live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. horrific crash scene in santa cruz county. four young people between the age of 16 and 22 dead after a head-on collision. >> good morning i am eric thomas. i am kristen sze. c.h.p. say drinking and reckless driving were factors in the terrifying tragedy. the mercedes with the young people crashed into ford pickup on freedom boulevard. our reporter is at the c.h.p. office with the very latest. matt? >> yes, the accident took place a mile away from the c.h.p.

office here near the high school but it does not appear that any students from that school were involved in the crash. the crash took the lives of several young people. traffic accidents do not get much worse hand this. seven young people, ages 16 to 22 were riding in a mercedes after 8:00 last night on freedom boulevard in santa cruz county when the driver swerved into oncoming traffic hitting a ford pickup truck head on. three people from the mercedes died at scene. another died at at the hospital. the three other passengers were taken to hospitals with life threatening injuries. alcohol appears to be a factor. we had a couple of witnesses reporting reckless driving, things like excessive speed and passing over the double yellow lines and a witness said there were females out of the windows dancing and out of the moon roof dancing prior to the collision. >> driver of the pick medium, 56 years old from aptos was taken

to the medical center but he is expected to recover from the major injuries. four people in the mercedes who died were identified at a 22-year-old man from watsonville, an 18-year-old man also from watsonville, a 19-year-old woman from southern california and a 15-year-old girl whose information is not released until the family is notified. investigators say anyone in the mercedes was wearing a seatbelt. >> the right front passenger looks like they were sitting on each other's laps and i don't know what the organization was in the back seat but likely that was the case as well, in the back seat. >> c.h.p. says they hope to talk to some of the surviving victims as soon as possible and that includes the driver of the pickup as they try to put together investigation. reporting live in aptos for abc7. new details this morning on the shooting deaths of two men in a quiet livermore neighborhood. police held a news conference a short while ago to discuss what led up to the violence.

our reporter is in livermore with more for us. [ inaudible ] >> we apologize for the lack of audio we will check in with amy coming up in a short period. >> we will move to another story one of three suspects in the murder an elderly woman is waiting to be extradicted back to the bay area. the second man is in custody. a third is dead following the shoot out with police. they are accused of killing 84-year-old olga ary dinelli who was found dead in the chair need her home on thursday. police do not know why she was targeted. the sheriff deputies in riverside spotted two of the suspects in a car on saturday. they we would not pull over. they led deputies on a high speed chase across the border into arizona. police put out strips and the car crashed. 27-year-old victor silva great marin county surrendered. the other suspect was slot and killed after pulling a gun on

deputies. a third suspect 27-year-old john bruno martinez was arrested in richmond on saturday. he is expected in court tomorrow. >> happening now students are trying to get through a stuff day at oakland tech a promising student and football player was shot to death over the week and this morning we are hearing great friends and family about his loss. >> our reporter is in the newsroom with more. >> both students and staff are taking this loss very hard and are left with a lot of questions. they called 14-year-old davon ellis brit a great athlete who was very well liked. >> just shocked. >> davon shares the same first name as his friend, 14-year-old davon ellis killed over the weekend. ellis was shot walking in oakland's fruitvale neighborhood on saturday night where yesterday loved ones met for a memorial.

harrison played football with ellis. they were both friendmen at oakland technical high school. >> it is tragic. >> it upsets me. >> she wanted to share what she knew of her "leader." >> three was always smiling. when i say three was all-star player not just on that field, he was all-star player going somewhere in life. three was going to make it. >> she said the parents worked lard to keep him and his little sister on the right track and in good schools. police do not know a motive for the shooting and have not made an arrest. grief counselors are on the campus and at the middle school where he was a student just last year. >> this is a despicable act. the police have taken a special interest in it because of the youth of the victim and because

there is no indication that he did anything that would expect him to be is target. >> the oakland police department and crimestoppers are offering $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. thank you. now back to the new details in the shooting deaths of two men in a quiet livermore neighborhood. our reporter, amy hollyfield, is in livermore. amy? >> witnesses and friends of the victim say that there was a struggle over a gun. police are trying to work out the specifics of who fired the fatal shots. while they work on the specific picture, residents want to know more about the big picture. who is in their neighborhood? what are they doing there? >> we know more details about this man, seen in this video you will only see on abc7 news. he is 28-year-old officer livermore and he is a convicted

felon. when they caught him he did not go willingly. >> we conduct at traffic stop, he resisted arrest and. k-9 was deployed. he was bitten and taken into custody. police were after him for the shooting deaths of two men in their 20's killed in this quiet livermore neighborhood. at this point he has not been charged with their murders. hearing about the arrest was a relief to those who live here. >> we are excited. more at peace. >> witness describe the argument that ended in gunfire yesterday afternoon. police say the three met up here to do an illegal deal. >> a friend of the victim said it was a gun deal and there was a struggle over the gun. he did not want to be identified but he came to the press conference looking for more answers. >> what argument led to us this? no one has to die over a $500 weapon.

neighbors what happened more answers about the activity going on in their neighborhood. >> i don't know what is happening, but things are happening that should not be happening in our neighborhood. we know when a car does not learning in the neighborhood. >> we want the community to know it is safe. we believe this is an isolated incident. what i can say is the three men involved all knew each other. >> police say they are holding him on a possession of a hand gun and are working on more charges the they have not said how many guns were recovered from the scene. today a san jose city council committee will look for where to come up with half a billion to fix the city's crumbling roads. south bay roads are among the worst in the bay area, with 50 percent deficient. it is estimated it would cost $500 million to eliminate the

backlog of bad roads and another $100 million each year after that to bring them up to good condition. >> minimum wage workers in oakland are getting a big boost in pay starting today. the $9 an hour minimum wage is increasing nearly 36 percent to $12.25 an hour the highest minimum wage in the bay area. >> a few of us are getting rain right now much needed rain. >> a look from emeryville camera shows where the storm clouds have moved in and meteorologist mike nicco has a look at where the showers are headed. >> hello, everyone welcome do the to which the we broadcast center where i don't need an umbrella. the clouds are stubborn and we have not seen anything measurable hit the gages but we have radar returns especially across the santa cruz mountains and a few more right around the rim of the san pablo bay near san rafael and toward novato.

look at the circulation you can see it is right off bodega bay but it is the smaller circulation that is staying over the ocean and rotating onland to the south that is going to bring us the boast chance of an isolated light shower so i have it near the ocean or mountains. there is a minor threat of lightning and showers the fade quickly at 6:04 not a repeat of saturday. >> you can see what is showing up on doppler any time with the weather app which is free on apple app and google play with more information at our website at abc7 news.com. >> cindy crawford in a controversy over this photo with speculation this may not be her real body. >> plus, giving you the low down on how long you will live and why a quick jog on a treadmill could unlock the

>> los angeles police land to everyone chance cell phone of a deadly police shooting on skid row to figure out exactly what happened when officers shot a homeless man. you may find this video disturb ing. millions have viewed this video online. police say the shooting stemmed from a struggle over an

officer's guns lyle they responded to a robbery call in the area. officers say they opened fire after a stun gun failed to subdue the man. investigators are looking for any other video that may shed light on what happened. >> san francisco based twitter says they are working with law enforcement to see if death threats against a cofounder is real. an image showing jack dorsey in the crosshairs of a rifle telescope with a threatening arabic message bond up with ties to isis. they blamed twitter for shut down accounts with "we always come back." dorsey is continuing to tweet to his followers but not mentioning the threat. >> the biggest name if silicon valley celebrated a big birthday today by ringing the bell to on the nasdaq trading day. yahoo chief financial officer was in morning to do the honors.

it debated the domain in january of 198235. 700 million people have visited it each month. the involvement of yahoo was good luck for the nasdaq which hit the 5000 mark not done since the spring of 2000, the height of the bubble. >> meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with the forecast coming up. >> coming up in the seven-day forecast i will look at the future radar and try to pinpoint where if showers make it on land where they will be and literally spring forward. we lose an hour of sleep but we have warm temperatures coming this weekend. >> losing an hour of sleep? great. rolling the dice on your child getting sick with a dangerous practice that doctors are warning of. >> plus, a photo mystery starring cindy crawford. this photo is now called a "fake," and we will sort out the

covering fremont, palo alto, north bay, and all the bay area this is abc7 news. more and more parents in the united states are asking doctors to delay vaccinating their kids. this is the take away from a national survey of 500 pediatricians released this morning. it is reported that one in five doctors say at least 10 percent of parents want to postpone shots represented for children under two. doing that can make those kids and others vulnerable to preventible diseases. doctors recommend vaccination against 14 diseases for kids under the age of two. >> breakthrough study could determine how long you are going

to live. it starts with getting on a treadmill. researchers can predict your chances of dying in the next decade based on the performance looking at results of 58,000 treadmill stress tests ages 18 and 96. the two best predictions of whether a patient would live and be alive in 10 years were their heart rate during the test and how highly activated their metabolism was. it is published in the mayo clinic. >> i am not sure i want to know the results. >> i can see how people would think that way. i would rather watch someone do the treadmill. >> exactly. that is stressful enough. >> checking now with mike for a look at the forecast. what do you have sir? >> treadmill sitting in your room gathering dust and clothes? >> like a backup iron. >> here is a look at the live doppler hd. we have video and i want to show

you that first. i get so excited about the snow there it is. my goodness, snow showers still falling and this is this morning from heavenly where they had a foot or more as did man areas over the weekend and live doppler hd has it centered on incline village, and south lake tahoe, and doug to kirkwood. we are still getting scattered snow showers and that is the key. the bulk of the storm is hitting now and it is not going to be nearly as intense for us nor in the sierra so i expect only a couple of inches. this is how it looks now. you can see the flakes falling and i will show you the seven-day forecast because today is the last day for snow. as we head into tomorrow we will be close to average 45 and many and look at the 30s and 60s for lows and highs friday, saturday and sunday. definitely going to be warm. back home, we can see the swirling counter-clockwise nature as it slides down the

coast and not so much moisture with the system, not so much instability and one of the reasons has been the lack of sunshine. we are seeing a little bit right new and that will help the air become more buoyant that could park a few more showers in the afternoon and you can see the dark clouds are out there, they are just not letting anything go. you can seat bottoms of the crowds are flat f they were diffuse flood would be the rain. isolated showers and thunder and hail will keep it in the forecast and clearing and much cooler with fog around petaluma and santa rosa and sunny and a big warming trend as we head to the end of the week. this is how it looks from the east bay hills it is hazy because of the moisture and too much tree pollen and with it being so warm mar trees will bloom as we get deeper into this week. here is the low pressure the last 12 hours sliding down the coast right at us with the less energy and limited moisture, you can see there is a lot of showers away us. as we zoom in and roll through the next five hours, not much

popping up other than near the coast and our higher elevations. by 9:00, there you go the moon comes out and by tomorrow morning, we are waking up to temperatures in the 30s and 40s rather than the 40s and 50s like this morning. the seven-day forecast shows a little warmer each day, and you can see low-to-upper 60s on tuesday and mid-60 at the coast wednesday and thursday and we reach 70 around the bay and inland and the coast will join us in the 70s on saturday and sunday. we still have a threat of a shower and isolated thunderstorm until 6:00 or 7:00. thanks. a bay area restaurant known for its youth run bistro is getting a taste of the national so the light and is featured on "the chew," here on abc7. the restaurant helps troubled youth realize their potential. they run every aspect of the cafe from cooking hosting to serving. many go on to college or trade school. customers come from all over the city to enjoy the soul food entertainment, and support a great cause.

you can catch "the chew," today at noon right here on abc7. >> there is a new mystery over the unaltered photo of super model christian difficult crawford. it turns out the picture may have been altered after all but now in how you think. remember this picture? it went viral last month because it allegedly showed the ream cindy crawford -- the real sin dry -- the cindy crawford said that picture was stolen and doctored. crawford has remained silent and after it went viral her husband posted a bikini clad picture of her looking far more toned than the other picture. >> you do not see the face in that picture, so there are more questions. >> a skeptic. now you see her face. >> she always looks amazing and she has had children so she looks fabulous. >> celebrating a classic. we will take a trip down memory

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bridge toll plaza. we look into allegations of a design problem with the safety barrier. we will break it down for you at 5:00. >> it was 50 years ago today when the world was introduced to the story of the von trapp family. ♪ the world is alive ♪ >> that is julianne drews playing maria in the beloved film and leaves a convent and falls in love with the captain. >> they leave austria during the war to escape the needses and premiered in new york on march 2 1965 and still is performed e

[cheers and applause] >> yeah! [laughs] welcome to millionaire! i'm terry crews. and by the way you can also check me out on brooklyn nine-nine. yes. [cheers and applause] our first contestant today is no stranger to the spotlight. you can see her seven days a week on the las vegas strip, but today she's all ours. from sin city, please welcome jeannie brei! [cheers and applause] >> big man. [laughing] >> how you doing? >> i'm good. thanks. >> oh, come on over here. this way. there you are, there you are. i hear congratulations are in order. >> well, thank you. >> that you were the classic entertainer of the year