st. patrick's day. the bartender and model suffered serious injuries when bart and oakland police officers took her down. >> i don't believe that they should have, you know broken four bones in my face and knocked out some of my teeth. >> reporter: sheehan ended up at the lake merit bart station after a heavy night of drinking and she's embarrassed of how drunk she got, but her crime, she says, does not fit the punishment. >> i should never have gotten that drunk, but also there are ways to detain someone and not break their face. [ screaming ] >> a bart rf arrested sheehan who admitted she -- >> you see sheehan in the upper right hand corner of the video and the bart officer standing with her and suddenly some kind of altercation starts and she's thrown to the ground. the jail security camera video shows it happened quickly.

take another closer look from a body cam. >> don't touch me like that! >> oh! >> here is another angle a better one. an oakland cop grabs her right hand while the bart officer takes her left hand and they throw her down face first. sheehan's attorney, john scott. >> they knew by throwing her to the ground without having her hand available to break the fall that she was going to suffer serious head injuries. scott believes it was excessive force and intentional. >> she was uncooperative. she was intoxicated and i believe she had to be taught a lesson. in police jargon, she flunked the attitude test. sheehan was violently punching and that the officer guided her to the ground. sheehan and her lawyer dispute that. take another look at the video. >> don't touch me like that! >> sheehan was lying unconscious

in a pool of blood. >> megan. megan, can you hear me? >> nurses were called and she was treated and taken to the hospital. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> wow! that's very disturbing video. well san mateo county court bailiff is on leave accused of pointing his gun at a courthouse historian. it happened inside the courthouse in redwood city and they say just before the bailiff pulled the gun he and the custodian were talking about the deadly police shooting of walter scott in south carolina. court was not in session at the time and the san mateo county sheriff's department is conducting the investigation. >> the family of a man shot and killed by san francisco police filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today, amylcarper ez lopez was killed when he approached officers with a knife. tiffany wilson joins us now. >> the results of an independent

autopsy have shocked members of the community and they plan to join, and here they will march to the mission police station and then on to st. john the evangelist church. >> reporter: the parents of lopez spoke today via skype. perez lopez worked two jobs and supported his family in guatemala. his mom and dad never thought their son would come home in a coffin. >> they truly want justice. >> reporter: according to police on february 26th, perez lopez got into a dispute over a bike and pulled out a knife. that knife the chief described what happened when undercover officers approached. >> the officers drew their weapons and demanded for the man to drop his knife. he refused and have several witnesses that heard this. >> attorney ronaldo casillas has the account. they shot him on the sidewalk as he was moving toward the officers &. >> and the results of the official autopsy have not yet

been released and casillas says an independent autopsy shows four bullets entering perez lopez's back proving he was running away from police. >> if i'm charging you you can't shoot him in the back. they also told the investigator the undercover officers never identified themselves as police. some residents of the mission fear perez lopez's death is part of a larger problem. >> today casillas suv aired civil rights lawsuit with the u.s. justice department. a san francisco police spokesperson says it's not unusual for families to file lawsuits and the department does not comment on open investigations. in san francisco tiffany wilson, abc 7 news. a cal football coach accused of soliciting a prostitute online is out of a job this afternoon. cal fired 30-year-old pierre ingram today. ingram is one of five people arrested monday night during a prostitution sting by oakland police.

he was cal's football recruiting coordinator and cal sent out a statement saying ingram will no longer represent or act on behalf of the university in any capacity. meantime police are looking for a suspect in a strong-armed robbery attempt in free mobt and police say the suspect attacked a woman outside her home on riverbank terrace and tried to rip the necklace she was wearing off her neck and she was able to defend herself and get away and the suspect took off running and he was seen driving a 2001 and maybe 2002 gold four-door honda accord. there it is. parents are on high alert at an antioch elementary school after a stranger tried to lure a child into a truck. this happened after a boy was dropped off at bellshaw elementary. a boy driving a red pickup tried to get the child into the car. school administrators encouraged parents to talk to their kids about stranger danger. >> it does not surprise me at all, but the only thing i can do

is teach my children what to do if such an event happen. i would never assume that something bad couldn't happen to them. >> police are looking for that man and they're hoping a surveillance camera in the area might have caught a picture of him. if you spent any time outside today you may have noticed it is really windy out there. and there is a chance some rain is on the horizon. >> abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel has more for the weekend. >> and that rain is hour away and it is chilly out here with the onshore breeze and let me show you live doppler 7 hd and we'll talk about when it gets to your area and right now we're seeing the return where trace amounts are being reported and just a few showers north of the bay area. as you take a look at the wider picture, the cold front is aiming the front up along the north coast and it does get here in the next few hours and if you are stepping out for dinner and you have late night plans and make sure you have the umbrellas with you because the rain will

move into the north bay and across the rest of the bay area at 11:00 p.m. and i'll be back to let you know if it will continue into your weekend and how much rain will come into the area. >> today we're hearing from the family of connor sullivan the 17-year-old cupertino teen that went missing two days ago. connor disappeared after his first-period class on monday in monty vista high school. >> we learned that he camped out there the entire time and investigators came home last night after making a spontaneous decision to run away. connor has expressed the deepest sorrow and regret for his actions. he understands there is no excuse for the concern and worry he caused. >> power is back on at 30 buildings on uc berkeley's campus tonight. a contractor doing routine work on the substation accidentally cut a power line. electricity went out for two and a half hours and the daily californian reports someone was stuck in an elevator at the library and had to be let out and some professors canceled their classes and others moved

them outdoors. students were frustrated they couldn't use services like the gym or campus cafes. >> kind of like the pace of the day, so not great. >> the last big campus outage was september of 2013. that time it took more than six hours to get the power back on. the campaign to prevent another explosion like the one in fresno last friday. this is video of the intense fire that erupted after construction workers hit a gas pipeline. it could have been prevened by this. that is a pg&e worker marking gas lines in san francisco. the utility offers it to anyone starting a construction project, even a small one. >> this guy put in a mailbox in front of his house and he stuck a stake right into a two-inch plastic gas main. >> homeowners and construction crews are urged to call 811 two days before they dig owe the utility can mark the gas lines.

california farmers are having to make some very tough choices. coming up the drought dilemma facing many of them. plus, why the hottest ticket in town in the south bay is for someone called a water auditor. also -- >> that's not just art work. that's a masterpiece. >> a priceless piece by michael michelangelo michelangelo, found out how the same technology to retrofit in san francisco is being used to protect this work of dude totino's blasted rolls. sweet. totino's blasted crust rolls... yeah. flavor at full blast you say avocado old el paso says... zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand 'n stuff tortillas . (record scratch) you say stand n' stuff tortillas old el paso says... start somewhere fresh

covering san rafael south bay and all of the bay area. this is abc 7 news. california's desperate water situation is forcing drastic action by central valley farmers. thousands of orchards are being brought down from one end of the valley to the other.

stanislaus county luke wenger finished cutting down 20 acres so he can use his water allotment on his crop of younger, more productive trees. >> they're taking out 50% of what they have in order to irrigate the other 50% and there are other growers who were hit harder who are getting zero water and don't have anything. >> if there is a benefit from the drought that's allowing crews easier access to clean up trash in lake tahoe. it's several inches lower than normal and six feet below maximum capacity. >> that's allowing volunteers to save lake tahoe that was likely dumped in the water. last year it netted 170 pounds of crash. >> because of the drought it's making house calls. in the south bay one particular program has become so popular residents cannot book a spot until june. abc 7's chris nguyen has the

story. >> at the pond these water images show the impact of the drought. >> there's no time to waste. people need to do what they can right away. >> santa clara county residents have been asked to cut their water use by 30%. to help with that, the water district is offering a free program called the water wise house call from replacing shower heads to measuring faucet flow rates and technicians will come to your home, assess your water usage and give you a customized plan to help you save money and water. the program is so popular there's now a six-week waiting list. >> we wish we could get them ready and we have available to make the house calls and it will take time to meet the demand that we're suddenly seeing. previous participants have lowered their water use by an average of 30 pounds per day but as people wait for a visit from an auditor some are taking matters into their own hand. employees at the ace hardware store say they've seen a 30% increase in drought-related sales since the start of the

year. >> they're about saving water and it decreases their bill and that's helpful for them. they can't complain about that. >> reporter: this group of missionaries spent the day at the lds church sprucing up the yard yard. >> our goal was to do it to make it more drought resistant and in a way that it would aren't stand out like a sore thumb in the neighborhood. >> these neighbors trying to do their part to help conserve pif in san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. one of the heroes of world war ii is among the veterans at the presidio in san francisco. army pfc john tunger in the 69th infantly division and the soldiers fought their way through germany and they were clearing the word for major general reinhardt to meet the russian army in the city of torgon. they split the nazi forces in half, the soldiers greeted each

other shouting the war is over. he's almost 90 years old and the man on the right is the same man he met on the border all those years ago. he will meet the russian council general that they met 70 years ago. a global company based in west sacramento is at the forefront of making sure the last statue michelangelo ever worked on doesn't get damaged by an earthquake. maya moto engineering has designed a quake-resistant base for the statue and walt gray has the story. >> reporter: michelangelo's last masterpiece, the pieta sits in milano the last work of michelangelo in 1654. the miamoto engineering form designed an earthquake-resistant phase. here's how it works in the event of a major temblor the shock absorbers would allow it to roll with the quake and not off its base.

if it falls it doesn't want to be known as the company that let michelangelo crumble. >> that's a masterpiece. it's not just art work and that's heritage and the human history made in 1500 a.d., right? if i screw something up if the whole statue stays on the ground, my gosh. yeah, got to do it right 100% correctly. >> it is useful even protecting the staff from you street vibrations and it is already in use at the j. paul getty museum in los angeles to protect works of art there and it's also applicable at the base of buildings especially in earthquake-prone san francisco the last major quake in italy was far to the north in 2012. testing on the statue shock absorber included simulating an earthquake twice as strong as what milan might experience. the replica of the michelangelo

was used and nothing was overlooked during testing. the replica stayed upright. >> what happened is the ground moves, however, it stays in the same space per say. that's how the system works out and we did a test, and we tested it out and it looks exactly what it calls for. >> michaelelangelo worked on the pieta for 12 years until he died at the age of 89. >> it depicts the virgin mary over the body of jesus. it will prevent something like this from happening to an irreplaceable work of art. >> sacramento walt gray abc 7 news. >> tonight bruce jenner is breaking his silence after years of tabloid headlines and the former olympic athlete and reality tv star is sitting down with diane sawyer for a revealing two-hour "20/20"

special. >> i think i'm going to be okay. i feel like i'm going to be okay. 2015's going to be quite a ride. quite a ride. >> the father of six and stepfather of four says it's his family he worries about the most. you can hear about jenner's concerns and his plans for the future tonight at 9:00 on "20/20" right here on abc 7. tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, ama daetz will talk to a bay area family about their little girl who was born male and how her family and the entire community is working together to offer compassion and understanding. our sandhya patel joins us now with a look at the windy weather outside. >> and some rain on the way, sandy. >> blustery out here dan and cheryl and we will see the wet weather replacing the wind and the flags are going right now and plows are startinging to gather and let me show you live doppler 7 hd and we'll talk about specific and the timing of this wet weather. right now you'll see the cloud cover and you'll also notice some light rain between yucaya

and cloverdale, but that will be changing and gusts at 23 over the west in novato and it is the wind coming off the cool pacific that is making it feel colder and here's the view from the camera with the clouds around and temperatures right now upper 50s and san carlos and it is currently 60 in oakland and 63 san jose. scattered showers in tahoe and it will be turning to snow as we hit the weekend and 63 in santa rosa and 61 napa and they're running cooler and 63 in livermore and down in san jose they're starting to see partly cloudy skies and showers tonight into early morning and we're looking at partial clearing by midday and sunny and warmer. the first half will look different from the first half and here is the cold front that will sweep through and it's up along the northern california coastline and as we take a look at the timing of all of this and 7:00 when you're perhaps sitting down for dinner and they're

looking at cloud cover and you start to see the rain moving in at 9:00 p.m. and it spreads during the 11:00 hour and light to moderate rain across parts of the bay area and it will switch over to scattered showers, and by 5:00 a.m. it's in the south bay and in the santa cruz mountains and by 7:00 most of it is done and maybe an isolated shower will look at partly to mostly cloudy skies by saturday afternoon. in terms of rain totals most areas will receive a tenth to a third of an inch and it could get up to a half an inch of rain which would be terrific. in the sierra it could be up to a foot in the highest elevations and if you're going make sure you're carrying your chains and winter weather advisory, and it runs above 5500 feet where the snow will accumulate and it will be gusty so keep that in mind. tomorrow morning temperatures mainly in the 50s and the early morning hours you will need the

umbrellas and after 7:00, you can pretty much put the umbrellas away and it will be a breezy afternoon with lingering cloud cover. 60 degrees in san francisco concord, livermore and 65 in oak larpd and san jose, 66 degrees and 67 in half moon bay and 64 in pallo atto. accuweather seven-day forecast and the weekend is not a complete washout ut and early morning showers will switch over to a dry afternoon. low 60s to mid 70s and we bump up the temperatures quite a bit on monday and quite a bit meaning inland. numbers will level off in the 50s 60s coastside to the low 80s inland for most of the workweek next week. so it's a late-season system. better late than never right cheryl and jim? >> we need it. thank you, sandhya. we are celebrating tacos today coming up next. >> stay with us on that and on "world news" at 5:30 with david

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it's been two weeks and hillary clinton will be back in the bay area raising money for her presidential campaign. on may 6th she'll be in san francisco sponsored by susie tompkins buell. may 8th the former secretary of state will attend a lunch at the portola valley home of john donohoe. tickets for each event could cost $2500. nasa today celebrated 25 years of stunning deep space images

from its hubble telescope. kate whitaker spoke to her about her favorite discovery. hubble pointed out a blank region of space and a lot of time was spent staring at nothing, really. and what we found was tens of thousands of molecules in this tiny region of space. just incredible and the telescope can't be surfaced but nasa thinks it will keep setting back images and in 2017 the web will be 100 times more powerful than the hubble, if you can believe that. >> wow! >> love those pictures. >> yeah. >> the weekend is here. >> what better way to celebrate -- >> michael is here with good stuff tonight. >> it's not, right? we have some artisan tacos here for you. they come from the taco shop in underdogs. it's located over on irving street in san francisco and kind

of a unique experience because they've got traditional mexican food and modern taqueria and sports and everybody digs that. there you can take a look at the place right there and happy hour and what you will get is a choice of four tacos carne asada, and however you will not spend a time and however you will pick up a couple of calories and we have you covered for that, too, and we will give you a free week at a fitness place, studio mix fitness studio. they're located here in san francisco. they've got 30,000 square feet and offer more than a hundred classes a week and they've got all of the other stuff the massage, sauna and all of that kind of stuff and weights, free weights that you would expect. it is located on vanes in and a $60 value and again, why would you spend that? >> you will lose weight walking from one end to the other. >> you can't say the place is

full, right? >> no. there is room for you at the classes. >> how do we get this good stuff? >> that phone number 800-546-7177 or any time logon to abc 7 news.com. >> great stuff. i'll split it with you. >> thanks michael. >> i'll work out. thanks michael. just ahead some people just can't wait. >> the only place in the united states where fans just can't seem to escape... another sneeze attack... you may be muddling through allergies. don't get caught off guard. try zyrtec® dissolve tabs. powerful allergy relief,

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i'm ama daetz in the abc 7 newsroom. coming up new at 6:00 compassionate release for a convicted killer. tonight, i-team reporter dan noise on the decision no other napa county judge has ever made until today. >> also a bay area doctor who is uniquely qualified to discuss reports of bruce jenner's transition. she's called the rock star of transgender surgery. plus -- >> the corner good. >> and he hit the three with

6.8. >> the remarkable steph curry tonight and his dad, former nba star del curry explains what makes his son so good. those stories and more coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> see you then. >> time wasn't an issue for hundreds of people desperate to get their hands on the new apple watch. >> it was a mob scene outside the store maxfield as tons of people waited in line all happy to buy the new watch. >> some showed up as early as 8:00 last night and the watch isn't available at apple stores left and maxfield is the only shop in the u.s. stocking the watch. >> i have to have it on my wrist the first day. >> i am so excited to say that i'm first in line, and i was here when the firstout. >> i was checking to see how many women were in line there. it looks even. >> the first batches of watches shipped today. >> cupertino-based company says many customers will have to wait until may maybe june to receive

their watches and apple plans to receive in-store purchases some time this summer and 17,000 i might wait. breaking news as we come on the air. the baltimore police just coming forward with new video. the suspect with the nearly severed spine, they never put him in a seat belt. in that police van as they raced to another scene. the tornado warning at this hour. the rigs already flipped over. 35 million in the path. the collapse in the news late today. investigators on the high school horror. students performing as the stage gives way. and the volcano. and a state of emergency tonight. bracing for an even bigger eruption. flights turned around. our team, heading toward that volcano. and tonight, right here, bruce jen