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berkeley city council passed an urgency ordinance aimed at improving the safety of balconies in the city after last month's deadly collapse. good evening. i'm ama daetz. dan ashley is off. the collapse at an apartment complex killed six students and severely injured seven nearly a month ago. abc7 news reporter katie is live at berkeley city hall with the late breaking developments. katie? >> ama an attorney representing ashley donaho's family says they called for balcony inspections every year. you can see the line of people posed to speak. a series of proposals to improve the safety of balconies from the frequency of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. the council approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. local building amendments have to be approved by the state. council decided to call for inspections every three years.

the donaho attorney called for every year. >> there may be other buildings with this same design issue and problem out there. why do i say that? we know these same contractors have had similar issues with other buildings that were built at the same time in other locations. >> building organizations represents also spoke and they would like to form a task force to make sure changes made to the building code don't have uninend ited consequences. unintended consequences. they asked them to pause after looking into the collapse. >> there were code amendments that make sense for the bay area for berkeley's need. >> the city plans to hire certified professionals to do the additional inspection. at this point there is no word

on how much it will cost the city to do those additional inspections nor how many balconies are currently in the city that would be deemed unsafe. live in berkeley abc7 news. >> thank you. >> there are new details in the march kidnapping that vallejo police believe was a hoax. the department is not apologizing to the victims. at least not yet. the suspect is being held at the santa rita jail in dublin where his lawyer met with him. lilian kim is live with the latest. lilian? >> no mea-culpa and maybe not ever. based on what one captain had to say the department had no regrets. >> was the vallejo police department too quick to call it a hoax? >> i don't think so based on some of the evidence that we had at the time. >> captain john whitney won't elaborate why they believe the march kidnapping was a hoax. only saying if they do offer an apology it won't come anytime soon. >> it is important that we

wait until the conclusion of the investigation to decide either way if it was a hoax or not. >> there was a sworn affidavit linking muller to the kidnapping case and a similar case in dublin in june. there is a mountain of evidence including items seized from his storage unit if vallejo. they found white sheets duct taped. four channelless receivers and drones. >> the only information we have comes from an fbi affidavit. it is to the an indictment and it is certainly not a scwur verdict. >> thomas johnson is representing muller and he will be exploring his client's mental disease and psychosis as part of his defense. he says these latest developments rank among the strangest stories he has had to cover. he received e-mails from someone claiming to be the kidnapper. the sender described himself and his accomplices as a a group of professional thieves more than two and fewer than eight

in number who hold at least bachelor degrees. >> we are like an oceans 11-type group. we are responsible for these car thefts and we branch out to kidnapping. that was very stunning. >> when the investigation is over vallejo city manager says the city will look at whether any improvements need to be made at the police department. the vallejo pd macon duct an internal review. in the newsroom, lilian kim abc7 news. >> you candy penned on abc7 news to provide continuing coverage of the kidnapping case on air and on-line. our coverage continues on twitter at abc7 news bay area. violence in the east bay. two shootings within blocks of each other in richmond tonight. one man died after being shot at an apartment complex on burke avenue. a teenager was wounded. his friends flagged down officers near carlson and pullman avenue to take him to the hospital. the gunfire erupted at that intersection a couple hours later. police expect the three

victims in that shooting to survive. investigators are looking for witnesses to speak with. >> harsh words for presidential candidate donald trump from the brother of the woman killed on san francisco's waterfront. trump has been fighting the death of kate steinle to support his controversial position on immigration. she was an immigrant who was deported to mexico several times. he says politicizing his sister's death is insulting. >> i don't want to be affiliated with somebody who doesn't have the common courtesey to reach out and ask about kate and ask about our political views and what we want. >> he said trump's immigration policies were, quote not common sense. new details tonight, the family of a girl hit and killed by an uber driver in san francisco has settled their wrongful death lawsuit. she died and her mother was injured on new year's eve of 2013. the family claimed the driver

was looking for customers on the uber app at the time of the accident. the terms of the settlement robert being released. abc7 news was in san francisco's union -- abc7 news was in san francisco's muni square. they say a bicyclist ran into the car just after 6:00 this evening. passengers saw the cyclist walking away from the scene moments after the collision. >> the driver was telling us to come back and he had blood coming down his face. he said he was fine. he didn't look fine. >> paramedics took the cyclist to the hospital. the cable car riders faced delays until the damaged car was towed away. the transit union leaders called on muni and the police department to target people who drive unsafely along the cable car routes. sky 7hd was in menlo park where a car smashed into a railroad crossing gate. the gate fell on to the tracks and punctured an air hose on a train that hit it. the incidentland to the delays

of up to 35 minutes during the evening rush. cheers broke out at the new horizons mission control today. the tiny space probe messaged back to earth that it completed its first fly by of pluto. abc7 news reporter alan wang was at the science center in oakland where space buffs gathered for the historic moment. >> it was history in the making. a tiny space probe traveled more than three billion miles and snapped the friers detailed photos of pluto and messaged back saying it was preparing to send the images to earth. >> i am beyond excited about this. >> zachary goldberg was only two years old when the new horizons space probe launched into the unknown in 2006. >> it is gonna help us learn so much about the origins of our solar system. we are going to learn about its atmosphere and the composition of its surface. >> copy that. thermal is nominal.

all temperatures are green. >> anxiety was replaced by celebration after new horizons reported all systems functioning. >> it is always in the back of your mind. one grain of sand hitting it at the wrong moment and you may never hear from it again. >> after nasa receives the first messages. >> that day find out what they were thinking was true about the water under the ice and under the surface. >> there was a time when we could only imagine what mars looked like. now with the help of new horizons we can stop guessing at what pluto looks like. at the science center in oakland, alan wang abc7 news. the president took to twitter to congratulate the new team. he tweeted this message pluto just had their first visitor. thanks nasa. it is a great day for discovery and american leadership. it is a big deal for at least two bay area companies. nasa gave facebook owned instagram the first surface

image of pluto an hour before releasing it to the world. it is the first time the space agency has ever done that with a social media site. nasa says it is trying to attract new audiences for especially young people. recovering after surviving a plane crash. next on abc7 news, new details on the 16-year-old who made it out alive and the emotional 9-1-1 call. plus a robber shoves a gun in the faces of local bakery workers. the surveillance video that they hope will track him down. and why you are more likely to buy junk food if you bring reusable bags to the store. >> i am abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. starts off foggy and a little on the drizzly side tomorrow morning. it will be heating up inland. i'll have details.

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she was taken to the hospital and is now okay. surveillance video shows a man robbing a bakery in san jose. he stole a cash from a nothing bundt cakes on june 23rd. the robber ran out the door but nobody saw him get into a vehicle. san jose police urge you to call if you recognize the robber. new details tonight in the case of a miracle survivor. a young woman who survived a plane crash over the weekend emerged from the woods after more than two days but sadly her step grandparents didn't survive the crash. here is the abc fuse reporter ryan owens with her story. >> a selfie in her hospital room. she is 16 after all. autumn continues to recover even watching news coverage of her survival story. tonight we hear the young woman's voice for the first time as she tells a 9-1-1 operator how she lived through a plane crash. >> are you injured at all? >> yeah, i have a lot of burns on my hands and i am covered

in bruises and scratches and stuff. >> they were flying from montana to washington state when she says the small plane hit bad weather and slammed into the side of a mountain. >> she was like a superhero. >> with no sign of help she started hiking down a mountain that lead to a river. she kept walking the water's edge until finally on monday she found a road and flagged down a car. her dad said she learned how to stay alive in this rugged wilderness by watching survival shows including discoveries "survival man." >> "survivor" should be proud of her. >> after undergoing a battery of tests at this hospital on tuesday afternoon autumn was cleared to go home. meanwhile searchers are looking for any sign of the downed plane. ryan owens abc news brewster washington. it is time to focus on our weather.

sandhya patel has a look at how to hot we are getting these days. >> how about mid-nineties? we will have to wait until tomorrow though. as you rook at live doppler 7hd we do have some fog and low clouds around. not just near the coast but it has pushed into the bay and even out toward the livermore valley. visibility is fluctuating. half moon bay has fog with half mile visibility. watch out for the morning commute. you will run into areas where it is hard to see. temperatures at this hour in the upper 50s to the mid60s. quite comfortable. this is what you will be waking up to in many areas. overcast skies from the exploratorium camera. spotty drizzle and heating up wednesday, thursday and cooler and cloudier this weekend and we may be watching for some drops around here as well. satellite-radar shows you what brought the cool down and the windy conditions. it was a weak trough that is sliding east. as that moves on the high pressure is going to build in and temperatures will rise tomorrow. that will continue into thursday as well. we are also watching the pacific very carefully. there are a couple of storms

and i will step aside. one is enrique. tropical storm enrique is no concern as far as land is concerned. hurricane dolores is what we are watching. it is a category 2 with 105 mile-an-hour winds. it is expected to intensity into a major category 3 hurricane by tomorrow morning. so if you have travel plans to puerto vallarta and cabo san lucas the next couple days this is where the surf and the rain bands will be impacting the area as we head toward the next few days. and then it falls apart. when it does fall apart, it is a trough kl storm on saturday and -- it is a tropical storm on saturday and eventually it will move into southern california on saturday evening where they will be the possibility of showers and thunderstorms. we are watching it carefully because an area of low pressure will drop south and that will pull up some of the moisture from dolores. there is a slight chance of showers on sunday around 4:00, 5:00 in the afternoon and maybe an isolated thunderstorm.

it is really going to be the small possibility, that small window we will be watching carefully. tomorrow morning mid50s to the low 60s. watch out for slick roadways as the drizzle has been developing and will continue to develop. if you are flying out of sfo, expect more delays tomorrow morning. 88 tomorrow afternoon in morgan hill and in the south bay 90 in gilroy and mid80s san jose and cupertino, 88 in los gatos and 82 in sawn knee veil. sunnyvale. a warmer day, 83 in redwood city. 65 in pacifica. still some fog will lippinger into -- will linger into the afternoon that will hold the temperatures down. 71 in downtown san francisco. north bay 60s coast side. mid80s around san rafael, novato and 89 santa rosa. make sure you have your sunscreen. 76 in oakland. 82 in fremont and in our inland spots this is where the summer heat returns. 94 antioch and 96 brentwood and 92 in livermore. the accu-weather seven-day forecast mid-nineties inland the next couple days and

getting you up to 70 along the coastline on thursday. a warm day. cools over the week end and a slight chance of showers on sunday. this year's aidswalk san francisco will be held in five days that's sunday. to register call 415-615-walk or sf aidswalk . net. just visit that site. like i mentioned the shower possibility which we desperately need will not come in until later in the afternoon. after the aidswalk is done. >> thank you, sandhya. next on abc7 news at 11:00 shark rescue. how some beachgoers saved this predator from certain death. >> when it happens where you live -- >> sky 7hd shows us a grassfire in san leandro. >> the abc7 news team covers your neighborhood. >> berkeley city hall. >> mill pea dis. on the pier. >> 7 on your side got them into the game. >> it is finished just eight years ago. >> your everything. >> sky 7hd shows massive

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