live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> happening now a new theory of what may have contributed to the deadly plane crash into a river in taiwan, barely missing homes and highway traffic. >> good morning, i am kristen sze. >> i am eric thomas. the flight just took off moments before hitting the water. 31 of the 58 people on board were killed. 13 are still missing and two on the ground are injured. >> a close look at shocking crash video could contain a major clue as to what want wrong. our reporter is in the newsroom and joined with the latest.

>> that is right. investigators are looking at the left engine. this footage from taiwan is an incredible view that is horrify showing the transasia flight after take off and the unthinkable the plane cart wheeling over a highway, slamming into a barrier and crushing a passing taxi as it goes into the river. >> these are the last seconds of transasia flight 235 as it clips the bridge and crashes into the river. watch again, camera video catching the prop dipping the wing as it crosses the bridge with 58 on board. rescue workers took inflatable boats to get to the fuselage in the river pulling survivors including children from the wreckage. there are many dead and many passengers still missing. the plane was only nine months old and inspected just weeks ago. it took off just before 11 o'clock am from the taiwan capital headed to nearly islands.

moments after take off the pilot radioed he lost an engine. >> lost an engine. >> moments later tragic and striking scenes as it crosses the bridge hitting the taxi injuring the driver and crashing into the river. >> when this is used as designed it is strong but you smack a bridge with the airplane it will do terrible damage to anyone in the back portion of the airplane. >> this is the second deadly crash for transasia if less than a year but this morning the head of the airline apologized and said that it is too early to know what happened and survivors are being treated in local hospitals. >> at last report, 15 survivors areening treated in the hospitals and the black boxes have been recovered and should get an idea of what happened to this aircraft. >> thank you. >> other news happening now my pete police are trying to put together the relationship between these two crime scenes half a mile apart, a hit-and-run accident and the discovery of a.

with's -- a woman's body. matt will guide us through this. >> the vehicle was towed away. the treat, coyote street is open to traffic. the investigation shows police collecting evidence. >> this is an unusual case in milpitas. a cadillac wanted in a hit-and-run accident was stopped in the middle of coyote street with a barrier blocking a devastating discovery: a female body on the ground. this is the intersection and police say at 3:30 this morning a garbage truck and a vehicle got into an accident. you can see all of the debris left behind. police say the driver was able to continue to drive on. half a mile away. the driver made it all the way here to redwood avenue and took a right turn and was able to make it up here to coyote street

where police found her car on fire and her body next to the body. >> officers put the fire out but the female victim died at the scene. they say the cadillac she was driving was turning left from north milpitas boulevard and it was broadsided by the garbage truck. the questions police are trying to answer: who is this woman? why did she leave the scene of the accident? officers are vetoing -- investigating if drugs were involved and was she disoriented after suffering a head injury. >> that is a possible the without the official investigation done by the coroner i could not tell you if that is the case. say the garage truck was towed and that driver was not seriously hurt and cooperating with police. >> police ran the cadillac license plate and it was not reported stolen and they hope to use that vehicle information to help identify the driver.

>> two toll plaza booths on the golden gate bridge are open after a crash this morning. the c.h.p. tells the driver hit the divider at the booth. that person was hurt. two tollbooths were closed. the scene now is clear, though. antioch police are asking for help to get information of a crash that killed a motorcyclist. the crash happened before 8:00 last night near 13th street. rescuers found a 29-year-old man with major injuries. he died later at the hospital. if you know anything abut the crash call antioch police. in the south base investigators are looking into a fire across the street from an elementary school. this is video you will see only on abc of the duplex where the fire broke out. firefighters were still putting water on the fire when our crew arrived on the scene and it happened across the street from the elementary school at 2:15.

this is cell phone video taken by a neighbor who saw the home burning and weekend up the people living inside. >> i helped the kids out, helped democrat them out and the family. they had five or six adults and two or three children. we help get the kids out. the guy did not wake up the family yet because he was trying to put it." >> first are trying to determine if the fire was started by power lines. >> san francisco police gather evidence to strengthen the case and solve the mystery of the human torso found if a suitcase. this is after they let the map they arrested go last night. amy? >> police say this doesn't mean he isn't a suspect. they thought they had probable cause to arrest him. they just need to gather more evidence. we have video of mark andrus walking out of jail last night when the district attorney declined to file charges against him.

police arrested him on friday accusing him of killing a man and leaving the victim's headless and handless torso to a suitcase. the man is not identified. police and d.a. have a different standard of proof. the police need probable cause to make an arrest the prosecutor have to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and did not thing they could. police say this doesn't mean they are discouraged but they need to keep pocking the case. >> investigators are still working hard. they are chasing leads. it doesn't mean we stop doing with we are doing. they are chasing leads, looking at evidence, trying to determine what happened here. we are waiting for the medical examiner to come back with results. from there, that will help the investigation proceed. >> police released a surveillance video of andrus in the area where the suitcase was pound and they have not released any other details of evidence against him. defense attorneys say he has no comment. police say the d.n.a. tests on

the victim could take weeks. a state laboratory is working on that element of the case and it could be a while before we have answers on this gruesome mystery . we have been talking about it the flash flood warnings have started ahead of what is predicted to be a four-day stretch of rain. >> we are getting a break from the "spare the air" days we have been getting but you would not know it by the look from the emeryville camera. it is hazy. you can see this will stick around and soon the clouds will roll in preceding the rain. we will check where meteorologist mike nicco. >> good morning from the top of the news broadcast center where you can see some of the murky air lurking. not a "spare the air" day but san francisco and san rafael and oakland are exceeding the unhealthy levels for those most sensitive. we have moisture and pollution in the air half mile at concord

and less than a quarter-mile in livermore so be careful. that will lift the next hour looking ahead we need rain to get rid of this poor air quality and it is going to come if starting tomorrow in the north by but friday we are concerned with 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. on saturday morning with the amounts we expect all the way through the event all coming up. >> thank you. two state senators are take, action on the vaccination debate. >> never at the capital introducing legislation calling for rule changes for children. details of the legislation have not been revealed but it is expected to tighten or eliminate the opt out clauses some parents use to keep their children from get vaccinated which is worsening the current outbreak. the measure is expected to require school directs to notify parents of the school's vaccination rates. >> this comes as an hat lat is shedding light open low

vaccination rates at child care centers across the state saying research found that 1,500 facilities have vaccination rates under 92 percent and the vast majority of private. 300 are public and in question, are right here in the bay area. they are concentrated in marin and berkeley and 101 corridor in silicon valley. >> right now, volunteers are repeating this happy scene at the port of oakland another 20 to 30 birds grounded by a coating of goo are being released. bird rescue is teaming up to clean up and rehabilitate the birds. money were -- 300 were brought in originally. >> a train and a car set open a collision course and the search for what went wrong and the clue investigators are looking at first. >> so long selfie the item was such a big seller is already being shut

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hospitalized. the ntsb will move the train this afternoon. >> today, ferguson, missouri, police will test a new less lethal attachment for guns which looks like an orange piece of plastic on the end of the gun barrel seen if a "washington post" picture called "at attorneyive," that fires a projectile that can knock a person down but not kill them even at close range. ferguson police chief started researching this less lethal weapon after the fallout over the shooting death of unarticled teen michael group. a handful of officers will train with it before it is rolled out to the entire force and is manufactured in san diego. >> a popular gadget that is all the rage on social media is getting knocked down a peg. museums are banning the use of selfie stick which -- afraid they could be so distracted they run into priceless art work in

place in indoor galleries including big name museums in boston chicago and new york. i knew it. that is why i didn't get you that for christmas. >> is that why? nonuse is the reason you would not get it. a rainy weekend. >> encouraging news for breast cancer patients, with years of research leading to new hope. >> what do your texting habits explain about you.

>> covering walnut creek burlingame, campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> a coast guard officer who was in the right place at the right time is the reason a dog in michigan is safe today. the coast guard recorded this video after the officer spotted the dog jumping into the icy water in the bay. he sounded the alarm and a team came to the dog's aid swimming in the icy water and pulling him to safety. the dog is fine but kept in quarantine as the owner is tracked down. >> the chilly weather is not keeping thousands of new england patriot fans from celebrating another super bowl victory. the team got a warm welcome this morning with the championship parade through snowy downtown boston. fans could be heard clearing their hearts out as quarterback tom bradiy was there and it was originally set for yesterday but it was pushed back because of the weather situation. tom brady is a san mateo native,

graduate of a local high school. >> really? >> something to celebrate. >> never mentioned that before. >> never. >> we will check with mike and the weather. it does not involve blizzards but we have rain. >> absolutely rain possibly fanfest on saturday and that would be a fitting going to the season after having rain during the world series parade to end the season for the giants. hop the a's do better. we have a lot to tack about jumping into live doppler hd if it is dry, the rain, look at this, the storm track well into northern washington right along the border with canada and we are getting blow off from the storm as it passed us and we are in the warm and humid sector and in the hazy sector. because of the haze, sfo flight delays are still nearing an hour as we look at the sfo camera and we will talk about san francisco and san rafael your pollution levels are almost near the unhealthy level for all of us. another reason to get rain in here and how it looks in the

east by hills, you have fog tomorrow just like this morning and until now. high clouds, hazy sunshine not is warm this afternoon and we set records the past two days and rain hits the north by tomorrow and the rest of us friday through monday as it comes in in two waves with the atmospheric rivers. today, low-to-mid 60's loan the cost because of a southern breeze and we will have purpose other 60's in other areas and the for the by will drop the most because of the wind coming east san pablo bay it will be cooler. tonight, another mild night with mid-to-upper 40's inland and upper 40's to mid-50's and it will be cloudy with the fog most likely in the north bay and east bay. our atmospheric river is getting close and it comes right in thursday in the forth bay friday for the rest of us and saturday it slips to the south and the secondary not so heavy or moisture laden pushes in with the secondary stem on sunday. at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning we have showers and most of the commute is dry. the rain will hang up in the

north bay all day and through the better part of the overnight hours into friday morning you can see yellows and oranges so moderate-to-heavy rain through the lunch hour and you can see some of that rain starting to make it to the rest of us and friday afternoon into the evening hours when the heaviest rainfalls on all of us and it will start to taper with scattered showers headed to saturday morning and gearing up for the next storm sunday interest monday. first storm anywhere from half an inch in the south bay to 4" in the in the bay is the extreme and the 8" is possible in the sonoma mountains and now as we move deeper in and all the way through the secondary system we are looking at 1-2" in the south bay and 2-4" around most of our neighborhoods and 3-5" in the north bay is we will have a flash flood watch from 6:00 friday morning through 6:00 a.m. saturday morning and a high snow level friday through monday. get ready for the wet weather tomorrow in the north bay and the rest of us friday through

monday morning and because this is a pacific system, notice the temperatures are in the mid-to-upper 60's with the rain this weekend the back to you. >> thanks mike. sony is shelling out the big bucks to tell with the devastating hack experience announcing they have set aside $15 million for added security cleaning up the system. despite that sony said the studio is still earned a profit last quarter at $20 million. >> better treatment for breast cancer is saving lives the word this morning from the american cancer society which says that the number of breast cancer deaths in the united states is dramatically falling. they are citing research from the past 20 years showing 34 percent decline in death among breast cancer parents between 1990 and 2011 and doctors estimate that more than 200,000 lives were saved. the eastern cancer society says frequent checkups and increasing awareness have helped the cause. >> a study on virtual flirting fines that the more emotions

singles use the more likely they are to hookup. according to match.com dating survey people who use winks and other cartoon characters tend to have more sex. 54 percent of the users say they had sex in 2014 compared to 31 percent of singles who did not. the findings hold true for men and women in their 20's and 30's and 40's. >> i remember those years. >> yeah. >> wonder about men who use them? >> staying connected a world

>> coming up at 4:00, a single father gets an unexpected lesson in style. why he is not afraid to break stereotypes for his daughter. >> a rash of hope purring laters has a neighbor under siege. the concern over letting police solve the crime. >> oklahoma airman is proving a picture is worth a thousand words. >> he did it with a toy that could be a favorite of yours. >> he used legos to connect with his stepsons. both boys above the toys but

have m.s. prevent them from serving so he took legos with him while deployed and got fellow airmen and pilots to snap pictures with the toys so he could send them to the family. this has incredibly happy ending he went home to oklahoma after being overcease for nine months. >> kite way to connect. >> cool. >> thought you were talking about the wife. >> way to connect. >> from all of us, thanks pore joining us.

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