broadcast center. this is abc 7 news. good afternoon. thank you for joining us today. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm larry beil. first at 4:00, unfortunately it has happened again. for the third time in just over a month a whale has washed ashore on a bay area beach. this time on half moon bay. >> this happened when crews began burying the other two whales that washed ashore in pacifica. neighbors there say the whales can't be buried soon enough. abc 7 news rotor wayne freedman is live in pacifica with the story. wayne? >> good afternoon, ama. the first whale that washed a a shore was unique and its cause of death was a mystery they could never figure out.

we get the third whale that washed ashore. let's go to video shot within the hour. this is south of kelly beach state park in half moon bay and the third whale to wash ashore in a little more than a month. it arrived on the same day as authorities went to work cleaning up the last two carcasses on shark parks beach in pacifica. this is the pressure and more fragrant of the two and it may have been the victim of a passing ship and the stench had grown from a mere nuisance to almost intolerable and hence the decision to cover it with sand 20 feet deep. they're working on that and come back tomorrow and do more of it. back in half moon bay, the whale that washed ashore appears to have been dead for a while based on bite marks in its flesh. normally the visitors come to the beach for peace and quiet and they got a spectacle. >> in a way it's beautiful at the same time. >> how? >> because i've never seen a

whale so close and it's just -- i don't know. life and death. >> reporter: after close to a dozen years along the coastline without whales washing ashore, now we it becoming all too common at least this year, and the cause of death at the means of disposal for the latest whale is unknown and it's still too new. to our knowledge we don't even know what kind of whale it is yet. authorities have yet to arrive. live in pacifica at shark park beach, wayne freedman abc 7 news. >> wayne, thank you. >> sky 7 hd shows us the area where emergency crews are responding to a call of a horse in trouble. the horse fell down a 30-foot embankment and got stuck in a tree and it happened at the regional park in martinez. you can see they have a vast area to cover and steep terrain to deal with. we will continue to monitor this rescue effort and bring you updates as they become available. >> fire damaged a vehicle with

the san mateo bridge construction site this afternoon and it's on the foster side of the bridge along highway 92 and sky 7 hd shows us the rain and heavy black smoke that was pouring in the back of the truck and the fire burned the grass around the truck and firefighters were able to keep it from spreading and caltrans has not said if the fire will affect work on the bridge and scheduled to close for resurfacing and maintenance repairs. an alleged high-price prostitute accused of killing a google executive alix tichelman received six years in prison. the 26-year-old pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter. tichelman gave 5 1-year-old forrest hayes a fatal dose of heroin last november on his yacht in santa cruz. nfl team owners gathered today for their meeting in san francisco. >> abc 7 news was at the ritz carlton on knob hill as fans of

the raiders gathered outside to urge the nfl to keep the silver and black in oakland. team owner mark davis talked with the media about the efforts to get the raiders a new stadium. abc 7 news reporter caroline tyler is live in san francisco with more. carolyn? >> reporter: larry, you're right. the nfl spring meeting continues here tomorrow, but this was the day for raiders fans the chance to get a message to team owner mark davis. a small band of raiders fans including die hard dr. death gathered outside the nfl owners meeting. they want to keep the silver and black from leaving oakland. >> the last three years that we've been selling out your stadium, put a plan together. >> reporter: they hope to attract the attention of team owner mark davis and they did. >> mark, just know that we support you. >> know that. believe me i know that. we're trying. >> the raiders are deciding whether to move from the aging old coliseum and build a nearly

$1.7 billion stadium they would share with the san diego charge chargers in the city of carson in los angeles. in fact, a complicated land deal between the teams and carson officials was finalized today. former 49ers president carmen policy is the point person on those negotiations. >> i know the way it works in the room. i know what they're looking for. i know what has to be done. >> reporter: but owner davis says there's still a glimmer of hope for oakland. >> i want to keep the raiders in oakland if i can, i really do but we have to be able to compete. >> reporter: the city of oakland and alameda county are working together for the first time and that could make the difference. carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. there are several hundred million dollar gap between what the raiders want, what they would really desire and what the city and county can come up with at this point. it's a large gap that has to be bridged somehow. at the owners meeting we learned

the new england patriots would not fight the nfl on deflategate. kraft said he considered his options and the best course of action would be to move on. >> i really feel at this point in time that taking this off the agenda this is the best thing for the new england patriots, our fans and the nfl. >> last week kraft blasted league officials when they fined the patriots a million dollars and stripped them of two draft choices for deflategate. it does not affect quarterback tom brady's suspension next season and that's already being appealed by the players union. turning now to our weather and it seems like we're seeing more blue skies than yesterday. spencer christian joins us now with the accuweather update. >> larry and ama, it was cloudy for much of the day just as it was yesterday and around mid-afternoon we start to see more blue skies showing up and here's live doppler 7 hd showing

lots of blue skies at this hour and we'll see the clouds thickening again very shortly. this morning, this was the picture we had and spotty drizzle in the lower elevation and measurable rain in the hills and 500 in la honda and rocky ridge and that's just in the higher elevations and we're looking at blue sky over from the exploratorium camera. it's 61 in oakland and 63 san carlos and 58 at half moon bay. lots of blue over the golden gate right now and yay we have temperature readings above 70 degrees at fairfield and concord. 69 in livermore and santa rosa and 66 in napa and novato and another look at lots of blue and a few puffy clouds as we give you the first forecast. we'll have increasing clouds this evening and a chance of spotty drizzle that will continue into the early morning hours and tomorrow afternoon, much like today mostly cloudy at the start of the day, partly cloudy and cool with little

breaks of sun. we won't get sustained sunnier conditions until the weekend and i'll have that forecast for you later. larry and ama? >> see you in a few minutes. >> governor brown signed a new climate change agreement from across the world. >> it calls for reducing steps for rising temperatures and greenhouse gas levels. >> it takes somewhat of a backseat, but the science tells us that this challenge is front and center. >> and the agreement includes oregon washington, vermont as well as several provinces in canada mexico, brazil germany and spain and governor brown plans to attend a world summit in pair where is they hope to reach a new treaty. >> in the south bay, huge flames created a massive environmental mess in san jose. >> they destroyed reynolds circle that is not too far from mineta san jose international

airport. the flames were only part of the problem there as abc 7 news reporter matt keller says chemicals created a hazmat situation. >> a four-alarm fire ripped through a commercial building in san jose. sky 7 hd shows you the top of harolds finishing. this picture from the san jose fire department shows you how big the flames got after the fire was reported around 12:30 this morning and it took them about an hour and 15 minutes to get it under control but the flames weren't the biggest danger facing firefighters. >> they would use things like sulfuric oxide and other things like that to do etching and that type of cleaning of metal and so those were the chemicals that we think were initially involved but then this volume of fire made kind of a chemical soup. >> that chemical soup pulled around the commercial buildings createing a has mad situation and that combined with the toxic smoke forced half of the

firefighters on the scene, around 50, to be decontaminated. it appears no firefighters were injured and amazingly, the fire was kept to the one commercial building. >> glad that our business didn't get caught up in it. sorry for theirs but glad too many people around here didn't get affected. >> the business owners are responsible for the cleanup of the contaminated runoff. while insurance agents and private clean up companies got involved. several businesses in the area were blocked off. dozens of workers were left waiting. >> we have 11 orders today and we have to call the clients and cancel it. we'll see what the client's going to say. it's upsetting. a ladder truck was contaminated by the toxic water will be out of service until it can be cleaned up. as for the cause of the fire investigators are waiting for it to be safe to go inside before they determine what started it. in san jose matt keller abc 7 news. still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00 starbucks has a new brew for customers, but how the java

giant is mixing up your next visit. hello. i'm mike schumann live in oracle arena. game one between the rockets and warriors on deck and we'll have a preview on abc 7 news. new at 4:30 these police academy recruits aren't officially cops and they're helping to keep the streets of san jose safer. >> a look at traffic across the san mateo bridge and it is moving in both directions. traffic approaching us and it is heading eastbound toward 880 east bay and thicker traffic than on the right hand side

covering walnut creek burlingame, campbell and all the bay area. this is abc 7 news. we are now less than two hours away from the warriors and rockets tipping off in game one of the western conference finals at oracle arena. >> to my recollection the warriors do not lose. >> don't say it out loud. and they have the blue water bottle, too. >> i know. all of the blue is flowing. >> they dominated houston and they won 4 and 0 and these two teams haven't faced each other since late january. abc 7 mike schumann. this is going to be fun. >> this is a great matchup and i'll step away and let you see two teams warming up here. both these teams won two straight to get to the finals and these are the one and two seeds in the west and this should be quite a series. the series will feature the regular season mvp with steph curry and the runner-up is james

harden. the rockets got the better of the rockets sweeping the regular season series and the last time these two teams met it was trevor iriza who was trying to get underneath steph curry's pin and a little bump and nearly causing a fight. anything can happen in the playoffs. >> this is a totally different situation and they proved that anything is possible if you really want it and execute better than another team. so there will be no lackadaisical effort and no casualness about our effort going through this series because we want something special to happen for us and we can hopefully control that by how we play. >> each round gets tougher and it's our awareness and our focus and our level and our intensity has to pick it up another notch, and i think that we'll be ready for it. >> reporter: i'll tell you what this is going to be a great

matchup, larry and this is why you want homefield advantage. the warriors have that tonight and they're hoping to hold serve. reporting live at oracle arena. you can already feefl the anticipation. i'm mike schumann, abc 7 news. >> thank you, shu. >> tip-off is tonight at 6:00 and game two is at oracle thursday at 6:00 game three and four will be in houston this saturday and monday. also at 6:00. all of these games will be broadcast on our cystsister network espn. we are hopeful the dubs will win. if we need more than that games five through seven will alternate between oakland and houston and the abc 7 morning news team has a wager with our sister station in houston. what do you think they should do when the warriors win? we're taking suggestions on the abc 7 facebook page and as you see here, john paul san miguel suggests the losing team news anchors should wear the winning

team's headband for the entire newscast. that would be fun, they wear the winner's jerseys and donate a day at a soup kitchen. we love it when you engage with us on social media by leaving comments on these and your warrior fans, and instagram or google plus with the #dubs on 7 and you can find them on air and abc 7 news.com. >> warriors and five, by the way. >> you can soon help your starbucks barista brew up a personalized music mix. starbucks and spotify's new partnership says baristas will assemble each store's individual play list and customers will listen to and make suggestions to the specially curated song list. premium spotify users can get starbucks awards points for their participation. >> time to turn to our weather. >> epsspencer christian outside and

a little breezy and a little bit of everything. >> this is the third day of this particular pattern and it's like the movie groundhog day and each day we preview the previous day's weather. live doppler 7 hd and we have mainly sunny skies right now and off to a very cloudy start and a drizzly start, as well and you see the clouds gathering offshore and here's the view from the partly cloudy sky and these are the forecast features mostly cloudy and days and nights through friday. drizzle is possible tonight much as we had last night and early this morning and there's a slight chance of showers on thursday and we don't expect this to be a significant rain system. here's our water vapor satellite image showing an active storm track and the cool, unsettled weather pattern and that's what will bring the clearer conditions and spotty drizzle is possible late tonight and overnight into the early morning hours, much like the last

overnight period for us and later in the day tomorrow we'll see a little bit of clearing, not much though, much like today and spotty drizzle near the coast and in the sierra with the forecast animation there and 5:00 tomorrow morning and during the day we'll see a mix of precipitation and rainfall in the lower elevation and the chance of light snow above 8,000 feet and one or two inches back to the bay area tonight with thickening clouds and spotty drizzle and low temperatures will be in the low to mid-50s around the bay shoreline and a few upper 40s in the north bay valleys and tomorrow once the morning clouds gather a bit and giving way to breaks of sun in the afternoon and we'll have mid and upper 50s at the coast to low to mid 50s on the bay and the mild and inland locations and here ate chance of isolated showers tomorrow afternoon and that will be the higher terrain and on to the accuweather seven-day forecast and we will start to get sunnier skies and

milder conditions over the weekend and in fact, sunday and monday and monday memorial day inland highs upper 70s and low to mid-70s along the bay, sunday through tuesday upper 50s on the coast and it looks like we'll get a springlike pattern developing over memorial day weekend. larry and ama? >> thank you spencer. after ten weeks of dancing it all comes down to this. up next we'll take you live to l.a. for your exclusive preview of tonight's "dancing stars" finale. i want the american people to learn as much as we can about the work we did with our diplomats and our development experts. >> new after 4:30 hillary clinton on the defensive about her emails. abc news is in iowa as the presidential candidate talks to the media for the first time in nearly a month. >> looking outside at some massive traffic, this is your bay bridge toll plaza at 4:20 on your tuesday and maybe some folks are coming back from the

dodger game. >> evil dodgers. >> either way, you're having a hard time getting

tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00. every three hours a bike is stolen somewhere in the bay area. >> and he just put the cut lock and his wire cutters and the helmet in one hand, jumped on the bike and rode away. >> i-team investigator dan noyes will have this at 11:00. >> it's the two-hour finale of "dancing with the stars." after dramatic performances last night anticipation is building to see who will take home the coveted mirror ball trophy tonight. >> brandy hit is live with more. hi brandy. >> hi larry. hi ama. the final rehearsals are under way behind me. you can see the smoke machine and you might hear the music and

the hosts doing their thing as the countdown is on and this is when the nerves start kicking in and these three have one more make or break dance to end tonight. >> after ten weeks of dancing it all comes down to this. >> genius from the first to the last frim. >> celebrities whittled down to three on season 20 of "dancing with the stars." ♪ >> and monday night singer ryker lynch got a perfect score as he improved on his paso dobb le. army veteran noah galloway stumbled a bit with his argentine tango revival. >> and actress rumer willis achieved tens reliving the fox trot. >> such an amazing feeling. i can't even describe it. >> then came the freestyle performances.

ryker's up-tempo twist on old hollywood resulted in his second perfect score. ♪ ♪ >> perfection also for rumer as she lit up the dance floor, but it was noah baring it all as a double amputee who brought the audience to tears. >> it was so beautiful! and scoring all tens from the judges. >> this journey to be on the show has been incredible. >> and what a beautiful dance that was. tonight's results will be added to last night's scores and you factor in the fan votes from overnight. in the end one star will be going home with the coveted mirror ball trophy. reporting live in los angeles brandy hit, abc 7 news. ama? >> all right. thank you so much brandy. >> and tonight find out who the judges pick as the winner of the 20th season as you've been saying "dancing with the stars" right here starting at 9:00. >> as you continue with the news at 4:00, new technology trying to reunite lost dogs and their

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news. >> another dead whale is making headlines where you live at 4:30. this gray whale washed up today in half moon bay. sky 7 hd was live over kelly beach a little while ago. officials are in the process of figuring out how it may have died. this comes the same day crews in pacifica are burying two dead whales that washed up in the past five weeks. abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman tweeted this photo of a massive whale being dropped into the sand. a high-priced prostitute accused of killing a google executive with an overdose of heroin agreed to a plea deal. at 5k clo chris nguyen will have more on why she may only have to serve a fraction of her six-year sentence. and a story you will see only on abc 7 sfpd recruits on the way to bay to breakers this weekend got a chance to put their new skills to use. abc 7 news reporter vic lee has more on how they stopped a smash and grab in progress and made

two arrests. >> good afternoon, captain yee! >> reporter: the 244th recruit class, 38 men and women now in their 20th week at the academy. on sunday, they put their training to work. it was early in the morning the annual bay to breakers. they were on a chartered bus en route to help with traffic control. the bus stopped at a red light on the 800 block of market. they were right next to the diesel clothing store. they peered out the bus and this is what they saw. >> a gentleman in the store was using a hammer to break some display cases. >> and i was, like wow! that can't be real right now. >> i realized he was putting the merchandise into the bag. >> there were five regular officers, their teachers on the bus with the recruits. >> a couple of us shouted out burglary. >> and they jumped out of the bus and apprehended the suspect. >> today a board still covers the window the burglars broke at

diesel. as for the recruits they were beaming with pride. >> the hands-on live activity was really good. >> it made me happy that we could show them what we're made of. >> these two were arrested, really bad luck for them burglarizing a store in front of a busload of cops. vic lee, abc 7 news. we're learning more this afternoon about what caused a weekend shooting involving rival motorcycle gangs in texas in which nine people were killed. police say the shootout began with a parking dispute with a biker running over a gang member's foot. this happened after an uninvited group attended a meeting of biker gangs on friday. waco police remain on high alert. >> there have been incredible, reliable threats toward law enforcement in and around our area. i will tell you those have toned down a bit over the past 24 hours. police arrested 200 people. authorities say the investigation is being hampered by uncooperative witnesses.

an investigation is now under way into today's derailment of a freight train in riverside county. six loaded cars of the union pacific train went off the tracks in the city of jurupa 47 miles east of los angeles. no one was hurt and no hazardous materials were involved. the 53 car train was headed to the facility and a vital link in the delivery of new vehicles to dealerships in southern california. the it did cause delays through the area. they're urging to put a second engineer in locomotives in philadelphia. the smart transportation say two engineers would serve as a check and balance on each other. engineer brandon bostian was alone when it derailed a week ago today killing eight people and injuring about 200. investigators are looking into why the train was going more than double the 50-mile-per-hour

limit around a sharp curve. it's been nearly 30 days since hillary clinton had the race and abc news reporter karen travers with the story. >> tell me something i don't know. >> reporter: her q and a with the press came the same day a federal judge enacted a rolling release of the 55,000 pages of emails and the former secretary turned over to the state department. she needed until january to get them out in one fell swoop. >> we seriously will comply with the order. >> clinton said she wanted the state department to act sooner rather than later. >> i want those emails out. nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than i do. anything that they might do to expedite that process i heartily support. clinton addressed the recent news that she and her husband earned more than $25 million in the past year and a half delivering more than 100 paid speeches.

>> obviously, bill and i have been blessed and we're very grateful for the opportunities that we had but we've never forgotten where we came from. >> clinton spoke after an event focused on small business where she asked them questions and mostly listened. all part of her strategy right now. clinton's campaign is calculating that more bad things are happening, so she tries to avoid whenever possible. >> but it's not going unnoticed and not just by the media. >> other candidate are starting to make an issue out of it and that could push the clinton campaign to change strategy. karen travers, abc news, washington. nine men are in custody on a jewelry heist that embarrassed scotland yard. they're accused of stealing cash and jewels used by the lonneddon garden district. investigators haven't released the exact amount of the theft but it's believed to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

"world news tonight" will have more news on those arrested at 5:30. the top ten cities on find a job and how the bay area ranks on the just-released list. the floodwaters releasing into the rockies and the big problem that's now creating. >> i'm spencer christian from the emoriville camera. we're looking at a partly cloudy western sky and possibly more overnight drizzle and i'll have the accuweather forecast in just a moment. >> at 4:35 another live look at the afternoon commute and this is 680 in walnut creek and oncoming traffic is northbound and that's the heavier of the two sides at this hour. and it's pretty slow moving and

severe flooding is decimating parts of denver this afternoon. flood warnings remain in effect statewide. the colorado state patrol says the rain has caused numerous accidents in the denver area. the same system can dump up to ten inches of snow in the mountains. coming up at 5:30, world news reporter clayton slidell is in the storm zone as the floodwaters suddenly swept in. >> not a whole lot going on here, just clouds. >> i wish we had rain and snow to talk about. >> all we had was drizzle and just overnight drizzle and that's the closest thing we had to rain and we may get showers later in the week. we have mainly sunny skies right now, but skies are expected to thicken during the late night and overnight hours and here is

a live view in downtown san francisco and looking eastward along the bay bridge and we'll take a look at the latest air quality report. grass pollen medium or moderate and the wheat pollen is low and o zone levels are low. that's a pretty good air quality report. across the 48 contiguous states, tomorrow we'll have mainly quiet weather and we'll have thunderstorms in parts of the southern plains and down into parts of texas and down through the mississippi valley from the chicago area all of the way down to new orleans and the east coast will be mainly dry but it will be showery in the west and that includes the state of california where we will have unsettled weather once again and showers in the northernmost part of the state and snow in the higher elevations and southern california showers will fall as well. here in the bay area after a cloudy start to the day, much like today we'll have partly sunny skies in the afternoon and highs will range from 50s at the coast to low and mid-60s around the bay and 70s inland. san jose as our indicator of

high temperature trend over the next seven days and notice the average high this time of year in san jose and 76 degrees and the next few days the highs will be as much as ten degrees below that average and over the weekend we'll see a warm-up and by sunday we'll see temperatures climb back into the lower 70s in san jose and the accuweather seven-day forecast shows the bay area will show a warm-up and continuing into early next week. larry and ama? >> all right. thank you so much spencer. still ahead here on abc 7 news at 4:00 we'll take you back live to oracle arena. ♪ o, say can you see ♪ >> up close and personal with the warriors' lucky charm in full voice for tonight's big game. the best cities to find a job. how san francisco and san jose rank on this just-released list. i'm 7 on your side's michael finney. coming up next, when it's time to buy your next new car should you lease or buy?

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check out the inside of oracle arena as we showed you earlier today on the abc 7 morning news. every seat is outfitted with warrior shirts. the fans attending tonight's game against the rockets will be dressed for the dubs. >> they have the strength in numbers shirts out. laura anthony is joining us live -- a very relaxed laura anthony joining us from tonight's game including a young fan gearing up for a very big night. hi laura. >> reporter: hi. i hope you can see me here in the sea of gold. this is what it's all about to be a warrior fan. you settle in put on your t-shirt and you have your big golden state warrior hand here and a young woman, a young lady who is actually starting the show tonight for the warriors. ♪ o, say can you see ♪ >> like the players, nilea dennison is tuning up for tonight's big game, a drill the

10-year-old has performed many times since she was 8. ♪ and the rocket's red glare ♪ >> do you get even a little bit nervous? >> maybe the first time yeah but now i'm, like all of the butterflies fly away once i get on stage. ♪ oer the ramparts we watch ♪ >> she's the warriors' lucky charm, without breaking down the numbers the team's record is nearly perfect when nyla opens the show. ♪ what so proudly we hailed ♪ >> here she is at 8. ♪ and i ♪ >> and shows hoping the momentum carries her and the warriors right through tonight. >> everybody thinks they're going to win and if they believe that they're going to win, yeah they're totally going to win. ♪ and the home of the brave ♪

>> we are back live here at oracle and you can see steph curry, david lee, a few of the players and coaches there warming up and getting ready for the historic occasion here at oracle arena. i don't know if you can tell, larry, what team i'm rooting for tonight, but -- >> i think it's obvious. >> i think it's fairly obvious. i was wondering if those were your seats that you were sitting in and lounging, 1,000 or $2,000 for tonight's game. >> that was about fifth row i would say yeah. several thousand dollars is certainly higher on the open market, but i would say well worth it. these folks are right underneath the basket and we expect a lot to happen here right underneath the basket, right? >> i'm just wondering. i don't see anybody in the arena yet, when will people open the

doors. the game is only 1:15 away. >> right. they are letting some folks in and i don't know if these are the v.i.p. folks and there are definitely some fans here and i would expect they would open it to the larger arena here very shortly and tip-off is 6:00 but again, the show before the show is little nyla and she was incredible. >> what a voice! thank you, laura. >> tonight's game as we mentioned tips off at 6:00 on our sister network and game two at oracle thursday night and the series will move to houston for games 3 and 4 on saturday and monday and this is the best of seven series and do not forget, abc 7 is your home for the nba finals and catch the action beginning june 4th hopefully from oracle arena. >> a new survey shows raleigh, north carolina is where you should move if you need a job right away. the list of the 25 best cities for jobs.

kansas city, missouri and oklahoma city rounded out the top ten, and it's based in sausalito and it is determined by weighing three factors easily. how easy it is to get a job and how affordable it is to live there and how satisfied employees are working there. the bay area's high cost of living pushed down san jose and san francisco's ranking. >> walmart reported profits today that missed wall street forecast and the retail giant says its recent pay hikes for employees is one reason high. walmart raised the minimum wage to $9 in april. the recent quarter turned in april and the higher pay was only in effect for a month. walmart's chief financial officer isn't worried and she expects the wage increase to have a positive effect over the long term because employees will have more money to spend. >> on that topic, if you're shopping for a new car you have two options. you can buy or lease. the question is which option is the best for you. >> it's partnered exclusively

with 7 on your side. >> the great debate. the great debate. nearly a quarter of all new car transactions last year were leases and that's a record high. consumer reports looks at the plusses and minuses of leasing rather than buying. >> amy pet myselfes the loyal leasing customer. she always leases a volvo. >> we have leased cars seven times. we love leasing. it works for us. >> people who lease are just about as satisfied with the value of their cars as people who finance. that according to the latest consumer reports readers survey. 66% compared to 69%. leasing also creates brand loyalty. the survey found people who leased their last car were twice as likely as people who bought their last car to get the same brand again. >> the big attraction to leasing is the lower monthly payment. you can drive a pricier car than you may be able to afford to buy. >> leasing a hyundai sonata for

instance can cost as little as $199 per month with a $1900 down payment. monthly payments on a five-year loan for the same car would be around $350 depending on the terms. the consumer reports says a lower monthly payment should not be the only consideration when it comes to cost. >> when you lease, you're essentially renting the car long term and owe nothing at the end of the contract, with the purchase you will almost always have value in the car at the end of the loan. >> if you terminate early or exceed the mileage, typically 13,000 miles a year. >> the main thing people decide against leasing is they think they'll save money and they plan to keep the car longer than the leasing term and they don't want the mileage limit. >> which cars are most likely to be leased? luxury cars like jaguars and infinities and bmws and lincolns

and cadillacs and those are on top of us. just a question of how much you drive and how much you can afford. a new study reveals what drivers are doing in their cars instead of driving. >> this is frightening. the at&t poll found 27% of nearly 2100 drivers polled use facebook while driving. 17% say they take selfies. 14% are using twitter and a third of those say they tweet all the time. that's fantastic! pile your vehicle into a pole or something. 10% use video chat or facetime while they're driving! >> come on! >> another 10% use instagram or snap chat. putting their make up on did not qualify among those. >> social media man. >> yeah. abc 7 news at 4:00 continues. you've probably seen facial recognition technology on smartphones and facebook and

they're reuniting lost pets with their owners and we'll show you how it works and here's dan with what's ahead at 5:00. >> coming up next, two professors accused of a decades-long scheme to steal trade secrets with silicon valley and plus how bay area teenagers can go to high school and college at the same time. and what is suddenly showing up on a local beach. those stories and a

in honor of asian pf pacific heritage month we're using our stain gram feed to highlight the people making a difference where you live and tonight we recognize cecilia chung, san francisco health commissioner and senior strategist for the transgender law center. chung has been a human rights advocate for two decades and we have more information on the abc 7 news bay area instagram feed. if you have a great imagination and looking for a cool job,

google is looking for you to join the google team. it comes with creative doodles in the past and this is a cartoon of the wild wild west in honor of the 155th anniversary of the pony express. qualifications are someone with stylistic skills. i think you have to be able to draw a little bit. >> i think that's what that means. >> a deep interest in culture and technology and a good sense of humor. >> what a fun job though. >> yeah. >> if you've ever lost a dog you know the trauma and worry it causes and now technology may offer a way to reunite a missing pet with its owner. alan wang has the story from the napa shelter. >> reporter: when he lost his dog it took a while to find the owner. >> the pound was closed after 6:00 so the only people that the dog people that we could get a hold of was our veterinarian. >> reporter: but now a new mobile app called finding rover

is making it easier for anyone to identify a lost dog by using facial recognition technology. it automatically matches the lost dog's face to the one submitted by its owner. >> we don't have to do anything more than upload a photo in our shelter software and it syncs with finding rover so every dog that comes into our facility is then created with a profile. >> reporter: it's to register lost dogs. >> if they're not in the neighborhood they were lost in you're putting out fires, but they might not be in the right area. >> reporter: but the success of finding a lost dog relies on the number of dogs registered in the international database. we couldn't find the owners of these dogs because they likely aren't registered. >> i'm part of the dog community so i would definitely spread the word and tell my friends. >> no successful reunions at the animal shelter yet but with enough collaboration it's hoping to help bring more lost pets home. in napa county alan wang abc 7

news. >> getting them home is a good thing. thank you very much for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil abc 7 news begins with cheryl and dan. >> i don't think you have this cool collected black widow. >> the sentencing of the so-called call girl killer and her surprise plea to killing a google executive. >> also tonight the death of a teenager and the man who says he has the paperwork that shows it could have been prevented. the two professors accused of a ten-year long scheme to steal trade seekets from silicon valley. >> bay area experts know it very well. >> i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. more drizzle in the forecast and i'll let you know what commute it will dampen tomorrow coming up. live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. it is sentencing day for the high-endes kwort accused of killing a google executive with

a lethal dose of heroin. >> good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jen igs. >> alix tichelman cut a deal and was sentenced to six years in jail and she pleaded guilty to killing forrest hayes which is now being described as an accidental heroin overdose. chris nguyen joins us from the courthouse in santa cruz with more. >> cheryl and dan the prosecutor called this a sad and tragic case and one that has gained national attention and although he disagrees with the actual sentence handed down by the judge he's hopeful that all parties involved can finally move on with their lives. >> at the courthouse in santa cruz alix tichelman walked in emotionless as she learned her fate. the 27-year-old former prostitute pled guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter as well as other charges in the heroin overdose death of 51-year-old google executive and father of five forrest hayes. >> this is a manslaughter case. there was no intent to kill and there was no conscious disregard

for human life. >> the incident happened on november 22, 2013 aboard hayes' yacht which was docked in the santa cruz harbor. prosecutors have maintained that tichelman first injected herself with heroin and then did the same with hayes who fell asleep and never woke up. >> she initially tried to help him out crying while holding him and trying to shake him and trying to wake. >> reporter: but she never called 911 opting instead to flee the scene. >> while she regrets what happened that night she hopes that pleading guilty now will spare additional heart ache for everyone involved. >> it brings closure to our client, her family and to the forrest hayes family. >> reporter: today the judge sentenced tichelman to six years' incarceration and with good behavior and for time already served she'll likely spend three years behind bars in jail. >> this where the judge and i will respectf