fsb. the accusations related to the hacking attacks against sunnyvale-based yahoo! >> vic lee is live with details. you found out that the fbi's northern california office was the lead agency in this investigation? >> kristen, that's right. the fbi san francisco office was the lead office in large part because they have the expertise here. this actually is where yahoo! is. now this indictment says the four are being charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud, economic espionage, theft and other related counts. and the fbi says this indictment is unprecedented. >> it is the first time the fbi has indicted russian fsb officers for committing criminal cyber intrusions. >> the fsb, russia's federal security service which replaced the notorious kgb, an arm of its military, an intelligence-gathering agency. the indictment charges that two members of the fsb hired hired d

criminal hackers to break into yahoo!'s database. it says they stole information on more than 500 million yahoo! user accounts in a massive hacking attack in 2014. the fbi says they were able to do that in part by spearfishing, sending fraudulent e-mails to extract data from users. >> gift cards, credit cards, trying to reset user accounts, all that stuff that goes along with that. >> the indictment says they accessed accounts of russian journalists and politicians critical of the russian government as well as u.s. government officials an even white house personnel. one was arrested in canada yesterday. the fbi says the other three are in russia. it will be hard getting them. mary mccord, head of national security at the justice department. >> we do not have an extradition treaty with russia. we would hope that they would

respect our criminal justice system and respect that these charges and what they need to do. >> fbi special agent john bennett, who heads the san francisco office, said it more bluntly. >> you can try and hide in the corners of the dark web, but we will hunt you down, we will expose you and we will bring you to justice. the fbi has a long reach and a longer memory. >> put another way, the world is getting smaller and the fbi's reach longer. now, the fbi worked with yahoo! and says the investigation took several years because it was a complex probe and they didn't really know what they had until they got deeper and deeper into the investigation. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> is it realistic to think that the fbi is ever going to arrest these other three defendants who are still in russia, no extradition treaty? it's not like russia will voluntarily hand them over. >> right. i mean i did ask that question today at the press briefing.

special agent bennett says some day somewhere those three suspects will travel out of russia and that there are a lot of countries that do have extradition treaties with the u.s. and that's when he says the fbi will nab them. >> long reach, long memory. thank you, vic. san francisco-based twitter says the hack overnight that affected hundreds of accounts was limited to those who used the twitter counter app. several big names including forbes magazine and celebrity pages like justin bieber's japanese page were branded with the turkish flag and sent out tweets that contained nazi symbols. they are taking precautions to protect those users' accounts. new details about that deadly fremont officer-involved shooting that took place in the city of hayward. we just learned the person shot and killed by police was a 16-year-old girl. the shooting happened right next to cal state east bay yesterday and that prompted a shelter in place for apartments just off

campus. melanie woodrow is live outside university village. a suspect connected with that case is still on the loose this afternoon? >> reporter: that's right. that's according to hayward police. these are the apartments that are just off campus where that was that shelter in place yesterday. we did talk to some students off camera. they're pretty anxious about finals today. several of them were running to go take tests. it was an apartment complex just next door to this one where the shooting took place. a witness said it sounded like a bomb went off. this is what it looked like at city view apartments today. two crashed cars surrounded by caution tape. >> the cops were sitting in undercover vehicles just waiting. as we pulled past them and going toward our apartment, the next thing you know we heard loud bangs and the cars burning rubber. >> reporter: those loud bangs the sound of a stolen car wanted in connection with armed robberies ramming into fremont police detectives' vehicles and these two cars.

>> causing the officers to fire at the vehicle. >> reporter: hayward pd now investigating the shooting says two fremont police detectives fired their weapons. >> it sounded like a big bomb went out when they hit and then you just heard the tires screeching thaenand then you he the gunshots. >> reporter: the driver krarkd at campus drive. >> it caught us offguard. >> reporter: there were four people in the car, two men and two women. a female shot died from her injuries. police have identified her as a 16-year-old from antioch. >> we have some leads on who it may be. >> the way he took off and the damage they caused, he could care less. >> reporter: the other female and male were taken into custody. the female has since been released. the fremont police detectives who were injured in the initial crash have been treated and released from a local hospital. in hayward, melanie woodrow, abc

7 news. sheriff's deputies have identified the victim in a homicide in san leanne dough. 41-year-old don castillo was found dead after sheriff's deputies were called to a house monday afternoon. witnesses say he had been involved in a fight in the street. deputies say it appears a gun and a knife were used in the killing. they're still searching for the suspect. a san francisco massage parlor that authorities say operated as a brothel has shut down. the signs outside the queens health center have been covered with black paint and the front gate is locked. abc 7 news has learned the business was evicted after the landlord found out that the city attorney sued the business for prostitution. police found that people engaged in sex during undercover stings and the massage parlor has been cited in the past. a scare today in san mateo brought out the bomb squad. sky 7 was over south el camino real at 25th avenue as officers and deputies responded after a man called police saying he had a pipe bomb. they found him and were able to get him to drop it.

the bomb squad determined it was a pipe that did not actually contain any explosives. the man was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation. firefighters are investigating what caused several cars at an east bay tow yard to go up in flames. check out the video from north main towing in martinez. contra costa county fire tells us witnesses reported a few explosions during this early morning fire and smoke could be seen from 680 as well as highway 4. three cars were damaged. how different it feels out there this afternoon. much cooler thanks to a boundary to our north that's also trying to bring a few sprinkles. live doppler 7, here we go. we're tracking a few light sprinkles in the north bay. in we go a little bit tighter. they're very scattered in nature, but nonetheless we'll attach a 1 just to the north bay tonight and only through 10:00 for a light shower moving through and damp roads for the p.m. rush in that area.

future weather shows you as you go into motion in the evening as those showers try and go south, they dissipate totally and by 10:00 we are turning mainly dry across the region. the big story today certainly it feels much cooler out there. look at this, santa rosa, 21 degrees cooler right now. 16 in san jose, 12 degrees cooler in san francisco and oakland. we are tracking a rapid warmup before a return to that wet weather. we'll detail that in the full accuweather forecast ahead and you can detail that change any time using the abc 7 news app. download it today, guys. caltrans has not been able to demolish that pfeiffer bridge near big sur. caltrans must finalize a plan to drop a wrecking ball with enough force to break up that stubborn force. earlier attempts have failed. a stretch of highway 1 north of the bridge reopened after it was

deemed safe. the bridge itself might not be fixed for a year. and in mariposa county, this is a look at the newly reopened state route 41. caltrans tweeted out this picture today. the road was closed from february 21st until this week after a section was washed away in storms. an east bay school is trying to curb a possible norovirus outbreak. dozens of students in dublin became sick from what school leaders think was a norovirus outbreak. amy hollyfield has the details. >> reporter: this is what you do when 35 kids all stay home from school with symptoms of norovirus. you start scrubbing. >> we are taking every precaution out of an abundance of caution. we have doubled our custodial staff. we had people working throughout the weekend to clean the campus. alameda department of county health was here yesterday to guide us and give us feedback on our cleaning practices. >> reporter: there is one confirmed case at dublin elementary school and dozens of others who are sick but haven't officially been tested. this all started on friday.

>> has anyone gotten sick at school? >> yes. and that gets taken care of quickly. >> reporter: parents have also kicked in to cleaning overdrive. >> obviously i don't want us to get out of there as an adult, but maybe just wash the hands and be more cautious and not share food and things like that. >> reporter: the school has sent e-mails to parents every day since this happened, keeping them updated and reminding them to keep sick kids at home. parents say they appreciate being armed with the information. >> i think they're doing a good job of containing it, and the teachers have been really good about enforcing hand washing and all that kind of stuff. i mean, you know, everyone is doing the best they can. >> reporter: one thing they are stressing, if your child is sick, don't send them back to school until they are symptom-free for 48 hours. in dublin, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. tackling the issue of safety after the ghost ship fire in oakland.

>> one of the main problems is the soaring rent and housing costs that are driving people into living in dangerous places. >> the testimony in sacramento today from people who lost loved ones in last year's deadly fire and how it could help save lives. plus the warning for college students before they head out on spring break this year. and the latest on that sea lion far, far away from home in vacaville. efforts to get back home later this hour. >> that's how a lot of commuters feel, far, far away from home and taking a while to get there. although in this live picture of the san mateo bridge, you see it is not too bad, especially westbound. although the commute direction eastbound is starting to get heavy.

the parents of a man who died in the ghost ship fired testified in sacramento today about their loss. >> laura anthony joins us live from sacramento now. >> reporter: what these parents desperately want is change, whether it's through laws or greater funding for arts communities. what they don't want are drastic measures that could dampen the creative spirit that their son thrived on. >> i want to acknowledge on behalf of the committee our deepest condolences. >> reporter: he's a father trying to turn a tremendous loss into something positive. his son, 34-year-old jonathan bernbow was among 36 people killed last december in the ghost ship warehouse fire. testifying before a senate committee, he told lawmakers though some thought it was a

dangerous building, alterirtiste his son gathered there because they had nowhere else to go. >> the problem is if artists don't have a place, innovative artists, to perform and to live, especially in the bay area where we live, in a sense the bay area will be gutted of its culture. >> because rents have soared so significantly, there are very few other dwellings that folks can turn to. >> reporter: now a committee is exploring not just what happened on december 2nd but how to change the law to ensure it doesn't happen again. oakland assistant city administrator addressed some possible scenarios for artists live/work spaces. >> there's many people in the state and particularly in the bay area who have done a number of these kinds of conversions and have very specific ideas about code changes that could occur. >> we see this really as a memorial honoring jonathan and his friends who died in the

fire. and trying to do something to look to the future. >> reporter: in their son's memory, they have created an organization called vital arts to help create safe, work/live spaces for bay area artists. in sacramento, laura anthony, abc 7 news. the hearing comes a day after oakland leaders revealed the city's 'em battled fire chief is retiring. she had been on leave since mid-january. criticism started to build after reed admitted the ghost ship warehouse had knotted been -- not had inspected. her announcement comes just as she became fully vested in her pension. the city is looking for a new chief before she leaves in may. b.a.r.t. says it will make slight changes to accommodate the opening of the new new new w spring station the end of next week. train arrival and departure times will be off by a few minutes.

b.a.r.t. says you'll also notice minor schedule changes at san francisco stations. passengers will be given a little more time to get off and on the trains during peak times. the new warm spring station is set to open in ten days on saturday, march 25th. a gay rights icon is being honored by san francisco's popular street cars. abc 7 news was on market and 17th as street car 1051 arrived for service. the vehicle underwent a total makeover. it has updated electrical systems, a refurbished interior, new security cameras and better brakes. the street car is believed to have been used by supervisor harvey milk and will have signs inside telling about his life. >> he rode street cars that looked exactly like this when he was elected supervisor. he took street cars just like this to city hall every day. >> street car 1051 appeared in the movie "milk." muni is renovating 26 history

street cars as part of a $36 million fleet expansion. parents now have a new way to evaluate a child's school online. california school dashboard debuted this morning. it uses color coded charts to track more than just test scores. districts and schools are rated on a color scale that goes from red, the worst, through orange, yellow, green and blue, the best. the dashboard measures not only student performance in english and math but also chronic absenteeism and graduation rate. you can find the dashboard at caschooldashboard.org. we have a link on our website, abc7news.com. the state department is warning college students about traveling to certain parts of mexico this year for spring break. this is adding on to a previous travel warning about the dangers in 14 of mexico's 31 states, including the spring break dozen nations of southern baja, california, and guerrero, which includes acapulco.

>> looks like our spring is taking a little bit of a break today. >> a lot cooler. but the next two days we're rapidly going to warm up before wet weather returns, so enjoy the next two days if you like the mild conditions, because they're coming back. live doppler 7 showing there's a boundary just to our north right now. it's trying to bring a few isolated showers. so in we go a little tighter into the north bay and really widely scattered in nature. count yourself lucky if you see a few drops out of this thing, but nonetheless we're going to attach a 1 to that boundary to the north. north bay only really, some light showers before 10:00 but we'll have some areas of damp roads for the evening rush. may need the windshield wipers for a minute or so. live look from our emeryville camera. quite a different sky we have out there this afternoon compared to yesterday. a canopy of cloud cover overhead, fog along the coast, just an indication of the rapid cooldown we have today. current numbers out there, we're some 10 to 20 degrees cooler

today than yesterday. it's currently 61 in oakland, 65 in san jose. the warm spot san ramon checking in with a temperature of 71 degrees. overnight tonight we'll hang on to those clouds, and those clouds will act like a blanket. what that will do is keep a lot of the warmth right near the surface. not too chilly overnight with most spots in the low to mid-50s. thursday your day planner, a bit of a transitional day. you'll start out with a lot of cloud cover in the morning, but as the day goes on, the clouds will break down. by the afternoon, the sunshine comes back out and that will warm us up nicely, just a bit above normal than we were today. 4:00 a lot of spots nearing that 70-degree mark. future tracker temperature shows you friday absolutely the best day we have in the next seven. we are well above normal in terms of warmth. the sun is up from sunrise to sunset. it is going to be a gorgeous end to this workweek and then everything changes as we head into the weekend. look at our rain chances. we're dry tomorrow and friday

and then they start creeping right back up and it's really monday into tuesday, that's when we're tracking some steady rains. let walk you through the weekend. saturday the best chance right now, saturday, looks to be the north bay. if you have outdoor activities, i wouldn't cancel them saturday. sunday you're dodging a few drops, ditto for monday. watch what happens when we head into tuesday. those numbers will rapidly rise. it looks like tuesday is the wettest day we have in the next seven. so the accuweather seven-day forecast will show you we're try thursday into friday. friday looks absolutely gorgeous. both saturday and sunday we include the chance of a shower. not a washout by any means. it's really monday and tuesday next week that the rain looks to be the heaviest and the steadiest as the storms return. >> rainy days getting a little longer in that period. >> he looks so happy about it. >> he likes the variety. >> it's your thing, so it makes sense. a drive-through worker is serving up more than just burgers. his quick-thinking moves may

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paramedics arrived and took her to a hospital. great timing. there's a whole new way to order a big mac in monterey and salinas. mcdonald's has started testing mobile order and pay after acknowledging the ordering process in its restaurants can be, quote, stressful. mcdonald's will gather feedback from the test before launching the option nationally toward the end of the year. they are also exploring different delivery options. this would be at the other end of your spectrum -- >> cuisine? >> the nominees are out for the annual james beard awards. these are the highest honors for food and beverage professionals in all of america. >> quint's of san francisco is nominated for outstanding restaurant. the pacific avenue establishment not too far away from us, larry, is known for its italian and french cuisine with a set dinner menu of $250 a person. >> whoa, whoa. >> the chef calls the nomination an honor. a recognition of the hard work by the entire staff. >> you really want the guests to

have a great dining experience and to enjoy themselves. it's really all about the guest. the guest is happy, we've done our job. >> among the other local nominees in the best chef category, david kinch of manresa and christopher kostow. also honored san francisco's la taceria. >> that's a diverse range, something for everybody. >> absolutely. new calls for president trump to retract his statements against former president obama. >> i don't think there was an actual tap of trump tower. >> this, as the president's decade-old tax forms are released. and dramatic video of the shooting of a man who was attacking a deputy. what a judge has now said about the shooter. plus -- >> someone is trying to sell these videos and make them public. >> actress misha barton says she's the victim of revenge porn. her efforts to stop someone from

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and here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. a federal judge in hawaii has temporarily blocked the enforcement of president trump's new travel ban, which was set to take effect at midnight eastern time. that ban would have temporarily halted the u.s. refugee program

and travel from six muslim majority countries. the trump administration took over a month to rewrite the travel ban order after several federal courts blocked its implementation last month. two russian intelligence agents and a pair of hired hackers have been charged in a criminal breach at yahoo! that affected at least half a billion user accounts. the scheme involved officers from a russian counter espionage service that theoretically should be collaborating with the fbi. janine della vega is tracking the fallout so new at 5:00, what you should consider doing to protect your accounts. there's a new place to hike in the east bay. more than 600 acres of trails of coming to moraga. at 5:00, leslie brinkley is live in an area known as car ranch with more on those trails. leaders of the house intelligence committee said today there is no evidence of president trump's claim he was wiretapped by president obama. stephanie ramos is tracking all

of today's developments from washington, d.c., live. stephanie? >> reporter: kristen, house intelligence leaders haven't always appeared together but they did this morning and they say they want the department of justice to provide them with the evidence to back up president trump's claims that he's been wiretapped, that he was wiretapped. the doj does have until next monday to do so. leaders of the house intelligence committee say there is no evidence president trump was ever wiretapped. >> i don't think there was an actual tap of trump tower. >> reporter: the top democrat on the committee called for president trump to officially retract his statement that former president obama had trump tower wiretapped. >> it deeply concerns me that the president would make such an accusation without basis. >> reporter: and the republican chairman, devin nunes says perhaps trump's tweets should not be taken literally. >> are you going to take the tweets literally? if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. >> reporter: meanwhile, two

pages of trump's income taxes from more than a decade ago are out. after the president spent the last year during the campaign refusing to release them. pulitzer prize-winning journalist david cay johnston says he received the two-page tax summary of the president's 2005 in the mail anonymously and then released them. it shows an income of nearly $153 million. trump ended up paying $38 million in federal taxes. his tax rate, about 25%. and trump declared $103 million in losses. democrats still want the president to release his full tax returns like other presidents since nixon. >> they were just merely a little, as we say in minnesota, a cocktail weinie appetizer, right? it was just a tiny, tiny piece of what we want to see. >> reporter: and we're also hearing from attorney general jeff sessions on the wiretapping claims. he says as the nation's top law

enforcement official, he never gave the president any indication that president obama had him wiretapped. in washington, stephanie ramos, abc 7 news. kristen. >> thank you, stephanie. president trump is firing back on snoop dogg days after the release of a music video in which the rapper points a toy gun at a clown that's dressed like trump an then pulls the trigger. mr. trump tweeted this morning, quote, can you imagine what the outcry would be if snoop dogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at president obama? jail time! here's the clip. the video is for a remixed version of the song "lavender" originally done by a canadian group called bad bad not good. no charges will be filed against a florida man who came to the aid of a sheriff's deputy being attacked last november. this video here shows the man in the blue shirt walking toward the deputy who was pinned to the ground by a man. this happened on interstate 75 in lee county.

russell appears to order the man to get off the deputy and when he doesn't, russell shoots and kills him as cars full of people looked on. >> he's about [ bleep ] to fire, dude. oh, my god. don't, bro. oh, my god. >> the florida state attorney's office determined the shooting was justified because the deputy's life was in danger. russell had a concealed weapons permit. the former sheriff of los angeles county is now facing a possible sentence in federal prison. a jury today found 74-year-old lee baca guilty of helping obstruct a 2011 fbi investigation into guards who beat inmates in county jails. ba baca, in the early stages of alzheimer's disease, headed that department for 15 years. officials in ethiopia say the death toll from saturday's collapse at a landfill has risen to 113. a mountain of garbage buried mud and stick homes inside the landfill where people were

living on the outskirts. many of the victims were women and children. excavators and rescuers have been pulling bodies from the black mud since then. initial estimates have put the death toll at 46. ethiopians have begun three days of national mourning. amnesty international is asking north dakota to address alleged human rights violations relating to the pipeline protests. hundreds were arrested between august through february. amnesty international says it's documented instances of excessive force or intimidation by police as well as excessive criminal charges. police have defended their practices. they say some protesters were violent and some targeted the police both professionally and personally. reports of sexual conduct or misconduct are on the rise at u.s. military academies. according to the pentagon's annual report on sexual harassment and violence, reports of sexual assault are up at both the naval and military academies, but actually down at the air force academy.

48% of female respondents and 12% of male respondents said they were sexually harassed. a majority didn't report it because they didn't consider it serious enough. actress mischa barton says she's the victim of revenge porn. the former o.c. actress said somebody she loved and trusted filmed their private moments on camera. >> and then i learned something even worse, that someone is trying to sell these videos and make them public. i came forward to fight this not only for myself but for all the women out there. i want to protect them from the pain and humiliation that i have had to go through. no woman should have to go through this. >> barton has obtained a restraining order against the person believed to be peddling the porn. have you ever tossed trash out the car window? but the surprising answer from

most california drivers and what's being done to clean up the state's highways. i'm michael finney. ask finney is just ahead. i'm taking your questions on twitter and facebook. just post them with the #askfinney and i'll answer them in, i don't know, seven, eight minutes. something like that. i'm meteorologist drew tuma. live look from the tam cam showing you we've got clouds returning and also cooler temperatur

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it's somewhat staggering, yes, but nearly half of california drivers admit they have thrown something out of their car window. caltrans conducted the survey and you can easily find workers along our freeways today cleaning up the mess. they're always at it. two or three times a year caltrans dedicates the work day to a major cleanup. abc 7 news caught up with this crew and they find just about everything. >> we'd like to say that we've picked up everything but the kitchen sink, except that several years ago our crews on the san mateo bridge found a kitchen sink that had been tossed off of the side. so we can say that we've picked up the kitchen sink too. >> well, that's everything then. last year they picked up enough trash to fill the oakland coliseum up to the second deck. >> what? >> the part that's not usually used, the second deck. the cleanup costing taxpayers millions. so just help them out. >> that is a massive amount of

trash. >> yeah, yeah. just don't do it. >> clean it up, clean it up. keep it in your car. that's what it's there for. all right, the weather looks really nice now. a little cooler today, but drew is here and telling us rain is coming. >> we're seeing a couple of sprinkles out there right now, larry. live doppler 7 showing you as you go in closer in the north bay, they're really scattered in nature and over the past hour they're moving from a west-to-east fashion. if you see a drop, count yourself lucky because they're few and far between. we'll attach a 1 to this for the north bay only and this is at 10:00 this evening. a couple of damp roads out there for the evening rush, not a huge issue. a lot of cloud cover overhead. it will be a mild night. you see a lot of spots holding in the mid to low 50s. tomorrow the morning starts out with cloud cover. we'll finish in the afternoon, tons of sunshine out there so it's going to feel a lot warmer tomorrow than it does today. 72 san jose and 70 the high tomorrow in napa. the accuweather seven-day

forecast shows you it's a warming trend into friday. friday looks absolutely spectacular and then things change. the wet weather returns saturday into sunday, a few sprinkles, but right now it's monday into tuesday that will focus much of the wet weather activity into next week. >> all right. something for everyone, right? thanks, drew. coming up, a terrifying flight. a woman's headphones catch on fire in midair. plus -- >> the alarm is supposed to save your family, but what if they can't hear it? a shocking new report on kids and why so many can't hear those fire alarms. 7 on your side's michael finney. spring break is just around the corner. coming up i

australia's air safety agency says a woman suffered burns to her face after her battery-operated headphones exploded during a recent flight. yo've got to take a look at some of these pictures here. the woman fell asleep while wearing the headphones. she said she awoke to a loud explosion. the headphones were sparking so she threw them on the floor. flight attendants poured a

bucket of water on the head con phones. now to a different warn, this one for parents and about smoke detectors. they save thousands of lives every year but will they actually wake up your kids? >> here's the eye-opening experiment. >> reporter: we're inside a connecticut home with firefighter travis. we wanted to see what would happen, will smoke alarms wake up the children of the mcbride family, landon, 3 1/2, and noelle, 1. >> it will be interesting to see what happens because our son can sleep through everything. >> reporter: the mcbride's have an action plan in place in case there's a fire and included their 3 1/2-year-old. their son knows to be up and ready to go the minute it goes off. >> so you talked to your son about the smoke alarms. >> we have a plan. we actually have a fire ladder in our bedroom and our plan is to get them, get the ladder and get out. >> so what should every family be thinking about when it comes to smoke alarms?

>> making sure your smoke detectors work. put them outside the bedrooms and one on every level. the smoke rises so it will go up the stairwell. >> we ricked up some cameras in the kids view and have a great view using their baby monitors. after they fall asleep, we set it off with a smoke device in the hall outside the kids' rooms with their doors open. [ alarm ] >> he's not waking up. >> she's not either. >> when you see that, what do you think? >> that's not good. because you know what, what makes me think would we hear it. >> next we set off the family's much louder smoke alarm system. it's set up through their phones and alarms are found throughout the house, in all the bedrooms, the hallway and downstairs. >> do you think they'll wake up? >> i do. because they're in their room. >> that's right, there are speakers in their rooms.

we trigger them and wait. 20 seconds later, he is still sleeping. >> both of them. >> i truly thought they were going to wake up, like truly. >> i mean i'm shocked. i'm shocked looking at this. still asleep. that definitely, i feel, would have woken me up, but i guess not when it's a kid. >> i truly, truly, truly thought they would have woken up. >> an unbelievable four minutes later, the alarm still blaring and neither wakes up. >> as a mom and dad, what do you feel when you see this? >> you know, it just makes you think that you have to -- not that you wouldn't react quick, but it's kind of like you've really got to react the second you hear that, because they're not going to hear it. >> wow. a new study says 80% of kids don't wake up when they hear the alarms. it's up to parents to have a plan in place and make sure the kids wake up. if you have an alarm sound with

the mother's voice, the kids do react to that, so that needs to be incorporated. >> otherwise, they can sleep through just about anything. time now in fact to bring back the real finney. michael finney is here answering your questions posed to him via facebook, twitter and e-mail. emily from daly city asks, i've cancelled a life insurance policy four times but the company keeps deducting money from my account. how do i stop it? >> that's how they get you. many insurance companies only allow you to cancel by sending in a letter, although they don't make you send in a letter when you sign up. many consumer groups think that's incredibly unfair, however, it is still widely done. here's what i want you to do. check your policy to see if that's the case. if it is, write a letter. now, if they still won't cancel your policy and you're having trouble, i want you to call my hotline here at the station and we'll help you navigate your way through this. the number

christianne asks how do you get the best hotels online. >> hotels or nothing like airlines. generally the sooner you buy the better the price but, what i want you to do is go to a website like cankayak. the website will keep track of prices and send you alerts when prices go down and also when they go up. it even works when you're booking hotels and flights together. the app is free, so that's a good thing. check it out. >> let's stay with the travel theme here. veronica asks spring break is coming up so when is the best day to buy cheap tickets to travel? >> this is controversial. there's constantly new studies coming out about this. let me tell you what we know the latest. on average, the cheapest tickets are bought between 60 and 45 days before the flight. the best time to buy is tuesday

around noon here our time. however, all of that is just averages, so it's best to download kayak or maybe another website like hopper, that's a good one, they keep track of flights and then they let you know when the prices rise and fall. i once went to europe for half price because of kayak. i kept track of it and, boom, they dropped. i quit everything i was doing, booked the flights and went. >> so how do people ask you a question? >> if you have a question for me, you can record a 10 to 15-second question on your smartphone or tab let and then share it on social media using #askfinney. and i will respond. you can also reach me of course through facebook and abc7news.com. >> thank you, michael. march madness has a new meaning now. it's when men schedule vasectomies, apparently. a study by the clevelad clinic shows it has logged a 10% increase in operations before the men's college basketball tournament over the past three

years. since the recovery time is usually two days, that gives patients plenty of time to watch basketball while healing. money, i've got to sit here and heal. the clinic also sees jumps in vasectomies before the masters golf tournament and the release of popular video games. >> strategically timing this stuff is important. if you can't decide on a winner in your march madness bracket, you're not alone. sports books in vegas can't agree either. originally duke was listed as the odds-on pick to win the national championship, but both sports books have now switched over to duke's arch rival north carolina. mgm has kansas as a 5-1 favorite. nearly $10.5 billion, that's billion with a b, will be wagered during the tournament both legally and illegally. former president obama sticking with his tradition and he's released his own march madness picks today. his bracket was tweeted out by the obama foundation. his aorth carolin to take

the title. president trump will not be following in mr. obama's footsteps in filling out an ncaa bracket. espn contacted the white house last month and mr. trump respectfully declined the offer to participate. checking in on leisure the sea lion. up next, what we've learned about the wayward sea lion found in vacaville and what's being done to get him home. dan is here with a look ahead to abc 7 news at 5:00. >> thanks very much. from the ground up. you're going to see firsthand how a section of the bay area will serve up new hiking trails and protect tap water for people. cutting down drug costs. one state lawmaker says he can do it by exposing the price. we'll have that story. and wrapped in a blanket and sitting in a lap. why the oakland zoo is stepping in to help this

tonight, primetime at 8:00 the goldbergs followed by speechless, modern family, then black-ish. 10:00, designated survivor and then the news at 11:00. an update on the wayward sea lion that left the coast for the country. we've been tracking him since he was found in the vacaville canal yesterday, that's 25 miles from the bay. abc 7 news reporter lonni rivera joins us. animal control thought this would be a rescue and now it looks like a happy reunion? >> reporter: yes, they sure did. what an assignment. i have chased attorneys and suspects, never chased a sea

lion, but we did for miles along this canal for hours. he slept here overnight, but now last check, he's headed back to the bay. in the middle of a farm pasture, look who pops up from underneath the creek water. the talk of the down, a sea lion out of his element, but stealing hearts. >> i was like, you know what, let's take a little longer lunch break and see if we can catch him. >> it was really need to see. it was really fun to be out here and just have a little field trip. >> reporter: mr. leisure, the male sea lion, was last seen entering a concrete storm drain after being spotted near this spillway tuesday morning. >> spent it appears to be the entire night in the culvert. came out early this morning and just started heading back towards the ocean. >> the huge male sea lion swam with the currents and onlookers followed him along the way. animal control and marine mammal officials included. only there to make sure he safely moved through the canal. >> we basically wanted to keep him going out toward the ocean, so just in case he decided to

make a turn, we were there to create a diversion and hopefully scare it the other way. >> i think that's great, just let him do his thing. >> reporter: the marine mammal took his time, even stopped for a big lunch. >> they're called sea dogs. they're very much like dogs. they're playful, they're curious and they do play with their food. >> reporter: scientists say this type of behavior is a good sign. >> we got to be a part of this history-making moment. we have a lot of things reported in the news that's not this happy and this is a great opportunity to be happy. >> reporter: on his terms, the most fakous sea lion in vacaville decided it was time to go to a more familiar place in the bay. >> i like his name, mr. leisure. a hair salon in germany is hailing the work of it's in-house masseuse known as monte. yes, monte the python putting the squeeze on patrons at this salon. the owner has been offering the snake service for 13 years now.

some clients really, really like it. you can let go now, monte. thanks for joining us. i'm larry we'll. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. you can try and hide in the corners of the dark web, but we will hunt you down and we will bring you to justice. >> the yahoo! hack in 2014 went a lot deeper than we thought. russian spies are now connected to the breach of a half a billion accounts. they collect this trove of data. this really puts the consumer at risk. >> we talk to experts about how silicon valley can better protect the public. another defeat for president trump. a judge has just blocked his travel ban, so what happens now? sexual harassment in the uc system. why wasn't a violation already part of the school's code of conduct? the yahoo! hacking drama sounds like a james bond movie. the justice department says four

hackers, including two russian spies, stole the personal information of millions of yahoo! users. it was the second largest online breach in history. good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm dan ashley. the fbi's san francisco office has been looking into this case for two years now. it seems the hackers were targeting certain individuals. abc 7 news reporter vic lee is in the newsroom with the latest on the story. vic. >> this indictment says those four are being charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud, economic espionage, theft and other related counts. now, the fbi says this was a cyber breach directed by russian intelligence agents using cyber mercenaries, and they say the indictment is unprecedented. the indictment charges the two members of the fsb hired two criminal hackers to break into yahoo!'s database. >> it is the first