it's getting ready to take off. when we're here, it will be skyward and headed towards farallons. and this is the type of thing they can hand yes. tons of weight. and at the farallons the boat lies on the rocks as you know. and that sky 7 has been showing you crews in red here and getting ready to rig the boat. i know they had to warm up the engine. what is going to happen now is that there is there is a hook they're going to use because the boat on the farallons has been rigged with various ropes and that sort of thing. they'll took it on, then bring it back here. there is a truck that is here as well. they're going to have to adjust it when they do that

and then, they'll haul it to whenever it is they're going to take it. they -- the engines have warmed up and this is picking up quick speed. rpm is a big kind of helicopter. this is a find that are used sometimes fighting forest fires. sort of a strange-looking shape but they can haul their weight. and i'm waiting for to it take ox you know five people were killed in that tragic accident. the crew of eight. and the race around the farallons. i think the people came by who may be friends or family members and wanted to be part of the operation as they bring it back here. i have a feeling some will show up because this is a way to bring closure.

they told me there is a 20 minute flight from here to the farallons. and... this seems like this could be a rather quick operation. and there is weather impact and they need to do this before it gets dark. you want to just... climbing on this to check everything. we'll be back shortly and will show you lift off, then we'll have video at farallons as they lift the boat off the island. live in half moon bay abc 7 news. >> and this is fascinating to watch. and again, a short flight where they'll hook up the boat and return it to the airport. we'll come back as this operation continues in the next hour. >> there is police finishing their investigation into that

yacht racing accident. police didn't find criminal negligence and handed over to baigs to the district attorney. >> the police report did not you ever kun allen -- did uncover allen cahill was among five killed in this tragedy. a survivor, james broadford was thought to be at the helm of the boat but that is not the case. >> we'll go back to don sanchez monitoring the take off of the helicopter but oikos university reopened today. three weeks after a shooting rampage that ended with deaths of seven people but only one class was held at the site. the suspect is in a swrail infirmary tonight because he's refusing to eat. >> we're expecting to hear the university would open today. of course, it did. what we're not expecting is to hear the alleged gunman

refuses to eat. that worries the alameda county sheriff's department. one goh remains in the jail infirmary. the alleged gunman taken there on friday after refusing to eat. >> and he's not weak, he's fine. he's lost weight. but at this point it's not a dire medical emergency. he's not being transported to the hospital. it's just a situation where we want to have him monitored by doctors. >> at the reopening of the university, students and faculty quickly rushed towards the building trying to avoid reporters. a spokesperson said 17 of the 22 students showed up. the president and founder of oikos says it's too earlly to try to talk to students. >> not today. >> but lucas garcia a teacher in the building when shootings occurred described the mood of the students today.

>> this is just expressing how they feel. and this is just sadness, how scared they were that day. >> nursing students were off campus or doing their clinicals at hospitals. and many of them knew the alleged gunman or witnessed the shootings, seven people were killed in that rampage. >> they were leary but wanting to go back. and everybody wants to finish. >> she thought she was the intended target. she refused to refund his tuition after he dropped out. she was relieved when police said she was not the person he was after. >> this for me, and my family. just everybody. you know? basically. yeah. i'm not a target. and -- you know, thank god. >> now, the students will not

finish the year here at this university. the university oikos hopes to move them to another location. uni tech college in fremont. i'm live in oakland abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> bart is going with the lowest bid in the battle to build a fleet enough rail cars. that decision is likely to upset union machinists and others who wanted more of the cars bimt in the united states. abc 7 is live at the west oakland bart station with the announcement. mark? >> there are three companies bid on this deal to build the bart cars. the three companies have factories in the united states but there is a big difference in price and also, in the percentage of the parts that would come from the united states. >> when you board a train...

>> in this film from early 70s, this are cars portrayed as futuristic marvels of technology. but 40 years later these are the oldest cars still in use in the united states. bart wants to replace them with 775 brand new ones over 11 years. winning bid came from a canadian company at $1.5 billion. a french company came in second and a korean company overbid by $1 billion. >> bombaria rail cars are built in america and the bid $184 million lower than the next bidder. >> the french bid was $184 million more it promised to use more u.s. parts and pledged 95% of every car would be made in the united states. and there is a web site supported by machinist's union

support that had message and radio ads started to play in the bay area. >> bart claims trains can't be built in america? >> nonsense. >> unions complained steel from china was building the bay bridge and that taxpayer dollars ought to be spent in the united states. but staffers said it's not enough to award the contract to the french. >> this is a quality of the product. >> we understand importance of american jobs and factored that into the process and have to look at the larger picture. >> and this the staff thinks the cars are reliable but had problems in chicago. and never theless, the staff is going to make recommendations this thursday.

>> and investigators think a man in a wheelchair may have goten too close to edge of a platt form today. the nanman in his 50s hit at the civic center station at about 11:30 this morning. the accident shut down muni train service two showers. the investigation into that accident continues tonight. >> right now san francisco ethics commission is eating on whether to upset the suspension of ross mirkarimi. abc 7 vic lee joins with us the latest. vick? >> this meeting started late and there are so far lawyers have taken center stage presenting their arguments for the rules and sitting in the

front row is ross mirkarimi. suspended sheriff ross mirkarimi shook hands and hugged supporters. this is uncharted territory. not only for him, but for the city. the closest the ethics kmilgs has come to holding an official misconduct hearing is with ed jew. he was convicted in 2007 of bribery, extortion, and perjure. but jew spared the commission when resigning after opening session. so this commission will have to come up with rules for procedure, lawyers believe the hearing is constitutionally vague and that their clients due process rights are being violated. >> there is an objection other than bringing proceedings to a halt. >> today his lawyer argued any hearing should be held in front of cameras and public.

>> there is a live hearing going to better serves goals of the commission in determining facts of what happened here. there is nothing like having a live witness. >> the mayor says he'll do what the commission wants. >> should they require us to be there? i will have to cooperate. that is part of the requirements of of the process. >> and once this hearing is over and rules in place, legal briefs will be filed and the responses as well, from both sides may, or may not be, live testimony from the mayor or the sheriff depending on how they decide tonight. there is one thing certain, whatever recommendation ethics commission makes will are to be forwarded to the board of supervisors that will meet a super majority to remove

mirkarimi from office. vic lee abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> and we continue to monitor the situation on the farallon islands. a giant crane has taken off now. we're only minutes from seeing it lift that ship wrecked sail boat. >> intel's new 3 d computer chip coming soon to a device near you. one of the biggest advance manies in half a century. >> and there are bay area biologists out on a limb to keep tabs on a pair of

we're continuing to stay on top of the story of the big helicopter, the sky crane taking off from half moon bay just minutes ago on the way to the farallon islands. it's time to salvage a yacht involved in a deadly crash. >> this is a week ago. it's about a 20 minute flight. there is the hook that will be used and what they have strapped this boat. and the crane will lift it boat and bring it back to the airport. it will be on a flat bed and taken to salvage. but this is now underway. we'll update you as the hour progresses once this gets offer to is the farallon autos an earth day demonstration turning into a standoff between occupiers and uc berkeley. and they have now taken over a plot of university-obed land to grow vegetables. >> this group called occupy the farms says it's gotten an mazingly warm reception from

neighbors. some have stopped by this farm here to help bring seeds and soi. people who own this land, university of california berkeley are not quite so amused and reception has been less warm. >> there is a go tok a big salad in a couple weeks here. >> earth day is over, but occupy the farm is not. volunteers rip up weeds other come with potted seedlings, top soil and water, down to the irrigation system and chickens it has a smell of a small family farm. >> this is not a half hearted job. >> months of effort have gone into planning this. >> you might almost forget every person here is breaking the law. >> are they trespassing now? >> yes. >> the spokesman is vague

about how the school plans to deal with the okay saigs. >> we'll enforce them in a safe, effective manner. >> but it's clear they won't go willingly. the university uses this for aeg -- agricultural research, some of sit planning to be sold for assistive living facility. >> occupiers are down here and off the map he says this land might be turned into little league baseball fields but occupiers insist an urban farm is just as valuable. >> kids don't know where food comes from. they don't know the work to grow food and how much water it take autos water is becoming a problem on this farm and there is a visit from the college of natural resources their air investigation water was turned off.

and they say they're not discouraged. >> we're going to to be here as long as we can to secure the land. >> occupiers say they're asking to borrow flower pots and say a couple dozen plan to stay intents overnight to watch around the clock. >> thank you. looks nice out there now. >> it does. indeed. >> cooler than over the weekend. >> just a tad. >> this is a some lingering clouds and lots of blue skies and sunshine. there is a live view from our camera. and there is western sky, oh, what a sky that is. there are some dak clouds there. blue skies and sunshine. there is a beautiful evening around the bay area, take a

look at the loop you can see low clouds and fog up against the coastline. yes there is lots of moisture in clouds there is 5/100ths in oakland hills and drenching drizzle in santa cruz. 7/100ths there. right now we're looking at mainly dry conditions and it's mild. there is 61 in san francisco. 57 in half moon bay. these are the highlights. clouds and drizzle overnight into mid day tomorrow, showers are likely and could with heavy at times, then warm, dry condition was us again by weekend. satellite radar shows two weather systems moving into our direction. there is system one, not too far off shore and system two is farther back. it's into our direction as well. at 5:00 wednesday morning we'll have clouds around and

there are showers starting by mid morning wednesday, will be wide spread across the bay area. and may intensify in spots into afternoon. there could be thundershowers or two. and into evening hours and dissipating then, system two arrives bringing showers in mid morning thursday. by 10:00 thursday morning we'll have certainly have had wet weather but there are showers bringing us rainfall totals between a tenth and a half inch through thursday morning and then additional rain throughout the day thursday into thursday night. so there is some drizzle possible near the coast. low temperatures on the mild side into mid-50s, then, tomorrow there is some sunny breaks and east bay high temperatures will be rising

into low to mid 70s. mainly upper 60s to around 70 near the bay. there are similar readings upper 60s to about 70s near the bai. here is the accu-weather forecast. there is wet weather, showers likely and could be locally heavy at times, drying out friday, warming up nicely in time for the weekend. high temperatures into 80s saturday, sunday and monday. >> thank you. >> and coming up next bay area lawmaker proposes a bounty for old mattresses. >> and better than dumping them into the streets.

the state is cracking down on price gouging to stores catering to low income women and their children. the families relie on the federally funded program but according to a bay citizen investigation a growing number of independent markets that accept wic vouchers charge as much as $10 for a box of serial. >> when you have a bad actor out there taking more money than they should for a box of serial you're taking money out of the mounls of babe autos one store owner says he has to hike prices on some products to makeup for losses on others that don't sell gs he claims he has to carry to meet wic guideline autos lawmakers are considering a bill that would create a mattress recycling program in the state. the problem of old mattresses dumped into city streets has gotten worse.

today in orkland the state senator announced details of her bill requiring manufacturers to come pick up used mattresses or pay a $25 fee for everyone that is illegally dumped. the money funding a recycling program. >> when you walk out of your house or go to your place of business and see illegally dumped mass tresses is it's one of the thing that's makes a neighborhood feel run down. >> the bill just passed a vote and will be considered by the appropriations committee in next few week autos coming up next from abc 7 news i team should california hunters be allowed to use dogs to stop their pray? legal in other states, yes. but maybe not here for long. >> and we're waiting for an air crane to arrive at farallon islands and following the salvage operation for you

and you can expect a battle over a bill banning the use of dogs for hunting bears and bob cats. >> it's a controversial and emotional issue on both sides. and there is an i team investigation you're going see only on 7. >> one big complaint is that dog as tack any wildlife, even pets on private land. but biggest issue is what happened on the hunt for bears and bob cats. we went two hours north of sacramento for this report and a warning. some video from actual hunts but it's important to see what we're talking about. this is a saturday night at the fair grounds. >> we're your neighbor, and friend. >> and 500 hunters who use hounds are preparing for a fight. but we're all freedom-loving american who's just want to be left alone.

>> they're raising money, auctioning a puppy, raveling off rifleals -- rifels including some for women and children, open crossing the use of dogs for hunting of bob cats and bears. >> that will do it. >> senator ted lou believes outfitting dog was radio kol yarz violates concept of a fair chase. >> there is a cat or dog chasing a bear until it's exhausting. the hunter notices a gps stopped and hunter gos and shoots the bear. >> lou took up the issue after dan richards shot and killed a mountain lion using hounds. mountain lions are protected in california. >> what role did this play in your decision to go ford? >> this brought haunting to

may tension. i was not aware it was allowed in california. he'd done it in other states it did come to my attention. and he decided on this bill. >> about half of the black bears killed in state were using hounds. hunters argue it's part of the natural balance. >> they don't understand hound hunting is the only form of catch and release hunting. >> vast majority of the time we're not even carrying a gun. >> dan says his hounds and treed 259 bears in 25 years and he and his friends shot just 60 of them admitting hounds sometimes catch the bob cats or bear including the young before they make it up a tree. >> chances of catching a cub on the ground is remote. i wonder if they're phony and

staged. if they weren't, it's rare. why would someone video it?. >> the humane society argues hunters don't always see the impact including mothers with cubs. >> by the time the dogs have taken care of moving that mother up a tree possible those cubs are long since gone and not, if they choose not to take that they've separated a mother and cub that's may never rejoin. >> black bears can be legally hunted with hounds in sl states, inclufding california. 14 states allow bear hunting but prohibit the use of hounds. >> this is simply unnecessary for management of bear species and unsporting and unethical. >> a poll commissioned by humane society found what a p.5% margin of area 83% of californians opposed yugs of hounds for bear hunting. they get ready for the hearing

before the committee hunters admit odds appear stacked against them. >> i would like americans to have freedoms they have and sooner or later there is going to to come a time where it's not politically skprekt we're going lose thchl we all know that. >> and it's clear from the turnout from hunters whose families used hounds for generations that they will not lose without a fight. >> how strongly do you feel about this? >> this is in my blood. it's -- you know next to family, it's what i dream about. >> this may be tough to watch. whatever your viewpoint you can get involved. leave a comment on the new i team blog. i'm posting service tomorrow and links to help you contact the issues on both sides of the debate.

>> this tough to watch. thank you. >> let's go back now to update the story yeef been following. that is a salvage operation for a yacht that crashed and killing five people. >> there is a it took off and went to farallon islands and should be on the way back, almost to half moon bay. >> this is on the way back and there is they're going to take to it whenever the operations will be going on. and there is what lift off is like at 6:05 or so. this is being hauled away. and with a big, big woor not looking for here, healthy... hook. hook. thank you very much. that shaz been out here a long time. yeah. it's designed to lift heavy loads and a six-ton sail intot

easy for it. i want to show you a live picture, you'll notice the boat is gone because crews were there earlier, they'd flown out of half moon bay and rigged this boat to prepare it for the rescue on that rocky island. we've seen it on the side with exclusive sky 7 hd video. you can get an idea. as they were getting ready to remove the wot. five people were killed in that accident. and once they get back here, and i'm looking at the distance here, i can see blue skies. i don't see them coming back yet. and they're going to take it out of there. don't know where it's going but they will obviously be working this salvage operation on that boat. >> and thank you very much. >> coming up here next one of the biggest advance manies in

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silicon valley chip maker intel made an announcement today launching the first generation of a new chip faster and using less power, here is david louie on intel's big break through.

intel claims this is technology that has faster speed. >> there is faster hd video and graphics for things like main stream games and just over all better performance on response on pcs. >> improvements are possible thanks to a new chip design. a year ago intel announced a creation of a trancistor redesigned with with miniature fins. and six million of the tri-gate trancistors can fit on the dot at and it helps improve capability. >> there is about 20% lower power on the line prof sesors. that enables thinner, lighter designs that are the lower heat meaning this is less fan

noise, more stunning design autos inel says it will benefit any users but the first desk top computers will come out this week. other versions of the processor will be deployed later on lap top autos there is the more band width into the pc will only help. >> what intel has done will give a competitive edge to those who make and use lap tops and trancistors will likely do the same for smafrt phones and tablets down the road. >> and coming up next a wells fargo bank customer kept getting someone else's statement. >> she found doing the right thing is harder than it should

sometimes, doing the right thing can be difficult. >> it k and that is what a san francisco woman found out which she tried to stop wells

fargo from sending her someone else's personal information. >> michael finney stepped in to help. >> the more this woman tried to get them to stop, well, the more personal information the bank seemed to keep sending her. she proved being a good samaritan is not always easy. o lando was surprised when she started receiving someone else's bank statements. >> this first time i seen it i put it in the mail saying return to sender. that happened a few occasion autos then she took matters into their hands trying to find the woman through google. no luck. she asked her sister who happens to be a wells fargo customer to take the statements into her branch. >> so we thought that is the end of it and i would never see them again. >> next month, she received more from the bank. and this time, she opened it hoping to find contact information but found

something else. >> we have received her social security number, and her credit card and her pin number. >> determined she took all of the mail into a wells fargo branch herself. the manager promised to take care of it. but again... no luck. >> and to continue to repeat the error after talking to managers in different branches and different locations, i'm very angry. >> she decided to contact 7 on your side and we alerted wells fargo. >> and i'm proud to say i did get a response, immediately. and i'm excited about it wells fargo told us we appreciate the effort and are pleased it's been resolved. address is now corrected and yolanda shouldn't be getting anyone else's personal information any longer. >> i'm happy it was me norkts

someone else that this poor money, her money would be gone. >> and what a nice person, wells encourages its customers to utilize online banking and it would have helped here. >> good for her. >> yes. >> tonight money matters a glimpse at facebook finances. the revenue tops $1 billion last quarter and there is is facebook preparing to go public, microsoft ahe agreed to sell two thirds from the patents bought from aol for about half what they paid for them that amounts to a deal not to sue each other, growing debt sparked a sell off ton wall street today. and walmart shares fell 4.5% today after a report the company carried out a scheme

to build stores in mexico and covered it up in years. >> there is a winter storm warning along new york-pennsylvania border after a winter slammed foot northeast. this is where there wasn't snow, there was rain z foremost, this is a major inconvenience, utilities reported 50,000 customer was out power. >> this is half of what we got. about four, five inches. trees breaking all over the place. >> and the governor declared a disaster emergency. >> we had the opposite over the weekend. and that is a sudden summer seems like swelter. >> it was ghorus over the weekend. now not so glorious but still nice.

>> there is partly glorious there. is a time lapse view this afternoon from our camera. there is high clouds over the bay and things got sun year, tomorrow, sunny around the state with highs up to 78 in fres foe. showers up into north. and there is 56 in you're yeeka. here in the way area there is partly sunny skies into the afternoon. and upper 60s to around 70s into the north bay and here is the accu-weather forecast. there are showers on wednesday and thursday. and could be heavy at times. there may be showers or two on wednesday. and there is a warm up back into the 08s again. >> biologists today learning a

little bit more about a bird on the verge of extinction thech put bands on these chicks that will help track move manies and identify them once leaving the nest. mom and dad irk circled nearby making a lot of noise. biologists say the falcons love downtown san francisco skyscrapers. >> there are pythons are a favorite food of peregrine's the world over. they do not care about people on the sidewalk or bus autos they were nearly exstikt in the 70s but have recovered. a web cam is tracking progress and you can check it out on abc 7 news.com. >> we've been tracking progress of the helicopter that was lifting the yacht off of the farallon islands and taking it to half moon bay airport. and there is a yacht right now.

and and it crashed last week and a boat just under 40 feet z again, this is now heading back to half moon bay. that is where don sanchez is live tonight. can you see it yet? >> there is people who went out of here attached rigging to the helicopter to the boat, rather. have just returned and they're landing and they may be helping when there is the boat helped them put on the big rig. it's west of us and they'll load that boat onto it and take it away. >> and is it your understanding there is a sky crane just putting it on the flad bet bed? the next step? >> that is what is going to happen. >> that is not going to be

easy. because this is a 38-foot long boat. so they're going to have a tricky maneuver interest there. >> these guys know what they're doing. and there is -- i think it's just moments away. >> what is nas fas nating is how quickly it skipped over. it and turned around and picked up this boat in minutes. >> and there is -- they told me goitsing to take 20 minutes. they were there in 15. so may be a little slower and a six-ton boat. >> we understand this is going to be very expensive. one is around $200,000. >> this is a salvage company out of seattle to do this job.

and this sky crane is a very owed-looking helicopter. and there is closer to half moon bay airport. it's been used in many instances fighting fires and lifting heavy equipment on buildings so... as owed-looking as this is, it's an efficient work horse. >> and there is the end result of a tragic yachting accident with a number of experienced boaters. there yacht we ares were with 4800 other boats and had this tragic accident. >> and they jury just swamp bid giant waves that just had this tragic result. and there is a search, took several dyes identify how many people had been lost.

how close is that to you now? >> this is still looking like a speck here and there is a tragic accident. the police department investigated because they have nurse diction and said today there is no criminal negligence involved. they're turning research over to the district attorney's office. >> right. now, this accident happened on the bird saimpk wary. salage only had a mall window of time because of nesting season is underway. they had owe get out of there, now. >> this is coming up over a ridge of hills now. you can see it now. there is a your camma ra now, there is sky 7 hd. but this is a camera what

you're seeing and you can see the boat now. >> and there are three crew members were all rescued by u.s. coast guard responding after a responder on that yacht activated and a made yeah call was made. and a tiburon res dent body was pulled from four others were lost at sae.. >> this is still very sad. >> this is a race but this is a challenging race. there is -- they've had mishaps before but noning this tragic. >> on the west side it's obvious, winds coming from there and waves and it's changeable. seas can be so unpredictable. and you just don't know. sometimes you're trying to save a second or two off of the race and something like

this can happen. i'm not suggesting that they did anything wrong, at least from -- saying there is no criminal intend. >> it's dangerous business, yachts. >> it's still hard to think it out. there is a spectacular shot from sky 7 hd live so this is getting closer to you. there is a boat hanging. hard to say how far down but there is 100 yards below the helicopter. >> a reminder of those that were lost. there is it looks as though they're moving in on the airport. and it's getting closer to you. >> this is here now. yes. we can see it clearly. and this is east of the runway

approaching and there is quite a shot. >> you can see the other helicopter brought the crew in, too. >> why this airport? >> looks like a grass hop yes, i think. >> this is getting loud here, now. >> why did they pick this one? >> i think so. yes. and it's easy access. and there is in and out. we're right by the investigates. and they moved that... >> there is where you can see they're slowing down now. and by the way for those of you just joining us this is the salvage of a yacht

involved in a tragic crash and this is fantastic strength ooj this is unusual. yeah. >> this is above the road here. this is princeton. and there is, i guess they're moving it inside. but they're not going into the direction thought by the rig rig. >> there are workers invests underneath the boat right now. they've just set it down on the grass. and there we're going to continue to follow this for you. thank you fosh being with us. i'm dan ashley. >> thanks for watching. dan will have an update for you at 9:00 and 11:00. xrsrsrsr

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