencer. coming up at 4:00, housing sgleers those who fear they may be everdict following the ghost

ship wearhouse fire get some answers today. home, small home, some say downsizing could ease the housing crisis. >> and the new magic number tomorrow help people find love on e-harmony. >> michael ninly is taking your kwes live a little later. right now if you're looking out at the san francisco skyway, traffic in and ought is maddingley slow this afternoon

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some people livings in oakland fear evictions and red tagging of warehouses following the ghost ship fire tragedy and dozens of them gathered today for a community meeting with city officials and tennants rights groups. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow has the story. >> these people who are coming in purchasing land to make $3,000 condos is criminal. >> reporter: meeting hosted by attorney john burrel was met with residents who fear widespread evictions. >> we're not counting on the city. >> reporter: concern about evictions come after the ghost ship warehouse fire. 36 people were killed inside the artist live work space. >> the reaction from the city and property managers has been so swift. >> reporter: representatives from legal service groups includes a defense center all right. >> we don't have -- it's like

being in court with both your hands tied behind the back. >> the administration has to cost it out and the legal folks have to review it and sadly that takes time. >> we don't have that time. >> we don't even have time to cry and be angry about our friends. >> it takes this sad, sad situation to address it and it's been happening for us for years. >> non-'ale mail statement a spokesperson with the mayor's office writes this administration is committed to working with residents, landlords and safety experts and the diverse array of community members, most impaktsd by the regional affordability cries n.oakland, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> the city of richmond is turning towards micro apartments to tackle the housing crisis. this week a new law took effect that allows richmond homeowners to turn a spare bedroom into

housing. the law is aimed primarily at empty-nesters who have spare bedrooms. >> what they can do is take one or two of those bedrooms and convert them to a legal dwelling unit with a separate entrancin and rent it out. >> richmond is one of eight cities to take advantage of a new state law to allow accessory units and they hope the new policy will add up to 10,000 new housing units. >> wells fargo accounts scandal taking a toll on the bank ereputation and the bank says it's not getting as many new customers as last year and all right new openings dropped 1-4-1% down 9% and the decline follows a scandal following bank employees using a fake account. >> twitter is taking steps to slow down social media to down data maining.

aclu found the data-mile-per-hourer was selling the soft wear to a federal data cleksz center in los angeles. the aclu said twitter send them an access to cut access to all federal cleeks centers. data miner will not provide surveillance tools to any local, state or federal government customer. relationship site e-haremy is getting less personal with its clients. the dating service announced this week it's no longer requiring users to answer about 150 questions before signing up for the service. e-harmony says starting in january the more in-depth questionnaire will be optional. the process of creating a basic profile will create no more than ten minutes and users will only need answer a few questions. >> well, still need to do some holiday shopping perhaps. today could be the day. it's free shipping day. more than 1,200 retailers, including target and best buy, are offering free shipping for online purchases and they are guaranteeing delivery before

christmas for online orders. some of the stores require codes to get free shipping and we have a link on our wednesday i'm abc7news.com. the clock is ticking to get the gifts mailed in time to arrive by christmas. the deadline by fedex standard ground packages is today. the u.s. postal service was deadline and monday for ups. you'll have a bit more time if you pay more for express delivery. we have until tuesday to mail out christmas cards to arrive by december 25. so tick tock. >> today is a much better day, spencer. >> much, much better. >> a much less stormy day. today is a beautiful day. a live look at depp already 7 and it's a bit cool this time of the year and that's what we expect. a live view from our emoryville cram at the golden gate where the skies are clear and 51 degrees in san francisco. it's 54 right now across the bay in oakland and a 2 in

mountianview and 50 at half moon bay. it's a bit breezy on top of mt. tam and currently 54 degrees and 50 at novato and 54 at fairfield and concord at 53 and livermore at 51 is and view the from our rooftop cameras, blue skies over the bay and these are our rfrmt forecast features. colder mornings saturday through monday. bright, brisk and dry over the weekend and there's a slight risk of showers on thursday. a look at overnight lows. it's going to be really, real cold in our inland valleys. lows will drop into our upper 20s. we'll see low 30s right down to the freezing mark at livermore and perhaps down 31 and morgan hill and mainly upper 30s to about 40 right around the bay. we also have a freed warning in effect from overnight from midnight to 8:00 a.m. to virtually all inland areas of the bay area. we're talking about a dangerousry cold snap here with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s

and bring in your pets. keep them warm with you and cover your plants, protect your pipes as well and we have a frost advisory in effect during the same time period from midnight to 8:00 a.m. for the coastal areas and temperatures will drop right into the mid-30s in the coldest locations and near the water so once again bring in the pets and keep them cold and cover your plants. highs torment, just above 50 degrees, a cool day but beautiful. this is the animation showing temperatures dropping overnight tomorrow night into sunday morning and it will be almost as cold sunday morning as tomorrow morning. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast, and as you can see we've got three very chilly mornings coming our way. tomorrow may be the coldest of the three and sunny skies through monday and mostly sin and a little bit mild on tuesday and winter begins on wednesday and that might be the warmest day of the week and the first day of winter and there's a slirkts slight chance of showers next thursday.

>> nice to have the time to dry out, we really need. >> thanks, spencer. coming up, raising the driving age. details on a state bill that will prevent thousands of teenagers from hitting the road. also -- >> by so many measures our country is stronger and more prosperous than when it started. >> a positive message during the we'll play something besides video games. every day is a gift especially for people with heart failure. but today there's entresto®- a breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto® was proven to help more people

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in the darkness of night rescue cruise pulled a trapped man to safety and he was stuck on a cliff for hours overnight screaming for help. officials say he was 1 b 100 feet down in wet and windy conditions. here's what he had to say as first responders checked him out. >> absolutely. i mean, i'm sure he was happy. i was told that he might have been down there for a couple hours. >> he's not seriously hurt. rescuers say the man may have tried to climb down the cliff

when it got stuck. >> stormy women dangerous for two women in. almonte. they were stranded in a landmass in the middle of the san gabriel river. they were stranded when water levels rose quickly in the river and the deputies also rescued a dog and a litter of puppies stuck with the women. now parents might like this more than their children. there's an effort to toughen restrictions on young drivers in california. assemblyman jim fraser of oakly wants to require new drivers to hold a provisional license until age 2 is. the current age is 21. the bill would prevent teenagers from driving between 11:00 a.m. and the 5:00 p.m. where studies show they are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal crash. south san francisco is lowering the speed limit where the speed limit is 40. peloton city is throwing to 35. all other areas have a

35-mile-per-hour speed limit along that busy thoroughfare. >> a new problem for syrian refugees. >> coming up at 4:00, why the effort to get civilians out of a war-torn city has been put on hold. e-mail scandal involving princeton students. now two teens at the university are facing punishment. >> and uber gets the red light but the company just struck a defiant tone just a few minutes ago. we'll update you. and if you're driving home this afternoon, boy, if you're trying to cross the bay bridge, the toll plaza is jam packed. it's going to take you a little time to get into san francisco.

e here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. a driver slammed into a bus stop in san francisco today. we'll show you that video. ten people were injured and two critically. it happened at stockton in sacramento during the lunch hour. reporter amy hollyfield took a picture of the foam used to put out a fire in richmond today t.burned more than 220 cars. there it is. it almost looked like snow out there. nobody was hurt. wand reporter wayne freedman reported the storm has passed but only for some of us following yesterday's heavy rain. wayne shows us the long road to recovery for some north bay residents who homes and cars are

buried under debris today. and president obama just stopped short of specifically calling russian president put put when he talked about russia's interference in the u.s. election this afternoon. but he also called out republicans for warming up to putin. abc news reporter karen travers has more. >> reporter: president obama forcefully defended the u.s. response to russia's election interference. >> we handled tlt way it should have been mannedled. we allowed law enforcement and the intelligence community to do its job without political influence. >> reporter: his traditional year end press conference dominated by questions about russia's cyber attack including why didn't the oenema administration make a bigger deal about it or retaliate before election day? >> i wanted to make sure that everybody understood we were playing this thing straight. >> reporter: president said he confronted russian president put put this past september. >> when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most

effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out or there would be serious consequences if he didn't. >> reporter: president barack obama said after that the u.s. didn't see any further tampering. putin has yet to publicly address the issue, but u.s. officials say they have solid evidence the russian president personally ordered and directed the cyber attack. president obama wouldn't say that explicitly burr said this happened at the highest levels of the russian government. >> i will let you make that determination as to whether there are high-level russian officials who go off rogue and decided to tamper with the u.s. election process without put put knowing about it. >> president obama was also asked if donald trump is emboldening russia with his puck babb against the intelligence community. the president declined to criticized the president-elect.

karen travers, abc news, washington. well, oefrp seas evacuation efforts are on hold once again in war-torn east aleppo. trying to get the rebels out of the besieged area accused them of firing on convoys and not letting the wounded out of their towns. so far about 8,000 civilians have been evacuated. however, reporters say efforts to get much-needed supplies into that region from turkey are just not going well. >> we've also seen what felt like a never-ending row of relief vehicles. 18-wheeler trucks and flatbed trucks and filled to the brim with relief supplies and only a small trickle of those supplies is making it through across the syrian boarder. >> they have also reached a stalemate and draft resolution calling for independent monitors to oversee the evac still on hold after russian objections. moscow was concerned about the 11th time would take observers

to arrive in syria. >> princeton university has suspended their swim and diving team after uncovering racist messages from its players. princeton's athletic director says the messages were sent through an eblame list and were uncovered an an anonymous complaint. >> it's a bit chilly around here and be glad you're not here in billings, montana. more than 20 inches has already fallen there today. they haven't seen numbers like that in nearly 40 years and get there, the windchill in montana is expected to hit 40 below tomorrow. lauren lyfter gives us a look at the frigid conditions around the country. >> across the country and extreme weather from the bone-chilling cold. >> got to keep moving around and unless you stay still your toes and hands freeze up. >> to the threat of flash

floods. winter weather alerts posted in 38 states, even near los angeles a shivering litter of puppies rescued along with two women stranded on an island in the middle of a river after a rainstorm. further north in oregon ice covering everything from roads to trees and on the east coast in boston firefighters battling a six-alarm fire in the freezing cold n.western pennsylvania nearly 60 vehicles crashing into each other shutting down part of this interstate. the winter weather making driving a disaster. >> my car wasn't going to make it. >> in california rain bringing mud with drivers getting stuck in it and some civic their cars all together. >> this is a big part of the hillside. >> let's dents waking up to downed trees and damaged after rain swept through thursday night. this flooding creek forcing residents from home and today rights water forcing rescues of soe homeless encampments. >> and extreme cold conditions

into the weekend with round 2 of the arctic blast bringing cold air into the most of the country while here on the west coast california drives out as the door moves to the rockies and the midwest. lauren lyfter, abc news, los angeles. >> nearly 85% of the residents of corpus christi, texas, are still being told do not drink or touch the water, all because of a chemical leak from an asphalt plant on wednesday that contamenated the water in a city of 325,000 people. the city has worked quickly to folks as well as warning them boiling the tap water will not make it safe. >> right now it looks like 15% of the city has water that's still flowing. there's still a big issue out there. we've got a lot of warnings coming. >> city officials below a back flow incident at an industrial property called an asphalt emulls firing to be injected into the city's water system.

they believe that between 3 and 24 gallons of the chemical indolin a86 got into the system. >> uber has no plans to comply with state regulations on self-driving vehicles. california's dmv says the cars are illegal and should not be tested on san francisco street and mayor ed lee is demanding they remove them from the city. uber's vp of self-driving tech said the regulations don't apply because the vehicles are not autonomous and instead they require active human control like tesla's autopilot feature that's in all tesla vehicles. >> we have a person sitting in the driver's seat. they are the vehicle operator and there's a person next to them looking amount what the system is doing and trying to confirm that everything is going well and they have been able to override and take it on the vehicle all the time. >> video shows an uber

self-piloted vehicle running a red light in san francisco. uber said it was actually human error and the driver has been suspended. wrael, as you may know about france, labor strikes are fairly common there, but people are starting to take notice of a walkout by workers at the eiffel tower. a scheduled one-day strike has stretched into its fourth day due to disagreements with management over staffing and pay. a lot of tourists have found themselves caught right in the middle including these newlyweds from mexico. >> our photographer came all the way from mexico to make our pictures and they screwed up all of our plan right now. we need to look for new locations. >> 140 workers affected by the strike are also demanding more input into decision-making alternate iconic landmark. a group of "star wars" "star wars" fans is really, really committed. >> yeah. no question. what they endured that has claimed them the title of super "star wars" "star wars" fans.

>> i'm michael finney. ask finney is just ahead. still taking your questions on facebook and twitter. post them with the #askfinney and i'll answer them in just a pew minutes. >> let's take a live look outside. this is the bay. it is very pretty and there is traffic. that's the only issue as you try to drive across the bridge. a different perspective and eastbound it's busy and westbound you're doing fine. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back?

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through the first one indoors. never like to the uptown. >> this crew has slept oupt side knife times for. -- those are finance right there. >> tomorrow and sunday donate a new unrapid at a nissan dealer to make the holiday brighter for children everywhere. sunny discussion, is but hind that storm from midnight to 8:00 a.m. a freeze low chase for the inland community and. . that's going to be really, really. it will drop to 27 degrees at

nap, a and 32 livermore. morgan hill a low of 31 and numerous locations right around. bay with lows in the mid to up every 30s to around 40 or so. saturday planner, getting up early tomorrow morning and going out. you'll be greeted by clear skies and cold conditions. temperatures will be in the 20s to 30s in the coldest spot and by noon we'll have chilly sunshine han in the late r afternoon. upp upper 40s on the coste and under clear skies temperatures will start to drop again. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. we have three cold mornings coming our what i, tomorrow, sunday and monday and sunny skies during the daytime hours and monday and tuesday, tuesday and wednesday tugtly we'll see a

few clouds coming into the picture and winter begins next wednesday at 2:44 a.m. and next wednesday may be the warmest day of the week, and then there's a slight, slight chance of a shower or two next thursday. >> i just like seeing the sun for a few days. >> me into. >> thanks, spencer. >> for sure, yeah. next, a restaurant that requires parents to keep their young kids at home. >> how the honer is defending a controversial policy. >> and imagine getting a charge from your doctor before you even are treated. you new billing trend that's raising some people's blood pressure. i'm 7 on your side's

a restaurant located in a wealthy london suburb is drawing the ire of the internet after the restaurant banned children under 5. the owner of the organic kitchen in burke hurst hills says she banned kid for two reasons. patrons were getting tifrld screaming kid and the small space where they were doing business was being taken over by strollers. the owner is actually a mother herself. she defends the poll tis she is

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a woman on long island, new york is set for a happier holiday season thanks to a familiy will haitianship. it happened when she threw away $5,000 in cash but got every cent of it back. how that happened is actually fairly amazing. here's reporter tim fleisher. >> these four long beach sanitation employees have pulled off a true christmas miracle. >> mist mass. >> it was christian's mother who didn't realized that when she rushed a bag of garbage how the in the street it contained an envelope with $5,000 in it sglvt he then called the sanitation supervisor. >> we tried to help how the. >> they could the mark and hrpt sean lewis who happeneded to the transfer station where the garden was taken. >> my mom lost the mortgage money, worth $5,000. >> their search was captured in part on this video on facebook and they were able to isolate

the gash and and began sgrechg hope we can find the money and we won't leave here until we find the money. >>. she went in in there and she started searching and she's like, i got the money. >> christian's money counted the money and she got it all back. >> we actually got lucky and to see her big up that big wad that was right under the bag it was a bless being, a good christmas gift. >> the christian's mother was then able to pay her mortgage. >> so happy. >> and the wanted to reward the men. >> i said just keep it. i'm hammy that she found the money. >> mist mass. >> yeah. >> and all in the spirit of the season. >> that was tim fleisher from our sister situation wabc in new york reporting. >> what a christmas merial, right. >> great story. >> thanks for joining us at 4:00 today. i'm clinty.

>> -- i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm dan ashley. >> a horrific crash in san francisco. a car plows into a muney bus stop and ten people are hurt. >> today there's a massive fire in richmond. did you see this? first responders tell abc 7 news the one thing that real helped protect the community. >> trees down an boats sunk. a lot of people will cleaning up after a big storm. and a bay area school turns into a mini oracle arena and the warriors making moments these kids will never forget. >> "abc 7 news at 5:00" starts right now. i saw the car coming and i said that's it. end of my day. >> scare. a car crashes into a bus stop in san francisco's chinatown hurting ten people and four of them have serious injuries this evening. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. >> witnesses are describing the crash as horrific and some like that man you just heard thought they would die. >> it happened while lots of

people were driving the streets. >> that's where abc news worther vic lee joins us live. >> reporter: it was a horrific accident. the 800 block of stockton, as you can see, is still closed and no word when police will reopen it. you can see the bus shelter and the car wedged in it. ten people were returned to the hospital and five to san francisco general. the latest sorority four are in serious condition and two downgraded from critical. the fire fight is being evalu e evaluated and the rest were taken to other hospitals there, nurse apparently not at serious. this is security camera video from a and look at the top left portion of your screen. >> debris