how do you decide what bernard's stradivarius is worth? thing, you have to evaluate the quality. and then it also helps to know what the market history has been. so, in the case of this cello, we did know what other stradivari cellos had sold for. and we could compare the quality of this one to those. >> back in 2002, a similar cello sold for $5 million. but over the past several years, collectors have driven the price of rare instruments way up, and each one has its own history -- a unique story that's a big factor in whether it fetches a 6-, 7-, or even 8-figure price at auction. nobody knows this cello's story better than elena's husband, nicholas delbanco. a novelist by trade, delbanco actually wrote an entire book about the instrument. it's called "the countess of stanlein restored," and it describes the painstaking restoration his father-in-law commissioned for the countess back in the 1990s. >> the wear and tear on such instruments is very high. aside from all the physical stress, there's change in climate, change in temperature, ch

bernard and rose track it down to austrian salt mines, where hitler stored stolen art.ting and others, but then sells them to fund his ongoing operation. how devoted to the quest do you think he was, now that you know what you know? >> it was his lifetime mission. this is what he was all about, trying to find his family heritage. >> bernard goodman continues the search until his death in 1994. he never tells his sons what he was doing. >> never. >> why not? >> because, if he'd really felt that he'd achieved what he set out to achieve, he could've told us and been proud about it. instead, i think, he felt defeated. >> as the brothers discover where their father's quest ended, they come across an envelope containing three crinkled photo negatives. >> this is an unusual landscape by edgar degas. >> the degas? >> the degas. >> next thing they know, they're following in their father's footsteps on the trail of another masterpiece. >> everybody just closed the doors in our faces all the time. nobody knew anything about nazi looted art. nobody wanted to know anything about it.

bernard, heavy criticism coming from nancy pelosi, chuck shumer. you've been hearing it all day. >> well deserved. this is a massive tax redistribution to the wealthy. this will disproportionately benefit the top .2% of americans. it is outrageous. if you look and see, the gap between not rich and poor, but the gap between rich and middle class has grown 160% in the last 20 years. this is a fundamentally against what the republicans and donald trump promised. they said two things. they promised to prioritize the middle class. two, they promised it would be revenue neutral. this falls incredibly -- >> sandra: let me get guy to react to that. president said, as we have heard him say on fox news this morning, this plan is for the working people. this does target the middle class, guy. >> and it does. bernard, i hope you get a big enough tax cut that you can buy yourself a new talking point. i have heard this always from democrats. whenever you want to cut taxes, oh, it's for the rich. no. this is across the board tax relief and tax simplification whic

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bernard william bernstein david m. berray david s. berry joseph j. berry william reed bethke timothy betterly carolyn mayor bewkes. edward frank beyea paul beyer anil tahilram bharvaney bella j. bhukhan shimmy d. biegeleisen peter alexander bielfeld william g. biggart brian bilcher mark bingham. carl vincent bini >> at night grandmother ruth sheila dagen. grammy i wish more than anything i could admit you that i know you were a wonderful person and i love hearing stories about you from my parents. thank you so much for raising my mom to be the amazing person that she is. i'm very proud to be her namesake rate i hope you are watching down on us from heaven. i love you. >> my father. both of you left a void in our hearts and lives that we know you are in a better place. we miss you and love you forever and always and to my dad i hope my mom's sisters and i are making you proud. not one day goes by that we don't think of you. your memories will always live on. thank you. gary eugene bird joshua david birnbaum george john bishop jeffrey donald bittner al

bernard ends of dying.for mary, this is very much about the lives of her children and the lives of her spouse. ok. guard, this is -- this was a mounted machine gun and they would take it through the colony to terrorize people and they would shoot into the tents. 1913 is considered to be one of the coldest in colorado history. have theu will national guard riding up and down. john d rockefeller is sitting before a congressional hearing and they are talking about the miners on strike and he is talking about the idea that they are on strike, and it is ok because they need to develop ideas about what a company union might look like in his argument is we do not need a union of the miners, we need one run by the company. these are some of the questions he is asking. is rockefeller talking about it, and this is the congressional, those individuals saying, so basically this is what we need, open camps, and at any cost we cannot let them unionize as part of the united mine workers. and you will do that at the cost a

cornell bernard, "abc7 news." >>> cal iso has issued a flex alert tomorrow. it's in effect between 1:00 and 10:00 p.m. californians are asked to conserve electricity during the afternoon hours when air conditioners are at peak use. record demand is expected tomorrow. keep track of the forecast on the go for the weather. >>> tonight is six nights since hurricane harvey made landfall in texas. the mayor of houston says his city is mostly dry and open for business. >> but this storm has now claimed at least 39 lives. marci gonzalez is live from a much dryer houston, texas tonight. >> reporter: yeah, that positive note from the mayor here in houston. but the situation is dire in some communities east of here when the water isn't expected to start receding for days. the flooding in beaumont, texas now so overwhelming, this and every other shelter evacuated. families who came with so little, rushed out with even less. nearby, 200 patients evacuated from this hospital. and in homes, people still stranded with the water in some parts of east texas rising. the coast g

cornell bernard, "abc7 news." >>> cal iso has issued a flex alert tomorrow. it's in effect between 1:00 and 10:00 p.m. californians are asked to conserve electricity during the afternoon hours when air conditioners are at peak use. record demand is expected tomorrow. keep track of the forecast on the go for the weather. >>> tonight is six nights since hurricane harvey made landfall in texas. the mayor of houston says his city is mostly dry and open for business. >> but this storm has now claimed at least 39 lives. marci gonzalez is live from a much dryer houston, texas tonight. >> reporter: yeah, that positive note from the mayor here in houston. but the situation is dire in some communities east of here when the water isn't expected to start receding for days. the flooding in beaumont, texas now so overwhelming, this and every other shelter evacuated. families who came with so little, rushed out with even less. nearby, 200 patients evacuated from this hospital. and in homes, people still stranded with the water in some parts of east texas rising. the coast g

cornel bernard is live in san francisco and someone you know, cornell, is down there in harm's way. >> reporter: yeah, really concerned about my former coworker, john, who chose to stay in his florida home for the hurricane. and now regrets that he did. meantime, members of the air national guard from the bay area are in florida to help. >> the street is completely flooded, the water is beginning to encroach on my house. >> reporter: that's my former colleague, john, riding out hurricane irma from his house in ft. myers, florida. now in the direct path of the storm. >> i am in my bedroom, but i do have an interior bathroom i have set up as a safe place with a mattress to pull over myself in case it really gets bad. >> reporter: john's power has been out for hours, but he does have a generator. he lives just outsides the mandatory evacuation zone and chose to stay put, but many of his neighbors got out days ago. >> i'm going to be honest, cornell, had i had it do do all over again, i would have left town on wednesday. >> we're looking at sleeping arrangements that were housed in the gy

cornel bernard is live in san francisco and someone you know, cornell, is down there in harm's way. >> reporter: yeah, really concerned about my former coworker, john, who chose to stay in his florida home for the hurricane. and now regrets that he did. meantime, members of the air national guard from the bay area are in florida to help. >> the street is completely flooded, the water is beginning to encroach on my house. >> reporter: that's my former colleague, john, riding out hurricane irma from his house in ft. myers, florida. now in the direct path of the storm. >> i am in my bedroom, but i do have an interior bathroom i have set up as a safe place with a mattress to pull over myself in case it really gets bad. >> reporter: john's power has been out for hours, but he does have a generator. he lives just outsides the mandatory evacuation zone and chose to stay put, but many of his neighbors got out days ago. >> i'm going to be honest, cornell, had i had it do do all over again, i would have left town on wednesday. >> we're looking at sleeping arrangements that were housed in the gy

abc 7 news reporter cornel bernard is live in oakland with details on this tonight. kornl?> reporter: dan, with more red flag conditions on top for tomorrow oakland firefighters could be on scene for the next 24 hours looking for hot spots after a scary day. this is what a full-scale firefight looks like. this oakland hills blaze was attacked from all sides, from the air and the ground. about 100 homeowners living in this former rock quarry were told to get out. >> i just grabbed my passport. that's it. and my keys. >> reporter: but others grabbed their cell phones, capturing the raging wildfire just feet away from their back doors. >> very scary. we heard lots of bangs and booms, explosions. fire that looked like tornadoes. it was nuts. >> reporter: sky 7 was over the fire. smoke could be seen for miles. with so many people calling 911 the system was momentarily overwhelmed. >> 911 was busy. >> reporter: red flag conditions hot and dry made for the perfect wildfire recipe. >> the fire made its run in the steep terrain, and then for us to be able to chase that fire, i mean,

abc 7 news reporter cornel bernard is live in oakland with details on this tonight. kornl?> reporter: dan, with more red flag conditions on top for tomorrow oakland firefighters could be on scene for the next 24 hours looking for hot spots after a scary day. this is what a full-scale firefight looks like. this oakland hills blaze was attacked from all sides, from the air and the ground. about 100 homeowners living in this former rock quarry were told to get out. >> i just grabbed my passport. that's it. and my keys. >> reporter: but others grabbed their cell phones, capturing the raging wildfire just feet away from their back doors. >> very scary. we heard lots of bangs and booms, explosions. fire that looked like tornadoes. it was nuts. >> reporter: sky 7 was over the fire. smoke could be seen for miles. with so many people calling 911 the system was momentarily overwhelmed. >> 911 was busy. >> reporter: red flag conditions hot and dry made for the perfect wildfire recipe. >> the fire made its run in the steep terrain, and then for us to be able to chase that fire, i mean,

bernard. i do not know what it is to be a young black confessional -- professional and to walk in the room and everyone is white and no there are many people in this country that ought to be in his position as there are in the room, but this is the issue. unfortunately that the heart of all of america's problems and that is what i did not like about that situation. from the very beginning, evangelical leaders were some of the first speaking out. you go across the board and look at those sponsors from these leaders, everyone, on saturday night, sunday, from the charlottesville issue, we were saying we condemn all of these things. as a white leader, it is more effective for me to get out to say to the white community this is evil, stop what you are doing, -- these are the words we use, white nationalism, succumbs racism- supremacist him, is evil. one of the mistakes the president made through that course of events is on saturday, one of the things i have learned -- just because you are well-inte

. >> you have checked with bernard hopkins about it. >> i'm sure bernard will have something to say.yers do great things and get a nickname. j-roll for jimmy rollings and pat for pat burrell and playing out of this world doing things no human can do so people have been calling him the alien. phillies were leading 2-0 into secondening and huge blast to left makes it-0 phils and freddie gal vas joining around the bases. and with that it's 5-0 phillies. and still in the second. guess who? reece hopkins, the alien. now known as, with his first opposite field home run. shot 18th of of year. seven runs in second inning and ten for the night and phillies win 10-0 sweep marli marlins and after the game manager pete says he is tired of talking about hop kips. >> freddie hit that two rung harrisburger and hoskins hit auto one blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, about hoskins it's typical. >> blah, blah, blah, eagles continue to prepare for trip to kansas city hitting road for second week in a row. here they are at practice this afternoon. after last week's win eagles hoping to start strong. 2-0. 2-0

. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.b.p. foundation. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter, in memory of abby m. o'neill. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. today, the united states air force sent planes into e pentagon says the b-1 just bombers from guam, along with f-15 fighter jets based in okinawa, japan, went farther north of the korean peninsula's demilitarized zone than any u.s. aircraft this century. the show of force follows president trump's comments

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is live in san francisco. cornell, someone you know is in harms way. >> reporter: yeah, eric. and pretty concerned about a former coworker of mine named john who lives in southwest florida right in the path of hurricane irma. we skyped with john just a few minutes ago. >> here's the deal. my house is going to go right through the eye wall. i'm in the direct path of the storm. >> reporter: that's my former colleague john hunkered down in his bedroom in fort myers, florida, where hurricane irma is raging. >> i do have an interior bathroom that i have set up as a safe place with a mattress to pullover myself in case it really gets bad. >> reporter: john's power has been out for hours but he does have a generator. he lives outside the mandatory evacuation zone, many of his neighbors got out days ago. >> i'm going to be honest, cornell. had i had it to do all over again, i think i would have left town on wednesday. >> we're looking at the sleeping arrangements that were housed in the gymnasium. >> reporter: tech se

." >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. the j.b.p. foundation. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter, in memory of abby m. o'neill. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening and thank you for joining us. the 80-thousand residents of florida's southernmost point-- the keys-- were allowed to go home today. for the first time since forced evacuations before hurricane irma. police let cars with residential stickers pass through checkpoints on route 1, the main road through the keys. when irma made landfall here as

. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.b.p. foundation. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter, in memory of abby m. o'neill. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: hurricane irma is affecting millions of floridians after making landfall today in the united states. it struck florida's southern tip this morning before bearing down on the state's west coast. at least 2.1 million homes and businesses in florida have lost power. at least 127,000 florida residents are in shelters, many in school gymnasiums around

. >> you have checked with bernard hopkins about it. >> i'm sure bernard will have something to say. players do great things and get a nickname. j-roll for jimmy rollings and pat for pat burrell and playing out of this world doing things no human can do so people have been calling him the alien. phillies were leading 2-0 into secondening and huge blast to left makes it-0 phils and freddie gal vas joining around the bases. and with that it's 5-0 phillies. and still in the second. guess who? reece hopkins, the alien. now known as, with his first opposite field home run. shot 18th of of year. seven runs in second inning and ten for the night and phillies win 10-0 sweep marli marlins and after the game manager pete says he is tired of talking about hop kips. >> freddie hit that two rung harrisburger and hoskins hit auto one blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, about hoskins it's typical. >> blah, blah, blah, eagles continue to prepare for trip to kansas city hitting road for second week in a row. here they are at practice this afternoon. after last week's win eagles hoping to start strong. 2-0.

in oakland, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> union city plea wants you to take a look at a man suspectedf groping a jogger on the walking trail near union city boulevard. this is the police sketch here. the woman says he told her, be my friend, just before the attack. she managed to dial 911 on her cell phone. the suspect ran off when he heard the voice of a police dispatcher. the woman said she had seen the man in the area several times before. >> a woman and man have filed separate lawsuits against b.a.r.t. claiming excessive force by the police led to her miscarriage. this video captures the confrontation last year. officers had been looking for an armed man who threatened to rob a passenger and thought that smith matched the suspect's description. smith was acquitted of charges of battery on a police officer. >> there's a snag in am proposed sale of permits for the maverick surf contest. the company wants to sell the permits to a surf contest producer. but one of their management creditors is objecting to the $525,000 sale price. he said the permits are worth $1 million. bankruptcy c

bernard is very courageous indeed. campaign when they didn't tell us what it meant. journalists say, is this what we voted for? we don't know what people voted for? we don't know what people voted for? we don't know what people voted for because people like bernard didn't have the courage of his convictions to set out what leaving the eu would mean and that's why we're in the mess where in at the moment. yes, we get. lots of people would say that there was a huge amount of confusion around the referendum, people will say that there was confusion because neither side was completely honest. christine you have lots to say on this. this is the tip of the iceberg. the conservatives are trying to say it‘s a goodwill gesture. we are seeing the first of the divorce payments, if you like. they‘re not acknowledging we have ongoing commitments in the eu and that this is going to cost an awful lot more than £20 billion. what we are beginning to see for the first time is that the conservatives are having to open up and admit the re

bernard ends up dying in february 1914.r mary, this is very much about the lives of her children and the lives of her spouse. ok. the national guard will also -- this is a special. this was a mounted machine gun and they would take it through the colony to terrorize people and they would shoot into the tents. throughout the winter of 1913 and 1914. the winter of 1913-1914 is considered to be one of the coldest in colorado history. .o you're living in a tent you'll have the national guard take the special and ride it up and down. john d rockefeller in the spring of 1913 is sitting before a congressional hearing and they are talking about the miners on strike and he is talking about the idea that they are on strike, and it is ok because we need to start developing ideas about what labor looks like and what a company union might looks like. in his argument is we do not need a union of the miners, we need one run by the company. these are some of the questions he is asking. so, this is rockefeller talking here, and this is the

in san francisco, cornell bernard, "abc7 news." >>> now to the growing global threat from north koream jong-un says he conducted his sixth and most powerful nuclear test yet. the president tweeted, the u.s. is considering stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. the u.s. ambassador nikki haley echoed that warning at a second u.n. security council meeting in two weeks. >> the united states will look at every country that does business with north korea as a country that is giving aid to their nuclear intentions. >> the threat doesn't sit well with china, north korea's biggest trading partner and only major ally. but there would be be a substantial impact here. the u.s. imports chinese goods of $40 billion a month. >>> we have a follow up for you. >> roots of peace has sold its first large crop of black pepper to one of the top spice companies in the country. >> reporter: this is a historic moment, to have a world class spice company purchasing fresh pepper from the former battlefields of vietnam 40 years after the war ended. the first major shipment of black

in san francisco, cornell bernard, "abc7 news." >>> now to the growing global threat from north korea. kim jong-un says he conducted his sixth and most powerful nuclear test yet. the president tweeted, the u.s. is considering stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. the u.s. ambassador nikki haley echoed that warning at a second u.n. security council meeting in two weeks. >> the united states will look at every country that does business with north korea as a country that is giving aid to their nuclear intentions. >> the threat doesn't sit well with china, north korea's biggest trading partner and only major ally. but there would be be a substantial impact here. the u.s. imports chinese goods of $40 billion a month. >>> we have a follow up for you. >> roots of peace has sold its first large crop of black pepper to one of the top spice companies in the country. >> reporter: this is a historic moment, to have a world class spice company purchasing fresh pepper from the former battlefields of vietnam 40 years after the war ended. the first major shipment of bl

cornell bernard tweeted about today's shift in weather.pencer christian is coming up in a few minutes with a look at all of the changes ahead. >> the president is expected to end the dream act laura tweeted a congressman's response. he said it's tup stupid on many levels, but congress can make it right. the president is expected to announce his plan tomorrow. >> the white house is applying more pressure on china over the growing threat from north korea. this weekend the nation claimed to successfully test a hydrogen blom. the u.n. security council has called for an emergency meeting. emily? >> reporter: the threat from north korea is escalating once again. kim jong-un conducting his sixth and most powerful nuclear test yet. >> the stakes could not be higher. the urgency is now. >> u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley saying enough is enough. this after the latest and most powerful nuclear test yet from north korea. a test launch of a hydrogen bomb, triggering a major earth quake. and a u.s. intelligence official telling abc news there's

cornell bernard is live with details on this story. cornell? >> reporter: yeah, really troubling story, ama. the chief of police says it's not only cruel but against the law to kill deer in city limits, or most places in california. neighbors are outraged. the homeowner's attorney says he never meant to hurt the deer. >> this was a family of deer that we watched from the time they were little tiny fawns. >> reporter: linda and clause mineberg have been taking pictures of a doe and two fawns for weeks. they believe it's one of these fawns and its mother that were shot and killed by their neighbor on saturday. >> very outrageous that -- to scare a deer, all you have to do is look at them and they'll look at you and run off. you don't need to shoot them. >> we got a call from a residet about somebody that i believe was described as sneaking around the street with a flashlight. >> reporter: the police chief says officers showed up and found a homeowner who said deer had been eating his new landscaping. nearby, a gruesome sight. >> the discovery of

cornell bernard is live with details on this story. cornell? >> reporter: yeah, really troubling story, ama. the chief of police says it's not only cruel but against the law to kill deer in city limits, or most places in california. neighbors are outraged. the homeowner's attorney says he never meant to hurt the deer. >> this was a family of deer that we watched from the time they were little tiny fawns. >> reporter: linda and clause mineberg have been taking pictures of a doe and two fawns for weeks. they believe it's one of these fawns and its mother that were shot and killed by their neighbor on saturday. >> very outrageous that -- to scare a deer, all you have to do is look at them and they'll look at you and run off. you don't need to shoot them. >> we got a call from a residet about somebody that i believe was described as sneaking around the street with a flashlight. >> reporter: the police chief says officers showed up and found a homeowner who said deer had been eating his new landscaping. nearby, a gruesome sight. >> the discovery of

abc news kordel bernard talk to someone who regrets not leaving his home. >> the street is completely flooding. water is beginning to encroach on my house. >> reporter: that's my former colleague riding out irma from his house in for tt. meyers flo. >> i am in my bedroom but i have an anterior bathroom to set up. >> reporter: john's power has been out for hours but does have a generator. he lives outside the mandatory evacuation zone and chose to stay put but many of his neighbors got out days ago. >> i'm going to be honest, i think i would have left town on wednesday. >> we're looking at the sleeping arrangements that were housed in the gymnasium. >> reporter: tech sergeant joe prowl shows us the -- staging in northern florida. these pictures show a risky air mission on saturday when equipment and personnel were dropped in the hurricane zone near miami. >> dropped them off as the storm was approaching. we had tornadoes and lightning and all that stuff as we were landing. >> reporter: those guard members now in the perfect spot to help with ground or water rescues. >> we're all here t

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard sat down with a survivor today on the anniversary. >> now the police have their hands full trying to figure out who did it and why. >> reporter: that's how abc7 news reported on a shooting massacre in 1977 at the golden dragon restaurant in chinatown. >> you should have seen people hit. they meant business. >> these are the infamous bell bottom jeans with three bullet holes in them. >> reporter: howard green was there. he shows us the blood stained jeans where 38 caliber bullets tore through the material. green and his friends why fresh out of college visiting san francisco when gun men burst into the restaurant and started shooting. >> grabbed my friends, we all hit the deck and all hell broke loose. >> reporter: green, his college roommate tom barry on the left were shot. >> i felt the, without getting too graphic, i felt the blood coming out. >> reporter: he and his two friends would survive, but five people were killed, 11 others wounded. >> our waiter was unfortunately mortally wounded. >> reporter: members of a chinatown youth gang known as the j

cornell bernard is there. any decision yet? >> reporter: no word yet. going to be a late night for berkeley city council, started discussion the issue five minutes ago, whether or not to give women the right to go topless. >> you can't show injure nipple, men can, women can't. >> reporter: advocating for nipple equality, right for women to go topless. >> if men are able to expose their nipples everywhere on the street, public, everywhere, public spaces, women should have the same rights. >> reporter: she's keeping her top on because considered misdemeanor infraction from berkeley for women to bare their breasts. councilman is posing a change to the indecency law that's rarely enforced. >> i've seen them topless at protest rallies, fairs, earth days. i mean, i don't think the police are running around trying to arrest them. >> reporter: organizations like gotopless.org is lobbying cities around the country to amend nudity laws which it considers unfair and sexist. something you're interested in doing? >> definitely not. >> reporter: all for gender equali

cornell bernard. >>> we have developing news, firefighters trying to contain a brush fire in gilroy. it's burned 15 acres. we're told it moving slowly and no structures are threatened. >>> the mayor of los angeles has declared a state of emergency for the largest fire in history. it is 25% contained rkt evacuation orders in burbank and glendale have been lifted. >>> firefighters near yosemite is working to protect the trees. firefighters are concerned because the storm are stronger winds is moving in. the fire has burned more than 6,000 acres, it is 23 contained. >>> there are 19 fires burning right now in california which means all hands on deck. several bay area strike crews are not headed the to trinity county to fight this fire, it's destroyed 72 homes and burned 9,000 acres. 14% contained. the strike crews now headed towards that fire. >>> tonight 4700 homes in houston are now under mandatory evacuations. abc reporter elizabeth hur with the latest from houston. >> reporter: new mandatory evacuations in houston. and in thousands of home already flooded power cut off to reduce the

because more than half of yemen's hospitals and health centers are closed the due to the civil war bernard smith reports. yemen is fertile ground for cholera when this outbreak began almost six months ago conditions were perfect to help the disease spread thirty months of war to stop virtually all public services strikes have destroyed water treatment and other infrastructure filth it's everywhere. more than half of all the health facilities are destroyed or only partially working hospitals and clinics that are still standing are overwhelmed especially with infant and elderly cholera patients oxfam says there are more than five and a half thousand cases a day heller is a very easily treatable disease that it's very difficult in yemen with an active more that's happening it's difficult for people to access health care we have about fifty million people in yemen who don't have access to basic healthcare and we also have a situation where basic infrastructure and essential services. are fighting in yemen between who the fighters and a coalition of countries led by saudi arabia has killed more

extend it it'll take decades to finish perhaps not enough time to beat the next extreme weather event bernard smith al-jazeera. and the kashmir valley. that's it for me and for this news hour but my colleagues who touch in will be with you very shortly with a full bus never used to say without is there. a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way we treat . our impeccable service remote. but none comes breaking. business plans. the culture for the city the forest. whether conducting business sharing especially with. the best of. the church that. someone. somewhere. centuries in the sky. reducing. us to. cars are always going places together. facing reality the air space that they have built does not belong to them it belongs to the international community getting to the heart of the matter they can understand how the chinese leadership approach you as an enemy of the state hear their story on talk to how to see at this time. on counting the cost how apple's i phone economics make it the most profitable company in the world. how the j. trade is influencing the

cornell bernard spoke to a survivor, cornell? >> howard green was having a late night dinner at the golden dragon restaurant 40 years ago. that restaurant is about a block from where we are now on washington street. he will never forget that night. >> these are the infamous bell bottom jeans with three bullet holes in them. >> he shows us the blood stained jeans where 38 caliber bullets tore through the material. it will happened inside the golden dragon restaurant in chinatown. green and his friends were fresh out of college visiting san francisco when gunmen burst in and started shooting. >> we all hit the deck and all hell kbroek loose. >> green and his college roommate were shot. >> i felt the -- without getting too graphic, i felt the blood coming out. >> he and his two friends would survive. five people were killed. 11 others wounded. >> our waiter was unfortunately mortally wounded. >> reporter: members of a chinatown youth gang fired on members of a rival gang, but missed. only innocent victims were killed. green testifie

bernard smith al jazeera. eric schwartz is the president of refugees international he's critical of the un security council response to the main mark crisis and says sanctions should be imposed. we are dealing with ethnic cleansing and crimes against you know that humanity of historic proportions and and the there needs to be an enormous outrage in the international community the numbers are staggering the actions of the military and the government of myanmar are it's difficult to come up with adjectives to describe what's happening and so statements that you know talk about be wary of be wary of statements that talk about complexities and the need to temper your outrage how well did that do in rwanda in one nine hundred ninety four . american emma has claimed eight more lives in florida as officials confirm that patients in a nursing home died after it lost power during the storm and investigation is underway after three elderly patients were found dead inside the facility and five all those later died in hos

bernard hopkins, who holds the most successful defences, 20, in the middleweight division, is part of marvin hagler and sugar ray robinson. this match is between two of the best pound for pound fighters in the world. floyd mayweatherjr has retired, manny pacquiao is... it is a great occasion, because the fight is taking place on the weekend of mexico‘s independence day celebrations, and lots of people have travelled and for that. there will be a concert on friday night and people will stay for the fight on saturday. huge pressure on the mexican. he believes he can cause an upset. the bookmakers have gennady golovkin is the five brett. —— as the favourite. maria sharapova has turned on the fellow professionals who‘ve labelled her a drugs cheat. having featured in her first grand slam since serving a 15 month suspension for testing positive for a banned substance, she claims her critics don‘t know the facts. the russian has been speaking to the bbc‘s laura trevelyan. what was it like playing here in the us openjust a what was it like playing here in the us open just a few weeks after be

we're going to be following this story all day long on all of our platforms on abc 7, for now cornell bernard reporting live in emeryville, abc 7 news. >> to see him standing right there on i-80 is really wild. such a strange morning. and that gridlock causing, of course, major delays for the commute. abc 7 traffic reporter alexis smith has been tracking this for hours. it is still not moving. >> it isn't, i'm going back out live to the emeryville camera. we're looking at the traffic now, this is a bird's eye view there, and yeah, people are out of their vehicles, they've been there for over two hours now. you can imagine the frustration is just huge at this point. if you look in the bottom right of the screen, you can see a couple of those vehicles that are turning around. they're starting to filter some of these vehicles that have been stuck for over two hours at this point down back off the off-ramp. so again, no lanes are getting by on the eastbound or westbound side of 80. and i want to show you just this ripple effect that is having all across the east bay. so that alert sign, the signa

. >> bernard came for a meal. lauer needs rehab and junior j job.we realize problems arent it solved talking to them as much as we talk about them. for goodness sake. i'm bill anderson. ♪ fox 29's getting results for neighbors of a north philadelphia tree house. but it's the kind of you're thinking of. on monday we showed you this. a tree growing into ahas home and out of a home on west york street. started as weed of sorts but e ended up sprouting into a massive tree. pushing through a crumbling brick wall and open threatening nearby homes. our bruce gordon took action to get those neighbors some help and he got it. the city now considers the home quote eminently dangerous. and it is set to get demolished. >> one property is eminently dangerous we move quick toll get that down. >> so this house now is going to go on that eminently dangerous list and now the question is how fast you can get the down? p exactly. >> some people will find this amazing. trees growing out of the houses in philadelphia is not as bizarre as you might think. >> i wish it wa

abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard. >> tell me what it's like inside. >> hot. >> that's how one patient conditions inside the nursing facility. the mrj generator is powering some lights and air-conditioners inside but some relatives say it's not enough during the historic heat wave. in man is concerned about his dad. >> basically he is -- his i h sign sus going right now. the air-conditioning i think is kicking on it hasn't yet. i hope it's not getting very uncomfortable later on. i cannot say bhaes going to happen in the next few hours. >> pg&e says it's working to repair a blown transformer. until it's repaired care center staff a larger portable generator will be brought in. >> unbearable i'm not used to it. >> pam picked a heck of a day to shop at walnut creek. >> plant lovers are crazy. >> it was so hot it was dangerous. the gardens decided to close shop early. >> we don't really want people wilted out here plants are doing great people are wilting. >> san francisco felt more like palm springs for the second day. this family is from los angeles. >> did you think san francisco would