>> in san francisco, leo villareal is about to be a household name. crews placed 25,000 l.e.d.lights on 300 of the vertical cables. here is how they looked last night. tonight at 9:00 p.m. official debut of the world's largest computer-animated light sculpture. >> look goods from what i saw. i think it's supposed to do more than what the practice. >> take a guess at how many people he'd zpokt feed. >> 200. >> tonight? >> 400. >> it's a boon for business north of the bridge and one that will have lingering affects two years or until the next time the bridge needs painting when lights come down. it's an $8 million whim. the bay bridge we thought we

knew well, about to be bathed in a different light. >> it's true. people are more aware of the death. -- bridge and it brings something special to it. >> that is how long they keep permits value yismd by this installation being temporary there is a quality to it. only by being temporary can a piece of art become legendary. wayne freedman abc 7 news. >> thank you very much f you don't want to risk getting wet you can just watch it live online. we'll stream it at abc 7 news.com leaders gathered with police to announce recovery of an $800,000 jewelry box stolen in january from the museum of california. they have a suspect under arrest. laura anthony is live with the latest for us.

laura? >> well, box is back. the museum folks told us today they're confident they will be able to protect it. at least better than newscast. >> that is nice. >> two months after valuable box was stolen from the museum of california, he a trio walked back into the building. >> torkd history was restored to the city of oakland and state of california. >> the rare 19th century piece was stolen january 7th in the second two of recent burglaries in the museum. the suspect is a 45-year-old parole named andre t franklin. >> there are some piece that's

capture your imagination. >> the box stolen and recovered once before. in 1978. this time, police credit the museum extensive video system with helping them crack the case. the box made of gold and quarts and engraved with railroad and native american themes. the sig kansz was not lost on the lead detective in this case. >> what clicked was our american history, our heritage. >> officials hope to have it back on display very soon. >> it's our mission and our responsibility to share california's history with the must be lick. we feel confident we can take precautions on security measures to ensure protection for the future. >> now police are still looking for gold nuggets and three 19th century pistol that's were stolen back in november.

ar.. >> laura, thank you. police say a man shot to death was an unintended victim. police confirmed a 19-year-old passenger was shot twice sunday morning and died of a gunshot wound. officers say the driver of the car slammed into a police cruiser during a traffic stop, then took off. the driver from oakley has been arrested. police want him charged with homicide for the death. >> a vigil will be held in san jess yeah for a man shot and killed by police over the weekend. >> oh, my god. >> you can hear the gunfire, police shot aat a suspect that drove away from police. he is identified as ronnie aduttle. police say he had previous run ins with the law. >> i during that pursuit the

suspect pointed a handgun during the case you can see officers say he's pointing a gun at us right now. >> police have not found a weapon. the friends and family plan to honor his life and mourn the loss tonight at 7:00. >> former san francisco police crime lab technician deborah madden is close to a plea agreement charged in 2009 with taking small actions of -- amounts of cocaine from the lab two. trials resulted in hung injuries in october and again in, january. her defense attorney says he is negotiating on a possession charge carrying a max number one year sentence. police announced an addition to the list of events honoring two officers killed last week. you may know a memorial service has been scheduled for noon on thursday in san jose. abc 7 news will carry that live starting at 11:00 a.m.

on the air and online. in addition a public viewing will take place at santa cruz memorial. you'll pass by caskets between 3:00 and 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. sargeant butch baker and elizabeth baker were kill bid a man they were gaitd an attempted sexual assault case. most offices will be closed for services on thursday. >> we're learning more tonight about the theft of a yacht that ran aground in pacifica. it's a strange story. the suspected thieves were photographed before the boat was stolen. that is where more on what transpired two men and a woman just didn't look right so an alert boat owner snap aid picture of them.

sausalito police now have that photograph and of course, after the boat ran aground there was chances to photograph them being arrested. three people pulled off the super yacht and then, arrested for stealing the boat from its berth in sausalito are all waiting formal charges in court tomorrow. 63-year-old leslie gardener and daro mira and lisa modewell. >> yesterday the detectives interviewed suspects. they were less than forth coming. >> the head of investigations in pacifica says they didn't learn about why the trio took the boat. two do have records in santa cruz. >> for public disorder. for property crimes like theft. narcotics. >> less by gardener of more of

a mystery. the head of investigations in pa sif whyica thinks gardener is from wyoming. how they got the boat? the chief says they broke in. >> the boat itself has evidence that they forced entry. >> at yard where the 82 footer is being repaired the manager tells me it's in the that hard to get underway. >> there is a series of switch asks control panel that's you turn on. a lot of times there is no engine keys. >> the keel is cracked away from the hull. the pro peller, bent. bottom of the rudder torn away when she was pulled off the sand. and eric madzen says when the boat was racking -- rocking around in the surf everything inside got tossed. how they managed to put it on the beach is still a mystery

that the suspects have not yet revealed. >> i think the moral of the story is take a sailing lesson if you're going to commit a crime that involves sailing a boat. >> the owner of the boat john fruit says he doesn't know any of the three suspects. why they picked his boat, the manager, charter manager here says hey, it was the best-looking boat in the harbor. >> still head here a bay area neighborhood is concerned about the storm rolling in. the sink holes now developing beneath their homes. >> tonight the deal struck to sail back a $2 million -- billion hospital construction project and allow it to go forward. >> the lab samples your doctor collected over the years. how decades of medical minuta could turn into a break through. >> how a gourmet meal on a budget?

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you might think this storm would be a major problem for a neighborhood plagued by sink holes. the city insists it's not enough for them to worry about. so heather is there live for us. >> when the water main broke it appears individuals cleaning up and drig out owe owe would be the extent of it.

it turns out that was just the beginning. >> the city says it won't know if the three red tagged homes can be saved for another three to six months. they all share one large unpredictable sink hole. >> at this point we have one large one that extends aboard the back foundations. 2004 adjacent to that. it's considered one large one. >> last wednesday a broken 16 inch water main underground on 15th avenue created one sink hole on the street and one in a backyard. residents won't ab loud back in while soil engineers wait and watch. >> we're watching the soil settle so we're seeing more cracking of some. things of that nature, so we're here to watch that when there is not significant

settlement affecting structural. >> there is a a month's work prof jekts including replacing pipes and 400 feet of the water main that broke. >> how are you doing? >> well... okay. you snow day do day. we know things can change in a minute so. we're kind of hanging in there. we haven't been dagged but... we know that it could happen. >> with rain on the way, the city inspected and repaired roofs on the homes. >> the rain is not expected to have adverse affects on the soils here or further problem on settlement. >> mayor ed lee will be meeting with residents. some tell us that will be tough for them trying to get

away from work but that will be taking place while the city is saying for three to six months before it can be determined for the house that's have damage we just spoke with a resident. he said they're making plans to make housing for a year. >> thank you v stay in the city another moment. after years san francisco reached an agreement with california pacific medical center to refurbish one hospital and build a new one in the city. one scheduled for the safety project. >> transaction, i believe is a win, win. >> it allows california pacific medical center to build two safe hospitals. after years of controversy and contention. >> there was mer than one time when everybody felt justified.

these institutions are important to the city. >> st. luke's has been a fixture in the mission district taking care of the under served for more than 100 years. it's future had been uncertain. >> we want st. lakes -- luke's to be a world class hospital this, ensure wez get that. >> new, it's part of a $2 kbrinl project, st. luke's will be rebuilt, offering 120 beds rather than 80 called nor a previous plan. other hospitals could be built on the cathedral hill hotel will be down sized to 304 beds. >> smaller this does reflect concerns. >> under the compromise california pacific will continue it's charity care and

contribute millions to the city. >> we're very much looking forward to final steps gofg through the board and cutting -- putting shovels in the ground we hope in 2013. >> the plan did not come without a fight from activists worried about the fate of st. luke's. >> in 200-2010 this hospital could have been close ootd board takes up the agreement next week. in san francisco, at st. luke's, abc 7 news. >> you can see there from where carolyn is, dry in the city for just a moment but that is changing. >> yes. the storm is coming in. >> it s it's moving through parts of the north bay right now. should be hitting golden gate in the next two to three hours. the outline of a plume of

moisture pushed down north. now hitting parts of sonoma county. you can see rain moving into, light rain right now moving into clover dale and guerneville. you can see pockists rain about to develop as well ask over the next few hours through the bay area, here is a look across the -- east bay camera. 57 now in oakland. 52 in san jose. another live view from our camera here looking along the bay bridge which will be giving us quite a display of lights z temperatures and other locations right now 52 degrees. these forecast features a cold rain, scattered showers will be with us tomorrow. we'll see more showers on thursday so we have two days

of raw weather coming our way. cold front bringing us this bout of weather. the rain developed ahead of the front. again this will be a two day event through thursday, and thursday night. at 7:00 this evening, at which point we'll see rain having reached farther south towards golden gate. then by 10:00 tonight we'll see the front sweeping through the bay area, some rain behind the front appears to be maybe the heaviest we'll see at that hour. there is a front continuing to push through over night hours we'll see periods of skprain showers behind the front. so 5:00 in the morning official beginning of rush hour we'll see wet areas but there will be breaks in there as well. pockets of rain and showers thursday morning and evening. breaking up a little bit by

11:00 thursday night, rainfall totals that could reach as high as two inches in the north bay mountains up to an inch and a half in santa cruz and probably not more than half an inch to one inch over remainder of the bay area. still, though, much-needed rainfall and it's going to be a good soaking at the moment here and there. overnight tonight we'll see the better organized rain, steadier gain reign give twig periods of rain and showers by early morning. lows dropping into upper 40s to low 50s, highs not very of high. here is the accu-weather forecast. we'll see highs breaking out of the 50s before saturday. so it's going to be a cool, raw, wet period of weather for two days then, we set our clocks ahead springing forward. and we get sunshine and warmer weather as well. >> coming up next, a bay area city where parking is at a

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are looking to fill the seat of george shirakowa. today the board voted in favor of holding a special election over a appointing a new supervisor after hearing input from the public. >> i'm a big believer in democracy. i think that the board has no right to appoint anyone to represent me it must be approved in a meeting next week. the process will cost taxpayers $1 million. >> city of berkeley considering taking a different approach in dealing with driver that's violate parking restrictions. property owners would be allowed to cite vehicles. an effort to discourage drivers from parking in spaces reserved for a business then not going there.

some say dough the don't want to be handing out tickets. >> i don't agree with it. i don't know. >> the only recourse business owners have is to have the car towed. >> coming up next a big day on wall street. >> the dow soars into record territory. >> also tonight death of a true revolution yairy. hugo chavez loses a battle with cancer. >> we'll take a look at the bay bridge. they're going to switch on a light show tonight on that span. stay with us. abc 7 news at 6:00 continues righ

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there is plenty to cheer about on wall street tonight.

the stock market regain whaitd lost in the great recession then some it represents a come back for a economy on the brink of collapse. >> it now more than doubled at the onset of the great recession gaining 125 points today. shattering the previous record set five and a half years ago. last time it was close to this high, apple just sold it's first iphone. david david louie is live with good news, david? >> we're in santa clara. we're going take a look at how the businesses here are impacted by the stock market. every business is impacted bit mark because it influences consumer confidence and spending and helps companies decide whether or not to hire. investors appear to be in an

optimistic mood, seeing signs of recovery. terry connelly is a former investment banker at golden gate university agino school of business. >> if this persists to the end of march and we get a strong market then, you get a -- a further push on the consumer side. you get that and get a further push on the hiring side. >> we talked to merchants today to see if a rising stock market sim pacting them. >> i think people are feeling better about them selfs and i think consumer confidence is there. >> chris's family has been in the floral business for 50 years. city has been hiring because sales are up. >> in the last couple months we added sales staff and have added on in our design staff. i think we're probably going

to stay with that the rest of the year unless we get much, much busier. >> a trader mirror that had sentiment on this day. >> you don't see champagne bottles coming down and balloon asks that because there is a very, very big disconnect between what the market is telling us and what the economy is telling us. >> here in santa clara levels seem to be higher because companies are hiring and that is having a spillover affect. >> i'm feeling betser. i work for an employment agency. we're seeing bilgs back after this pick up i. seeing a lot of great things going on now. >> so where does the stock market go? in santa clara, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> more money matters tech investors have reason to

celebrate. it still 36% below writ was. it did reach a high today of $32.24. silicon valley stocks may be on a role but a survey shows it's not creating as many jobs as it once again. only 46% plan to be hiring this year z martha stewart testified she did nothing wrong when agreing to sell her merchandise at jc penny stores this spring. she's being sued by macy's. stewart says macy's did not uphold it's end of the agreement. >> a congressman today proposed a big new increase in the minimum wage, now $7.25 an hour. this is to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

actually less than san francisco where it's 10:55 an hour, they say raising wages would lift millions out of poverty. >> president barack obama says he hopes to build a constructive relationship with venezuela now that the nation's president, hugo chavez has died, losing his two-year battle with cancer. he ruled musing -- using money from the national oil company. he once called president george w. bush the devil. he was 58 years old. >> let's check in back with abc 7 news wayne freedman now. >> he's waiting for the light show to begin. wayne? >> roughly two hours, 25 minute as way from a show you're not going believe from the bay bridge making headlines

around the world. you can see when the bridge does light up, a show stretching some 1.8 miles. the world's largest computer again rated light sculpture along embarcadero people are getting in position to take a look and say they were here. some got themselves reservations on a restaurant. they're all booked up. live on the embarcadero, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> coming up next the medical minutia that could pay off. minutia that could pay off. >> deca well, well, well.

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scientists around the country could be soon discovering clues to curing or treating a variety of diseases using a tool here in the bay area. at the kaiser research center

technicians treat saliva samples like genetic gold wrk good reason. the samples creates one of the unique data bases in the country. >> power is unples pres dented. >> the project builds on archives of medical records on members for decades. >> includes surgical and other procedure that's people would have had done includes comprehensive pharmacy information. >> then, several years ago, researchers teamed up to turn that into a searchable data base. idea was that they can cross check it for clues but at the last minute they added one component. the saliva samples. with a $25 million grant researchers have been able to analyze dna turbing a tool

into a kind of genetic search engine. >> there is a unique opportunity to try to link that with the new genetic information. >> he says analysis took more than a year with computers and equipment running 25 hours per day. but the results could benefit research into a wide cross section of disease autos things like heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. >> because it includes information on habits along with where patients live researchers hope to patch disease without side risk factor autos we can assemble noofgs a model of how disease develops and progresses. and that should give us clues about prevention. >> the data base project will have benefits beyond the bay area.

the kaiser team is in the process of making this information from the data base available to researchers nationwide. >> coming up here next, a san francisco restaurant playing host to hist very about to close doors. and michael finney going to reveal one of the city's best kept secrets. a tablecloth restaura

an iconic restaurant plans to serve it's last meal next month. it's been serving for 27 years, claiming to be the first fine-dining chinese restaurant to introduce asian fusion. the restaurant says it's going to close when the lease expires. some boss there's plan to retire. >> one secret in san francisco you can get a white tablecloth dinner under 10s oodz a great

splurge? the restaurant is on one of the busiest corners in the city, 4th and mission across the street from the metrion theaters ask a few doors down from westfield mall. it's called educated palate. it's the hectic lunch hour. the organized chaos is about to come to a boil. sour dough bred being prepared. chicken, fried and the restaurant featuring an american menu beginning to fill up with hungry customers. customers often surprised when they see price autos jake and i were walking in. we thought we're going to be paying $30 a plate. >> the restaurant is the brain chifld the culinary arts studies department at city college of san flan. -- san francisco. each cook and wait staff is a student in the culinary skills

and training program. chris johnson is the management instructor. >> people eat here fr months and years and don't realize they're students. >> it's a laboratory for students to sharpen skills. customers give it a passing grade its a nice surprise. the food is wonderful. and i think this is the great way to support the community. >> ken just moved to the city this, is his first time here. the others are repeat customers. >> i come here almost like two, three times per month. for the price? it's very good. prices are an attraction but the school thinks the ambience adds to appeal. >> educated palate only open for lunch and special bookings during fall and winter. restaurant closed for the

beginning of the semesters. it's open now, so get in on it. >> yes what. a great idea. >> yes. >> great, too. >> thank you very much. >> another check on the forecast. >> storms coming in. >> it is sweeping through. you can see how well organized the storm is getting up in the north bay now. we'll loop radar now. you can see the showers and rainfall pushing into parts of northern snonla county and guernevilleville. it will be sweeping south ward and eastward over the next few hours. winter storm warning is in effect for central sierra including lake tahoe here this, is until 10:00 tomorrow night. expecting 10-20 inches of snow. active weather picture and snow in the sierra and mountains up north. here in the bay area, periods of showers tomorrow.

it will be cool, raw. here is the accu-weather forecast. two days of that weather coming our way before getting sunny and warmer weather over the weekend. and you can follow the progress of the storm on twitter for the video forecast ask everything we have to overhear. >> let's turn attention to baseball now. >> that is right. short stop making a big adjustment on th

a good day for guys named brandon but they didn't get results they're looking for. a decent outing here is the second baseman. a back up infielder spot, then, tannacka showing his range.

the off balance throw for the owls. brandon crawford with a two-run shot. tied into two. and former a nick swisher playing long ball in the 5th. giants answering in the sixth. homer to tie it at three. cameraman never put your cram by a pole. trust me. indians score late. brandon crawford has become the depensive glue that held the giants together. they're looking forward to making it run a back to back titles. but brandon crawford told me he has a new outlook. >> coming back as world champions. you know what to expect. so would that make it easier? you go into the season wanting to repeat what did you the

last year. so... i mean that is our goal get there to get there. it's the same group of guys. i think we're the team to do it again. >> what are you working to work on? >> you try to just work on everything, getting everything back together. and my defense is head of offense. so it's been that way. soy mean, i'm going work hard to kind guest them back to even. and... hopefully contribute a lot from whenever i'm at this year. >> what was the craziest thing you did as world champion? >> i took november off and had a baby. busy taking care of her. and baby's name is braylen. >> what has that been like for you?. >> it's been fun, she's two months old and change sod much. you hear people say it goes by

fast. it has. she puts things into perspective a little bit. her and my wife are the most important things. you know? if i have a bad game goik home, they're going love me no matter what. >> only thing more exciting than winning the world series is having your first child. the italians tuning up with usa, canada and mexico. and other game bartolo colon struck out two in an 8-2 loss. stanford bakumaka bolstering her case for the national player of the year. baylor's britney grinder may have brought that up. set a big 12 single game

record. baylor keat k state. grinder averaging nearly 23 points this abc 7 sports report brought to you by orchard supply hardware. great to see athletes that are selfish by nature because they have to have their first child. it changes them. and he had a great season. >> darling family photo. loved it. thank you. >> join us at 9:00 on coffee tv 20. coming up, kate middleton sets the world abuzz. did she reveal the gender of her baby during an informal outing? that is at 9:00. >> then at 11:00 from drab gray to glowing spectacle, bay bridge is trance formed into the world's largest light sculpture. >> and on jimmy kimmel live. >> sound city player autos

that does it for this edition of abc 7 news. >> from all of us here, spencer christian and mike shumann, we appreciate your time.

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