broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. >> good afternoon, thank you for joining us today. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil. >> first at 4:00, a tragic day in san francisco. sky 7 hd shows us the scene after a 12-year-old boy try to catch a muni light rail train was hit and killed. it happened this morning in san jossy and lake view in san francisco's ingleside neighborhood. >> neighbors are saying they were afraid something like this could happen. abc 7 news reporter carolyn tyler joins us now live from where this all happened to explain. >> carolyn. >> well, ama and larry what you see behind me is a growing memorial to this seventh grader. you see balloons and flowers and toys. what you don't see here on busy san jose avenue is a stop light

or a stop sign what role that might have played in his death is being investigated by the sfpd and muni. this is the view from sky 7 hd of what is said to be muni's first fatality of the year. a heartbreaking accident that happened around 8:30 this morning. police say the victim identified by his family as 12-year-old andrew wu was running in the cross walk across san jose avenue. a car and an suv braked suddenly to avoid him. it is not clear but the boy did make a pivot move off of the secondary vehicle. as a result it landed on the street on northbound san jose avenue where the lrv was traveling. >> wu was pinned beneath the train and he was taken to aptos middle school. workers heard his mother's screams and one you saw her

desperate effort to save him. >> she was trying to move the train, actually. trying to pull him out from under the train because she saw him moving. >> reporter: the distraught father was also there. now as a memorial to andrew wu grow some in the neighborhood blame the lack of a stop sign or a stop light on san jose for this tragedy, saying they've complained to the city for some time. >> i'm horrified to cross that intersection and they don't want to do anything about it. >> muni will now investigate. >> we're looking in to see about the complaints in the past and the safety concerns that people are expressing here today. >> there were cameras on the train that will be used in the investigation. in san francisco carolyn tyler abc 7 news. in nepal where survivors of a second powerful earthquake are panicked over more possible

shaking. this was video taken right after the quake by aishs 7 news reporter sergio kin fan are tana. he is the only bay area reporter on the scene and here are the latest developments. >> at least 67 people died in the quake. 17 of those victims are in neighboring india. the search is on for a helicopter based in camp pendleton that disappeared while on a relief mission in menial. the nepalese government is sending helicopters to mountain areas where landslides may have buried people. >> here's abc 7 news rotor elissa harrington with a look at the aftermath. >> reporter: crowds scream and rush to safety as a powerful earthquake jolts nepal. the tremor hit around 1:00 p.m. local time just after midnight here and our own sergio quintana is in kathmandu. i spoke with him on the phone this morning he told me he ran from his hotel room without his shoes on and watched as panicked residents poured into the streets. >> thousands of people running out of the downtown tunnel district terrified that some of

the buildings were going to collapse on them. lots of people also immediately -- shut down and went home. >> reporter: sergio tweeted these videos shortly after the quake hit. he's in nepal following a group of aid workers while on a recovery mission. the earthquake rocked the country struggling to recover from a deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the region just 17 days ago. >> here's a look at how close two epicenters are. today's shaking was reported as far away as new delhi india. >> the buildings were swaying and i think one of the most shocking things were how long the earthquake went on for. >> some buildings crumbled, an ancient temple collapsed. workers inside ran for their lives. the quake also triggered a mudslide in the mountains. homes were feet away as boulders barreled down the hill. nepalese traumatized by april's earthquake now deal with aftershocks. >> these are very large aftershocks, five in a row

measured greater than 5.0 and one of them was three times stronger than the one that hit napa this past summer. in the newsroom elissa harrington abc 7 news. >> as we mentioned abc 7 news reporter sergio quintana is in nepal with volunteers from the bay area and they're there to help with relief efforts after the earthquake. sergio continues at 4:30 with those bay area relief workers after they arrived in kathmandu. sergio is tweeting updates at svq journalist. the relief and recovery efforts in nepal likely now need more help. if you would like to donate you can text nepal to 90999 to contribute $10 or call 1-800-red cross. >> a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck japan more than an hour ago. it was centered off the coast of northern japan. tremors were recorded in the nation's capital of tokyo, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or damage. that quake is not expected to cause a tsunami and there are no official warnings at this point.

time to turn to our weather today. we are seeing some pretty gusty conditions this afternoon. >> it's been pretty breezy the last couple of days and a live look outside from the abc 7 roof cam and you can see the flags blowing in the wind and this comes as we get red for showers possible owe thursday and spencer christian is here with a look at our accuweather update. >> we have mainly clear skies and it's been breezy and gusty and so breezy. here's live doppler 7 hd and we still have clear skies although that will change soon as those showers approach and a look at those flags blowing in the breeze. frequent gusts so far today, as i mentioned, 66 miles per hour and los vaqueros and 43 at sfo and 43 san francisco, and 43 at oakland. still gusty, but the winds have calmed down a bit and gusts of 29 miles per hour at sfo and 26 at san carlos and 29 inland at fairfield and take a look at

current temperatures. only in the 50s near the coast and here at san francisco low 60s in most other locations and here's a live view from the sutro tower and up along the golden gate there and here's our first forecast and it will be partly cloudy breezy and cool and breezy and cool overnight and mostly cloudy afternoon and highs ranging only from about 55 at the coast to upper 60s inland and the showers are expected to arrive on thursday and i'll give you a closer look at wet weather coming up in just a moment. larry and ama? >> thank you so much spencer. a promoter remodeling a historic theater was arrested after a body was discovered inside. >> someone called police about a dead woman at the gray star theater. police arrested harris rosenblum who was leasing the space and raising funds on kickstart tore restore it. investigators haven't said if rosen blume knew the 31-year-old woman, but did say her death is suspicious. police are trying to determine the motive behind last

night's shooting is of two students near uc santa barbara not far from the spot where six students were killed in a shooting rampage last year. >> two men are in custody and neither are students and one victim suv aired gunshot wound to the chest. this incident has no connection to last year's shooting where roger killed six santa barbara students and wounded other people before ultimately killing himself. back here in the bay area worries over housing brought out several dozen people to a morning protest. [ speaking spanish ] >> abc 7 news was at san francisco's city hall. several superviseors held a rally in a proposal to stop gotcha eviction. that's when a landlord evicts a tenant for trivial violations like hanging laundry out a window or storing a bicycle where not allowed and charging

more for rent after an eviction. >> why should the landlord bea able to raise the rent to market after capital improvements and they shouldn't and this legislation will stop it. >> these kinds of vibingancy controls exist in other parts of the country, but are not allowed in california. attempted evictions in san francisco have gone up 64% in the past five years. a million san jose residents are under orders to cut back water use by 30% or see hefty surcharges on their bill. >> the dilemma is how to tell if they're on track or not. abc 7 news reporter david louie live from san jose with more. david? >> reporter: larry, i guess we could be saying good-bye to green grass. cutting back on water is not exactly a science. many residents are indicating they're concerned with hefty surcharges when they can't monitor their water usage on a weekly or daily basis. >> i try to shower the same

schedule as the watering, tuesday and friday. >> robby robertson is having fun with united states but he's clearly wise to pick up low-flow showerheads to meet the mandatory reduction. failure will result in a surcharge on the bill. the problem is water bills are sent out every other month making it difficult to monitor progress. >> if folks learn how to read their meter and do the conservation tips that we have asked them to do i think it's very possible that they'll get to that 30% number. >> evelyn delgado's water meter is inside a concrete vault where black widow spiders have taken up residents and she relandscaped her yard two years ago and she's letting some of the plant goes to save water. only one iris bloomed this year. her japanese maple is showing signs of stress. what more will she do? >> think i bathe, like once a week, so maybe now i will have my two-minute shower once every

other week and use the washcloth. >> she worries that she'll be penalized by having started water conservation two years ago which is now her base for the 30% cutback. down the street janice is adding more drought-tolerant plants. will that be enough? >> i don't know, you know? it's complicated because if you're just watering willy-nilly you don't think about it. >> reporter: the new allocation plan starts june 15th if approved by the state. in san jose david louie abc 7 news. three, two, one! [ cheers and applause ] at 4:00 abc 7 news is in san jose as the latest stage of the amgen tour in california swings through the bay area. the nfl slapped tom brady with a four-game suspension and why it's not all bad news for the star quarterback. >> continuing coverage of the disaster in nepal. abc 7 news reporter sergio quintana is in kathmandu. new at 4:30 he'll tell us about

the bay area relief workers now helping out in the disaster zone. our first live look at the afternoon commute and this is highway 101 in san jose. the picture is breaking up a bit and we apologize for that and the backup is in the southbound lane and northbound no problem and traffic flowing in both directions on 880 over the (music) hey! let me help with that. oh, thank you! (music) introducing the one-and-only volkswagen

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covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area. this is abc 7 news. the amgen tour of california heads for the hills and dozens

of the world's top cyclists headed to a quaint 105-mile trek to livermore and up mount hamilton east of san jose. this is stage three of the race that began two days ago in sacramento and ends in pasadena on sunday. the riders began today's stage in san jose at pentencia creek park. >> three, two, one! [ cheers and applause ] >> this is the 10th straight year that san jose has hosted the stage and the only city to do so since the amgen tour started in 2006. cycling was huge in the bay area and the number of fans who came out on a tuesday morning proved that. it's awesome. it's a privilege and we're lucky to have that here for ten years straight. >> what do you want to see here today? >> i'm going to ride the course with a couple of friends and hopefully we don't get caught. >> uh-oh! the highlight of this year's race might be the weather and

they battled a course and temperatures that were in the 90s and today's temps topped out in the 60s. the nfl put an all-out blitz on deflategate sacking star quarterback tom brady for four games and taking two draft picks. abc news reporter karen travers has more about the nfl's unprecedented decision. >> reporter: how and when will tom brady resomeoned? ed superstar quarterback was sacked by the nfl suspended four games without pay for his role in deflategate. the nfl said monday that footballs were intentionally deflated in an effort to provide a competitive advantage to tom brady and its message to the qb your actions clearly constitute conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the game of professional football. >> brady's new england patriots also took a hit $1 million fine and the loss of two draft picks

but this story isn't over. brady's agent said they'll appeal the punishment telling abc news the discipline is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis. no surprise, patriots fans are livid. >> they're using him as an example, you know? >> reporter: it's been a rocky year for the nfl. a string of domestic violence scandals and off-field criminal misconduct, but some fans are pointing out that former baltimore raven ray rice's initial punishment from the nfl after this incident was only half the suspension that tom brady just got. >> they want to send a message that no matter what, if you're in violation of anything that makes this league look bad you will be punished. >> if this suspension stands tom brady's first game back will be against the indianapolis colts and the team that first blew the whistle on the patriots and deflated footballs. karen travers abc news, washington. patriots fans are rallying behind their team and the star

quarterback with retailer fanatics saying that sales doubled since the punishment was announced yesterday and fans started an online campaign to delay the patriots hanging of the super bowl banner until brady's return to the field and other fans have set up a go fund me page to help cover the patriots' million dollar fine because kraft can't afford that? pocket change for bob kraft. so far they've raised nearly $9,000. he doesn't need help. now to the warriors and their fans are feeling more confident. >> including you? >> i've settled down after the warriors after the best seven playoffs after a cup ifl subpar games steph curry regained his mvp form last night and shot 50% from the field and green also with a nice bounceback and 16 points, ten boards and the warriors opened up a 26-point lead and then cruised to a 101-84 victory and the warriors

regained homecourt advantage in the process. game five tomorrow night at oracle arena. and you can show off your warriors pride. we want to see your photos and videos. make sure you use the #dubs on 7 when you post to facebook, twitter or stain gram and i just saw ama daetz right there! they're all online at abc 7 news.com or you might see them on one of the news kafrts. >> the tip-off for game five is at 7:00 p.m. at oracle. it will shift to the grindhouse in memphis for game six friday night. you can watch that game on our sister station espn, and at 7:00, we'll be back at oracle arena on sunday if necessary. tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, machines taking over the world. it's not science fiction anymore. a growing number of experts think it could really happen. >> once they have conscious thinking it's independent thought. they'll think for themselves.

they'll program themselves and we won't be in control of their programming anymore. >> how top computer experts are trying to make sure super intelligent machines are on our side. that's tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00. >> how do we know spencer christian isn't one of them? he's robot number 11 or something? >> i am not one of them. >> thank you. >> okay. here we go. let's take a look at what's happening with our weather robotic or not. we have mainly sunny skies and it's breezy across the bay area and live doppler 7 hd and it could be found at the moment and the clouds will certainly be increasing overnight and tomorrow as we have a rainmaker approaching us and it is at the western sky from the emoriville camera and these are our forecast features and the showers will arrive early thursday and clouds will linger into the weekend and it looks like a fairly wet day coming our way for thursday and here's exactly what's coming our way and the impulse moving in our direction followed by a cold front and the forecast animation

at 8:00 tomorrow morning. notice how clouds increased during the day tomorrow and then early thursday morning we'll see the first few patches of scattered showers arriving mainly in the south bay and east bay. the showers will be more widespread and a little bit heavier, but the concentration will be mainly east bay and south bay and thursday afternoon the chance of a couple of isolated thunderstorms and again, mainly east bay and south bay focused and it looks like not much rain will fall in the north bay and it will be over by 10:00 thursday night and project rainfall totals and livermore and the wettest spot was with .8 of an inch and 3/4 at mountain view and notice san francisco, novato and santa rosa projected to receive only .01 of an inch and the wettest conditions will be in the east bay and south bay. >> over in the sierra look for snowfall and win the are storm

watches and two to six inches of snow and may see up to 80 and back to the bay area tonight under increasingly cloudy skies. we'll see low temperatures mainly in the mid to upper 40s in the inland valleys and right arm around 50 near the bay and along the coast tomorrow we'll see mid-60s right around the bay and upper 60s to near 70 inland and maybe you see those green areas and an early arrival of a couple of isolated showers and as you look at the accuweather seven-day forecast you can see the main body of showers arrive on thursday and clouds won't really disappear and we won't get mostly sunny skies on sunday and then we'll get a gradual warm up into early next week. larry and ama? >> thank you spencer. if you're sitting at home right now watching this, don't watch this tv.

go pick your phone up and call your doctor and get your rear end in there. up next, tv chef sandra lee, the new health battle she's now facing and the plea she's making to women of all ages. new after 4:30, threats on instagram, the santa cruz

she's been diagnosed with breast cancer. lee shared the news in an emotional conversation with "good morning america's" robin roberts who is also a cancer survivor. she received the diagnosis. she had a lumpectomy but doctors couldn't remove all of the cancer. >> you'll have to to have six to eight weeks of radiation every day and you know what that is. so we suggest that you have a mastectomy, and so i said, okay, if i'm going to have a mastectomy am i supposed to get one done? both the radiologist and the doctor said you are a ticking time bomb and they said i would

get them both done. >> lee pointed out that if she had waited until 50 to have a mammogram her outcome would have likely been very different. she says her boyfriend new york governor andrew cuomo has been very supportive. president obama made it official today, he will build his presidential library in chicago. the president began his political career in the windy city. the library will be on the city's south side and connected to the university of chicago where the president taught law. the city has a deep, personal siggive this ive significance for the lake library. >> i became a man when i moved to chicago. that's where i met my wife. that's where my children were born. >> the area was selected over bids from columbia university in new york, the university of hawaii and the university of illinois at chicago. the library is expected to open in the year 2021. abc 7 news at 4:00 does continue. up, in the bay area tech giant

invests millions of dollars into local schools and the return it's hoping to make. >> plus the burglars who busted in on a south bay home only to find a 1-year-old baby. i'll tell you what happened next. >> up first, abc 7 news reporter sergio quintana is in nepal as the country struggles with more shaking. coming up, the relief from the bay area that's already on the ground. if you see news where you live, take a photo or video and share it with us using

live from the kgo tv broadcast center. this is abc 7 news. >> our top story now at 4:30, nepal was hit with yet another earthquake today. the second powerful quake in the area in 17 days. today's was a magnitude 7.3 followed by a dozen large aftershocks. nepal's home ministry says at least 42 people have died and more than a thousand people have been injured. rescue teams continue to dig through debris to search for survivors. sergio quintana is the only local reporter in kathmandu. he was there when the quake hit and he tweeted a sense of panic in the downtown area because of the shaking. sergio will have much more on today's quake at 5:00. before this latest quake, sergio filed a report on bay area relief workers in nepal.

they're delivering supplies and trying to help in any way needed. here's sergio's report with exclusive details on the mission. >> reporter: the international response to the nepal earthquake is clear when you land at kathmandu airport. military equipment is everywhere. the organizer of this mission is neil condy with motherland nepal, a group based in the east bay. the four men traveling with him are with the community and disaster response team. each has volunteered their time and expertise to be in nepal for nearly a month. they're among the dozens of teams from 15 countries around the world or still arriving to help and part of this mission is to deliver donations collected from around the area. >> we can deliver 20 packets and blankets, tents and some clothes. >> some of those items are given away immediately at the airport and some supplies go with the team. >> it might be helpful and we're just looking to see what extra

stuff in this aid box that might be different from what we have for wound care because i believe that will be what we're going to deal with. >> reporter: most of these guys have never travelled outside of the u.s. so the drive from the airport is a quick introduction to the busy capital city. the destruction here is extensive. thousands continue to live in tents either because they have no home anymore or because they're afraid it will collapse from continuing aftershocks. when i first interviewed pannedy in el cerrito he told me where his family set up tents after the quake. >> this is where the at the present times are. >> reporter: his relatives only recently moved back into the home. >> it wasn't nice in the at the present time and it started raining and then we could not take the water off of us. we had to struggle to save him. >> for the first couple of days this is base camp.

a short trip through kathmandu was a shock because so much is gone. the destruction is everywhere when you come to kathmandu, but the nepal government is asking international aid groups to move on from the city. and that's the aim of this bay area group. they will be heading to villages in the himalayas to the district that was one of the worst hit. in kathmandu nepal, sergio quintana abc 7 news. >> cheryl jennings talked to sergio at 5:00 and he'll tell us about how drastically things changed in nepal today in just a matter of seconds. >> a couple in the upscale evergreen district in san jose are still in shock wondering if they'll be safe in their own home after a brazen home invasion and they do have video of the intruders and they hope they're able to catch them. vic lee joins us live in san

jose with the story. >> reporter: it was indeed a frightening experience for those in the house at that point and more scary, they don't know what the motive was and they don't know if the burglars wanted to kill them or kidnap their baby. >> we are still in shock. it is a terrible experience. >> i don't see as being safe anymore. >> reporter: for bonnie carr and vikram singh this was the second time burglars targeted their home. after the first burglary the couple installed six security cameras. the two young burglars jumped the fence and entered through the backyard and peered through the sliding glass door and found an easy way in. >> unfortunately, the door was not locked. >> they came into the house through the kitchen and they opened doors and armed themselves with knives and one of them disconnected the phone as he headed into the stairwell. another camera caught them going up the stairs on to the second

floor. they checked bedrooms until suddenly they heard noises in the master suite. the couple's sister-in-law were baby-sitting their 1-year-old girl. you can see the intruders barely on the top of the screen and the sister-in-law placed her body against the door as they struggled to open it. >> they were kicking the door. >> one of them succeeded kicking a hole in the door. >> the door was broke sxep they tried to attack the lady with the knife. >> but the women ran into the bathroom and locked themselves in while one of them called singh and carr on their cell phone and they in turn called 911. the intruders finally gave up and ran out of the house. >> it was very scary when it is in your own home and they're trying to scare you with the knife. >> the two intruders have not been caught and maybe this video will help police catch them. vic lee abc 7 news. a wrong way driver has

proved deadly again in the sacramento area. the chp says the man driving east on westbound 80 slammed into a lexus sedan overnight. two of the men in the sedan were killed as was the driver the pickup. the identities of the three men have not been released. 14 people have been killed in wrong-way accidents in the sacramento region since january. there have been nearly 100 collisions involving wrongway drivers in sacramento counties in the last three years. five are facing felony charges for making threats on social media. these kids are seventh graders at brighton middle school south of santa cruz. this all started on saturday when a parent saw instagram messages where the students threatened to shoot four classmates and a teacher. they arrested all five students ages 12 and 13. the brighton leaders alerted parents on sunday about this threat. >> we don't consider this a joke. we don't consider something that we take lightly.

social media has created a lot of new challenges for school districts and at the same time school districts and parents have to work together. >> the suspects were booked into juvenile hall on suspicion of felony threats and felony conspiracy. coming up, the fda appears ready to rethink a 30-year-old rule on who can and cannot donate blood. >> coming up first the bus explosion caught on camera, and the one question investigators are now trying to answer. >> i'm spencer christian from mount tam. we don't see many clouds in the sky and they may thicken overnight and showers will arrive within 36 hours and i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up. at 4:37 we take a live look at our traffic and moving in both directions on the right hand side and that

investigators are combing through a tour bus that caught fire and exploded yesterday on the massachusetts turnpike outside of boston. this happened during the height of last evening's commute. all 46 passengers got off the bus safely and blew out all of the windows. the bus from new york stopped in connecticut for a mechanical issue and it continued on to boston and then exploded. >> time to check on our weather which looks pretty nice behind us, but you can't really see the wind that's going on out there. >> it's super windy. >> you can feel the wind and it's brisk. here's a look at live doppler 7

hd and you can see how the skies are and you can see them developing offshore. speaking of brisk winds and chilly conditions and that's what you'll find tonight at the coliseum as the as take on the red sox at game time at 7:05. it will be about 58 degrees at the start of the game and getting cooler during the game. so bundle up. you may want to did that if you're going to the game. here's a look at how the national weather map will look tomorrow and you'll see mainly cloudy skies and powerful thunderstorms over oklahoma and texas and it will be showery in the west and northwest and that includes much of the state of california. look for the showers up north from you'reeureka and other points to the north and expect to see increasing clouds and a spot or two of isolated shower activity and the main features will be breezy and cool with increasing clouds and we don't expect organized showers to arrive until thursday morning and it

will be a wet day for other parts of the area. larry and ama? >> thank you, spencer. i have really great news. abc wants to put an all-new prime time series starring the muppets! >> you heard it yourself right from kermit. still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, the mubets come back, kerr met met, missitt and miss pig. >> gay men could soon be allowed to donate blood. >> i'm 7 on your side's michael finney and what happens when you crash suvs at

covering fremont palo alto, north bay and all the bay area. this is abc 7 news. there could be another major player in the media business. tonight it will be seen as a major advance for verizon's push in mobile and advertising fields. aol not only provides internet, but online video services and content. it also brings in $600 million in advertising to sites like the huffington post and tech crunch. the deal is expected to be finalized in summer. it will need to be approved by

regulators. elon musk today is strongly denying he sent a scolding email to an employee who missed a company event to experience his child's birth. a new book on musk claims the email said that is no excuse. i am extremely disappointed. you need to figure out where your priorities are. we're changing the world and changing history and you either commit or you don't. on twitter today he said it was completely false and he would never tell anyone to miss their child's birth. president obama moved to end a life time ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood. under the new recommendations issued to the food and drug administration sexually active men must wait one year after having sex with another man before giving blood. men who have had sex with other men even once have been banned from giving blood in 19985 since the start of the aids epidemic. in other health news a certain diet may boost

brainpower. >> and a machine could one day replace one of the highest paid medical specialties. jane king has those stories and more in today's wellness report. >> a new machine could one day replace anesthesiology and it can transform how hospitals operate and how people get surgery and it's being tested in four u.s. hospitals. as you can imagine annes theisial gists don't like this idea and they're one of the best paid physicians. >> the diet supplemented with nuts and olive oil can affect the brain's ability to function. the jana says memory remains stronger in the mediterranean plus nuts group. the diet has been shown to benefit heart health. allergy experts warning of a pollen tsunami. doctors say this season some parts of the country are being hit by pollen collecting in thick clumps on the ground and coating cars. the long brutal winter delayed release of the pollen and caused it to be worse this year than normal. a new study shows it may be

harder for some people to lose weight than others and the study of the phoenix epidemiology center said people had what they called a thriftier metabolism who lose weight slower. people can still lose weight even with slow metabolisms. from the nasdaq, i'm jane king, here's to your health. two of the nation's largest wireless providers they billed customers for unauthorized charges and michael finney joins us with the details and it will be 30 pages long. >> that's how come they're able to cram charges on there and that's what it's called. it's called cramming. i've done numerous stories about this practice over the years and it's done cramming and that's when unwanted or fake and fraudulent charges are crammed on to your bill. kamala harris seen here in trial video announced that sprint has agreed to pay the state $539,000. as part of the nationwide

settlement which will provide consumers with $130 million in refunds and we'll tell you how to get that money when it becomes available. it was an effort by both companies to increase their profits. verizon said it would stop the practice long before any government actions and it has taken proactive steps to stop the practice. a report on checking account fees found some improvement and significant issues do remain. the pew institute says more banks are offering its customers easy to understand disclosure statements about fees. and that doesn't mean the account fees are cheap. 29 of the 45 largest banks charge overdraft fees ranging from 35 to $38. the banks are still subtracting withdrawals in a way that forces many consumers to pay overdraft fees. rather than deduct checks in the orders that come into the bank banks make subtractions by the

amount of the check. higher amounts go first which often means there are several small bounced checks rather than one big one. >> two more suvs have been given good or acceptable ratings in the annual crash test from the insurance institute for highway safety. nissan murano earned a good rating with a superior rated optional front crash prevention system that won the institute's highest award the top safety pick plus the fordplex was given an acceptable rating and the top safety pick award and not doing nearly as well right there, the jeep wrangler 4. the wrangler offers only marginal protection in side and rear crashes and the dodge durango seen here only earning only a marginal rating. >> thank you, michael. >> sure been. trending now a death defying stunt in the sky.

two snuck into the tallest building in china and made their way 115 stories to the roo of and they cracked the lock on the construction crane and amazeingly enough they took the stunt and once at the top they took a moment to take selfies and soak in a view a quarter of a mile up in the air. oh, man. >> think it's a really poor idea. >> yeah. i would agree with you on that. all right. kermit, miss piggy and fozzy bear are coming to your television set again. >> kermit what a pleasant surprise and you whoever you are. >> are you kidding? we've made six movies together and tv shows and did love letters for a month in detroit. >> the new muppets prime time dramedy. >> it will focus the muppets pitching a muppet show to the abc network which is what they

just did. it will poke fun on the famous mocumentries such as the office and modern family and said set to premiere this fall and for more information go to the website, abc 7 news.com. abc 7 news at 4:00 does continue and the multimillion dollar help the school district is getting from a silicon valley high-tech giant and here's cheryl with what's ahead at 5:00. >> ama and larry, thank you so much. >> coming up next we're getting a look at the man being accused of being a sexual predator in san jose. going the distance, 7 on your side's michael finney looks at the cause trying

in honor of asia-pacific american heritage month we are using the instagram feed to highlight the organizations that are making a difference where you live. today we recognize the oakland asian cultural center that was

founded in 1984 by a coal ilgz of volunteers who recognize the need for a cultural force in oakland's chinatown district. we have more information on the abc 7 news bay area instagram feed. a generous gift from one of the biggest names in silicon valley can lead to big changes in oakland. >> santa clara based intel definitely made the grade in oakland today. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony says they're reeling out a $5 million science and engineering program for oakland schools. >> the goal is to make sure the opportunities provided here in this oakland tech robotics class don't end here. >> a child born in poverty is no less talented or brilliant than a child born in of a fluence. the difference is access and exposure. >> oakland denounced a $5 million partnership with silicon valley giant intel designed to beef up curriculum at oakland tech high schools and prepared students for college and careers

in the engineering and computer technology. >> it means a lot more opportunities and a lot more funding and us being capable of things never could have done before. >> one of the things that we heard from other companies was they can't find them. where are they? well, i declare if you can find them in india and china you can find them in oakland. >> katherine hall is from the engineering academy. >> when we're talking about the integration of technology that we need to make these students successful in industry it goes beyond can na play a tap game on their phone. >> a lot of our students leave high school without any training and without any exposure to computer science so we're hoping that this money will help grow this vital area. >> the multimat goal is to provide opportunities to 2400 students like these and a jobs pipeline directly from oakland to the silicon valley. >> laura anthony, abc 7 news.

that will do it for abc 7 newsa the 4:00. thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> abc 7 news at 5:00 begins with cheryl and dan. >> they're worried that another aftershock will come. >> is abc 7 news reporter sergio quintana is in nepal right now and he describes as the earth shakes yet again. a boy was hit by a muni car and sadly his mother saw the whole thing. mandatory water rationing. >> we've tried to implement a fair system. >> i'm abc 7 news sandhya patel, windy now, wet weather is coming and i'll have details straight ahead. >> live from the kgo tv broadcast center. this is abc 7 news. a second deadly earthquake strikes nepal in two weeks and

triggering landslides and knocking down building and the search is on for survivors under a ton of rubble and abc 7 news has a reporter on the scene. >> i'm dan ashley. >> >> i'm cheryl jennings. we begin with the 7.3 magnitude quake in nepal. at least 68 people died in the quake and 17 in neighboring india. shortly after the shaking, a marine helicopter based in camp pendleton went missing. this is video from the department of defense showing the marine relief mission in nepal. that helicopter was carrying two soldiers from nepal and six u.s. marines and all of this as quick survivors deal with numerous aftershocks. abc 7 news reporter sergio quintana is the only bay area reporter in the quake zone. i talked with him by phone today about the devastating situation there and he said that quake lasted a long time. >> reporter: the first stage was this pretty violent rattling and so i ran out of my room and went into this big open patio area

where i knew that there was no buildings that were going to fall on me and i kind of figured it was going to pass but it just kept going. >> thousands of people streamed out of the downtown district terrified that some of the buildings were going to collapse on them. lots of people also immediately shut down their shocks with went home. >> reporter: abc 7 news reporter sergio quintana arrived in nepal last friday and he said people were cleaning up from the massive quake that hit april 25th. it's fascinating how much things have changed in just a few hours and when we got here there was a final sense of getting back to normality. everyone was starting to get back to normal. today they are back in shock and they are back on guard trying to make sure that their own home doesn't fall on them. >> nobody wants to sleep in their homes or apartment buildings right now. >> you know people had been in tents up until just a few days ago, but tonight they are in