good afternoon, everybody. i'm larry biel. >> i'm amma dates. there are very few clues about what brought down a german jetliner, killing 150 people. the german wings flight heading from spain to germany crashed in a remote section of the french alps this morning. there was no distress caught. however, the black box has been found. that should help investigators figure out what caused the crash. elizabeth her has the details. >> reporter: horror and sadness that's how one local french maker is describing this debris field in the french alps now ground zero for investigators. >> this is a tragic moment for lufthansa. it's really a dark day in our

history. >> reporter: the german giant lufthansa owns the german wings airbus passenger jet that crashed in this area near a popular ski resort. the company confirming 150 passengers and crew were on board at the time and all are feared dead, including 16 students and two teachers from germany on an exchange trip. >>. >> translator: we are in a deep state of shock. it's the worst thing imaginable. >> reporter: heart sick family and friends are now gathering at airports in spain and germany for any news. officials say so far they know about 45 minutes into its flight from barcelona to dusseldorf the plane lost altitude for eight minutes. why? they don't know. >> for the time being, we say it's an accident. there is nothing more that we can say. >> reporter: the airbus a320 previously captured in this amateur video according to company officials, passed its routine inspection just yesterday. they also say the pilot was experienced.

so they don't know why there was no distress call from the cockpit. >> germany and spain are among our strongest allies. america stands with them at this moment of sorrow. >> reporter: u.s. officials are still in the process of determining whether any americans were on board. >> while they continue to closely monitor the situation they say for now they do not suspect terrorism. abc news new york. >> abc news is staying on top of all the developments in the crash and we'll have team coverage coming up later on world news tonight at 5:30. >> vallejo police and the fbi are working on an apparent kidnapping for ransom case after a woman was taken from her home early yesterday. the boyfriend of 29-year-old dennis huskins says she was taken against her will from her mare island holm. her car was also taken from her home and found as an undisclosed location in vallejo. coming up, you'll hear from the missing woman's father who came

up from southern california to help search for his daughter. right now in san francisco police are still searching for a convicted drug dealer who escaped from jail last night. >> we are learning there are many questions surrounding the ease of his escape. abc7 news reporter vic lee right now at san francisco county jail. vick. >> reporter: there is a $5 million escape warrant out for alexander sand yago gonzalez. and that's the jail over there. as you said larry, you know, there are so many questions today over this escape. foremost, how could this have happened? now, the sheriff's office has launched an investigation while they look for the escapee. >> alexander santiago gonzalez was being held in the county jail while his federal guns and drugs case wound its way through federal court. last night at about 8:45 the prisoner was put on trash detail. he was escorted by a sheriff's deputy as he carried garbage from the jailhouse to a dumpster.

suddenly, when they got to an unsecured area, he ran from the deputy out to an alley, and then to harrison street. sheriff's deputies launched an allout search for gonzalez but to no avail. easy disappeared into the night. gonzalez was arrested last may by a multiagency task force in santa cruz county. investigators call him a big fish in the drug trade. they confiscated from his home an arsenal of weapons and large quantities of black tar heroin. >> 14 firearms three of which were assault type rifles. he had hundreds of rounds of ammunition force the weapons. he had two sets of body armor and plus the amount of drugs that he was trafficking into the county. >> reporter: our sources say gonzalez is part of a bigger federal investigation into illegal drug shipments from mexico. he was convicted once before on drug charges and deported. he had reentered the u.s. illegally, and as much was placed on an immigration hold. gonzalez was considered dangerous.

still, the sheriff's office held gonzalez in a security level that permitted him to go to unsecured areas to perform chores like the trash detail. we asked the sheriff why. >> candidly, i would have to say that it is questionable as to how he might have been classified as an outsider. in fact if he was, again the internal investigation will determine whether or not he was. >> reporter: this is the second time in ten months that a prisoner has escaped from san francisco county jail. timothy midget a convicted drug dealer, was also taking out trash when he ran. he was later captured at a homeless shelter. vic lee, abc7 news. a woman who went missing during a mike yesterday near citizenson beach is now in jail. the 23-year-old became separated from two male friends and they reported her missing. here's the twis. authorities say once the woman realized people were looking for her she intentionally hid from

them because she had an arrest warrant in mendocino county. she reportedly tried to sneak back to her car around 11:00 this morning but a sheriff's deputy was stand willing waiting for her. she is being hild held on $2500 bail. a walnut creek high school added extra police officers today because of a graffiti threat. it was found skrauld inside a boy's locker room at loss lomas high school. police conducted a risk assessment and determined the campus was safe. officials decided to keep the school open but assigned more police officers to the campus. in less that two hours the agency that provides water to much of the south bay will consider new stricter conservation guidelines, that's on top of the existing rules. some customers say they are already saving as much as they can. david louie is live at the water district offices in san jose. >> reporter: there is no question that the vote that's about to happen in two hours is going to create a ripple effect

among the retailers who provide the water to homes and businesses here in the valley. the agency is going to impose a 30% restriction. and one water company, san jose water, says it's ready to jump on board as early as tomorrow. water users will have to more than double their efforts to meet the proposed 30% goal. south bay customers have been iguodala saving about 13%. that's 7% below the goal of 20%. residents say they are baffled what more they can do. >> i don't know. i take shorter showers. i turn off my water when i brush my teeth. so i don't know what else to do. >> reporter: what's also behalfeling is the potential patchwork goals. while the water district can set goals they are only recommendations. retailers are the ones that set goals and restrictions. they are waiting for tonight's vote. >> i think that's a common concern by residents regardless of where they live, is what measures apply and who to report

waste to. so the water district's anticipated actions tonight would greatly help that. >> reporter: for example, san jose water, which encompasses most of san jose, allows watering every other day but it plans to embrace the 30% goal if approved. the 5 hund a day fines would have to be done by filing complaints with local police agencies. but there is one way some local homeowners can meet and exceed the goal. by taking out lawns and planting drought resistant plants. that's being done here at this home. >> the whole thing was lawn. now they are getting it down to 50%. in the back they cut it back to 70%. so they minimize water use. >> reporter: the cost for relandscaping depends on yard size and the design but can range from 3 to $6,000. and the water saving could surpass the 30% goal. in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. we enjoyed mild temperatures

today but spencer christian says they are on their way up the temperatures. >> but first it's cloudy, spencer, cloudy and cool. >> it is. it is a bit invigorateing out here. i'm enjoying the cool weather because we have much warmer weather coming our way. then we will be complain it's too hot. lingering clouds today a bit of a breeze. but it is a pleasant afternoon around the bay area. here's the view from the western sky. check that out. clouds at various levels of the atmosphere. 61 in san francisco right now. mid 60s in oakland, san carlos 57. 59 at half moon bay looking from our east bay lils hills camera, 67 in santa rosa, napa 68, 70 in fairfield. upper 60s in concord and livermore. as we look at the golden gate bridge with a cloud cover above, here is our first forecast. partly cloudy this evening no. rain expected. patches of coastal fog will

linger early tomorrow morning. by the arch sunny and warmer across the bay area. the coast won't warm up very much. low to mid 60s there. inlands, up near 80 degrees tomorrow. and the warming continues thursday and friday. i'll have more a little bit later. >> thanks spencer. happening now a roller coaster at an orlando, florida theme park is shut down after some people had to be rescued from it. video from about half an hour ago shows people being pulled from the incredible hulk coaster at universal's islands of adventure. about a dozen riders were left hanging in the air for 40 minutes. no one was hurt. universal said there was a glitch and is investigating what may have caused the glitch. still ahead, angelina jolie's personal revelation. the medical community reacts to the star's stunning surgery. and the most powerful woman on wall street leaves it all behind for silicon valley. the executive position she's taking at a high-tech giant. new at 4:30 new days about

the truck tragedy that claimed the life of an east bay mother. and what's making her passing even more heart breaking. 7 on your side's michael finney is taking your questions on twitter and facebook. he will answer them here later. taking on a live look at traffic, this is 1 to 1 in san jose. it's southbound traffic. it's bottled up as it usually is at this hour. smooth sailing coming back north bound. that's 8

from the film community to the medical community, everybody seems to be reacting today to angelina jolie's new medical revelation to have a second preventive procedure to stop cancer before it strikes. abc news reporter cana with it worth has more. >> reporter: as only ainge angelina jolie can she wrote about the stifling clarity to ing under the knife again. you know what you live for, and it matters it's polarizing and it's peaceful. the 39-year-old actress wrote in the new york times a recent blood test found a potential sign of ovarian cancer, also the cancer that killed her mother. it was a difficult and deeply personal discussion decision. jolie said she broke down while meeting with the same surgeon who treated her mother. but the procedure to remove her ovaries and tubes was a success. >> we don't have a consensus when this surgery should be done. 35, we hear 40.

obviously it has to be done at the end of child bearing because it mayss a woman into immediate menopause. >> i will not be able to have any more children and i expect some physical changes but i feel at ease with whatever will come jolie said. acknowledging some things are still out of her hands, jolie wrote the fact is i remain prone to cancer adding i know my children will never have to say, mom died of ovarian cancer. >> dr. ashton says the average woman has about a one percent chance of developing ovarian cancer but with the gene mutation that risk can be as high as 40% n. los angeles, cana with it worth, abc news. closing arguments took place in the lawsuit filed by the venture capitalist attorney suing her former silicon valley employer. ellen pao is suing for 16 mfrlds claim she was retaliated against after an affair with a senior colleague. pao's husband runs a hedge fund

which she says went bankrupt about the time she filed the suit. wall street's most powerful woman has made the jump to silicon valley. ruth pourate has been hired as google's new chief financial officer. she worked previously at morgan stanley and played a pivotal role in the crisis. pourate is no stranger to the bay area. she grew up in palo alto and graduated from stanford. president obama said today he plans to keep just under 10,000 troops in afghanistan through the end of this year. the announcement came right after his first oval office meeting with new afghan president ghani. mr. obama planned to cut troops in the coming month but adds this exings tension will help keep afghanistan safe and better aid with the total withdrawal planned for early yeks near. sharon jennings was the very

first western journalist to interview the new president in afghanistan. she talked with him about working with the san rafael based nonprofit roots of peace. george zimmermann says president obama is to blame for ramping up sentiment during the trayvon martin case saying if he had a son he would look like trayvon. he called the comment insends year and blasted the president for directing the justice department to do a baseless prosecution. a florida jury acquitted zimmermann of manslaughter in the 2013 death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. new research says doctors are failing to disclose to patients they have alzheimer's. an angry outbursts are harmful to your health. those stories and more in today's wellness report. >> reporter: more than half of people with alzheimer's or their caregivers have never been told by their doctors they have the

condition. the alzheimer's association says this is alarming because people are being robds to be able to make important decisions about their lives. doctors sometimes withhold the news about the uncertainty about the diagnosis, lack of time to fully discuss it or fear of causing emotional distress. medical researchers increasingly are finding how toxic anger can be. new evidence by duke university says the risk of a heart attack after an angry outburst goes up eightfold. taking cigarettes off the store shelves won't stop smokers. that's according to former wallgreen's ceo who says pharmacies should do more to help people quit. he also recommended telemedicine, where clients can talk to clients. the wall street journal reports on a pilot program that pushes routine testing for osteoporosis

which strikes as many as one in four men. women are still more likely to suffer from osteoporosis but men are twice as likely to die in the year following a hip fracture typically the first sign of osteoporosis. >> let's get to the weather. a cool but invigorated spencer christian. >> always invigorated. >> it's one of those days i fine inspiring and energizing. i know larry you wouldn't know about that. here live doppler 7 hd. we have brighter skies right now than we did ten minutes ago. we have cloud cover but it's not extensive. this is a view from the roof top camera looking over the bay. our forecast features are these. patchy coastal fog. warmer pattern tomorrow. continues through the ends of the week. record highs are possible on thursday, which will be the peak of our warming. here is a weak disturbance moving through the bay area

right now, thus the clouds. but we have a surge of warm air coming our bay from our southwest. that's going to produce the warm up over the next few days. watch the warming friend here starting with tomorrow. we'll see highs in the upper 70s to near 80 inland. not much warming on the coast. thursday it will be in the upper 60s on the coast and we'll see mid-80s inlands on thursday. that's where we may see records. friday cooler at the coast and in most areas near the bay. inland still quite warm with mid 80s in places like antioch and dloefrdale. saturday and sunday back to a more seasonal range of temperatures. overnight look for partly cloudy skies near the coast and some fog near the coast as well. mainly clear inland especially up in the north bay where lows will drop into the low 40s. low 50s for the most part right around the bay. tomorrow mainly sunny. mid to upper 70s. 76 at san jose. on the peninsula look for mid 70s. 74 at redwood city and mountain view. low to mid 60s on the coast,

manically low 60s. downtown san francisco a high of 69 tomorrow. up in the north bay, sunny skies with highs at 77 at santa rosa. napa at 76. 73 at oakland union city 74. and castro valley, and freemont. around 80 at antioch. 77 at walnut creek. and livermore, 76 and pleasanton. record highs are possible in some spots on thursday that will be the peak of our inland warming. and then we'll be cooling down a little bit around the coast and around the bay on friday. eel lovely weather ahead. of course we still need rain. and we'll keep talking about it. but that's not making it happen. >> we'll see how invigorating you are on thursday when you are the wilting spencer christian. >> sveltering out there. up next, dancing dismissal,

singer redfoo tells us about husband out offing from the abc reality show. new after 4:30, ray mcdonald is getting ready to suit up

for the second week of "dancing with the stars," the theme was, my jam monday. >> and despite the celebs giving it their all one couple had to go home. abc news reporter george pan actio has more from los angeles. ♪ >> reporter: redfoo was the week's most improved player up nine points from a week ago, but he and partner emma slater were sent home anyway because the eliminations are based on the previous week's judge's scores and viewers votes. >> next week i was going to get better. that's just how i do it. i guess it was -- the start was a little too slow. >> reporter: number one this week gymnast nastia luken and her partner derrick handcuff.

>> i'm all about the sports. derrick is like what about the performance. >> we got nine. >> rumer willis, willow shields, and reicher lynch tied for second place. >> everybody looks awesome. everybody is having a good time. you know? it's going to be a tough season. >> >> reporter: we also saw a four way tie for sixth place with robert, michael, patty and suzanne. >> you threw a 68-year-old woman under his legs and lifted her up again. >> reporter: the 10th place finisher noah galloway felt like the evening's winner when his girlfriend surprised him with an early visit from basic training. >> it was the most amazing moment. i'm going to let them do their thing tonight. and then we'll get back to it tomorrow. >> 11th place finisher charlotte mckinney will be back to it as well, as long with bachelor chris soules the 11 remaining couples return next monday night

for latin week. snooze as george mentioned the fun continues with "dancing with the stars" next monday night at 8:00 right here on abc7. as we continue on abc7 news at 4:00, birds versus the board. almeida county supervisors picking up a controversial wind mill proposal some say will harm wildlife. >> when you look at the video the officers were in absolutely no danger. >> but first police protesters give an earful to san francisco police chief greg sir. how the city's police chief responded to the crowd. new details this afternoon on an east the volkswagen jetta is really fun-to-drive. go for it. okay. wow... woohoo! i'm dreaming... pinch me. no, not while you're driving. and, right now, you can get a one-thousand-dollar volkswagen credit bonus on jetta models. seriously, pinch me. it's not a dream. ow! it's the volkswagen stop dreaming, start driving event. stop dreaming, and test-drive one today. hurry in and you can get 0% apr

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. as we come up on 4:30, here's news making headlines where you live. one black box has been found so far by rue crews on the scene of a german jetliner that went down in a remote section of the french alps today. all 150 on board died in the crash. the pilots lost radiocontact with their control center but did not send out a distress call before their crashed. laura anthony is following the case of a woman who was kidnapped for ransom. laura tweets this is camry

related to missing woman. you will hear from huskins father on abc7 news at 5:00. >> and chris nguyen tweets about a woman who is grateful angelina jolie has made it public that she has had preventative surgeries to prevent cancer. this is a picture of a gravel truck that tipped over on mother who was sitting inside her car, killing the woman. janet ins jous live from plesants hill. >> reporter: customers have been trying to get inside to get a haircut. lindsey combs was a hair stylist here. when colleagues found out what happened yesterday afternoon they immediately closed the business to give everyone a chance to grieve. for six years 32-year-old lindsey combs worked at this station at sports clips doing

what she loved. >> there is a saying in the industry that beauty changes lives. and lindsey truly believed every day that she was here that she was changing someone's life. >> ben was combs' boss and friend. he said she had a lot going for her before her life was cut short by a freak accident. >> 4-year-old daughter. was engaged to be married. had told us two weeks ago that she was pregnant with her second childs. so that makes this even more tragic. >> reporter: back at the scene on shell avenue in martinez, flowers rest in the driveway where combs was crushed while trying to move her car. call osha says they are gathering evidence trying to figure out if safety protocols were followed. the driver of the gravel truck now dealing with the aftermath. >> he is soid completely destroyed over what happened. i just spoke to him about an

hour ago. he is not handling it well. you know, he's going to retire this coming january. >> reporter: greg menna says darryl crockette worked for him as a subcontractor for 25 years without any violations. crockette was driving was jjr construction when the accident happened yesterday afternoon. >> he felt comfortable with it and it was going up level. and something happened. it just -- he didn't move. his brakes were locked. >> the trailer had recently been inspected and deemed safe. he says crockette was carrying a legal load of gravel n. martinez janet oh, abc7 news. a man was found shot to death in oakland. the body was discovered near third avenue and east 17th street after officers responded to gunshots reported just after 3 a.m. the victim's identity hasn't been released and no arrests have been made. new details in the fatal shooting of a woman by

undercover san francisco police officers. the family for the attorney of alice brown says he is looking to the possibility that she reacted erratically during the incident because she didn't know the intentions of the two officers since they were not in uniform. the attorney made the comments before a raucous town hall meeting last night. >> look at the video, the officers were in absolutely no danger. >> protesters repeatedly challenged the chief about the shooting and other issues during the meeting. officers are said to have opened fire on brown last tuesday to protect people in the area. police say she crashed her car in a building and crashed into cars and tried to hit others on the street witnesses agreed. >> pretty accurate. it happened so quick it was hard for me to remember. i feel she didn't respond to the police and that's why they drew their guns. >> the chief abruptly ended the meeting after 30 minutes because of what he believed was unruly

behavior by the crowd. >> secret service member joseph clansze received a grilling on capitol hill for his handling of the incident. >> it's three weeks after the incident and you don't know why it takes 11 minutes to pick up the phone and say police department, we have got a problem down here. it takes 27 minutes to secure the scene. 27 minutes. what if it was a real bomb? what if it was a real bomb? >> they hearing, lawmakers got look at new police video of an active bomb investigation in front of the white house earlier this month. the two agency agents who reportedly been drinking at a party drive into a barricade and almost directly into the suspicious package. clancy says his department hasn't completed the investigation. a close call for a man who bit into an apple and found a needle inside. check it out. he sank his teeth into a honey crisp apple narrowly missing the

needle inside. it didn't ends there. list gran daughter cut into another one and found another needle. the grocery store was notified. no other tainted fruit was found. ray mcdonald was cut by the 49ers because of off the field issues. he is about to sign with the chicago bears. the 49ers decided to part ways with mcdonald after he was involved in a domestic abuse case followed bisexual allegations. he will be reunited with fangio who is now in chicago working for the bears. before the bears agreed to offer mcdonald the contract the bears had to get permission from their chairman and his wife. the chairman met personally with mcdonald for two hours. former niners coach jim harbaugh says he is getting paid too much to be the new head coach at the university of michigan. >> the owner of the niners would

agree. in an interview, harbaugh was asked if he is worth his new salary, $5 million a year. he said, no but does not plan on taking a pay cut. initial reports said he was offered $8 million a year to take that michigan job in january. if it was $8 million it would have made him the highest paid coach in high school football. his salary puts harbaugh in the top ten in the country. imagine internet 100 times faster than what you have now. coming up mountain view's google reveals the next city to get this lightning fast connection. first a school bus scare. what police in pennsylvania are hoping to learn about the driver of this bus after it plowed right into a home. i'm michael finney. ask finney is just ahead. so i'm still taking your questions on twitter and facebook. just search for michael finney. i'll answer your questions here live in just a little bit. >> spencer christian.

we can see high clouds and low clouds still hanging around. but it will be sunnier and warmer the next few days. i'll have the forecast coming female narrator: for over 60,000 california foster children a pair of shoes is a small but important gift. my shoes have a hole in them. i can barely fit in these anymore. i hope no one would notice. they hurt my feet. i never had new shoes before. to help, sleep train is collecting new shoes of all sizes. bring your gift to any sleep train, and they'll be given to a local foster child in need. not everyone can be a foster parent... but anyone can help a foster child.

this afternoon, investigators are looking into whether the driver of this yellow school bus may have suffered some kinds of medical problem before plowing into a home in suburban pennsylvania. we first brought you the story earlier today. it was live on the abc7 morning

news. none of the nine students on board when the accident happened were hurd. this is the community of blue bell about an hour north of philadelphia. the driver was taken to the hospital to be checked out. >> for a look at traffic in the bay area let's go to our 360 am. >> we are looking at traffic on the embarcadero. it's trying to get to 280. it's been backed up for a while now. inching along. and if we turn it around, you can see the cars piled up behind our driverers on top of one of our trucks here. you can see you are not going anywhere very quickly if you are on the embarcadero trying to get to 280. there is traffic moving throw in the other direction. now let's get to spencer christian with a look at our weather. you can tell in this shot it's gray outside today. >> that is true. anna. gray skies out there, but getting bluer even as we speak. let me show you the time lapse from this morning -- earlier today. it was morning. check out the clouds traveling

over the bay. pretty gray sky, at least during that part of the day. it's getting brighter now. the clouds are thinning out later in the day. here is live doppler 7 hd. you can see how thin the clouds are there. nationally it will be a quiet day for much of the western half of the nation. showers up around seattle. in the east, showers over the mid atlantic. rain over the ohio valley eastern great lakes. and snow up over northern minnesota and southwestern ontario. over california tomorrow mainly sunny skies. and just about from top to bottom. quite warmdown south. 92 in palm springs. our warming trend begins tomorrow with the inland highs upper 70s and near 80. as we use san jose for the indicator of the warming trends later this week. look for a record high on thursday. we'll see highs in the 80s in many locations towards the end

of the week. a rare moment of happiness from the devastation of hurricane katrina. still ahead on nbc 7 news at 4:00, the new mission for this airman nearly a decade later. and internet 100 times faster than what you use now. the major city getting connected. >> today's ask finney segment is exin

botts's bid to host the 2024 olympics may be put up to a public vote. the leader of boston's bid today said he wants to win the public's approval with a referendum for the expensive undertaking. the goal is to get the question on the baltd next november. the international olympic committee has a record of choosing cities with strong public support for the olympics. public polls show shrinking support for bringing the games to boston. >> hoping by offering up the referendum with the approval of the governor and the mayor the people understand how sincere we are about wanting this

conversation. >> the committee says if it can't win a majority in boston it will not go forward with the bid process. the ioc plans to pick a host city in 2017. london's 2012 summer olympics cost nearly $15 billion. internet service about to get a lot faster in salt lake city utah than it is in the heart of silicon valley. google announced today it will soon be digging up the streets and laying down cable to provide incredibly fast internet access in the utah capital. the service is called google fiber. and it delivers internet speeds up to one giga about it a second. that's 100 times faster than most current networks. all for around $70 a month. google has listed several south bay cities as potential sites. a new steve jobs biography is out today. this one according to apple executives captured their founder more accurately than previous ones.

becoming steve jobs they say sheds a more positive light on the apple cofounder. the authors say they were trying to dispel common myths about jobs and about who he was and exactly how he lived. time now for ask finney. 7 on your side's michael finney answers your questions sent in via facebook twitter and e-mail. our first question comments last month covered california admits they miss calculated hundreds of forms. i have not seen a new one. should i assume i did mine right. >> all those effected were supposed to get a letter bay when i first reported this. the letter was going to say we are going to send you new information and then the new forms were going out. if you didn't receive the letter or the new form you are probably good to go. however, if you want to check, go on the website. use your normal log in. you can see where they have you

set and make sure it's what is on your tax forms. if they are the same i wouldn't worry it. >> no news is good news. david g. e-mails i was told by a loan officer that loan modification should be based on net income not gross income. is that true. >> no not that i'm aware of. maybe there is some program i don't know. the home affordable mortgage modification that's based on gross. you are not supposed to spend more on your mortgage than 31% of your gross income. i think they are either confused or you could potentially be on a fakey website. if you are on a website and you are checking out information make sure it says.gov and not.com on the enof it. suzy p. e-mailed settling a debt with a corporation holding the debt adversely affect one's credit. >> by settling i assume you settled for less money.

in that case, yes. that hurts your credit. however, not paying or paying late affects your credit. also be aware you are hit with a tax bill because it's considered income. if you owed $100,000 and you settled for $50,000, the remaining $50,000 can be considered income. this was forgiven for a lot of mortgage loans but not all. you have to check with your account skpant tax people. >> thank you michael. an effort is underway to help a former air force sergeant who spent his career helping others. >> mike maroney is hoping to track down the girl in this picture with him. the sholt was taken moments he rescued the girl and her family from the roof top in the days after hurricane katrina. he says the hug meant much to him after a hard week. he says he tried to find the family over the years without luck. but now the search has gone viral under the hashtag fine

katrina kid. maroney says he would love another hug and find out how she is doing. taco bell fans say good-bye to the waffle taco and hello to the business cut waffle. >> it's launching the new breakfast item this week. warm fluffy, buttery business cuts folded in the shape of a tack ochlt it's filled with sausage, eggs and cheese. our all white meat crispy chicken, the waffle taco did not last long. it's being retired after less than a year. abc7 news at 4:00 continues. up next, win and wildfire. the new worry in the east bay as lawmakers take up a controversial wind mill proposal proposal. new at 5:00. beating the heat. the 49ers say they have figured

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here's a look at tonight's primetime line up on abc7. at 8:00 things get dark quickly. no, it's fresh off the body. and then at 8:30 repeat after me. marvel's agents of shield at 9:00. you can catch forever at 10:00. and then join us for abc7 news at 11:00. >> kids at a raoul walnut creek day-care center are devastated after a group of teens broke into the center and stole their bunny. >> security video caught the teens climbing over this enclosure and then taking three rabbits from the children's center. check out the signs the kids made pleading for the rabbits to be brought back. and one of the bunnies was returned. >> ginger appeared back in the enclosure this morning with a

letter. in it the thieves say they are sorry and it was a bad idea. then they say that two other rabbits, they ran away. >> they also left several children's books on bunnies for the kids by this afternoon a second bunny was returned by a high school student. probably a bunch of teenaged kids, a dumb frank. battle over birds is going on in one east bay county. >> it's over generating power with wind mills but killing as few birds as possible in the process. liam melendez is live in oakland with how it all turned out today. >> reporter: let me tell you this was a huge surprise for wildlife advocates who thought that the board was going to along with the zoning board which had rejected this extension. now, this means that this company ata monte winds incorporated will continue to operate its older wind mills, more than 800 of them until

202018. the problem occurred when they had agreed to switch to newer models by this year. they knew they were going to miss the deadline and asked for an extension. the other four companies out there along the pass will be able to meet their dead linebackers. all of them have eventually have if much larger win mills which is what the autobahn society wanted. the larger wind mills create more power than the older and smaller ones. by having fewer turbines there will be fewer dead birds including the golden eagle. according to autobahn california keeping these older models for three more years would cost the death of about 1600 birds. >> when she is original turbines were put in in the 1980s there was no mitigation measures to account for the impact to birds. as new turbines go in we are trying to find place where is there is lower bird use. >> reporter: the company argued

before the board of supervises that it needed more time to make the switch and that jobs would be lost if they were not granted the extension. >> the staff that i am using for repower is the staff i'm using. if there is no revenue most of the staff would have to go away. >> that definitely was a selling point for the board. they believed jobs were more important and voted 3-2 to grant that extension through 2018. the board is well aware this may have an impact, that today's decision could result or be followed by a lawsuit by any of these groups to try to move the process along. i'm live in oakland,ly yawn melendez abc7 news. thank you leann. and thank you for joining us for abc7 news at 4:. >> abc7 news at 5:00 begins right now with dan and cheryl. >> i snow she just didn't let somebody come and take her.

>> a father waits to hear about his policing daughter as police dogs search for clues in vallejo. >> plus we are learning how dangerous this prisoner is who escaped white taking out the trash at the san francisco jail. and the public outcry over private bus services. >> 30 people waiting for one of these services in front of his front doorstep and couldn't get out of his drive way. it may not look like it right now but spring warmth is on the way. i'll have the temperatures coming up. the fbi is called in to help search for a missing vallejo woman while her father tries to stay strong. >> the biggest fear is the horror she might be going through. that's my biggest fear. >> understandably. dieng. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jennings. thank you for joining us. i'm been 27 hours since denizese huskins was reported missing and possibly kidnapped for ransom.

sky 7 hd was overhead as authorities toed her door from the boyfriend's home to downtown vallejo. abc7 news broke the story last night on the air and on social media. our laura anthony joins us from the boyfriend's home with the latest. >> reporter: this is the neighborhood, the home actually right behind me where denise huskins was last seen according to her boyfriend. you can see police evidence technicians leaving the front door with a ladder in hand. the boyfriend toldis police he was there monday early when denise was kidnapped for ransom. this afternoon we talked with huskins' father who flew up from southern california. mike usu huskins told us this is like a nightmare. >> don't hurt her. please don't hurt her. >> reporter: through his pain and exhaustion, mike huskins pleaded with his daughter's alleged kidnapper to let her go unharmed. the biggest fear is the horror

she might be going through. that's my biggest fear, is that she is going through such horror. she doesn't deserve that, not from anybody. >> reporter: monday afternoon, her boyfriend reported 29-year-old denise huskins was abducted from this home on mare island. >> as of this moment ms. huskins' whereabouts are unknown and we are treating this matter as a kidnap for ransom. >> reporter: police say the boyfriend identified through dmv records as a 30-year-old darin quinn has questioned extensively is and is not a suspect at this time. police released photos denise's car. investigators believed it was related to her disappearance. they also could not explain why quinn didn't call 911 until nearly 2:00 in the afternoon though he claims huskins was abducted sometime in the early morning hours. >> if he was tied up that would, you know, maybe -- maybe something