live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> a procession of police cars and a hero's tribute this morning for a fallen bart officer. the funeral service underway for the police sergeant accidentally shot and killed by a colleague in his own department. thanks for joining us. >> thousands of law enforcement officers, mourners and governor brown are bidding somber farewell to the fallen bart officer. sergeant tommy smith isening remembered by his wife, daughter, and the colleague who fired the fatal shot are there.

>> amy hollyfield is at the neighborhood church of castro valley. amy? >> kristen, with the sanctuary and two overflow rooms they can hold almost 2,000 people, still, the lobby is full of people, standing room only. this is enoverflow people spilling out on to 9 patio. with all of the people here, it has been very quiet. very somber. officers stood at attention as sergeant tom smith's coffin was carried into the church. his widow and their six-year-old daughter followed behind. they surrounded by law enforcement officers from all over california and even from other states. sergeant smith was accidentally shot by a fellow bart officer during the search of a home. we are told the officer who shot him, michael maes, planned to be here today. officers from other agencies

tell us they are thinking of both men, it feels more tragic because of how it happened. >> we can imagine being involved in something like this. it's...it's...frightening. not only as a victim we relate but we relate to both sides of the incident. it is great that he can summon up the courage to be here. a lot of people in his position would want to go hide. that is great. it is important the rest of the officers show support for him. >> humans are now the only ones here to pay respect today. 30 officers brought their canine officer was he was once a canine officer how he met his wife, kelly, a canine officer with the bart police department. sergeant smith is the first bart officer killed on the job in the

agency's history. his brothers are obviously here but one of them just spoke moments ago. an attorney general pamela harris spoke, too, saying "we know his sacrifice will never be forgotten." >> we will take another look at the funeral procession. dozens of patrol cars left bart police headquarters from oakland to bid farewell to the sergeant smith of the. >> officers from across the state and nation paid tribute to the sergeant last night at a public viewing. friends, family and law enforcement gathered coming from as far away as texas and boston. >> we will have continuing coverage of the funeral with the latest we following us on twitter@abcnews bay area with a

full wrap up today on abc7 news at 4, 5 and. a gas leak prompted evacuations in show. around 8:20 this morning a crew work on bart construction project hit a 2" pg&e line. police re-directing traffic in the area while crews cap the leak. the road is expected to re-open soon. the area has been under construction for months. the bart tracks will go up the road if san jose. a bird strike grounded a southwest flight out of san jose international airport while flight 4479 was tabessing before taking off for seattle. 90 passengers were on board. it returns to be reinspected and now is en route to seattle. >> there is another flu-related death, the third this season. there have if you been 33 flu-related deaths. the latest victim was a

non-elderly person with an underlying medical condition. the strain involved is unknown. >> the massive search for an aggressive dog in golden gate park is over. it was one of two dogs attacking two men prompting police to shoot one of the dogs. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has that story. cornell? >> a stressful morning for those who use golden gate park knowing the animal was still roaming around. it happened in this picnic area where police shot and killed one of the dogs. >> animal care and control officers caught this white pit bull after a full-scale search for the aggressive dog throughout golden gate park. they were on foot and 4 by 4's after a vicious attack when a dog and another attacked a man believed homeless and his friend, the possible owner of the dogs, tried to help the animals turned on him, too.

neighbors her the cries. >> the guy had a backpack between he and the dog and...this guy was trying to get away. >> it sent a victim to the hospital. animal control arrived to try to catch the dogs but could not. police had no choice but to shoot and kill one of the pit bulls. the white dog ran to the area. people using the park this morning got a warning to be cautious. a woman always walks with her two dogs. any dog not trained can be a problem. it is a wild animal we have made domestic, but pit bulls perhaps a little more. >> i have warned the people i know, the workers and gardeners. >> it was spotted and captured not far from the golden gate park golf course with the fate remaining unknown. the dog is in the custody of animal control and will be quarantined for ten days.

a hearing is held after that much of the owner tried to help during the attack could face possible fines. parts of the bay area are seeing drizzle this morning and this is the scene at the golden gate park golf course in san francisco a recursor of the train we are holding to see. mike nicco is tracking the rain with live doppler 7 hd on the roof. what do you have? >> i found but, first, where the rain is. it is just out of the reach of the bay area. the moisture plume to the north along with the cold front will stall for the day until the cold front is pushed across our neighborhoods tonight. visibility is better but oakland is two miles and 1 at half moon

bay and flight arrival delays are over at sfo. expect drizzle and a few sprinkles through the day. the east bay shows we had a west wind, a saturated boundary, lifting that squeezed some of the moisture out there and will in san jose with .01" there. more on the snow in the sierra in the big forecast. >> a very serious situation right now unfolding in georgia. authorities are racing to get food, water, gas, and blankets to people would have been stranded in their cars since the storm happened yesterday. the national guard is working to escort home children who were stuck overnight at school. >> thousands of southerners are frozen if their tracks after being hit with an unusual snowstorm that caused roads to ice over. near atlanta, traffic is going nowhere. the city says they are making

progress. >> we have completed our priority one routes which include bridges and exits. in alabama, highways turned into parking lots. >> crazy. >> these women abandoned their car on an icy road and walk back to the office. >> people were blocking the intersection and getting out of the cars and walking. >> others were trapped in a massive traffic jam. >> how far have you gone in eight hours? >> a mile. >> since 1:30 yesterday you have been if this traffic jam? >> yes. >> wrecked cars littered the highway and one backup was so bad the truck could not get through and emergency vehicles were unable to reach those who needed help. despite the forecast, southerners were caught off guards and some forced to spend the night in a grocery store. thousands of kids in alabama had to stay if their classrooms. >> the weather was so severe we had to close the schools and we

promised parents staff would be at school until every child was picked up. >> keeping the students away from the roads. >> we thought how we would feet them and a staff member was our lunch member and she put together a great hot meal. >> people surviving and making do in this winter blast in eastern north carolina where it was forced to pull resources from all over the state for a clean up that is sure to last the rest of the week. happening right now, this is a look at a port in new jersey where you can see the royal caribbean explore are of the seas cruise ship just arrived two days early because of the worst cruiseship virus in 20 years with the first people getting off now one on a stretcher, ambulance is there with how passengers and crew

falling ill. officials boarded the ship in the virgin islands to investigate. they say that symptoms are consistent with the nora virus but will not know for sure until next week. >> president obama is on a four day road trip to get more money in the hands of the middle class from minimum wage workers to women it was the central theme of the state of the union. katie marzullo has the president's pitch from maryland. >> hello, maryland. >> the first stop was costco saying it is time to give americans a raise. >> the middle class has been taking it on the chin since before the recession. the economy has been growing if four years now and corporate profits and stock prices have soared but the wages and incomes of ordinary people have not gone up in over a decade. >> in the "state of the union" address president obama said he would sign an executive order to raise the pilgrimage wage if new federal contract workers it

$10.10 an hour. he doesn't want to stop there. he says congress needs to step up. >> the question for folks in washington is whether they will help that progress or hinder that progress. >> president obama is seeking progress for women in the work police citing they make 77 cent for every dollar a man makes. in 2014 it is an embarrassment: women deserve equal pay for equal work. >> the republicans blame the president. >> the president's rhetoric ignored the fact his administration continues to leave poor and middle class families further behind. >> still to come, the city where the cost living is expected to soar the most this year and it is not san francisco. >> one element of nature that just released research shows could be addition to mix with alcohol. >> google reveals what was behind

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deadly form of skin canner than nondrinkers. >> google is assuring g mail users it fix add bug that deleted e-mails, notifying users yesterday saying the glitch took place between january 15 and january 22 on the iphone, ipad app and off line version of gmail saying it is not related to the breach that occurred last week. google, still, is advising users to double check spam and make sure there are no important messages there. >> mike nicco is locking for the rain and will show us that in a few minutes. >> the more affordable cities by the bay is predicted to cost you

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covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> as we take you to services for fallen bart police officer, sergeant tommy smith at the neighborhood church of castro valley. you can see hundreds of officers right now. >>the funeral service has been taking place since 10:00 this morning and the pallbearers are bringing the casket out. a heartbreaking emotional ceremony today with officers, of governor brown and the officer who fired the shot accidentally

that killed officer smith. his wife, and of course his daughter are also present. a somber farewell to the fallen police officer. >> we are moving to other fuzz of the day, a bay area city that is propertied to have the hottest housing market this year, oakland is number one on a continue ten list of major metro areas. housing prices are predicted to rise 9 percent to a median $545,000. researchers say this is spillover from san francisco and the high-technical industry. forft. worth, texas and new top three. >> we have an umbrella open. maybe we are hot with anticipation of what will happen tonight when we get our first storm if a long-term we look at live doppler 7 hd and show you the line is near cloverdale

right now. that is where it is going to stay for the better part of today with light-to-moderate rain on live doppler 7 hd and that exactly why we have mt. st. helena moving west to east with a moist sky. the light rain will fall near the front which is closer to eureka. this is color coded and supposed to show you where the sleet and snow is but you do not see pink or white. it is a very warm system. all of it is falling as rain. at home, it is mild. we started in the upper 50's to low 60's and already 66 in antioch. 62 in san jose. 59 in oakland. 58 in san francisco. at walnut creek, an area that

saw drizzle this morning and will continue to have drizzle an the bay off-and-on all day with light rain tonight with a cold front and scattered showers with moisture and energy rolling through on thursday into friday morning. there is ever so slight chance close to the coast on super sunday. today is in the 50's along the coast and low-to-mid 60's in most neighborhoods so it will remain that way, and the precipitation is moving through overnight in the low 40's to the north and up to the low 50. at noon you can see the computer model has good handle on where it is raining right now and moving forward you can see by action light-to-moderate rain in the north bay and that is where it stays until 11:00 and then it moves into the bay at 1:00 o'clock, and then it moves into the south bay and by action the steady rain is gone and by thursday the clouds open up, and that destabilizes the atmosphere with sunshine and remain warmth and scattered showers and it doesn't look to be too much thursday night into friday morning. the rain totals are .1" to .25".

i would like to forecast more rain because there is so much moisture in the air but the system is moving too fast. if it slows down a little we could develop double the rain totals. i will be conservative for now. 1 to 2 feet of snow not sierra. it will be gone by the weekend. you will have all that to ski on on saturday and sunday when we are here partly cloudy in the upper 50's to low 60's and warmer headed to next week. the big story is 11:00 tonight through 5:00 tomorrow morning we will get our rain and all of us wake up to shake street for the commute tomorrow morning. >> back, now, to the services for fallen bart police officer tommy smith. >> officers gathered outside to receive the casket as it is carried out and taken to the place of burial with two brothers, also police officers, among the pallbearers and the

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coming up at 4:00, politicians behaving badly, a response from a new york congressman after he was caught on camera threat being to physically harm a tv reporter. a spike in flu cases causes the most far reaching shortages in hospitals, the critical care shortfall. >> now, back to castro valley, the final farewell to bart sergeant tommy smith shot to death last week by a colleague accidentally. the service is over right now. can you see bart officers and others in the courtyard with the casket being moved to the church as

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