larson, kate. >> reporter: that's right. there are hundreds of google employees that are still coming out of the google offices. you can see we are right in front of the ferry building right now. my photographer will spin all of these women, google plays, standing and holding up signs. representing the women who paved the way for me and then a number of others like happy to quit for $90 million which is clearly a comment on the fact that andy ruben that helped create the android software wiz let go with a $90 million package and he has been accused of sexual harassment. a woman had to take the stairs because tehe elevators are all full. i'm kate larson. back to you. >> thank you so >>> we don't cover the global google walkout today. this is tofr main campus in mountain view. it is to demand a change in the company's sexual misconduct handling policy. we want to take you to kate larson. let's take a listen if we can hear any of the speakers there. employees are marching from all over to the ferry building. we want to take you

in the news room, kate larson. back to you. >>> facebook is taking down accounts that may be trying to interfere with the election. the company's cyber security team announced last night it's blocked 30 facebook accounts and 35 instagram accounts suspected of inauthentic behavior. >> u.s. law enforcement contacted facebook about the suspicious online activity. they're still investigating whether those accounts are linked to russia or other foreign entities. >>> the department of homeland security issued a statement last night. saying our government agencies have been working to keeping our government agencies secure, writing in part, foreign actors, russia in particular, should continue to try to influence public sentiment and voter perceptions through actions of discord. >>> you can still do last-minute research on all the propositions that matter to you. we have all the details at abc7news.com/elections. abc 7 is your home for live

. >> they are, and kate larson is live in ch-ico, kate? >> reporter: right, the tent city next to walmart is still very busy. in fact, we showed up and we were surprised to see so many tents here. the weather is colder and the rain is right around the corner. >> the discomfort is hard to miss next to chico's walmart parking lot. >> joe and his family are camping in the tent after evacuating. they don't have a car to get to a shelter and are waiting for money to buy bus tickets out of town. >> we will beat the rain. >> it's really cold out here. >> he said that most of his family has been homeless. but he is escaping before the rain starts to fall. >> it's a terror for those in tents t ground is har, so the -- hard so the rain will go over it. >> some are using wood palettes to raise their tents off the ground. >> they may be making us move wednesday. and they may not let us stay here no more. >> it's like a sign, go back home. >> she plans to drive to tennessee to live with they are family. she said she is doing her best to keep it positiv

. >> let's begin with abc 7 news kate larson. shaes live in seen the worst conditions. >> reporter: normally our news camera cut through any type of haze or smog, but not tonight. according to purple air.com the air quality index was 3:34 at 6:00 p.m. which is unhealthy for everyone. after school kids were still playing outside. but during school hours in oakland students have been inside all week. >> it's been pretty rough. you remember what it's like 10 years old and you want to get outside and run around. >> reporter: he says oakland unified decided to cancel school friday because of the poor air quality. >> our staff, they've had some conditions about the same conditions that are our students are dealing with. we've heard of some people having headaches, things like that. >> getting bloody noses. >> reporter: she's a parent and runs an after school program in oakland. >> the coughing and feeling unwell, and have to call for the parents for early pickup. >> reporter: michael lee is a parent at oakland elementary. he says he wa

. >> kate larson has the story of one map's search for his brother. kate? >> reporter: well, dan, the char clark family lost their home in paradise. but more painful than losing all of their belongings was the possibility of losing a family member. >> have you guys seen a guy here, about 6'7", african-american. somebody by the name of maurice clark out here. >> reporter: jonathan clark has been looking for his big brother since they evacuated from paradise. >> we got separated somewhere along the way and we just haven't heard from him since. >> reporter: jonathan has been driving and walking from shelter to shelter, following up on leads as to where mo might be camping. >> whether or not i find him alive or not, it hurts. but i want to find him. >> reporter: today, jonathan heard his brother might be at the fair ground shelter. he wasn't inside, so he started checking every tent and camper. >> get your butt over here. >> reporter: at the edge of a line, jonathan found mo, safe and sound with his young son. jonathan immediately called their mom and put her o

here's abc 7 news reporter kate larson. >> reporter: spread love everywhere. that's how friends of alaina housley said she lived her life. signs are posted across the street from the cemetery where she will be buried on wednesday. with fires raging north and south, these firefighters stayed back in napa and raised the flag into a smoke-filled sky for alaina housley. the 18-year-olds body was escorted by family and friends from southern california to her hometown of napa where hundreds of friends and admirers lined the streets to pay their respects to a life taken too young and too soon. >> knowing the way she passed away to me is really hard. >> bailey stone was close friends with housley. they made a pact to go to prom together when they didn't have dates. housley was shot and killed in thousand oaks when a gunman opened fire at the borderline bar & grill where housley was line dancing with friends from nearby pepperdine university where she was a freshman. >> that is such a terrible way to end her life this early. >> reporter: as the procession neared the ce

abc 7 reporter kate larson is live in mill valley where drivers had a really hard time in the rain last week. kate. >> reporter:al ma, that's rig . when the first rain of the season fell, they responded to more than three times as many crashes here in marin as the same time period last week. and with more rain on the way, they are concerned about what the commute has in store for us this week. the roads are dry now, but with a series of storms on the way, that will change by morning. >> with the increased rain, there's no doubt we'll have an increase potential for vehicle accidents. >> reporter: last thursday through saturday, when it was either wet or rainy, the chp says they investigated 29 collisions in marin compared to just nine in the same three-day period last year. battalion chief brett mctee with the marin county fire department says people need to make a conscious effort to adjust their driving in the rain. >> the storm will pack in a little bit more of a punch than the last storm so if people don't give themselves room, and they don't give the time to get where they're going

i'm kate larson, "abc7 news." >> kate, thank you very much. the sheriff of butte county has received the meme treatment thanks to his leadership during the camp fire. this instagram account with merely 2,000 followers has been posting various memes as a tribute to the sheriff, such as chuck norris sleeps in sheriff pahoney pajamas. clever stuff. here are some others circulating. santa claus is worried about being on his naughty list. and he has taught old dogs a variety of new tricks. the sheriff certainly did do himself really well during this crisis, and he's getting rewarded by the meme treatment. >>> all right. we are just happy that the air is finally improving. >> and rain is coming. >> i have some new tricks for you. we've got rain coming our way, strong winds, and significantly improved air quality. right now, we still have the smoke and the haze hovering over the bay area. temperatures are not a wide one. temperatures are ranging from about 60 at the coast to low 60s, right around the bayshoreline. san francisco is one of the milder l

kate larson has new information we've obtained about the shooter. >> in the houtrs three women and himself, albert wong spent time searching internet for articles and video about overcoming fear of death and suicide. five hours before albert wong walked into the veterans home where he shot three women and himself, investigators say he looked up this article about the san bernadino terrorist and articles on murder/suicide, when killing yourself is not enough. and 30 minutes before he drove there, looking at videos of su redacted almost half the pages but report ou wt wong was thinking and doing when he shot the three women. kicked out of the program the month before the shooting. according to the report six law enforcement agencies, 114 investigators and 23 witnesses were involved. details how wong, 36-year-old army combat veteran bought both guns used months before the attack. shot gun from sweeney sports in napa. day of the mass shooting at marjorie douglas high school in florida. also gun purchased legally but because of the modifications, illegal in california. and wong was able to ente

that was kate larson reporting. this is video of the rite aid from yesterday morning right here. >> so you can see even though there is wreckage all around the mily is trying to figure out if they are going to rebuild. >> stunning. >> we have a new tool that lets you check the current air quality conditions in your area. find the map on the front page of abc7news.com. it updates every five minutes. we have not heard of any school closures yet because of the bad area. as soon as we get word, of course we will pass that along. we have seen help from companies. >> up to four applications the extension. >> we got all the patients out of the hospital and headed down the road. >> allen pearce showed pictures of truck on social media. toyota offered a new truck. pearce lost his home in the fire and the hospital where he worked was also damaged in the blaze. >> seems like the right thing to do. and abc 7 parent company, walt disney company, committing half a million dollars to support relief and recovery efforts for califor

kate larson, abc 7 news. >> kate, thank you so much. >>> well, it was very windy today which of course fueled the fire in butte county and wind is always a major factor in these things. >> as you take a look here the winds near that fire line have increased. they're now out of the north-northeast gusting at 39 miles an hour. they had briefly eased, but they're picking up geb. not good news for the firefighters there. a spare the air alert has been issued through friday and also an air quality advisory. moderate air quality for the bay area. look at the satellite picture just coming into our area as a north wind blew it in. this is video sent to be twitter by one of my followers. another in dublin. and this one from the berkeley marina. red flag warning remains up for the hills, lake and salono counties until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. gusts 40 to 60 miles an hour, along with low humidity still a danger. knoxville creek gusting to 45 miles an hour. so don't let your guards down just yet. >>> now to our other top story in southern california, that horrific mass shooting last night at a nightclu

kate larson is live in novato. >> we are here at the target and there are shoppers. lots of tvs, per usual. we have been doing black friday for 10 years and i have never seen this tame of a shopping experience. it's not raining now and it was earlier. that may have had something to do with it. >> we are open. >> just in time to get out of the rain. >> make sure you are not pushin. single file line. >> lines of people for black friday deals on thanksgiving day. >> i'm in line on thanksgiving because my mom wants a tv. >> many in the giving spirit. >> is it worth it to stand in the rain? >> anything to make her happy. >> my daughter is so into barbie. >> giving thanks to give a leg up. >> you have to get them early. >> they are hot toys for her age. half of the time i can't find what she likes. they are all gone. >> the rain came down and shoppers stayed dry thanks to flat screens and more. flat screen tvs. >> yes! >> as for dinner, most dined before. >> my sugar level is on high. >> pumpkin pie? >> only one, but with ice cream. >> giving park an hunters a run for her

i'm kate larson and we will start this hour with a look at the weather with meteorologist lisa a ar jen, and lisa, it is feeling a a little bit cool outside right now? >> yes, kate. we have had wind shifts and the live doppler 7 is going to show you the clouds coming from the north and the west and the wind shifting has allowed foor cooldown. it is really more of the radiational cooling at night with the lack of wind. so anywhere from 12 degreeing cooler in livermore and 9 degrees cooler in santa rosa. and the clouds are settlig into the mt. tam and the lower elevations and with the the numbers in the lower 60s and 50s, and you can see the shot of santa cruz with the high clouds. it is 68 in vacaville, and from the exploritorium camera, you can see that it is partly sunny and up er 70s inland and upperer 60s at the bay, and the shoreline and this is going to begin the cooling trend for the week ahead. i will explain with the ak wa accuweather forecast coming up. >> thank you, lisa. >>> we are in the final 48 hour s before the midterm elections. president trump is going to be working rit

. >> we begin with kate larson, she is live where a power pole caught fire, kate. >> reporter: that is right, we are off highway 1, you can see the branch fell down after the rain and wind started to pick up in the area. joining me now live is eric who lea -- who lives on the street over. we will show you the cell phone video he took. what did you hear before? >> a lot of sparks and then i saw flashing green lights out our window and i ran outside to see what was happening. >> reporter: that was the tree branch taking out of the power line and messing up the transformer, were you worried about your house and your neighbors? >> at first i was worried about my house, i didn't know what was going on and realized it was behind us. and my wife called 9-1-1 and tried to make sure everyone was okay. as crazy as it sounds, no fire was started. >> reporter: that was the good news, i have spoken to the sheriff's and fire department and pg&e, it's not clear when the power will be back on in this area. >> people in some areas are weathering the storm in the dark. 1700 hundreds lost power around 9:

in chico, i'm kate larson, abc7 news. >>> take a look at your screens. we're getting new photos of victims reuniting with their pets. so far they've helped 100 families find their lost pets. >>> police arrested two men accused of breaking into a cal fire station during the camp fire. >> robert de palmer and william erlbacher face multiple charges. they are currently being held in the butte county jail. >>> now to the smoke causing that unhealthy air quality in the bay area. here's an update on what's opening and closing today. >> cable cars will be up and running again. service will resume this morning. there's still a lot closed including alcatraz, ft. point and muir woods. they'll think about reopening coit tower, embarcadero center ice rink. we'll keep our app updated on what's open and closed, including your local schools. >>> we're taking a live look at sfo, our unfriendly skies are making it hard to live in our cities and making it harder to leave our increased traffic could really be a challenge. abc7 news reporter matt keller is live at the airpo

in half moon bay, kate larson, abc 7 news. >> announcer: now the accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >>> here is live doppler 7 and clear conditions. you can see the low clouds off shore and we are looking the a a warmup today. warm the past several days. little has changed except for a wind shift bringing dryer air and the possibility of high fire danger here. and if a fire is ignited the winds could rapidly spread that. right now we are looking at appear warmup in vacaville, 71 dgrees right now. you've had a north wind all night allowing for the temperature to jump. 51 in oakland. 58 in san francisco. 50 in santa rosa. usually we have plenty of 40s this time of year. it's cool ner parts of the south bay and east bay this morning do you to clear skies. but check out vacaville, 23 degrees warmer than yesterday at this hour. this gives you the indication of we are we are headed. a warm day today. if we measure the moisture in the air right now at 6:00, 92% relative humidity right now. this is when we get the highest relative humidity in the early morning. but already it's drying out

i'm kate larson. happening now, there is an amber alert out of san jose for two children. 11-year-old priscilla in the middle and her 1-year-old brother alex sander. they say their mother the diana morea took the children on a supervised visit friday and does not have custody. she is believed to be driving a 2012 mini cooper and it has the license plate number where she could be headed to colorado springs with the children. if you see this car or the license plate, you are asked to call 911. >>> happening today, the largest pet street fair in san francisco. paw toreros, the dog adoption street between delancey street, and between sonoma where more than 18 dog and cat rescues are up for rescue. and there is also a dog contest for the top three winners and a gift certificate. and lisa, it is very warm, but it looks like ale cooldown for everyone's sunday's activities. >> kate, you are right. good morning, everyone, and looking at mt. tam with the high and low clouds can and the temperatures are cool in

. >> reporter: kate larson larsen has more. here's howet starts. >> paradise is burning now and the streets are too full to go anywhere. >> they say evacuees were forced to break into a rite aid as use it as an emergencyhes th fire burned over and around them. after the fire burned over, police in firefighters gave the stranded group a briefing in the cracker aisle and helped gude them out for safety. take a look. this is what the rite aid looks like now. incredibly that appears to bo the extent of the damage to the storm. i spoke to sean. he was visiting his family when the fire broke out. he tells me that his parents and higgs sister's homes have burned. we'll have his remarkable story of survival at 11:00 p.m. in the newsroom, i'm car larsen. we send it back to you. >>> governor is believed to be one of the 42 people who died in the camp fire. the 66-year-old was born and raised in oakland. >> is daughter was with him. she made it out. >> reporter: wayne freedman spoke with her about her >> they haven't started counting bodi

. >> abc 7's kate larson is in san francisco with the reporter. >> a lot of employees held up a sign that said happy to quit for $90 million. no pay out needed. clearly a digging. google and the ceo got that $90 million. >> women's rights are worker's rights! >> shouting from the embarcadero, men and women made sure management got their message about sexual harassment at the company. >> enough is enough! >> drone view 7 was high above as hundreds of employees walked out of work, essentially emptying the offices. >> it's important for men to be allies. >> there is an overall sense of insecurity. >> she works in google's marketing department. women and minorities are often reluctant to come forward on the receiving end of misconduct. >> women of color and then also the lack of accountability that makes people feel unsafe. >> her job is to recruit new talent and was not impressed with the e-mail last week that 48 employees have been fired in the past two years for sexual harassment. >> i personally would prefer an apology and transparency. >> these are no longer pr issues, but cultural

abc 7 reporter kate larson was in napa tonight as the young woman's body was brought home in a procession through town. >> spread love everywhere, that's how friends of elena housely said how she lived her life. she'll be buried on wednesday. with fires raging north and south these firefighters stayed back in naised the flag into a smoke filled sky for elena housely. the 18-year-old's body was escorted by family and friends at the napa police and sheriff's department from southern california to her hometown of napa where hundreds of friends and admirers lined the streets to pay their respects to a life taken too young and too soon. >> knowing the way she passed away to me is very hard. >> reporter: they were close friends. she said they made a pact to go to prom together when they didn't have dates. she was shot and killed when a gunman opened fire at the borderline bar and grill where friends were line dancing. >> it was a terrible way to end her ea rowdrhe ath an friend to all. what step tuesday take to ensure a mass shooting doesn't happen again. >> there needs to pea new laws or thing

abc's kate larson has a look at the protests there. kate? >> reporter: i spoke to one woman at the protest. she said when she left her office she had to take the stairs because all of her coworkers had filled up the elevators as they all left to take part in this walk out. >> women's rights are workers' rights! >> shouting from the embarcadero, men and women made sure management got their message about sexual harassment at the company. >> enough is enough! >> at 11:10, drone view was high above as hundreds of employees walked out, emptying the three san francisco offices. >> there was an overall sense of insecurity. >> she works in google's marketing department and said women and minorities are reluctant to come forward when they are on the receiving end of misconduct. >> it's the lack of the presence of women. women of color. also the lack of accountability that makes people feel unsafe. >> her job was to recruit new talent and was not impress with the e-mail that 48 employees have been fired in the past two years for sexual harassment. >>

kate larson, abc 7 news. >>> in the east bay a 16-year-old girl was kille in a house fire that started just before 4:00 a.m. fire officials say the home was fully involved in hot gases trapped inside ignited forcing firefighters to retreat. another teenager and a man were able to escape the home but suffered burns as did a firefighter. that firefighter has been released from the hospital. >>> events were held in the bay area today to mark 40 years since jim jones ordered more than 900 members of the peoples temple to ingest a cyanide laced drink. abc 7 news was in s francisco's philmore neighborhood where people gathered to honor the victims. there are plans to build a memorial in the neighborhood where his victims were from. the remains of over 100 unclaimed or unidentified victims rest. today a memorial wall was dedicated to the 305 children who died. right before the murder and mass suicide congressman leo ryan and four other memberser killed.thi congresswoman jackie spear. she was shot five times. >> at one point i was placed on top of an anthill and ants are crawling over my body,

kate larson tweeted video from beaut county you're looking at here. wet weather there is helping firefighters with containment efforts. but hurting the task of finding more victims. >> this video from along 80. which will be one of the most congested roads this evening. and the airport is also crowded. news reporter tweeted expect big delays. 40% of flights are delayed. live picture from sfo. we have a look at the holiday rush. >> reporter: with the first rain of the season arriving outside, and large crowds expected inside, travelers brace for a rough airport experience. some told us they got here three hours before their flight. >> we got here early. we were anxious to get here. >> the crowds inside looked intimidating. the security line in terminal two had a spill over section. >> i never travel on this day. i usually travel thanksgiving day. it's a breeze. i'm trepidation about traveling today. >> looks can be deceiving. we timed one passenger at height of the rush. who started in the back of the add on section of the line. she texted us when she

kate larson has more from half moon bay. >> we spent the last two woks f season. it's a brand-new boat we brought up from san diego. it's been eight days on the water. this was the crew on the boat for the trip. a lot of people on the small boat. >> you're not sick of each other yet? >> i can't answer that. >> for the past 20 years woody woodward has spent the first week of november in half moon bay fishing for crabs. >> beginning of the season we are not taking anything less than a 7 inch crab. >> that would be a jumbo dungeness. >> people go nuts for it they love it. >> that was a bit hasty. >> woody introduced me to some of his friends and their game ofgenica which is not easy on a boat with the wind off the pacific. >> we might not catch crab tomorrow or tonight but bringing everybody together, it's just nice to have everybody come together. >> any type ofber bait. >> take this, chop it up, put it in the bag in the crab pot. >> exactly. >> by the time the sunset the rig was ready. now wait and see if the crabs are crawling towards the bait. commercial crab fis

. >> kate larson joins us live from the presidio. >> reporter: ama and dan we are in the presidio. i can tell you that dianne feinstein staffers are setting up for a 300-person watch party tonight. of course, feinstein started her political career nearly 50 years ago as a san francisco supervisor. now at 85, she serves as a senior senator, a household name. feinstein is a tough one to beat, but her competitor, fellow democrat kevin de leon, a state senator from east los angeles, has been slowly shrinking feinstein's double digit lead after she took a hit during what some felt was a poor performance during kavanaugh's hearings. the san francisco state senator scott wiener supports feinstein and he told me she is aggressive when she needs to be. >> she has been extremely vocal around brett kavanaugh, around the situation with russia, and so the republicans, you know, maybe don't like her so much. that's okay. i mean she's someone who has always worked with both sides of the aisle. she has been willing to reach across the aisle, and she will continue to do that, and that's why she's s