it caused it to be on the roadway. >> the important thing to realize is that regardless of what your occupation is, what your training is. anybody can be the victim of a collision. >> we're told the truck driver the remain at the scene to cooperate with investigators. the chp says road conditions were dry and not hazardous when the accident happened. this is still an active investigation. so if you have any information could help authorities, you're urged to contact the chp. we're live in the east bay. >> thank you. at least 17 people have been killed and hundreds of gnomes southern california were damaged or destroyed in this week's deadly mud slides. some residents are still strand while crews are trying to find those who disappeared in the disaster. >> joining us live with the latest. marcy? >> well, communities near los

angeles county are cleaning up today. the focus right now is on that urgent effort in santa barbara county that is being led by more than 500 first responders and volunteers. search teams with canines trekking through thick muck. >> looking for human remains. >> and desperately searching for survivors. >> i've lived through fires, earthquakes, i've never seen anything like this. this is de stating. >> the storm that brought this triggered gas line explosions that sent this family -- >> mommy, help! >> scrambling to safety. >> we weren't even scared of the flood. we didn't even -- we thought it was the fire. >> the fast-moving rush of mud and giant boulders then stranded them in a park until they were rescued by a helicopter. marko carter are the as it

surged down the street and into his home. >> wake dad up! >> the family you can? thigh high mud until day two. >> i didn't tell my folks to evacuate. that was an emotional moment. and at least 17 people in the community not confirmed dead. >> i know people personally who have died. >> after days of searching -- >> i'm fighting with all my heart to find her. >> robert learning his mother rebecca, a prominent realtor here, is among the victims. at least seven others are still missing. >> reporter: and rescuers say because there are still areas they've not been able to access, there is a chance that some of the missing could still be found alive. live in burbank. marcy gonzalez, abc7 news. >> we see how widespread the damage is. any estimate on how much destruction there has been? or is it just too early?

>> reporter: we're hearing some pretty staggering numbers from officials. that 65 homes were destroyed. but nearly 450 others were damaged. so some of those residents and homeowners have been returning today to see if there is anything left to salvage. >> live in burbank. thank you. we have new pictures of the reinforcements from the bay area whelming the search and rescue. the california national guard tweeted these photos. they said 700 people were affected. >> it is a product of dry soil and heavy rains. this according to geologists and engineers. >> david louie walked the a geo technical engineer who said the hills and canyons put residents at risk. >> the magnitude of the

destruction was predictable after a major fire. the massive mud flow had enough force to knock houses off their foundations. the mud carried rocks and boulders as it gained speed. the power can't be underestimated. the u.s. geological survey says once the mud starts, it can reach a velocity of 35 miles an hour. the chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering described it in a different way. >> if i threw a gallon jug of water ought, you're going to feel impact pretty significantly because water is relatively heavy. now imagine that by a factor of thousands hitting your home. this is a significant force. >> the mud slide started in the middle of the night catching residents by surprise. however, dr. sullivan green said those living on hillsides or

canyons were vulnerable even before the thomas fire. >> none of the soil, the stuff near the surface that was affected by the fire, and even the soil below that had any significant moisture after months of our dry season. >> saying that intense fires can change the characteristics of the soil. giving it water repellent properties that give it run-off. and flood prone areas may slide again in the future. david louie, abc7 news. despite the hazards, they expect santa barbara county home owners to rebuild because of the natural beauty of that region. okay. as the week winds down, we're getting a little drier in the bay area. we still have a few lingering clouds. it is a bright day out there. we have a beach hazard advisory.

the wave heights are a bit above average. up to about ten feet in spots. there's the possibility of sneaker waves. mainly blue skies over the bay right now. mountain view, 59. 63, san jose. 56 at half moon bay. santa rosa, upper 50s to near 60. here's the forecast animation, starting at 5:00 this afternoon. notice spotty sprinkles. that will continue into the evening hours. some of the sprinkles may playing it as far south as san francisco. even into the very early morning hours. there may be a few spotty

showers. we'll have the full forecast a little later. the south end rowing club says this is not the first time one of its members has been bitten by a sea lion. our report he spoke with a paramedic. on any other morning she was here at the park. but it was this morning alice heard her screaming for help. >> i said do you want me tow pull you back to the beach? she said no, no. i can swim by myself but i can't kick because the sea lion bit me in the knee. >> we all swam back with her. >> she. >> i was a paramedic with the department of public health. >> the women moved her to the sauna and applied pressure to the wound. >> she was more shook up as

anybody would be. >> she was taken to the hospital. we were just actually start go to calm down a little from the last couple of bites. there have been several there. >> i hope the stops. >> swimmers say that didn't stop them from getting back in the water though they are swimming. a plane almost landed on the wrong runway at sfo. aero mexico is investigate go the events that occurred at san francisco sbaet airport and informs the safety of our passengers and operations was not compromised at any time. it was okayed to land on the

right but the plane landed up to the left. faa controllers spotted the mistake about one mile from the airport. b.a.r.t. and the vta getting ready to open up the new extension that will take it all the way to san jose. they've been he is thing traps at full speed for months and they hope to open the extension in june. b.a.r.t. will conduct the final test when the project is turned over to them. that could delay a june opening. >> there's a phase of he is thing where they control trains that are not carrying passengers. >> the ten-mile stlengs open he with stations in milpitas and san jose. while the vta was still standing

by the june opening day, up to six more months of he is thing after b.a.r.t. takes control means a likely b.a.r.t. delay. b.a.r.t. says clipper vending machines are now in every station and they've sold more than 45,000 clipper cards. 70% of riders have changed from paper to plastic. and b.a.r.t. plans to hold outreach events during the women's march on saturday the 20th, hoping to connect with and convert those who might not be regular riders yet. napa and sonoma county will restore weon wetlands. there will be mapping methods to identify streams and all the e., that a. awarded more than $2 million in grants to improve water quality and restore wetlands and streams across the state. controversial new statements today from the president.

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. it's been a record setting year for the port of oakland. it handled almost 2.5 million containers. that breaks the previous record in 2015. in port performance was up 4%. in december alone, it was up over 6.5% from 2016. it was attributed to a strong u.s. economy and increasing consumer demand. the consumer electronics show is winding up. ed is here to talk about in part the buzz about all these a.i. technology that's are out and self-driving vehicles are wrapped in together with that. how soon before we see a lot of cars on the proceeded are driving themselves? >> it's not that far to see them on the road. if you follow the news, you can see that companies like tesla

and uber are testing them on the road. so it is very, very close. >> you feel safe? >> yes. i feel safe. it is not dangerous more than being somebody who is -- >> so a lot of people are scared. do you think this will be easily adopted? some people are afraid of it. >> it will take a while to be accepted. like everything new. people will see more benefits coming out. they will say this is more safe. more convenient. >> a popular christmas gift this year was alexa. there's google homes, siri in this category as well. i know this is the wave of the future. i'll sound like a guy wearing a tin foil hat. i don't want people listening to me. there's not that exciting stuff going on in my house that should i worry about. the nsa, i got nothing going on.

you're an expert in security. how do you feel about the devices that are listening to everything we do? >> well, i welcome they will. this is wave of the future. everything is listening and reacting to what you're doing. this is all part of what we call, by 2020 we'll have about 50 billion connected devices. >> 50 billion? >> absolutely. you can look at i from every aspect. now they'll have to figure out how they'll talk to each other, what kind of software. it is the future. we have to accept that and get the best of it. >> and you have what? alexa in your house? >> yes. no problem. >> and your spoken to listening to you. >> all the time. >> i've seen 4 k televisions on sale. you see them everywhere. i guess the big thing coming is 8 k. explain what's,000 lines of resolution -- 8,000 lines of

resolution means? >> it is like looking through the window. you cannot distinguish between if this was a window. it is a have ttv. many people say why do we need resolution? we say this about broad band. now look at us. >> 8 k. i don't know if i want to be photographed in 8 k. i like it a little fuzzier. >> we can do it from the bellagio. on the strip. >> fuzzy is good, larry. all right, nearly nine years after going out of business, circuit city is apparently toward give it another go. until now, the owner hadn't done much with the coil. this year, the ceo announced starting next month, circuit city will roll out a website in

kiosks and eventually new stores. here's a look at the weather. it's pretty sunny. >> it is. you can see the high clouds. we might get a spring or two. right now you can see rt this. spotty showers in the north bay. sunnier and milder through weekend and then wet weather returning next week. maybe a couple sprinkles in the north bay. most locations will see dry conditions. there will be extensive areas of informing. if you look at the day planner,

visibility will be reduced. it will be mainly in the north bay. mainly clear skies tonight. this is how it will shape up tonight. look for 62 to 63 60 on the coast at half moon bay. and a warming trend coming our way. we're using napa as the high temperature trend. mid to upper 60s over the weekend. and then back down to the low 60s going into the middle of next week. that's pretty much the pattern we can expect. it will feel almost spring-like. a pretty wet day for a while and then the rain disappears.

it starts to come back in wednesday evening. it looks like thursday will be the wettest day. this is likely to get on rain next thursday and even some snow. this looks like a fairly wet pattern developing next week. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. fog giving way to sunshine. then highs in the mid 60s, mid to upper 60s near bay and inland. mid 60s on the coast by sunday. a slight chance of a shower developing late monday night. the showers are likely on tuesday. we'll rank each of these. it looks like thursday will be the soggiest day that we have coming in the middle of next

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james frankel is face go more sexual misconduct the best actor award at the golden globe on sunday for his role in the disaster artist. but one of his accusers said he wore a time's up pin was a slap in the face. four women accusing franco are his former students. the fifth says he was her mentor. the star denied previous

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here are the stories making headlines. there's been a bleak turn of events in the search for survivors buried under a mud slide in montecito. firefighters hopes of finding anybody alive in the mud stricken town are now fading. the death toll currently stands at 17. there's a news conference going on right now in santa barbara. the sheriff just announed there are 43 people that now may be considered missing and that total is up from eight earlier in the day. veronica from our sister station in los angeles tweeted out some video what highway 101 looks like. debris is everywhere. the highway has been closed for days now because of this disaster. melanie woodrow tweeted this photo. another swimmer was bitten by a sea lion. the latest victim not only says t she will recover. and an agreement to protect

hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation but this is not a done deal yet. the latest from washington. >> what do you think about this? >> negotiations on the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> deal or no deal? >> no deal yet. there has to be one. >> looking for a bipartisan agreement on the deferred childhood arrivals program or daca. they will only say they're close the a deal. >> we have an agreement. the bipartisan group, that we're shopping among our colleagues now. >> nearly 800,000 young immigrants brought to the u.s. as children are waiting. >> they're panicked. they have a right to be. they're worried about being deported. we need to find a right way to make a deal. >> a possible senate deal comes one day after house gop leaders introduced their version of the bill. it includes funding for president trump's wall on the

u.s./mexico border. >> if speaker ryan will listen to the hard right in the house, we will have no deal. >> trump adamant a wall has to be part offully daca deal. >> we're okay with getting a deal done as long as it falls into the parameters the president laid out. >> a new quinnipiac poll says 70% of d.r.e.a.m.ers should be allowed to remain in the u.s. >> we do want to fix daca. we don't want to have a problem again. that's common sense. >> senators are hoping for a fix by the end of the month. since the president announced the end of daca, nearly 13,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers have lost their protections. meanwhile, president trump is coming under scrutiny and criticism after he made disparaging remarks about immigrants in an oval office meeting. speaking to lawmakers who would gather to speak with restoring protections from haiti, el

salvador and african countries, the president said this why. are we having all these people from expletive countries come here? that's the exact quote. the "washington post" suggests the president wanted more people from norway come to the u.s. a controversial government surveillance program. the measured vote voted down this morning would have required the fbi to get a probable cause warrant to continue even searching the database of intelligence collected on foreign targets abroad. and those who opposed it said would it prevent the government from uncovering potential threats. backers say they should be able to search without a warrant. a new 50 state found about a third do not require lawmakers to participate in sexual harassment training. the legislature in sacramento does require attract every two years but many sas, they do

require training every two years but they say it needs to be changed. that there is a culture of harassment and abuse in california politics. since then, the senate president pro tem promised to release records. multiple bills are on the table to make a ready rog process more transparent. in louisiana, a rally was held for the middle school teacher who was handcuffed and arrested at a school board meeting. at the time, the teacher was questioning a pay raise for the superintendent. >> elizabeth hur has the details. >> we as educators refuse to be silent. >> educators, parents and community members standing in solidarity with a teach here vows she will not be silenced. >> this video of a louisiana middle school teacher being hand cuffed and arrested at a school board meeting is being seen around the world.

and now after a visit to jail, is urging supporters to keep fighting for what's fair. >> i'm appalled at this and you should be too. >> the outrage stepping from an incident monday, questioning why the superintendent was getting a pay raise of some $30,000. the teachers union says they haven't seen a raise in ten years. >> the board explaining this was a time for public comments only. asked her to leave. she did. but for some reason, she was arrested out in the hallway. >> she's the one that made the choices that got her arrested. >> now the superintendent calls the entire situation unfortunate. >> what happened at that meeting should not have happened. should not. >> and after watching this video, the city attorney and prosecutors say they won't be pressing any charges against the teacher. noting the office here made the arrest was working for the

school district. not the city. elizabeth hur, abc news. an immigrant are pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges today. he faces up to life in prison for the botched attack a month ago. you'll remember the pipe bomb exploded at the height of the rush hour in new york city. he was the only person seriously hurt when the bomb went off in a corridor linking the new york from train. the fight over rent control escalated in protes protests, protesters were arrested. live in the newsroom with that story. >> let's take you back to 1995. california lawmakers basically told cities, you know, you can't always make your own laws when it comes the rent control.

we are telling you that you can't apply to it new construction and single family homes. today, a new set of lawmakers attempted unsuccessfully to repeal that law. rent control supporters took over the housing committee room after it was clear there would be no changes to the costa hawkins act. right now rent control doesn't apply to single family gnomes california or to new construction. even if a city like san francisco wanted to become 100% rent control. >> right now we can to go city hall and say we want on it single family homes, they say no. it prevents that. >> the assembly member from san francisco was in favor of get go rid of it as a way to keep people from being displaced. the house go rights committee agrees. >> it would mean a lot more people could stay in the city or

afford to live here. >> rental units born between 1979 must comply with rent control laws. those in favor of the act say had it been repealed, it would have meant a loss. >> i can't imagine any developer wanting to come to san francisco and invest millions of dollars in a new development. >> the appeals effort didn't havethe necessary votes to move forward. so boat sides had no choice butt to continue. abc7 news. >> thanks.

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