night in tempe outside of phoenix. police just gave an update two hours ago saying the uber vehicle was in autonomous mode going about 40 miles per hour when it hit a woman who was walking a bicycle across the street. >> the investigation did not show at this time that there were significant signs of the vehicle slowing down. >> earlier today, uber said it has suspended all self-driving operations, but some experts say it's time for all companies to hit the brakes on these self-driving cars. >> jonathan bloom has a rolook what the tragedy means for the developing technology. >> reporter: self-driing cars are tested every day. >> i think they're better drivers than most people in this town. i don't mind it. >> i don't think you should be testing self-driving cars on a street where people could actually be hit. >> reporter: but in arizona this is exactly what happened. >> unfortunately, we did not expect to see this happen so soon. >> reporter: in the accident that killed a pedestrian who was

walk being her bike, the car was driving itself. but he blames the person in the driver's seat. >> they should have taken over control immediately. >> reporter: it's unclear why the human didn't take over or wasn't able to. they tweeted out sad news. and they're working with the victim's family. >> i think it's going to have a ripple effect. >> reporter: there was just a fierce court battle. >> it seems these companies are in tight competition with one another, and they're all racing to get their cars to the public first. >> reporter: a public that could be more wary than ever. >> it makes me a bit nervous, but then again, i'm nervous about people behind the wheel as well. >> reporter: it can certainly take a while. autonomous elevators were invented in 1900, but it took

years to get used to the idea. companies should slow down. >> take a deep breath. conscious. train your people well. >> reporter: california still mandates a human driver in the car. the california dmv says it's aware of the crash in arizona and plans to follow up with uber. in the meantime, uber's suspended its self-driving operations. moving on. in just about an hour, a public memorial service will be held for the three women killed after being taken hostage at a veteran's home in yountville. wayne freedman is live in yountville tonight with a look at how the community is responding to this tragedy. wayne? >> reporter: they are responding in an overwhelming manner. take a look behind my. already people are going into the auditorium. there's an honor guard. they're expecting some 1200 people inside. 1200 people to get an appreciation for the mental health work they did and to

appreciate our veterans. in downtown yountville on this last day of winter, there was sunshine and a warm breeze, but sorrow still filled the air. >> it humbles you and gives you a sense of no one is safe and hang on dearly to what you have. ♪ >> reporter: in the lincoln theater on the grounds of the yountville veterans home, what they will have tonight is a celebration of life for the three women. victims of a former patient who shot them to death ten days ago in the pathway home where they worked with veterans dealing with ptsd. the memorial tonight will be emotional. >> i don't know that there's any template of how are you supposed to mourn a horrible situation like this. >> reporter: larry camer could easily have been in mourning today. his wife worked in pathway home. but when albert wong entered the room, he let her go. survival has been traumatizing as well. >> what these kids go through over there, they all go nuts. they come over here. if you don't watch them,

something's going to happen. >> the guy wasn't right. he was shell-shocked or something wrong with him to start with. >> reporter: jim looney will attend the memorial. he knew the victims by seitz, not name. he lives in a away, watched everything through a window. try processing that. >> like a fog. numb. hard to believe, even, even now >> reporter: around hire, tere, fog will be lasting more than a little while. wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> tonight's memorial will be held at the napa valley performing arts center at lincoln theater. it is open to the public but expected to be a full house. we have live coverage of the memorial starting at 6:00 p.m. it will also be available online through our website, abc 7

news.com. the california public employees retirement system board refused to take action today on an issue. they ignored calls from mass shooting victims. board members close to tashow t the issue next year. calpers is the nation's largest. dick's and walmart have stopped selling devices like bump stocks. one of the main roads connect alameda to oakland remains shut down. both lanes of the posey tube have been closed since 10:00 a.m. sky 7 was up early in alameda. you can see the streets that are affected by this closure, all because of a sinkhole that opened up over the weekend. the work is taking place on the oakland side. and that's where we find dion nguyen. hey, dionne. >> reporter: this is a rare sight. there is not a single car in the

posey tube because of what you just said. both lanes are still closed tonight. it's because of this lane closure, these lane closures that it took my photographer and i almost an hour to get here from the alameda side to seventh and harrison by taking alternate routes. all this started over the weekend because of a sinkhole caused by a storm drain issue. earlier today, one lane was open for the busy morning commute, then both lanes quickly shut down. crews have been working non-stop, clocking in almost 14 hours yesterday and more today so they can be on track to open one lane at least by midnight. >> they've got rebar and concrete to place and asphalt to put down all in time and before the rains hit tomorrow morning. so we're going to be out here probably till close to midnight. >> reporter: drivers we spoke to on the alameda side say the delay wasn't all that bad today. they say many of their c

colleagues used alternate transportation. everything is being done to get drivers back on the road quickly. they're using quick-curing cement and their own construction teams to get the work done asap. as mentioned earlier, the one thing that could hinder their process is the impending rain. both lanes are expected to be open once the rain ends later this week. the threat from another sinkhole triggered emergency roadwork in san francisco. and it's led to lane closures on sections of hayes street near the civic center. work crews are replacing long stretches of failing sewer pipe to prevent more damage to the pavement where the hole first appeared. traffic is reduced to one lane while the work is going on. the project is expected to continue for several months from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays. a 31% drop in auto

burglaries. it attributes the decline to significant efforts to curb vehicle burglaries. the department created a general crimes unit in november to address those and other neighborhood crimes which had just become ram pant. vehicle thefts are also down 15%. officers booked or cited nearly 800 people for vehicle thefts last year. new developments out of sonoma county where the eighth suspect and final in a series of home invasions is in custody. a 19 year old woman was arrested in north carolina. seven other suspects were due to appear in court today. investigators say the group broke into at least three homes in petaluma last week and tied up and beat the victims while searching for cannabis. four of the suspects were arrested after a chase. the other three were arrested at sfo. well, in the sierras, the mountains can expect to see more snow, because we're expecting rain and lots of it here. sandhya patel is here to tell us

about what we can expect in that first storm arriving. >> as early as tomorrow. i want to show you live doppler 7 right now. we're seeing a lot of clouds filtering the sunshine at this hour, but the rain hasn't arrived. let's take a look at the wider perspective. this storm is tapping into subtropical and tropical moisture, what is known as an atmospheric river connection. but most of the moisture is going to be heading from big sur to southern california. so that's where the heaviest rain is going to be. here in the bay area, light to moderate rain. a level one system on our scale. a quarter of an inch to three quarters of an inch of rain. becoming breezy at night. this isn't the only system i'm tracking. i'll be back with the full timeline on this one and the other storms coming up straight ahead. you know the saying, one man's trash is another man's treasure? >> yep. the police department that discovered a back yard disaster.

fallout following the revelation that the personal information of millions of facebook users, maybe you, landed in the hands of a research firm. the response from the social network. the fire feud in san francisco. the mayor's response after a supervisor slammed the police department over its response or the fire department, i should say, over its response to a big blaze. >> stay with us, abc 7 news continues right after this.

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leanne melendez is live with that at the scene and the future of that building now that it burned. >> reporter: one issue is of course that side wall. now one push cloerson close to situation said he would feel very safe sleeping under that wall. now, with that said, we're still waiting for the report from the structural engineer to determine whether or not this building can be saved. following this weekend's fire in north beach, the building department issued a notice of violation, requesting that the owner provide an engineer's report within 24 hours and to brace the exterior brick walls as necessary under the direction of that engineer. the three storey building on union street has been red tagged. at least one city official has questioned the response of firefighters. this was aaron peskin saturday night saying it took too long to put water on the fire. >> they completely, totally

failed to address their working fire in quick and efficient way. >> reporter: but most neighbors here disagree with that assessment. >> i think calling for a third party investigation, when i think there's, i have pictures that show the firemen going into the main entrance. >> reporter: steve lego took this picture at 7:29 p.m., shortly after the first truck arrived. here's how the president of the firefighters union explained what was happening when supervisor peskin arrived. >> he got there when we were going from an interior tact to an exterior tact. we were setting up ladder pipe. so, to the untrained eye, it may look like wire' ne're not doing anything. >> it is the wrong time, wrong place. and again, i don't believe elected officials should be in the business of telling firefighters how to do their job. >> reporter: peskin left a message on his cell phone saying. >> i'll be out of town returning

on april 2nd and not checking messages. >> reporter: and the fire chief was unavailable for comment. leanne melendez, abc 7 news. you'll want to see what fairfield police found today while doing code enforcement. they found a yard filled with piles and piles of garbage on the city's south side, just look at this mess. police were checking to make sure no one was living next door. code enforcement can range from garbage cans left in the street to messes light the oke the one looking there. all of the major indeces plunged, one of the big reasons, facebook. its stock fell by more than 12 points. and the reason is, fallout from data of users getting into the hands of a research firm. >> the chief information security office are hr has step down. we break down what happened and what it means if you use social media.

>> reporter: ever been scrolling on facebook and come across one of those personality quizzes? you're curious and you take the test. >> i am not thinking my answers are going to be used for some kind of agenda. i figure whatever my answers are, are specific for that test. >> reporter: aleksandr kogan received permission from facebook to use his personality quiz app. it collected information about profiles, likes, and users' friends. facebook claims the professor broke rules and gave the data to cambridge analytica, a company hired by the trump campaign. >> information about your financial status. all of these things. and they correlated this one and created something called psychological profile. >> reporter: more than 50 million facebook profiles were affected. facebook admits it knew about the violation in 2015 and demanded that cambridge

analytica destroy all the data. the firm claims it did. >> reporter: in a statement, facebook says we are moving aggressively to determine the accuracy of these claims. we remain vigilant to protect people's information. facebook has banned cambridge analytica from using its platform and has hired a forensics firm to complete an audit 67 audit. users are warned to be vigilant when using third-party apps on facebook. it's the hope that many facebook users have. abc 7 news. fire-struck communities are under a mandatory evacuation. a powerful storm expected to arrive will pose a danger for many communities in ventura and santa barbara counties. authorities are worried about the potential for mudslides like the one in montecito in january.

>> i'm lucky. i can come here, you know, to work and go home. but these people have to live with this. oh. it's a nightmare. >> the evacuation order is in effect for the santa barbara county communities of goe leta, car pen tear yeah and montecito. right now the way it looks, it appears they will likely see debr debris flows. we will get a piece of the energy as you get a look at the doppler. the beautiful view is from our east bay hills camera. half moon bay, 59 degrees. heiss ha highs have been in the low to upper 60s.

feeling like the last day of winter. you can see the sun trying to shine through those clouds. livermore, 61 degrees. and one other live picture. you're seeing variations of the clouds, looking toward sutro tower. spring starts in the morning. wet and windy week. we're looking at a chance of thunder and showers. hold on to the rain here for the entire workweek and possibly into the early part of the weekend. rain will first start up around mendocino in lake county and showers spreading across the region. temperatures in the afternoon coming down. they'll be in the mid-50s to low 60s. on our storm impact scale, this is a level one, light system. light to moderate rain expected. about a tenth to three quarters of an inch, and it will be breezy. you might see a few sprinkles, but at 8:30 in the morning we start to see a few showers along

the san mateo coast. you start to see rain moving in from the southwest. look for scattered showers, mostly light. pockets could be moderate as we head into the afternoon and evening hours. the evening commute will include light to moderate rain. in the south bay, in this trend really continues through the night as you will notice with those scattered showers for that first day of spring. in terms of your rainfall totals, most of the bay area will see low rainfall totals. but the others coming could bring heavier totals. .200 in concord. it will become breezy around the evening hours, 23 miles per hour, half moon bay, later on, 32-mile-per-hour winds out of the south. and it becomes gustier wednesday night going into thursday. statewide, the sierra snowpack has gotten quite a boost. 48% of average compared to a few weeks ago. this is going to trend higher as

we head into the latter part of the workweek. as we look, it begins in the thursday morning hours for the west slopes of the sierra. for tahoe, wednesday afternoon. snow levels initially high. snow levels will be dropping below lake level. in terms of the snowfall, by thursday night, 26 inches at donner, 38 at kirkwood, which is a welcome sight. level one systems, tuesday, wednesday. spring showers as spring begins tomorrow. wet pattern. and thursday we bump it up to a moderate strength storm. wet, windy, chance of shun der, then we dry out for the weekend, heading into monday. download the accuweather and an entrepreneur says he is running for president. wait until you hear his platform and says we need to save ourselves from technology. and at 5:30 on world news with david muir.

>> coming up, the massive storm, the fourth nor'easter set to hit. and the suspected serial bomber strikes again. strikes again. and what i'm april kennedy and i'm an arborist with pg&e in the sierras. strikes again. and what since the onset of the drought, more than 129 million trees have died in california. pg&e prunes and removes over a million trees every year to ensure that hazardous trees can't impact power lines. and since the onset of the drought we've doubled our efforts. i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it's heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future.

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we are just about a half hour away now from a memorial service for the three women who died when a gunman stormed a veterans center in yountville. >> theis is a look outside at lincoln theater. a lot of people are getting ready. the celebration of life memorial is open to the public. abc 7 will bring you live coverage starting at 6:00 p.m. here on abc 7 as well as online and on the app. finally, here's something very different. yabba dabba doo time. >> an iconic stone age home is getting a face-lift. >> sky 7 above the famous flintstone house. you've seen it driving north on 280. >> built in the 1970s, it got its name from the concrete domes that resemble the dwelling.

>> it has prehistoric sculp tonight, several breaking stories. the massive storm. the fourth nor'easter. also tonight, authorities believe the suspected serial bomber strikes again. this time, using a trip wire. and the new audio just out. the fourth bomb, two of them deadly, and we're on the scene. that storm, the tornado watch late today. all part of the same system that's going to bring that nor'easter. up to a foot of snow from d.c. to philly, new york to boston. starting tomorrow. rob has the new track tonight. breaking developments involving facebook and the undercover video at the company hired by the trump campaign. accused of gaining access to the facebook accounts of up to 50 million americans. what that video shows tonight. what we learned late today in the urgent search for an american college freshman. the athlete who vanished on a sports trip. and the abc news exclusive.