chance to end her own life with medication. her husband talked to us on the day the state senate approved the bill. >> it's still painful that i've lost her. and it would have been better if -- for me, too, if jennifer had had the death that she wanted if she could have taken a medication very close to the end. >> reporter: those who opposed the bill feared insurance companies may deny life-saving treatments for some opting instead for a less expensive alternative. >> two oregonians with cancer received a letter from the health plan denying a particular chemotherapy that was prescribed by their doctor but saying that it would pay for, among other things, their assisted suicide. >> reporter: a terminally ill patient would need to make two oral requests to a doctor followed by a written one. a second physician must also approve it. and a southern california woman who doctors say has only months to live says the governor's decision to pass the

end of life bill is a huge victory. >> the fact that other people into the future are not going to have to suffer painfully, i think all of those people, this is going to mean the world. and if i played a small part in that, i'm very happy to do it. >> former lapd detective christy o'donnell has lung cancer. the governor's signature brought tears of joy to o'donnell even though she doesn't believe she'll live to take advantage of this new law which takes effect early next year. giving victims of human trafficking more time to sue their abusers. they'll now have ten years rather than two to five years to file their case. california is a top destination for traffickers. and doctors say two years is just not enough time to gather evidence in a complex case. children are sometimes trafficked as young as 10 or 12. the president of the organization is introducing a resolution at tonight's meeting to get all staff trained to recognize signs is of human

trafficking among children. in other laws include new safety standards for limousines. there's an operation before july this year will need winnows that can be pushed out in an emergency. a fire on the san mateo bridge in 2013 killed five women on their way to a wedding celebration. in oakland right now, two lanes of eastbound interstate 580 are closed while police search for burglars on the loose in a nearby neighborhood right near 98th avenue, the exit there, there's also a crashed car blocking the right two lanes which is connected to the burglary search. no word if anybody is hurt. we've seen a lot of officers on the surface streets in that area. oakland police are asking people to avoid interstate 580 and take 880 instead if you can. there's a possible lead tonight in the murder of a bureau artist gunned down near his artwork. oakland police need help tracking down this man, a person of interest in last tuesday's murder. they say he's in his 20s, thin, about six feet tall.

the artist antonio ramos was shot to death in west oakland while working on an anti-violence mural. he exchanged words with the man just before he pulled a gun and fired. the community group sponsoring there mural began work on it today for first time since tuesday's incident. >> we always try to come together. we can't let this stop us. >> the mural under an interstate 580 overpass will now include the image of ramos. the man accused of murdering seven people in oakland was ruled competent to stand trial. he dropped out of the college's nursing program before shooting and killing a receptionist and six students on campus, this was back in april of 2012. three others were also shot but survived. the alameda man was deemed mentally unfit and committed to the hospital in january 2013. his attorneys have challenged the hospital's latest opinion.

a competency hearing is scheduled for november 16th. a man accuseded of drugging and sexually assaulting four women he met through social media. he used fake aliases to arrange meetings with his victims on tinder, local space scout and facebook. they say he drugged their drinks, then sexually assaulted the women when they were passed out. investigators believe there may be more victims in the bay area. the former morgan hill teacher was sentenced today to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting fourth grade girls. he was a teacher at paradise valley elementary school until he was arrested a year ago. he admitted to molesting three girls in 2012 and 2015. one of the victim's mothers wrote a letter in court saying, i hope you rot in hell. a children's party is under way in santa cruz to help remember, in a happy way, 8-year-old maddy middleton. he swas murdered in july.

a 15-year-old teenager has been accused of kidnapping and killing her. david louie joins us live in a park. >> reporter: this is a very unusual party. no invitation list. anybody can come here. in fact, the party's going to be going on for a couple more hours. it's the family's way of getting children, especially those in the santa cruz area, to recover from what has been a very sad period after maddy's death. sometimes keeping busy is good therapy. so is making people smile and laugh. those factors are behind this party to celebrate what should have been maddy middleton's 9th birthday. boubs houses for kids to let off steam and balloons. and that's what maddy's mom things the kids need right now. months after she was murdered by a teenaged neighbor. >> we're tired of grieving. of course i'm going to

experience more throughout my life. but the kid, i don't even understand how a kid can process this kind of thing. so i just want to bring joy to the kids and to their families and whoever's here to celebrate madison, i'm really grateful. >> reporter: maddy and her mother lived in an arts community in santa cruz, so it's only fitting that maddy's grandmother made up 125 goodie bags for kids filled with art and craft goods. they turned out to celebrate a the old oak picnic area. who made this balloon figure for you. >> a purple fairy. >> reporter: a purple fairy made it for you? do you know what it is? >> it's a flower. >> she really wanted to come today. >> reporter: maddy's family hopes this will become an annualent. david louie, abc 7. a complaint has been filed against the sheriff's office

accusing correctional facility deputies for beating inmate. they say they were sadisticcally attacked in the santa rosa facility and one of them got into a verbal fight with a deputy and other inmates protested. the sonoma county sheriff's office has yet to respond to our request for a comment. vic lee has an exclusive interview with one of the former inmates coming up at 6:00. bad news for the sharks. the season hasn't started and they lost a key player yet again. raffi torres suspended 41 games for the hit that you see right here to the head of jacob silverberg. this happened in the preseason finale against anaheim on saturday night. torres, who has a history of such hits, will also lose $440,000 in salary. he played just 12 games because of knee injuries since coming off another suspension. that was for another hit. and a day before the start

of their preseason, yankees pitcher cc sabathia is checking into an alcohol rehab center. sabathia says he plans to be back with the yankees next season. in a statement he says this hurts me deeply to do this now, but i owe it to myself and my family to get this right. i want to be a better man, player and father. the u.s. supreme court refused to hear san jose's appeal. the city sued major league baseball claiming its antitrust exemption, which allowed it to block the a's relocation, into what's considered giants territory, is unconstitutional. abc 7 news reporter matt keller has more. >> reporter: the future of san jose was forever changed today when the city's bid to lure the a's south to oakland came to an eneventful end. cooring to mayor liccardo, it means the city can move forward with plans for the land around the center for a major tech

headquarters and entertainment sector. >> we can really focus on the opportunities we have in the downtown and those parcels because right now the downtown is booming, it's revitalizing as it has not in decades. and without baseball, we think there continues to be great opportunity in downtown just as there has been for several nows now. >> reporter: the a's signed a ten-year lease for the o.co coliseum. they were not a part of the lawsuit. lou wolf released a statement about the ruling saying the court's decision, while significant, has no impact on our intent and unwavering foek focus on solving our ballpark issue and providing a's fans with first class experience they deserve. a big

>> they come to san jose have a fan base. >> we're going to lose them and they'll go somewhere else. and that's really disheartening to me and a lot of other people because we're supporters of the a's. and have been since they came here. >> i asked mayor liccardo if he was interested in bringing a different major league baseball team here to san jose. he said he isn't focused on that but would always listen if presented with a good opportunity. in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. the warrior's trophy tour ends its victory lap in san jose. >> it's been all over the country. >> fans are lining up to see him. the importance of the south bay market and what the fans really wish they had. >> that larry, not this larry. sticker shock at disneyland, what it's going to cost the visit the theme park any day of the year. >> hitting the banks. getting your money can really cost you. i'm meter ougs drew tuma, the winner of a forecast today and in the comi

. santa rosa, berkeley, san jose and all the bay area, this is abc 7 news. a man in his mid-20s died today when this truck sideswiped another, hit a side rail then plunged 40 feet to the ground. sky 7 hd flying over caribbean drive in sunnyvale. you can see what happened about noon today. a gray toyota tundra crushed and on its side in the dark shadows there. one passenger suffered minor injure. the driver of the other truck involved was not hurt. a san francisco police officer is in stable condition after a suspected car thief allegedly tried to run him over. this happened around midnight at mirabel avenue in the bernal heights area. the suspect tried to get away, he pinned the other officer

between two cars. another officer arrived. the suspect hit the second patrol car but couldn't escape. and he was arrested. the injured officer has a broken rib and a leg injury. something could have been worse. san francisco's reached a $400,000 settlement with nevada over that state's practice of dumping bus loads of strik patients in the city. that is accused of giving 500 homeless and mentally ill people one-way bus tickets to california. and this has been going on since 2008. dennis herrera had threatened a class-action lawsuit if nevada did not reimburse california cities and counties for the cost of taking care of those patients. cash is going out of fashion. so atm fees are soaring. >> 7 on your side's michael finney here with that and other consumer news. >> out of network fees has atms have hit a new high. $4.52. the latest annual survey by bankrate shows that using an out of network atm has gone up 21%

over the past five years. bachrate's greg mcbride says all these fees are avoidable. >> plan ahead as to where and when you make withdrawals. do that on your bank's turf, not somebody else's. you can get cash back at the point of sale using your debit card. fewer of us use out of network atms, banks are trying to make up for the lost revenue per transaction by raising the fees. disney might be taking a cue from uber and introducing surge pricing to its theme parks. disney is reportedly considering a price structure under the plan tickets would cost less on the slower days or cost extra or have more restrictions on busier days. this is great news for middle-class families. a little planning could mean big savings. disney is a parent company of abc 7. with raises hard to come by, american workers are having a tough time putting away any

money. a survey by go banking rates finds about two-thirds of us don't even have $1,000 in a savings account. millennials have some savings but not a thousand dollars. jen exami jen-x-ers are likely to have no savings at all. seniors about $10,000. they advise that americans have a net egg of six month expenses. >> that's scary those numbers. >> it is. the nba champions kick off the preseason. and they gave fans a chance to pose with the championship trophy. it gives the south bay a special opportunity to celebrate and could also help the owners build support as they prepare to move the team to san francisco. carolyn tyler joins us live from the shark tank. carolyn. >> the warriors played their regular season in san jose while

oracle arena was being renovated. but to come back here as the nb defending champions that could solidify support amok the faithful. it's officially warrior s day i san jose. that's an opportunity to meet larry, the larry o'brien championship trophy. >> never seen it before in my life. first time. so it was great. >> since the warriors won the championship, it's been quite a ride for larry. he's traveled with team players back to their home towns. he's been on the jimmy kimmel show. and been a star in san francisco's gay pride parade. today, young and old alike lined up at san jose's city hall to strike a pose. >> we very happy. >> reporter: according to warriors management, 10% of their fan base is in the south bay compared to 44% in the east

bay and 17% in san francisco. but we're told tonight's preseason game, the first in san jose, and the trophy hoopla are not a strategy to grow those numbers. >> you know, we are the base team. coming here to san jose was important to celebrate the championship. >> the warriors are the one team the entire bay area lays claim to, but the owners plan to move to san francisco in 2018. >> as a fan, i would love for them to stay in oakland. >> they should move here. >> anywhere the warriors go, we'll support them 100%. >> lots of love for the team and larry whose next stop is in santa cruz. carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. as you know doubt have noticed dan henley is not at the station. he's out raising money for one of his charities. dan ashley golf tournament. this is the 19th year of this

event which helps send underserved kids to summer camp at lake tahoe all expenses paid. 8500 children have been sent to camp. >> every child should have an opportunity at least to go to summer camp one time in their lives. the friendships they make are important. the best chance to be away from home, be away from mom and dad. learn from the outdoors, the summer camp experience. meet other kids. if you'd like to help dan send underserved children to summer camp, head to the website, friends of camp.com. photographic weather for golfing out in alamo today. >> drew, did you make that happen? >> of course, when dan has an outing, you got to be good to go on the links. october known to be some of the best weather we have in the bay area and today certainly did not disappoint. live doppler hd showing you baby blue skies.

otherwise we're dry. look at this. an area of low pressure that brought us the wind on saturday is bringing soaking rains to part of socal. long beach picked up an inch of rain today. the big story has been over the past couple of days in south carolina, the flooding rains, they're finally seeing drier air move in as this low pressure moves out. but the damage has already been done. the past three days incredible unprecedented rain. some places have picked up two feet of rain. mount tam camera showing you cool temperature. oakland 72, mountainview 75, same in san jose. half moon bay 64 degrees. the emeryville camera showing you the waters right now. 75 in conconsidered and 76 in liver more. here along the embarg dero you notice a light breeze out there.

we'll bring partly cloudy skies in overnight. gradual warming will happen over the next five to seven day just in time for fleet week. high pressure off shore, has a little bit of warmth, but winds flow from high to low pressure, so for us right now that bring us a light onshore breeze. you do notice that the winds are currently 10 to 15 miles per hour. and those winds will bring a little bit of fog and overnight. early tomorrow morning 6:00 you'll wake up to patchy dense fog along the coast, low clouds around the bay but october-like pattern, the clouds pull back to the coast and lots of sunshine by the afternoon. here's an update. this is tropical storm oho, winds have increased to 65 miles per hour moving to the northeast at 7 miles per hour. will remain away from hawaii and stay out to sea and will weaken to a remnant low by friday overnight tonight clear clouds

move in late. upper 50s across the bay. highs on your tuesday, nice and mild. 80 antioch, 74 oakland, 70 downtown san francisco, 77 san jose, 78 santa rosa and morgan hill up to 80. here's your forecast. tomorrow, it's a mild fall day with those early morning clouds. wednesday sunnier, a touch milder. a gradual warming trend into thursday. a steady pattern. frodz we'll call it mild to warm out there. perfect for riding your motorcycle outside. here comes that warmth sund and into monday mild to warm out there. perfect weather really to do anything outdoors and perfect for fleet week coming up over the next several days. >> drew, thank you. instagram had been around in the '70s, those guys would have been kings. how everyone can see moon pictures that are out of this world. great tot see you. breaking developments tonight.

the new discovery at sea. 28 americans aword that ship. the life boat now discovered and what else they found. midair mystery, the pilot that died midflight leaving the co-pilot to the controls, then the emergency landing. coming up at 6:00, a lost package quickly turns into a source of frustration for a north bay woman. michael finney sha

the business park will be the testing ground for the first fleet of shared driverless -- yes, driverless vehicles in the united states. expect to see two vehicles like this at bishop's ranch in san ramon in the next summer. the shuttle service is designed to operate at low speeds and transport passengers a short distance. easy mile as it's called is a joint venture between a french vehiclemaker and an indian high-tech company specializing in robotics. it will run that pilot project.

looks pretty cool. >> good first steps. in california's first ever lighthouse on alcatraz island is about to undergo a face-lift. a campaign to refurbish it and open it to visitors is getting under way. first up an architectural study to derl the scope and the cost of the work. it will lay the groundwork for a major fund-raising effort to pay for all of this. nasa has released thousands of high definition foet froes the apollo missions. it includes breath taking shots and more aboard the spacecraft. nasa released them to an apollo enthusiast who painstakingly returned them to high resolution. several missions that didn't have any pictures released before. you can find them at apolloarchive on flickr. >> those were the first selfies

in space. we just didn't know it. coming up, the weirdest beards. >> the contestants dazzling the judges at an international championship. one of the winners is from the bay area. find out who when abc 7 news at 5 clock continues.

. walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area. this is abc 7 news. coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00, we have exclusive interviews with former inmates who claim they were beaten and

tortured while at the sonoma county jail. also automating your driver. what carmakers are doing to make the next generation of smart cars safe from hackers. and we hear from the owners of this 20-pound french bulldog that scared off two bears trying to break into their southern california home. that's at 6:00. ama, thank you. most men can grow a half decent mustache or beard. i don't know about you, larry. >> ah, yes. it's a problem, actually. at the deer championships in austria take their facial hair seriously. oh, my goodness. it's a hairy battle. the three-day event drew more than 300 people from around the world. 18 different categories for the most beautiful facial hair. that includes mustache, whiskers, beard, goatee, et cetera. and there is a bay area winner. >> tah-dah. 23 years old from walnut creek took place in the natural full

beard category. congratulations. that's going to do it for us. world news is next. tonight, breaking developments. the new discovery at sea in the desperate search for the ship that went down. 28 americans on board. the life boat discovered and what else they found. also, the captain. what he was trying to do in the middle of the hurricane. the deadly flood emergencies in several states tonight. the mother and a little girl rescued from their roof. the driver trapped in a pickup. the samaritan swimming to him. and the roads simply giving way. the midair mystery tonight, the pilot who died mid flight leaving the co-pilot to control and the emergency landing in syracuse. the amtrak passenger train derailing today. the race to help the injured.