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this area. >> they appear to be focussed on a home where a rifle was seen on the porch. you see it there. >> you see the person walked up to the officers about ten minutes ago, that woman covered in blood, she did walk out of the home and was taken away in an ambulance. it's not clear at this point how she may be involved. >> let's give you a live look at the scene. this is all unfolding. s.w.a.t. has the home surrounded. we have a crew on the scene. >> and we first got word about the shooting on the 800 block of feller avenue. this is the second shooting involving san jose police this year. >> on january 9th police shot and killed a man they say advanced on them with an ax. we'll have more on today's shooting as they become available. but it is all breaking as we speak. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristin zee.
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now to the teenagers arrested for trying to run down a police officer. >> the teen suspects are in jail in martinez. police accuse the boyfriend/girlfriend team of ramming into that officer. >> it happened when he was trying to break up a sideshow. >> here's leslie brinkley. >> reporter: richmond's police defines a sideshow as a flash mob of reckless driving. at 1:00 a.m., sunday, 50 cars spinning donuts in richmond disturbed neighbors. but watch closely. a dark sedan slammed head on into an officer, throwing him up onto the hood and into the street. the car was abandoned nearby. >> the owner showed up at a location trying to report the
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car stolen. >> reporter: police moved in and arrested the driver, juan vargas and 18-year-old genesis cass nena da. they both are accused of conspiracy and filing a false police report. across the bay area, sideshows are happening more frequently. here police say in the past drag racing and sideshows have been problems in industrial zones, but in this event, it took place along busy regata boulevard in a busy area two blocks from a police station. police say they intend to crackdown. >> a more active social media presence, intel gathering to identify actors, spectators and potential locations where these things may break out. >> reporter: the injured officer was treated for broken bones and head trauma and later released. in richmond, leslie brinkley,
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abc abc 7 news. >> that wasn't the only sideshow incident. police teamed up to arrest a man suspected of pointing a laser at officers in a helicopter. they followed the car and directed officers to his location. oak land police arrested a 23-year-old man from pittsburg. he could face state and local charges. a man danced on top of his car on the shoulder of i-80 near university avenue. so strange as the morning commute moved past him. from there he lid polied police chase through the peninsula, across the san mateo bridge, eventually ending in hayward. katie utehs explains how this guy finally got tripped up. >> reporter: from dancing in the back of a truck responded -- stopped on interstate 80, he is
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a 20 year old who led police on a 50-mile pursuit around the bay. it started in berkley on university avenue around 8:30 this morning. you can seen see him scratch his back with the rod. at times waving the rod out the window, taking both hands off the wheel as the truck drifted across lanes. sky 7 sky map technology estimates speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour. he turns south on 101, sped across the peninsula into the east bay, ending in hayward. you can see the glass in the intersection where chp deployed their pit move. after pushing the truck, officers surrounded it and safely pulled him into custody. >> we were just trying to stop this in a safe manner. >> could y >> you could have hurt a lot of people today, what do you have to say about that? >> it's never good to elude at
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any point or failure to yield. you're putting the motoring public in danger. >> reporter: chp says he is the registered owner of the truck and is facing several charges and may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol. nobody was injured during the chase. katie utehs, abc 7 news. a fallen try is delaying commuters and forcing traffic to be diverted in san francisco. the large tree landed on top of some utility wires. they had to de-energize the wires before cutting up the tree. >> we're not giving the okay until all these lines are de-energized. we will make cuts to take the pressure offer the line pressure off the lines. >> trolley buses on the 22 line are running on battery power while they detour around the
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bro block closed by the tree. sky 7 flew above theis scen. the cessna crashed near bunkers the navy once used to store explosives. the pilot was the on person on board and they haven't revealed whether the pilot had just taken off from or was headed to nearby buchanan field. a ballet instructor in the bay area is facing child molestation charges. abc news was in daley city at the west lake school for performing arts where victor cabano recently worked. police arrested him friday at his san mateo home on 16 counts of aggravated sexual assault involving a child under 14. the district attorney's office says it happened while he worked in contra costa county. hayward police are crediting a vigilant parent for the arrest
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of a convicted sex offender. melvin flemings offered to give basketball lessons to a student. the student's parents suspected something wasn't right and searched the coach's name online and found he was a convicted sex offender. police are looking for potential other victims. multiple homes remain red tags and owners are uncertain when or if they will return. as abc 7 reporter wayne freedman has more on the residents and their dilemmas. >> reporter: in the wake of tragedy, there is comfort in old routine. for john, a santa rosa resident, that means pruning his roses before spring. >> this is my grand illusion. nothing's changed. >> reporter: except for the neighborhood. he is in the mobile home park where only 43 homes survived and their residents remain locked
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out by red tags and an ongoing hazmat cleanup. they are among the residents still unable to go home and the most desperate. >> we're screwed either way. >> reporter: it's mostly reuste, twisted metal. it's a nightmare for residents who don't know what the park's owner will do. meanwhile, they live in fema housing in a motel across the way. while she owns this mobile home, michelle worries that the park closing could make her homeless by default. >> if i could pull it up, i wouldn't try to do that. the whole thing would fall apart, it's a 1961 mobile home. >> reporter: at least she's not alone. >> we're lucky to survive a disaster like this, but whether it's worth all the turmoil
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afterward is debatable. >> reporter: in santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. federal food safety officials have joined in the investigation of raw meat being delivered to a san jose grocery store unwrapped and in shopping carts. an investigation began last week after photos were posted of men delivering the meat to the 99 ranch market. the usda says they will determine any action. the owner says it has fired both employees. a state lawmaker wants to enact a law to stop elon musk from selling millions of dollars worth of flamethrowers. using one this weekend. they cost $500 a pop. musk claims they're legal, because they don't shoot flames beyond ten feet. he joked back in december that he sells them, he says he has
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pre-sold 10,000 of the 20,000 units his company plan to buy. assembly democrat says musk's idea is in bad taste following several deadly wildfires in southern california. a lot more to come here. it's called jackpot. and hackers make atms spit out cash like slot machines and the scheme has hit the u.s. how a bay area company may force the pentagon to make some changes. i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. cooler today, but near-record warmth is coming. and are you a lurker or a geek?
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hi, we're alaska airlines. and we don't just fly lumberjacks to glaciers. we fly all kinds of people all kinds of places. like app developers to mexico city. musically inclined novelists to nashville. and pilates instructors to palm springs. sure, we love a good glacier. but we also like a little cocoa butter. from the west coast to the world. alaska airlines. that's how we fly. people dream of winning jackpots, while atm thieves have
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turned it into a high-stakes crime. jackpoting is sweeping, and we explain how gangs of thieves are exploiting outdated software in stand-alone atms. >> reporter: it's free-standing atms like this that thieves have targeted, making them spit out money until they're empty, like an old fashioned casino slot machine. it takes two games to pull off the crime. the first uses an >> after that one, they, another team and that team will come and enter certain codes, and the machine start giving cash. >> reporter: the targeted machines are older models made by diebold.
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u.s. atms are the latest to be hit globally. thieves in japan stole $13 million two years ago. jackpoting has also swept across 12 countries in europe. >> that's why they call them jackpots. it's like a slot machine that keep running, running, running, and they get all the cash withou any kind of problem. >> reporter: the most vulnerable atms are those located in a remote section of a business where thieves won't be noticed. this one is located in a high-traffic area near the restrooms. secret service investigators believe major jackpoting events are expected in the next week to ten days. atm users say they're not surprised to learn of this new crime. >> it's bound to happen, yeah. it's surprising to hear, but not so surprising that we've come to that point. >> reporter: in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. well, the pentagon says it will boost security guidelines after reports that a local
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fitness tracking app revealed sites of bases in sensitive areas. the network published a map that shows what everyone using the arch app is doing, but analysts believe it may reveal too much, including what soldiers are doing on their base. it doesn't track what one single person is doing. users can switch their setting to private however. the "new york times" reports how millions of accounts are fake, even when they include real people's identities and private information and twitter is right in the middle of an investigation launched by the new york attorney general. here's abc news reporter gio benitez. >> reporter: from celebrities to famous companies to high-profile political figures. in the world of social media, it's a simple equation. the more followers you have the more influence you have. but there can be more to some of
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those loyal followers than meets the eye. some are completely made up. one study finding that 29 million to 48 million of twitter's reported active users are automated accounts. twitter claims the number is much lower, but according to a "new york times" investigation others actually are real people whose profiles have been stolen by anonymous bot-makers used to create a whole new account and resold as counterfeit coins in the booming economy of online influence. >> some people buy fake mond followers. >> reporter: they promise to accelerate your social growth by selling followers. among its 200,000 customers, reality tv stars, athletes and models. pennies for each follower. the company providing its clients with more than 200 million followers, but 3.5 million are fake accounts,
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with some taken from seemingly real people. >> from every state in the u.s. and around the world that have taken biographical information from real people. if you are a prospective employer and you search for someone on a social media site and find that they've been retweeting graphic content, they might not get the job. so there's a real harm done. >> reporter: some of the high-profile customers tell the times they have regrets about buying followers, and on his twitter account, the new york attorney general says he will be investigating for its apparent sale of bots using stolen identities. >> until companies like twitter no longer have the incentive to keep growing their user base at any cost, this isn't a problem that's going to go away anytime soon. >> now in a statement, twitter
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says the tactics the times described violate our policies and are unacceptable to us. we are working to stop them. it's easy to become someone else online, so researchers took a look at children and their behavior on social media. the study says children between 10 and 15 years old are savvy about protecting their privacy online but they do develop poor personas when using social media. the names are pretty self-explanatory. there is the geek, the internet celebrity, the victim and the lurker. geek right here. now from social media to a deadline. >> michael finney is here with more on that. scary stuff, michael. >> time is running out to get in on the free credit monitoring by equifax. the last day to sign up is wednesday. they suffered a massive data breach. 145 million americans are at
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risk, 15 million here in california alone. equifax is offering a free year of monitoring. for those affected and those who weren't. there's a link on our website, so check it out. airlines are competing, that means better prices. especially for those heading to hawaii. southwest plans to begin flights to hawaii and are on track but it's unclear whether those flights will begin at the end of this year or early next year. why? well, the timing largely depends on when the federal aviation administration approves southwest's application to offer long flights over water. the new routes will depart from california. detachable capps on plastic bottles could become a thing of the past under a measure headed for a vote in the assembly this week. we thought there would be a vote today, it didn't happen. the bill requires all plastic caps to be tethered to the
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bottle by 2020. they are often found littered on land and public beaches and pose a threat to fish and marine life. proponents disagree saying tethered bottle caps are only a slight modification of existing caps. probably bit end probably by the end of the week. now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. i want to show you a stunning picture of the moon. it's waxing. soon you will be seeing a full moon. and it will be quite a treat in the night sky. right now live doppler 7 showing you quite a bit of cloud cover. 24-hour temperature change, just about everyone running lower, 9 degrees cooler in hayward. 6 degrees colder in san jose.
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overall, the cloud cover knocked out those temperatures a little bit, but that is going to change. average high for san jose, 61 degrees. over the next couple days you will notice that the temperatures rise, but it will be well above average, we're talking low 70s, anywhere from ten to 12 degrees above normal. i do want to show you a live picture from the emeryville camera. i think you will be seeing more sun in the coming days around midweek. 62 in san jose. here's another lovely picture from the east bay hills camera as the sun is trying to peek through all the clouds. mid to upper 50s. concord at 60 degrees and here's another live picture from our south beach camera. i'll step aside so you can see a little bit of brightness there. high clouds and patchy fog. dry and milder for the rest of the week and record warmth for the weekend.
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jacket weather, patches of cloud, high clouds. temperatures will rise a few degrees tomorrow afternoon. in the morning, there will be some fog. so watch out for that. temperatures like i mentioned, upper 30s to mid-40s. certainly will be plenty of high clouds around. the sun will get filtered by wispy clouds. mostly mid to upper 60s. can't rule out a 70-degree reading here and there. as we fast forward to wednesday morning i want to share with you what's going to happen. the super blue blood moon wednesday morning. we have basically the best time for viewing is between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. no special glasses are needed. this is the second full moon of the month. you're going to want to look towards the west. and i want to show what you's going to happen due to the launch aur eclipse. you will see a reddish tint redh because of the earth's shadow.
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take a look. send us your photos, #abc 7 now. this is from the climate prediction center, this is unfortunate, but it's not unheard of. we typically sometime in the winter between january and february do get a dre spell for a week our two. that's what we're expecting. friday afternoon highs, late week warmth, 70s. saturday, 15 degrees above normal. sunday, that warmth will continue. here's accuweather forecast. temperatures edging up the next few days. don't forget about the lunar eclipse wednesday morning and the warmth will continue. check out the temperatures, hour by hour, minute by minute. >> thank you so much. a hero snowboarder digs out his friend buried over his head in snow. that story next. t then at 5:30 david muir.
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>> the pregnant woman who lost her baby. your money. filing your taxes beginning today. the one mistake some make. and why tom brady suddenly cut % an interview short, next. >> new at 6:00, the uc berkley break through that could cause
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well, it pays to snowboard with a buddy. heart-stopping video shows a frantic rescue. >> we have the heart-thumping story. >> oh, god! >> comin', comin'. >> reporter: some incredible video of a snowboarder being rescued. he was taking video with his gopro when his buddy tried to jump off a ridge and got buried. he started frantically crying
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out his name as he started digging. this happened in whistler. thankfully, his buddy is okay. >> disappeared, bro. disappeared. oh. oh. >> could you go bye-bye. >> whoa. >> scary stuff. >> that's why you always go with a buddy, especially in the back country. a bear, a tree, and a warning, next. a new trend in kitchens. root to stem promises to help the planet and your wallet. >> a story you don't want to miss tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00.
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we're already at a disadvantage in that we're law enforcement. how many people want to
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necessarily follow law enforcement? >> facebook's about face on certain policies and why local police departments don't like it at all. also investors don't like what's happening at apple. its market value drops $46 billion in a week. and it's hat's off to 7 on your side after a delivery mixup nearly ruined a church convention. it's coming up at 6:00. >> thank you, we'll see you then. a reminder that wild animals, no matter how cute they look can create havoc. >> a bear encounter was captured yesterday. in an instant, the bear watching turns into bear terror. >> go! go! >> while the sheriff's office says no bears or people were hurt, it's a good reminder to
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keep a safe distane. >> world news with david muir is tonight, the sudden exit at the fbi. deputy director andrew mccabe, the frequent target of president trump on twitter. the white house is asked if the president pressured the justice department to force the number two at the fbi out. also tonight, the deadly flu. schools in multiple states now closed. the pregnant woman who lost her baby. and the mother who cared for her husband and her children who all had the flu, dying from the flu herself. what her family is saying tonight about the vaccine. also tonight, did ems refuse to help a man who had been shot 16 times because he was just outside city limits? handcuffed at school. growing outrage after a 7-year-old boy is led away in cuffs by police after being accused of attacking his teacher. police tonight defending their actions. your money. filing your taxes beginning today.

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