. and we have a live look at the breaking news. eastbound lanes of highway 4 in antioch are closed right now, officers investigate a shooting and a death. this is a live look at the scene. traffic is backed up down highway 4. they're turning cars around heading in that direction. investigators are not released any information about a victim or a suspect. and in east palo alto, three people are in critical condition after a police pursuit and crash. it ended near bay road and university avenue. police say the driver hit a tree. the juvenile girl in the vehicle had minor injuries. police did not say what led to the chase. good evening. i'm kate larson. you can download the abc 7 news alert. now to the recovery efforts in san jose. five dayings after flood waters moved in. inspectors are making progress

clearing homes and allowing more people back in. today the city sent 1300 homes remain restricted and the williams park neighborhood three homes were red tagged because of structural damage. they will need to be fixed or rebuilt. san jose's mayor says he'll ask for a public meeting to discuss the city's response admitting that a clear failure led to the flooding and delay in evacuations. >> we're very focused on recovery this weekend. next week we're going to turn to focus on how we fix this going forward. >> the last two days volunteers have helped clear streets and homes but there's much more work that needs to be done. abc 7 news reporter has more on the damage that remains tonight in san jose. >> reporter: this is the first day many residents in the rock springs neighborhood were able to get into their homes since the flood. >> a big mess. >> reporter: this man and his neighbors are shocked by the

destruction by the coyote creek flood waters. saying they've been told to pull out the water damaged items from inside their homes. but he asked what happened to all of the chemicals they've been warned about that were in the flood waters, and his neighbors are wondering who is going to help pay for everything they lost >> my neighbor's car is all messed up. the city is talking about coming tomorrow. >> i think we should have had some kind of warning, you know, a day before, just to let people know you got to get your stuff. you got to get your family. get out of the house. >> reporter: some residents are lucky they live on the floor. wan phan's apartment escaped the floored. >> we don't know when we're going to come back here until the city turn on the electrical or water or gas, whatever. >> reporter: these residents are trying to absorb the scale of

the disaster. it's clear they may not be able to move back into their homes anytime soon. san jose, abc 7 news. >> there are a lot of people who need help and the red cross made it easy for you to do that. text the words red cross to 90999 to make a $10 donation that shows up on your cell phone. go to our abc 7 news app or abc 7 news.com. zblo another round of rain is on the way. drew is here to e plain. >> the afternoon with the cloud cover overhead, we thought we might see a shower, picked up a little precipitation on the coast but things change tomorrow. life doppler 7 showing you overhead right now, we don't have any rain. but to the south you can see a storm system scraping the coast. this is the system that brought

the cloud cover for the second part of the day. a storm near seattle bringing rain and snow and that's going to sink to the south. this will be a late system but it will bring spotty showers and a chance of flurries. we'll take a closer look in the full accuweather forecast. new at 11:00, a 67-year-old sonoma county woman is recovering after spending an entire night trapped inside her car after plunging into austin creek. she's alive thanks to a newly trained water rescue team and her own >> it was carried 20 feet where it became lodged on a log jr. a sub rue stuck inside austin

creek. inside the car, a 67-year-old woman managed to stay above water in the back seat with her dog for eight hours. >> she was relieved and calm. >> reporter: these men are part of a newly trained water rescue team. they used this equipment for the first time in a real-life situation. >> if we were to head to the far side of the creek there was a lot less current and it got shallower and shallower. >> reporter: the car landed on its wheels and the rock kept it from moving. those circumstances worked in the driver's favor. >> she didn't get out of the vehicle which is a major play. the water is moving pretty quick. probably would have swept her away. >> reporter: the woman was suffering from hypothermia. >> we just got done with our training and this happened. it's meant to happen. >> an awesome feeling, definitely. >> makes you feel good.

we're all volunteers. we do this to help our community. >> reporter: happy to help and pleased to knee their training was put into good news. long that rivera abc 7 news. santa rosa police are investigating a double homicide with both deaths happening across town from each other. officers were called to a home on valley center drive this morning where they found a man dead. these pictures are from the media partner. a short time liert they found a woman dead at a home on glen brook, four miles away. police say the two crimes are connected but would not yet say how. police arrested a man prowling outside the same home on glen brook yesterday morning. tonight marks nine months since a 15-year-old bay area girl was kidnapped as she walked to school. famili family and friends gathered at the place where she was last

scene. castro died in a shootout with police. her family says they're hoping someone knows something that can help find her. >> if you know anything, speak up. think of this as your loved one. how would you feel? >> crime stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for any information that leads them to pinson. developing news tonight, a pickup truck plowed into a crowd of people at mardi gras in new orleans injuring 20 people. the suspect being led away by police. 2 is of the 28 victims were hospitalized. five of them in critical condition. police say the man appears to have been intoxicated. across the country lawmakers are having important conversations with the people they represent. abc 7 news was in half moon bay

as congress mom jackie speer held a town hall meeting today. more than 1400 people signed up to attend. they are concerned about what will happen to their health insurance. >> people around the country are speaking up to how to affordable care act has saved their lives. it's not going away. it can be improved and we'll resist efforts by the republicans to try to undermine it. >> this was her sixth town hall in response to the election of donald trump as president. in the north bay, 2,000 people packed into an auditorium to ask questions abts shared concerns about the future of their health care. pat boyle attended and shared this video with us. mike thompson and mike mcgwire hosted the event. congressman thompson said he'll take the stories he heard today back to washington.

human error may not have caused a self driving uber car to run a red light. last night this video caught the uber car running a red light. uber blamed the incident on hugh mar error and suspending the employee for not stepping in to stop it. mapping programs failed to recognize traffic lights in the city are to blame. a federal lawsuit filed this week accuses an uber engineer from stealing the maps from google's self driving car project. much more to come. the democratic party has a new chair and he's already blasting president trump. >> where were you in 2017 when we had the worst president in the history of the united states? i'm kristen zea on the red carpet. two oscar nominees, one

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it is my honor now to present the kbagavel to the nex chair of the democratic national committee to mr. tom perez. >> we'll decide your party's future together and we'll take on donald trump and the far right republicans together. >> democrats named former labor secretary tom perez their new chair. he talked about reuniting the party and named the man running

against him as deputy chairman. president trump responded on twitter saying congratulations to thomas perez who was just named as chairman of the dnc. perez treated, call me tom and don't get too happy. keith ellison and i and democrats united across the country will be your worst nightmare. president trump plans to skip the white house correspondent's dinner this year. it's known as the nerd prom because of the crowd consisting of journalists. several news organizations pulled out of the event to protest the president's treatment of journalists. he will be the first president since reagan not to attend. nixon and carter also did not attend. the event raises money for journalism scholarships. oscar nominees are making political statements before the award ceremony begins. the directors for the original

foreign film announced statement statement. they did not mention a leader by name, the director expressed their disapproval of leading politicians who they believe influence the attitudes. we're now under 24 hours until hollywood's biggest night. kristen zea is in hollywood and spoke with a bay area man who is hoping to win big tomorrow night. >> reporter: the oscars are a big celebration of the movies and a-list celebrities. dan krause is a uc berkeley journalism lecturer and now two-time oscar nominee. his 24-minute film called documentary short award. shot at high lands hospital in

oakland, it explores the painful choices facing doctors, families and patients in end of life cases. >> the question is not can we sustain life. it's should we sustain life. that's a deeply challenging and profound question for doctors to deal with. they're not trained to counsel people. >> reporter: krause's film along with others were shown down at the screen writer's guild. people had a chance to do q and a with the filmmakers and sill brat their work. krause said attending oscar events all week and meeting the likes of barbara streisand is unreal. >> to be here among all of these enormously talented filmmakers, actors, producers, directors, makeup artists, it's a different world. >> reporter: krause will be rooting for a competitor who happens to be his former student. daphne, her thesis film "4.1

miles" documents the refugee crisis in greece. if e wer wins, it will be a win for uc berkeley's journalism department. >> you can watch the oscars live only on abc 7 tomorrow. live coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. and jimmy kimmel is hosting the oscars for the first time -- fo time at 4:30 p.m. we're tracking a quiet and chilly night, leading to way to a few showers popping up for sunday. live doppler 7, we're getting the all clear. a storm system scraped by us, just off the coast earlier today. a live look from the east hills bay camera showing you the beautiful lights of the bay. it's a quiet night but we have a wide range in temperatures right now. part of the reason why, cloud

cover. in the north bay we have clear skies, so that allows temperatures to cool off rapidly. 38 in santa rosa, but where we have the cloud cover south of the golden gate we're holding in the upper 40s to 50s. 47 san jose, 49 hayward and livermore at 46 degrees. live doppler 7 along with satisfisa satelli satellite, here's the storm system moving right along the coast, just close enough to give the coast a couple of drops. we're clearing out the north bay and clear out everywhere as the storm system drops to the south tonight. right on the heels of that, here comes the next storm system bringing rain and snow to seattle and this will quickly move in for the second half of the day tomorrow. overnight tonight, here's the call. we have clear skies, so a lot of stars out there. 36 in concord, 37 in san jose, freezing mark in santa rosa, 4 is in san francisco and san jose dropping to 37 degrees. if you're out and around, no

weather worries. tons of sunshine. sun is up at 6:44. a bright chilly morning. but at least tleen 10:00 in the morning we stay dry. however the second half of the day we have to introduce the storm impact scale. tomorrow afternoon, spotty light showers, less than a quarter of an inch of rain. not a huge impact in terms of rainfall. future weather tomorrow, we're starting to build the cloud cover but most spots are dry. 4:00, 5 o'clock showers in the north bay and then everywhere in the evening hours. everyone is fair game for a light spotty shower and one or two may try to linger for the first part of the day monday. look at this. yeah, we've seen a lot more in recent storms. this is not a huge storm by any means. but some light rain will be moving through. the morning you're good, the afternoon you may need the umbrel umbrella. tomorrow we go from sunshine to

showers on our oscar sunday. still a chance monday morning but i think most spots will be dry by midday. and from then on all we'll see the cloud cover decrease. tuesday, sunny and chilly. thursday we're picture perfect out there. mild on friday and feeling like spring on saturday. >> so a little bit of rain tomorrow but it should be okay because everyone is going to be inside watching the oscars, right? >> perfect timing. people are hitting the book to study beyonce. the california university offered students a chance to study the

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being rewarded with something else. a class that is all about queen bay. the class will use beyonce's work to explore three themes, women of color feminism, anti-black racism and police brutality. people are expected put on cal poly bey day. they're going to watch a screening of lemonade. i don't know about you, but it sounds like a good class chb. >> i'd get an y a in that class. >> she's quite a performer. >> she's fantastic. so are the warriors. they did it without kevin durant. so who do you think would step up? oh, i

good evening. kevin durant missed his first game of the season tonight with a sore hand. but the 48-9 warriors were facing the 9-48 brooklyn nets. what could go wrong. steph curry helping a fan win. golden state blocks on the night. to curry from way out. dubs up four after one quarter. final seconds first half. here's steph, three, and the foul. dubs by 11 at the break. third quarter, clay thompson with three of his 24. dubs by as many as 24. mcgee, 7 feet tall, you can't teach that. final seconds of the third,

steph, steal, push, score between defendered to beat the buzzer. steph scores on the layup. the warriors become the quickest team to ever secure a playoff. matt king was once an ace for the giants but injuries derailed his career. he's trying to lock down the fifth spot on the giants rotation. his spring debut today against the cubs in arizona. first inning cain will give up a triple. down the line it goes. cain will give up a couple of runs in two innings. the new closer making his first appearance. nice play. tomlinson from his knees and michael morris playing first base. sixth inning, the you guy, jay wong, opposite field power.

the giants go on to win 8-6. our own mike shoeman caught up with matt cain after the game. >> reporter: he's gone from being the ace of the staff to trying to stay in rotation in his 13th year of the game. he gave up two runs in two innings but afterwards told us he felt good. >> when you find the good groove of your olympmechanics, you don have to worry about it. that's the thing about spring training, you're still searching for it a little bit but it feels good. >> reporter: how different is it for you to have to come in here and compete for a starting spot? >> that's fine. the biggest thing is getting ma can cli sound. everything else will take care of itself. >> reporter: pitching a confidence game. is that something you have to regain? >> i think it comes as you go. you've got to have the confidence in the ability that you have and the stuff that you have. >> reporter: what's your support like from the rest of the staff? >> that's what we're here for.

we're here for the inner rivalry of trying to push each other. that's fun. it's a good thing to have in the rotation. >> reporter: he's in his final year of the contract that pays him $20 million. so the giants brass would love to see him win that fifth spot. mike shoe man. we'll be back in a few minutes with sharks highlights and oscar picks. we're following breaking news on the golden gate bridge. this is a live look at the bridge. you can see all lanes are shut down headi

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and we begin with breaking news. you're taking a live look at the golden gate bridge where southbound lanes are closed after a crash that's affecting anyone trying to get into the city from the county. northbound lanes are open but they're crawling along. first responders have not said if anyone was injured. but we know that firefighters and police are on the scene now. we'll update you as soon as we get more information. food evening, i'm kate larson in for eric thomas. tonight, more breaking news out of antioch. all eastbound lanes at hillcrest after are closed. officers are investigating a shooting and death. they've not released information about the victim or the suspect. 1300 shoems remain restricted following the destructive flood in san jose. inspectors are going home to home to make sure they're safe

before allowing people back inside. the mayor called for a public meeting to discuss the city's response. a 67-year-old woman is recover from hypothermia after her car crash into the austin creek. she was trapped inside for 8 eight hour with her dog. the president fired another shot against the media tonight as the democrats elect a new party chairman. abc 7 news reporter has the latest from washington. >> guess who's not coming to dinner? president trump stiffed the washington press corps big time tweeting i will not be attending the white house correspondent's association dinner this year. she's skipping the annual washington tradition which the president and the press trade good-natured barbs. >> we are fighting the fake

news. it's fake. phony, fake. >> the "the new york times" reported earlier this month the trump campaign has numerous contacts with russian's connected to that country's intelligence community. the white house strongly denies that. now a house membership is calling for a special prosecutor to nervous gait saying that the attorney general must recuse himself. >> you cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, who was on the campaign and an appointee. you're going to need to use the special prosecutor's statue. >> in atlanta on saturday, the democrats hope it's the first step guard on the way back to power. electing tom perez that new national chairman. >> they're going to ask the question of all of us, where were you in 2017 when we had the worst president in the history of the united states. >> a message that hit home with the parties rank and file. >> today is a new beginning. we move forward today.

>> we looking at a long game. i think everything is going to work out fine. >> abc news, washington. eight students are facing charges after a classmate was killed after what police say was a prank gone wrong. the 19-year-old fell asleep at the braj door of a fire house after a night of drinking. firefighters were responding to a false alarm about a stolen fire extinguisher when their suv ran her over. the two students who stole the fire extinguisher has a prank have been charged along with six other students, all young men, accused of giving the victim alcohol. experts do not believe that anyone will go to jail. >> start sending a message, holding people accountable and recognize when you give someone alcohol it can lead to deadly consequences. >> a witness told police that she showed up to the party with a water bottle filled with wine. her blood alcohol level was more

than three times the legal limit when she died. several students at a high school in fres no had to be rushed to the hospital after eating drug laced cookies. seven started feeling ill after eating the cookies. they were laced with marijuana, xanax and an unknown powdering substance. one student was taken to the hospital, none seriously hurt. >> i woke her up, are you okay. she didn't look okay. her eyes were pretty low. i knew she was on something because i had been hearing about it. >> police found the person who brought the cookies and each student who ate them knew what they were getting into. now to the deadly poison attack aoverseas. the airpor is safe and there's no trace of the deadly toxin. one female suspect paid 90 dollars for her role in the bizarre incident and police say she still maintains she thought

it wu all a reality show. we have her story. >> malaysian police sweeping for remaining toxins in the koala lumpur airport. in surveillance video of the attack, a woman is seen rubbing her hand on the north korean's face. both are in custody. now claiming she thought the liquid she was given was baby oil, part of a tv prank show for which she was paid $09 in cash. inzaed it was the deadliest liquid in the world. >> one of the most lethal creations that man has ever come up with. >> just a drop of vx can be fatal causing muscles to contract violently. as kim jong nam reported the attack and collapsed, the women washed their hands, one of them

vomiting and then made their escape. so we took a lot of phone calls and social media posts this morning about the thick clouds pouring out over the chevron refinery in richmond. a chef ron spokesperson tells us these are steam clouds. a normal part of the refining process when specialized cooling towers recycle hot water. next at 11:00, from nasa to napa. >> favorite daughter astronaut kate ribbons. >> the bay area astronaut bringing lessons from space back to her old high school. and in accuweather we're tracking a quiet start to your sunday. but showers will finish out the

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from nasa to napa. it was quite a homecoming for an astronaut who made the journey back to her old high school. after talking to students and abc 7 reporter jonathan bloom

from space last year, kate rubins got to meet them all face to face. ♪ >> it was a hero's welcome, our favorite daughter, astronaut kate rubins. >> she's the only one who's been to space and back from this high school. >> i think anybody who decides to go get on a rocket seriously needs their sanity checked. >> of all of the stories she can tell, we spoke to her from the beginning of and he watched her answer students' questions from orbit. meeting her face to face they were excited to find an astronaut down to earth. >> this protect us from the vacuum of space. >> from her study of heart cells under a microscope. >> we can watch them beat and contract. >> to the lessons she learned about eating in space. >> we have to go slowly because

it turns into a self propelled rocket. and the food goes all over. >> even questions about grad school. >> science, math, engineering. >> science classes are important for becoming an astronaut but so is something else here at the high school. >> i was her soccer coach. i made kids run a lot. >> and she kept running, endurance that proved her well. >> you hit your physical limit pretty quickly. you're in a 400-pound seat. >> but perhaps the greatest challenge, returning to earth. >> i've never in my life been so conscious of gravity. >> and she became conscious of this on a space station where many languages are spocker. she can still see the entire planet but what she can't see is borders. . i felt like a citizen of the globe. >> what an inspiring story. now drew, today was one of those picture perfect san francisco

days. but we've got a little change coming with the weather, right? we're going to start off quiet but then we'll need the umbrellas in the afternoon. live doppler 7 on the quiet side. tomorrow morning a lot of sunshine to start off your day. it is chilly. we'll have dry skies at least through 10:00 a.m. then into the afternoon the storm impact stale comes back. spotty like showers, not a lot of rainfall, less than a quarter are of an inch of rain. this is a cold storm and you could see a few flurries over the highest peaks. future weather sunday morning, look at that, get to lunchtime hour, most spots seeing cloud cover building up. evening, by 5 o'clo:00 we'll be tracking the rain and by 10:00 anyone is fair game for a shower. the accuweather forecast, showers on oscar sunday, chance on monday morning, monday afternoon we dry out and the rest of the seven-day forecast features sunshine and warming temperatures. final ly back into the 60s.

larry, you're here with sports tonight. >> you're talking oscars. you want to know who's going to win? >> yes. >> everything. i don't have to answers. >> i don't either. >> but the a's have an expert, he is an expert progress nost cater on their pitching staff. plus down goes number within

top ranked gonzaga, 29-0 one obstacle lest. byu would not fold. tied at 7 is, a minute to play. byu up, he had 29. zags turned the ball over on two consecutive possessions.

core bonn with a putback to make it a four-point lead and byu celebrates in the kennel and number one gonzaga goes down 79-71. st. ma mary's hosting santa clara. sweet little crossover there and st. mary's up 12 at the half. it's good to be tall. baby hook. 17 points for him. 70-56. senior day at stanford. hosting number 6 oregon. reed travis inside to put the cardinal up. travis goes for 27 and 14. tied at 734, 25 seconds left. jordan bell right place for the tip in. final seconds stanford, they need one last shot and travis gets tied up and loses the ball so oregon hold on 75-73.

how about the ladies. washington's kelsey plum not only scored a pack 12 record, 57 points today, also surpassed jackie styles becoming the ncaa women's all-time leading scorer. second only to pete mara vich in the ncaa record books. the pac 12 women's tournament is next weekend. sharks coming off of an nhl mandated by week. everybody has one. they had five players out because of the muching. carlson didn't have the mumps but probably a headache after that hit. second period, joe ward, the canucks on a change breakaway, the puck rolls away. hurdle in front and puts it in. a minute left in the period, tied at one. look at the pass. cross ice and patrick mar low st stuffs it in.

sharks win 4-1. how about the a's opening up in the cactus league. down 3-0 in the fourth. free agent matt joyce with a homer and a nice fan there, the guy gives the little girl the ball. two batters later, matt chapman with a bomb but the a's lose 4-3. oscars tomorrow night on abc 7. relief pitcher is known for his oscar predictions. he was 18 for 18 in 2014, 20 of 24 the past few years. mike issshuman got some numbers. >> reporter: i said, let's go to the dugout, we're going to make our oscar picks. supporting actress. i think this is a shoe in for viola davis. what do you think? >> should win, will win, my pick. >> supporting actor, this might get a little more interesting.

"machinelight" has got to win something and i'm going with ali in "moonlight." what about yourself? >> same pick. i saw it, loved it. my favorite film of the year. >> best actress, i think the prenlial favorite has to be emma stone of la la land. >> i think that is very true. the favorite being emma stone, but i think emma stone has been ruling the land so far, you know, to use a little bit of a pun there with their own movie title. >> actor, this is one where it gets interesting. i thought casey affleck was amazing in "manchester by the sea." i'm going to caseyaffleck. >> i'm going to do the same. it's should win but it's tough when denzel washington wins the sag award. 1 is years in a row the winner of the s.a.g. won the award. >> i'm going to pick lion.

>> i'm going with "moonlight" for the upset. what i think will wind is "la la land." >> how is the arm? >> feeling great. spring training is just starting up. >> abc 7 sports. that's it for tonight. i'm kate larson. abc 7 news continues tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. another live look at the bay bridge. have a great night.

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