personnel were on alert, likely in response to sunday's threats against twitter co-founder jack dorsey. . >> i don't think it raises the alarm to the level of what terror threat but i think twitter has to look at their physical security. >> he's talking about attacks on the offices of charlie hebdo, carried out by so called lone-wolf agitators. a twitter spokesman says our security team is investigating the threats with relevant law enforcement officials the fbi says they're looking into it. part of the response will depend on the authenticity of the threat. >> we don't know who made this threat. one of the problems with the internet is that you never know where everything comes from. this seems legitimate it was posted to a site that anyone could have posted to. >> according to a translation of the weekend's threatening post isis is threatening the company

because it's been shutting down the terrorist organizations accounts including at kt for jihadi john the man claiming to quote, murdering isis hostages. >> twitter decide that had hate speech and certain types of speech are not okay on their network. >> according to twitter, they were shut down for violations of terms of use. so should employees and neighbors be worried? security experts say people should be aware of anything or anyone who looks suspicious and dan, of course report concerns to police. >> absolutely. immediately. sergio, thank you very much. there is a big reward out tonight for whoever killed a 14-year-old boy, shot while walking with friends saturday night his uncle is a prominent activist working for years to stop the violence on oakland streets, especially among young

people. >> hi, dan, well so far, no one we've talked to can imagine a motive. his uncle told us he was told a car drove up on the young men saturday night. a man got out and said, quote, i'm tim, remember me? and then started to shoot. >> grown man. grown man. shooting at babies. >> todd walker is the uncle of the 14-year-old shot and killed saturday night, walker said ellis and two friends were approached by a man in a car. >> just talking to the store heading to his friend's. the guy rode up on him. and just started shooting. >> sunday night dozens of friends and family gathered for a vigil. >> this tragic opportunity. >> a class mate is a teammate

where ellis was a star football player and excellent student. >> they said they had no reason. i was just shocked. why him? why him? >> this is a despicable act the police have taken a special interest because of the youth of the victim and there is no indication that he did anything that would suspect he would be a target of such a heinous crime. >> an activist and youth football coach attended the funeral. he teaches a class to kids about what it is like to prepare bodies for burial, hoping that will steer them away from violence. >> this is death. >> he will help prepare the body of his own nephew. >> where are the protestors at now? you haven't seen one of them. this is a baby. this is a baby. >> police and crime stoppers are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest

in ellis's murder. in oakland, abc7 news. >> abc7 news learned the family of sierra lamar is suspending a nearly three-year search for the body. the body has not been found despite weekly searches by volunteers. the suspect is charged with her death. prosecutors say that investigators found her hair and dna inside of his car and say garcia-torres dna was detected on some of her clothing found in a field. the last scheduled search will be saturday, march 14th. >> four young people are dead tonight after taking part in what is being described as a party on wheels speeding past aptos high school the occupants ages 16-22 were

from watsonville and not wearing seat belts. some were seen hanging off windows and sun roofs. indecision to four fatalities three teenagers and a 56-year-old pick up driver were injured. a man jailed in livermore on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm after the shooting death of two men. abc7 news was in livermore when a 28-year-old was arrested in a quiet neighborhood across from a city park. two men got in a struggle over a gun and one went off. police say the neighborhood is safe, and they're looking into charges against weirs. >> proettestors are gathering to

investigate a crime officers say perez lopez was threatening a man and tonight abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is live outside the chief's town hall meeting now scheduled to discuss the shooting with the community. cornell? >> the meeting just got underway. the activists have gone inside they're with the answer coalition they tell a different story when police officers shot a man with a knife after saying he tried to rob a cyclist on folsom street. two officers drove up on the crime and saw perez lopez holding a large kitchen knife. the chief says he demanded lopez drop that knife.

co-workers say he was a hard working man who was sending money to his family back in guatemala. >> really hard working guy coming home from work. going to get up early to go to work. and unfortunately that never happened. >> the community activists say he's being demonized by police. they claim the bicyclist stole lopez's cell phone before the shooting. abc7 news spoke with the bicyclist by phone and say police arrived just in time to change his

commuters are facing delays because of a fatal accident on the tracks. cal train says they will not get past capitol station for the time being. >> sky 7 hd was over the scene where an amtrak train left spashg nevada this morning and

banned for san jose. the train was delayed nearly three hours and all passengers got off the train and boarded other trains. >> an east bay woman is in critical condition tonight after being mauled by the family pit bull. investigators are trying to figure out what caused the dog to turn on her suddenly. >> official was animal offices are going door to door in this pinole neighborhood, trying to gather information about the gruesome incident that happened around 10:00 yesterday morning. a 40-year-old woman, mauled by the family dog. a nine and a half year old pit bull mix named blinky. >> described to me as some of the people work here have many years on one of the more-gruesome scenes they've seen. >> the fire chief says it happened in a bedroom. the victim was air lifted to john muir hospital. a neighbor says the woman was helping someone else in the home

who suffered a seizure when the attack occurred. >> possibly the dog interpreted its a threat but9 unbelievably the dog attacked the owner. >> according to the head of animal services others in the home repeatedly stabbed the dog and hit him with a baseball bat to try to get him off the woman. animal services put him down yesterday evening. >> we determined rather than wait for a ten day quarantine we'd euthanize the animal and send a sample to the health lab to determine the presence or absence of rain ease. >> blinky had come to the department's attention for being off leash but that was five years -9ago. anyone with information is beingd-9asked to call county animal services. >> since new guardrails went up on toll booths others have been

crashing into them. >> good evening, we may blame an asterisk. the number of incidents may be the same. just may be a matter of more damage. let me show you what you're talking about. this is a guardrail the bridge says lanes remain the same and the difference is that guardrail over there. >> to hear the district they'll here for your your protection. >> before these came in, yet this, is an improvement according to bridge manager >> the rubber water bumpers sat in front of the block were the

same width. they did not protect vehicles from the edge of that concrete block. >> is there a fatality? >> there is not. >> 32 vehicles reported impacts with them. including john wilson in his rv, number 29 on friday. >> it was all of a sudden, crunch. >> 32 impacts represent a five fold increase in accidents the bridge district blames those on damage to cars.

to they move from spare parts in the back. and with these barriers there is less wiggle woom inside of them. >> it's marrower in the middle. still, still. doesn't look that way. it is that way. designers built these for toll booths now, they skip through at 25 miles per hour and do more damage when hitting stuff. a legal blow to jessica's law puts limits on where sex offenders can live a court found it bans them from living within 2000 feet of a school or

park. the ruling impacts san diego county. an attorney who filed the first lawsuit against jessica's law does more harm than good. >> you drive the people underground. so it ends up hurting other parts of the system. >> the co-author says he's less concerned about the liberties of sex offenders than those of children. >> things are returning back to normal in a flooded neighborhood in san francisco. this is what it looked like yesterday. several inches of rain poured on to san jose avenue. and several cities got a burst

of rainfall today. in hayward the streets got wet today. >> this video of a down pour you can see this video. >> abc7 news anchor is here. anymore in the forecast? >> probably not. you can see it is possible but they're winding down. in southern california notice looping hail storms. this is left behind accumulating hail stones. looks like snow. in the bay area, you can see

from our camera over the bay these are the forecast features, showers inland this evening. if they've not ended this morning. that cold low drops out to showers, thunderstorms, to south. 7:00 tonight, we'll see clouds and showers clouds will be moving out and then milder weather. speaking of later in the week, check ou high temperatures in san jose. saturday sunday, monday, mid-70s that will be temperature trend, high temperature trend inland over next several days. we'll have a chilly night low temperatures dropping into mid

upper 40s. milder tomorrow getting milder later in the week. highs tomorrow into upper 50s to 60s on the coast. mid and mid to upper 60s around the bay and inland. here is the accu-weather forecast. and look at this week ahead. first week of march going to be a mild one. thursday, friday low to mid-70s around the bay and inland. mid to upper 60s on the coast over the weekend mid, maybe mid to upper 70s inland and around the bay. 70 degrees on the coast. sunday by the way, marks the first day of setting blocks back. >> yes. >> well take a look at how spencer spent part of the day today. >> that is

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an jose admits streets are among the worst in the bay area. the price tag to fix them is growing. estimated $5 billion in fines if the work isn't done now the city council transportation committee is looking at how to pay for the problem. ideas include raising taxes or

improving a bond measure. >> given the age the number of streets we have over 2400 miles. >> cities use some of the money to help with road repairs. >> oakland now has the highest minimum wage in california. for many small businesses it's not a cause for celebration. workers will around $12.22 per hour. small businesses are concerned about the impact of the increase and some warned customers prices will go up. >> some voters thought it was a wonderful idea and still do are going to be surprised to see a 20% or 30% increase in menu prices. >> for now, oakland's minimum wage is higher than san

francisco's wages there go up to $12.25 in may, then, $15 by july 2018. cities like berkeley are expected to follow their lead. >> still coming up here at 6:00 a shooting puts lapd under the microscope tonight. why officers felt they had to shoot a homeless man. a small investment in your house can raise the selling price up to 40% i'll show it to you. >> educational start up using a popular video game to help aspire inventors and game developers. >> later a flight against a snow pack observe tori for

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the officer-involved shooting. >> l.a. mayor says two responding officers were wearing body cameras will help in this investigation >> the murkiness should be cleared up often than not. but nobody should depend on cameras by themselves. >> witnesses say the man was mentally ill living on the streets several months. >> many believe officers overreacted. >> the man shot and killed inexcuse yacht, act of violence. >> others simp pathize with officers. >> it's a difficult area. very difficult to be here. work here. >> several community groups plan to rally here and are calling for a swift and independent investigation into that

shooting. a task force is calling for special prosecutors on cases involving fatal interaction with police. presz obama created the task force after deadly shootings. they were released today just ahead of the report of the deadly shooting of michael brown in furring gus on. >> will be good for police and communities involved and good for the country. >> the justice department's report which could be out this week reports officials to negotiate a settlement over allegations of a pattern of racially discrime in a tori tactics or face a lawsuit. >> eve of a speech to congress israeli prime minister is

sending a message the world must not allow iran to obtain nuclear weapons the address was not coordinated with the white house is expected to harshly criticize a looming nuclear between between the west and iran. he spoke today >> i have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of dangers while there is still time to avert them. the days when the jewish people are passive in the face of threats of another those days are over. >> susan rice says a bad nuclear deal with iran is worse than no deal. >> tonight a major milestone for tech investors. the nasdaq index posts above 5000 today. this is only the third time the nasdaq ever closed above 5000

the dow set a record with a gain of 155 points. tesla dropped after reports showing they're now making more cars than selling. costco says it's koeschosen citibank to offer it's credit card next year. and yahoo marked it's 20th anniversary by ringing the nasdaq's opening bell changed to the sound of a yodel. david louie looked in on yahoo when it was four months old and headquarters looked like a dorm room. >> thousands of people poured into san francisco for the video game developers' conference today, the chances are your cool aged kids have only one game on their minds minecraft. it is being used to inspire the

inventors and game developers of tomorrow. what could have these kids staring at one screen? maybe you've heard of it. it's a game called minecraft. >> what is this thing? >> i don't know if we can explain it. if we call over one of the kids. >> it's just very addicting. you can do whatever you want. you can build massive structures. and you can just let your mind create. >> a virtual world taking the real world by storm. >> we were testing our kits all over the world. and kids were asking us you know kshgs we play minecraft? >> well, now you can. this $150 kit is called piper. kids build a machine that builds minecraft, building buttons first, then in the real world and in the game.

>> it gets you excited when putting parts together. when you're done it's starting to load. >> mark wanted to teach them gadgets they know aren't that mystical. >> it's something you can take apart and put together and something you can do, yourself, now. that is a very empowering thought to give kids >> creators were hoping to build a more productive way to play minecraft. >> the first thing i saw was engagement. i saw kids who immediately turned toward their box and were engaged. >> it could be part of a tech class where they teach kids to code. >> it's really a platform to get a lot of kids excited in engineering that won't be otherwise. >> he is a junior at harvard and dreams of building a college version some day.

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the drought. here is a look at it. >> frank had been measuring snow density nearly three decades. >> accumulated snow is the principle water supply for the western u.s. >> but the measurements only get a snap shot in a single location he'd need to plant thousands of holes to get a picture of the region. that would be impossible. until now this is the snow bowl. >> what we have chosen to do is in each basin, there are more of those. >> we taught up with researchers between lights outside of sacramento.

on board, an image being shows how fast the snow pack will melt. together they provide a map of the snow pack. >> they're scanning out 200 pulses per second, touching trees and snow. between measuring snow death. >> it can go from 0 feet to 30 you can see it more he efficiently and we do have this in existence.

>> the course of the water from 200 people in the bay area. >> i could not only ensure reservoir was full, but also to increase the generation is not cheap. >> that is fascinating. >> it is. >> a preliminary analysis confirms what we know. there isn't much snow. >> helped a little. >> yes. we did get hail but take a look

at huntington beach. >> you can see sand is covered with pea-sized hail. >> a snow man there. right? >> yes. >> hailman. >> there you go. >> here is a time lapse view there is light snow in tahoe. a few clouds around the bay area. rainfall totals 24 hours. 500 in san jose. tomorrow sunny, dry, and more snow showers in the sierra. more lingering rain showers in

southern california here is the accu-weather forecast. look at the warm up thursday, and friday. highs inland low to mid-70s and up to 70s on the coast over the weekend. >> thank you. >> that is right. >> they're trying to finish up this road trip. can they seal a win? you won't

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l good evening, after coming back from a 26-point deficit, the question is how much did warriors have left in the tank? finishing up a 6-game road trip in brooklyn. andrew bogat only played 19 minutes. the bevenlg erupts folks feeling good. he's got 16 in the first half and taking issue with the double fore arm and gets teed up.

brook had 26 days in the game. curry on fire in the fourth. you can fly on by then quick trigger to tie it at 108. and moment ago, a jumper putting the nets up with less than two seconds remaining. we'll spare you the map over six years. paddy catches fire to get back into it.

the lead heading to 14. disaster. into palm trees. into 18th. forcing a playoff to drove a first play off hole. that is for the win. second play off, a tee shot into the drig. two putts for par. victory worth a million bucks. harrington 297 and victorious this week. >> i said i was happy to be there.

i changed my mind set. >> the host tonight haven't lost home to the canadiens in 15 years. nothing major. ben smith and they shift forward tyler kennedy. columbus to minnesota wild today. his 11-year-old daughter is urging the wild to pray for their father. one of the blue jackets defensemen, we're living in minnesota right now. and if you can ask the jackets

if you can get them. leopold to minnesota. >> a shot at jack. >> yes. >> thank you, larry. >> how many cups of coffee are safe to drink? 2, 3? how about five? that is at nine. >> cosmetic surgery usually focuses on removing wrinkles but now the back side is coming to the fore front the new procedure to bring up the rear if you will. >> and a bachelor special the women tell all, followed by secrets and lies and stay with us for abc7 news at 11:00.

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problems for the contestants, that tends to slow things down. but we have an excellent champion in jose. two wins, $38,000. and two great competitors, leslie and thomas. welcome aboard and good luck. here we go. and here are the categories for you. we start off today with... notice the "do" in quotation marks. alex: jose. may the fork be with you for $200, please. this type of fork used for seafood shares its name with a type of mixed drink or party. leslie. what is cocktail? that's it. literary characters, $200, please.