live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. happening now protesters get in to the face of the google bus drivers to get the tech buses off the streets of san francisco. i am here for christian december, eric thomas. >> activists are trying to get a lot of attention before the san francisco transportation agency on the pilot program for the tech buses. amy hollyfield joins from city hall. amy? >> they are expected to pass a proposal here at city hall today. protesters have a day of

activities planned. they want to be heard before the vote which scheduled at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. >> protesters stopped two buses this morning at 8th and market from leaving san francisco. based on the signs in the ones it looks like they were headed if facebook and google. workers sat and waited, some took pictures, as protesters chanted, played music and hung a banner on the side of one of the buses. >> the protests are getting the city to listen. >> they will vote whether the buses should be charge add dollar a stop a day to use the bus stops. protesters say they clog up neighborhood streets and should not be allowed to use public bus stops f a car pulls in the driver could be ticketed. >> if two years, the buses have been able to get a free ride on our muni bus stops while we, the public, who are trying to survive each day, get a ticket for $279.

>> mayor is out of town today but has said in the past that the buses have benefits. this proposal to charge them will make sure they pay their fair share. some agree. >> i certainly don't agree with their opinion. i hope they would not block the buses. people ned to get to work. >> the protest is about more than the bus stops. the buses symbolize the impact of tech companies on the city's economy saying they are worried about people getting evicted with the price of rent going up and not concerned about delaying the people get to work. >> they we get paid either way. they are paid by google. i feel much worse about the folk who have lost their home of 30 years. >> we have not heard back from facebook or google. protesters blocked the buses for 30 minutes until police started talking about moving in and making arrests. i asked few any why they would only charge a dollar and people say that doesn't sound like much but because of the proposition

218 and the california vehicle code they can only recover their costs. they cannot make a profit. thank you, amy. google santa a message to employee whose may want to speak in favor of the policy suggesting talking points such as i am so proud to live in san francisco and be part of this community. or, if a shuttle program did not exist i would continue to live in san francisco and drive to work on the peninsula. >> happening now in san jose, police are on the scene of a stand off in the area at kingman avenues where a man suspected of assaulting an officer is believed holed up. the officer struggled with the suspicious person this morning and the man tried to take the officer's gun before running off and barricading himself in an apartment. >> we have develop news in the east by, oakland police released new details of the man shot to death by the c.h.p. this

morning. investigators say two c.h.p. officers opened fire on a man running with a loaded gun near east 15th and 57th at 3:00 this morning. the shooting happened after a short chase which began when the c.h.p. tried to pull over the man who was driving a stolen car. investigators say he crashed into two parked cars and got out of his car and started running. that is when the officers opened fire. the suspect died at the scene. >> developing in us from san jose where a burglary suspect wound up in a very tight spot while trying to make his escape. the man just robbed a marijuana dispensety. matt is in san jose. this was an arrest, matt and a rescue? >> no rescue was needed but it was tough to find him after the official call came in they found him inside this elevator shaft in the dance studio. >> there was a guy walking on the roof. >> this man owns dance boulevard

a popular hang out in san jose for people looking to move their soviet. early this morning a man was also looking to get down. if the roof of the strip mall. officers spotted him after burglarizing the medical marijuana dispensary but he did not give up. not right away. >> he came through there. >> police use add fire truck hadtory get to the roof and started a slow seven, business to business until they were led to the suspect. the burglar was hiding in the dance boulevard elevator shaft. he was arrested three hows after the search began but he knew something was suspicion yesterday. year, my neighbor and i noticed that there was a man on the roof casing the rooftop. we could nut figure future he was a worker or here under bad pretenses. now we know. >> here is what police found on the rooftop, believed last behind by the burglar. a lot of marijuana and other

paraphernalia returned to the disresponsery. >> the real cost will be the repairs needed to the elevator. another example of the ups and downs of being a business owner next to a popular target for bug alreadies. last time i checked on the controllers it was going to cost $100,000 to have it replaced so we have to get the company out and get the quote but hopefully it is cheaper than that. >> the suspect's name has not been released. he was taken to the santa clara county jail and booked if burglary. reporting from san jose for abc7 news. >> a massive search for -- first, eight months after the i-team uncovered thousands of untested rape kits sitting in the police property rooms an the bay area, a lawmaker has announced a new bill dressing the problem. last may, the i-team talked to a rape victim whose kit was untested for years.

that interview got the attention of state say assembly minuter, nancy skinner and she introduce add bill giving law enforcement five days to get the kit to the crime laboratory and then they have five days to upload to the state database. >> this is an assault on the victim and it leads a perpetrator, potentially a perpetrator on the streets to be able to assault again. not tolerable. the bill would require law enforcement to meet -- inform the victim if they cannot meet the deadline. >> there was an early morning apartment fire and officials are looking for rooms for them to stay. the cause of the fire is under investigation and pg&e had to cut fire during the firefight.

no one was hurt. the red cross says some tenants would whether stay in the smoke-filled apartments. >> there is no end to winter with the snow back in the midwest and the northeast and more than 2,500 flights are canceled or delayed across the country. karen is in washington, dc, with the latest. >> it is time for another winter wallop from the midwest to the east coast. in washington, dc, the federal government closed with schools and all of the surrounding areas that was all before a flake fell from the sky. we know what is coming much the blast moved through the midwest where it dumped up to 2" of snow an hour. parts of indiana are expected up to 1' to 2 feet of lake effect snow. another blast of dangerously cold temperatures.

chicago will see a wind chill of 22 degrees below zero and in minnesota wind chills are nearly 50 below zero. it was two weeks ago when a large part of the country was in the grip of a polar vortex a gigantic mass of swirling dense air that caused sub-freezing temperatures. water main breaks in multiple states, cars flowen to the street. this cold blast will come in waves. cities like washington, dc, new york, and boston will not get above freezing for days. the bitter temperatures will not clear out until next week. this is the second time this winter the federal government has shut down for weather. the first time was if december it only rained. year, it was 60 degrees in washington. the snow is already coming down and so far, this storm looks to be legitimate. it turns out the massive data breach at target could have been prevent through a program the retailer dropped. the "wall street journal" reports that the current c.e.o.

helped pull the plug on a pilot program to embed senator -- embed smart chips in the card worrying it would slow check out and upette the customers. the recent less of 70 million target customers' information will enforce the banks to invest in the chip technology which is popular in europe and canada. >> overseas, a woman could be a suicide bomber and may already be inside the ring of security surrounding the olympics. hotel employees in sochi cold abc they received wanted posters and descriptions of the black widow, who is believed 22-year-old. her husband, a militant, died during a shoot out last year with russian firsts. the military has planned to evacuate members, if needed. two united states warships already in the black sea near russia on a planned deployment. >> it took a last minute surge in ticket sales to save this year's freedom train ride

between san jose and san francisco, the past 3 years the martin luther king holiday event has honored the 1965 march from selma to montgomery, alabama but when it left the south bay yesterday organizers sold more than a thousand tickets. on friday before, that total was only 300. proceeds have to cover the cost of chartering a train from caltrain. organizers say until be a freedom train next year but after that it is up in the a. >> the most stolen come purity passwords of 2013. you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure it." >> an actress who kept a big secret under raps for a year. >> justin bieber's life seems to be an open book but what he did at a miami strip club has people

golden gate bridge officials hold the first in a series of public meetings on proposed toll increases with the bridge district considering smaller annual tom increases rather than larger increases every five years or more. if the proposed increases do go through, cash-paying drivers pay $8 to cross the bridge. fast track customers pay $6.50 by 2018. there will be a meeting today at 5:00 at the whistle stop in san rafael and tomorrow at five

o'clock p.m. at the petaluma community center and thursday in san francisco. >> keeping a secret in hollywood is not easy but hollywood was shocked after revealing giving birth at the age of 49 which never became public, last photographed at an event in june with no visible baby bump, and in september, she took home an emmy for best actress a miniseries for "the big seed." then, she was a no show at the emmys ceremony. >> she gave birth to a healthy baby boy named bennett on the 8th of january. not many people knew she was pregnant. we do know she is home now, resting, and enjoying being a mother. >> this was the award winning actresses first child with her husband of three years and the representatives says that mother and baby very happy and healthy. >> a new report out this only says singer justin bieber spent thousands at florida strip club

according to a website tmz the star spent $75,000 at a strip club in miami. he went to the king diamonds to attend a birthday party of a friend and the representative said the singer got $75,000 in one dollar bills and just went craze. he is under investigation accused of throwing eggs at his neighbor's mansion in southern california. >> wouldn't you need a container for $75,000 in one dollar bills? >> a lot of money. >> a lot of money. >> a lot rain our way and we could be dry for a while longer but the record high temperatures could make it a tenth consecutive day but a cooling trend is coming up in the "7 on your side". >> the event coming up at the oakland coliseum about to crab the turf where the a's and radars' play. >> and a playful tribute to

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covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> more than 1.5 million pounds dirt are being hauled to the oakland coliseum to be transformed into a super track for the super cross race which is the 4th race of the 2014 season. the super cross race is in the 40th year. >> it will be on saturday, not on sunday, sunday, sunday. >> i just like saying that. >> mike, how will the weather

be? >> very nice. like it has been about every day this week. we are looking at temperatures that will be in the 60's again, maybe not so hot as what we are looking at the last couple of days where we set record highs. there is the live doppler 7 hd, we have go enough for half moon bay. we were down to 200' ceiling with visibility less than a quarter-mile visibility and, now, everything is locking okay. >> good morning, we have just a now high clouds. it hook nice. better than what they doing on the east coast with two storms, the first bringing the snow, the second bringing lighter snow and the arctic air mass keeping the snow around. the jet stream is in a similar pattern we have eastbound through the wintertime. here is how heavy the snow will get. the low pressure is stronger, it wraps around moisture from the

atlantic. boston, philadelphia, new york, washington, dc and baltimore all will have problem. 63 in walnut creek, and san francisco already 60. 61 in palo alto. santa clara is at 51. down san jose you can see a lot we high clouds. in is the 9th consecutive day of record highs and tomorrow, the extended will not be so warm but it will not be wet. this is how it looks from theoryville looking back to san francisco. temperatures, today, are from 11 to 13 degrees above average and you can see the asterisk, oaklands 71, redwood city, seven, possibly record highs with 15 hours of sunshine. it is not the sun but the wind direction and the air that is searching because of the high pressure that allows us to get to the upper 60's and low 70's.

san jose is up to 71 would tie the record. 70 in mountain view, possible records, the warm spot is less altos at 71 and the coast into san francisco, upper 60's to nearly 70 and san francisco is 69 and yesterday was a record, need to get to 71 today and we will do it in napa, a record high, for a warm spot. and the cool spot is bodega bay at 61. oakland is 71. richmond is 69 and oakland most record highs throughout this trip we have upper 60's to low 70's. 30's in our valleys and 40's around the bay shore and to the coast and tomorrow is just like today, the patter will shift and we will be in the low-to-mid 60's by monday but that is still well above average and you look behind me and you can see the fair is fairly clone and a few high clouds and sunshine and not winter, again, back to you. >> thanks, mike. we sure you remember the bay area captain "sully"

sullenberger who land add plane in the hudson river five years ago. now he is the subject of an unusual music tribute. ♪ the engine had a malfunction but i am the captain ♪ >> the artist put together this one of a kind hip hot ballet documenting his triumph after a flock of geese collided with the plane and took out both the engines and there is no word, yet, if sully has seen the video. >> okay, will, los gatos flash data is out with the new list of the worst passwords and "password" is in longer the worse choice. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 was number one. "password" was number two. and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, was next.

a, b, c, 1, 2, 3, rounded out the list. >> and a, b, c, 1, 2, 3, is better at jackson five song. >> precious moments of a newborn'

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