live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. this car flipped on its roof is the result of a high speed chase that crossed two bay area counties at speeds of over 100 miles per hour. >> i am kristen sze. >> what dangerous chase ended without any getting hurt and the road closure just ended in the past 45 minutes. the story behind the story is something else. abc7 news cover -- reporter joins us, cornell? >> the off-ramp is back open

where a suspect flipped a stowen car trying to get away from police. you will never believe who owned cart. someone who used to carry a badge. >> a 25-year-old stolen car suspect is taken into custody after flipping this honda on the willow pass off-ramp of 680 after a wild high speed police chase through two counties. the pursuit reached speeds up to 100 miles per hour while on the freeway and the individual tried to go wrong way a couple of times on the freeway. we were able to intercept the individual and get him off the freeway in the pleasant hill area. >> it began in richmond during the thursday morning commute. the c.h.p. cruiser was damage when a officer tried to stop the car with a maneuver that famed. >> we tried to get the individual before he crashed but sometimes it doesn't happen like that. >> the officers say the suspect, a wanted paroleee, was armed with a gun. >> we were coming to see if

anything was salvageable. >> it was stolen from a drive in walnut creek, kirk johnson, who just retired from c.h.p. >> we have had the car throughout the family, my younger son had knit los angeles, and we recovered it and we were going to donate it. >> the suspect suffered minor injuries and faces multiple charges. he was spotted driving the stolen car solo in a car pool lane. a man driving a stolen u-haul made this big mess in oakland after 5:00 this morning and that pickup smashed into three cars at 4th avenue and 30th across the street from highland hospital. it sheared a out -- utility pole. >> vehicle was going 90 miles

per hour. too fast, and overcorrected and struck the sidewalk, hits the three cars. he wanted to get away and someone helped him down but his legs were like noodles and he had to sit on that chair and they took him to the hospital. >> we don't have any word on his condition. police say they smelled alcohol on his breath when they arrived at the seen. bart has launch an investigation in the weighing of a new video circulating online. police officers using taser on a man in front of other passengers. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is at bart headquarters in oakland. >> video is getting criticism. the miss chief understands why people feel uncomfortable watching the video why they are asking questions about a man being tasered. police work not always pretty. on the video, you can hear the bart officer tell a man several times to get off the train. he refused.

a couple of passengers say the man was drunk but they question what he deserved this: to be tazed. it didn'tent there. 2 1/2 minutes later the man is on the ground surrounded by police and he is tazed again. a woman who was on train blogged about the incident calling the tasering "excessive and unnecessary." she said she was talking to the man and did not feel threatened by him. >> based on the video i saw the officer was patient the. >> the police chief saw the posting is called for an internal investigation. he will not say if he agrees with the actions until the investigation is complete. he did say the man should done what the officer said. >> if my years of experience when someone asks the way this individual did, there is something else going on and it turns out he has a felony

warrant. >> we asked people on the street what they thought and many agreed with the chief, the man should have obeyed. >> he should have gotten off the train. and do what they said. there are a lot of drunk people on there and they throw up. >> the second tasering made some uncomfortable. thank you is not necessary. >> i saw the suspect kicking, still struggling and fighting with the officers. >> the woman who wrote the blog said in her post that the cops did give ample running but she said she didn't feel like the man was a threat. her employer said she does not want to talk to reporters. as for the officer, he is still on the job. the chief says the investigation should take about a month. thank issue amy. we have posted the video open facebook page. it is generating a lost

comments. please go to our facebook and let us know what you think. oakland police are questioning a "person of interest" in an amber alert that turned out to false alarm. officers were seeking the man if a surveillance video believed to have been shoplifting on tuesday before carjacking and kidnapping a man and a 13-year-old girl in the packing lot. witnesses identified this man as 54-year-old roy mccamey. police called off the amber alert when they learned the girl is an adult and the three people knew each other. mccamey was found outside oakland last night with a history of burglaries. police are vetting a -- investigating a shooting that left one dead and three injured at 37th and international boulevard before 10:00 p.m. when two men and two women were shot. police have not released the condition of the three victims. >> two are hurt after a four

break out in the apartment building near san francisco state university. the fire started just before 12:30 on one of the apartment towers. firefighters evacuated 200 people as a precaution. they declared the fire under control 30 minutes after it started. >> there is a big push to stop what feels like open season on pedestrians in san francisco: four have been hit and killed by vehicles so far this year. today, one group took a public stand and said "enough is enough." katie marzullo has more on vision zero. katy? >> the group has a pedestrian strategy to reduce the number of fatalities but it will take the community on the eve of valentine's day law enforcement and citizens stand shoulder to shoulder representing a traffic fatality in san francisco. some hearts read "survivor," and john was hit in a crosswalk at

mission and 14th in 2001. >> the leading injury i sustained was traumatic brain injury from this collision as i went through the air roughly 20' and landed on the pavement and did a roll. >> an advocate for pedestrian safety he is promoted education, engineering, and enforcement. the event speaks to education. as for engineering the director says that updating the streets can not happen overnight but they are working on it. >> there is a lot we have been doing to lower speed limits, to narrow streets, enhance crosswalks. we will ramp up the work. >> san francisco police in charge of the enforcement. >> we saw 43 percent increase of traffic enforcement. more is coming. we would rather that not be the answer. we would rather the answer be people change chair behaviors. >> including drivers slowing down and everyone putting double their cell phone and paying

attention. in addition to the people who are hit and killed, those who are hit and injured can sustain permanent damage. a woman was hit a year ago in the marina district the. >> i have come a long way. i have had many phases, through many phases...but i'm able to walk again, wake up each day. >> a last note, 60 percent of pedestrian fatalities happen on just 6 percent of city streets. the most dangerous areas are the tenderloin neighborhoods. >> katie, thank you. a class action settlement is called to be thereon out in a case against facebook. the groups are filing a legal brief today with a 9th circuit court much appeals in san francisco. the groups are criticizing the settlement for authorizing facebook to continue using children's images in advertising without their parents' consent prohibited by law in california and six other states.

more facebook news: how users are able to reveal more personal details than ever. parents are horrified with a disturbing video show a child being mistreated at a daycare center. vintage corvettes swallowed by a sinkhole. are they salvageable? >> what a foggy morning. now we are clearing up. whether rain is coming back in the

disturbing video from a daycare center in arkansas. authorities say the worker was seen dragging the baby across the carpet, faces felony child endangerment charges. the mother of an eight-month-old boy had severe carpet burn marks after picking up up from day care. the employee admitted to drag the baby because he was trying to get in an area where the cleaning supplies were kept. engineers are trying to find out whether they can recover the vintage corvettes swallowed by a sinkhole if kentucky. motion detectors captured this scene. the giant sinkhole in the show room yesterday morning: eight

priceless corvettes plunge into the hole. they were able to remove more than 20 other corvettes packed in the same area. the museum is a mile from the g.m. plant that built the corvettes and loaned the cars to the museum. general motors issued a recall for 780,000 compact cars over a problem linked to fatalities covering poe -- covering cobalt and pontiac g-5 because the engines can shut down unexpectedly and cause crashes with six people dying because of this. heavy king rings can cause thing fission to move to "off" so remove everything from the key ring but the car key the. uber will perform expanded background checks on drivers

employing an independent screening service that uses a multity state database. this is after a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against uber because a san francisco accident that killed a six-year old girl. surveillance video showing why a mother regrets leaving her keys inside the vehicle i'll -- while visiting the colorado dmv. the woman's ten-year-old daughter drove it into the waiting room. the s.u.v. narrowly missed people in the waiting area. the prosecutors have charged the ten-year-old with careless driving and the mother will not be charged but the girl will probably do community service because she is ten. >> lucky no one was hurt. >> too close to comfort. >> mike nicco is on the roof. >> good morning from the the top of the broadcast center are we

are still trying to find the bay bridge that is still missing. believe it or not some areas are clearing up right now. we will talk about valentine's day and if you have lands this evening and early morning, there is wet weather on the way. facebook add as new feature. >> bay area companies getting high marks for students looking to turn an internship into a

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covering santa clara, san francisco, east bay and all pay area, this is abc7 news. verizon wireless is entering the rice wars on cell phones from monthly rates to data and texting. the "more everything plan" offer $20 off a month and combined with data. they say it is making some of the cheapest plans better by giving customers more data and some plans, doubling the country amount. >> you do not have to be just male or female on facebook the giant now is adding a customizeddable option with 50 terms to identify gender as well as three preferred would noun choices: him, her or them. you can keep your gender identity private. facebook is taking a cue from google. you may remember they conduct add trial run of ferry service for the remain employees and now facebook has launched a private ferry to shuttle

employees between san francisco and redwood city and will testify it out for 90 days. >> a foggy ferry ride this morning. >> it is foggy everywhere. mike fake lost the bridge. what is up with that? >> we were making jokes about david copperfield give us our bridge badge. it is still very foggy in san francisco and the bay but other parts of starting to see a lot of sunshine and warmer weather. this is how it looks this morning because of our great shot of the fog. looks like you are driving through the abyss along the new span. that is what it looked like. not too bad. there is a bay bridge there. that is what we get from that video. it will be a tough commute tomorrow morning, half moon bay visibility at sfo with delays and san carlos 2, and everyone else four or greater, and that

will improve over the next hour. where is the rain? live doppler 7 hd is tracking it to our north. throw the clouds up there and you can see how it is moving west to east and the cloud cover will be thicker over the north bay than the south bay. you still have a chance of sprinkles and maybe light rain until the cold front comes in on saturday evening when we will get measurable rain. this came out today, the latest drought watch: the exceptional drought, nothing has change asked not much rain around monterey bay but the extreme drought has a few holes in it as we look at the north bay, in the west slopes that is down to severe drought because of 12" of rain in those areas. if you are headed out from mount tamalpais you can see the cloud cover. at sutro tower and to the south bay, we will talk temperatures: east bay valley is where the sun is, in the low-to-mid 60's, and in los gatos and half moon bay and everyone else in the low-to-mid 50's.

a now degrees warmer than this time yesterday. we can see the to which the bay bridge every once in a while. it will be tricky the next hour or so. mostly clouds and spring els are possible in the in the bay and more sun in the south, foggy tonight and rain likely saturday evening through sunday morning with temperatures today upper 50's to low 60's along the coast and san francisco and mid-to-upper 60's for the rest of us and mild with all of the soup waiting for you low-to-mid 50's. watch the top of the screen, where the future radar returns are dancing through tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, through the evening hours and most of us will see more sunshine tomorrow. saturday morning, the drizzle is possible in most areas and the light-to-moderate rain moving into the north bay saturday evening becoming light rain through the rest of the bay and exiting at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning. john rouse rainfall amounts maybe .5" to an inch in the north bay mountains and hopefully a quarter inch in the

bay and .1" in the south bay. temperatures are warmest today and tomorrow and we will pull back to average saturday and sunday and valentine's day, president's day, dry, another chance of rain rolls in on tuesday and wednesday and with the chances of rain saturday and sunday and tuesday and wednesday we will get snow in the sierra. already we seeing things clear out and it will be a nice afternoon. enjoy. a good internship can lead for a job especially in the bay area. a new report from glass door puts seven bay area companies in the top 25 for hiring their interns full time this year. leading the pack is facebook and google finishing first and second and intel was six and apple at nine and yahoo and h.p. and cisco round owe the top 25. the survey found 450 employers are hiring interns in the bay area right now. that is great news. >> love is in the air at the san

francisco zoo. still to come pentagon -- penguins are caring on the tradition of giving valentine's

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