we also, you know, can't really believe that we happen to be there for their biggest earthquake in 120 years. >> san francisco residents caught in the chaos of a deadly earthquake in morocco are making their way home tonight as the country begins three days of national mourning. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm j.r stone. let's get right to the latest on the rescue efforts underway in morocco. the death toll stands at more than 2000 victims as a result of the 6.8 magnitude quake which struck friday night. thousands more have been injured, many terrified moroccans are spending the night on the street, too afraid to return to their homes. the epicenter was not far from the popular tourist hub, marrakesh, where historic sites have been damaged. but the hardest hit areas are those nearest to the atlas mountains, a bay area family that was visiting morocco when the shaking began is sharing a frightening story about the quake. they tell abc seven news

reporter cornell bernard the quake ready training they learned growing up here helped to keep them calm. >> it's insanely beautiful. it's really an interesting mix of cultures. >> it was a dream moroccan vacation for my friends, the garnet hunter family from marin and san francisco. but their last day visiting marrakesh was truly unforgettable. this was the terrifying moment. the 6.8 magnitude quake struck morocco late friday night. >> it was the scariest earthquake i've ever lived through. christina garnet and daughter natalie say they feared their three story hotel would collapse. >> so me and my mom are just looking at each other and then suddenly we're like, we got to run to the door because we've been training for this. our whole lives. we're from san francisco. we've lived through earthquakes, and we know about earthquakes. but there's still a few seconds where you're like kind of in disbelief. >> many ran for safety from homes and restaurants. the epicenter, about 45 miles south of marrakesh, the heaviest damage in morocco's atlas mountains. the family capturing

these images of quake debris in the old medina section of marrakesh. we evacuated after about 15, 20 minutes, our hosts made us leave and we walked to the main square where there were hundreds of people gathered. here's what they saw, patrick says. many people were in shock and there was fear of aftershocks as it's really difficult to hear about the damages that were done the next morning we walked through town and the bakers chimney had fallen off and we had talked to him the night before and he was trying to get bread out to the community, trying to feed people amid the tragedy. and rising death toll, the family says there's hope and resilience. >> so it's just this amazing community spirit that really struck us. it was just it was wonderful. they were just going to keep going. >> the family has now traveled out of morocco, but hope to return soon. >> we just want to send a lot of love and support to the people of morocco in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc seven news.

>> a man made it out of a suspected road rage incident unharmed after he says he was shot at on the bay bridge. chp has not confirmed the incident as a shooting, saying it's possible a bottle was thrown. abc seven news spoke with the victim who says somebody drove up behind him aggressively on eastbound i-80. i kind of held my hands up. >> one was out the window and just like, what's going on? and he didn't like that. i reacted to his driving and so he went in front of the next car in front of me, and then he he slammed on his brakes. he kept slamming on his brakes. and i kept going slower and slower. we went down to 35 miles an hour right when i was going past him, he had the passenger window down, obviously, and he shot one gun, one gun shot out. >> that man says he was followed into oakland until he arrived at a police station on when the suspect finally drove off. chp says the situation is under

investigation. it is pride weekend in oakland and the celebration hit its stride today with the city's pride parade through downtown. the parade was streamed live on the abc7 app. abc7 news reporter unzer hasson was one of the hosts. he has a wrap up of today's events. >> as has become tradition, first came the dikes on bikes leading off the 2023 oakland pride and pride fest. >> great pride weekend. this is this is huge for oakland. small business owner and oakland resident nina joyner was among the thousands who attended the parade that came through downtown oakland. >> even having fun today. what's been the most exciting part? um marching with my school. among the contingents this year, several schools, including the oakland unified school district and kaiser permanente, one of the largest employers in oakland , also marched. >> where we see cities and

urban, large urban areas like oakland and others around the country as we learned through the pandemic, the biggest deficit in disparity levels exist in these communities. for a lot of historical and current policy and practice reasons. and so we pay particular attention and partner more exclusively in these environments to make sure we're making a difference place to meet for police speaks to east bay congresswoman barbara lee was the grand marshal. >> others who took part include pixar and various local churches and cultural organizations. >> it's pretty much just a time to, like, have fun and feel free, you know, after the parade came pride fest, where local artists could showcase their talent. >> come on, spooky house sells art made by trans artists. co-founder miriam levinson says the hot item this year. >> we have these incredible rainbow pins that everybody says is the hottest pride item of the year. >> oakland is facing a historic deficit in the summer crime spike. joyner says events like this are big for the city and go

beyond just celebrating pride. >> you have all the politicians, people running for office, but you also have like the community organizations that want to see change in oakland. so, you know, pride is not just about celebrating who we are, and it's also about celebrating who we want to be in oakland. >> saracen, abc seven news. this . was one day ahead of the anniversary of the nine divided by 11 attacks. >> the tributes have already begun in some locations as santa clara county officials hosted a remembrance ceremony this morning. a ceremony was also held in san francisco today, attended by mayor london breed and members of the city's fire department at saint anne of the sunset church. several more events are planned for tomorrow. the 22nd anniversary of the attacks. there's new information tonight about a bay area land grab that's been shrouded in mystery. what's been revealed about a project that's slowly taking shape around travis air

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billions of dollars worth of solano county farmland has revealed a plan to quite literally build a better bay area. they want to build a new city. since 2018, flannery ciat has quietly acquired more tn 55,000 acres of land, some of which is now surrounding travis air force base. the firm's parent company, california forever revealed the plans to build a new community after launching this website last week. this week, the firm will continue meeting with local, state and federal officials to discuss their vision. fairfield mayor catherine moy recently met with the firm's ceo. she spoke with

abc7 news i-team reporter stephanie sierra about those discussed options. >> you've raised numerous concerns before about all this, including access to water, lack of infrastructure. did you get a sense of how they plan to tackle that? well well i know that they have some water rights, but is it enough for a city? >> absolutely not. i sit on the water agency as mayor. we've turned down mills tens of dollars from from flannery to buy some of our land because they wanted it close to the base . it doesn't make sense to me. still so now, to add to that, did you get a better understanding of how this city will be powered? well that is a bit of an issue. they said that what they are going to do is do mostly solar farms and that's a problem or it could be a problem with an air base because a reflection. but there are new

solar panels that you can use on bases and some do. so that's what they're talking about. we know that p-g-and-e's does not have the power grid to hold up a new city. they can't even open some of our new car dealership. so those are on generators or were because p-g-and-e's can't can't do it. so it's not coming from there. >> that's interesting. well, last time we spoke, you discussed potential access to a large amount of natural gas underground where flannery has acquired land. do you have reason to believe that this could be related to these purchases? >> i actually do. there is a lot of natural gas or was and used, but deep down, from what i understand from some people and i'm still digging into it, is that there is a lot of natural gas deeper in underground. and the problem is access is congressman john garamendi raised concerns last week. >> the firm may move forward with an initiative that could

impact zoning requirements around travis. but flannery has since told us they don't plan to build any homes within one mile of the base. do you think there's reason to be concerned about that? i do. >> it's my biggest concern. when i did ask john about this and john told me that that they are moving forward and in november, during the presidential election here, we will have on our ballot something that will actually take away the current general plan for solano county. now you mentioned before you asked the ceo, john sramek, why why he purchased the land surrounding travis air force base. >> what was his response to that? he said he wants to protect the base. >> um, i'm i'm i'm not believing everything he's saying. i need to be convince first that that's what he wants. but it certainly uncomfortable for the base. i

speak with a commander there, my city manager, and i are tuned into the department of defense and we understand what they see as a threat. >> there's more news ahead, including the familiar health scare that's led to an audit of hundreds of schools across california. and summer seems to be winding down with some beautiful weather. abc seven's frances dinglasan is up next with your accuweather forecast. >> the wait is finally over. the 40 niners are back. they open the season in pittsburgh baroque and the boys slam the steelers in the regular season opener. we got highlights reaction coming up in sports

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lately. we have its perfect blue skies behind us and all around the bay area. >> in fact, it's so quiet on live doppler seven, we're not picking up any clouds, any moisture in the sky. the only thing you need to look out for is the beach hazards in monterey bay. this is in effect until 11:00 this evening because of a strong southerly swell, 4 to 8 foot breaking waves are possible , especially for south facing beaches. and this does increase your risk of dangerous rip currents. right now, they're at about five feet in monterey bay. and just gorgeous from mount tam. as we look south, you can see san francisco go there. blue skies all around. temperatures really warmed up. inland but it has been cooler at the coast. san francisco, 65 degrees right now. oakland down to 69. but we're still seeing 70s in mountain view, san jose, 78 half moon bay has been one of the cooler spots with that sea breeze and partly cloudy conditions at 63 from emeryville. we're looking across the bay and you can see san francisco there. a little bit of

the ripple with a light sea breeze around 10 to 15 miles an hour in santa rosa, still 85 degrees. novato 82. napa, 77. fairfield had hit about 95 today. right now it's at 89. upper 80s in concord and livermore at 84 degrees, down from 90 earlier. and what you'll notice is the lack of cloud cover and the marine layer at the golden gate bridge. so it will be mostly clear tonight, sunny again tomorrow, but it could be a few degrees cooler in some spots and then it's going to be even breezier and cooler on tuesday will be below normal. temperatures will come down. another average of four degrees for most areas. here's a look at the forecast animation. so midnight tonight, notice not too many clouds, even 7:00 tomorrow morning. the marine layer is just along the coast, mainly the san mateo county coast. lots of sunshine, but then the clouds will really push in into tuesday morning. and that's when we see the cooler weather. temperatures tonight mainly in the 50s cooler

in the north bay, low 50s there. we'll see some upper 50s like san jose, antioch, 60 degrees. and then tomorrow it's going to be mild to hot again. so at the beaches, low 60s around the bay, some 70s near 80 in some spots and near 90 for some of our inland areas. so it's going to be just another beautiful september day. enjoy it while you can. it will be cooler and breezier on tuesday with more cloud cover and a thicker marine layer. tuesday morning. and then we warm up on wednesday just a little bit. we're actually close to average and on cruise control all week long into next weekend. >> now abc seven sports with chris alvarez. >> well, six months to the day after forty-niners quarterback brock purdy had surgery on the right elbow he injured in the nfc championship game matters opened the season today in pittsburgh and purdy looked like he didn't miss a beat. a good start to the season for a niners team that notoriously has started slow the past few seasons. purdy all smiles in the season opener for because first drive of the year they're going to go on fourth and one and

purdy finds george kittle looking to make a move up field first down move the chains attitude right out of the gate and finish the drive in style. purdy to brandon aiyuk the first score this season, seven of the niners first time they've scored a touchdown on their season opening drive since 2017 and they'll be more to come come the defense expects to be strong kenny pickett pass mooney ward says i'll take that the defense didn't allow a first down until less than a minute to go in the first half. good hands there from the secondary of the niners aiyuk he's expected to have a big year. he has great hands as well. bay, look at him get this football second touchdown in of the first half 129 yards and two scores purdy threw for 220. it was 20 nothing niners in a hurry blow out city early third quarter christian mccaffrey remember him spin cycle and then aiyuk nice block right there ray-ray mccloud hustling good block there as mccaffrey weaves in and out 65 yards to the house he ran for a buck 52, made it 27

to 740 niners in the faithful what a trip for them they showed up in a big way and then mccaffrey and lineman trent williams they've got the niners swinging 40 niners win 32 seven. >> exactly how we wanted to come out. you know it was an emphasis on you know past seasons us coming out slow starts we knew that we needed to come in and set the tone right from the jump. >> everything was sort of clicking, you know, defense did their thing. we put a drive together and, you know, to cap it off like that, to start the season off, i was like, yeah, this is it's going to be good. we just have so many players and it's fun to watch him do his thing. >> and purdy shut some haters up. so it's nice to be on a really good team. >> former niners seahawks running back ricky watters raising the 12th man flag ahead of the seahawks rams opener second quarter seattle down seven three geno smith to dk metcalf wide open hawks up 10 to 7 there they led 13 seven at the half but the second half was all la second year man kyren williams is going to take it in

for his second touchdown of the day as the rams they retake the lead 1413 la with more than 250 yards of total offense in the second half. fourth and goal cam akers finds paydirt 2413 and the seahawks just couldn't do anything. only 13 yards in the second half. there's aaron donald a sack right there rams win 3213. the niners will play in la next sunday in a key nfc west matchup jimmy garoppolo making his raiders debut in denver leads the silver and black on a season opening touchdown drive to jakobi meyers on third and goal raiders up early. he threw two touchdowns both went to jacoby. under two minutes ago a first down wins it raiders got to have it third and seven garoppolo looking looking looking and he's going to run for the first down look at jimmy used the legs as hyped up sean payton loses his debut as broncos head coach and the raiders sneak away with a 17 to 16 win based ball. now rubber match between the a's and rangers. bruce bochy squad currently out of a playoff spot . remember, they started hot

bottom one. it's former marcus simeon down the line and fair 23rd homer of the year. the rangers scored three runs in the first inning, but oakland scored four unanswered. its rookie lawrence butler, a smash to the hot corner. seth brown is eventually going to score and the a's have a43 lead. but texas scores the final six runs there goes simeon second homer of the game, part of a four run sixth as the a's lose nine four, their 99th of the year, the giants are hosting the rockies right now. j.r. i love football so much, but i'm also feeling the stress of my fantasy team and trying to hang on and too early to say super bowl contender. no, it's not too early to say super bowl contender, but it's a long way to go. >> sure. thanks so much, chris. seafood is on the dinner menu in pittsburgh, california, with a side of music. details on that when abc7 news co

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