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registered in her name. >> we have team coverage on the youtube shooting, abc7 news reporter cornel bernard and dion lind who is live at youtube headquarters. >> finally we're able to get a closer look at the youtube campus today here in san bruno. and we got a tip that there was a staff meeting held inside today while on the outside employees begin to pick up the pieces. signs of activity at youtube wednesday with employees returning to campus to retrieve their vehicles. a far different scene than what happened yesterday. employees wouldn't talk to us as they went to get their personal belongings. a different scene after t after. >> we have no indication that
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she was selecting individuals to firing at. whether that means she was firing randomly or not, we still have to work through that. but there's absolutely no link that we have established that there was any relationship. >> new today, promising news on the victims. >> >>. >> reporter: police say there's no evidence to link sabi. >> i'm being discriminated by youtube. >> back out here live, another sign of recovery, we're seeing resto restoration grews inside and outside of the building.
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>> here's a timeline of yesterday's incident. police received the first calls of shots fired at the youtube campus at 12:46. police officers and fire crews arrived on the scene at 12:48. two minutes later, a team of heavily armed officers entered the front of the building. and at 4:15, officers were seen sweeping the parking lot looking for other victims or suspects. >> the mountain view police chief says there was no cause for alarm from her or her family that violence was imminent. >> reporter: we are standing in the very parking lot where she was sleeping in her car hours
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before the shooting. that officer had a conversation with her and later with her father on the phone. but there were no red flags. the mountain view police chief explains why. >> she said she was having family issues, she was relocating and she didn't want to be in the san diego area with her family and came here to find a job. >> reporter: this conversation between the police officer and >> in the conversation that the officer had with the father there was nothing that the officer heard that raised concern. >> she was likely in this area because of her dispute with youtube. >> her father said that dispute was over restrictions placed on her youtube channels, but he raised no concerns about her
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acting out with vile. >> there was nothing that indicated to him that this was anything more than a dispute, a business dispute. >> she had a problem with youtube. >> that information was never conveyed to police in the bay area. >> the mountain view police feel the need or did they contact youtube or san bruno police about this person? >> no. >> the chief says because there were no red flags about her. but the chief says if that officer had known that she was a threat to security, he would have notified youtube and mountain view police. >> law enforcement officials are searching the two southern california homes where the
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shooter lived. this is video of officers arriving at her apartment where she lived with her grandmother. the san diego police department issued a search warrant that covers multiple locations in southern california and multiple vehicles. >> as you have heard, they expressed their grief thatf he was. >> he -- >> i'm so sorry for those people shot. >> her family says she was a refugee from iran and moved to the u.s. when she was 18 years old.
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>> investigators continue to investigate whether the shooter was motivated by youtube's policy changes that may have affected her income. >>s th >> her personal website, youtube channels, facebook page, twitter account, all gone from public view, though investigators are poring over them for clues to her moative for the shooting. >> i am being discriminated against by youtube and i am not the only one. >> it made it harder for video creators with smaller followers to make money.
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in february you tooalthough aghs youtube channelled a 5,000 subscribers, you foo. we sent an inquiry to google youtube but we have not heard back. but paul holland explains how these rules serve to maintain youtube channels. >> they think it's a youtube generated video site. it's really an advertiser's networked a these advertisers need trust and safety. >> dear youtube community, as you know, yesterday was an incredibly difficult day for our teams in san bruno and around the world. all of us working here at youtube are grateful for this amazing community. >> there's renewed concern about safety on some of these very
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open tech campuses all around the bay area. what is being done to keep employees safe, that's coming up at today search and rescue was -- jennifer and sarah hart were killed when their suv plummeted 100 feet off a cliff march 26. their bodies have been recovered. authorities have reason to believe this was an intentional act. today searchers expanded the areas along the coast that they were searching. more than 70 searchers are looking for the other three children now that there's a low tide. the san francisco police officer found guilty of hit and run was sentenced to nine months in prison today. christopher corps has been in the jail since a jury found him guilty of the 2015 hit and run incident. victor perez said he could never
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imagine the shift his life would take after the accident from his physical injuries to his, quote, deep depression. a san francisco anti violence group protested agains measure on the june ballot that would allow police to taser you. civil rights activists and others argued today that should be left up to the city commissioner. if the measure is passed, san francisco police could be armed with tasers sooner. open po >> a policeman should not be able to decide for his or her self when a taser should be used. >> police officer association president martin halloran has not returned our request for comment. he said the tasers would give
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officers a badly needed option to pursue suspects. the police commission last month passed a taser policy after years of debate. you may know by now, our weather pattern is about to mange, rain is on the way. o oisture are moving onshore in the north bay. this is the view from sutro tower. 57 degrees in san francisco right now, low to mid 60s in most other locations. this is a view from emeryville, the clouds getting lower and darker. we have the temperatures in the low to mid 60s in napa, novato and upper 60s in concord and liver more. a storm of light intensity consisting of showers and light rain and spreading southward later in the day tomorrow. but look at this atmospheric river that is driving this storm.
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this is a long plume of moisture that's reaching way back into the subtropical regions of the pacific, aiming directly at the central california coast. this storm, this pineapple express will bring us heavy rain and strong gusty winds for the weekend. president trump orders the national guard to the border. when troops could soon arrive. plus remembering the life and the legacy of dr. martin luther king, jr., the tribute to the civil rights leader today. and the firm at the center of the facebook data scandal, how more accounts might be involved. and man who fell down a well and why they were there today. and checking out the toll plaza
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spokesperson for you tootube. >> officers on the scene arrived and there were numerous acts of her-ism, from first responders and from our employees. some employees went back to the building with officers to give them access to our spaces. others remained to tend to the wounded and give officers directions and give officers details about the shooter that proved critical. our employees have been instructed to work from home and making sure that wellness services are available to them. we are also revisiting with occurrence in detail and we will examine all of our offices worldwide, to make them more secure not only in the near term
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but the long term. we want to express our gratitude once again to the first responders, including the police, fire and medical response teams. and a huge thank you to the wider global community for their outpouring of support, well wishes and words of togetherness. your support reminds us that even in the toughest of times the youtube community comes together and supports one another. thank you. i'm not going to be answering any questions at this time. >> and that was chris dale with youtube giving just an update, talking about the company and what they're doing, encouraging people to stay home if they need to, work from home today, anything they need to do as they recover and try to process this shooting. >> a difficult time certainly and one of the challenges think face, like many of the tech companies, we'll have the story coming up later in the newscast
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is, a lot of these tech firms, their campuses are huge and lush and with easy access, because they want them to be inviting environments and pleasant to work in. it also makes access for people with that intention relatively easy. that has to be addressed. i'm sure all the tech companies in the area are going to look into that as a result of this. >> and we'll continue to follow all of the developments. [ bell tolls ] just about ten minutes ago, bells rang across the nation 39 times in honor of the reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. it's now the home of the national civil rights museum.
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and let's take a live look in washington, d.c., where, again, these memorials are going on across the nation today as people remember dr. king. events have been taking off all day and as we continue to look live in d.c. right now. larry? >> thank you. events commemorating dr. king's life were held across the country as people rally for peace and justice, as people remember how far we have come in 50 years but also taking note of how far we need to go. maggie is in memphis with more. >> reporter: just a few minutes ago where those bells were tolling right here in memphis, it was a powerful sight. thousands of people passed in front of the hotel were completely silent as they passed
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in front of the bells as they tolled 39 times. there's people out here chanting and singing, all of a sudden bursting into song. this as become a celebration of dr. king's life. >> 50 years after his assassination, the reverend martin luther king, jr. is still felt in this building. >> i remember what it was like being here that moment. >> reporter: thousands standing under the balcony at the lorraine hotel reclaiming the very place where king lost his life. >> knowing he was here to make a change and to be a good advocate for change, it really, it really is a humbling experience. >> reporter: turning the anniversary of his death into a celebration of his life. ♪ shout hall eluja ♪ ♪ come on get happy ♪ we're going to the promised land ♪ >> and a reflection of how far
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we have come. >> i would not be standing here if it were not for dr. king and i am keenly aware of that. >> reporter: and how far we have to go. >> we have to continue to advocate on behalf of the voiceless and the nameless, because we are all a part of the fabric of this life. and when one string runravels, e all unravel. >> reporter: tributes are pouring in across the country, and the eternal flame symbolizing king's love for the community is still burning bright organizers say they want to take this energy they're feeling here and turn it into momentum that lasts all year long. every week they'll tell people about the specific thing they can do to create real change. in memphis, tennessee, abc7 news. >> a bay area pastor with deep
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ties to dr. king remembers the tense months leading up his asass nation. he was an early colleague in the civil rights movement. he says king had taken on added burdens in his last months by coming out against the vietnam war in addition to the fight for equal rights. >> my wife and i saw dr. king in mont claire, new jersey, one month before he was assassinated. he was in mt. claire to deliver the anniversary sermon for congressman bill gray, who was pastoring there. and that venue was one where i witnessed his being in more of a pensive, quiet mood. he was not his usual self. you know this whole nation that turned on him, regarding his
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stance on the the vietnam war. >> brown says king's assassination has both haunted him but also influenced his ministry over the decades at san francisco's third baptist church. spencer christian joins us now and the weather is about to change rather dramatically? >> it's going to change very dramatically. we have a soaking storm coming our way, a storm of long duration. you can see the areas of green there on the screen, indicating pockets of moisture already moving onshore in the north bay, and it's likely one or two areas will be receiving light, spotty showers. here's a view from east bay hills camera, looking toward the western sky, where it's getting cloudier, and cloudier, we'll see light rain arriving in the south bay and then moving eastward. stormy intensifies and we'll see
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dryer weather beginning on sunday, but before that we have a lot to contend with. overnight tonight look for increasingly cloudy skies with low temperatures in the 40s to right around 50. it tomorrow we'll see rain developing relatively early in the north bay. this is mainly light rain as it sweeps southward and eastward during the daytime hours. the temperatures will be mild. as the storm intensifies tomorrow night and into friday and into saturday, it will reach level 2 on our storm impact scale, a storm of moderate intensity, a rain that could be heavy at times. and wind will gust from 30 to 45 miles an hour at times. here's our forecast animation starting at noon tomorrow. notice how the rain spreads, light rain into tomorrow night, there it intensifies significantly overnight, this area of yellow by 5:00 friday morning, indicates steadier,
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heavier rain that's certainly going to complicate the morning commute on friday. little areas of orange popping up here later in the day on friday, indicating even steadier, even heavier rain than before. so the entire day on friday looks like a washout and the evening commute is probably going to be more challenging than the morning commute. this will continue into saturday morning before it starts to wind down. rainfall totals during that period of time, into say, about noon on saturday, it will range from about 1.50, to up to 3 inches in parts of bay area. some of the many kern concerns this storm are the difficult driving situations and the mud flows and debris flows from the fire areas last year. friday and saturday, the storm intensifies to level 2, we may get a little partial clearing late saturday, true
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drying out doesn't start until sunday. then another storm arriving on tuesday, that storm still ranks 1 on the storm impact scale, there's still time for it to intensify. >> we'll enjoy all the rain we can get. >> we're nearing the end of the rainy season, that's for sure. new information coming out about all that facebook data released from cambridge analytica. and this is the 50th anniversary of the beetles
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information of up to 87 million people may have been accessed by cambridge analytica without their knowledge. the the. the curtain opens on the 65th international film festival. this year's event will feature 183 films whichrg oanizers think include creativity, technology and global help issues. the festival runs through april 17 including locations at the castro theater. ♪ at a time when i was born ♪ lived a man who sailed to sea ♪ ♪ and he told me us of his life ♪ ♪ >> this year marks the 50 it
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anniversary of the animated classic "yellow submarine." it's been restored in 4k digital resolution, a. the film was a critical success, in case you didn't know, while the fab four are characters in the film, they didn't do the voiceover work. it was done by actors. >> that's interesting. i didn't know that. new details still coming in on the shooting at the youtube campus in san bruno. plus -- >> china created this problem, notrede nntew psi
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bernard tweeted about his interview with mountain view's police chief. officers in that city encountereds that seem aghdam as she slept in her car in a ball mart parking lot. aghdam had been reported missing by her family. we have more information emerging about how she spent the hours right before the shooting. marcie gonzalez live in san bruno now. marcie? >> reporter: police say she never made it into the building, but was able to access that courtyard through a parking garage. this is just a part of what they're piecing together about what led up to this shooting. police now revealing the youtube shooter, 38-year-old nasim aghdam may have spent the morning of her rampage practicing with a st a
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semi-automatic gun range. once on the youtube campus, police say aghdam shot four people and then herself. motivated by an extreme anger toward youtube. nasim recently posting rants online telling youtube subscribers are not posting her content and not paying her for videos she. her family grew concerned and reported her missing this weekend. police found her sleeping in her car. her brother says the family warned police about why she may have been in the area. >> she had a problem with youtube so we called that cop again and told them there's a
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reason she went all the way to san diego to there. >> reporter: mountain view police releasing a statement saying in part at no point did her father or her brother saying anything about the potential of aghdam lashing out for being violent against youtube. live in san bruno, marcie gonzalez, abc7 news. we're learning more about the shooter, nasim aghdam known for posting videos about animal rights and youtube. her family reported her missing on april 2. police in mountain view found her sleeping in her car. later that day she visited a gun range and at 12:46 she opened fire on youtube. minutes after police entered
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campus they found ingdam with a self inflicted wound. >> some people are very concerned this could be the start of more violence to come. >> reporter: tech companies in silicon valley are known for their sprawling campuses, some of which are wide open and meant to be relaxing for their employees. but in the wake of the at youtube, other companies are considering how vulnerable they are to violence. technology analyst and security expert rob enderly says when it comes to social media or contempt creator platforms, users get very upset, especially when there are rule changes that impact their income, especially in the case of the youtube shooter. >> they need to rethink their approach to their users and customers and their approach to security. >> reporter: that's cause most
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security guards aren't armed and don't possess the skill to confront an active shooter. >> we always look at how we can do things better. and certainly we'll be looking at what happened in san bruno and see what we can do to see that we tighten up some potential gaps that we may have. >> reporter: and as law enforcement officers prepare for further attacks, it's a walk up calls for companies across the valley. in the sou >> other tech giants like facebook and twitter were reluctant to address whether they would be increasing security other than to say corporate security protocols are in place. now our coverage always continues online. we have much more on the strangers who helped the victims of the shooting, how twitter helped to step in and stop
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misinformation online and the shooter's background including her youtube videos. new details today on president trump's fight against illegal immigration. the administration says it's working with governors to immediately deploy the national guard at the u.s.-mexican border. guard troops could begin heading to the border as soon as tonight. fears of a possible trade war. >> yep, they continue with china. after beijing announced a 25% on many american imports, the retaliation comes less than 24 hours after president trump unveiled a list of chinese imports that he said violated trade practices. >> reporter: new fears of a trade war, the chinese responding to the u.s.'s plan to impose tariffs on $50 billion of chinese goods, with a $50
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billion tariff on u.s. products as the higher tariffs could mean job losses and higher prices. >> it could open the door for european, japanese and in some case cases take up. >> reporter: china has filed a dispute with the world trade organization. but it hit everything from soy beans to cars, to planes and orange juice. the stock market opened sharply down. as anxious as american businesses are, the trade's showdown, not a trade war. at least according to the president. tweeting this morning, we are not in a trade war with chinese, that war was lost years ago when the united states lost the war. >> we finally have a president who is going to stand up and say
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enough is enough we're going to -- >> reporter: they aren't afraid of a trade war if that's what it comes to. the senate majority leader said that this could hurt the economy. republicans also noting that it could shrink any gains made by their tax firm. an investment firm says that mercedes-benz and tesla are the biggest losers. bmw sends 89,000 vehicles annually to china. mercedes shipped 65,000. and tesla sells about 14,000 vehicles which the analysts say accounts for about 15% of sales this year. a man fell more than 20 feet down a well. why firefighters returned to the
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scene to help him again today. and we go deep under construction to check out the work on san francisco expressway. check out these clouds, deeper, darker, more foreboding, i'll have the accuweather fo cholula hot sauce is teaming up with jack in the box for the cholula buttery jack. a little hot sauce there... woah. what's happening? jack i'm trying to film this commercial! oh my gosh, sorry. with delicious cholula hot sauce and crispy jalapenos on a signature bun. the new cholula buttery jack. part of the buttery jack family.
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nearly 20 feet down the well. >> now the rescuers are back on the scene. even off duty, firefighters are here to help. >> reporter: these freemont firefighters on a unique assignment, they're building a new well pump house. >> beautiful. hopefully it's stout enough that he'll never fall in again. it's much safer. >> reporter: firefighters destroyed the original shed while rescuing a 92-year-old man while falling in when the floor gave way in march. >> i was thinking the worst in the world. >> reporter: we're not talking about a small fall, this well is 26 feet deep. though too private to talk or show his face on camera, he tells me he was relieved to hear sirens. he was pushing with his feet and back to stay above water for
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about a half an hour. >> it was an amazing feet of sprgt on his part. >> reporter: he suffered some hyperthermia and bruising, but otherwise came out fine, after being stuck in the well for about an hour and a half total. >> after we got everything out of there, we wanted to try to salva salvage. >> we knew we had to do the right thing by rebuilding the pump house for him. >> reporter: firefighters are volunteering time. >> it's a lot of fun. like i say, we're public servants offduty as well as on duty. >> home depot donated materials. >> he said i really want to to o pay for it. >> reporter: they don't build them like they used to, freemont fire is building better. >> what a great gesture by all those firefighters. and more amazing still is that
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sill, remember, 92 came home from the hospital the same day of the fall and he says he uses the well to water his vegetable garden. we're on storm watch right now we're looking at just little pockets of moisture moving through the bay area, we can pick it up on live doppler 7, right now we're looking at highs for tomorrow, as rain starts in the north bay, it will be mainly light rain tomorrow. tomorrow eels highs will be on the mild side, low 60s at the coast. mid and upper 60s right around the bay, upper 60s to near 70 inland. overnight tomorrow night and friday and through saturday, the storm intensifies to a level 2 on our storm impact scale. the highest totals will be in the north bay and in the t all of the samp
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in the central sierra, the entire region there is under a flood watch, same time, 5:00 p.m. friday to 5:00 p.m. sunday. this is going to be a warmer storm, it will create snowfall just in the highest lev e leve l initially. and you can see from the forecast animation just how heavy that rain is going to be perhaps turning to rain by sunday. it's drying out here sunday and monday, but we're going to have to put up with a couple of pretty heavy days of rain. the problem of drug use on b.a.r.t. one of our reporters went to b.a.r.t. for some answers. and just days
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hypodermic needles. she immediately began asking about b.a.r.t. riders safety. b.a.r.t. says it's trying to keep the trains clean while tackling the underlying problem, addiction. a new program that puts b.a.r.t. officers on the front line. >> his tone is finely tuned from years working as a bartender. >> you need some socks? >> you got some? >> i'll get you a pair. >> perhaps it was practice. for his new regulars, people who truly hit bottom. >> all right, partner. these are the good kind, insulated, they'll keep your feet warm. >> these b.a.r.t. officers, a former emt patrol downtown san francisco stations. >> we're a little city on train tracks. >> reporter: and like cities across the country, they have a problem. >> looking for the needless.
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>> i see needless, i see od, i see drugs being sold, drugs being done, drugs being stuffed in their mouths. >> reporter: on a recent b.a.r.t. drive i snapped a picture and asked the simple question, how do we address this problem? >> if the arrest and the incarceration is not addresing the root of the problem, which is an addiction, then it's not -- you're still going to have the same results in the end. >> reporter: they know the back stories, the circumstances of those desperate enough to sleep in a train station. >> francis, you need to pack that up, please. >> reporter: which makes it ideal for the treatment program such as lead. >> we know from research over time is that when somebody is in custody for brief amounts of time and their needs aren't being met, that we're not addressing the behaviors and the circumstances that lead to that arrest. >> reporter: the partnership
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with the department of public health is funded by a grant and based on a seattle program launched there in 2011. other agencies across the country are trying it too. >> this is a chance to break the cycle and do something differently. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. says they're adding cleaning crews to address the immediate biohazard douse waist. while they attempt to tackle addiction and mental health, one connection at a time. and a new team of federal agents is targeting online trafficking of fentanyl, that is a powerful narcotic that is driving a rising number of deaths across the u.s. the so called dark net sales can be harder to stop than drug dealing cartels. they made 80 arrests in their first operation and received 80 million doses of fentanyl. some lucky people aboard a
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princess monterrey whale watching tour saw up to nine orcas, it's not uncommon to see orcas this time of year as they feed on >> it's going to be a quicker transportation for everybody. >> and we go deep under ground to check on the progress, just ahead. new at 5:00, assault on the uc berkeley campus. some kind of chemical was thrown at a woman. plus -- >> dr. king was right, we need to get it together. >> a bay area photographer remembers seeing dr. king speak careers ago. he says it changed his life forever. and adapting to a new home, the oakland zoo
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subway station. jonathan bloom with a look at just what is taking shape down there. >> reporter: you see that orange box dangling from the crane? that's where we're going. down we go into the massive hole that's been taking shape more than 100 feet below san francisco's china town. if it looks like a mine shaft, that's for good reason. the contractors say this is the first transit station in the country built by mining under ground rather than digging an open hole and covering it up. >> because we want to protect the street above and all the environment around it. >> reporter: it's 52 feet wide and 54 feet high. >> this is awe-inspiring to me down here. >> reporter: ferrell has listen been a champion of the subway. >> it's going to be a quicker, safer transportation system for everybody. >> reporter: but putting traffic under ground is a big job, one that's just hit a milestone.
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>> we were considered the biggest mining operation. that's why you see all the finished work here. no more dirt here, just finished concrete. >> reporter: a couple of feet above my head, that's where people will stand as they wait two the train. >> i was down in this station a year ago when it was pretty much just a dirt pit. >> reporter: now the subway is on track to take paying customers by december of 2019. that's ahead of plan and badly needed. >> i think everybody recognizes that the surface level busses are so overcrowded, it's a horrible experience for people trying to get on and off those busses. >> reporter: once the water system is installed, the station will take shape. >> this is the future of our city, if we really want to be thinking about the future of san francisco, we need to have this throughout the city of san francisco. >> that's amazing. construction on the project began in to 10, the one-mile extension was set to open at the end of this year, now it's set
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to open late in 2019. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> there was no specific information of any violence. >> mountain view police confirm they spoke with the shooter hours before that terrifying attack at youtube. her family has a lot to say about what happened too. plus the day after yellow tape and a somber mood settle over youtube. also tonight, a police officer sentenced in a hit and run. but is it a slap on the wrist? and assault at uc berkeley, a chemical is tossed at an employee. i'm being discriminated against on youtube. >> this is the woman police say opened fire at youtube yesterday, 11 hours before that,
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nasim aghdam had a long talk with mountain view police. >> she shot four people on youtube's campus before shooting herself. >> aghdam's father says that police called her after they found her sleeping in her car. >> her family had reported her missing on monday. and we're now learning more about the conversation mountain view police had with aghdam hours before the shooting. >> cornel bernard spoke with the chief today and he's live. cornel? >> reporter: the chief had a lot to say about a conversation one of his officers had with the shooting suspect right here in this walmart parking lot, not far from the police station early tuesday morning. he says there were no red flags and nothing unusual about her behavior. >> it's pretty natural to see people living in their cars nowadays, so i'm
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