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missing. >> yeah, the 75 foot commercial ng yet another delay. 7 on your side's michael finney diving boat or conception, it's is here to tell us about the called, erupted into flames off impact. >> i can't tell you how many santa cruz island at 3:30 this people are at airports saying, am i being delayed? morning. yeah, right. search crews are still scouring the island's coast line tonight it's hard to tell. for survivors. flight delays caused by the >> the santa barbara county grounding of 737-max jets could sheriff delivered an update just in the last hour. continue for a while longer. >> four victims have been we're looking at potential new delays and getting the boeing recovered thus far as deceased. jets back in the air. they have been transported to why? well, "wall street journal" says our coroner's bureau. air safety officials are we can only identify them at concerned they're not getting this point as two adult males enough information about the fixes planned for the jets. and two adult females. now, you may remember concerns rescue and recovery efforts on about the 737-max jets came the scene have located an following two deadly crashes. additional four victims on the the newest fronts in the trade war between the u.s. and china, ocean floor in close proximity your wrist and your living room. to the vessel. and we have dive teams that are u.s. tariffs targeting imports in the water as we speak that like smart watches, flat panel are working to attempt recovery of their remains. >> we will search all the way tvs. the 15% tariffs started through the night into the yesterday. in response, china has upped its morning, but i think we all tariffs on u.s. crude oil. should be prepared to move into time is running out for you
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the worst outcome. to get in on the labor day >> many aboard the boat were sales. believed to be sleeping below mattresses have always been a big labor day sales item, and deck when the fire broke out. there are deals being offered five crew members who were already awake jumped off the boat and were rescued by a good online and off until midnight tonight. samaritan. 10 to 15% off the regular price, >> a 6th crew member is among the missing. not the fake regular prices, the truth aquatics is a respected real regular prices. they're available and pretty ease toy come by right now. walmart, amazon and other major name in the diving industry. retailers are also competing on >> his phone has been ringing electronics, big korean tvs can be had for under $300. nonstop from friends and fellow air conditioners are on sale for divers, just devastated by this tragedy. >> he told abc7 news reporter the holiday, and because it's kris reyes about his experience on the kwon exception and why he the end of the season. was so surprised by what so there's some fabulous deals happened. out there especially if you have the one room you're trying to cool down. >> right here inside the boat, >> right. >> perfect time to buy one of those. they have really good deals. there is stairs that go from the bunk area to the kitchen in the >> i can't believe what's happened to television prices in the last few years. main galley. >> unbelievable. >> reporter: gilroy business >> thanks, michael. >> thanks, michael. owner has been a diver for 40e all right, up next making the ordinary years. he's been an instructor for 15. he's been on the conception about half a dozen times, so he knows that exiting the vessel and the sleeping quarters should
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only take seconds. >> have only one thought in mind and that's the fire had to have happened so fast that it didn't give any chance to the people who were sleeping at 3:00 or around 3:00 a chance to get -- to escape. >> reporter: on the boat munoz said the exit route includes a set of stairs and escape hatch. >> you can see the area is well lit and right around this area is where the hatch isndits cr top-notch operation that prioritized safety. >> having been on the truth aquatics several times in the past ten years, every single time they conducted a very professional orientation at the beginning of the trip. i can't remember a single tragic event that comes even close to the loss of more than 30 scuba divers in a single incident.
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i think this is an event of global proportions. >> reporter: in gilroy, kris reyes for abc7 news. >> georgia's governor has urged people living along his state's atlantic coast to move inland before hurricane dorian makes landfall in the united states. and officials in the bahamas believe at least five people have died after dorian's winds and heavy rains pounded the island chain. theeyhe d c you can see the eye wall lashing, grand bahama island as it slowly inches north we. >> let's bring in meteorologist drew tuma. slow is the operative word, too slow. >> it's not even moving. the national hurricane center has for the third hour in a row ctth past eight hours dorian has moved the equivalent i'm ama daetz. coming up on abc7 news at 6:00, of the length of the bay bridge. the investigation into a deadly
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this storm is crawling if not accident, a crash so severe the stalling over grand bahama vehicle split in half. island and that is the way the at 6:00, why the victim'sngas t. storm has shaped up the past 24 hours. this is not good news for the also the event taking place northern portion of the bahamas in gilroy tomorrow more than a with a category 4 storm still month after the mass shooting at overhead. you're looking at the winds on the garlic festival. plus. the coast of florida right now >> how does your car run? from the storm. gusting about 23 to near 30 miles per hour right now. >> my car runs fine. it's than old. >> chances are your car runs we'll show you the latest on the track. what i do want to show you, this pretty well these days also. line right here is where the and as you'll hear from 7 on storm has already gotten. your side, one law deserves a you can see in the last couple lot of the credit. hours it's tried to make that that's all coming up on abc7 jog to the north and to the news at 6:00. west. it will eventually do that over dan, kristen? the next 24 hours as a category >> thanks, ama. >> well, what brings you joy? 3 storm. >> the city of fremont asked 125 mile per hour winds. that very question and the so hurricane warnings are still results are brightening the entire community. in effect for much of the >> every time you drive by one, florida coast line and now we you kind of like get a lit happ. have hurricane watches extending all the way from the >> reporter: she spent a good part of her summer at this florida/georgia state line fremont intersection. through charleston, south the high school freshman turned carolina. in fact, dan and kristen, this this traffic signal box into art could see stronger winds on the thatot astronauts. south carolina coast line in the need a girl in space. coming days from the storm, >> reporter: she's one of 15 maybe heavier rain as it continues to move north and west, guys. local artists select today paint
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>> hard to imagine. >> keep our eye on that very over utility boxes. closely, drew. >> we are in the midst of thank you. in the east bay highway 24 has painting our 170 traffic signal been closed offer and on all day control boxes to art murals. really creating a huge traffic mess. start this had morning in >> reporter: susan longini rungs lafayette where construction crews were working and a crane the art box program. >> it started out as a graffiti knocked down a power line. it also knocked out power to abatement program and it has more than 700 customers in that been wildly successful. it has diminished graffiti about area. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow is in lafayette live 95%. >> reporter: since the project with the latest on the story. started five years ago, about 65 melanie. >> reporter: dan, pg&e says boxes have been converted into power was restored to all public art. this year's theme was paint customers this afternoon at something that gives you joy. 3:30, 7:00 p.m., take a look, >> a lady bug and sunflower. you can see crews are done with their work to these overhead >> reporter: she is an art power lines meaning there are no teacher who wanted to share her moran advertise pated closures love of the outdoors. here at highway 24. >> my work is about nature, so i pg&e crews restoring power want to participate. this afternoon to more than 100 >> reporter: the boxes all give remaining customers after a crane replacing equipment at the joy. and instead of seeing graffiti lafayette bart station hit a or, at best, an ugly square power line. metal box, this is video of the 265-ton crane bart provided from a >> and it uplifts them. previous weekend of work. >> reporter: fremont officials just before 5:30 this morning, are so impressed by the success, the impacted line came down on the westbound lane of highway 24 they are planning a mural
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which was reopened just before program to prevent graffiti on large walls. 6:30 a.m. the incident knocking >> what a clever out electricity to more than 700 customers, including this >>ust almost hade sg tonight, bracing for tonight, breaking news as we a heart attack. i thought, what's happening? come on the air in the west. what's going on here? bracing for hurricane dorian. then i found out. >> reporter: as did her tenants, the whole foods using big the death toll rising. and in the west, that massive refrigerated trucks for some of fire and explosion on a boat. its inventory. the horror onboard. pete's giving out free coffee, the out of control fire. and yogurt shack powering parts the explosion on a diving boat. of the store with a generator. passengers on an excursion. >> whatever is loaded in the fire erupting in the middle of machine we can't save. the fight. >> reporter: pg&e planning to restore power in three stages to the crew jumping into the ocean. several bodies discovered. limit traffic impact closing and what we have just learned highway 24 in both directions tonight. there were three groups for 20 minutes at a time. celebrating birthdays. but ultimately only needing two also at this hour, the closures to complete the devastating images coming in. overhead requiring work. the deadly strike. the hurricane churning for more bart spokesperson chris felipe. than 24 hours over the bahamas. homes wiped away. >> it's going to depend on gusts reaching more than 220 miles an hour. traffic flows. authorities there saying "pray so there is wiggle room. >> reporter: shoppers understanding. for us." and now tonigh w >> hopefully they'll be able to get it iks iffed soon. >> reporter: while businesses will probably lose big bucks.
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>> i wanted to see thefogain. >> we have a claims process for this sort of thing. >> reporter: bart spokesperson saying it's possible the contractor and subcontractor operating the crane could be financially responsible for any claims filed. there's no impact expected for tomorrow's back to work commute. live in lafayette, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >> melanie, thank you. in oakland hundreds of kaiser permanente workers rallied and marched for a new contract after more than one year of negotiations. as they promised, 70 of those workers were arrested for blocking an intersection. abc7 news reporteder luz pena has the story. >> no way. >> reporter: more than 1,000 kaiser permanente workers rallied together for a better contract. >> they're taking billions of dollars but won't put it into the hospital. >> reporter: among their concerns are low wages, high pay for kaiser executives, staffing shortage and outsourcing jobs. harvey has worked for kaiser 17?
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they're taking away my retirement. this is going to affect us greatly. it's going to be something hard to swallow, you know, taking a 10, $15 pay cut is going to be tough. >> reporter: almost 70 workers were arrested for blocking the intersection of macarthur boulevard. he said he needs to provide for his family in the philippines. you know you're about to get arrested. >> right, yes. and i'm ready because i'm doing this for my family and my friends and my union brothers and sisters. if i fall, the union falls, everybody falls. >> reporter: september 30th, 2018, the national contract with kaiser expired. >> what i can say is we're committed to following that established practice and making sure we can come up with a competitive contract that makes sense to both sides. >> reporter: now, if both parties don't come to an agreement before october, these workers are planning to go on
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strike, making it the biggen 80 emplnd, luz pena, abc7 news. >> within the past 15 minutes, the alameda county sheriff's office confirmed the man suspected of driving onto the tarmac at oakland international airport has been found dead. the body was found in the bay near the oakland estuary. about five miles from where the suspect's car was located yesterday. authorities say the man did not stop when they tried to pull him over at the airport yesterday afternoon. he started speeding down an airport access road and rammed down a gate at 50 miles per hour and made his way onto the tarmac. they chased him for two miles. he got out of his truck and jumped into the bay. the sheriff's office is working with the fbi to try to figure out a motive. air soft weapons hoods and masks were found inside his vehicle. >> in oakland, a 44-year-old woman believed to be leaving a wedding reception was shot and killed by a stray bullet. it happened shortly after
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midnight this morning on east 22nd street. oakland police say an argument at the other end of the street escalated and someone started firing shots. one bullet hit the victim who was walking to her car with another person. o.p.d. is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. >> a muni bus accident causes problems for people trying to get around the city this labor day. it happened around 10:00 this morning at mission and valencia. a bus on the 14 r line collided with a vehicle. an ambulance was called, but it's not clear if anybody was hurt. the scene was cleared by 1:30 this afternoon. > san jose police are investigating a driver who crashed into several parked vehicles. a sudan was torn in half. two suvs and a truck were also damaged. it happened last night at hills dale and urlando way. a driver approached him after the crash provided this surveillance video. police have not yet said what led to the crash. the highway patrol shared
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this video of a delivery driver falling out of his truck in north sacramento. in a facebook post the c.h.p. said if you drink don't drive and always wear your seat belt. the man -- the truck drove on by itself until it hit a sign. we are glad to tell you that no one else was injured. a lot of people are on their way home tonight afterda weeken town. this picture from the placer county sheriff show cars leaving the tahoe area very crowded. here's a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the traffic is moving pretty well, as we mentioned earlier highway 24 was a bit of a mess today. >> all right. up next, the serious problem for bay area homeowner. >> pigs can do a real number on your lawn. how one man is fighting an invasion at his home. >> also the parents who are suing vape maker juul. why the company says the case has no merit. >> and cable cars out of commission. why muni is shutting down the system and what that means for ♪
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crews contained a big fire that broke out at a lumberyard in vallejo this morning. aluminum bher yards go up quickly obviously. you can see the huge flames. no injuries were reported. they were able to keep the fire to just a quarter of the lumberyard which is quite an accomplishment given what was burning. officials say there was a fire at the same location back in 2008 that destroyed the entire lumberyard. >> now to an east bay homeowner's battle with wild pigs. they are tearing up his lawn at night, so what would you do? >> yeah, it's an interesting question. abc7 news reporter laura anthony is live in lafayette with the story. laura. >> reporter: well, hi, dan. this home does back up to open space so the lee family is no stranger to wildlife. they get their raccoons, their turkeys. but in this case what we're ta ttttle
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gardening.e little pigs in my backyard. >> reporter: you heard that right. it's been no fairytale f carson lee. >> i saw them come through looks like the wire mesh was lifted up. >> reporter: and he knows he can't just call the big bad wolf. for the past week, lee's backyard has become bedtime fodder for the trio as they feast and frolic and leave behind a mangled mess on the lawn. >> we'll wake up in the morning and find these huge kind of dug-up divots in our backyard. it's a mystery where they come from and where they go. every now and then we'll wake up and find new holes. >> reporter: lee's surveillance cameras captured the pigs over the last seven days. they apparently gain access to his backyard via a small hole in the metal fence. >> so i put these cinder blocks here to block them. >> reporter: it's hard to tell on the sid video how big they are, but an expert trapper in
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santa clara county told us they can be more than just a nuisance. >> do not try to adopt them. they're wild animals. they're unpredictable and they can be dangerous at times. it's been so hot lately, a lot of the water has dried up up in the hills where they normally would stay. >> reporter: in san jose, the city council made it legal for an expert with a state permit to trap and shoot wild pigs after a series of invasions at golf course ands in residential areas. now aasnviole md o y city andun. redito sprinkler that he hopes will simply scare the pigs away. >> hopefully tonight when they come again, the sprinkler will just spray water and shew them away. >> reporter: and so lee will give this sprinkler a try for the first time tonight. i did talk with the pig expert about the sprinkler. he told us, dan and kristen, that these pigs are very smart, so it may scare them away the
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first or second time, but at some point they may come back and just enjoy the water. >> they might. laura, i just installed a sound deterrent for raccoons. i am curious for him, does he know why the pigs might like his yard more than any other yard or any other place? >> reporter: well, the expert told me that, you know, they're up here close to the open space and as we get into these hotter months, a lot of their normal water sources are drying up. there's a creek right behind here. perhaps the water is gone. you can hear the sprinkler still going off here. and that they are coming to this yard. maybe they like it because it's a little wetter than some of the others and they're looking for grub, they're looking for water sources. he said one of his other neighbors has a problem. other neighbors haven't had the problem. so he's hoping that the sprinkler here will work. >> if they like the water, i don't know. all right. well, good luck to him. thanks, laura. >> thanks, laura, very much. an indiana family is suing san
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francisco-based vape company juul for not warning of excess i.ly high levels of nicotine in its products. thomas mccullough, one of the parents who filed suit says his 17-year-old son started smoking juul in 2015. when he tried to quit he suffered severe headaches and withdrawal symptoms. juul claims its product is a viable alternative to smoking. >> san francisco's famous cable cars are in need of repairs. they will shut down the system for ten days. they need to refurbish the gearboxes that power the system. for tourists and others who ride the vintage vehicles, you can still catch a ride on the f market street car that runs along the embarcadero to the wharves. it will still operate a shuttle buir crews have moved quickly to limit the wildfire burning in eastern alameda county. cal fire tweeted this picture off mines road. it has burned 15 acres. crews are attacking from the ground and the air as well. >> right now time to get your
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accuweather forecast. it's been a nice labeled weekend. >> gorgeous start to september. meteorologist drew tuma is here. hi, drew. >> it has been warm, sunshine and warm temperatures. we are already seeing changes in terms of the marine layer growing. bumped up right along the coast line. to sutro tower, showing we have clouds trying to make their way into the city. tonight those clouds will become more widespread than they have been in the past previous nights. just an indication that the pattern is changing for the cooler in the coming days. right now your current temperatures, it's really comfortable out there. 80 in santa rosa. 69 in oakland. warmer in brentwood at 95. and redwood city currently at 78 degrees. you look at the 24-hour temperature change. every city is cooler right now than this time yesterday by 13 degrees in santa rosa, the same in novato. 11 degrees cooler in livermore. 7 degrees cooler in the city and
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oakland and this trend will continue over the next couple of days. overnight tonight we'll see the fog first along our coast line then spreading in and around the bay shoreline. our inland communities will stay mainly clear. temperature wise, mid 50s in the north bay. upper 50s to low 60s around the bay shoreline. and low to mid 60s our farthest cities away from the coast. live doppler 7 along with satellite, this high pressure has sat over the four corners the entire holiday weekend bringing us sunshine, warmer weather. that is now going to push off to the east. what is replacing it is right here. this area of low pressure is going to move into northern california over the next couple of days, bring back widespread fog in the morning and also bring back cooler temperatures each and every afternoon through thursday. so 12-hour day planner tomorrow sun is up 6:41 in the morning. partly sunny sky. midday into the afternoon, it's a lot of sunshine away from the coast. temperature wise 60s on the
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coast line, low 80s around the bay. inland communities upper 80s to low 90s. south bay on tuesday, 86 in san jose. 85 in santa clara. a lot of sunshine. 84 the high in cupertino. along the peninsula tomorrow we'll see morning cloud cover, afternoon sunshine, 82 redwood city, 81 menlo park, 82 the high for mountain view. downtown san francisco, a lot of morning cloud cover, afternoon sunshine. upper 60s to lower 70s. in the north bay 80s to 90s, 88 m petaluma. the east bay tomorrow 70s to low 80s. 79 in berkeley. 82 in fremont, 81 for castro valley and inland upper 80s to lower 90s. 88 the high tomorrow in pleasanton. 90 in walnut creek. 92 the high in pittsburg. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. plan the next seven days for you. we'll have fog first thing tomorrow morning. we'll begin the cool down the next couple of days. and by thursday we're in the 70s and 80s, pretty much where we
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should be for this time of the year. and the latter half of the extended forecast, the numbers bounce around a couple of degrees, no intense heat in the upcoming weekend. looking beautiful, 70s and 80s and a lot of sunshine. >> i love this time of year. >> great. >> thank you, drew. >> boeing not flying high tonight. >> why they may have to wait longer to get their max jets back in service. what that can mean for you the next time you fly. so that early retirement we planned. it's going ok? great. now i'm spending more time with the kids. i'm introducing them to crab. crab!? they love it. so, you mentioned that that money we set aside. yeah. the kids and i want to build our own crab shack. ♪ ♪ ahhh, you're finally building that outdoor kitchen. yup - with room for the whole gang. ♪ ♪
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