many good reasons before waiting to take action against wong. >> everybody's first concern was the three women who gave up their lives, and i think that law enforcement acted with an abundance of caution, just in case, so they didn't create a situation that caused their demise. >> dodd also told us america needs to find more ways to help veterans overcome the mental wounds they suffer while serving our country. >> now we are learning new details about what happened when that shooting happened. >> cornell bernard begins our live team coverage and spoke with a woman who was in the room when a gunman took his hostages but let her go. >> he filed this report a few minutes ago. >> i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: haley recalled the terror on friday morning when a gunman burst into the offices of the pathway home where she works as a residential counsel. >> the suspect walked into the

party and was just like horror surrounded the room. >> reporter: did he say anything? >> no, besides just letting us go, saying our names and saying you can go. >> reporter: she ran from the building and called 911. she said three other mental health staffers were not allowed to leave. >> i just hoped that he would also allow them to go. which didn't happen. >> reporter: she recognized the gunman as army vet albert wong who had been discharged from the program two weeks ago. haley can't comment why but knew him well. >> he was just really struggling. he was dealt a really raw deal in life. and had a lot of trauma. >> reporter: the pathway home is a locked facility. she doesn't know how wong got in. she doesn't know why her bosses were targeted. she said they worked closely with albert wong on his rehab.

>> one thing they had in common was they were all so caring and just incredible. >> reporter: in yountville, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. we are also learning more about the three women killed at the pathway home on friday and their deep connections to the surrounding community including napa valley clemg where students and staff are in mourning after losing one of their own, a young psychologist. >> we continue the team coverage from the college. >> reporter: staff and students here are in mourning today as a counselor and psychologist, primarily for veterans, jennifer gonzalez spent three days a week working here at napa valley college. the other two, including friday's, last friday she worked at the home in yountville. >> she had just announced last week that she was pregnant. >> reporter:ly n lynn net cortez

worked side by side. >> she really wanted the best for veterans for for everyone that she worked with. she made me better at my job. really, she just was a great person that just wanted the best for everyone. >> reporter: gonzalez's co-workers have set up a memorial in her honor in the campus veterans center where students and staff can write their own tribute to the vibrant young psychologist. >> what's his name? >> aaron. >> reporter: beyond that, the larger healing effort has begun, including a comfort dog, aaron, a golden retriever, trained to bring peace where there is pain. >> people liked her. she was a very agreeable and enjoyable person. >> reporter: kenneth arnold knew her and christine lobar. >> when we're hearing this happen and the names, it was very impactful. we realized that we were, you know, that there was a tie to the college, and these were people that we new personally.

>> reporter: here's lobar making a presentation to the college board of trustees. at one point she talks passionately about trying to help veterans with ptsd. >> as a program, we don't want to minimize symptoms, we don't want to say oh, you have ptsd and look at the symptoms and minimize them and then you're on your own. >> if we didn't need to work we would still be doing it. just a matter of heart for us. >> reporter: in napa, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> for the first time today we heard from the family of dr. jennifer goleg. she was married and has a 7-year-old daughter her husband and mother shared their thoughts. >> three was a very beloved mother, sister, daughter, colleague and friend. we appreciate the outpouring of love and support from our saint helena community and outlying communities as well.

she is missed terribly. >> i feel sadness throughout my entire body. i woke up yesterday morning crying in my sleep. and when i got up, i was still crying, and i'm still crying inside, and i will be forever. >> dr. jennifer goleg was 42 years old. a public memorial is set up for next monday. we've vetted the most comprehensive list of resources for veterans and their families. let's change topics and move to the weather forecast, starting to see some rain on the radar. let's get to abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel with more. >> hang onto the umbrellas all week long. take a look at live doppler 7. we're just getting started with a rainy week ahead and possibly into the weekend. we do have moderate pockets of rain from san mateo.

you will notice also around the south bay from sunnyvale going into stevens creek boulevard. cupertino, around parts of the north bay, napa, old sonoma road, wet and slippery for your commute. if you're in the east bay from fremont and south san francisco heading down towards the san bruno area, it is also gusty out thaye there. it's a level one storm, tonight through tomorrow, light to moderate rain, gusty winds. your travel will be impacted but tomorrow is what you need to watch out for as we see light to moderate rain. i'll be back with the hour by hour timeline coming up. >> you can track the rain where you live with the abc 7 news app. it has live doppler 7 so you can get hour by hour conditions in your neighborhood. s.w.a.t. teams searched the city of novato looking for men

and women involved in house raids. >> reporter: in normally placid marin county, the rare sight of a manhunt that was also aftermath. armed officers blocking intersections, looking in tunnels, using dogs, going house to house, all in search of five armed suspects who began the day with attacks on eugenia drive in petaluma. warren purcell lives right next door. >> this location where we're at, just never happens. the worst thing you might see is a turkey get hit as he crosses the road. >> reporter: not this morning. the sonoma county sheriff's office says as many asiniinin suspects went on a rampage. >> it sounds like a group of armed men went door to door to three different residences. at least one man has been tied up and pistol whipped and a

group of men were in search of marijuana. >> reporter: the mos similar to those in santa rosa. one died. the suspects came from out of state before being arrested in vallejo. in this case, the four suspects arrested so far appear to have come from north carolina and again looking for marijuana. >> it's bizarre and frightening that they're going door to door, randomly, trying to rob people for marriage. >> reporte -- marijuana. >> reporter: it makes sonoma county a soft target. how unsettling is that? >> i think it's an overall crime scene that we're going to see, and it's not going to be restricted to nice places or bad places. >> reporter: the suspects remain at large. in marin coty w freedman, abc 7 news. a developing story from the white house. just a short time ago, the president blocked a big tech merger between two chip-making giants.

broad cam and qualcomm. they are citing national security reasons for this. the $117 billion deal would have been the largest transaction in the technology industry. there have been concerns the takeover would have posed a threat to american competitiveness. broadcom is in the process of relocating its headquarters to san jose in an effort concerns. a one of a kind lawsuit was filed today from people from four countries. >> reporter: it's a challenge to a 1990 immigration policy that previous administrations routinely extended. and it's first time children representing the hundreds of thousands impacted have joined the lawsuits. these protests are rallying against the trump administration's plans to deport those with tps.

it allows those from designated countries to live and work here legally for extended periods. if their homeland is facing a crisis like an earthquake or civil war. president trump is doing away with the policy for haiti, el salvador, nicaragua and sudan. they allege that violates the constitutional rights of due process and equal protection. >> the decisions to terminate tps were not based on analysis of country conditions in these countries as the law requires and as all prior administrations have done. instead, they are motivated by racial animus. >> reporter: they point to negotiations over tps earlier this year. where president trump allegedly used a slur to refer to some of the nations he's targeting. the move to terminate tps status would send christina morales, a mother of two who lives in san

pablo, back to el salvador. she's been here since 1 t993. >> this is my country, i have nothing in el salvador, nothing. nothing. >> reporter: he she is from sud a university student in maine who hopes to become a doctor. >> having the tps ripped away from me turns my dream to a nightmare. >> reporter: the deportations would take effect next year. carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. protesters are expected for the president's visit tomorrow to southern california. >> he is the first since eisenhower not to visit the state in the first year in office. plus boondoggle. some say the high speed rail project is off track and needs to be stopped. the creator of the worldwide web issues a warning and bay area companies are right at the

heart of it. >> and another look at the rain on live doppler 7. you can see all that green out thaye there. sandhya will be back with an update. today's storm is level one. that means light rain. keep an umbrella handy and

rallies before and against president trump are scheduled in southern california for his first visit to the golden state since taking office. >> we reject your hate! >> several activist groups gathered to reject president trump's push to build a border wall. the political group union dell barrio is also organizing a protest in beverly hills.

>> we're not just going to be out there protesting against him but for our communities, we cannot allow this immigration, whether it's police or whatever it may be to continue to attack our communities without being organized and being able to defend our community. >> governor brown sent the president a letter saying california focuses on bridge, not walls and invited president trump to the central valley to check out the high speed rail. >> that invitation comes as republican lawmakers are calling on governor brown to pull the plug on the high speed rail project. costs could reach as much as $98 billion. that's a $13 billion increase from previous statements. the plan pushes the operating daetz f date for a functioning train to the year 2033. lawmakers say the bullet train is no longer the same project that voters approved nearly a decade ago. >> if

billion, be honest to the voters now, not what they told them to build a decade or more ago. >> officials say they don't have all the funding necessary to complete this megaproject. they're expected to testify before the legislature in april. the creator of the worldwide web is blasting tech giants saying they're making his invention easy to weapon size. he says the conspiracy theories and election hacks no longer make it the free space it once was. he says it has been compromised or compressed by a few dominant platforms. facebook, twitter and google gobble up talent, hoard data and startup challengers. he suggests regulators step in and crackdown. >> today is the 29th birthday of the web. >> so much has changed in that 2

29 years. a judge has said that yahoo cann can -- unfair competition claims have been denied. there was no immediate comment from verizon. prosecutors have linked russian intelligence agents and hackers to one of those data breaches. a lot of people may have money due them that they don't know about. >> that's right. seven on your side's michael finney is here. that's always fun to hear. >> does the internal revenue service owe you money? the irs has more than $1 billion in unclaimed refunds from 2014. why am i telling you about it now? the irs gives taxpayers up to three years to file for those funds after that uncle sam hangs

onto the cash. the average potential refund is not chump change. $847. what is your favorite brick and mortar store? a new study puts costco on on on they look at customer evaluations. coming in at number two is nordstrom, amazon beat them both, but just by a couple points on a 100-point scale, not very much. i'll post the whole list on abc 7 news.com. the website flex jobs.com has put together a list of states offering the most current remote job listing. california comes in number one followed by texas and virginia. an interesting fact, 95% of those hiring require removte workers to live local. part of the reason for that is the need for regular in-person meetings. so you're allowed to work from

home or a coffee shop, but they don't want you two states away. >> get out of the rough weather. >> now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. >> we're off to a wet start. take a look at live doppler 7. we'll show you where it is raining. san francisco, we are seeing wet road ways as we take a closer look from the sunset district. mission street seeing rain. redwood city, street level radar, i'm getting a tweet from somebody in the redwood city air yeah. the wind and rain has really picked up here we're seeing that on radar. in the south bay, lighter rain except around sunnyvale. same thing in oakland to san lorenzo. we're seeing scattered showers from yountville, highway 29. this is going to be the theme. live look from the east bay hills camera. you see the drops on the lens. temperatures in the low 60s from

san francisco. half moon bay, 57 degrees. another picture, hang onto those umbrellas. you will need them. upper 50s to upper 60s from santa rosa to concord. and one other picture from the emeryville camera. showers tonight, wet for the morning commute. slight chance of thunder tomorrow and a colder storm arrives in later in the week. expect light to moderate rain with gusty winds at times. hour by hour we go. 6:00 tonight, showers will continue, continuing into the evening hours, and you will notice that as we head into the latter part of the night into the morning commute, it is going to be wet. moderate pockets of rain at 5:00 achlt t a.m. the theme carries over between 5:00 and 8:00 a.m. allow extra time for the morning commute. it turns to scattered showers.

>> could see a thunderstorm or two developing tomorro afternoon. it will be quieter for the afternoon and evening tomorrow. in terms of your rainfall totals, anywhere from about two tenths of an inch to just over an inch like calistoga. tomorrow, 1:00 p.m. to wednesday 5:00 p.m., 12-16 inches above 4,000 feet with up to 32 inches expected in localized areas. carry your chains if you're heading up. this is the first storm. 22 inches at kirkwood. and in the morning, one thing you need to know is take your rain gear. upper 40s to mid-50s. it's going to be cooler than today. today most arias weeas were theo 70s. the accuweather seven-day forecast, level one system, rain giving way to showers for your tuesday. chance of thunder going into wednesday. another level one.

cooler air, notice temperatures dropping. moderate strength storm for thursday, wet and gusty, and friday could be seeing snow over our highest peaks. level one system. scattered showers for part of your weekend, saturday and sunday and a slight chance on monday. that rainy theme you can track. download the accuweather app as you both know. >> thank you. doctors can't believe their eyes when they look at the results from a brain scan. that story is next. >> pretty remarkable. then at 5:30 on world news with david muir. >> breaking news, the string of bombs left often doorsteps. two dead tonight, one in critical condition. the horrific chopper crash in

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a new study looks at the connection between sleep and dementia. researchers say people who are excessively sleepy during the day have a buildup of a pro dean in the brain. and that protein can increase, and it may be an early indicator of alzheimer's, the mayo clinic study is the first that directly addresses the relationship over time of poor sleep and biomarkers for developing alzheimer's. doctors couldn't believe when they found in an mri. a man with part of his brain missing. >> he'd been complaining about falling over a lot but was fine otherwise. so doctors were surprised when scans revealed an air pocket. look at that. behind the man's forehead. a benign sinus tumor was to blame. surgery was risky, so the patient opted tor drufor drugs reduce the risk of a stroke. the symptoms have disappeared and he is totally okay. stay with us. a quick check on a cable and a small bit of history is made. and thanks to abc 7 news

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something flying through downtown san francisco today in the air, it was not your imagination. >> yeah, in fact it was something of a milestone. a large crowd gathered on the street where construction crews were hoisting the last steel beam into place above a new pedestrian bridge. >> away at that goes. it's part of a massive $550 million expansion at the convention center. san francisco's interim mayor, mark ferrell was among the bystanders captivated by their feat in engineering. >> i'm in awe. kudos to the men and women who have worked on this project for so many years, that we see the topping off of the center. >> it will add 500,000 square feet of new exhibition space. it's scheduled to be open by january of next year. >> spectacular. world news tonight with david muir is coming up. >> for all of us here, we appreciate your time. here comes the rain. we'll see you in half an hour. >> bye-bye.

tonight, several breaking headlines. the string of bombs left on doorsteps. three separate homes. two dead tonight. one in critical condition. authorities now warning an entire community, do not touch suspicious packages. also tonight, the horrific helicopter crash here in new york city. five dead. the pilot just before the crash. >> mayday, mayday, mayday. >> tonight, what we've now learned. the pilot, the only survivor, now suggesting that something got caught on the fuel switch. and the video of the passengers just as the chopper took off. the major storm tonight. the third nor'easter in less than two weeks set to hit this evening. 40 million americans from the carolinas, to new york city, to boston, where the mayor tonight has issued a warning. rob standing by with the new track. president trump and his plan for gun safety.