evaluate the individual for signs of life and unfortunately, to hours into this incident, we are naming this a fatal incident , but an investigation is now underway into a deadly trench

collapse in san francisco. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm karina nova. the contractor was working on a sewer project when he became trapped underneath 8 to 10ft of dirt and ce. >> it happened at divisadero and oak streets, and thhere we'll join abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow, who has been on that scene all day long. melanie >> dan and karina, this area of oak street was reopened. some six hours after all of this got started. despite the efforts of close to 50 firefighters. the weight of the dirt and concrete in this trench collapse was too much for the contractor to survive for close to two hours, firefighters attempted to rescue a contractor trapped under a trench collapse. >> everyone is shaken about this. >> around ten thursday morning, the call came in initially for a building collapse. first responders quickly discovered something else. >> this was a street side utility construction site that had a collapse within the footprint of their street side

project. >> the fire department says one person was trapped under 8 to 10ft of dirt and concrete. firefighters used a street vacuum to suck the dirt up. it's a very high powered vacuum that's able to facilitate removing debris quicker than if we had to do it by hand. >> they also used plywood to disperse weight and ensure the sides of the area within a confine aid space. >> rescuers were working by noon with the help of paramedics and cassie, a human search and rescue detection canine, it became clear it would be a recovery mission. this person was trapped under a lot of weight with no oxygen for over two hours. public works spokesperson rachel gordon says the project was a san francisco public utilities commission sewer upgrade project being managed by san francisco public works. the individual trapped was a private contractor. she did not know the name of the contracting company. >> we'll be here as long as we have to be here. we want to make sure that we know exactly what happened. we want to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again. we never want a

construction accident. safety is our number one priority. >> the medical examiner arrived on scene to remove the contractor's body with the investigation into how this happened. ongoing, including by cal osha this afternoon. mayor london breed visited the area to look at the trench collapse. >> his family, of course, is clearly distraught and very tragic situation. mayor says she spoke to those family members personally. >> she also told reporters that the city had sent grief counselors here to where this trench collapse happened and was doing anything it could to help live in san francisco. melanie woodrow, abc seven news. thank you, melanie. >> the suspected killer in a cold case dating back to 1987 made his first appearance in court today in solano county. the family of then six year old jeremy stoner was in the courtroom as the alleged suspect . fred kane was brought in. abc7 news reporter unser hassan has details of what happened next.

>> at this is hard for me. >> karen tabler came out of court thursday afternoon after seeing the man accused of killing her. then six year old son in 1987. fred kane, who's in custody in solano county, was brought in for his arraignment, but instead of entering a plea, he was assigned a public defender with the hearing to continue in two weeks. >> i don't know if it's relief or yeah, it's not feeling good that's for sure. it's hard to be in that same room. yeah >> yeah. after the hearing, the family met with the solano county district attorney's office. >> well, i don't think you ever really get closure. i've been around a long time. haven't ever seen families get true closure. but i feel like it'll be some comfort that someone will be held responsible. >> in 1987, six year old jeremy stoner was abducted outside of his home in vallejo. sean melton was arrested and charged with the murder, but two jury trials ended with no verdict. the judge dismissed the case, but it was recently reopened because of new dna evidence. prosecutors say

that evidence links the murder to fred kane. >> they started looking into this case because, you know, really never been solved. the person that was put on trial there was no verdict reached and they thought it was better to look into this case again. >> sean melton died in 2000 but was exonerated by the dna evidence. kane is also a suspect in the 1987 fatal stabbing of nine year old eric coy in martinez. kane is charged in the stoner case with murder with special circumstances, with respect to kidnaping and a lewd act on a child. though the da's office admits challenges remain. witnesses, memories fade. >> you know, we hope we can still put together all the physical evidence, hopefully all the witnesses are available. >> but we've done our due diligence. >> we believe that we'll be able to proceed. >> kane will be back in court in october in fairfield, ansar hassan, abc seven news today, alameda county district attorney pamela price announced 14

charges against the 36 year old man accused of killing his mother in the berkeley hills this weekend. >> jonah roper faces murder and attempted murder charges. oakland police say he stabbed his mother several times at her home on overlook drive, then attacked his mother's fiance and their neighbor. police say roper tried to drive away but was arrested after leading them on a chase. if convicted, he could face 44 years to life in prison . meantime, today, we learned that the alameda county registrar of voters has approved the petition to recall district attorney pamela price, who filed those charges. we just talked about today. organizers of the recall now have five months to gather, nearly 75,000 voter signatures. price took office in january after being elected on her campaign as a progressive, reform oriented prosecutor. however, critics accuse her of being too soft on crime. >> oakland police say they arrested ten people and confiscated a dozen weapons during a sting operation earlier this week on grand avenue. >> this particular group of

individuals have been involved in a series of carjackings, armed robberies, auto burglaries and have a history of engaging in these crimes throughout the bay area. and so what we saw in this particular operation is what we will all be seeing more of in the future out of ceasefire. >> police say nine people are facing chargesnd charges are pending against a0th person who is a juvenile. mayor shengtao promised more arrests in the future and oakland murder suspect is in custody after a police car chase and crash in san francisco. >> the pursuit came to an end near the moscone center at third and howard, but it started in redwood city when chp officers tried to pull over the driver. he led officers on a pursuit that moved from the highway to the streets in san francisco. police say after the crash, the driver tried to get away on foot, but he was quickly taken into custody. >> public safety was one of the top issues discussed by city officials this afternoon in san francisco. so from the drug

overdose crisis to armed security guards and gun violence. abc seven news reporter tara campbell has been following the meeting and joins us live from the newsroom with the latest. tara. yeah karina and traffic safety among the many concerns today. >> a recent report showing citations dropping drug quickly over the past several years. this as the number of pedestrians being killed is on the rise. and today, some supervisors wanted answers. san francisco supervisors want answers from the police. traffic citations plummeting and pedestrian fatalities on the rise. the public safety committee taking up the issue thursday, led by supervisor rafael mandelman, the supervisor sending a letter of inquiry to the police department after it reported a 97% drop in traffic citations in eight years. >> i would like for us to get closer to a plan to actually have more traffic enforcement. >> the police department

pointing to its staffing shortage as a key part of the problem because we have less people overall in the department . >> those resources at the traffic company are being pulled in different directions. >> police also pointing to policy, upping the amount of paperwork that comes along with a citation. also warning the citation count doesn't tell the whole story. there is this pool of stops that are happening that aren't resulting in citations, but they are, in fact, traffic stops and an effort for educational enforcement to change people's behavior, make the streets safer. >> the supervisor making a push for a plan, i think in the first quarter of next year, we should definitely have our feet underneath us and be able to have assessed the situation enough to put measures into place in the form of a plan. >> and the drug overdose crisis dominated a good part of today's meeting. district attorney brooke jenkins making an appearance, calling out the courts, saying of the more than 200 motions to detain drug dealers, only a fraction have

been held in custody. we've only had 19 of those motions granted to date, which means we still have most of these drug dealers back out on the street selling the same poison. >> we have to, as a city, make that a focus that just like we wouldn't allow someone who shoots a gun to cycle back out onto the street immediately. we cannot allow those who are selling death to do so either. >> now, the da also doubled down on investigating overdose deaths, saying her office is ready to charge drug dealers with murder. karina and dan, okay, tara, thanks very much. >> tara campbell reporting. coming up here, it's an advancement that could lead to faster cancer diagnosis and treatment. we're going to tell you how one bay area startup is using artificial intelligence to get test results faster. abc7 news at but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease.

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results in minutes. abc7 news south bay. reporter zach fuentes got a look at the technology and has more. >> we train an eye on millions and millions of these images to learn the same features that a pathologist would usually pick up on. >> chris freudiger is co-founder and chief technology officer of invenio imaging in santa clara. the colorful image he's showing us is aggressive brain cancer tissue taken during a surgical biopsy. an image he says can now be evaluated a lot faster thanks to artificial intelligence. >> you've probably been through this with yourself or like a relative, right, where you the tissue gets sent in and it takes like 2 to 3 weeks of waiting before you get a result. like with this machine, we basically get it in a matter of minutes. >> getting that key information can lead to a faster diagnosis and in turn, faster treatment,

potentially saving lives. >> but now with this technology , they're able to do this right there in the operating room and three minutes or less. that is a game changer for clinical care, for taking care of these patients. >> advanced imaging technology by ai giant nvidia has been around for some time to help evaluate the tissue samples through a partnership in vienna was able to take the tech further by adding the ai. that's what's led to faster results. but as experts point out, it's not just about speed. it could also provide resources in places that don't have pathologists or other experts to read images. >> and in those cases, you can imagine having something that is able to do triage, you know, in the beginning and be able to then send cases that need to be read that are more complex to specialists which are might not be available, you know, in the numbers that we have maybe here in the us. >> the technology is approved in europe. here in the us, inveneo is still working on getting fda clearance. >> we are launching a big study

right now in about 900 patients that will actually kick off in two weeks. so we're very excited about being able to do all the clinical studies that will allow us to get us the clearance in the us and then extend the benefits of ai to patients here in the south bay. >> zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> you know, it's estimated that more than 79 million people worldwide live with a stutter. i have met people who are like, yeah, i got up on stage and did poetry or i've got up on stage and i did comedy because i saw you and i've just talked to tons of people who stutter, who have never seen a person stutter. >> so openly. >> nina g is part of a small but mighty group of people in the bay area who aim to create a more welcoming world for those who stutter by spreading awareness and acceptance. learn more by watching our abc7 original documentary called more than my stutter, available on abc7 news.com and wherever you stream. abc7 news.

>> it was a celebration in at one of san francisco's popular tourist destinations coming up, how city and state officials honored 45 years pier

protections for renters. the group delivered a petition with 1000 signatures to the concord city council. the petition asks for limits on rent increases and protections against eviction. the group claims corporate investors and not local landlords are to blame. >> they buy up local property here. they jack up the rents, they evict tenants, and then they don't have to witness. when children are uprooted from their schools or families are driven to homelessness and whole communities are torn apart. >> the concord city council is reviewing multiple proposals and is planning to vote on new

tenant protections before the end of the year. >> in san francisco, the port is evicting two longtime restaurants on the waterfront after they accrued a combined of $1.4 million in debt. fisher men's grotto number nine and tarantino's were named in eviction cases in san francisco superior court. this week. according to the chronicle, both restaurants received three day notices on september 13th to pay rent or vacate. these evictions add to the list of restaurant vacancies in the area hit hard by the pandemic. back in july, pompeii's grotto and lou's fish shack terminated their lease and landmark restaurant alioto's ended its lease last april, and one of san francisco's iconic locations is celebrating a birthday. >> i'd like to present you with a proclamation on presenting today the 45th anniversary as pier 39 day in the city and county of san francisco. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much.

>> pier 39 is celebrating 45 years of business officials who run the pier received honors from both the city and the state today. >> back in the 1970s, san francisco developer warren simmons had the vision of building an urban park along what was then the city's underdeveloped waterfront. and on october 4th, 1978, pier 39 opened, turning the old cargo pier into a collection of specialty shops, restaurants and attractions and is a huge tourist draw. now it's hard to imagine san francisco without it right at any time. >> i have people visiting i love. they take over there and the kids love it. there's so much to do. it's a fun place to go, especially when you get great weather like we had today. >> we did have great weather. happy 45th birthday to pier 39 meteorology sandy patel is here with the forecast sandy yeah and yeah it's a really fun place to visit for sure. >> dan and karina, i remember as a child going with my parents and my siblings just really fun and still going there and enjoying being with visitors. as you mentioned, beautiful weather, chamber of commerce weather today. let's take a look at a live picture from our

walnut creek camera. and you can see the sun is out and temperatures up into the warm category in places like santa rosa, 81 degrees. fairfield 86 right now. napa, 77. low 80s, concord, livermore. it's a lovely view from our santa cruz camera right now as we check out those temperatures. san francisco 67. oakland, you're at 71 degrees. not far behind mountain view, san jose, 79 and 63 in half moon bay. all right. the storm track for the time being is over the pacific northwest. that is going to change as we hit the weekend. i'll show you what's going to happen with a trough coming in from our sutro tower camera. just bright blue skies over downtown san francisco, increasing clouds, windy and cooler tomorrow, much cooler saturday with scattered showers and it's going to be sunny and much warmer next week. tomorrow morning, those temperatures will be in the 50s. we'll have some patchy fog just like this morning and some higher clouds as well. it'll be breezy along the coastline. the winds pick up along the coast tomorrow afternoon. inland areas will be

breezy as well and the clouds, you will notice, just increasing throughout the day, mid 60s to the low 80s. as we look at the hour by hour wind forecast tomorrow morning, gusty along the coast. those winds onshore increase to about 25 to 35 miles an hour for the afternoon and the evening. that'll usher in even cooler air. and then here comes our storm impact scale. it's a light level one for saturday. scattered showers, slick roadways, gusty winds. we're looking at a slight chance of isolated thunder. here's a trough that is going to develop and it's going to deepen over california. as it does, we're going to start to introduce some showers. so tomorrow we'll see a lot of cloud cover. i think the best opportunity for some wet weather will be in the early morning hours starting saturday at 3 a.m. those scattered showers continue at seven and even into the afternoon and evening. we have showers coming through the bay area on saturday . so this isn't going to be just a couple of our deal. but just have your umbrellas handy. sunday is going to be the better day for outdoor activities if you want dry conditions now,

rainfall estimates will range anywhere from a 1 to 207 inch, all the way to about a quarter of an inch. but there will be isolated areas where the downpours may happen if there is a thunderstorm right now, the model is predicting up to 7/10 in fairfield. as we check out the view for the weekend for the sierra, this is going to result in snow. a few inches expected, but mainly above 8000ft. so lake level, you're looking at tahoe just getting rain showers. accuweather 70 forecast it's a windy cooler friday a level one system for saturday day scattered showers for the whole day with the isolated thunder possibility certainly much cooler and then gusty and milder for your sunday. but notice the turnaround. we bring in warm weather. i mean, well above average low 90s the middle of next week, mid 70s coast side. so karina and dan think it's a bunch of seasons mixed in one in the accuweather seven day forecast a lot in the seven day forecast absolutely we're trying to please everyone that's good

you know keeping you busy yes in the weather center thanks sa >> wellningor drivers who use highway 101 in redwood city starting tomorrow night at 10 p.m, crews will close all lanes ofouthund 101 from britain avenue to whippleenuetht can replace corlleras creek bridge there. the highway ised to open on at 5 a.m. on monday. and then in twoe will happen in the northbound direction on. this is abc 24/7. live in san francisco live in the south bay in san jose in concord. >> live in oakland. >> yes you're watching abc7 news live. >> anytime anywhere. we are. >> we are. >> we are. >> we are. we are. >> we are where you are. >> never miss a moment of the news that matters to you. download our abc7 bay area streaming app. join us and start watching

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tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. the fighting behind closed doors. no signs of an agreement tonight. the potential government shutdown now two days away. millions of americans, including military families and border patrol officers, and their paychecks at stake. in new york city, the major storm moving in. and the fentanyl discovery just blocks from that day care. first, the countdown to this looming government shutdown tonight. two days. abc news learning federal agencies will begin notifying