lawyer, who pleaded not guilty to all charges. the explosion and fire killed eight pechl, injuring 66 others. 38 homes were destroyed and 17 others badly damaged. pg&e faces one count of obstructing an investigation into the pipeline explosion. 27 counts of violating the pipeline safety act. if federal prosecutors have their way, the utility could be slapped with a 1.3 billion fine. pg&e maintains it did nothing wrong. >> no pg&e employee intentionally violated laws. when errors were made, employees were acting in good faith. >> we believe it's high time pg&e cleaned up it's act, that it understood and took responsible, took full responsibility for the

inappropriate operations and for it's >> she's asking for an independent monitor. >> they have failed and they continue to fail to do so and to perpetrate a inappropriate, too cozy relationship with the utility they're tasked with regulating. >> san bruno city officials charged e mails uncovered between p.u.c officials and pg&e show a close relationship the latest is a letter inviting a official to a safety symposium. the state p.u.c issued a statement saying in part the agency's president directed staff to cancel it

needily to eliminate a possible public concern over the fairness of the process. >> now, pg&e told us they've reviewed that letter, concluding no rules were broken and participation in that training was intended to. the city of san bruno asking the u.s. attorney to use some of the money for a trust for safer gas pipelines >> now, state lawmakers approved a measure that imposes stricter stricter of conflict rules the bill, by state senator jerry hill prohibits p.u.c commissioners from sitting on the governorerning board of my foundation they helped create. a grand jury indicted a former

owner of a slaughter house accused of distributing diseased meat. and heads were switched of those with healthy cows by order of the owner. nearly 9 million pounds of beef were recalled from the plant before being shut douvenlt it's reopened under new ownership. >> state and federal water officials are calling on an investigation into whether farmers are taking water that does not belong to them. the agencies believe the farmers are intercepting water from the delta before it can be shipped to farms and cities in other parts of the state. they've asked the state water resources board to use emergency powers to demand oneses on this the farmers do have high priority rights but right now, it's all done on the honor system. >> police are asking for help in

identifying some of those responsible for a brazen highly-organized series of dangerous side shows that went from the bay bridge toll plaza on to interstate 580 through oakland on sunday. laura? >> they've started cases in east oakland neighborhoods the toll plaza is one of several locations why side shows took place. police say what they're dealing with here are flash mobs, organized quickly. with large numbers of vehicles, various locations and on the move. this is one of several side shows police and the patrol were trying to deal with first in the neighborhoodses of east oakland, then, on on to freeways and bay bridge toll plaza.

>> in this case we had three side shows at the same time. and they're all mobile. >> everybody is doing whatever they want to do. >> like many, this man did not want his face shown. >> there is lights and doing doughnuts. just no regard for the law. >> it's not only becoming more risky, more bold, but we're seeing fatalities associated. >> according to the patrol, one of the side show participants lost his life. >> the motorcyclist was doing upwards of 100 miles per hour with no lights on. blacked out. >> the motorcycle exited 580, slamming on to an oncoming suv.

police will review video to develop leads and make arrests. in oakland abc7 news. >> a garbage hauling company is now suing the city the city council voted to replace waste management with a smaller company. . the lawsuit asked the court to award the contract to waste management. and chose california waste solutions because of personal, and political connections. >> they broke the law to reach that wrong decision. >> this is the company that says it has new plans to build a facility in oakland.

>> we've learned the identity of a teenager shot to death by police. this is video of the woman waving an object that looked like a firearm, identified as a 19-year-old, police say she was threatening family members and was shot after refusing to put that thing down the object turned out to be a power drill painted black. >> two law enforcement officers were cleared of wrong doing today in separate incidents the district attorney says deadly force was justified in a police shooting of a knife-wielding felon who stabbed two people on thanksgiving day. police say the suspect confronted him in a cul-de-sac. and protecting the general public by preventing his escape the county d.a.says the county was justified in using lethal

force against an 18-year-old woman who suffered from mental illness and had not taken her medication. . the district attorney says he probably spared his own life. >> we have a couple fires burning in the sierra tonight. one is threatening 3,000 homes. the james jumped about 15 miles of the he southern entrance to yosemite park. near truckee a wildfire forced evacuation of the boca springs camp ground. this is a fire at 50 acres now. >> buy food or pay a power bill. it's a choice many families are facing every month.

abc7 news reporter david louie takes a look at hard realities the food bank sees every day. >> this is the other side of silicon valley. a quarter million people showing up at food banks >> there are times i'll skip breakfast, then just have dinner, maybe a snack just to make sure food stretches out for my kids. >> she goes to the food pantry monthly to make sure her daughters get proper nutrition her husband works but the pay doesn't cover food, rent and other needs. he makes $12.50 per how. that is not full time. there are times he gets home early because it's a full night, or whatever the reason. he's not always full time hours. it's just his income. >> a new survey reflects tough choices families are making. 68% have to choose between buying food or paying for

transportation. and 67% say they buy unhealthy foods to stretch the budget. two thirds of valley clients have high blood pressure. a third have diabetes. >> folks are asking for additional help we're doing utility assistance. >> some families are moving to buy food. >> there are a large number of people that might be able to get by. but we're seeing a shift in where people are moving as far as the economy. >> just ahead here, robin williams gets a standing ovation. >> you're going hear from the woman whose idea for the tribute

has gone viral. >> sounds g tonight the man that created it. it's gary goredan day. >> we have had drizzly spots this morning and now, live doppler seven hd showing us what may be more drizzly spots developing the accu-weather forecast is coming up in just a moment. as

>> people around the naths paid a tribute to actor and comedian robin williams today a week after his death, by giving him a standing ovation at the same time. the staff of marin magazine stood up and clapped while wearing photos of robin williams a man named tony posted this video of himself giving a one-minute standing ovation in a garden. and this message, make god laugh. the originator of the idea is from the bay area. wayne freedman joins us now with the story. wayne? >> the rentaling nator is in the east bay but it's spread everywhere. on face book and a guy in santa rosa. he's the guy we caught up with

today. >> he was amazed by the amount of facebook likes generated all as part of a world-wide effort. to get everybody to pause to five a standing ovation of thanks robin williams. would we do anything? louis designated the gathering place the clock moved towards 1:00 p.m . >> if anyone wants to participate... >> 3, 2, 1. >> woo! >> so, it began. this normally-quiet coffee house filled with the sound of thanks. and this wasn't the only

location. one at the mrs. doubtfire house and another to union square. there, we found not just the biggest crowd yet but kathy says she's the one who started this. >> we didn't get a chance to say it was our way of saying goodbye. and clapping, i think is the best way of doing it celebrating. doing it in a happy way. >> happy as they can be, anyway. one week later. >> my girl "," ain't no mountain high enough "those are hits produced by motown music, today, barry goredy was honored." 84 years old in a powder blue suit, barry goredy holds himself up to the standard he sets for

his stars >> we ended up taking unknown artists off the street, teaching him how to talk, walk, dance. >> motown launched the careers of diana ross, the jackson 5 and smoky robinson. . >> i found the right people. i thought them things my father taught me. >> now, his story takes center stage. today, hundreds gathered to celebrate goredy. >> it was music we partied to. >> national, state, and local politicians sang his praises and mayor kwon handed barry gordy

with a key to the city. the cast of motown, the musical performed four of the 40 songs in honor of barry gordy day in the east bay. so for a moment, oakland felt like oaktown of old. gordy started to think of his legacy and the message he wants young artists to know. >> anybody that gets joy out of making people happy is a good person and will usually succeed. >> in the end, gordy says he's a teacher. today, everybody celebrated the sounds of his students. >> those songs. just classic. >> that is great. >> i can't believe he's 84.

>> music sounds great. >> it does. >> weather looking great, too. >> yes. >> i do. >> we have clouds around, as a matter of fact cloudy most of the day. right now is cloudy with patches of drizzle. 1/100ths in pacifica. up north right now, this area is upper level low around crescent city. and there have been lightning flashes reported up there. as a result there is concern about the strikes and so

the affect on the bay area. it's bringing clouds into the bay area. lots of moisture in the area. and it's 59 degrees in san francisco. 66 in san jose. 72 in gilroy. here is another view of clouds pushing well inland across the bay. there goes a view. 73 in livermore, looking westward and i'm thinking that might be angel island over there. hard to tell. another drizzly morning. and we'll see warmer days ahead after mid week. movement of the low during

daytime hours is counterclockwise. during late night hours, we'll see a best chance of drizzle. maybe fairly wide spread into the north. brighter, sunny skies. and some spots could linger, overnight, low temperatures into mid to upper 50s. tomorrow, upper 70s to low 80s in the south bay. low 60s on the coast. low to mid-70s in the east bay. here is the accu-weather forecast. starting to warm up toward the

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infree an atm but failed because of faulty equipment and bad technique. it's 6:30 in the morning. their truck pulled up. surveillance video shows what happened. two men get out, one man attached the strap to the atm. the driver hit the gas. hoping to yank it free. nope. the strap snapped. the atm stayed. these would be thieves took off with no money, police have not made any arrests. >> and an east bay school started an emergency fund raising drive to replace dozens of items stolen over the weekend. thieves targeted colonial elementary twice the first time, breaking into a storage closet taking boxes of school supplies including a computer and monitors, then broke into a shed. the staff is devastated.

>> why take things from children who have -- families are just barely making it. >> you're hurting children, families and people that come to school as a safe place. >> she sent up a go fund me campaign. >> tonight new confidence among home builders. sales of newly-built homes are running behind last year's pace a wells fargo index shows improving conditions in the labor market and strongest sentiment in seven months wall street reacted by sending stock prices higher. dow climbing 175 points. nasdaq closing above 4500 mark. last month, dollar tree offered $8.5 billion to buy family

dollar. today, dollar general stepped in with a $9 billion offer. >> still ahead tonight independe independent autopsy results and the president calling for calm. >> u.s. air stieks win a marshal endorsement from the pope. the military reclaims a key position in northern iraq >> and a village where 5-year-old and 10-year-old girls are for sale

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unarmed black teen shot and killed by a white police officer. >> i understand passions and anger that arise over the death of michael brown. giving into to the anger by looting and attacking police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. >> police have been criticized for their forceful response to protest. >> in ferguson, the governor called on the national guard to restore order. michael brown was stopped last week for jaywalking and his family is calling for an arrest of the officer who shot him. today we learned results of an independent autopsy. after a weekend of some of the fierceest clashes yet, detail btz moment leading up to michael

brown agriculture death are being released by a pathologist the autopsy shows he was shot twice in the head and four times in the right arm by officer darren willson. each entered the front of the body. evidence show they were not fired at close range. brown family attorneys say taken together results should lead to one outcome. >> this officer should have been arrested. why would he be shot in the top of his head? six foot four man? makes no sense. >> the autopsy conducted by a high profile pathologist that testified in the o.j. simpson trial. >> there weren't signs of a struggle. all of the gunshot wounds were survivable except for the one on the top of the head. autographic video of the aftermath appeared to show wilson standing near brown's

body speaking with another officer. the woman who took the video describes what she saw. >> officer wilson to the right is just looking over the body just looking baffleed and bewilled yefred like trying to explain to officer what have i just done. >> police have not returned calls seeking comments about this video. >> iraqi forces claimed a first major victory against islamic state fighters today. u.s. forces launched a series of air strikes on militants at the mosul dam today. u.s. officials are worried militants would flow it up and flood mosul. austria, france and germany offered supplies. and today, pope francis endorsed use of force in iraq but says

the international community should decide how to intervene >> human trafficking considered one of the fastest-growing crimes in the world. tonight i want you to meet a bay area man in cambodia inspiring others to take action as well. >> police go in first with guns and then, we help afterwards. >> the work he's describing is deadly serious, raiding brothels. >> men fly from europe, australia, china and american men fly there to buy 5-year-old girls and 10-year-old girls for

sex. >> andy began volunteering with christian groups helping children around the world. he was in yu beganeda when realizing he wanted to do more. >> it struck me we're only working with boys i asked a local where are the girls? and he said they're all being trafficked. >> andy ended up in a town where 90% of the girls, 90% under 13 years old were being sold for sex. he volunteered to make videos like one for a group called agape international missions. agape spent a decade fighting sex trafficking. this girl says she was 12 when forced into prostitution. >> he took me to the house. yes. and guys are coming. a day, maybe five. they pay like $20.

>> bella and another girl were rescued by agape. the after care program helped them rebuild their lives. >> right now, i know i'm better. >> agape launched a wave of programs designed to change the culture that made it acceptable to sell children. here in the bay area, members of andy's church raised money to support the work. then, a few went to see what's happening for themselves. >> agape transform that had village, restored buildings that were brothels and created a school of medical clinics, factory for local parents to have employment. a training center for the rescued girls. >> agape says the number of girls being sold is down and they're no longer trafficked in the open. but the fight is not over. many girls are still sold in

secret. andy is a manager of a team that helps prosecute both traffickers and pedophiles who come to cambodia. >> it takes sacrifice. it's worth it. if working for years just to help a person, it's worth it. >> this fall a larger group of good shepherd church members is going to cambodia to help with the programs volunteers are raising money for school supplies. you can see the difference they're making. we have links on abc7 news.com. it's a huge world wide crime, and horrifying. >> well, we have more coming up next, a new computer chip could revolutionize electronics >> and break a law forever in silicon valley. back in a moment.

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prevent nearly 600,000 crashes and save a thousand lives every year. vehicles would be equipped with radio signals that transmit position and speed and to alert drivers in time for preventing an accident. >> today, abc7 news suited up and went into the clean room. december coverries being made to make our smart phones smarter and faster. >> the view is second to none. but scientists are more excited about the view from this. there are more complexities >> nearly 50 years ago, they deducted the number would double every two years.

it's been true for decades. >> materials are made of atoms. you can't go more than an atom but can get >> if you're writing your name in sand at the beach you would have to write in small sand. >> consider this the finest sand you've seen for building silicon sand castles. >> if you want more powerful combrel phones. >> it makes it more complicated. an ordinary clean room is no

longer clean enough >> those look like boulders on a chip. >> looking at chips becomes tough. requiring a new microscope that feels the chip. >> looking you can't >> the smaller the chip, the faster it funs. >> before you know it... >> this is now going >> coming up a machine that helped save that man's life. >> what it could

an experimental device helped save a man's live who is waiting for a double lung transplant.

this case shines a light on the need for artificial lung technology. this double lung transplant was failing and there was no artificial lung to buy him time >> we had decided to turn off a vent later. >> one doctor recalled a device called hemo lung. the machine removed dangerous co two from the blood >> we're providing external support to the native lung by having a artificial lung outside of the body doing 50% to 60% of the work. >> the team got permission to use the lung and 20 days later

he got says second pair of new lungs. >> that machine is a safe lifer. >> researchers say it's just one step towards the goal of affordable lungs still years away. >> just has technology for artificial hearts. these devices will transition to that patient that can go home with them. >> the teerment shows more bridges to connect patients with the lungs they need. >> it's incredible. >> we're going to start live doppler 7 hd. clouds at the coast and beyond

and may get drizzle overnight by afternoon tomorrow, we should see mainly sunny skies. some coastal drizzle could linger. there you go. high temperatures from low to mid-60s on the coast to mid seven owes around the bay to mid-80s inland here is the accu-weather forecast. a warm up to more seasonal change thursday and friday. highs around 90 degrees and mid-60s on the coast. >> not quite the debut we've wanted. >> no. no. >> really bad. >> no. but the fresh craze were magnificent. >> the dining experience nice. are they worried? no. concerned? yes. the 49ers after yesterday's blowout. jim harbaugh on what is wrong with the team, next in sports.

good evening, 49ers players have the day off today, and

looks like they took yesterday off as well getting wiped out by denver. losing in preseason, i mean is not a cause of great concern. they've been blown out twice. and showing less on defense. >> we need to make decisions on that, we're not round pick didn't work out with jags they gave up on him. he's been totally ineffective yesterday. other back ups were josh johnson. they've come in and

turned the ball over. >> in terms of a back up quarterback, this is to elevate the great thing about the player. i do everything i can to try to help him. >> raiders practice today, sustained a concussion. it's unclear when and if he's going to play. expect to see a lot of matt shaub. he hasn't lit it up thus far. he needs to put together drives >> we're moving the ball to come

back after that made 2, 3. out. you know we've got to get back on schedule after a change of possession. and so just being more consistent. >> new clippers owner steve balmer introduced himself to fans in l.a. >> i can't hear you. do we have clipper fans here? >> this 2.0 in this case would be $2 billion. he says he's not going to move the clips and he is fired up.

>> i don't think we have to do either. there is no doubt. >> now, i care. i kind of love it. >> he makes joe look disinterested a special day for steph curry. from where coach went to school. >> today is a feel good day. this is why you, when you wanted that uniform, it means something more special. >> abc7 sports brought to you by orchard supply and hardware. >> getting tired of it. >> thank you. >> i'll work on that. >> join me tonight on cable 13, driving wirelessly. and then, at 11:00, remembering

robin williams >> that is going to do it for this edition of abc7 news. i'm cheryl jennings >> we appreciate your tiechl see you again at 9:00 and 11:00. >> bye bye.

this is the "jeopardy!" battle of the decades. let's meet today's former champions from our second decade. he was a sportswriter living in reston, virginia, when he won 5 games in season 16. he's still a sportswriter now living in oak hill, virginia. please welcome... [ applause ] he was a history professor when he became a 5-day champion in season 17 and is still a history professor today. from cypress, texas, please welcome... [ applause ] and in 1994, she was an attorney when she became the first woman to win a tournament of champions. now she's applying to phd programs in the biosciences. from mountain view, california, please welcome...

[ applause ] and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. boy, this 30th year of "jeopardy!" is turning into a season of excitement, what with the, uh, explore the world sweepstakes with great travel prizes for you folks at home, and, of course, the battle of the decades. now a month ago, you got to enjoy some of your favorite "jeopardy!" champions from our first decade. this week, you get to enjoy champions from our second decade -- mostly the 1990s, starting off today with rachael, babu, and eddie. many of you will recall that because eddie is blind, we make a couple of accommodations on his behalf. one -- at the beginning of each round, we hand him a card containing the list of the categories that are in play, and in addition, there will be a sound effect at the end of each clue, indicating that that clue has been read in its entirety