we thought we were going to die. i thought we were going to die. >> thank goodness he survived a tornado, but a building on his property did not. >> marble-sized hail came down for several minutes in tracy and the sierra. snow blanketed the roads where chains were a must. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. the april weather produced a rare tornado in california. a viewer caught this image near stockton and september it via you report. it happened in san juaquin county west of stockton. alan wang reports from the spot where that twister hit. >> i heard a loud, loud noise like when an amtrak goes by.

>> when they looked out the win doe they saw the twister. >> they got to the shop and lifted the shop up like it was one piece. >> it was like it was lifted up and a bomb went off and it was spit out that way. >> sheet metal and splint erred wood and debris shot across the field just missing the house. >> a piece of metal was coming right at me. so i ducked and it hit the grill before it hit my window. >> his boat and 71 caprice was parked in a 50 by 50 shop, his pick up buried. and a 53-foot trailer flipped on its side. >> it was a matter of seconds. >> look how close the house is. it could have been the house and awful us. >> his four kids, wife and parents were safe. other survivors is this one week old miniature pony and a four-horned goat. >> it looks like the wind

speeds range from 94 to 110 miles an hour. >> jim matthews from the national weather service says he measured the winds based on the strength it takes to rip an anchored building off the foundation. tornadoes in these parts are rare. >> most of the thunderstorms occur in the cool season. so the thunderstorms aren't as big and strong. >> i have my four children and my wife. we are just fortunate we could be here jie. on a scale of 0 to 5, the national weather service says this one was an ef1. reporting near stockton, alan wang, abc7 news. >> thank you, alan. sandhya patel is here with more on that tornado and a look at live doppler 7hd. sandhya? >> on the enhanced scale it goes from 0 to 5. it was an ef1 as alan just mentioned. let me show you pictures of the tornado and you can see what it looked like.

this was posted to my facebook, and he said he saw a wall cloud this afternoon, and all of a sudden the funnel began to form. here is another photo that was sent to you report, a tornado from the manteca area. she sent this in and you can see the cloud there. you can see the tornado forming especially when you have severe thunderstorms like we saw in the central valley. here is a look at live doppler 7hd, and where it is raining we have scattered showers in the north bay. i will take you in closer here, street level radar. you can see we have a pretty heavy cell there and down toward the south bay, rain in san jose and scott boulevard and the miltie miss bowel -- mill pea disboulevard. this is scattered in nature. carolyn, when i come back, i will tell you about a messy morning commute that many will face because the rainfall will intensity in coverage. back with that in a few minutes. >> thank you, sandhya. of course, stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage and

check abc7news.com for street level radar with live doppler 7hd. from tornadoes to this. a geological rarity. three sizable earthquakes happening happening in an area surrounding the pacific ocean called the ring of fire. the first was an 8.6 quake in indonesia off the coast. then a 5.9 off the coast of oregon. it was followed minutes later by a 6.5 in a mountainous area in the mexican state. that made sky scrapers sway more than two miles away in mexico city. it was four miles deep, and there was no significant damage from these earthquakes. and seismologists want to remind all of us there is no rhyme or reason to these things. >> we want there to be a pattern so we don't have to be ready at all times. there is no pattern. if you want to be ready for the earthquake you have to be ready at all times. >> making sure structure are

seismically safe is a challenge in places like berkeley with so many soft story buildings. that's where the ground floor has garages orie tale spaces with large windows and limited structural support. leslie brinkley is live in berkeley where landlords are supposed to let tennants know about this danger. leslie? >> that's right, these soft story apartment buildings can be dangerous in a severe earthquake. and of course residents have a right to know that. >> behind us is the hayward fault. we know the hayward fault will go. the question is when it goes how many people will die? how many people will be buried under concrete from a soft story building? >> reporter: berkeley passed an ordinance seven years ago that is not being enforced for a lack of money. it is an ordinance requiring landlords to complete seismic engineering studies. and if a building they own is not deemed earthquake safe, they will have to post warning signs on the property. but in many cases that hasn't happened. a coalition of city

officials and uc berkeley student activists took matters into their own hands on wednesday night as they launched an unofficial inspection of the soft story buildings near campus. >> by law the landlords are supposed to let you know that this is a soft story building. >> reporter: in building after building, residents said there was no signage posted. >> we haven't seen a sign like this. >> and they are worried. >> that last little rumble that happened scared me a little. you could feel the plaster in the walls. >> but two buildings had the required posted warnings. and there was another that was a perfect example of what apartment owners are supposed to be doing. >> we are retrofitting the whole building for seismic appropriate and remodeling the whole thing. >> and you have the warning

sign up? >> yes, we have the sign up there. >> it is a fix that could save lives. 75% of berkeley's soft story buildings haven't had work like this done. >> you are doing the right thing. >> thank you. >> well, the goal is to raise awareness and put pressure on the landlords to get those engineering assessments done and get the signs up and to put appreciate oater city to enforce their own ordinance. leslie brinkley, abc news. >> thank you, leslie. we live in dangerous territory for earthquakes. you can find quake preparedness guides and a tracker by going to abc7news.com. just click on see it on tv. the police are on the scene of a double shooting tonight in fairfield near travis air force base. one person was killed and another critically wounded when they say a fight at the bar of a shopping center spilled outside. police are looking for men seen running away from the scene. they say they are working on leads.

no word on the fight. >> students peacefully are blaming administrators for creating the environment to allow it to happen. pepper spraying the students was a disproportionat response. they are recommending a top to bottom review for what it calls the dysfunctional uc davis police department. >> the way they went about handling things that day is not the same that a veteran of the police department in l.a. would do. actually, it is not what a well-trained police officer is supposed to do. >> uc davis says it is preparing the response. the two campus cops who sprayed the protesters in this video and its police chief are on paid administrative leave. the man convicted of hitting a nine-year-old boy while driving drunk in san francisco apologized to the

victim's family today. 22-year-old andrew vargas hit ryan white as he and his family walked back to their hotel following a baseball game. vargas left the scene striking other cars as he weaved in and out of traffic. vargas apologized and listen as the prosecutor read a letter from ryan's family. >> i cannot find the words to express how remorseful i feel toward the wright family. >> you are incarcerated because of your actions, but ryan is also incarcerated because of your actions. >> ryan will undergo his fourth surgery because of the accident this friday. vargas was sentenced to one year in jail and probation. a decision in the trayvon martin case. charges filed against a man who shot an unarmed 17-year-old. >> and they claim the mayor's office has become judge, jury and exbiewtioner. >> and an extraordinary experiment on sleep disruption

and what it does to your health. >> and then late other "nightline." >> coming up next, so line pharmacy shoppers beware. it is a scam. where dea agents call and demand cash. they say you could go to jail. and trayvon martin's killer arrested. what his murder charge says about what really

>> closed captioning brought to six weeks after the fatal shooting of a teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer and charges have now been filed. george zimmerman acknowledges shooting trayvon martin, although he maintains he fired in self-defense. now he is facing murder charges. ama dates is here with the latest for us. >> the man who shot and killed trayvon martin is in jail and charged with second-degree murder. george zimmerman turned himself in today and awaits his first court appearance tomorrow. under the tightest security george zimmerman arrived at the seminole county jail where he will be held before his arraignment on thursday afternoon. >> we filed an information charging george zimmerman with murder in the second-degree. >> this is the booking photo

at a news conference in washington, d.c., trayvon martin's family and lawyer reacted to the news that his shooter was charged. >> we just wanted an arrest, and we got it. >> we will continue to walk. we will march and march and march until the right thing is done. >> zimmerman's new lawyer spoke about how it may play in the case of the defense. >> right now it is the law of florida, and it is the law that will have impact on this case. >> the shooting of the unarmed teen inning aer has heightened tensions throughout the country. many questioning whether it should be termed a hate crime. the department of justice is conducting a current investigation. >> if we find evidence of a potential federal civil rights crime, we will take appropriate action. and at every step the facts and the law will guide us forward. >> some have been expecting manslaughter charges against zimmerman. but second-degree murder is a customary charge for a fight

involving a gun. it carries a mandatory sentence of 25 years in prison. dan? >> thank you, ama. developing news. north korea is fueling up a rocket causing great concern to the united states and other countries. the three-stage rocket is mounted with an earth observation satellite supposedly, but it is not so much what the rocket is carrying, but what launching it could mean. >> the technology that is used for the launcher that will put this into space is the kind of technology you can use for lowering a long-range ballistic missal. it puts them a step closer to doing something for military purposes if they decide to. >> and that means north korea might be able to launch a missal with a warhead to distant corners of the world. the launch is scheduled to take place some time between now and monday, but when is a mystery. airlines have rerouted their flights to avoid the launch pad. the suspended san

francisco mayor has filed a motion to disequal tie the office of city attorney from representing the city in the reinstatement hearing. the motion argues that herrera drafted the city's charges and advises the ethics commission and therefore cannot act as an independent prosecutor before the commission. his reinstatement hearing before the ethics commission is in april 20th. the conflict of interest hearing is the day before that. we are getting our first look at the foreclosure picture for last month's and beyond. it is not pretty. in march the number of shoams getting notices -- homes getting notices rose. that's the third straight month with increases. and with more homes coming into the foreclosure process it means an increase were foreclosed on. apple issued a no comment by the justice department accusing the company of price fixing. specifically fixing the prices of e books. they claim that steve jobs

conspired with publishers to drive up the price of the digital books as much as $5 each. apple received a guarantee for each e book sold through the i phone system. three of the publishers have settled with the justice department. depending on where you live, rain is coming down in some parts. >> and another system is on the way. sandhya patel is here with the full forecast. >> yes, it is already getting close. looking at live doppler 7hd, you can see the next system is approaching our coastline. we are getting rain. i want to show you where it is raining around sweetwater springs road northwest of forest road. we are getting a good downpour there. some lighter rain, but steady between santa rosa and roanoke park. as you look here down toward the south bay, san jose and the mill pea disarea, there were a few showers that developed. we will show you a closer look at the area and you can see north first street along the 108 and 880 also getting some

light shower activity at this point. the wind is picking up and gusting to 25 to 29 miles an hour, and we will continue to see the breezy conditions. widespread rain for the morning commute. scattered showers for your friday, and we are looking at dry and milder weather this weekend. let's show you the satellite and the radar. here is the trough that set off the thunderstorms from the san juaquin valley and responsible for the tornado. here is the front that we are watching, and this is the cold front that is already approaching. it will bring us morning rain and then afternoon showers for your thursday. the trough actually moves through here and bringing another wave of rain on friday. all of this cold, unstable air will be moving through on friday, and that means a possibility of some thunderstorms between thursday and friday. here is a computer animation. we are looking at 5:00 a.m. widespread rainfall. could be moderate to heavy indicated in yellow. 7:00 a.m., we start to see a

breather here, but the east bay and the south bay and the santa cruz mountains are getting soaked. then in the afternoon it will be scattered showers with a few sunny breaks out there heading into the evening hours as well. and then the rain picks up as the friday wave comes in. so at 1:00 a.m. we will see moderate to heavy rain in the north bay. also around the half moon bay area, around 5:00 a.m., scattered showers for that commute. we take you in through time and the afternoon, this is when the giants home opener is taking place. you can see even a little mixed pre sip. you could see rain and snow mixing in there by friday. rainfall totals through friday night, 1 to two inches, north bay mountains looking at less across the rest of the bay area. these are two-day totals. in the sierra nevada, it is snowing in some areas and we are expecting a heavier snowfall to come in. it continues until 8:00 p.m. and above 3500 feet.

one to three feet expected above the 6,000 foot elevation. with the wind blowing things around it will be hazardous. upper 40s to the low 50s. make sure you give yourself a little extra time in the morning. you will need. it it will be a messy morning commute. tomorrow afternoon, highs in the upper 50s to the low 60s. a mix of sun and showers. around the monterey bay, the same story, upper 50 tots low 60s. to the low 60s. here is the forecast for the giants' home opener at 1:35 as they take on the pittsburgh pirates, scattered showers, low to mid50s, certainly a cool day. make sure you have your rain coat with you. a slight chance of thunderstorms on thursday and friday, and then it is dry and warmer heading into the weekend and back to average by sunday and spring-like. the next chance of rain, carolyn and dan. nothing is better than a good night's sleep, but is your sleep getting interrupted? >> what a new study found about what it is doing to your

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room for six weeks and shattered share sleep cycles by staggering the hours they went to bed and limiting their sleep to five hours a night. when it was over, the volunteers' metabolism slowed and their insulin levels spiked leading to weight gain and the early symptoms of diabetes. in texas, neighborhood trees are sprouting more than leaves this spring. bikes by the dozen are hanging from trees in one man's yard. he strung up the first bike so it wouldn't get in his way, and it grew from there. there is a small motorcycle out there as well. the man said it ran out of gas, and he had no more use for it. >> you know what they say, the 10 speed doesn't fall far from the tree. >> colin, take it away. >> tim lincecum did something tonight he had never done in his career and it wasn't a good thing. want to see a ridiculously bad run down? of course you do, it is entertaining. sports is next. cheeseburger macaroni?

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the chatter began before the game was half over. what is wrong with tim lincecum? smacked around for a second straight start. even the mound getting the better of tim. the first inning and the former a's getting to him. carlos gonzalez deep to left and over the head of cabrera. let the carnage begin. 4-0 rockies. lynn caw come a wild pitch. lynn succumb pulled after two and a third and shortest of his career. lowest e.r.a for him. back to back homers and giants score seven and take a 7-6 lead. rockies back at you. singles in a run and 8-7 colorado. fifth inning and as if this game couldn't get weirder. 12-7 rockies and hernandez singles to center. todd head ton scores and the throw is off the glove. sandoval is waiting, waiting and waiting too long. hernandez to third and squirms away from crawford's tag.

14-7, 34 hits. giants lose 17-8. awful. a's one hit by the royals yesterday and six hits today. here is one of them. a's trailing 2-1 and a two-run jk to left. make it 3-2a's. the same score in the second. alex gordon is out in a flash. flash gordon, get it? it goes to extras and tied at three of the doubled down the left field line. a's answer. the fielder's choice tied it and then hit by a pitch and just as good as a hit. it is 5-4a's the win. all right, i had a what have i accomplished in my life moment. he is 33 years old. that would be inspirational if i wasn't so jealous. the warriors in the rose city. jamal crawford and by half time he finished with 34.

portland by 7 at the break. the fourth quarter and warriors use the run to tie it up. nate robinson is driving, dishing and jefferson with the dunk. the nba is a game of runs. matthews with 7 of his 18 down the stretch. portland the winner 118-110. stanley cup playoffs underway. philadelphia and pittsburgh and sidney crosby and a backhanded flip. fliers stage a furious rally. four unanswered. he takes advantage of the bounce and still takes the opener 4-3. de stroit in nashville, and no -- detroit in nashville and no they are not. the predators take game one and the sharks start their opening round playoff series tomorrow night in st. louis. >> thanks, colin. >> "nightline" is up next. >> i'm carolyn johnson. weather updates on the abc7 morning news at 4:30. >> from all of us here, thank you for watching and we appreciate your time. >> good night, every.

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