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more. >> the police have a murder express on their hands and no word of arrest. police responded to on block of jefferson street last night at 9:45. this was report of a shooting. a man was on the ground. officers found the man with a gunshot wound to the chest. emergency medical workers were there but he died at the scene. he was identified at 22-year-old william pachenko jr. if you have information on the case call the hayward police department. a major intersection in san rafael is closed while a gas leak is repaired reported last night at 8:00. pg&e said the contract workers were boring and hit a 2" line and working to pinch off the pipe and stop the leak. the neighborhood is mostly industrial so no homes are affected. the look should be in stopped in time to re-open the intersection
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by 6:00 this morning. the san francisco police racist text scandal is in the spot light and chief suhr will recommend who to suspend or fire with a news conference. we are there with a preview. >> police chief greg suhr will suspend three officers today who have been accused of sending racist and homophobic text messages and another officer has we resigned. the text were released during a bail hearing for former officer ferminger who has been convicted of core -- corruption. the chief suhr tells abc7 that there will be a recommendation to fire the officers a total of 13 officers are under investigation with more
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suspensions to come. there will an news conference at 12:30 to to discuss a a concurrent investigation looking into the crime laboratory and changing of evidence. san francisco police are trying to identify the suspect in a vicious and unprovoke attack open a homeless man. surveillance video shows the man hitting the victim on the head with a metal pipe and calmly walking away. it happened open when night. the victim is still in critical condition. our reporter will have more on the victim who is well-known and well licked in -- liked in the neighborhood. a man accused of pushing another man in front of a muni train last month will appear in court today. he faces attempted murder, assault and battery. police say he pushed another map in front of the train during a fight at the civic center station platform march 8. the victim managed to pull
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himself off the track before he was hit by a train but suffered a life-threatening head injury. >> san francisco police are searching for a woman seen driving a jeep that hit three bicyclist and cars. driver first hit a mini cooper yesterday and took off on scott to oak. a bicyclist was thrown at least 20' and taken to the hospital. the driver kept going then hitting a parked car pushing it into a garage door. officers found the jeep abandoned in san francisco. organizers of a fundraiser for the family of a fallen san jose police officer say they raised tens of thousands last night. 38-year-old officer michael johnson was killed in the line of duty march 24. thousands of people lined the streets of san jose yesterday morning as the funeral procession made its way to the s.a.p. center. inside 8,000 people many of them from police departments across california and the country attended the memorial service.
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friends and family had a chance to say if deeply loved. >> all general win. all loyal. always trustworthy. always there if his friends needed anything. he was a "go big or go home." he was the captain of the chess teach. >> he was kind and generous. he put his life on the line for anyone. >> after the somber service hundreds attended a pair of fundraisers at britannia arms that lasted all day and night with a goal to raise $50,000 for the family. >> there are more fundraisers landed for the johnson family. the san jose earthquakes will raise money with a donation bin at the easter egg hunt. a friend is organizing a fundraiser in san jose and the san jose police officers association is accept donations,
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as well, with the details posted on abc7news.com. we have the giants and as on sunday. how is the profit? >> west portal is 47 and ocean poach is 49. mission is 50. bayview is june. along with the golden gate bridge to crissy field headed downtown 50. and 53 in the ferry building and 52 in the financial district and june if richmond. tracy is 56. everyone else is in the low-to-mid 40s until you get to walnut creek and union city at 47 degrees and belmont is 49. temperatures are cooler this morning as we expected up to 11 degrees cooler at half moon bay and fairfield this is the cool of the morning moving forward into the forecast. this is how it looks from the east bay hills and you can see how calm it is because of the light wind. as we head into the afternoon, we will have temperatures a little bit above average under a
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bright blue sky inland 68 to 73 and the breezes will keep us chilled at the coast, up to 1 and -- 61. and up to 1 in san jose -- sunday in san jose. >> we are starting off with a look at the san mateo bridge. the riff -- drive tail lights in the eastbound direction are moving into hayward again and we do have a little bit of construction an the bay area and i will get to that next report but are first, the altamont pass with tracy to dublin is 24 americans and highway 4 westbound antioch to concord is 14 minutes and san rafael to san francisco is 17 minutes. we will have a closure on bart coming up in a couple of minutes . >> the number of motorcyclists could increase dramatically by
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2017 with the none of bikes in the bay area from 700 to 7,000 over the next two years. it will expand the program into to east pay cities of oakland, berkeley, and emeryville. the plan would not cost taxpayers any money. >> bart riders will see a major service disruption. >> leyla bart will close the tracks between coliseum and fruitvale for maintenance work on some weekends starting sunday. this video shows the kind of work they did to replace 1,000 railroad ties and 3,000' of rail in need of repair. commuters can use a free bus bridge. the oakland airport air train will operate normally. officials said they might adjust construction dates for special evens such as warriors playoff games. >> new details in the deliberate crash of the germanwings airliner and what the black box
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>> covering los altos, antioch petaluma and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> it is 4:40 on friday morning. good friday. the start of easter weekend. this is a look at bay and the babe. we will monitor things with leyla gulen and mike has the forecast. >> frightening details in the germanwings crash over the french alps. preliminary data from the data recorder shows co-pilot andreas lubitz accelerated the plane as he deliberately smashed the aircraft into the mountain.
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french investigators say lubitz used the auto pilot to put the plane into descend. data shows he repeatedly adjusted the setting to paid -- speed up the plane. 157 killed. he was fighting depression. >> a wrinkle in the eviction fight involving an old school ran watering hole. the owners of sinbad's filed a suit against the port of san francisco asking a judge to intercede. according to the examiner the port lied about the restaurant falling behind on rent and spilling sewage into the bay and sinbad's was ordered to close by march 21. the port is looking to re-develop the pier they occupy. >> a scary scene and mess in oakland after a home collapses with a man inside. it happened yesterday on 46th where a director was renovating the home. despite the terrible damage our
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reporter shows us how the man inside survived without a scratch. >> i was sleeping right there where you see. >> 68-year-old was sleeping in the sun room of the house when it collapsed at 11 o'clock and this blanket is marking where he was lying. >> i improved him and he was like, i am all right, and i am like no, let he help. >> he is homeless but the contractor let him sleep in the vacant house while it was under construction. he said an old tv and some luck kept the call from crushing hill. >> yesterday i was bit by a pill bull today a house fell on me. >> the next door neighbor's car was damaged but the neighbor on the other side had his home red tagged. >> a a lot of damage. >> part of the home is leaning on michael's house.
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this is how it looked of with it fell. the contractor raised it to create a second floor. the temporary support come ups were removed and the bottom level was framed out. >> people said, two or three days ago they said the house looks to be leaning. >> he was fortunate to walk away and now the engineers say they have plenty of questions for the contractor. we have new video this morning showing not one but two planes being struck by lightning on approach to seattle airport. both flights were hit by lightning bolts on wednesday night. in both cases the planes were approaching for landing. passengers described the hit as a loud bang that startled everyone on board. the plane spotter who captured the strikes said he could not believe his eyes. >> i was in shock thinking of how amazing it was to see this. >> both lands safely. airplane lightning strikes
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aretarily common and experts say planes are build to withstand the jolt. they are not grounded so there is no harm to the plane. >> it from being to the passengers. >> exciting weather in the pacific northwest? >> send some our way. in fact, they will. twice. the storms will come from the northwest and we will have live doppler hd on mount st. helena so they can track the storms saturday night through sunday and on monday into tuesday. we have light and variable winds and clear conditions at sfo with a busy travel day and, hopefully, everyone will continue to run smoothly at sfo and san jose and oakland. sunshine then, is the last day of total sunshine this week and into the weekend and our last day of warmer-than-average temperatures pause of the clouds and the cooler sea breeze they start tomorrow and they open the door for the showers on sunday
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monday, and the heaviest are tuesday, in fact, the models are getting more robust with the rain chances on tuesday were not so much on sunday is that is good for easter. tree pollen is high amounts of crow car and juniper and oak as we look at walnut creek into the san ramon valley where it is clear. temperatures are in the 30s this morning. as we head into the afternoon the area will warm into the low-to-mid 70s and same for fremont, palo alto and to morgan hill, and low 70s around santa rosa and napa, both wine country, dietful for a friday afternoon and maybe a limit white tasting. mid-to-upper 60s around the bay with upper 50s to let 60s look the coast. tonight, as cool as this morning and notice the low clouds along the coast and a few high clouds and most of us in the 40s when you step outside tomorrow so the coffee that you walk to the store to get it will be nice. we are dry the next few days
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pause of the high pressure and we will get the two storms to come in, one on sunday and the other monday into tuesday and we focus in on tomorrow and into tuesday with increasing clouds with the sea breeze at 8:00 in the evening on saturday and no need to worry about the umbrella but you can see the scattered light showers across the north bay and drizzle along the coast and sunrise at:49 on sunday morning and notice by 10:00, more of us are dealing where the wet weather hanging around until 3:00 or 4:00 and we will see a lull headed to sunday night. here is my seven-day outlook: mid-50s to mid-60s and same thing on monday with more showers and the heavier rain comes in on tuesday and when it passes we will see 60s and 70s running on wednesday and thursday next week. >> we have an accident in fremont southbound nimitz
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freeway 880 involving a couple of vehicles. there are injuries involved. someone has a near the tesla factory. on 680 we do not have delays northbound traffic moving without any problems. we have something blocking bore 2 on eastbound highway 24 and other than that you are in if shape from walnut creek along highway 24 through half yet, orinda to oakland, nothing but green. we have construction happening in san jose and the details are straight ahead. good news this morning from the port of oakland where there is no longer a backlog. a dock worker slow down forced ships to wait in the bay to be unloaded slowly. up to 20 ships at a time were laned up waiting to dock all the goods it is leg and not getting to the store and officials say
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for the first time in three months there is no longer a delay. they wonder if there could be temporary backups as ships arrive from southern california where there is still a backlog. there is a new progress bar to help visualizing commute times in technical bytes. >> samsung has new high television ranging in size from 48" to 78" with a starting price of $3,000. >> the next tame you are stuck if traffic turn to waze for help introducing a traffic bar so you can traffic director progress -- track your progress. our the tanners coming back to tv? there is word that netflix is close to ordering "fuller house," a sequel to "full
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house," the best loved abc series. no word on how soon we can all stream the 13 episodes of "fuller house." >> not soon enough. the new owner of the sky mall magazine said that they will bring back the publication but probably without the quirky stuff and it may not be found on the airplanes. cna marketing made the purchase for $2 million at an auction and will have more relevant items travelers are more likely to buy and could distribute the magazine in airports and hotels rather than the airline seat back pockets. >> sky pal was losing temperatures to electronic devices. >> indeed, the we quirky stuff like zombie and quick sand. >> even if you do not by it was
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>> good friday morning, at 4:52. a look from the sutro tower camera checking out san francisco a gorgeous sight. clear but cold. we will talk about the weekend forecast that includes the rain. we have meteorologist mike nicco coming up. a group of people in san francisco are holding an event to clean up the park called "friends of delore schiller park," said litering is such a problem the rangers are
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ticketing people and are asking people to fill trash bags with their garbage and take a picture and post it on social media with # keepdo >> starting today, the 29th avenue overcrossing between oakland and alameda will be closed until october of 2016. caltran needs toable new one the 19 month project. cause freeway closing. they will place warning and detour signs to re-route the motorists and bicyclists and pedestrians. the overcrossing is used by drivers between the two cities. log on to abc7news.com with the detour specifics. golden gate bridge officials are asking the public to take the bus walk or bike to the span this weekend because of expected big crowds for the easter holiday. the district expects parking lots in marin and the visitor pavilion in san francisco to
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fill up fast. that causes traffic backups on the bridge and along doyle drive because the motorist line up on the off-ramp waiting for a parking spot to open. the district will deploy signs on either end of the bridge giving drivers the head's up when the lots are filled. >> will the weather detour some crowds expected at the golden gate bridge? >> you would wonder. do they want to hang out in the rain? there is the possibility. especially at the golden gate bridge. you will likely get wet. frost is possible inize limited areas in the north bay and frost advisory continues until 8:00. coolest temperature is about 38 degrees. our favorite series conditions under a gulf moon and dress warmly, with temperatures in the mid-50's when the sun is secretary at 7:34. 68 in monday dry with sunshine and money 70s through the central valley and 80 in san diego and los angeles and palm springs.
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lake tahoe is 57 today. the same system will be bringing an inch or two of snow on sunday and maybe 2-4" on tuesday. look at the temperatures, 30s, 40s and some 50s for highs. we have not seen that all winter. leyla? >> here is a look at the macarthur maze. we do have construction wrapping up in the eastbound direction but the tail lights moving to the bay bridge shows how very few there are. we will see if that is the trend for today. it is a holiday weekend. with easter on sunday. as we head over to fremont we still have an accident but, first, we have construction northbound 280 to southbound highway 17 we have a project that is blocking off the transition until 6:00 this morning and we do have other detours in place showing you how to get around it and the nimitz is clear in this area but as we take you up to fremont, southbound side, that is where
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we have an accident involving injuries. a stalled vehicle blocking bore 2 on eastbound highway 24. one of our earliest human ancestors is older than scientists first thought. "little foot," was discovered in south africa in 1994. at the time, scientists thought it was three million years old. now scientists say it is actually around 3.67 million years old so that is quite a bit different in terms of the scientific age. they used a special dating technique that involves the observance of how much decay rate is determined the age of the skeleton as being much older. >> the european space agency and nasa are working on a plan to ram the spacecraft into an asteroid to see they can keep an as void from hitting earth by
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denecking it or blowing it up. the first phase of the mission is scheduled to launch in october of 2020. a european spacecraft will record a map and then nasa spacecraft will slam interest it at 14,000 miles per hour but it is unclear what the impact will do but we will all be watching. >> three-month-old the first of many dogs being rescued from a south korean meat farm. here is a photo of "kelly." happy home now the puppy is up before 57 k-9s the human society international rescued last month from a dog meat farmer trying to leave the trade. they were flown from south korea to the bay area to animal care groups and hopefully the rest will fine happy homes. >> new at 5:00 a.m. judgment day for disgraced south bay
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you've been part of the family for as long as i can remember. and you just mean so much to all of us. the holidays wouldn't be the same without your crescent rolls. we got you a little something. we got you jeans. it's about time. pipin' hot pillsbury crescent rolls. make easter pop! well, i drove grandpa to speed dating this week, so i should probably get the last roll. dad, but i practiced my bassoon. and i listened. i can do this. everyone deserves ooey gooey pillsbury cinnamon rolls. op! live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good friday morning. really good friday
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