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knocked out traffic signals. pg&e reminds you, if you see downed powers lines, stay away and call 911. let's look at a live map of what pg&e is dealing with as we speak, and the red has the most averages, and that equals 5,000 or more without, and the is smaller and then to the green. i am zooming in here, looks like a number of outages south of haywa hayward. a lot of crews out there working to get this out of the dark. >> we want to turn to major international news, though. the u.s. strike on syria. >> president trump order add powerful air strike on the country days after the regime allegedly used chemicals on its own people.
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>> good morning. so many fast-moving developments on this. here is the latest. at least six people reported killed in the air strikes and the u.s. military is reporting that 58 out of the 59 missiles successfully hit their targets, and russia is calling for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council, calling this an act of aggression. from two american destroyers in the mediterranean, the u.s. launched 59 tomahawk missiles at syria. >> tonight i ordered a target attack on syria from where the chemical attack was launched. >> and he asked the international community to denounce bashar al assad for using sarin gas against his own
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people. >> even beautiful babies were murdered in this very barbaric attack. no child of god should ever suffer such horror. >> more than 80 were killed, mostly women and children in brutal and horrific deaths. >> vladimir putin says he regards the strikes as a sign of aggressi aggression, and many are praising theresident's actions and other say congress should have been consulted. rand paul tweeted, while we all condemn the atrocities in syria, we were not attacked. tim kaine tim kaine said it was unlawful
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they were not made this was largely seen as a warning to bashar al assad, and if the president wants to continue to engage in military action in syria, he will likely need congressional approval, and he will need to be coordinating with some of the other u.n. member states, specifically china and russia. reporting live, abc7 news. the democratic leader nancy pelosi says tonight's strike in syria appears to be a syria appears to be a proportional response to the regime's use of chemical weapons. we're going back home for
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breaking news. out of san francisco, kate larson is live after a really big fire at 23rd and an sau, kate? >> reporter: a really big fire and a really dangerous fire. we are on 23rd between gary anzi. the fire started in the top attic unit at 1:45 this morning and spread to the apartment building on the right and on the left. let's look at cell phone video we got sent to us from a viewer. you can see the huge flames that made the job for firefighters extremely different when they showed up. 15 minutes later, by 2:00 a.m., it's a three-alarm fire, and dozens of fire trucks and other fire apparatus. unfortunately, three people were injured and two have burns and one declined to be taken to the hospital, and another person taken to the hospital with another medical condition and we
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do not know their specific conditions and how they are doing at this time. the fire department tells me it was a very dangerous situation with hot flames shooting out of the roof and they wanted to protect the close-by apartments and other buildings next door since the wind was blowing to the north. we did speak to a witness this morning that saw this all go down. >> i was sleeping, and then they started knocking and i didn't know what was going on, because i was asleep, and i opened the door and a roommate said there was a fire in the building beside you and we scrambled out, and we found a jacket and got out. >> reporter: back out here live, let's go ahead and take a look at the yellow house right now. i just spoke to a woman that lives on the second, the middle level, and she said her neighbor from the upstairs came banging on her door this morning while she was asleep and she had no
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idea what was going on and opened the door and just saw flames. she, of course, got her family outside and they had no chance to grab anything but, of course, keep themselves safe. they don't know if they can go back home tonight, and we know at least ten people are displaced from this house, and there's a carriage house in the back with five other people and they can supposedly return home, and we will keep you updated throughout the morning and bring you the latest. kate larson, abc7 news. back to our weather coverage. firefighters fear two homes in the oakland hills may need to be red tagged after a mudslide there. tons of dirt and remark threaten other homes on banning drive. people had to be evacuated from 12 homes. >> we don't expect this to worsen as of right now, but it all depends upon the rain and
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the wind. >> engineers looking at the houses to see what kind of repairs feed to be made. the red cross and insurance companies help the displaced families to find places to stay overnight. developing in the oakland hills a mudslide forced several -- yep, we just talked about this, i believe, right? okay. we're going to move on to another story. >> i want to show you what happened after a tree fell on the car -- this is the wrong video, so let's skip ahead. we're having some issues. i am not sure if this is a house or a car. maybe this is the home. we will figure that out. a large tree -- no, we are going to talk about roads on the bay area being
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ed reggie. the flooded roads, it's a lot better this morning. let's look at traffic on the bay bridge finally flowing again this morning, and this is what it looked like last night, and it was a total nightmare and if you were not around that area, consider yourself lucky. an overturned truck shut down all the westbound lanes and happened just before 8:30 last night, and the backup, as you could see was massive. let's look live at the bay bridge, and you will see that traffic is flowing as normal. we did send you push alerts on this incident and all the weather that is going on across the bay, and keep with us because the storms are not done yet, and make sure you enable push alerts on the news app you can download for free. oakland fire posted video to twitter, intense flames and thick smoke billowing from the
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small building when they arrived. firefighters say the winds kept it going for sometime, and no word on if anybody was inside or what may have sparked this. new details on our just approved gas tax. it barely passed, but barely is good enough to get us to pay 12 cents more a gallon to fix our roads. it took nearly nine hours of debate. governor brown got exactly the two-thirds margin he needed. it's a huge victory for him. for much of the day it appeared uncertain the democrats could rally enough votes. the republicans are concerned it would hurt low income families. >> the most amount of poor people said we are voting for this, and there were a few other people that shed
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that voted no. >> we know our constituents and do not want the gas taxes to increase. >> and higher registration fees and a $100 annual charge if you have an electric car, and this all starts in 2020. it's breezy over some of the bridges, and those issues are coming from the chp. as far as the national weather service is concerned we were supposed to have a high wind warning and advisory until 5:00, and we could stop it, and gusting to 22 at half moon bay is as fast as we get right now. let's look at what is going to be a bigger challenge. look at the moisture in san jose. mass transit, all those areas are going to be damp, all the stations today. breezy and choppy on the water, and it will be breezy today, just not windy. on the road, we will have showers this morning, and again,
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showers in the latter parts of the evening commute. let's talk temperatures. mild. mid-50s all throughout our inland east bay areas. your highs today, won't budge much. 60 at half moon bay, and 62 to about 65 for the rest of us. a little cooler than average. lows tonight are going to hang around in the mid to upper 40s with a slight chance of some light showers continuing during the overnight hours. we have another chance of wet weather today and tomorrow, but sunday is looking pretty nice in my accuweather 7-day forecast. good morning, everyone. happy friday. we have the bay bridge toll plaza, and we had a high wind advisory overnight and it looks like they lifted that, but still use caution and no metering
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lights as of yet. and traffic is flowing pass nicely into berkeley and the macarthur maze. the green on the map represents where we could have rain affecting your commute this morning. looks like it's mostly over the tracy area as you make your way torts the dublin and pleasanton interchange on 580. and green here and it's raining in the santa cruz mountains. we will give you an update on that in just a couple minutes. for the first time we are hearing from the owner of a deadly west oakland fire. what he's doing for one of the victims. victims. jimmy kimmel gets
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you know how to react to their asthma attacks. here's how to prevent them. call... visit... or call your doctor. because... we're back at 4:45. new this morning the owner of the west oakland building where four people died in a fire says he is heartbroken, and in his first statement since the inferno, he said, quote, we grieve for the four lives lost and for the residents, families and friends impacted by the tragedy. kim leases a building at san kim leases a building at san pablo and mead to nonprofits.
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kim was eventievenaeven eventievena evicting the non-profit. the fire left 115 people homeless. a coalition of oakland faith-based coalitions launched fund-raising for the victims. can you go to and then arrested last month at his family's home in cupertino, and police found photos of young girls and gifts that were thought to be given to them. and a 14-year-old said he followed her home. last month a judge increased his bail to $1 million. bail to $1 million. tributes keep
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don rickles. >> i know it sounds crazy to say he was too young, but he was because he was youthful and funny and sharp and generous, and i was fortunate enough to not only have don on this show as my guest but to become close to him and his wife, barbara, to him and his wife, barbara, which was a lot of fun for >> and he claimed rickles to be, quote, the greatest talk show host of all-time. >> we were just watching a clip of him this morning, because he was savage. >> yeah, and he managed to do it in a way that brought smiles even to the people he was roasting, which was so charming about it.
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>> i was laughing so hard watching it this morning. good morning to you, mike nicco. >> sometimes late at night i see the dean martin celebrity roasts, and he was a big part of those. that was great. going to miss him. 4:45, live doppler 7 into moisture, and the triggering mechanism moved down away from us and we have to wait for another one to roll in and that will be in the form of sunshine and a weak cold front. doesn't that look impressive, the spin up there? that's where the fastest winds are going to be for most of the day. for us, leftover moisture the golden gate bridge. showers are going to be out there and thunderstorms are possible. breezy conditions, not as windy
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as yesterday. showers tomorrow, but then dry and bright on sunday and a series of weak storms are possible next week. so storm impact scale downgraded to a one for today because the rain is not going to be as widespread. briefly intense if you get caught in the thunderstorms. again, not the damage we saw from last night's storm. rolling through time, and scattered showers until 9:00 and moving out of the south bay. towards the end of the evening commute, could see thunderstorms moving through the area by midnight and then falling apart, and a few light showers overnight and then 8:00 tomorrow morning until 1:00, we will have another chance of light showers. now, sunday, look at that sunshine. monday and tuesday, clouds with just a stray shower. i think our best chance will be wednesday and thursday, light storms then. >> let's check your mass transit
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and could be a good way to get out on this friday morning. if you are looking at the link ferry, they have delays. b.a.r.t., no issues with your a service this morning. flooding? yep. rain in the santa cruz mountains right now and the accident blocking the right lane before the redwood estates, and not seeing a huge delay but heads up on the flooding on the ramp to southbound 85, a foot of water standing there, so heads up there because that could cause spinouts and hydroplaning, and heads up all the way around as the rain tapers off and we will have more on that in just a couple minutes. strong reaction from around the world after the u.s. missile strike in syria, and how russia is responding.
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first, a judge decides the fate of a prosecute in the death of a google executive. and then what one man did during a special award. right now, tech bites. >> in today's tech bites, comcast sharing the details of the upcoming wireless service. >> xfinity mobile is offering talk, text and data as low as 45 per month or you could pay per gig. only available to the current customers. >> if you click on line you can be told about the fake news and how to fake news and how to >>
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the cdc now recommends that you get a blood test for hepatitis c. so talk to your doctor and find out if you have hepatitis c. it could save your life. know more. ♪ when you recognize something isn't right, make the call to the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. big news in the biotech world and for mt. view based 23 and me. it just had approval to say if you have genes linked to alzheimer's, it's the first time
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the company will sell drugs straight to you, the consumer. it's a reversal. ing now you can purchase an at home gift, and they will market a test for ten genetic conditions. and then receiving a special honor. >> on wednesday sfpd and the commission thanked jay deichmann for his courage and timely intervention to help an officer. police say the suspect suddenly lunged for the officer's gun and deichmann pulled the man off of officer and helped until other officers arrived. we still have leftover issues at our beaches. rip currents, sneaker waves and large breakers from 6:00 to 9:00 tomorrow morning. let's look at the rainfall
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tota totals. more than an inch in redwood city and concord. the rest of us one-third to three quarters of an inch of rain. you can see moving in doing the evening and overnight hours, another quarter to half inch of rain. we will wake up tomorrow soggy again, sue. we have weather-related issues on the roads. this is the westbound headlights headed to the macarthur maze. and then the university off-ramp blocked by a tree, so heads up there, they will have crews out there to clear that. your ferry's have been a san jose family has something to be thankful for after an incredibly difficult week. he died on monday after he tried
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to save his dog after sailboat capsized. yesterday two marine firefighters found this little guy north of where the accident happened. they say he was shivering and cold and otherwise he was okay. they were able to reunite the family and the dog. >> i cannot believe that dog made it through. next at 5:00, getting new updates on the aftermath after o the u.s. strike in syria. russia is taking a strong stance this morning. most of the rain has passed, but the wind is still doing serious damage.t that. more on how it's going more on how it's going your commute.
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area. a massive fire in san francisco engulfs an apartment building and spreads to two more. we are live at the scene with a look at the damage and what we are learning about the rescues. major international news, on the 100th anniversary of world war i the u.s. strikes against syria, and we have reaction and the action russia is vowing to take. and so much going on, including the weather, and that's the story all of us will be facing. i was outside last night for too long and my rain jacket was not enough. >> it was coming down
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