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>> vic lee is live with the story. vic? >> reporter: before they say anything at all that meeting being held here at the city college campus in the bay view. reliable sources tell us that police have been pouring through all of the videos frame by frame to see if mario woods had done enough >> i can't believe what i saw. it is like a death, right? >> reporter: christian hernandez shot this video showing officers surrounding the 26-year-old wednesday afternoon. he recorded woods final moments. officers yelling "drop the knife" numerous times, he
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appeared to ignore commands. in the video it shows an officer firing a bean bag gun, then, seconds later shots. hernandez says he didn't see woods moving threateningly. >> i didn't see him move aggressive lie police analyzed this video. it's this video police believe is revealing. the source says freezing four frames appears to show that woods may have raised his right arm with a knife before he was shot. and that the officer stepped back first before he fired. that same source tells abc7 news the police force will show them at the town hall meeting.
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and. >> they felt their lives were threatened. firefighters in fremont are working to working to clean up a acid near oswood road. four types of acid spilled from a drum belonging to a business. two police officers inhaled fumes and went to urgent care to get checked out. the main entrance to walmart is closed as a precaution. >> fbi investigators believe a married couple who killed 14 people in san bernardino were not part of a larger terror organization. >> but they do believe the two had become radicalized. the fbi has taken over the investigation, calling the rampage an act of terrorism. a facebook executive says malik used an alias account to
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post her allegiance to isis. >> they found two cell phones smashed but al vajable near the home. >> we do continue to exploit the data from those cell phones. we do hope that the fingerprints left by these two individuals will take us. >> abc7 news is live in redlands, reggie? we learned she was a brilliant student in pakistan. then a wife, then a mom. anyone looking for a reason didn't get their answer walking inside of the home, the couple rented since may. >> why did you decide to allow
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people to go in? >> because i had to take pictures of the families and stuff. for myself for insurance purposes. >> the landlord found signs of a raid but otherwise, evidence of a life of a family looking like they intended to come back. >> they seemed to be regular human beings. >> it's a matter of telling us to leave, before we leave, you can see a table here. there is a quaran, there are forms and a receipt from the home depot. >> we didn't see the ammunition and a dozen bombs. >> making bombs in my backyard. it's crazy. >> the two weren't being tracked by the fbi. we know they met on an online dating sight. farook brought malik on a spousal visa.
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what about in the home? who was calling the shots? >> and i don't know the answer, whether she influenced him or not. being a husband myself, i suppose year all influenced to an extent but i don't know the answer. >> a lot of you have been wondering what happened to the 6-month-old? she is with child protective services now. a family attorney says she may be going with another family member next week. that is the latest from san bernardino county. >> reggie, thank you very much. remembrances are pouring in about the 14 people killed in the attack. 60-year-old isaac amanios came from africa, looking for a new life. >> he traveled here from thousands of miles away for a better life. and someone just took it like that, after he built what we'd consider the american dream. >> here is a look at the faces of the 14 victims, ranging in
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age from 26 to 60 and came from all walks of life. ten worked for san bernardino county, one victim, a 46-year-old previously worked for a think tank at usc that studies national security and terrorism. most assault rifles are banned in california, the san bernardino shooter used a kind of weapon still legal in the state. lyanne is live. >> reporter: two weapons had bullet buttons. the california law bans any semi automatic, so the gun industry came up with something that would slow down the process. you would think many of these semi automatic rifles were already banned in california, not so. they're perfectly legal. >> in california the thing that makes this legal is the bullet
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button which is here. >> it's called the bullet button. gina rollski from an carlos showed me. >> a tool is needed to be able to release the magazine. >> i tried it and it won't bu budge. >> i need a tool to be able to release the magazine. >> or a pen? >> yes. >> okay. >> use a pen as well. >> reporter: gun advocates say without the button, a gunman could be constantly loading and reloading using more ammunition. >> i'm going to time you to see how long it's going to take to insert something and take it out, and reload. ready? go. >> voters
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you the legislature to act, that is when the nra goes into action. the nra's home court is legislative branch. >> and through the internet, one can buy tools that go inside of the button, making it easy, and quick, to reload. >> i tell people what is legal and illegal. i just have to take the notion that they're going to listen to me. >> in san carlos, abc7 news. one bay area city is looking at changing one law to address gun violence. abc7 news was at oakland city hall. police showed off high capacity magazines seized from crime scenes. two city council members want to ban all magazines that held more than so rounds. they also want to require owners to keep guns locked up in homes and make it against the law to leave them unsecured on city streets. i run into mothers every day in the grocery store who say
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enough. i see little oakland students in elementary schools who suffer from ptsd because of the gun violence in their neighborhoods. >> the oakland city council will take up measures in two weeks. and the fbi is reminding everyone if you see something, report it. coming up in just a little whiefl, we're going to check out an app that helps you do that. >> three california lawmakers say they want to improve the tour bus inspection program. assembly members say they'll introduce it in january, letting chp raisin specks fees to cover costs and require more frequent inspecks. last month a tour bus crashed in downtown san francisco, injuring 20 people. >> the surveillance video captured a terrifying take over bank robbery in campbell last month. police say two masked and hooded suspects burst into a
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wells fargo bank about 10:00 a.m. on saturday, ordering everyone to the ground and force somed workers to open the vault. the robbers fled in a car with one, maybe two more people inside. no one was hurt. the campbell police department released this video, today. >> the alameda county district attorney is dropping charges against 14 black lives matter protestors who chained themselves to bart trains in november. the misdemeanor charges stem from a demonstration linked to a campaign that swept country after a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown. >> we're going to continue to put pressure on a system that devalues our lives. we think it's important to elevate the causes being made as well as to be able to respond to local tragedies that are happening. >> they apologized for delaying bart last year and agreed to join in a dialogue with bart and the d.a. as part of a justice program. >> still ahead here on abc7
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news, are you missing mail? the special operations that caught someone stealing hundreds of letters, plus... >> it came twister in just a moment. we talked to residents from a community devastated by el nino two decades ago. lessons they've learned as they prepared for another potentially wet winter. >> gadgets for gifts.
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an oakland teenager given a maximum sentence for his involvement of a car jacking and murder. david mcneil was tried as an adult. laura anthony is live with interviews you'll see only on abc7 news. laura? >> reporter: the six teenagers involved in the killing of quinn boyar were 13-16, today, one received a sentence that will likely send him to prison well into middle age. >> it's not a happy thing. >> despite all she's been through, the widow of quinn boyar told us it wasn't easy to let the young man convicted given the maximum sentence. >> it's very hard to watch someone be done with their live in front of you. >> 15 at that time, david mcneil was sentenced to 48 years to life for his involvement for the
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car jacking and shooting death of 34-year-old quinn boyar, an off duty paramedic. mcneil's family left the court in years. he provided the gun. they were part of a group that prosecutors say were on a two-day crime spree. >> this is pretty hard. >> two young men are impressionable, and he was. my client expressed remorse for the out of character crime spree. >> the mother of a 14-year-old shot by mcneil the day after the attack on boyar. >> hopefully, this case will help and teach other children and families to really focus in on their kids. and try to help keep them safe from harming others. >> the alleged shooter's trial
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ended in a hung jury. the retrial is set for next month. fairfield police say they have recovered stolen mail from homes in several counties. it was stolen from at least 24 mailboxes. investigators are in the process of contacting victims. >> we're dealing with paper work and mail and numerous cities. so investigators are going to be looking to sort through the mail. >> police arrested the two for possession of stolen properties for id cards and criminal conspiracy. >> we know that he will neeno is here because we've seen satellite images and measured warmer temperatures. it is possible we'll experience mudslides from the grounds but
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where? as abc7 news reporter wayne freedman explains during the el nino of 1998, residents never saw it coming. a lock and a warning sign, still part of the present for canyon residents of the rio ns nito. >> there were about 14 houses here. >> the fire chief walking through the ghosts of a neighborhood, laid to waste the night of the mud fell down this mountain and came this way. it was hundreds of yards wide and still, moving. slowly. may shultz was 15 years old the
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night of the slide. putting her and her mother on the front page of newspapers and news stories. also cost them pretty much everything they had, except each other. two women awakened by moving mud, snapping trees into pieces. >> there was a long, long history. before this neighborhood was there. which we're unaware of. >> before it ended, the slides led to loss of 30 homes, then, the bull dozing into a flood waste zone. the federal government paid residents to leave. later, sonoma county build catch basins to protect residents. this land is still, quiet, and yet... >> do you trust the ground here? >> no. not for this. no. >> anywhere? >> no. >> seeing is believing and
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experiencing is unforgettable. maybe that is why they live far from any mountain of moving mud. >> what do you learn? >> just to value your friends and family. and value life and your experiences because it can twist and turn in just a moment. >> wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> well, look at this. you can see fresh powder and sunny days made these just about perfect conditions. if you're headed out there, you may have trouble getting back because another storm is on the way. >> we want to give you more details. >> right. i have details.
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we have partly cloudy skies. the snow pack is at 51%. it is far ahead of the reading of 29%. so temperatures mainly into low to mid-50s. it's cool in santa rosa now. we're down to 47 degrees. forecast features, clouds increasing tomorrow, rain into sunday and a chance of rain next week as well. so moving into a wetter pattern, tomorrow, partly cloudy skies and clouds continuing to increase into late afternoons and mostly cloudy skies tomorrow evening and that leads to our saturday night and sunday morning storm. this is number one on our scale,
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so light storms and half an inch of rain in the north bay. and steady rain before 8:00 a.m. sunday. so here we go. taking us into sunday morning at 8:00, and 1:00 a.m., sweeping south ward and eastward by 5:00 sunday, rain hits most parts of the bay area except the south bay. later in the day about 8:00 a.m., pockets in the south bay and activity will have pushed east by mid to late morning sunday. above third of an inch in san francisco. only about 8/100ths in san jose. next rain event occurs wednesday night and into thursday. doesn't look like like a big storm but looks like it will last a while and will be a wet day.
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so overnight tonight, look for partly cloudy skies. low temperatures mid to upper 40s. we'll have mid to upper 30s inland. tomorrow's highs in a narrow range about increasing cloudy skies. here comes rain, shoulding over by mid day sunday. wet weather wednesday and thursday and cooler pattern settling in for friday. >> thanks spencer. >> okay. >> what do steph curry and leo messi have in common? >> they're both among the best players in the world in their respective sports. >> now, tonight, they're becoming fast friends. curry's
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friends with arguably the best soccer player in the world. >> i can't believe you have 30 million followers on instagram. i had to get thu jersey. >> leo messi says as soon as curry reaches 10 million followers he'll send curry a signed jersey. right now, curry is at 6 million followers so he's making progress but needs help. >> abc7 news at 6:00 continues. federal investigators say it's terrorism, but was that deadly shooting in san bernardino linked to isis? >> and better safe than sorry. if you see something, say something. here in the bay area, there is an app for that. next. >> cracking down on donations, sort of. a city tries to clean up the mess around donation bins. >> stay right here,
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another person already being investigated before the attack. >> the fbi says today syed farokk and tashfeen malik had become radicalized. >> farook and malik were killed out in a shootout with police, officers found ammunition in their home along with two phones found smashed near the house. a lawyer for the family says everyone is stunned. >> there has never been evidence either of the two alleged shooters were aggressive, had extremist views, they were totally shocked that this could take place. as shocked as anyone else was. >> the fbi is investigating as an act of terrorism. the shooters have a 6-month-old daughter in protective custody. >> as details continue to come out about the mass shooting, authorities are looking for warning signs that might have been missed as abc7 news
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reporter jonathan bloom explains it seems the battle cry is if you see something, say something. and in the bay area there is an app for that. >> reporter: as investigators tear apart the home, one man says his neighbor knew something was fishy. >> they were in the garage and she was kind of suspicious and wanted to report it. she didn't want to profile. >> no one wants to profile anybody. but it makes the case for why homeland security says over and over again, if you see something, say something. >> the head of the fbi wishes people would listen. >> over the last 10, 15 years, in almost every case, we find that someone saw something whether a family member, or a friend or co-worker and didn't say something to law enforcement. >> now, bart police have an app called bart watch. >> people weren't comfortable getting on the cell phone on the
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train. >> the app is silently text police or send pictures. >> one picture looked like a bomb. >> whether bart riders will say something is up for debate. some folks say they'd report anything. others think it's none of their business. >> if you see something, say something. what do you think? >> i follow that. >> unattended suitcase, would you report that? >> probably not. people lose things. >> if i is v.a strange feeling about it, then, yeah, i would report it. >> texting police is a big improvement. >> just because sometimes, it's harder to make a call, you don't want to p feel obvious. >> in the south bay, vta has an similar app and on muni you can use 311 app but police say calling 911 is still the best in an emergency. >> we'll continue the reporting from san bernardino tonight. you can see his report on abc7
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news at 11:00. he's also tweeting developments. follow him. to the campaign trail, one demographic is supporting donald trump. numbers from cnn show trump is strongly supported with those with no college degree. 46% of voters without a degree support trump. ted cruz is second, followed by ben carson. among college graduates, ted cruz leads with 22%, trump polled at 18%. ebay is the latest tech company to boost parental leave policy. the company will offer new moms up to six months paid leave, men getting three months off. the company increased the amount of pay for people on disability or family care leave. changes take effect january 1st. >> ebay stock finished up slightly. the nasdaq up more than 100
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points. oakland based blue bottle coffee will be, will not be emergencying with tartine bakery. the plan called for the products to be sold in blue bottle shops. the company says it remains in their interests to stay independent businesses. the e coli outbreak linked to chipotle is expanding adding illinois, maryland and pennsylvania to the list of states, joining california and five other states. the source of the outbreak is still not known. generosity or excuse to toss trash? the city of san leandro says it needs help cracking down on the number of donation bin as cross town. how some have become dumping grounds. >> many donation stations are now dumping locations in san leandro. >> it's messy. >> dozens of bins have been
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place add cross the city. four in one parking lot. michelle lindero works near washington avenue. >> anything you can imagine is there. just leave it there. they don't put them in the bins. >> a discarded mattress, broken glass and pet waste in front of a donation bin actually a for profit recycling company out of oakland. following public complaints, the city is trying to weed out the unpermited bins says the assistant city manager. >> unfortunately, they appear to be blighted. >> only two organizations with 17 bins combined have gone through the proper approval process. the locations are on this city-run map. >> we believe there are more out there that are unpermited. we don't know where they're located. >> we've seen this before in oakland and other cities but san leandro leaders want to be notified to tackle the mess
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smchlt people say they'll take items to vetted nonprofits. the city plans to enforce the process and clean up. in san leandro, abc7 news. >> you know the old saying the devil is in the details. if you buy a new gadget, that might not be the only thing they great change comes from doing the right thing. like the radical idea that health isn't an industry. it's a cause. so we do things differently. we combine care and coverage. and believe prevention is the most powerful of cures.
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other styles can be paired with matching candles, the battery charger can charge simultaneously. and this is video using a go pro attached to a harness. >> put them on babies or yourself. >> the mounts are available to chest and head mounts retailing under $40 each. other popular accessories include head phones for video games and routers. with tablets, you can use it as just a case, flip it around and becomes a stand. you can put it in book mode if you just want to read.
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went 19-3 three years in l.a. neither clubs would go a sixth year, they offered five. this does weaken the dodgers so that helped the giants. barry bonds back in baseball, the new hitting instructor for the miami marlins. and will work under don maddingly. bonds says he holds no ill will toward his former team. >> i'm not upset. i love san francisco. and this is where my god father plays. my family has been in this city since 1958.
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my father played here and i played here. that will never take that way from me. he has that opportunity by saying barry, i love for you to be on my staff. >> the warriors are going to try to make it when asked how to beat the warriors he said pray to god. the raptors now have a record of 12-8. >> they have versatile players to map some of our smaller line ups.
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>> team president who has been yesterday york's righthand man is being reassigned and will handle the salary cap or day-to-day operations. he will be involved in other businesses including a soccer team in san francisco. the niners say this transition has been planned for a while but the timing is odd. stanford got a slim chance to get to the playoffs if they'd allow cardinals to move up from 7th to 4th. sc very dangerous. earlier today he was bumped up and was opposite coordinator. offense scored 31 points against
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the cardinals and is excited get another crack at stanford. >> they win, they put them away in the end. >> and we'll have highlights and reaction tomorrow night on after the game following acc championship between north carolina and clemson here on abc7. abc7 sports brought to you by bank of the west. >> there is change coming again. we'll get cloudy skies tomorrow, and tomorrow night, rain continues into sunday. highs from upper 50s to around 60s inland and near the bay. so here is a look at our
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accu-weather forecast. rain continues into morning hours. we'll have a drier day monday, and a chance of rain wednesday and thursday with a cooler pattern next friday. >> join us tonight, new details about the woman involved in the san bernardino shootings and screenings she went through and what they found, at 9:00. >> and san francisco police are holding a meeting after officers shot and killed a man with a knife. what people in the neighborhood are telling the chief in a live report at 11:00. >> stay right here, back in a moment with a special tribute to cheryl jennings. >> yes. cheryl joins us
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journalism and community work in the congressional record. >> cheryl is stepping away from the abc7 news anchor desk to focus on new, and exciting special projects which we'll tell you about. we have a surprise, she doesn't know about, from state senator mark leno. >> yes. it's a certificate of recognition and gratitude for 27 years of anchoring the 5:00 p.m. news show. it's been wonderful. >> thank you so much. >> we're so thrilled for you. tell us about the new opportunity. >> well, you know, i want to show you something else. this has been an amazing, i have been spinning today because i'm with all of you. this is our mid day family here, a picture of the crew after 5:00 news, everybody from upstairs and producers and wonderful. everyone in the newsroom came down to give me hugs and pose for pictures. my new opportunity is thrilling. i feel lucky to have been here for so long but lucky i'm going
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to be a new thing, working on special projects here and overseas. i have traveled around the world reporting about issues, talking about how food security can help fight terrorism. i saw israelis and palestinians working together to remove land mines and in core rea, i learned about high speed rail and it's efficiency. in kosovo, i met children orphaned by war and these stories are connected to the bay area. they have inspired me to change my role here at abc7. so i'm going to be leaving the anchor desk at nearly 30 years, hard to believe, because i want to shine a light on issues that connect us with the rest of the world and that takes time. i need that time. i'm going to miss so much being with you, and by bay area family, my talented friends and
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colleagues but you're going to see me with special reports and on the headlines every sunday at 4:30. >> we'll see you with boots on out there. >> yes. and my black jacket, again. >> it's really exciting and we want to talk a little bit about it. i often end with a what really matters and tonight what really matters is cheryl jennings. change is the one constant in television news, stories change and people who bring you stories change, too. this time it's one of the most-familiar faces in the bay area and beloved so our dear friend cheryl jennings decided to step away from anchor duties. three of them with me, cheryl decided to contribute to abc7 news in this new, and really very exciting way. you can tell she's very excited about this new change to focus, or chance to focus her talents
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and passion for the job on these special reports for this newscast. she loves that kind of journalism and is great at it. we'll all miss her nightly presence, but what matters is that cheryl isn't going anywhere, she'll be where she has been, on the air, and in our community. and we're all extremely thankful for that, cheryl. >> thank you so much. oh, my god. we're all here together. >> yes. of course. >> yes. yes. >> i don't know if you can tell us your first big assignment but i know you're looking at a lot of options. >> i am. one of the stories to first inspired me to continue this role was aids in africa. and in the bay area, we've done a remarkable job. it has not been cured in south africa. that is where i did my first story there with a marin county
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man. that is going to be one of the first things to see how he's doing with that children. >> no one can focus attention on issues like you can. it's been a privilege to be here every night with you. we'll see you reporting and around the country and world. >> thankful for that. love you. >> thank you. love you. >> that is it for this edition of abc7 news. >> from all of us here, cheryl jennings in particular, see you later tonight.
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