live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> elliot rodger fools everything for a long time. >> family friends shares the pain of parents of the isla vista killer are feeling, more for their victim than their son. >> this is the first time we get a look at the remorse and pain haunting the parents of mass murderer elliot rodger and the action they tried to take to

stop the rampage. >> a family friend is reading the statement directed at families of the victim but the family friend watched asked idea grow up and is sharing his own impressions. >> he is in many way a monster. >> in an interview on "good morning america" the family friend said that about the 22-year-old who killed six people. as for a younger elliot rodger, he says growing up he seems lonely. >> he was very removed, remote child. he was an odd child. he hesitateed. he shook when you met him. >> he said his parents were aware he had problems and tried to get him help. elliot rodger was on xanax the last six months used to treat anxiety caused by depression and doctors offered to put him on medication before. he would not take it. >> there is a sense he tried everything and even the final night they tried to rescue him.

>> they were 100 miles arm from lossance when they got the 137-page manifesto by e-mail and watched the beginning of the youtube clip. they drove north to uc santa barbara and first heard of the shooting involving a black bmw on the car radio. >> today their focus is on the victims, their son stabbed to death three young men from the bay area and shot and killed three more students near a sorority house. this is their family to the families. >> we are crying in pain for the victims and their families. it breaks our heart on a level that we didn't think possible. the feeling of knowing that it was our son's actions that caused the tragedy can only be described as hell on earth. >> we know his mother calmed police and officers checked on him before the attack and his parents said they do not blame the police. elliot rodger had everyone fooled.

there will be a tribute tonight for one of the bay area victims. leland high school in san jose will hold a vigil for george chen a 2012 graduate of the school. it starts at 8:30 in the quad. >> a shooting in west oakland sent a man to the hospital after 9:00 this morning. police say the 19-year-old victim was shot multiple times in the torso. the gunman ran off. there is no known motive. police have not ruled out the possibility it was gang-related shooting. the condition's victim sun known. >> c.h.p. hops to re-open a lane of the bay bridge toll plaza any time after an accident involving an armored truck. the highway patrol says the truck may have been going too fast when it collided with the toll plaza structure after 8:15. schedule re-open is three minutes ago. damage to the toll plaza is minor. the truck is towed away.

no word on injuries. the debate over the lack of diversity in the tech industry heats up over a bold step by google, revealing the makeup of the workforce. the results are eye opening. matt keller is at the google campus. matt? google vice president admits they have been reluctant to provide the numbers of diversity in their work police but they say they have made a mistake and now the time to be candid. >> the google logo is unique, several colors put together in a way that works. inside the company buildings is a just revealed secret showing the truth of silicon valley. technical workers are not that divorce. in a just-released blog they reveal the remain ploy i information all major united states employers must file with the equal employment commission showing 70 percent are men and only 30 percent are women. google says there are a lot of reasons why a is the case including the fact that women

earn 18 percent of all computer science degrees in the united states. the company has given millions to organizations working to bring computer science education to women and girls. >> it has to start in the class. they need to send employees to volunteer to help get more girls interested in science and technology. >> ethnicity diverse at this time is another issue, 61 percent of the workers are white. 30 percent are asian. 3 percent are hispanic and 2 percent black. google vice president said in the blog that we are not where we want to be for diversity and it is hard to address these challenges if you are not prepared to discuss them openly and with facts. a man we spoke with gives google credit for addressing the issue and releasing the report showing the company is willing to change >> it take as lot to put that out. apple didn't want to and google put it up that good. do i think they will change? absolutely. hispanics, blacks, hire more minorities.

>> a couple is not required to make the information public so civil rights leaders like jesse jackson are applauding the move and encouraging other companies to follow the lead of google. happening now, opening statements just got underway in los angeles in a suit filed by dodger stadium betting victim bryan stow who was in court for jury selection watching from the wheelchair as they received instructions. the former pearland suffered brain damage and permanently disabled. the jury will decide whether the dodgers and former owner, frank mccourt, provided sufficient security for the opening game with the san francisco giants in 2011. the suit seeks millions in damages. the two men charged with beating stow have leaded guilty. if san francisco, a man is in the hospital with severe head injuries after being found pinned under a car at a gas station parking lot. it happened on geary and 24th at 3:30 this morning. police say the victim has been trapped under the car for five

or ten minutes before anyone called for help. they are trying to figure out what happened and if he was run over by a car or if the car fell on top of him while he was trying to help the driver change a driver. the driver was taken into custody and they are trying to determine if alcohol was involved. >> a local chain will no longer track your visits to their stores through the smartphone. philz coffee used a technology that tracks their customers. amy hollyfield? the c.e.o. here says he is ashipper, too, and his employees hot and wanted to improve the shopping expense. this technology does that, and the customers vary from mom-and-pop shops, to big department stores. is this gathering of information or is it spying? >> this sticker tells you, you are being tracked using technology that picks up the wi-fi signal on your smartphone

and tells them about your coffee-buying behave. the company face add backlash with comments on facebook criticizing it. one called it inexcusable and un-american. they have decided to stop tracking. >> i stress that it is being taken seriously. >> company that was hired to do the tracking say this is what happens when you shop online. the witness you are on can track what you look at and learn about your shopping habits, brick and mortar stores want to do that, too. >> we help local store serve their customers better line online stores. >> a spokesman says that the company was built from the ground up with a focus on privacy and steard us to their website for more information. >> only with use anonymous information. we never know your identity or collect any personal information. >> they heard from customer whose have concerns some coffee drinkers say they assumed they

are being tracked throughout the day. >> i have enough apps that track me in weird ways it is not a surprise there is anything... they are tracking the credit cards anyway so...the information is out there. i'm not that worried. >> philz coffee will quit using the tracking technology this week. >> san jose's can attend matrix could see the gambling license revoked or suspended. the gambling commission will take up the issue of alleged cheating by the casino operators this will be a meeting in sacramento today. the matrix is accused of siphoning profits to shell companies to avoid taxes. the own owner of is accused of

underreporting the income. >> and the mayor of san francisco is offering a site for george lucas county for a star wars museum near at&t park. the proposed site is across from pier 30 and 32 north of the giants' ballpark. the parking lot site is across the street from where the warriors hope to build the new arena. the presidio trust turned down a proposal. chicago is also trying to entice lucas to bring the museum to the windy city which is his part time home after marrying a businessman. >> where you go to college really, really, really matters. >> pictures altered in a year book. >> brad pitt trolled down the red carpet and a storied history with a man who then attacked

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>> in florida a giant problem is growing in a shopping center parking lot across from the theme park in winter haven 45 miles outside of orlando. geologists are on the way to figure out what happened to the sing hole estimated to be 30' wide and 5' deep.

it is causing huge cracks and ripples in the pavement. engineers say so far there doesn't seem to be any structural damage to buildings or to lego land. >> a man attacked brad pitt on the red carpet last night, a 25 -year-old last night at the movie premiere in los angeles. he jump add barrier and rushed brad pitt and purged him in the face. pitt kept on going signing autographs and greeting fans. the suspect is known to be a troublemaker and tried to kiss will smith and hug leonardo and looked up an actress' gown at a film festival. >> and e-mails were made public of a 23-year-old c.e.o. of nap chat and is mortified of messages he where five years ago to get the fellow fraternity

brothers riled up at stanford. in one message he wrote "shopping list. the one ounce of marijuana, one kilo of blow," and continues with derogatory message toward women. he said that he was sorry. he said he was a jerk to have written them. they in no way reflect who he is today or his views toward women. this on, female students at a utah high school want to know why their year book photos were changed without their knowing about it digitally. a girl's v neck t-shirt was changed to a higher square neckline. in another, a teen's shirt had added sleeves and her hair was smoother. the changes were applied to some and not others. the superintendent of the school is apologizing but say they trying to prepare students for the future including how to dress represently. you want to know how to

dress appropriately this afternoon or maybe in the days ahead, meteorologist mike nicco could be of assistant. >> could be a wardrobe shuffle as the new cold front will roll through with drizzle in the morning not only tomorrow but possibly into the weekend. i will show how war itm it wille today. >> beyonce is at an elite university and what the course will teach students this year focusing on the star. >> from the bay area of california, cupertino is her hometown. >> the local girl who is succeeds at scripps national spelling

gridlock. teacher layoffs. and a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. that's what john perez faced when he be speaker of the california assembly. so he partnered with governor brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. for the first time in thirty years. today, the deficits are gone and we've invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. democrat john perez for controller.

>> covering santa rosa, berkeley, san jose, and all the pay area, this is abc7 news. >> our next speller is neha konakalla from the bay area of california. >> for 14-year-old neha konakalla of cupertino at the scripps national spelling bee in maryland. she now is advancing to the championship finals tonight one of 12 finalists from cross the country. the winner receives more than $33,000 in cash and prizes. >> if you are your kids want did work for a top technical firm you may want to pick a college

close to the company. hiring patterns were broken down at the big tech companies and for cupertino-based apple they employ 900 uc berkeley graduates and 800 san jose state graduates and 300 graduates from the university of texas at austin. a similar correlation for google employees 2,500 stanford graduates and 2,000 cal graduates and 800 graduates each from carnegie and ucla. wall street. >> okay. i know there is one bigwig at google from kansas...he gave our engineering department a bunch of ipads so there is one. i know. >> you are a success.

>> sort of. okay. thanks. we will move on and talk about weather. successful: sunshine with the high pressure bubble moving in and the low air has moved off and we have the brighter skies and the warmer temperatures. we will hook -- look at graduates sending teens out support open today starting with arts and sciences academy at golden gate park which will be cooler than the school at 67 and dropping down to 64 degrees. heading over to another alma mater, argonne, donn, starts at 5:30 and you will be down to 68 by the end of the ceremony. in san jose at silver creek high school raiders 80 degrees at 5:00 but by the end at 7:00 or 8:00 we down to 70. the winds are lighter but along the coast and liter there at 14

miles per hour. the rest of us are less than ten miles per hour and still the possibility of winds kicking up in solano county so the weather service kept them in the red flag warning through 8:00. here is something you will not see going forward and that is all the black along the coast is the lack of clouds. this is how it looks at santa cruz right now. you can see how tranquil the beach and the water looks down there on the boardwalk. everything is going to change later this afternoon. 59 at half moon bay and low-to-mid 70's everywhere. and upper 70's around fairly and antioch and livermore and 81 in los gatos and san jose, the neighbor to the northeast, is sunny everywhere and slight warming and clouds and drizzle friday and saturday and possibly sunday morning and the three days are the coolest in the seven-day forecast. here is a look at wall happen today: 82 in san jose and 76 sunshine in santa cruz and up the peninsula we start at 82 in los altos and 72 in millbrae and

mid-to-upper 60's at coast and sausalito is at 72, and low-to-mid 80's through the valleys and we have upper 70's to nearly 80 loan the east bay shore and money 80's into the east bay valley. rare four-game set at the cove so at at 12:35, the u.v. index is high and warmer? the sun. most of us are in the 50's tonight and at sunset the clouds will gather and by midnight it is on, everyone is starting to get the clouds in the cooler sea breeze that will drop us nearly five or ten degrees tomorrow, a couple more degrees on saturday and we will see a slow warming trend on sunday, monday and tuesday and unfortunately the transition back to cooler-than-average weather only offered some drizzle and that is along the coast on friday, saturday, and sunday. warm today. probably as warm as it will be for a while. >> thank you, mike. >> all the single ladies and

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