president obama offering condolences as we learn more about the gunman who opened fire in fort hood, texas yesterday. officials say he may have been arguing with one or more soldiers before the shooting took place. lopez killed three people and wounded 16 others before shooting himself. >> abc news reporter mary bruce with more now from fort hood >> every time i saw him he was smiling. he seemed to be a friendly guy. >> beneath that, no one no one saw signs he was capable of senseless killings. the soldier served in iraq and

moved to fort hood just months ago. he had no record of violence but showed signs of emotional distress. he was under going a fire i ti of treatment for mental health conditions ranging from depression to anxiety. >> lopez was being he value waited for post traumatic stress disorder, last seen by a psychiatrist a month ago. there is no indication of the horror to come. >> trying to figure out what the trigger event was. there is a possibility that that >> we have a phone shall spine injury and an on dom nal injury. >> the attack brings back the pain of the deadly massacre

nearly five years ago. 13 killed in what was the deadliest mass shooting infer a u.s. military base. sources say the gun was purchased legally in guns galore, the same store where the other shooter bought his gun in 2009. >> the commander is crediting a veteran officer about 20 feet from the suspect who had his hands up. lopez suddenly reached under his jacket and pulled out a weapon the officer engageed and lopez shot himself in the head. general mille says without those actions the casualties might have been higher. >> world news will have team coverage of the shooting including more on the background of the gunman and reaction from witnesses at the base at 5:30

tonight. >> a man was sentenced to 400 years for starting a shootout on an oakland freeway fours years ago. williams had an arsenal of weapons and had body armor telling investigators he was on his way to start a right wing revolution. >> a mystery in the south bay. police investigating a shooting death of eric mend doza, a young father they found the man inside of his car. >> it's not unusual to hear gunshots but the sound this morning was different. >> i heard five gunshots back to back. i woke up and it sounded like

bang. >> patrols found nothing. they received another call. a woman found her husband, dead in his car still running on denali way, not too far from home. he was probably shot while driving then veered off down the street. >> family identified the victim as a 7-year-old eric mend doza. he worked until 2:00 this morning at his job. his family says a friend would have dropped him off home and believe he went to move his car because of parking issues in the neighborhood when he was shot this, is a known gang area. police and family say he was not gang affiliated. he made a big mistake. you should be ashamed of yourself. you left a son without a father, now. >> surveillance cameras point at

the intersection. police have collected video but will not comment on what it reveals. >> the partner of a man shot and killed with police now wants two officers aested. the 38-year-old shot february 21st. police say they confronted lopez after responding to reports of a man wielding a knife. they say they daysed lopez, one officer shot lopez he says lopez charged with a dry wall cutting saw. >> we demand the same district attorney arrest, prosecute officers. for charge of conspiracy and murder respectively. they're innocent until proven guilty.

>> the coroner determined lopez died from two gunshot wounds to the back. the police department would not comment on the protest, only saying the investigation into the shooting continues. >> a body discovered near a crashed car in west marin county tuesday has been identified as a 93-year-old robert leslie davis the man's body found after a crew spotted a vehicle nearly 100 down an enbankment on highway 1. he had been missing since february 26th, last seen leaving marin joe's restaurant after having dinner with his daughter. >> prosecutors have until 5:00 p.m to convince a judge this man should remain in jail. he is allowing prosecutors more time to make an appeal. jackson faces charges along with several other people jackson

served as a political fund-raiser for leland yee. officials say he served as a middle man. >> redwood city police say the new social media efforts to return stolen items to their owners are paying off. someone saw this charm and claimed it 20 years after it was stolen from a home. officers found the charm and other pieces during a traffic stop in february. police posted pictures of other items on a pinterest site. you can find a link on our web site. >> that is amazing. >> i know. extra special. >> reuniting with sunshine, spencer. >> absolutely. you're right. hello from the roof of abc7.

it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. let's take a look from that perspective. clooidz over the bay area now. you can see moisture is going to be a system bringing us a little bit of light rainfall, light showers. and all of a sudden, maps aren't moving. i can't get them to move. we're going to have partly cloudy skies during evening hours. we'll have clouds increasing and light showers moving into early morning hours but probably should end by mid day, tomorrow. when we come back the maps will be working. >> moving maps are overrated, spencer. >> okay. >> still ahead, we'll introduce to you some kids traveling from europe to teach students here a valuable lesson. >> the giant surprise today for

students from one of san francisco's most dangerous neighborhoods. >> this is the skyway in downtown san francisco. jammed up in both directions going to east bay, lower deck of the bay bridge has been a mess for hours. stay with us. more still to come on abc7 news at 4:00.

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forcing evacuation and traffic closures in the area. sky 7 was over the scene. cruise were working to shut off the gas. they kept one-inch line and order was lifted. >> about two dozen women are in the middle of a 24-hour hunger strike. they stopped eating at 9:00. they're doing this to pressure white house for a moratorium on deportations. >> we're asking for obama to do anything within his power, he can do a stay on deportation. we're asking him to stop deportations, immediately >> the hunger strike part of a rolling fast in 30 cities around the country. this will cap a national day of civil disobedience for

immigration reform. >> queen elizabeth and her husband met with pope francis for the first time today. pope francis gave the queen a gift for her great grandson and the queen gave the pope a basket of food from around her estate. >> a push to teach kids more computer skills three years ago a city started a group called coder dojo. some of those kids were in town today giving pointers. >> matthew is 12 and knows how to code and develop apps and games

he spent the morning teaching a handful of students how to create a program. >> i don't want to spend all day on it because i have other things to do like stud eyeing for exams >> he belongs to a moment called coder dojo. here they're training students to code. >> this started three years ago. a young irish kid became somewhat popular for hacking the ipod nano. >> just wanted to set up a computer coding club. and it grew. >> there are 379 in 42 countries. he and four other mates under san francisco invited by the mayor who met them last night in

march when ed lee visited the city of cork. >> the kids are the same kids he met on st. patrick's day last year. >> they want the schools to become more knowledgeable and involved in coding. they, too, sponsor a dojo. >> 12 big silicon valley companies have offices in the city of cork including apple, which employs 3500 people the head of the chamber says it's about training the next generation of techies. >> what you need to do is make sure kids have the schools. it's transferrable. >> at 13 emily is looking ahead. >> and perhaps create her own

company. >> students of a school in one neighborhood got a, you can call it a giant surprise today from one local businessman. >> we're going to make sure everybody in this school goes into a giants game. >> that is nick, the owner of union square's lefty odoole's restaurant. he visited to tell kids the good news. after watching an abc 7 news report about troubled lives of the students >> hosting gloves across the bay tonight to giants game. so good job.

>> this is coming out of texas. a live picture. check that out a funnel cloud formed. there is a temperature warning in effect. looking at the sky there is a warning. >> take shelter if you can. >> absolutely. we'll keep you posted on this. and we'll get spencer christian's spot for a look at that situation. spencer? >> things are calmer here. >> thunderstorms several hours ago when you come in. looked like there was a potential for tornado activity. het take a look at our

conditions here. just a few scattered clouds that may bring us light showers after night. >> you can see a few clouds out there. lots of blue skies. light showers in the early morning hours. they may linger into mid day hours. it will be funny and the warm pattern gets warmer. showing approaching frontal system this may bring scattered showers to us into early morning hours. so starting at 11:00 tonight during overnight hours, there may be wet spots for the early morning commute. and later in the day, you can see a chance of patches of showers but by evening we should

see it widening down. projection for rainfall only about a tenth to a quarter inch in higher elevations. overnight lows partly to mostly cloudy skies. and tomorrow, high temperatures into mid-60s low to mid-60s on the peninsula. downtown san francisco a high of 60 degrees tomorrow. north bay 63 in santa rosa. 63 in oakland over in the inland east bay, mid-60s, 66 in livermore. and here is the accu-weather

forecast. we'll have breezy conditions near the coast on saturday. but will be milder. mid-70s around the bay. by monday, tuesday, it's inland highs into low 80s around the bay. it's better than summer. temperatures are up and not that high. nice, warm weekend and warm days coming our way. >> spencer, i think that is your yacht coming in there. >> that sounded more like yours. >> you may be right. thank you. >> up next what former president clinton says about a visit to extraterrestrials. >> it's a state law, wear gloves while touching raw food.

why some chefs are ignoring it. >> traffic in mcarthur maze, you can see it's a grind. typical afternoon commute.

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>> the new captain america movie on track to break a record at the box office the movie made $75 million according to "variety", it's expected to bring in $90 million or more on friday the film stars chris evans and spectacular skarl yot joe >> posing for photos around the big apple, you can see they posed with a

>> if you know x men series they want to kill each other in the movie this, is a funny photo. but they were commemorating their run on broadway to say good buy to the east coast. >> big apple is one of the places you come together and feel the love. >> former president clinton revealed on jimmy kimmel live that he won't be surprised if aliens existed. >> he says given the size of the universe he believes we may not be alone, kristin. >> he says when he was president he had his aides research area 51 in nevada and supposed 1947 alien incident. . >> i had people go look at records on area 51 to make sure there is no alien down there. >> you saw there were aliens

there would you tell us? >> yeah. >> you would? >> i would. if visited some day, i won't be surprised. i just hope that it's not like "independence day". >> right. >> the movie. >> i don't want to be visited tonight on jimmy kimmel live, actress emma stone. >> it's been great. you've been great. the network has been great. i'm retiring. >> really? >> yup. >> this is -- you did this? >> yes. i did. >> wow. >> big news. david letterman is retiring next year as host of "the late show" on cbs. he turns 67 next week. he had the longest tenure of any talk show host in u.s. tv history. >> speculation has it that steven colbert from comedy

center may be the heir to the throne. >> you're an amazing baseball player. you can hire a nurse. >> oh, my goodness. a sports talk show host creating an uproar for taking a baseball player to taking paternity leave.

a san jose resident seeking damages from the city after his traffic stop resulted in him being daysed by police. >> we're live why the claim is moving forward. >> this is sometimes damage cases like this are held out of court. this is being held before a judge and could incluns how police, and public interact in the future. case is playing out on the third floor. this is where the veteran is seeking damages for what he claims was excessive force by police when he, and his brother were stopped before 2:00 a.m

. he was a passenger but officers claim he blurted "f" word at them. he spent five days in jail. >> if you mouth off to a mofr you're, they have the right to just beat you up, or falsely accuse you of resisting arrest and it happens. san jose has a problem with that. >> i'm trying to find closure, i haven't told my daughters what happened to me i don't know how to explain to my children they can't trust the police. >> it happened in february when police were in the news for other incidents including one shown here. the groupos this will produce

better policing. >> only thing that can build back the trust is they don't deny it. >> the city attorney and police declined interviews. >> two dozen lawmakers are calling for government funding of an early warning system for earthquakes after a quake in southern california last week. lawmakers asked for $16 million to build and operate an alert system. it could give areas a piece more seconds of warning. >> white house says a cuban twitter like communications network was a development program not a covert operation

the administration financed a social network in cuba, and evaded internet restrictions. it drew tens of thousands of subscribers unaware it was backed by the u.s. >> a university of arizona student demanding an apology from a tucson police officer who knocked her during the ground last week the officer blind sided the 21-year-old during the melee following arizona's defeat. she says she was walking with friends and didn't cross police lines and she was never told to stay out of the area. she considers this excessive force. >> he hit me with his body but had a baton. he used that as force.

i was blindsided. >> he was not arrested and police say the officer, an 18 year veteran sargeant received so many threats the department changed his assignment to protect him. now looking at another live picture from denton, texas. we have had a tornado warning. you can see from this shot there has been hail damage, trees down but they're just asking people to take shelter. hopefully no tornado will touch down there. >> we'll stay on top of this. no reports of touching ground at this hour. >> yes. >> white house is not smiling after the president unwittingly

became a promotional tool. news reports says ortiz assigned a deal encouraging them to take the picture. spokesman jay carney says, we object to the image being used for commercial purposes. >> new york sets second baseman says he's proud he put father head ahead of baseball. some are blasting him for missing the home opener. he decided to be with his wife for the birth of their first child. >> today, daniel murphy sounded like any new dad. >> it was dark she tried to change a diaper. couldn't do it. >> his child was born monday his son, noah. to be there he took three days off, missing the first two games

of the season. he had bhesings of his employer, now, he's under fire. >> why didn't he just take a week off? five days off? you're a major league baseball player. you can hire a nurse. >> the former quarterback went further on his show. >> c section before the season starts i need to be at opening day. >> murphy didn't break rules. under the 2011 collective bargaining agreement major league baseball players can take up to three days off for paternity leave he had support of the mets front office. >> no problem with him being away. >> and manager. >> part of the rules and for years and years guys have gone for the birth of their first child. >> he left a road trip to fly home. daniel murphy said it was important to be with his wife.

>> she was finished. she was done. she had gotten, had surgery. and she was wiped. so having me there, i think helped a lot and vice versa. >> daniel murphy played today but could have taken another day off. he said his wife pushed him to get back on the field. >> as you might imagine we've been getting reaction on our face book page. megan j writes your child is born once, opening day happens every year. and this is not a debate. you have a right to take time off to take care of a family. period. end of discussion. what is your opinion? >> how do you feel? >> and a baseball mom. >> yes. do you know what? your child is only born once, there are 162 games in the

season i feel like family first. for me. >> this is a controversy. ares, the mets are horrible. they've had five losing seasons. take off as much time as you need >> coming up recovery of a special car >> how one girl found herself in this situation. >> and taking a look outside, you can see over the bay. we have clouds in the area. are things going to change for us? >> spencer will have the update. right now, traffic [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this?

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figure out with it was. >> here is another 16-year-old girl found herself p a bad spot. she got stuck lifting up a drain cover a passerby took pictures. firefighters came to her firefighters managed to recover the phone but it was smashed to pieces. >> this is danger of taking too many selfies. >> now the fish story about a big one that did not get away. dona needed help pulling this tuna on to her boat. look at the size of that

she's waiting whether this will set a world record for largest tuna ever caught. >> i'm thinking we should take a picture of that. >> looking at weather and weekend head, as well. >> this weekend going to be stunningly beautiful. we have moisture moving through tomorrow bringing us light scattered showers. going into a sunny weekend. national weather picture looking bright tomorrow. but over in atlantic coast foo spotty showers including the

state of california. here in the bay area, a weak front going to sweep through. producing light, scattered showers in morning hours and perhaps showers lingering into afternoon we'll see breaks of sunshine here and there. and get ready for a beautiful weekend. sandhya will tell you more about that on abc7 news at 5:00 >> still ahead caught on video a daring act of heroism safes a woman. >> plus, hidden message in cereal aisle that could be enticing you, and your children. >> why you may not get a tax refund though the government owess you one. owess you one. and a warning about getting that m, creamy greek yogu new mixim, creamy greek yogurt.

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just to make sure it didn't go head on. >> it worked the train stopped 200 feet from the woman. just after the september 11th terrorist attacks he joined the tsa. it's unclear how the woman ended up on the tracks whether she fell, or perhaps jumped but was taken to the hospital. >> now a story could change the way you think about your cereal. a study finds cartoon characters play a role in choices your children make. it's all about their eyes. >> here is looking at you, kids. >> here is the finding revealing a possible secret weapon the characters may be using their eyes to beck onyour kids. researchers say tony the tiger,

lucky the leprechaun, and their tindz may be using eye contact to entice kids. >> seeing eyes draws a lot more attention. >> food marketing researcher and his team looked at 57 different boxes of kids' cereal. when following eyes of tucan sam, 52 had eyes angled downward, angled at children. >> if you make eye contact this is a picture in a box. it increases your likelihood to want to purchase it. >> scientists handed out two versions of the boxes containing this treat to college students and found students reported feeling 28% more connected to this version of the rabbit than

this one. saying while the lingering gazes may be a coincidence, most are depicted staring at the cereal, affect is still capable of creating powerful urges. >> wow. >> more proof americans may be workaholics. new survey finds among employee who's get paid time off, only 25% took their vacation days last year. 60% only took part of the saudi arabiaings 15% no vacation days. also finding 22% of americans don't get any paid time off. >> sometimes you need to take vacation to get your taxes done. >> nice segway, i did not see

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>> coming up google snapped up a company for $3 billion. tonight the darling of silicon valley stopped selling a product. also tonight a lesson in giving. a bay area big wig that just granted wishes of 700 bay area classrooms. those stories and more coming up at 5:00. the news at 4:00 continues in just a moment. for that creamy delicious taste that makes even the most impatient, patient. dude! tillamook sharp cheddar, tastes better because it's made better.

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between warnings but in july could be ish cueing fines the japanese have been making sushi for centuries and chefs say they use their bear hands for many good reasons they're ready to fight that law but not with ghofs on. >> notice how the chef crafts every delicious moresel. he's made countless sushi creations. the awe fish is kept at 41 degrees to avoid bacteria. he washes his hands constantly. >> sushi is important to the feel. how much the fish, how much is wasabi. how much is rice.

>> all reasons why the chefs are fighting the law to requires them to wear gloves the owner of this sushi restaurant in burlingame. >> we tried having chefs wear them 90% of sushi making is by feel. with gloves on they don't have that delicate feel for it with sushi and rice becoming one. >> san francisco health inspector says he believes gloves won't hamper dex tear ti. >> reality a brain surgeon has to actually conduct his surgery with gloves on. which rirs much more dex tear ti than a sushi chef. >> instead of a glove law he says education is the key. >> important for personal

hygiene wash your hands many, many times, as much as possible. >> there is now efforts to change language in the law to allow sushi chefs to use bare hands. that bill may come up for a voting committee next week. >> thanks for joining us for abc7 news. >> the news at 5:00 begins right now. >> a shooting takes the live of a young father in san jose. >> friends shocked his girlfriend found the body. >> distracting and deadly. what too many people still do behind the wheel. >> up here on the roof of the kgotv broadcast center. we have april showers headed our way. i'll let you know if they'll

affect your plans coming up. >> we're following breaking news in fairfield. a federal agent and possibly another officer shot two people. >> what we have confirmed is two shootings were related. >> the second was a local police officer or a federal agent. this is a live picture from sky 4r7 hd. >> no word yet on what is behind this shooting. our breaking news continues now on twitter on abc7 news bay area. thanks for joining us. now to our top story the family of a young father shot and killed in san skres yeah with a message for whoever did it. >> you should be ashamed of

yourself. you left a father now without a father now >> the man kaz found dead in his car. here is his picture. tonight his family is grief stricken and angry. laura? >> let's show you where eric mendoza's car ended up. she was too upset to play on camera. the girlfriend told us it was quote a good man and father. the couple lives not far from here. saying it happened in an instant this morning. >> he didn't deserve what happened. >> they came to see where the car had come to rest. the red said kwan was seen this morning. it's a car, family and friends say