>> talk about a 45 minute search including the fire department and then, using their high powered housing system. >> and one week later the 25-year-old was located unconscious and alive. dr. bruce says it's amazing he survived because he was near death. >> he's 25 he's young and strong. that is why he was able to survive oo. here is the time line. and he found his vehicle but not sanchez, may 10th the family not knowing he's in a crash filed a missing persons report with police. may 11 the case assigned to detect -- detectives. may 14th learning that his truck was involved in an accident. may 15th detectives searched the site and found sanchez. his sister just can't understand why her brother wasn't found for eight days.

>> if i report it, my brother missing on that thursday, they should have put, if chp picked up the truck on the 8th why didn't they report it?. >> the chp says they did a search though a witness told them that they saw the driver walking away from the truck. they also could find no blood at the scene. >> there is probably an aassumption the person doesn't want to make contact with us which is what happens a lot in the middle of the night. >> and he says sanchez probably suffered from a blow to the head when his truck rolled over and says he's now rolling his eyes and he has some motor functions and is he in, doctor's words, making tremendous progress. s. >> that is inincredible story. >> the man killed in the hit and run insy kent have been identified. police say the 57-year-old was either walking or riding a bike tuesday night when he was

struck. it happened around 11:30. those who live nearby tell us the area is pitch black. saying he was killed by someone driving a black mercedes-benz. if you have information you're asked to call the police department. >> a community group in san francisco north beach neighborhood is banding together to help a homeless man struck by a hit and run drive. and an suv ran him over, he's in critical condition with brain and spine injuries. neighbors are helping to care for his family. police looking for a white chevolet suv. >> former british prime minister tony blair set to give give a speech at stanford university. his appearance is drawing protests from those who say

blair should ab rested. >> yes. it's just now kicked off. as you said former british prime minister will be speaking here this evening and will be talking about africa. and he is the founder of the africa governance initiative promoting the government, leadership and builds capacity across africa. as you said there are protestors out here, you can see people lining up to go n on the right you can see pro testors. you can see they just started doing their chants out there. and they're saying he helped come up with the lies and now he's trying to colonize africa. they say hates to be stopped.

now, tony blair is going start speaking at 5:30 and is expected to get formal remarks. there will be a 20-minute question and answer session. in sanford abc 7 news. >> gold theft is on the rise in oakland. today police officers hit the streets in the fruit veil zwrikt flyers and a big warning. criminals targeting people wearing gold necklaces, rings or gold jewelry. police say they're increasing patrols but recommend keep your jewelry at home if you have to wear it try to conceal it under clothing. >> now to a follow up on a fraud scheme abc 7 news brought new march. we take a look at money and items stolen from 25 victims. police say they were covered more than $850,000 in cash, jewelry and other items from six suspects. police say the six women

played prayed on religious beliefs and superstitions. >> by believe and are hopeful more victims will come forward. >> the suspects were aroasted at san francisco international airport earlier this month. they're being charged with multiple counts of theft, fraud and elder abuse. >> silicon valley's pioneering companies is reportedly set to announce massive layoffs, bloomberg news says hewlett-packard will cut at least 25,000 jobs. others predict it could reach 30,000. it's not known how many of those will come from the bay area. analysts say the computer maker has been slow to react to innovation autos it's ironic the story is breaking the day before facebook is likely to go public and probably create a thousand millionaires while

hewlett-packard is laying off potential live 25,000 employees. you can see it's not making printers or pcs. >> and meg whitman says hp would combine divisions to stream line operations. >> there is a sharp discrepancy between what the cal state university system says top administrators are paid and what they earn. leelandy's office examined irs records. according to csu records sf state's president earns 298,750s aids year according to irs records it's $423,500. csu says the chancellor makes $421,000 and irs says it's really $488,000. y says despite requests for explanation, he's gotten no

response from the cal state chancellor's office. >> and tributes have been flowing in for disco queen donna summer. she was 63. >> the five time grammy award winner suffered from lung cancer, her tracks "last dance", and bad girl" became signature hits for the disco movement. fans paid tribute off a -- after a star on the walk of fame. they had -- she had 19 number one dance hits. second only to madonna. >> 19. >> and coming up here, google gets caught up in an international squabble over map autos and get ready to pay up if you're a surfing hog. one telecommunications giant is about to raise your payments and base them on your internet use. >> strong winds are whipping the bay area and what is

coming for the weekend. >> thank you. also tonight the rocks that set one beach goer's pants on fire. abc 7 news continues in one minute. stay with us.

>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. we're just hours away from facebook's moment in history. the share price is finally revealed, $38 a share. could reach more than $18 billion. abc 7 news has more of the company listed as fb on the stock market. >> facebook hype is constagis. it has serious investors paying attention. >> i work in heck. -- tech. >> and i have been hearing a little bit. here, there. i think i'm starting to get

night. i got a facebook. >> the strip mall across the street in menlo park is full of hope. carey is hoping the new wel well -- wlth will trickle down. others expecting to see more flash and cash here once the company goes public. >> nice car. maybe more buildings. not sure, i think a lot of stuff will change. >> some observers say you can bet on change. for the good. facebook chief executive is expected to make billions of dollars and many believe he will be chairitable with his money. >> mark zuckerberg thought it's important to get back. and he made big investments in education. and he's given and pledged a lot of money. something he thinks is

important. >> here is the message for employees today, stay focused and keep hacking. this is a poster, they're having a hackathon. it's an all nighter to work on a project other than what they do every day. and they're doing it tonight. they say it's a special night. they'll have red bull and a dj here to asked to -- add to the environment. they want everyone to know they're staying focused on the product. >> a superior court judge ruled against a student admitted cheating in an advanced placement class. the father claiming his son's dismissal from the high school class impactedded his academic future. the judge said there was no denial of education and the student had no right to be in advanced english and if it did go to trial the plaintiff would probably lose. >> in petaluma people are pulling for and praying for a

little league pitcher badly hurt in a game. the 12-year-old was hit in the head by a line drive. wayne, how is sne. >> he's going to be okay. and that is a story bringing back a theme. we get a youth league. and there is a discussion. should these bats be in the game? they're not discussing that in petaluma. >> it's never easy to have a child in the intensive care unit. dennis and his family know they're grateful when good news comes. >> we're coming day-to-day now. >> and until last week his 12-year-old was just another of boy of spring. a line drive to the face of a metal baseball bat changed that. >> threw a pitch. the kid hit a line drive at

him. did he not have time to react. it hit him square between the eye autos yesterday he underwent six hours of surgery to repair damage to his face, nose and sinus cavities. >> come backers have been a part of baseball. and aluminium bats increase the odds of a hot shot doing damage two. years ago marin catholic high school pitcher gunner sabd sandberg nearly die md a practice game. his team and then, his league, adopted tro tra decisional wooden bats for the season. it becomes a discussion every season. leagues and officials talking about increasing distance between mound and plate or making pitchers wear face guards and helmets. there are metal bats have less velocity than previous models but still mer than wood. >> if i had to choose between a mel hel met and wood bats, i

would choose wood bats. >> i was never on a crusade. >> all concerned describe this as a one in a million shot. it's just baseball, says dennis o'neal. maybe his attitude and perspective comes from his job. he's a lieutenant in san francisco fire department. >> no matter if we change the bats or make the field bigger or we, make the children wear safety equipment, someone is still going get hurt, then who are we going to blame? there is no one to blame. it's a forced jury. it's going to happen no matter what. >> as for gunner sandberg the young man, we spoke with his father. he said gunner has physical problems but he graduated from high school and he's in college and guess what he does for fun? he coaches the marin catholic freshman baseball team. in petaluma abc 7 news.

>> and some consumer news now buying a home is more affordable than it's been in 20 year autos rates are down and salaries, up. michael finney is here with that story. >> and there is a report saying more americans can afford to buy homes now. nationwide home wise priss are down 36% since the peak in 2006, mortgage rates fell to another low of just 3 bth 79% this week. median incomes are up 10%. putting it together meaning more folks can afford to buy a home. here is the bay area there is a little tougher, of course. the nation's largest internet provider going to start charning

extra fees, comcast will add fees however, the limit is high. 300 giga bytes per month delivering about 130 hours of movies and high definition. comcast says only a small fraction ever use that much date yachl the company says it may be $10 for every 50 giga bytes over the limit. now, remember, time warner and iat and t tried to limit data use and that didn't go over too well with their customers. >> nation's second largest search engine, microsoft's bing adding a service letting you consult friends while searching on yin, telling which of your friends might know something about the topics. the usa today's ed beg got a preview. >> the more people there, the better leading to more richer search results. i liked what i saw. will it make me go to bing

before google? not necessarily but i like what i saw. >> bing says it will be a few more weeks before all features are up working and of course working out. >> and let's talk about the weather forecast. it's windy out there. >> we have to hold on tight. it's windy out there and in oakland reporting gusts of 52 earlier, coming down sfo by the way reporting delays of 46 minutes to within an hour. there are trees swaying in the wind there. there is a few from the bay bridge camera. clouds and cameras shaking there. there is high winds. and take a look at the satellite picture now. there is most of the bay area clearing out just a patch of

low clouds here, there are gusty winds creating a gusty condition across the bay area, over the water so there are gale warnings going until late tonight and 38 in oakland. you'll notice 32 miles per hour winds hayward, these are gusts. san jose, 23. nappa, 31 miles per hour. it's a cool wind coming off the ocean. and there are temperatures coming down in the bay area. 71 in concord, there is where you'll notice mid to upper 50s with that wind it is feeling cold out there. wind will decrease overnight, milder days friday through sunday. it's cooling down next week. we have a good looking weekend ahead. here is a satellite and radar. one of the reasons why we're

getting this wind is that there is a jet stream over us. but once this pushes out of here winds will relax. high pressure takes over. and as this ridge builds in, we'll notice temperatures coming up. milder days coming up. so if you have plans it's looking beautiful. tomorrow morning patches of low clouds. mainly along the coast and then, in over the bay bridge south. temperatures will run cool. you'll need a sweater or jacket. mid to upper 40s into north bay valleys. along the coast upper 40s and into inland east bay. and also around the he east bay 45 degrees. as we look at computer animation here, patches of low clouds are clearing away. temperatures coming up just a little bit. so we'll go 50 as long the coastline, breezy tomorrow and inland areas making it up into the low 80s range for friday afternoon, temperatures 77

degrees in santa rosa. there is up to 74 vallejo. and 68 in oakland, 62 san francisco. breezy but blue. 58 degrees. 66 in san mateo. there is a lot of sunshine around the monterey bay as well. there is 59 in monterey. there is upper 50s to low 80s tomorrow, we'll have low clouds and fog over the weekend. low 60s to low 80s. partly cloudy skies and cooler monday. another trough passing through here, temperatures start to rise again low of 0s to low 80s, up into mid-80s range.

there is a bait aa breakers this weekend. we'll start off on sunday morning and there is a nice looking weather. >> looks terrific. >> looks great. >> thank you. >> still ahead beach rocks that set a woman's wants on fire, what may have made them combustible. >> then what a butterfly expert is telling him about climate change. it's information weighing on the future for all of us. we'll be right back here.

iran plans to sue google over the decision to drop the persian gulf from its map. the foreign minister says google will face, quote, serious damages if it does not rename the region the persian gulf. current google map searches of the water sai show it without labeling. ire yawnins are highly sensitive about the name. and some arab states insist on walling it aaryan gulf. >> officials say it may have

been phospherous on the rocks that caught on fire in orange county. she put rocks into her pocket. at home they exploded into flames. >> we responded to the call, we found that a 43-year-old female had severe burns to the legs. second to third beg burns. that is when skin is flapping off the body. >> the burns with the heat of a road flare. the woman remains hospitalized with third degree burns to the leg. the beach is near camp pendelton. the investigation into how this could happen discontinue. and very strange. >> wow. >> still just ahead taking a step towards summer olympics. >>

at 6:00 east bay sisters take aim at local police and their pastor over their horrific childhood. years after bus they claim could have been stopped. also what you can expect from a ring of fire eclipse that will be visible this weekend. >> from obscurity, local teenagers taking their love of rugby to a new level tonight at 6:00 now back to dan and cheryl. >> thank you. >> and continuing sports theme

we're closer to summer olympic autos that is right today official handover of the olympic torch. >> it's been carried by 8,000 over the past 70 days now going to embark on a final leg of the journey to the united kingdom. handed over to princess anne in london. >> can't wait to see that. >> world news is coming up next i'm cheryl jennings. >> from all of us here, thanks for watching. we appreciate your time. we'll see you again at 6:00.