to come forward and speak out against a failing system that protects abusive faculty members. >> reporter: the women accuse professor dr. blake wentworth of making unwanted passes at them and touching them inappropriately. bennett says it got so bad she took medical leave. >> it's completely derailed my future career, my education. >> reporter: in a statement, the university says that campus has taken several steps to protect the interests and wellbeing of our students. most recently, the department chair has reassigned this faculty member's classes to other instructors. i called dr. wentworth and went by his office. nobody answered. a report made public last week found 19 staff members at cal violated the school's harassment policy. this includes a renowned astronomy professor who resigned and the law school dean who's being sued by his former executive assistant. >> we're standing together and we're saying enough.

>> reporter: he came to today's rally to show support. survivors are calling on uc to fire staff with repeated complaints and make the reporting process transparent. at uc berkeley, elissa harrington, abc 7 news. we have a major update on a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed an avid runner in san francisco more than six months ago. police arrested the driver, 32-year-old brendan wallace, and a man who helped him get away, 34-year-old heinz cortado. wallace hit 60-year-old dennis nicks last november on san jose avenue. he fled the area, abandoned his car, and detectives say he was later picked up by cortado. >> it was a pretty horrific scene. it was pretty much 300-plus feet of evidence. vehicle part and body parts. >> wallace originally told police his car had been stolen. he now faces various charges

including vehicular manslaughter. cortado is charged as an accessory to a hit-and-run. a big clue released tonight in the hunt for a man and woman wanted in the killing of a tourist in san francisco. police released these suspect sketches today. the pair is accused of stabbing a british tourist and taking his bag in san francisco's lower pacific heights. a neighborhood, this happened in february. security video captured the crime. paul tam died from his injuries about a month after the attack. b.a.r.t. was not just on time today. it was early. we're talking about reaching a new labor deal with its unions to avoid the kind of crippling strike we saw in 2013 and to generate public support. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live at the lafayette b.a.r.t. station. laura? >> reporter: hi, kristen. well, while b.a.r.t.'s general manager would not offer a price tag, she did tell us that this tentative new contract is already in the budget and she promised there would be no fare increase from it to riders.

>> on strike! >> on strike! >> reporter: these are the images that b.a.r.t. and its n unions are hoping to avoid by coming up with a tentative contract agreement. a four-year extension of the current pact, more than a year early. >> agreement we came to in 2013 was not a terrible agreement but it was a terrible process of getting there. we really let the bay area down. >> this agreement is for our patron s and all of the bay ar. this d.a. will provide the region and b.a.r.t. workers with a consistent and uninterrupted service for the next five years. >> reporter: the tentative deal comes two months before b.a.r.t.'s board will decide whether to be a bond to voters. >> about capital reinvestment, this is about the operating budget. we're not really here to discuss the bond. >> reporter: if approved by unions and b.a.r.t.'s board it calls for b.a.r.t. workers to receive a 10.5% raise over a 4-year period from 2017 through

june 2021. >> the 10.5% raise seems the absolute minimum to me. i think it's a really good service. >> a little hard to stomach that kind of an increase. but i'm glad that there won't be anymore strikes. >> reporter: b.a.r.t.'s unions still need to ratify the contract extension. a vote that's expected to happen in the next 30 days. in lafayette, laura anthony, abc 7 news. three women who stepped off a balcony in berkeley moments before it collapsed are suing for mental and emotional damages. our media partner the "east bay times" reports the women went inside seconds before the collapse and then watched in horror as six of their friends were killed. their roommate celebrating her 1 21st birthday was severely wounded. contractors used cheap details in building the deck, didn't waterproof it for months and management did not properly inspect the deck before renting it out.

a high-tech tool may help find a man's killer in castro valley. abc 7 news was there to see old-fashioned police work, sheriffs deputies looking for clues on the ground. at the same time, modern technology hovered above. a sheriffs department drone surveyed a crime scene behind a medical building. >> gives us that aerial perspective. can take still photos, video photos and later on use that when this case goes to trial later down the road, what did the scene look like at that time? years from now if things changed, we preserved that evidence. >> witnesses told the sheriffs office they heard fgunshots around 10:30 last night. detectives believe the victim knew his killer. the victim lived in antioch. he was shot in the head and died after being rushed across the street to eden medical center. a woman is being treated at san francisco general hospital after falling into san francisco bay the at 10:30 this morning. a passerby called police to say a woman went over a barrier at

pier 35 viewing area. police and rescue boats responded. fire department swimmers searched underneath the pier for the woman. they found her half an hour later and rushed her to the hospital. if you have children, san francisco police warn tonight that thieves may target even the youngest kids. you can see on this map where an ipod was swiped from a 2-year-old riding in a stroller believe it or not. officers captured the suspect moments later near market and mason. they also recovered the ipad. the toddler's 4-month-old sib ls sibling was also riding in the carriage yesterday morning. last of the investment banks tied to the crisis agreed to a multibillion dollar settlement. that should mean money coming to state retirement funds. abc 7 news reporter david louie is live in san jose with details. david? >> reporter: kristen, school districts on the peninsula even the county of san mateo lost millions when bad residential loans were bundled and sold as investment grade securities by a

number of banks. for its part, goldman sachs agreed to a settlement. it was financial manipulation hollywood couldn't resist turning into a movie. >> the whole houses market is propped up on bad loans. they will fail. >> reporter: goldman sachs was accused with tampering with the kinds of loans it was bundling and selling to investors upgrading risky loans as acceptable when an independent agency flagged them. the u.s. attorney in sacramento gave an example. >> goldman directed the vendor to change 7,467 of those loans, 29 of them, or over a quarter of the loans that were initially graded unacceptable were changed by goldman to an acceptable grade. >> reporter: it wasn't just goldman. earlier jpmorgan chase and others reached settlements for activity that began in late 2005 and stretched into early 2007. the sequoia union high school district was a victim after investing money with lehman brothers. it lost $6.7 million but recovered $31.million later. it invested funds for a bond

issue for school construction. goldman sachs agreed to a $5 billion settlement which this economic investor alexander field put in perspective. >> looked like net earnings for 2015 were about $34 million. as far as i can see the after-tax impact of this is $1.5 billion. it's certainly not trivial but it's not a whole lot relative to overall net earnings. >> reporter: the professor knows no individual at goldman has been subject to criminal ym charges. >> there really is not good evidence that this was some sort of a scheme directed by somebody at a very high level at the bank. >> reporter: however, that option remains open. david louie, abc 7 news. more to come. s.w.a.t. is called out to a standoff in southern california. >> there were armed police running down the street. an executive at a bay area company is right there live tweeting the whole thing as it happens. that's ahead. plus, filing your taxes, 7 on your side's michael finney

reskrer reveals the penalty that affects millions of people. and how to skip the licnes and see coachella even if you don't have tickets. it can be done. and -- >> reporter: catching balls and chasing history. the bay area softball coach, one wine -- one win, that ♪ ♪

(laughing) there's nothing like making their day. except making sure their tomorrow is taken care of too. financial guidance while you're mastering life. from chase. so you can. moment by moment, details appeared on twitter provideing pictures and descriptions of a suspected car thief on the run from los angeles police. >> there were armed police running down the street. they had helmets with masks. they had their weapons drawn. >> video of that chase appeared on periscope within moments

early this northern. the man who streamed it happens to be a twitter executive. nathan hubbard started tweeting updates when he heard a commotion behind his home in l.a.'s pacific palisades neighborhood. a man stormed into a home and barricaded himself inside a garage. hubbard tweeting, technical units repositioning and appear to be about to laumplgs launch using gas from alley below. i hope this clown isn't on twitter. >> they did a terrific job. they communicated well. they stayed in place. they did everything they could to resolve it without violence. >> hubbard also shared this video on periscope showing s.w.a.t. officers moments before they captured the suspect by removing the garage door with an armored vehicle. the white house is giving a shout-out to california lawmakers for expanding family leave. governor brown signed a bill today allowing new parents time with their newborn or workers to care for a sick relative. the new law boosts how much the state will pay. giving employees as much as 70%

of their income during their six weeks of leave. >> but with globalization comes pressure. comes pressure on wages being pushed down for the average person, and it comes with pressure against providing benefits. >> a higher pay in the state law which starts in 2018 could be good news for san francisco specifically after the city passed a bill requiring employers to offer six weeks of fully paid leave to new parents. with the state paying more, businesses and the city won't have as large of a pay gap to cover. every year, americans face changes to the tax code. in 2015 it's no different. this years filers can expect tweaks rather than radical changes. we'll have tax tips for you every day up until the deadline. that's monday april 18th this year. here's 7 on your side's michael finney. >> the good news especially for those procrastinators, tax day is monday april 18th. you see, under federal law, tax day gets pushed back if there's

a conflict with a federal holiday. and this year, emancipation day gives americans an extra weekend to crunch those numbers. and if you live in a state that celebrates patriots day, that deadline moves back even further, to april 19th. the bad news, the penalty for not having qualifying health care coverage goes up and goes up big-time. >> for people who didn't have coverage this year, they're going to see penalties roughly doubled what they were last year. >> reporter: and due to the affordable care act, taxpayers will see a couple of new forms. an employee-issued document. a 1095-b or 1095-c that reports medical coverage. for many, there's not much to do. simply check on your tax return that you had health care. withdr you don't need to send the forms in. for those who received an advanced premium tax credit, this was government help to pay for coverage through a health exchange, it's a little more complicated. you'll have to reconcile that credit when you file and you must file. >> they need to file or they jeopardize the credit in the future.

>> reporter: also new this year, tax brackets have risen slightly and the personal exemption all taxpayers are entitled to take goes up by 50 bucks. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. the warriors hope to make history at oracle arena wednesday night, that's when the defending nba champions will go for win number 73 in the all-time regular season wins record. golden state beat the spurs yesterday tieing the chicago bulls' 72-win record. well, turns out the warriors are not the only local team chasing history right now. there's a high school team on the peninsula on the cusp of a great milestone. abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman went to belmont today to check on a theam that happen to be really good at softball. >> reporter: on the softball field this spring it's the same old, same old. >> we're girls but play hard. >> reporter: that's the tradition after 28 league championships. >> you are expected to win and

expected to have this poise when you're playing and be very sportsmanlike. >> reporter: they expect the best on jim liggett field, oh, who is that? >> you put on one pant leg at a time whether you're a legend or not. >> reporter: the coach that's run this program since 1976 now on the cusp of 1,000 wins. this team is at 999 right now. did you ever think you'd get there is. >> i never worried about it. >> reporter: the timing would be perfect, however, for the winningest softball coach in california history. he leaves behind a legacy of roughly half his players moving on to college rosters. 40 have received scholarships. a long road for a former professional baseball players. >> if you've been here as long as i -- >> reporter: coach ligget has been coaching since 1967. he began with boys baseball and football, the girls and softball came later and they did require some adjustments.

>> they cry a lot more. i think my first year i had everyone on the team crying. >> reporter: not anymore. or so we hear. >> he's calmed down in his older age. >> it's tough love. >> reporter: the only way they know how to play, same old, same old, one more time around the infield. in belmont, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. now to baseball. many fans hope to get one foul ball at a game, well perhaps in a lifetime, but how about five? yes. that is what happened today to lifelong detroit tigers fan bill dugan at comerica park. he caught four balls during the game and one during b.p., batting practice. he appeared on our sister network, espn. >> i guess after the first ball it was kind of the norm then once the second one came and the third one it was kind of an awe. the crowd was getting into it. then the fourth one it was just like you got to be kidding me. of course when the fifth one came, you can see his reaction, it was unbelievable.

>> these are different batters. it's not like one guy was consistently hitting into the same place. to make the story better, the detroit tigers tweeted out these pictures saying dugan gave away each of the foul balls he got to young fans. >> that is sweet. he's a nice guy, too. what are the odds of that? that's incredible. talk about a powerful remote control. nasa engineers fixed a space telescope as it sputtered 75 million miles from earth. scientists at ames research center in mountain view controlled the operation of the kepler spacecraft that went into emergency mode last week. initial repair efforts went very slowly. nasa got everything to work properly slowly. kepler launched in 2009, remember. its telescope lets astronomers see planets located beyond our solar system. you don't have to go to coachella to enjoy the music. watch is streaming live in r your home. youtube announced today it will stream select performances from the event's first weekend. if you want to tune in, you can

create an interactive personalized schedule to customize your experience. >> looks like fun. my oldest son got his ticket yesterday. all right. let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. rain has broken for the time being. >> i know. look at that sunshine is back and meteorologist sandhya patel is on the roof enjoying it. >> that's right. i'm working, too. yeah, kristen and dan, right now it is brighter out here. beautiful day. we're going to see some more sun tomorrow but we'll bring in some showers later on this week. let's check out live doppler 7 hd and you will notice that we do still have some clouds around and a live look from our mt. tam cam will show you some of those clouds as we look back toward san francisco and sausalito. low to mid 60s from san francisco, oakland. from our lake tahoe camera, there have been some showers around the vicinity of tahoe. they'll be seeing some snow, believe it or not, late in the season, later on this week. 6lp1 santa rosa.

65 concord and livermore. san jose one of the few locations that made it up to 70. most locations in the 50s and 60s. a little sunnier tomorrow. showers develop late wednesday night. it's going to be wet for your thursday morning commute. a heads up. here's a look at what's happening overnight. quite a bit of cloud cover. tomorrow morning's commute will start out pretty cloudy then brighten up. we bring in our storm impact scale after that because we do have showers coming. all season we've been rating this system. this next one, 1 is light, 5 severe. it's a 1. light system between late wednesday, early thursday morning. most areas will get .015 to a third of an inch. it's going to turn breezy behind the system on thursday. here's your hour by hour look at the showers. 9:00 p.m. wednesday night just clouds. by 11:00 p.m., the north bay begins to start to see some rain. at 1:00 a.m., it's shifting southward into the central bay and you'll notice at 3:00 a.m. it's covering a good portion of the bay area with a few

exceptions. by 4:00 a.m., it's into the south bay. for your thursday morning commute it will include, like i said, some wet roadways. 5:00 a.m., light to moderate rain in intensity and it moves through. not like the system that came through this weekend where it lingered and took its sweet time. rain totals are not going to be as high. we're looking at basically between .015 to a third of an inch by thursday morning. as far as the sierra is concerned, look what happens, it turns to snow. this is a colder system. 4 to 8 inches above 5,000 feet. if you're driving up thursday, take your chains. it's going to be pretty great to start off, but in the afternoon, you will see a mix of sun and high clouds. temperatures in the upper 50s to the upper 60s. the week ahead, a sharp warpup is co warmup is coming not until the weekend. temperatures in san jose a little below normal right on

through thursday and coming right up in time for your weekend plans. look at those 70s and 80s. above normal for this time of year. accuweather zemseven-day foreca 60s primarily for the next couple days. wednesday night rain in the north bay. thursday morning pretty much showers everywhere. 1 on our storm impact scale. we dry out friday. notice those temperatures heading up. time to hit the beach. sunday you're going to be seeing those numbers in the low 70s to the mit mid 80s. that's when some of you might actually enjoy the weather. kristen, dan? >> that's toasty. sandhya, thanks so much. the oakland a's take a plane ride. coming up, why their trip prompts one player to tweet #areyoukiddingme? that's next. and on 5:30 on "world news" -- >> kristen, dan, donald trump's tirade, is the primary system crooked? what joe biden said about hillary clinton. also the super bowl champ killed. we have new reporting. a major warning tonight about the zika virus in the u.s. authorities say it will be much

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♪ ♪ poor americans tend to live longer in san francisco. that's just one of the findings of a new study. researchers found poor people living in expensive well-educated cities tend to live longer than those in less affluent places. one possible reason for this, those more expensive cities better promote healthier lifestyles. the study found poor people are likely to engage in risky behavior like smoking if they live in a place where the behaviors are common. stanford economist was the lead author of the study. u.s. women soccer players suggest they could boycott the olympics this summer if they're not paid the same as the men. five members of the team filed a wage discrimination complaint last month. the complaint says women are paid between $3,600 and $4,900 a

game. the men paid between $6,200 and more than $17,000 per game. today co-captain becky said a boycott is still on the table. the u.s. soccer federation estimates the women's team will make about $5 million next year while the men's team will actually lose money. well the dallas mavericks contributed to an awkward moment for the oakland a's. outfielder josh reddick tweeted out this picture of the team's plane leaving seattle last night after sweeping the mariners. the side of the plane as you see reads "we are sf, we are giant." reddick tweeted apparently we made the jump to a new plane, #areyoukiddingme? the a's share charter services with the dallas mavericks. the mavericks had the main plane. the a's got a backup. they say they've already had a talk with the charter company for next time. >> at least it's a friendly rival ary. you know the saying curiosity killed the cat. >> for one fisherman, it almost

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transporters track both ties and money. all that plus much more coming up in half an hour on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> ama, thanks. >> see you then. a father and daughter fishing on a louisiana bayou got a shock when an unexpected guest made an appearance. >> oh, my god. >> in case you missed it, yep, should we give them a better look? >> yeah. >> an enormous alligator poked its powerful jaws out of the water. >> oh, just moments before the dad was checking a fishing noodle he had using as a bobber, it would tell him if a cat fish had bit. >> something heavy, very heavy was pulling it down. he pulled the noodle free and that's when the gator made its presence known. >> the dad believes the gator was bigger than his 13-foot kayak. remember -- we're going to need a bigger boat. >> a bigger kayak. "world news tonight" with david muir is coming up next. >> i'm kristen sze. >> i'm dan ashley.

for sandhya patel, michael finney, we appreciate your time. see you at 6:00. >> bye-bye. tonight, trump's tirade. donald trump now calling the nomination process rigged and corrupt. sending out this video, someone burning up their voter registration. and ivanka trump revealing she did not register as a republican. she cannot vote in the primary. and the new poll tonight, right before the new york primary, where trump stands, where hillary clinton stands. the severe weather outbreak. powerful thunderstorms, possible tornadoes at this hour. we're watching the system from the south all the way up to the northeast. the airport meltdown tonight, and one mother who had enough. >> if there's no flight, just say there's no flight. >> tonight, why she was so upset. the super bowl champ shot and killed. new reporting this evening. authorities say he was shot in the back. what that could reveal. and did road rage play a role? and the new alert here tonight.