we are live on highway 17, david louis, abc 7 news. >> david, again, thank you. nine hours and counting now since this tragic accident left one person dead, several injured. that's the most important thing t. side effect has been terrible. this is a dive trial at our traffic map. you see from 17 going down from campbell to the sum, the red indicating traffic is moving very slowly. it's been like this for hours. >> police in santa cruz now believe a woman accused of a homicide went online looking for illegal defense tips after a google executive died of an apparent heroin overdose. he faces manslaughter charges, hayes died on board his yacht after under surveillance showed him injecting him with heroin. they say they are reopening a case similar linked to this her boyfriend died of an overdose two days before hayes' death. >> they will gather tonight at 36:00 for a candlelight vigil. her father reported her missing on this day last year. he says he left her in the back of the car. he went in the score. when he came out, shelves gone. she still has not been found.

david louis with the story. >> reporter: lynn walton is donating blood today. blood centers of the pacific says it needs about 5000 pints a day to meet the needs of the hospitals it supplies. one thing that motivates walton is her younger son doug who requires plasma. however, her older son john can't donate because he's gay. >> it's bad that he can't donate. he would 0 like to, and obviously it's a live saving treatment for his brother. when his brother doesn't get his dreemt he gets sick. >> reporter: so this retired teacher is joining fellow activists to urge the federal government to overturn the ban. question number 35 is what they want changed which dates to the beginning of the aids outbreak. some argue this is an important precaution. others say screening methods will protect blood recipients. >> we have seen advances in blood screening technology, blood donation policy changes in other countries, and opposition of blood banks across the country who have called the current ban medically and scientifically unwarranted. >> reporter: jeffrey is a donor and

"abc7 news" reporter david louis is live from san jose. a lot of students stunned and veryi worried. >> reporter: very worried. there were signs two months ago that we covered that they were showing signs of financial difficulty. ten days ago it filed for bankruptcy and then today those doors closed. it was a surprise e-mail over the weekend that beckoned the students to the college administration offices for a closed door meet[ne. when they left they were clutching brown envelopes contained their sealed envelopes and other paperwork. some knew the school was closing. >> the school closed down about three months ago and ever since then my whole family and i have been saying it's just a matter of time till this happens and it's true. >> reporter: back in may they had to suspect classes when the sheriff's deputies posted an eviction notice in san jose for nonpayment of rent. the landlord's attorney told "abc7 news" that the college was over $87,000 on arrears in its rernt. the dispute was resolve and classes resumed b]há ten days o bryman's

lily wong, chelsey boiler, frances, grace martinez, david elliot louis, mario. if you did not submit a card, please feel free to lineup. mr. tennis? >> thank you committee members for allowing me to speak this afternoon. my name is david tennis and retired and i live in the tenderloin. i would like to commend all of you for the work that you have done in this measure. $15 an hour is a very good start. unfortunately that's not until july 1, 2018. and it seems like we are sell braeth -- celebrating as if it were today. i wish it was. to divide the have and have knots in san francisco is everyday. even though $15 an hour is a very good amount, that's not for another 4 years. what about between now and then? i don't have the answers. i'm not that smart. but to divide the have z s and z and s have nots. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm the executive director of west bay for the -- service. i brought students here today. we support the increase of minimum wage. the reason for is a lot of our students, a lot of our kids don't finish high school. those who don't finish

brazil scores in 7th then 69th minute free kick david louis. brazil beats columbia but miss namar.e takes a knee to the back there at the ipd of the match. >> in early match germany and france what a beautiful shot. this shot. twelfth minute, matt humles off his head. germany wins 1-0. they get brazil next. >> timely if you love hot dogs and i love hot dogs and are hopeless row maptic you'll love this story or it could make you sick to your stomach. before scarching down hot dogs at nathan's contest. joy chestnut drops down on one knee and pops the question to his girlfriend. how do they celebrate champagne no he eats 61 hot dogs in ten minutes. chestnut won 8 years in a row. if that doesn't scream love. >> they're serving holt dogs at the wetding. >> thank you ar after. >> ice cream lovers got a treat penn's landing super scooper all-you-can-eat festival feet turdz more than vanilla, chocolate and strawberry there was specialty ice creams and water ice. and summertime heat along spectacular views of delaware and of course ben franklin bridge. "jimmy kimmel live" is next on channel

i'm david louis, we'll have that story to come. >>> and we'll take your questions on facebook and twitter and answer them live, contact michael @ abc.com/michaelfinney. >>> and you're looking at this friday, as you would expect, slow in both directions, ama (birds chirping softly in background.) (loud engine sounds!) what! how's it going? heard you need a ride to school. oh, that's pretty cool! big day at school? i know just the thing to help you get going. power up with new cheerios protein. >>> sky 7 hd captured repair crews washing over some unsightly stains on the bay bridge's white tower. thousands of tiny steel got embedded in the construction, causing it to rust. the new eastern span is costing nearly half a million to repair, half of which will be paid by taxpayer jui taxpayers. >>> and hundreds standing in line to get new backpacks. >> it is a stark reminder of really the great need. >> emily and her daughters got here as quickly as they could, and still ended up in a long line. >> we're hoping and praying and keeping our fingers crossed. >> reporter: they're not asking for much.

. >> supervisors, mayor's office of housing, david elliot louis. long time resident, activist. let's speak truth to power. what this ordinance is about build housing now is about opposed jane kim's and avalos ordinance. it's rhetoric about changing policy to build mow housing with no real teeth; no means to do it. it's about preventing this new criteria of affordability of changing the planning code to add this whole dimension of what does the property do for affordability. it's really a bunch of the rhetoric wrapped around sort of like a snake in the grass. rhetoric to stop this housing balance ordinance. that's what it's really about. why don't we just speak truth to power about that. when soopz supervisor kim asked about other criteria, why don't we limit the bulk of the criteria, the mayor didn't answer that question. it was a great question. if we are going to prohibit by statute some criteria, why not just prohibit them all like height and bulk. c'mon, bottom line is please don't support this. please support item 11 and not 12. please support housing balance. let's speak

. >> david elliot louis. 30 -year resident, long time social justice advocate and also on the board of community partnership. i know our director hasn't always been supportive of this. that's her opinion. i think there is huge value in promoting this. it does trouble me that san francisco chamber of commerce supports this. it makes me think we didn't go quite far enough. this is a great start. i strongly support it. 10 supervisors or supporters, to me it's a complete, i'm preaching to the choir, i know it will pass. i want to thank you for doing this. you are really going to help a lot of people and you will help people at the bottom. i live in district six and i see poor people everyday and people who will be helped by this. i'm hoping that in maybe two or 3 years we'll have another adjustment. i hope there is no watering down to dilute this. so please go forward and carry it forth as designed. you will really be helping poor people. thank you supervisors. good day. >> thank you. mr. louis. >> good afternoon, my name is grace martinez, a community organizer for community and empowerme

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david junior, or d.j. for short. the state fears the stallings may cause harm to the new baby and places him in foster care. st. louister john auble interviews david stallings, who is furious. >> i've never been arrested. i have never smoked or drank. i have no record, period. >> shortly after his birth, d.j. begins exhibiting the same alarming symptoms as his brother ryan had, but d.j. is taken to a different hospital and receives a completely different diagnosis. doctors determine that d.j. has methylmalonicaciduria, or mma, a rare metabolic disorder. dr. james shoemaker is the founder of the metabolic screening lab at st. louis university, where he studies rare diseases such as mma. >> mma stands for methylmalonicaciduria and it's named after a chemical, methylmalonic acid. and that's a chemical that comes from food. >> in order for this chemical to be broken down properly in the body, it needs the assistance of vitamin b-12. if not enough b-12 is present, this acid builds up and can sometimes be fatal. a condition known as mma. >> the infant might be very sleepy, might not be rousable, might not respond to anythi

david. so far isis is winning. in fact, the terror group's he will louis sif leader is so confident he appeared this weekend in a mosquemosul. but president obama does not want to order air strikes against the terror group as long as iraq's widely disparaged president maliki is still in charge, and this weekend maliki said he will not step aside. earlier this week i talked about the iraq crisis and how it now threatens to spread with tony blair, now a middle east envoy. iraq exploding. we're seeing the insurgents from isis taking more and more territory and holding the territory, and the border with syria all but erased, jordan threatened, potentially on to lebanon. a regional threat now. first of all, would this have happened if the united states had armed the rebel -- moderate rebel forces is year ago or longer and not let isis metastasize the way it has? >> you know i argued, andrea, that actions in syria a couple years ago, i think it was justified, but i honestly don't think you can say what might or might not have happened. and i think what is important is to deal with the situation we have now and, you know, hav

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violent crimes that occur in homes but the saint louis housing authority has stepped in to help mcghaw break the lease. >> 6:27 now. meteorologist, david tracking the chance for more storms later today. >> a fire department on the defense. hear one of the first 911 of saturday's tragic fire in >> developing now on "action news," an armed naked man tries to make a run for it after opening fire on police at the jersey shore. >> powerful storms leave behind a path of destruction and thousands of people are still in the dark. >> and the severe weather may not be over yet. storm tracker 6 live double scan radar will be scanning the chance for more storms later today. good morning everyone, 6:30 on this wednesday. tam is off, erin o'hearn joins us. we have david and mat filling in for karen. good morning. >> good morning everybody. it's a nice start this morning with sun up over the horizon, temperatures notate bad as you'll see shortly. look at satellite. we've had rain showers down shore. those are getting fairly close to getting off the coast and out to the west a fair amount of sunshine butter still humid and unstable. later today we'll

david's right to bring up the analogy with the st. louisain death and never gotten over it. two years ago, i was in jerusalem at the holocaust, there was an exhibit on "the st. louis." the world is paying attention, measuring our character at this moment. we have to as david said, rise to this occasion. we simply during the cold war did not take kids pushed from the east to the west and throw them back over the wall. >> who wins, the governor of nebraska who says i don't have the money this is illegal, don't bring them here or governor o'malley who says you are going to send them back to a horrible situation unless something's done and then that's on us just as well. >> bully or o'malley, opened up a new front against hillary clinton, given these pro-immigrant democrats a place to go and pressure hillary clinton to say why can't you be more like governor o'mallism the governor of nebraska should have gone to law school. these kids respect here illegally, they are refugees. they say you come and surrender, don't evade authorities, surrender

david, our main focus tonight will be over the ohio valley. we're talking severe thunderstorms, maybe producing hail, strong winds, heavy downpours. cities included in that risk area include st. louis, all the way over to indianapolis and columbus. tomorrow, we up the ante. very energetic disturbance interacting with a lot of heat and humidity. could mean the possibility for tornadoes in that red zone. eastern kentucky, parts of west virginia, southern ohio. there's a larger risk of severe thunderstorms that extends all the way to the i-95 big cities, as well. >> all right, and you were telling me the other major weather headline is what comes after all this. >> reporter: yeah, much cooler than average weather, yet again, coming through the great lakes during the day on monday. look at this. highs only getting up into the low 60s in the u.p. of michigan. only up to 71 in chicago. some of these cities will wind up with their coldest july on record. >> that's going to be a lot cooler. all right, jeff, thank you very much. >>> and one more weather note tonight, and this one from phoenix. the images coming in. a huge dust storm rolling over the last 24 hours. a summer thunderstorm whip

louis" is probably the closest to a modern day "seinfeld." "seinfeld" ended its run in . the series developed by the co-creator larry davidexcuse me? >> reporter: "seinfeld's" characters live on, just as they were in syndication. still impacting tv and the culture. >> not just influences comedy writers, it kind of influenced everything. it's like, people's dialogue, people's references. >> we're not gay. not that there's anything wrong with that. >> he's just a dentist. >> yeah, and you're an antidentite. the man-zeer. get it? >> remember "seinfeld." the perfect show. >> somebody has b.o., the oh usually stays with the b. >> reporter: nischelle turner, cnn, new york. >>> thank goodness for reruns. >> i love them. the muffin stump episode? remember that? >> so many memorable moments. >> christi loves that show. he moment to give that big, hello! >> thanks for starting your morning with us. >>> your "new day" starts right now. >>> we're not going to stand tore for it. that's how it is. there's thousands and millions who have done it the right way, but for people to just come in here and ask for a free handout, that's my mon