area. they did not know what happened so police and fire and paramedic responded and tried cpr but determined the man is dead suffering one gunshot wound. what is interesting, they do nut appear to have witnesses or no one who heard anything. there were no calls to police. it is way too early to have an identification. police are working on that. they are going door to door weighing people up in the neighborhood to see if anyone heard anything or saw anything trying to solve the crime they will be here for hours. as long as they are here, east san antonio is closed from 101 to 34th. a federal investigation is taking place at the franchise consulate after a suspicious fire last night.

amy hollyfield? >> matt, you can see the burned out door, a terrible site on the curb of the attack. next to it, look here this is a police officer protecting and watching over the consulate office. the counsel general will meet with united states agencies to talk about tighter security. look at the response from last night: local and federal officials were investigating the crime that happened at 9:25. someone poured two buckets of gasoline on the front door of the chinese consulate and set it on fire. no one was hurt. the chinese consulate issued a statement calling this sabotage and violent in nature saying this crime targeted the chinese consulate institution in the united states and expressed strong condemnation. it will be open today.

friends and family mourn a hour who died new year's eve in a tragic series of events that began with an argument. 19-year-old ashley capuchin had her three-month-old baby, salvador when slow and her 17-year-old sister dabbed across paseo padre parkway. all three were struck by a truck. she died, the baby has life threatening injuries. and her sister has minor injuries. >> 19-year-old ashley capuchin was a proud mother of three-month-old salvador. >> she came to see us christmas day to show us the baby. she was happy and lit up, man. glowing. how pretty she locked. >> there was an argument in the family car around 10:00 on new year's eve and she and her

sister got out when it was stopped at the intersection of paseo padre parkway at mowry avenue in fremont and decided to walk to their home but as they were crossing the road, a car slammed into the sisters, while she was holding the baby in the car seat. >> i understand he was lone -- thrown 30' quite a ways for a three-month-old baby. >> ashley died at the hospital. and her sister is in stable condition but the baby is seriously injured. >> i miss my granddaughter. she is in better hands right now. pray for my great grandson that he will make it. he is in critical condition. >> the victimsen not in the crosswalk and the drive of the white truck will not be charge chargeed. san francisco police are investigating a police chase that ended this an accident in portrero hill. this is video from the view of the scene as the driver led

police around and around the neighborhood. it started at 7:30 when officers tried to stop a car that matched the description of a vehicle involved in an armed robbery. during the pursuit, a gun was stolen from the car. the vehicle crashed into a poll at connecticut and one person was arrested and he was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and second suspect got away. a sheriff deputy is hospitalized after crashing his patrol car the at 7:30 county a deputy per sewered a stolen car eastbound highway 12 and the suspect tried to make a sharp turn but failed at pennsylvania avenue and the car ended up going into a field. the car crashed into a poll seriously injury the deputy. a statement says that the injuries are serious but not life threatening. two suspects are in custody. >> the family of a children-year-old girl declared brain dead hope to move her to a

new facility soon. jahi mcmath has been on a ventilator at children's hospital oakland since december ten. the family attorney told abc7 they expect to federal up plans today to move her. the family says they now have a doctor and a way to move jahi mcmath. >> we have ground transportation. a plane is ready. when the facility is ready to receive her we will move jahi mcmath. >> the facility could be the new beginnings community center on long island, a brain injury treatment organization founded after the case of schiavo the woman at the center of a nationwide legal debate over life support. a judge ordered children's hospital oakland to keep jahi mcmath on a ventilator until tuesday. >> police are investigating a bizarre discovery near an east bay park after a tip when a human skill was found on a paper plate. the coroner says it could be old, possibly native american remains. officers took pictures after finding the skull in the open of

the park. >> there is a murder investigation after staff at church found a priest dead inside the church. the reverend's body was found yesterday inside st. bernard church after he failed to show up for mass. he was popular and taught religious studies we at humboldt state university. >> he was a friend of mine. he is a tremendous person in the community. a tremendous person. this is absolutely a tremendous loss not only for the parish but for our community, in general. >> police say a violent crime took place but would not say how he died. they released information of a suspect vehicle a dark gray nissan hybrid with california license plate 6ndw400. >> bart board will vote again today to finalize a contract settlement reached after two unions went on strike.

this morning at 9:00, directors will meet in oakland to vote on the modified contract negotiated recently regarding paid family leave. the board earlier agreed to a deal minus the family leave which bart said was cloud by mistake. that set off worries over another strike. a settlement was reached last month. the union lowers are recommending ratification. their votes will not come until after the bart board totes. >> california is facing a record dry spell: 2013 was the driest sin the record keeping began 164 year ago bad news for the water supply. santa clara reservoir levels are dropping with the average at 33 percent a third of the total available capacity. it is no better in the sierra with the snow pack estimated at 20 percent of normal. the first snow survey of the season is tomorrow. >> mike, as a skier, i seem to remember one good year from the last four.

>> not many. this is what the electronics are telling us that the north has seen the worst snow pack only 11 percent of average to this day including lake tahoe at 23 percent and the south doing the best at 32 percent. it as out to 20 percent and the water equivalent is only 2". not a very water-filled snow. at home, we are starting off mostly clear with frost possible inland and temperatures are in the low-to-mid 30's and the rest of us are in the low-to-mid 40's with offshore breeze so the cost will be warmest at noon and 64 and the rest of us are lagging in the mid-to-upper 50's and well catch up with the coast by 4:00, clouds, and as we head to the afternoon, low-to-mid we 50's with the quiet pattern continuing. if you look through friday and into the weekend, tomorrow, as warm and probable another "spare the air" day with low pressure 60's and we could shave a few degrees off the highs with

low-to-upper 60's but near record warmth. >> it is thursday. the day after new year's and we will see if this is traffic. >> not much. not much. good news if you are on the roads because you are solo. there is no road work but on the bay bridge and we will talk about that in a second. from the central valley westbound it green. a little bit of slowing over the eastbound altamont pass but no real major delays. from antioch, highway 4, westbound, green all the way into the concord area so looking good. the drive times, 580, 4 and highway 101 traveling from san rafael to san francisco. walnut creek southbound 680, everything is moving at the him with no delays. to the 24 junction you can see a few tail lights headed in the northbound direction. the bay bridge toll plaza has no delays, no metering lights and the left lanes are blocked with roadwork use maybe the way to

the tower and that is picked up in a couple of minutes at 5:00 a.m. >> thank you, sue, at 4:39 much the latest on the attempts to rescue dozen of passengers on a trip russianed in ice off anarctica since christmas eve. >> a wildly popular instar photo sharing app is hacked. personal information on the internet is breac

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babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 weeks. a healthy baby is worth the wait. covering los altos, petaluma and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. good morning, on this second day of 2014. this is the bay bridge eastern span with more traffic than yesterday as some folks go back to work. still pretty clear. weather-wise, still the same with another "spare the air" day in affect. >> the passengers after russian ship have been safely evacuated

by helicopter a week after getting stuck in anarctica sea ice. this video was posted on soldier media by -- social media going t 1:00 o'clock this morning our time when the first of 52 scientists and tourists were airlifted to the chinese ice breaker and then get on a barge and taken to an australian ice breaking getting them home by midday. all 22 crew members of the ship stay aboard enduring blinding snow and strong wind and fog since becoming stranded christmas eve. >> high-tech security breaches have been hacked on skype and twitter, including this one bashing microsoft were posted and re-tweeted thousands of times. the syrian electronic army claimed responsibility and have compromised a company blog. another breach on photo sharing

app snapchat with user names and phone numbers of five million people everyone briefly posted onryan. the problem is compounded by the fact that many people have the same user names on other sites. hackers posted the information to she holes in security. snapchat was founded by two stanford university graduates. >> gas pries are up five cents a gallon in the past week but that will not last. gasoline prices have declined the past area and that trend is expected to continue. aaa says the average price during 2013 was $3.49 a gallon and the administration predicts gas will cost an average of $3.43 a gallon. >> strange lights in the sky were spotted in northern california on new year's eve and those who saw them are certain they were not fire works. the reporter has a closer look at what some believe was u.f.o. it was bright enough to shine directly through the trees without any problem seeing it.

>> steven watched it over sacramento, hans spotted it over auburn. >> approached from that direction and came across slowly. >> did they see the same anyone that kay saw? >> right above this tree. >> multiple objects captured on the iphone. >> six bright orange lights almost in diamond or try action el shape. weird. then they separated. >> not just northern california. somebody posted this video from the hollywood hills on youtube, multiple glowing objects noon the fireworks. three all togetherst. >> no, four. >> it was seen earlier? >> burn than the other sites. >> there was no sound. no blimping -- blinking lights,

just a big illuminated form. >> it hovered for 60 seconds and took off at a high rate speed, directly away from us and disappeared. >> we are always looking for rational explanations for sightings and this 2008 sighting over the sacramento valley was an airplane with an electronic sign under the wings. a year later, a mysterious flashing light turned out to be power lines. >> we are still waiting to find out if there is a rational explanation for what was seen all across california. >> the latest sightings are daze after a mysterious crop circle appeared outside of salinas. no one knows where it came from but a security company has been hired to protect the site. a representative for the company says they cannot disclose who fired the firm. they say the pattern have been

mowed down and local police, the c.h.p. and the airport authority do not know anything about sin kills. >> most cities in the bay area are offering christmas tree recycling with trees collected through john in san mateo county, during the pickup days in marin county and san jose throughout the month. oakland program runs the next two weeks. in san francisco, crews will pick up trees on the regular season day going this morning through january 15. in time to take the ornaments off. >> if they are outside they are drying up quickly like all the oh trees. now, we will see if we can find some rain. there is a pattern change late in the forecast and it will bring us a lot of rain -- no, but a chance of rain. you can see the low clouds off the north bay coast and that is

where they are going to stay as we have an offshore wind developing. in the east we touch upon this yesterday but i imagine most of you were probably sleeping at the time. big storm developing. you can see the ohio river valley pulling from the great lakes and the moisture coming up from the gulf will interact with this and we will have flight delays from washington, north, possibly even flight cancellations so make sure you check before heading to the airport. here is the forecast for later on, you can see the snow moving in and the heavy rain falling in the deep south. there is rain around seattle and portland but nothing for us. if you are coming into san francisco, 47 downtown is the cool spot and we have 53 coming across the golden gate bridge and 47 in the financial district. 47 in belmont, and mid-40's around san leandro, richmond, 40

in pittsburg and saratoga and everyone else is in the mid-to-upper 30's from petaluma at 33 and walnut creek and pleasanton and santa clara are cooler spots at live. bay bridge is a beautiful picture all the way to the embarcadero center still with the lovely lights on this morning. we will have near record highs today and poor air quality. 25th of the season exceeding healthy levels 12 times already. poor air will linger into the weekend and not until we get changes next week do we see the poor air go away and the record temperatures and the possibility of rain. not today, though, mid-to-upper 60's and close to a record high today in san rafael, and richmond at 65 degrees and we will be 67 in napa, and possible record in santa rosa and fairfield and fremont is 67 and san jose and palo alto and the warmest temperatures in santa cruz at 69 and morgan hill and cloverdale at 68. tonight, almost like this

morning, in the mid-to-upper 30's inland and upper 30's to low 40's around the bay and san francisco and half moon bay at mid-40's. high pressure dominates the forecast and keeps the storm track to the north overrun by high clouds and winds will blow offshore today and tomorrow and on sure we will be cooler saturday and sunday and possibly tuesday and wednesday and a few sprinkles in the north bay. sue? >> good morning, everyone, a couple cars are tangled up on the peninsula blocking the right lane but traffic is getting by without delay. this is san jose 87 you can see very few headlights headed in the nobody direction traffic is very light and now we have san rafael the headlights headed beyond lucas valley road, no delays, in fog, smooth failing

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it was the professionals versus 50 kids. five goalkeepers. the incredible mismatch did not deter the duo who had no trouble making the goals and running rings around the kids. 7/11 owner is offering a sweet incentive to get kids excited about reading and giving out a free slurpy for every book children read. he start add small library inside his 7/1 store. borrow a book, write a report, you get a free icy drink helping kids stay out of trouble in an area with high crime rate. he funds this and donates his own reading material. >> when you share books they feel happy. >> it is a wonderful feeling. i have had so many good stories of kids that were going the

wrong way and now they try to spend time at home reading. the library has been so successful that schools have donate the used books to help. >> so excellent. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg are you watching this? this is great. >> now a check with mike nicco. no need for slurpy this morning. >> until you like it really cold. that is what it is outside. you can see the wind blowing on mount tamalpais but it is clear air looking from san francisco to the san mateo bridge this morning. this is the backdrop to talk about temperatures that are 7-11 degrees warmer-than-average with a lot of mid-to-upper 60's. across the state, we will have upper 60's throughout the central valley into monterey with high clouds coming in this afternoon. we will be 74 in san diego and 70 in palm springs with sun. in tahoe, 54 degrees today and

it will remain in the low-to-mid fists on tuesday and wednesday with a small chance of snow. sue is here for leyla gulen. >> good morning, everyone, a couple of cars are tangled on the peninsula, north 101 with slow traffic making your way up because of this accident in the right lane, north 101 beyond woodside. the bay bridge into san francisco is beautiful. traffic is moving at the limit through the new eastern span with no delays and a look at the bay bridge toll plaza no metering lights, lays and a nice ride into the city. kristen? matt? the tesla is the brand name for the high school equivalency test is getting the first makeover in a decade to make it more rigorous and aligned to skills needed for college and today's workplace, and will be

offered on a computer. officials in some states are not happy with the changes and decided to adopt one of two new tests on the market. california is still using it but nine states have cut ties with the ged test. >> could switching hands help you cut back on snacking? according to a study, moviegoers who were told to grab popcorn with the nondominant hand ate 6 percent less than those that use their dominant happened. not surprising, using the non-dome innocent hand makes you think more about what you are doing. perhaps that applies to meals, too the. >> the left handed diet. good idea. >> the latest on the health of former israeli prime minister sharon and what officials are saying about his condition. concern in the central valley over the lack of rain we have been talking about and how some are making the best of the dry

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