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>> [ yelling]. >> eat somewhere else instead. >> animal rights activist try to stop fans from entering a private party tonight. >> food is said to be banned in justin days. >> good evening. dan has the night off. >> i'm carolyn. foodie who love the duck and goose liver delicacy had to pass a line of protestors in san francisco tonight to enjoy. >> we need to wawrn. some of the video we are about to show you could be disturbing. 7 news is leif at union square where the private party took place. >>reporter: the gathering took place here on maiden lane and

those who attended the party received a rather loud greeting from protestors. animal rights advocate chanted as loud as they could as people made their way to a sold out food party. >> when you this i about like what it is, its opinion kill of human arrogance if you ask me. >>reporter: it means fatty liver in french and people who attended the party save or ever bite because starting july 1st producing selling and buying this is going to be illegal in california. the series of abc 7 news eye team reports show how they are force fed and led to the passage of the bill banning the a del today situation. >> i can smoke pot openly in san francisco and hide my eating habit. >>reporter: they threw the party as way to say thank you to the customers for the business over the years. business moved from napa to nevada in anticipation of the

ban. the owner says business couldn't be better. on line orders are through the roof. people are stbinging up paying as much as 150 dollars a pound for frozen the food. >> this is completely back fired. i think there is more demand for this than ever. i think that when people rights to do something or have something they enjoy is taken away they want more. >>reporter: frozen stuff runs out there may another way for californians to buy it without having to travel out of state. few company talk about setting up a system buying it by way of courier. all of this is upsetting to animal rights advocate. >> if you knew you were actually destroying an animal liver just to make it taste better no humane person would help. that you are deeply crawl. >>reporter: california chef hoping to have the ban over turned next year. they found at least one state senator who

may author a bill on their behalf. live in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> all right lil i don't know thank you. >> tonight text message between suspended san francisco suspended sheriff show instant attempt to damage control regarding january domestic violence incident. on january fourth mirkarimi campaign manager texted mirkarimi can you tall me it's urgent regarding this i need to talk to you to protect you. call me. later lopez text her husband you have to stop this before something happens. use your power. mirkarimi responds i can not. this is all in context of fight between mirkarimi and lopez on new year's eve and the neighbor alerting police to the incident which led to a guilty plea from mirkarimi. messages were released as part of the official misconduct case against mirkarimi. it was one of the most infamous kidnapping cases ever. 26 chowchilla school chirp and

bus driver taken for ransom. late last tonight one of the kidnappers was released from prison and comes as a shock to the victims. many dan broke news of the release on abc 7 news.com and he has the exclusive details. >>reporter: rick schoenfeld family told me about the scene at midnight when state parole agent delivered him home to 89-year-old mother on the peninsula. >> what were the first words. >> he said i can't believe i'm here. >>reporter: 36 years since rick schoenfeld his brother jim and accomplice fred wood kidnapped 26 children and the school bus driver in chowchilla drove them to this livermore quarry and made them climb down into a moving van they had buried there. 16 hours later before the kidnapper could call in the 5 million dollar ransom demand the bus driver and the kids dug their way out and found help. >> we dug out. we handed all the kids up. i handed the kids up to the other boys. we got out. >> it was a try him and

affected kids and family and the community. tm it was not a good thing. >>reporter: john says his brother understands the seriousness of the crime. that he's a changed man and no longer threat to anyone. his first request after leaving prison, chocolate mick showing. he might give rick a job at the motorcycle shop. >> huge step. we have been without rick for 36 years. rick and jim. many and this is the first step to get jim out also. >> how does anyone feel when they are the perpetrator rae leased. >>reporter: rick's release comes as shock to the victims who expected all 3 kidnappers to serve the full life sentences. >> still the same person. he's still richard schoenfeld. still the same guy who took a bus load of children. buried them alive and didn't come back. didn't answer the plea for food or clothes or their parents. >> my brothers are both very sorry to the all the victims and their families. but

there's nothing they can do to make it any better right now. now they just have to go on with their lives. >>reporter: john tells me his brothers are willing to do anything for the vichlt for example write a letter to apologize. jim is willing to see the victims in prison there at the men colony in san luis obispo. this is abc 7 news. livermore rock areay where the moving van was buried is jaws vacant lot now. sky 7 hd flew over the site and found also to show for the crime that happened 36 years ago. the bus itself is in a museum in la grand small town south of mir sechltd owner bought it for 2500 dollars from ed ray the driver who was kidnapped with the children. >> injury in the south bay has left a man in a coma drug tloyng survive, strange case. police suspect valdez is victim of hit-and-run accident over the weekend san pedro avenue a but nobody witnessed the crash.

lisa is live for us at regional medical center in san jose tonight. lace? >>reporter: joshua valdez in critical condition at this hour and still not clear washington exactly happened. moments before he was in this state. now police and friends are trying to find out. >> he's almost like a rope that holds everyone together. >>reporter: but josh valdez or joshie as affectionately called is in a coma. and life has become undone. >> hard to see him like. that all bruised up. he has road rash all over his back. and his neck is broke. >>reporter: nobody knows exactly what happened early saturday morning after midnigh midnight. josh was walking through this intersection at san pedro and butter field in morgan hill when police think he was hit by a car. officers happened to see him always they drove by. he was unconscious. >> he was laying there what we think just under an hour between the time of incident of

collision and when we located him. horrible. >>reporter: thought breaking his family heart. >> whoever did this or whoever was involved or if anybody saw anything, nobody cared enough for the human life that had been possibly lost or damage to say anything. >>reporter: the lack of action saturday night is prompting them to act now. >> stick a small flier or pray for josh on the door. >>reporter: gathering support wherever they fine it n.small business ins morgan hill donation jar set up and signs and fliers posted. anyone with information about saturday is asked to call police. >> do i think it's very important for all members of the community to step in and help when something like this happens. >>reporter: about you jsh family members don't just want answers. they also need money. 22-year-old nor mother have health insurance. josh friends are selling t-shirts home made bracelet and set up this

donation page. anything to help to pay for his mounting hospital bill. >> horrible horrible situation all around. his family is struggling with money. he's a rough time. he really deserves lick as much help as he can get. >>reporter: there will be a fundraiser and prayer vigil for josh on tuesday night. would he -- if you would like more information on that and how to donate go to our web site and click on see it on tv. live in san jose tonight, lisa, abc 7 news. tonight we learn the identity of man hit an killed by a car in mountain view. 50-year-old william wear of mount view standing near a vta bus shelter 9:30 this morning and run over. driver late model audi struck him injured and hospitalized. impact took out one end of the bus shelter and bent 2 sign post to the ground. police still trying to determine why the accident happened. man shot multiple times which a chp officer in

sunnyvale this morning remains in intensive care tonight. friend of his tells abc 7 naws 34-year-old james leg was drunk and must have been scared when he drove away this morning from that officer. chp says the officer followed leg to an avenue where there was a confrontation. authorities do confirm that numerous shots fired. >> came to the living ramp window. watched a squad car race by the front of the house. l by the time i deducted my head out shots fired probably 5 or 6 shots that i heard. pretty quick. >>reporter: leg friend claims he was shot 7 times. chp officer placed on paid administrative leave as standard procedure. khooting investigated by district attorney's office and sunnyvale police. >> residents of dana estate in concord fully restored tonight. just before 1 this afternoon a tree fell near the intersection of. lid drive and mull berry drive. tremendous pulled down

power lines when it fell. 7 85 percent lost power initially. pg&e crew cut electricity to the license then worked to cut the tree apart. no injuries reported. >> san pablo woman crediting her 7-year-old daughter with getting everyone out safely after their house caught fire today. take a look. these pictures taken by contra costa county firefighters that show extensive damage inside the house on dover avenue. smoke alarm did not go off because they were not working when the fire broke out. leslie was in her bedroom getting ready to go to the park when daughter came running in alert being her he there was a fire in the closet. >> i went tray to turn it off because it was not that big. i put water in but flames got bigger for some reason. so that's when she, i guess my daughter panicked and started kicking and banging on my sister door because she was sleeping to get out. she got out went outside and we called 911. >>reporter: her daughter learned all about handling a fire at school. lights back on at san

francisco hall of justice tonight after an outage knocked out power for a okay down at the county jail. authorities lifted an order that restribingtd the movement of inmates for over 3 hours. still unclear what caused the grid to faichlt outage also suspended activities all but 5 of the courtrooms causing an inconvenience for some. >> okay. walt i'm down here now and i have a broken foot. one down here and they are closed for power outage what the hell. >> it is what it is. they have to find the source of the outage and deal with it. >> pg&e believes problem with internal electrical switch operated by the city has something to do with it. 911 service was not affected. and coming up next. why judge ordered william to stay away from nordstrom department store. >> also the cell phone video of painful bus ride sparking outrage and disgust because of what some teens did to this woman. >> rich history up for bid

tonight. >> coming up next on fight line. web site that connects broke beautiful college girls with wealthy older men who will pay their bills. we are inside the world of sugar babies. >> athlete kobe and controversial new pain treatment but could it help sz.r ache and pain. that's on

>> vacation fund for school bus monitor in new york viciously bullied by middle school students grown to 380,000 dollars tonight. the fund began after this video bullying hit you tube. 68-year-old karen klein is subjected to verbal and physical abuse. the students even taunted the grandmother of 8b her son who committed suicide. but she didn't give them the satisfaction of breaking down. >> i didn't get angry. i just tried to ignore them. just look out the window of the bus and say goodbye guys. just kept it up.

>>reporter: klein says she doesn't want the students to face criminal charges. danville woman plead in order contest to charges of child endangerment today and now ban from nordstrom. in february 46-year-old woman left her baby boy and girl inside her suv while she spent about 40 minutes returning purchases at the nordstrom store at stone ridge mall. as part of the plea deal the june said she must stay away from the store and take parenting classes. the babies were not hurt. they were rae leased to the custody of their father. big problems for twitter today. social media site down for more than 3 hours. san francisco base company blamed the interruption on what it called a cascading bug in one of the main frame computers but the company says it was not hacked. poll jaysed to the millions of users. san francisco highest profile movers and shakers were at johns grill tonight for auction that raised over 80,000 dollars for police chief new cause. police department

tactical vehicle escorted the chief to johns where the memorabilia included the cain package with the typewriter, gold dust lounge bar stool and original column draft. went for about 25,000 dollars. money that will be used for the chief summer job program for city kids who pledge to graduate from high school. >> rather than put a young person in something where there noise happy ending this is ever other tuesday you gate paychec paycheck. we both know you start getting a paycheck as kid you like getting paycheck. we claim them before the streets can. >>reporter: we hear abc 7 news especially happy about the 2 bidders who paid 3000 dollars each for dinner and movie with arts entertainment reporter don sanchez. >> money well spent. >> definitely. >> let's get a check on the forecast right now. >> changes. >> certainly feels like winter. here's radar. we have some

cloud cover low clouds fog down along the coast line and pushing locally inland here in the immediate bay area but lack up to the northwest. big area of rainfall just off the north coast that is moving in our direction. we'll probably get some of that tomorrow. meanwhile let me xwev awe look at sharp temperature change from yesterday. felt summer like today. high of new england yesterday. 69 today. 28 degree cooler. danville was 32 degrees cooler. san francisco was 16 degrees cooler than yesterday high of 75. so we had a sharp cool down all over the bay area. right now comfortably cool with temperatures in our rather narrow range mainly low to mid 50's across the bay area. winds have been fairly brisk across much of the bay area tonight but calming down in many spots. 2 gusty areas gusting at 48 miles per hour in fairfield which has strongest winds at the moment. on we good to the highlights both over nature chance of showers in the north bay tomorrow and cool pattern we have now will last us right into next week.

satellite radar composite image shows the high pressure centered offshore. low pressure inland and pool of cool air coming our direction. this cold front will bring us chance of showers in the north bay tomorrow. forecast animation 11:00 o'clock tonigh tonight. overnight we see some little pockets of drizzle mainly interthe coast line. will continue natural early morning hours rush hour tomorrow morning 5:00 o'clock and low clouds and fog and spotty drizzle near the coast then midday tomorrow more organized area of shower pushing into the north bay. so it's wet there but could be some isolated showers breaking off from that batch of showers north and pushing south ward object to the peninsula, santa cruz mount to the east bay. any time tomorrow evening there could be some light isolated showers. mane while overnight tonight low pressure in the upper 40's to low 50's then tomorrow showers in the north bay. and sunshine moving farther south eastward and high pressure well below average mainly in the 60's tomorrow.

mildest location we sea low 70's in the inland east bay and south bay downer monterey bay dryer there. lessp chance of shower and high pressure still below ample. upper 60's to low 70's. here's the 7 day forecast. cal pattern stays with us through monday won't be until midweek next week that inland area see high pressure back in the quiz again and all be celebrating that. >> yes we will thank you spencer. >> all right. up next. big party in san francisco tonight. >> it is kick off time for gay pride week. we'll be right pride week. we'll be right back.

ir >> in san francisco huge party to kick off gay pride weekend. the event took place on battery street where supporters of the lesbian gay by sexual transgender community came together. this build most memorandum item for this saturday festival. >> all right and larry is back >> all right and larry is back with sports right after

>> good evening. either you love lebron james or love to hate him. nicknamed the king is the king leading miami to the nba championship in 5 games over the thunder. lebron going for the first nba crown. denied twice before. first quarter james inside and score scores. heat up 4 early. 3 point shooting was huge in this game. mike miller this guy was on fire. bad back and all. kevin durrant 32 for okc. with authority right there. but they were down the whole night. lebron on a mission. wow! many all you have to say is wow! there's chris 24 and

triple double 26 points 11 rebounds 13 assist going hard to the glass. physical. mick miller 7 foot 3. chiropractor should get a ring. wade klins. with 20. 121-106 miami takes the series and they are nba champs. >> everything and more. many i dreamed about this opportunity and moment for a long time. including last night including today. my dream has become a reality now and it's the best dream i ever had. >> two years ago put thanksgiving team together you know obviously we all expected it to be easier than it was. but we had to go through what we had to go through last year we needed to. as much as it hurt we had to go through the pain. that suffering. to get to this point of this season and the rest of our career together. >>reporter: a's oingt giants tomorrow. they swept the dodge daers. check out the

highlights. fans have the brooms. pitching tremendous. travis won 8 strong innings. ex giant juan strike out victims and dealing for the dodgers. won 8 struck out 7. collin fourth inning. up 1 nothing. rbi single to juan. ties it at one. run out of time here the a's sweep the dodgers. home tore win it. 4-1 the final. 7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> thanks well done. >> all right. "nightline"up next everyone. >> thanks for joinin