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investigation lasted for around an hour. we got word of the suspicion device around 9:30 this morning and they deemed it nonthreatening and they were able to get things moving again by 10:30 but that means a full hour that we have civic center station totally shut down and that meant no b.a.r.t. stations could get by. and let's flip over to the traffic maps and i'll show you what that did and that impact that had with civic center closed. anybody coming from the east bay o san francisco down to the peninsula toward sfo, you are not able to get by civic center station. that was not safe. same thing, just the opposite, coming up from the peninsula trying to get past civic center into san francisco or the east bay. that is not happening either. so now they are. but if you are in a time you may not want to risk it. uber and lyft and if you could drive yourself, that is a better option. and it will take time to shake out. we have a full hour with to

service past the station. and muni passbuses are packed as well. just be patient. >> we'll keep you update using the news aapp. we senta push alert 22 minutes ago when that threat was resolved, get up dated sent right to your phone. angry parents protesting the expulsion of two high school football players around hazing at napa high school. we are live where this is happening at the district office. cornell? >> reporter: natasha, in fact, dozens of high school students here at napa high are still out of class after walking out at about 8:00 this morning. and many parents are here too, in support of the kids. many wanted to protest the expulsion of three students so far and the resignation of the football coach. >> about 100 students at napa

high school walked out of class and gathered in front of headquarters next door to send a message. >> they're taking kid's lives and family away and it is just because the district -- they're angry. >> reporter: the walkout, a protest to the recent resignation of high school football coach in the wake of a hazing incident involving 14 members of the jv football team. players are accused of restraining a clothed freshman player as they touched him inappropriately. two more students have been ex pelled in -- expelled in the wake of the scandal. >> i don't know who is going back but a lot of those being tried are innocent. >> do you support the walkout? >> i support the kids walking out and supporting the coaches and what they believe in, absolutely. >> the napa district attorney investigating to decide whether or not to charge students and a

coach with felonies. many parents say the investigation has gone too far. >> they have been treating the kids as criminals before they've been tried. so we are just standing up for the kids. and the reputation is enormous. >> reporter: and i just heard back from the school district, a spokesperson said that students do have the right to free speech but they need to be in class and today will be treated as an unexcused absence. we talked to students and they are vowing to be here all day. live in napa, abc 7 news. a teenager was shot on northbound 101 near story road in the south bay with around 80 shootings on bay area fae freeways since 2015, many are concerned. we are live in san jose. amy? >> reporter: hi, natasha. because the victim is a minor,

this chp doesn't know his condition and are not able to get his condition but do expect him to survive. the 17-year-old victim of last night's highway shooting in san jose was shot in the back and the face. the news of his shooting drew strong reactions this morning from drivers. >> i'm a teacher. so it is scary. i love my kids, so -- it's just really, really upsetting. >> reporter: and there is fear among drivers as they think about another car pulling up next to them and shooting, which is what happened at 7:00 last night on northbound highway 101 near story road. >> it does make me think twice about how i drive, maybe don't want to irritate anyone and i also -- i can't believe somebody would do that. that just doesn't seem right. >> reporter: chp officers say that is a good plan. >> if there is a road rage

incident that is coming about, avoid it at all costs because you never know who you are dealing with. no life is worth any kind of altercation. >> reporter: they still don't know the motive behind the shooting, all saying that investigators are following up on leads. >> road rage is a major problem that we're dealing with. we also deal with gang violence so it could be one or the other or random, we don't know. >> reporter: the chp said the suspect's car is described as a white dodge charger, no arrests have been made. live in san jose, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> thank you. in just a few hours, chp will hold a news conference to talk about the bay area freeway shootings. sky 7 was overinterstate 80 this morning and that is one of several freeways that have been trouble spots since 2015. most of the shootings have happened in the east bay and are believed to be targeted. today's news conference is at 2:00 p.m. at the chp vallejo office. we'll live stream is on the website at abc7news.com and for

you on the go on the abc 7 news app. police in antioch shot a person who they say rammed a patrol car last night. the officer-involved shooting happened after 10:00. the suspect hit a police car. the officer shot the driver who suffered a nonlife-threatening wound. there was a gun inside of the car and investigating whether it was used in an earlier shots fired call. the attorney's office is investigating the shooting. and water once again flowing down the spillway at the oroville dam and state water officials are releasing 50 cubic feet per second of water down the damaged concrete structure to reduce lake levels and the release will begin at 11:00 a.m. and work hes have removed more than a million cubic feet of debris that clogged the river channel and it releases down the fragile spillway need to be closely monitored. >> toward the end of the run, which is five to six days,

depending on the inflow into the reservoir, we're ramp down to 40 and continuously evaluate the condition of the flood control spillway. >> today's water release is expected to cause the river to rise 10 to 15 feet by the afternoon. the butte county sheriff's office has warned residents to be ready to evacuate just in case problems arise. mother nature bringing about changes on this st. patrick's day. and things felt cooler when we stepped out this morning but mike said get ready for a warm afternoon. what are you seeing in store for the weekend. >> today is a crazy day, without rain but the coolest morning moving forward and the warmest afternoon. hi, everybody. here is a look from the sutro tower. the weather window open. today's cheetemperatures from 7 san francisco to 80 in the south bay. temperatures closer to average in the 60s and some rain drops

in the forecast for tomorrow. there is not going to be a lot. we wake up tomorrow morning and you see hardly anything there. and by saturday evening a few hundreds up in the north bay and that pushes down in the form of drizzle on sunday and another chance for sunday afternoon. but look at all of the rain chances i have coming up in the accuweather seven-day forecast. this weekend is just the beginning, natasha. >> thank you so much, mike. richmond retail ready to close the doors as part of a nationwide cutback. where you have your last chance to talk. making national headlines, and why firefighters say it could be hours before they were able to figure out what sparked this blaze. and new technology coming for the tsa. how it could help you move through t

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with news now from north carolina. firefighters say it could take another 12 hours before they could examine what exactly started a massive overnight fire. it destroyed an entire apartment complex. smoldering debris is preventing crews from accessing the fight. the five-alarm fire engulfed the complex and set in the city's downtown. more than 130 firefighters had to work to bring it under control. two people were hurt including a firefighter hit by falling glass. developing news from just outside of washington, d.c. investigators there want to find out if anyone was inside of the a home that exploded overnight in rockville, maryland.

so far there are no reports of any injuries, but neighbors do say a man lived inside of that house. the blast shattered windows and caused other damage to nearby homes in montgomery county. firefighters quickly doused a small fire, sparked by the explosion. experts are looking into what could have triggered that accident. now to your morning money report. if you shop at jcpenney, stock up. a store here in the bay area is closing stores. they are closing 138 stores nationwide to mend some financial challenges. sky 7 was over the location in richmond this morning. that location is on the chopping block. liquidation sales start next month and it will close in june. over all the closures will displace 5,000 workers. no word on how many of them are in richmond. chipolte about have to a big shake-up on the board. restaurant chain still rebounding after several food safety scares and now a business insider said one-third of the

board members will be leaving after terms expire in may. a hedge fund investor with a 10% stake is pressuring the chain to speed up recovery. now to some perhaps exciting news, for air travelers. tsa developing technology that could cut the security lines way down. call it the check point of the future. the day is coming when you won't need to stop at security. david curly said a company called clear here in sfo is using eye scans and fingerprints to get passengers into line fast. >> we're going to start with your four right fingers here. >> nobody's iris' are like mine. >> next year we might use scanning which allows you to be identifies as you come into the lanes. >> this could be my boarding fas. >> or your face or facial recognition could be your boarding mass. >> you might not even need a

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>> since then it has been denied by president obama in his former intelligence chief james clapper and in the last couple of days, several leading members of congress, the ranking democrat and republican on the house and senate intelligence committee have come out to dismiss and debunk the claims saying the white house has have indication of the claims. we're watching her there, angela merkel is finishing her opening

entertainment. there have been a diplomatic riff as there was a suggestion or a site of the fox news report that british intelligence was behind the wire tapping and that is completely dismissed by the british officials. they say that the white house led by the -- that they have explained and the white house denies any apology but they are not repeating those allegations. we expect the president and the chancellor to take questions right now. let's listen in. >> i'm pleased that the president is attending this summit. we're going to talk at some length over lunch about the issues. we say this has -- trade has to be rendered and it has to be a win-win situation and we can talk about the details an we've seen today when we had an exchange with our [ inaudible ] and apresent is what sort of potential we could attack or our

two economies have. it is moving to see, particularly meeting with the young people what sort of work toward the future is being done by our companies there. so particularly in this world where we are transiting from traditional manufacturing to an industry full of capacity building skills are so important and incidentally not only for young people but for those who have maybe lost their jobs, and need to be reskilled in order to find a job and that is an issue that i know is very important for you here in the united states. but it is also important for us in germany. so i can say, there are a number of issues where we'll continue to cooperate very closely on the level of experts, but also on our level. we have a very good exchange so i'm looking forward to the talks we'll have over lunch. thank you. >> thank you very much. we'll do a couple of questions. mark halprin. >> thank you.

[ inaudible question ]. >> the gentlemen needs to use a microphone. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> thank you, mark. we just have a -- a really wonderful group of people meeting later, we met with 12 pretty much knows in congress. and you saw that a little while ago. they went from all noes to all yeses. and we have a lot of yeses coming in. it is all coming together. it is going to be passed, i believe. i think substantially and pretty quickly. it is coming together beautifully. you have the conservative groups

and other groups, everybody wants certain things. in the end, we're going to have a great health care plan. now i have to tell you that obamacare is a disaster. it is failing. i was in tennessee, we had a tremendous crowd the other night, and they have half of the stage uncovered and the insurance companies have left and the other half has one insurance company and that is probably bailing out pretty soon also. you have nobody. many states have one or two -- or a lot of places where they'll have none. obamacare will fail. it will fold. it will close up, very, very soon, if something isn't done. i've said politically the best thing i could do is absolutely nothing. wait one year and then even the democrats will come and say, please, please, you have to help us. but it is not the right thing to do for the people. we have a great plan. we have a plan that is getting more and more popular with the republican base with the conservative base and with people generally. the press has covered it very

inaccurately. people are truly covered well. and i think it is going to be something that is going to be a model to be looked upon. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> i'll tell you after we're finished. >> translator: thank you very much. well, i'm here as chancellor of the federal republic of germany. i represent german interests. i speak with the president of the united states who -- [ inaudible at his task respectively and i was very gratified to know the warm and gracious hospitality with which i've been received here. we held a conversation while trying to address also the areas where we disagree and trying to bring people together and show what is our advantage point and the american advantage point and try to find a compromise which is good for both sides because

we need to be fair. each one is expecting from his or her leader that something comes out of it for their own people and in germany i could say, well people are different. people have different abilities and traits of character and different origins and have found their way into politics along different pathways and while that is diversity which is good. sometimes it is difficult to find compromise, but that is what we've been elected for. if everything just went like that, without problem, we didn't need politicians to do these jobs. >> from the german press agency. given the disturbance of the that walls can fall also. how dangerous do you think this isolation policy of this u.s. president is, with the import tariff and also with the fact that he doesn't think that the

e.u. doesn't deal with it in a very respectful way, and mr. president, don't you think this is going to weaken also the european union and why are you so scared of diversity in the news and in the media that you speak so often of fake news and that things -- they cannot be proven, for example, the fact that you have been wiretapped by president obama. >> nice, friendly reporter. first of all, i don't believe in isolationist policy. but i also believe a policy of trade should be a fair policy. and the united states has been treated very, very unfairly by many countries over the years. and that is going to stop. but i'm not an isolationist, i'm a free trader, but i'm also a ferra fair trader. and you look at the deficits that we have and you look at all of the -- accumulation of debt. we're a powerful country, a very

strong -- a very strong country. we'll soon be at a level that we perhaps have never been before. our military is going to be strengthened. it's been depleted. but i'm a trader. i'm a fair trader. i'm a trader that wants to see good for everybody, worldwide. but i am not an isolationist by any stretch of the imagination. so i don't know what newspaper you're reading. but i guess that would be another example of, as you say, fake news. >> translator: well, allow me if i may to put it in the following terms. we haven't yet time to talk at a great length about economic issues. but i would say that the success of germany in the economic area but also on security and peace, that the success of germans have always been one where the german

success is one side of the coin and the other side of the coin has been european unity and integration. that is something of which i'm deeply convinced and i'm not only saying this back home, i'm saying it here in the united states and also here in washington in my talks with the president. secondly, i believe that globalization ought to be shaped in an open-minded way but also in a very fair way. freedom of movement within the european union for example is a very important element of our economic progress of peace, has been for many, many decades. the european countries for many, many centuries waged wars against each other. we have to protect our external borders because -- and there we have to work in -- on the basis of mutual interest with our neighbors. migration and immigration, integration has to be worked on obviously, traffickers have to be stopped. but this has to be done by

looking at the refugees as well, giving them opportunities to shape their own lives where they are. help countries who right now are not in an ability to do so. sometimes because they have civil war. i think that is the right way of going about it. and this is obviously what we have -- to have exchange views about. but my position is the one i just set out for you. >> i might add that we have many plants and factories coming back into the united states, many jobs are coming back to michigan, to ohio, to pennsylvania, to a lot of places where they were losing jobs. and we will have a different policy. but it is going to be a great policy for not only the united states, but a great policy worldwide and i look very much forward to it. kevin surly. >> yes, mr. president.

[ inaudible question ]. >> we're getting along well. if you were at the meeting that i just attended where we took 12 noes or semi-no -- or semi-yeses and in a short period of time everybody was on board and a commitment to vote yes. i think we have a very unified party. i think more unified than even

the election. he see they talk about me, i seem to be very popular, at least this week within the party. because we have our highest numbers -- the highest numbers that i've ever had in the party. so i think there is a great unification. health care is a very, very difficult subject. it is a very complex subject and it is a subject that goes both ways. you do something for one side and the other side doesn't like it. but it is really something that has come together very well and i think it will be very, very popular, extremely popular on trade. with germany, i think we're going to do fantastically well. right now i would say that the negotiators for germany have done a far better job than the negotiators for the united states but hopefully we could even it out. we don't want victory, we want fairness. all i want is fairness. germany has done very wll in trade deals with the united states and i give them credit and i could speak to many other

countries. you look at china, virtually any country that we do business with, it is not exactly what you call good for our workers. you look at the horrible nafta transaction, nafta has been a disaster for the united states. it has been a disaster for companies and in particular a disaster for the workers. a lot of the companies just moved. but the workers are -- screwed and that is the reason i'm standing here and maybe the military, building up the military, which we will do and be stronger than ever before and hopefully not have to use it and we'll be stronger and far stronger than ever before and it is probably the reason i'm here, is when you talk about trade. so i think that we are going to be a very different