we still don't know for certain what sparked that fire. >> and cities in the bay area have been cracking down on warehouses without a real plan to relocate these tennants. >> abc7 news menendez is live. >> reporter: most of these artists will be sleeping on friends couches until they figure out what to do. the locks were changed and sheriff's deputies ordered everyone to leave the warehouse known by artists as the burnell house. >> they changed the locks and we have to come back within 15 days for the rest. >> reporter: nathan cotton and several others living here packed their belongings. those living here, mostly artists say they knew that this

wasn't a living space. >> he's saying that he had no idea that people were living here, people have been living in this building since 2004. >> reporter: but just days after in december, the occupants quickly tried to make structural changes to ensure they would be safe in the event of a fire. but they were told that they could not stay. in late february, they were ordered by the court to leigh the warehouse. >> and how many more landlords are going to take this as a go ahead to evict, how many artists are we going to lose? are we talking hundreds of people being evicted? >> reporter: the owner sent this representative who was upset that they had not moved out completely. erickson never returned our request for an interview, but we confirmed that since 2001, he's been submitting applications to build a three to four-story 49-unit building through the planning department. it has been an ongoing project.

christian bouie says these warehouses serve a purpose. >> you don't have to work so much to pay rent and to have the space to create. >> reporter: housing advocates say the city has to do more to help warehouse tennants find somewhere affordable to live. across the bay now, survivors of an oakland apartment fire that killed four people last month sued their former land lord. they say fwilgd wbuilding was i with rats and lacked safely features that could have saved lye lives. >> there were no smoke detectors, or they were not functioning during the fire.

>> three nonprofits that help run the building were also named in the lawsuit. the owner of the building issued this statement, quote, we are confident that as the facts are brought to light, the true responsibility for the operation and management of the building will become clear. developing news tonight, ann coulter's planned speech tomorrow at cal is off, but uc berkeley police say they're still planning for protests, coulter said she will still show up tomorrow despite the university saying their can't accommodate her. the school denies canceling her speech. in a news release it says it did not cancel the coulter event and has never prohibited ms. coulter from coming on campus. the reason it couldn't accommodate coulter was security threats made a safe event impossible.

>> reporter: the speech has been cancelled, but uc berkeley and surrounding police agencies tell us they are preparing and nonetheless, they will not provide specifics but say they are modifying their strategy, beefing it up, based on recent experience. >> deployment and staffing is going to be significantly different than what we had for milo. >> reporter: this time uc berkeley says they'll be more pro active. >> you will see a high number of highly visible presence of law enforcement. and i will also say this, tomorrow, we're going to have a very, very low tolerance for any sort of violence. >> reporter: on february first, a planned speech by

night police were mostly inside the student union and on a balcony overhead, rarely venturing into the crowd. since then in the city of berkeley, extreme groups have squared off twice in a downtown park. >> while there have been moments where police have been prechblt and may appear to be doing nothing, we're responsible for every comit of force that's used, that's a very complex situation for us to be involved in and we will continue to work on the situation with deliberation and caution. >> one big question, are uc officials expecting protests to be less or more violent now that coulter won't appear. >> that's a hypothetical question, we don't know it yet. as news develops on this

story, you can be the first to know with the abc7 news app download now and enair ball push alerts. prosecutorings filed more charges against a man suspected of four racially driven killings in oakland. he now faces charges for killing three men last week. detectives say muhammed told them he wanted to kill as many white people as he could. but muhammed's lawyer raised concerns whether his client is mentally competent to stand trial. >> he's always going to come back to how he request justify his behavior. when you think about the trauma of killing somebody, and it's not an easy thing for someone to do that, so there's usually a lot of justification for it. >> if convicted, muhammed could

face the death penalty. >> the man accused of -- returned to court today. after he said he wanted to receive the death penalty, doctors determined he was suffering from new details in a case of a san francisco man accused of assaulting police officers before they shot him. all but two charges against the man were dismissed by the judges, b. officers say shaun moore attacked officer who is then shot the officer several times. what would it take more moore to walk out a free man?

>> reporter: what would it take for prosecutors to drop this case to resolve the case of shaun moore and the officer involved shooting, and in light of those rulings by the court yesterday, the public defender is asking the district attorney to simply drop the whole case. >> mr. moore was within his rights, and demanding that the police officers get off his steps, and leave him alone. >> reporter: shaun moore the man stand agent the top of the stairs from this body cam video from one of two officers, they were responding to a complaint that moore was acting aggressively to a neighbor. the confrontation with the officers ended when he was shot several times after a scuffle on the top of the stairs. moore was charged with numerous felonies including assault on a police officer, his mother said he had several surgeries before being transported to jail. >> we have not had a lot of

contact with shaun because of -- i'm sorry. he stayed in the hospital for quite some time. >> reporter: the judge dismissed all but two of the eight charges, battery causing injury and a misdemeanor violation of a stay away order from his neighbor. >> it demonstrates that the majority of these charges, nearly all of them were completely unfounded. >> reporter: the public defender says the judge's ruling says the officers said that moore was trespassing on his neighbor's property when he hear them say this. >> get off my stairs. >> reporter: the da's office tells abc7 news, they'll review the judge's transcripts before making a decision on the case. new details tonight in last weekend's mob robbery on

b.a.r.t. police confirm they have surveillance video from inside the train car and they have been able to identify several suspects. no one has yet been arrested, anywhere from 40 to 60 young people ran on to a dublin bound train and robbed people. >> a much smaller group of teenagers was spot it at the lake merit station entering without paying and heading for the platform. trains went through the station without opening their doors. the suspects realized they had been spotted and they took off. police searched but did not find any of them. a san jose man is at the center of a unique immigration case that has him behind bars on the other side of the country. . coming up next, a

battle over art work made by elementary school students. some late daybreaks of sunshine but we're going to see some sunshine and warmer weather too. holy cow. oh, my god. >> holy cow is right, we have the story to go

those students started working on a mural project last year when they were in the the third grade and they hope to see

it complete before they finish the fourth grade. but a copy write crisis might hold things up. >> reporter: this group of hoover students took to the streets to defend -- a colorful mural inspired by the students art. but now caltrans, which owns the wall has delayed the project. >> when the school ends, we won't be able to come together. >> oakland nonprofit nonpro attitudal -- working together to create six underpass murals, when they asked ac to sign this new form, assigning copy right to the mural. >> it's a very collaborative process and i think that

caltrans understands that. and so i don't know why this is a problem, i don't know why they haven't figured out how to help us month this project forward. >> the copy right policy has been in place since 2003. >> it's been the policy that any art work like this on state of california property is considered a gift to the people of california and when that happens, then the copy right is assigned to us. this new form will make certain that it is understood. >> caltrans wants to explain the new form. in oakland, kate larsen, abc7 news. san francisco is mourning the loss of a chef and businessman credited with bringing the cuisine of china to the u.s.

>> henry chung, you may not have known his name, but chances are you know his food, with six henry hunan restaurants in francisco, the chain is synonymous with hot chinese cuisine. they opened their first hunan in 1974, inspired by president nixon's visit to china hoping to forge a new relationship with china. with their signature meat pies, and hunan chicken, the new yorker wrote an article calling it the world's best chinesing restaurant. >> we went from being moderately successful to being so busy that we had lines that went around the corn e. >> herb caen followed.

diana passed away in 2003, henry died sunday at home in the richmond district at the age of 99. they leave behind eight children and a legacy of giving, having endowed scholarships at several universities. henry chung's funeral is now being planned, it will be a celebration of an extraordinary live and no doubt extrordary food. a new report points out that drugged driving is more -- the most common drug found was marijuana, last november, california became one of nine states to legalize recreational marijuana. the author of the report, the governor's highway safety association recommends more training for officers so they can better identify drivers under the influence of drugs. a giant landslide was caught on camera overnight in mendecino

county, it started with just a few rocks falling and then the whole thing goes. take a look. >> run! run! oh, my god! holy cow! oh, my god! are you kidding me? whoa. >> boy, whoa, no kidding. no one was hurt when this hillside came down, but the area just can't catch a break, it was closed for a week after a different landslide, it had been open for just 24 hours, and then this happened. legg er leggett is about halfway between you c ukia and millford. the rain may finally be starting to come to an end. >> we're about to turn a page in

the weather department, i think a lot of people this weekend are excited to see this forecast. a couple of spots still of some drizzle, i just want to zoom in a little closer, those specs of green you see on your screen, around petaluma, and eastern etna springs and that the dressal and that's about it. this weak storm system is getting out of here. one sign of a change here, finally, our camera atop pier 15, getting some peeks of sunshine. we do have more in the way of cloud cover in the south bay, but that cloud cover is going to be exiting over the next 12 hours, your forecast is going to call for a warming trend, this is going to start tomorrow, but what we do have to deal with not only tomorrow, but starting friday with some very gusty winds, that wind is going to bring in even warmer air to greet us starting saturday into much of next week, out there right now, limited sunshine, a lot of cloud cover, did not warm

too much, got into the low and mid 60s in most spots. we're at 63 in san jose, 64 in napa, a little bit cooler right along the coast. overnight tonight, going to see the cloud cover really disintegrate over the next 12 hours, clouds early on, clearing after midnight and temperatures not all that bad overnight. most spots holding in the 60s, a couple of exceptions like the north bay dropping into the upper 40s. tomorrow could not be more different than what we experienced today. a few clouds right along the coast, but otherwise, it is nothing by midday and the afternoon. very comfortable temperatures in the 60s and 70s, but we will have that wind to deal with. now with the windy weather and the warming temperatures, one of the issues we're going to have is pollen, right now tree pollen and grass pollen at moderate levels, but i do expect that

pollen count to rise. future tracker wind gusts will show you thursday evening, it's really breezy along the coast, even away from the coast, over 20 miles an hour, even winder on friday, area wide, future tracker wind gusts showing you, we're going to experience winds 20 to about 40 miles an hour, but that wind will warm us up very rapidly, future tracker temperatures, look at saturday, 80s return, sunshine is there and the number also just continue to rise from there. your 7-day forecast, bright and breezy tomorrow, we will be warming for the weekend, monday and tuesday, even into wednesday, this is warm, even along the coast, we are going into the 70s so enjoy. this is a gold medal group and they're now back

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all right this next story underscores that no one is ever truly disabled. if given the opportunity they can show off their ability. >> abc7 news reporter david lui shows us how they did it. >> reporter: to look at them, you would never know this group of young people just started

dancing only five months ago. last month, they were invited to austria to perform at the winter international special olympics. their confidence, energy and performance earned them gold medals. >> their performance was just off the charts, it showed exactly how our dancers can push themselves. >> it all began with this man, you may remember him from abc's "dancing with the stars." he corps yhoreographed the dancv and brought the group austria. >> i liked it. >> did it share you? >> a little bit. >> julie's dance partner, a volunteer was amazed business

her dancing ability. >> she caught on and she actually loved it and i could see that she could go a lot farther. i could see this was just the beginning for her. >> reporter: julie continued to teach this clumsy reporter her best dance moves. how does it feel to have that gold medal? >> it makes me happy. >> in redwood city, david lui, abc7 news. yeah, well, from 7:00 to 3:00 and from 35 to 15, they're just numbers but they tell the story of president trump's tax plan. >> find out what changes you owe every year to the

he should be released as soon as possible. it's a horrible mistake and it should be corrected. >> a san jose man has been held

in a florida ice facility for more than a month, a nightmare following what was supposed to be a dream vacation. >> denise is a gay man from russia living with hiv and had been seeking political asylum in the u.s. >> abc. >> reporter: it's a unique case that has him grags rights advocates shaking their heads. >> we don't ever want to panic the community, but this is certainly not business as usual and it is quite unnerving. >> a san jose resident was detained by u.s. customs and border protection while returning from a week-long vacation to the u.s. virgin islands. >> he does not understand what's happening. it's a lot of stress for him. >> reporter: anxious because he's been at the i.c.e. operated detention center for more than a month, as a gay man who is hiv

positive, he fears being sent back to his native russia. he applied for political asylum status after a vacation to the u.s. >> there are people over there that hunt gay men, lgbt >> reporter: these concerns after the russian parliament passed an anti-lgbt law in 2013, since then many members of the lgbt community in fear. the u.s. customs issued a statement, each visitor to the u.s. is considered for admission on a case-by-case basis and may in some cases be made if the person is attempting to enter the country in violation of u.s. laws. his friends are especially worried about his health while

he's in detention. his bond hearing is scheduled for may 8. in san jose. chris win, abc7 news. a u.s. military leader says his forces are ready to fight as soon as tonight in the escalate i ing -- the president attended the first five minutes of the meeting with senators and then handed it over to his national security team. lawmakers say they need to put partisanship aside on this issue. >> we learned some things in the briefing, but this is a very difficult situation that i think is going to require persistent and engaged both diplomatic and military. >> admiral harry harris the commander of u.s. forces in the pacific said today that a u.s. anti-missile system will be functional in south korea within days. the now of sweeping tax

cuts, includes tax relief for middle income families in the form of doubling the standard deduction, creating three basic tax brask brackets, down from the current seven. >> this will pay for itself with growth and with reduced deductions and closing loopholes. >> democrats are blasting the proposed the suspect is barely 24 years old, but supposedly made millions with this fraud, so will his arrest stop that fraud? >> his name name is shaggy. >> oh, come on, really? >> i'm not kidding you, wait until you see this, you may be

surprised who authorities say is behind these menacing calls from irs impersonators demanding pavement and threatening jail. authorities say he's barely out of high school but his pockets are stuffed with cash. ich indian press shows the notorious kingpin of the irs scam captured at the mumbai airport two week ago. now india media is buzzing with reports of boyish mumbai resident accused of orchestra orchestrating those fake irs calls to millions of americans. accused of swiping millions of dollars from his victims. >> it's very likely that mr. tucker's employees may have been behind a call that an american would have received. >> reporter: according to

authorities, he started out as a legitimate call center worker. >> this call is from the internal revenue service. >> reporter: but allegedly used the service for scams, recruiting other youngsters to help. >> they are called freshers, which means they are just out of college typically, this may be their first job. >> the irs is filing a lawsuit against you. >> reporter: she says at first, many of them don't realize their work is a scam. >> a lot of them think they're legitimately working for the u.s. government and getting people to pay their back taxes. >> and now that he is behind bars, she says don't expect the calls to stop. >> i think it's the tip of the iceberg, i think you're going to see a lot more. >> reporter: u.s. authorities agree, the treasury inspector general telling us the arrest does not bring an end to the problem as scammers continue to employ impersonation of the irs as a scare tactic to con people. call centers are part of the

culture in mumbai. >> you're seeing a legitimate call center into a fraud center. >> he's also named in a federal grand jury indictment here in the united states, along with 60 other suspects, they're accused of running scams from india. they're warning us all to stay on guard, they are still out there posing as government officials. i want to hear from you, the 7 on your side hot line is open monday through friday, 10:00 to 2:00, the number 415-954-8151. you can also reach me through abc7.com. >> thank you, michael. the bay area is the best home decorators show off their best skills, it's also helping kids go to school. >> it's a warm and caring place, it's a place of refuge, it's

truly a home for them, a home away from home. >> and new at 6:00, a celebrated program in the tenderloin that has cared for kid

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a milestone of 700 million leaves bay area business watch says it's past that much of users, the app is known for picture sharing and recently released a live picture option. a surprise from twitter, it added 5 million new users in the first three months of the year. today twitter stock gained almost 8% in value closing just under 16. after huge gains yesterday, today the dow barely budged closing down at 20,975. you can check out some of the latest styles in home design while raising money to help talented young people at the same time. abc news was in pacific heights for the annual homes showcase. the showcase began in 1977 and this year's edition opens on saturday, it's located on pacific avenue. you'll find more information on

abc7 news.com about how you can enjoy this year's decorator showcase, it runs through may 29. . today's clouds and drizzle are going to give way to a warm and sunny weekend. >> here's a live look at our emeryville camera. drew is back with our weekend forecast in five minutes. ques...are my teeth yellow? ...have you tried the tissue test? the what? ... tissue test! hold this up to your teeth... ...ugh yellow... i don't get it. i use whitening toothpaste. what do you use? crest whitestrips you should try them! whitening toothpaste only works on the surface. but crest whitestrips safely work below the enamel surface ... to whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste you used the whitestrips i passed the tissue test. oh yeah. would you pass the tissue test? see for yourself with crest whitestrips. they are the way to whiten.

an after school program that's helped thousands of children in an economically vulnerable san francisco neighborhood is celebrating 25 years of service. >> abc7's sheryl jennings has followed the tenderloin after school program from the beginning and has their story. >> reporter: the tender loin after school program the known for his computers and it's yummy food. >> you get to pick whatever you want. >> reporter: andrew loves talking about the tender loin after school program but some of the other students were too shy to talk, so we used a smart

phone to help them tell their story. >> has tas helped you on some projects you have done? >> when i came, i had bad grades and when i came and started doing home work and they started explaining stuff for me and i raised my grades in. >> if not for our program, many of our students would be unsupervised after school, they would be living in a more isolated environment. >> it's a warm and caring place, it's a place of refuge, it's truly home for them, a home away from home. >> don falk is the ceo of the after school program was founded 25 years ago because parents asked tndc for a safe place for their kids after school. former mayor frank jordan helped kick it off. two sisters who were clients back then as children have returned as adult dos work at the center. sondra and catalina ortega are

success stories. >> it's such a proud moment to see them from a very young child to go through their adolescence and then obviously to give back to the community, give back to the program that they know so well. >> many of the children here have families living in low income housing managed by tndc. >> we're now providing homes to over 4,000 people, most of them with incomes under $1,000 a month. we live in a city that is genderified, people of color and low income people are being forced out. and here in the tenderloin, nearly a third of the housing is dedicated in perpetuity to income people. >> reporter: those partnerships extend to the after school program. they take kids on field trips donated by different companies, including abc7 so kids can see beyond the borders of the

tenderloin, local businesses hold toy drives, raise money for new backpacks or come in and mentor or tutor students. >> one of the cool things about tasp is how multilingual and multicultural it is so you do see a lot of different approaches to how people look at math from different cultures. >> he is combining his passion for brewing and books. >> we thought it would be fun to raise donations by giving bottles to race money for fun stuff like books. >> reporter: the tenderloin is changing history for the hundreds of student who is come here every day. the annual college tours are national and local. >> we have had an opportunity to

see sonoma state and we're going to cal berkeley. >> what does the program mean to you? >> a lot. it means a lot to me because it's like my second home. >> in san francisco, sheryl jennings, abc7 news. >> isn't that great? the gala for the after school program is this weekend. >> go to our website abc7 news.com. drew's back with the latest. >> you can see the picture behind you, the clouds are beginning to break down, but there's a large amount of them out there. the satellite shows a pretty gray picture, but this is going to be a different picture tomorrow, we're expecting a lot of sunshine. future weather showing you as we go through the overnight hours, tomorrow morning these clouds are going to get out of here and it's going to be a sunny day on your thursday. clouds early on will clear out likely after midnight, and it's going to keep temperatures on

the mild side. a couple of exceptions in the north bay in the upper 40s. highs on your thursday, very comfortable for april. 71 in san jose, 68 in oakland, 74 in napa and 72 in santa rosa, however you will notice it does turn breezy in the afternoon. the accuweather forecast shows you tons of sunshine is on the way, the wind is up, but it will help to usher in warmer temperatures and will continue into much of next week. our sports department should be getting some interesting interviews next season. >> yeah, absolutely. >> or lack thereof. >> the forecast in oakland is going to be sunny with a chance of skittles. the raiders make it official

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some video posted by the raiders. smiling from ear to ear, glowing after becoming a member of his hometown team. lynch gets a helmet. he never took the helmet off. the former oakland tech and cal star did have a down 2015, plagued by injuries, then he retired. when espn insider -- >> for marshawn lynch his last season in seattle was 2015, he averaged less than four yards per carry, now he's banged up and he's out of football for another year, now me's back at his hometown playing in front of his hometown fan base, will be unlike anything he's perhaps ever experienced. the offensive line is great in oakland, there's a chance for marshawn lynch to be a factor

and rekindle that beast mode that was dominant for a long time. >> bleep just got real, i can't deliver this with the style of marshawn, but he's really happy. the warriors are happy too. they await their second poechblt, either utah or the l.a. clippers. they will have a minimum of five days rest. also benefiting from some rest, is our own mike shuman. >> the benefit of whipping your first round opponent is you have a little more time during round two to get healthy and work on some things during practice. >> how intelligent the guys are and the big-time veterans that we have brought in, we feel that rest for their bodies and mental preparation is more important than coming in here and having practice on a daily basis.

>> the bad thing about winning, but when you get a break it could be a bad thing, but we look at it as handing business that was in front of us. >> you just want to play well, and then you worry about the rest afterwards. that's the situation where we got a lot of guys banged up. so you have a few days to get your body right and your mind right and get back to the drawing board as far as individual work and team work. so we're excited to be moving on and glad we got a few days off. >> born again oaks land, mike shuman, abc7 sports. noticeably absent from practice, steve kerr, suffering from complications from a back surgery. kerr spoke with the media last sunday, he will not be available for comment until he's back to full health. >> stuff doesn't matter, man, he

needs to be healthy for the rest of his life. we need him healthy. we look forward to him getting better, positive and optimistic that we will get better and look forward to his retirement as well. >> we all are. and the giants playing the dodgers tomorrow. called up michael morris, from their 2015 championship team hoping he can provide some power in the outfield. join us tonight at 9:00 on kofi tv cable channel 13. on abc7 news at 11:00, just how far did wells fargo go to get people to open bank accounts?

that is this edition of abc7 "news at 6:00," we appreciate your time. for all of us here at abc7 news, thank you for joining us.

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