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productively with all stakeholders including regulators, policymakers and our customers. but the anti-prop c team is skeptical saying, quote, until they return the $7 million unspent dollars that is in their political account, until they suspend their mail, their advertising, their paid phone calls and lay off their consultants we do not believe them. this announcement comes as the 14th death was reported in nebraska. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> thank you, amy. it is now 4:30. if you're just waking up to us, good morning. >> good morning. a quick update on weather and traffic where you live and we're starting with lisa. good morning to you. it is clear and that means temperatures are going to continue to drop until we see the sun rise. right now in the north bay we have some low 40s. likely we'll be dropping into the upper 30s out there with
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that dry atmosphere. 50s by 9:00. it's a quick recovery and then by the afternoon out of the 60s by about 11:00, and we'll be in the low to mid-70s by 3:00. so around novato, san rafael, you'll be enjoying some milder weather today and if it's full sunshine for you as well in the east bay. starting out with numbers in the 40s and then mid and upper 60s. a sparkling day. sue? right there in the middle of your screen looks like an accident right in the center of the road southbound 680 near north main or treat boulevard and brake lights are happening right there as you can see with the emergency crews right in the middle of the lane. we'll be checking on that as we make your way through the
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morning. the bay bridge toll plaza, otherwise no metering lights yet. we'll check back in a few. north korea and the u.s. have agreed it resume nuclear negotiations this weekend. this will be the first official talk between the two sides since president trump met kim jong-un at the demilitarized zone in june. north korean officials say the two a take place. and this news e mike pompeo was a part of that phone call between president trump and ukrainian president. >> so far no response from the state department, though. here is abc news reporter serena marshall. >> reporter: good morning. the president nor the white house have yet to pinpoint what in the whistle-blower complaint about the phone call was inaccurate. the president maintaining it was perfect. secretary of state mike pompeo
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in that phone call. that revelation as the president's personal lure, rudy giuliani, received subpoenas from three separate house committees n. a statement giuliani said it raises substantial constitutional and legal issues as well as attorney/client privileges. he tried to push ukraine to investigate the bidens or the behest of the u.s. government. >> i did not do this on my own. i did it at the request of the state department. >> mr. president, do you now know who the whistle-blower is, sir? >> well, we're trying to find out about a whistle-blower. we have a whistle-blower that reports things that were incorrect. >> reporter: that's something the attorney says would be against the law. house democrats say they now have a tentative deal to meet with the whistle-blower as the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says if the house voted to impeach, the senate would have no choice but .
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serena marshall, abc news, washington. eric swalwell will have a meeting to talk about the inquiry. he wants to give an update and answer questions about the path forward. former nixon white house counsel and watergate prosecution s at 6:30 tonight at james logan high school in union city. and developing this morning if taiwan, look at this video of the moment a bridge collapsed this morning. an oil tanker truck had nearly crossed but then foul down into the water below. rescuers fear some people are still trapped in this small pacific coast fishing village. the island was struck by a typhoon just hours before. the skies had cleared before the bridge collapsed. happening today, changes ar. so this is a live look at the airport this morning where you will now only have ten minutes to park without being charged.
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sfo extended the free parking time limit to 30 minutes in an effort to reduce traffic congestion around terminals. gorport officials say it realls so back to ten minutes it's going to be starting today. in the east bay lawyers want a judge to lower bail for the man facing retrial in the ghost ship fire case. derick almena remains in jail on $750,000 bail. a judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked on the involuntary manslaughter charges against him last month. on friday the judge will consider dates for a potential new trial and a motion to reduce almena's bail. jurors acquitted co-defendant max harris for the deadly oakland fire that killed 36 people. a search is under way for a fugitive child molester. 55-year-old apollo johnson was convicted of sexually molesting a girl for more than a decade. he failed to appear in court.
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the d.a.'s office says he started molesting the girl when she was just 6 years old she didn't tell anyone until she was 16 and had to be hospitalized fock ihe the s couny honors a trailblazing sheriff's deputy. a major national celebration by the chinese government. biohacking, the hangover. they say they have found a way to help you after a night of drinking. i'll have to put that one to the test maybe. that's all ahead. >> i'll supervise. >> okay. first, 4:36. you're never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. if you're just getting home right now, wow. >> hi, lisa. >> we do run into those people who are still right in the midst of -- >> the party. >> it's a party here this morning with a clear sky and a
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milder afternoon, so we have that going for us. finally getting out of the trenches of the chilly air. you can see mainly clear conditions.ough. 43 in blackhawk. as we go closer to the bay, milder. san francisco 42. 49 in san jose. compared to yesterday we haven't reached our lowest temperatures yet and are still five to nine degrees colder. we'll get the coolest numbers around sun rise at 7:00. and then we'll begin that recovery. so fair conditions on the roadways, dry pavement. it should be cool heading out to mass transit no small craft advisories. in the city lots of sun but it will be cool. upper 50s to near 60 at about 1:00. low 60s should do it for the highs downtown and then looking at everywhere else, look at the 70s. more 70s overtaking the 60s today. that's an improvement. 74 in fremont. 73 in napa. 72 in santa cruz.
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we're getting chilly with these longer nights. that helps in the sleeping department which i need a lot of help. especially during these hours. it's tough to fall asleep especially at 4:00 in the afternoon. >> exactly. >> let's take a look at your traffic for this tuesday morning. back to walnut creek we go. that accident was quickly cleared to the right-hand shoulder just past north main. traffic is flowing much better now. that's all it takes, just get that car out of the middle lane and, boom, brake lights are gone. it's early enough it's recovering quite nicely. we'll take also a look at the emeryville, the east shore freeway and it is also looking pretty good at the limit from hercules all the way down towards the mcarthur maze, about a 27-minute drive. we'll come back and take a look at your mass transit
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all right. tuesday morning we are coming out of our cooler than average trend for some of you. check out santa rosa's high in the mid-70s. elsewhere in the north bay upper 60s, sausalito, 71 in san rafael. so with a little less wind feeling better out there and on the peninsula low 70s there. 72 palo alto. on the coast, upper 60s. kumasi? happening right now china is celebrating 70 years of communist rule with a massive
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show of military force. ♪ president xi jinping display of several new high-tech weapons. one was a supersonic reconnaissance drone. xi told a crowd no force can stop the force of the chinese nation and promised continued prosperity for hong kong. now in hong kong anti-government protests are overshadowing the festivities in beijing this is a live picture from where the protests are taking place. police say they anticipated hard core violence and were ready for it. as you can see in this video protesters were throwing gas bombs, bricks, and officers fired back with multiple rounds of tear gas. hong kong police say one
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pro-democracy protester was shot in the chest by an officer. entire subway lines he been ceth ithth ofprotes traveling tostodayattehe fu deputy shot duty. deputy sandeep dhaliwal was killed during a traffic stop, the first sikh deputy to serve in harris county. he was granted a religious exemption to wear his turban while on duty. a memorial to honor his life. one man who actually met him in 2017 during hurricane harvey relief efforts. >> he guided us through everything. and after that we were just friends, such a humble guy. >> important to have people to look like the community. when people say the officer is a sikh-american, he's representing us and we need to respect that religion. >> a suspect is in custody. the motive is still not known.
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dhaliwal's funeral will be held tomorrow. san francisco is trying to build a better bay area with a new overdose prevention program. this is where 30% of overdose deaths are happening. people in the hotels will be provided with the training and medication to prevent overdoses. the city says there were 39 fentanyl overdose deaths in the first quarter of the year. a biotech startup in san francisco claims to have created a drink that works wonders for your well-being after you are drinking alcohol. abc 7 news reporter kate larson spoke to the scientist about this unique hangover remedy. >> reporter: scientists at a san francisco lab are busy genetically modifying bacteria to improve your life. >> we've made something that breaks down one of these toxic by-products of drinking alcohol called acetaldehyde. >> reporter: zack abbott says his newly launched elixir will
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prevent some of that misery after drinking. >> you can take this product and decide for yourself if you perceive a benefit. if you do, if you wake up and feel good, you've had a with ge engineering. >> reporter: whether you're talking about agriculture or probiotics it's when you take a piece of dna from one cell and integrate it with another piece of dna and creates a new trait in a different cell. >> i think it's just weird to have things artificially created being put into your body. >> reporter: alexis says she's anti-gmo and would not take zbuy ott -- zbiotics. >> 50 years later you learn it wasn't good for you. >> i would gladly pay $5 to $9 to not be hung over. >> reporter: for greg angel the cost of zbiotics is more of an issue than how the product was made. >> if it was a matter of just
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relieving my hangover, i would be onboard, gmo or not. >> reporter: abbott opens its prebiotics will prevent people from disease. >> hmm. >> exactly. >> hmm. >> sometimes things sound too good to be true. >> because it said some. i wonder if you just wake up like nothing ever happened or you feel a little bit better. >> you try it first. >> i feel like i've been told this story before and still woke up with a headache. >> caffeine fix this morning. otherwise a lot of sun on the way and that should feel really good out there if you are thinking about an afternoon nap outside. hmm, i might be. a look at our exploratorium camera where you can see it looks good in san francisco. l .
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49 in oakland 52 in the city. and looking at clear conditions where numbers will continue to slip throughout the next couple of hours. 41 in sanrosa. 43 in fairfield. we don't have that insulation from the cloud cover. in the next several days our onshore flow will back off a bit and that's going to aid in our warming. we're 90 degrees cooler in napa. grab the jacket, the sunglasses. on the peninsula a slow warm-up. we'll hit about 70s. low 70s in redwood city. as we go into the east bay, a nice afternoon. our average high will be shy of five degrees around the bay. otherwise, 74 in fremont as well as livermore with mid-70s up in santa rosa. and looking at a nice afternoon, but if you want it warmer, stay
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tuned. we have that on tap as well. sue? all right. it's pretty quiet for this tuesday morning. a live look in san jose, 101. the headlights headed underneath 880 and moving at the limit. no problems in the northbound direction. across town those headlights snaking up from downtown san jose under the 17/880 overcrossing and up to cupertino moving at the limit for an eight-minute drive from downtown into cupertino. we are seeing slowing out of tracy and 205 merging on 580 westbound, tracy into dublin, pleasanton. speaking of which, that commute for your ace train is running on amazon wants to bring the tech that runs its ghost stores to movie theaters. a garbage can that can take itself to the curb. in today's "tech bytes" amazon's cashierless technology may be used by others.
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>> they are in talks to bring the service to airport shops, movie theaters and baseball stadiums. that technology detects when a shopper takes an item from the shelf and automatically charges an app when they leave. the hit netflix show "stranger things" will be back for a fourth season. >> the creators set in the 1980s reportedly signed a nine figure deal. no word on a start date for season four. and a new self-driving garbage can will save you a trip to the curb. >> it comes with an app that allows you to preprogram your trash day schedule. it drives itself to the correct drop-off point and heads back to its storage spot when empty. >> let the trash talk begin. those are your "tech bytes." >> we are doing too much. >> that is not going to work. >> wheel that can -- >> in this city that is not going to work. that docking station will be tagged and all kinds of other things else. >> you have a point. the holiday hiring season is
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they took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. five million kids now using e-cigarettes. the fda said juul ignored the law with misleading health claims. now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn san francisco's e-cigarette protections. say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c.
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not even 5:00. so with that sun coming up after 7:00 we'll lose at least two or three degrees, 49 in san carlos and san jose as well as oakland. traveling across the state it's going to be dry from north to south and temperatures will be warming through sacramento, mid-70s. lots of sun in the south bay. thanks, lisa. caught on camera in the east bay, video of a man doing everything he can to steal a coin machine. check it out. so you don't actually see the device in the video but you can see the man trying to chain it to his pickup and trying to rip the coin machine away. police say it happened at a car wash off clayton road in concord last week. they are still looking for the suspect. you can see in the gray hoodie. they determined that even this truck was stolen. g> california is bucking the aasays pce wentents but the ave
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$4, which makes us, oh, look at that, the most expensive in the country. san francisco is paying $4.14 on average. aaa says you can blame the price hike on disruptions to oil refineries. some quick thinking by airport workers at chicago o'hare stopping an out-of-control american airlines catering cart. look at this. this was captivating airline passengers, some taking cell phone video of the sight. an airlin worker happened on to another cart and rammed it into the catering cart to get it to stop. >> why are people clapping in the background, reggie? >> because that man deserves an award. look how close it gets to that plane, right? >> reggie, what about the people, not the plane, the people. >> let's talk about the plane, millions of dollars. the people are fine.
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look at this man right here. what is he going to do? he's acting like he's going to protect it. >> get back, get back. >> through all the powers in my body, please do not touch this plane. anyway, no one got hurt and the airline says it's investigating how the cart ended up moving that way. >> that man does award. i've got the thing. i figured it out. >> that's the man that you want at every party. you want him when it gets a little too rowdy in the neighborhood. right? >> just roll up, hey. >> party's over. >> do you want to get run over? >> i want him to be my neighbor, lisa. >> how many times did they watch it? four, five rotations before -- >> but what would you have done? i wouldn't have known what to do. >> came to the rescue. good for him. we're talking about a warm-up. when are we going to see the warm-up, fast forwarding to thursday where temperatures are going to be in the 70s around the bay to low 80s inland. so that's pretty good.
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look what happens on friday. we're into the mid-80s and it's getting even warmer around the bay. but then as we get into the weekend this is when temperatures are going to be the warmest. in fact, we're talking near 90 over the weekend and we'll see some of the 70s as we get closer to the beaches. so that's where we should be for october. good morning, sue. good morning, lisa. good morning, everyone. back to walnut creek. an earlier accident southbound blocking middle lanes that was quickly pushed out of lanes and now traffic has recovered nicely. no brake lights as you make your way from concord, pleasant hill through walnut creek on towards the 24 interchange. hopping over to san rafael, looking good here as well as you make your drive from novato past the north gate mall and the civic center on into central marin. no problems across the golden gate this morning. they picked up that road work relatively early. and you can see slow traffic out of the central valley. will is your drive time westbound on 580. tracy and dublin 40 minutes.
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no delays highway 4 and san rafael into san francisco. small sailing, less than 20 minutes. >> thanks, sue. some san francisco police officers will be changing colors this month. >> the officers will be sporting pink patches as part of the pink patch project. it helps raise money and awareness for breast cancer research. officers will sell pink patches for bay area cancer connections. last year they raised $25,000 that orniti. gap and including old navy and banana republic are look to go hire seasonal employees for the holidays this saturday gap is holding a one-day hiring event in storing across the country. the jobs include sales associates inside stores and positions at distribution centers. you can find out more on our website abc7news.com. next at 5:00, the change starting today at sfo. what you need to know if you plan on parking to pick someone up at the airport. >> singer r. kelly still trying to get out on bond. some of the unfairly strict conditions he's facing in jail. >>
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now at 5:00, you'll have to be quick if you want to park at sfo for free. >> the airport is shortening its free parking policy from 30 minutes to 10. >> you can't do anything in ten minutes. >> you just have to walk quickly. >> you're going to pay. good morning on this tuesday, october 1st. >> of course you're never more than seven minutes away from our accuweather forecast. here is lisa. good morning. starting out with clear skies this morning and because of that temperatures will be colder than what you've been used to for starters. by the afternoon we're going to finish warmer. a look at live
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