facebook ceo mark zuckerberg's apology. >> we didn't take broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake. and it was my mistake. and i'm sorry. i started facebook. i run it. and i'm responsible for what happens here. >> the 33-year-old billionaire in a joint senate hearing telling lawmakerless facebook was used to spread fake news, hate speech and allow foreign interference in elections. >> it's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent the tools from being ewed for harm as well. >> the tech giant has been under fire for a massive data scandal. 87 million facebook worker o users woke up to a notice on feeds informing them personal information was shared with cambridge analytica, the political consulting firm hired by the 2016 trump campaign. >> if you and other social media companies do not get your act in order, none of us are going to have any privacy anymore. >> outside the capitol, demonstrators put up 100 life size zuckerberg cutouts wearing

fix facebook tee shirts. fischer already announced the political afds will be identified on screen ahead of the 2018 mid-terms and. company will use a third party to verify if users are real or fake. and the hearing is still going at this hour. it's been going on almost five hours now. facebook also says that advertisers will be vetted and approved first. zuckerberg's two-day testimony and also what happens next will be a big moment for the social media industry, which is really under little to know regulation at all depending on what happens lawmakers could get involved and add regulations. reporting live here on capitol hill, kenneth moten abc 7. >> thanks so much. and while mark zuckerberg was testifying to cigarette some facebook userers were checking to see whether information had been kmard in the cambridge analytica scandal. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow has that part of the

story. >> at the coffee roastry we found plenty logged into facebook but few knew whether they could check to see if information has been improperly shared with cambridge analytica. tim sign on to the app after we told him and discovered today's an anniversary of sorts. he and his wife became friends eight years ago. facebook friends that is. >> that's nice. thankful to have me on her. >> his information wasn't shurd. >> just a boring person i guess. so i don't have to worry. >> jami for jamie. >> not a great relief but it's nice to know it wasn't. >> carolyn springman wasn't as lucky. >> i think the sbrent is a scarey place in general sfl while she didn't log into this your digital life with facebook. >> andy of yours logged in. >> which resulted in her information being shared. >> your public profile page liejs birthday and current city. i guess i'm cuffed who it was shared with. >> cambridge analytica allegedly misused daft obtained through a

quiz app. cambridge analytica working with president trump 2016 election complaint reportedly used the information to build psychological profiles to target voters with ads. politics was the reason nasty says he stopped signing on the app. >> it was too much political. >> springman says she is considering deleting her facebook page altogether. >> it's crossed my mind. >> she says she enjoying facebook for felon throppic projects and pictures her of dog her though she does it more on instagram lately. abc 7 news. now to find out if your information was accessed go to abc 7 news.com we have a link taking you directly to the information you need to know on facebook. and facebook has announced a new reward program to fight data abuse. it's called data abuse bounty. and it rewards people who report any misuse of data by app developers. the person must have firsthand knowledge and must have proof.

the reward amount will be based on the impact of each report. turning now to our weather lt's look outside from our mount tamm cam and golden gate camera as well. look at the clouds. >> vanilla sky ton. let's head to abc news weather anchor with a look at the forecast. drizzly spots. here a look at live doppler 7 walk uk see the green sweeping through the area. the drizzle is not widespread. we have had numerous people letting us know on social media there are rain raies drops on windshield and we have seen some on cameras around the bay area. the big change in the weather has been the drop in temperatures since this time yesterday. 24 hour temperature change indicates 12 degrees cooler in san francisco, santa rosa and nap an than this time yesterday. 15 degrees cooler in mountain view and palo alto. here we go. a look at clouds and moisture from our he rememberriville camera, 12-hour planner shows isolated driszle through

6:00 p.m. into the evening hours. but 8:00 we see skies clearing out. and overnight skies will be mostly clear. but here what's happening the last two years, a weak front through the bay area right now, stronger one on its way. so this storm system ranges one on the impact scale. light in benesty and more showers tomorrow, windy conditions into thursday. i'll give you a closer look a little bit raert. >> thank you. today marks one week since the shooting at youtube headquarter pl nasim adhdam wounded three people. one critically before she the shot and killed herself. at this point an official motive isn't known. but her family members believe this policy changing by youtube may have motivated the shooting. adhdam dahm was a frequent contributor to the site. a carl aets junior employee is rewarded ford helping a victim of the last week a satisfies shooting process .fast food chain nounlds a collarship

fund for $24,000 finney was working on the lunch shift we a female victim came in with a gunshot wound to her calf. he used a bungie cord as a tourn kit. >> a special class today in the south bay, a sad sign of times. how to survive an active shooter attack. jessica castro from abc 7 mornings has the story now from san jose. >> active shooter at 901 cherry. >> more frequent, active shooters in work places and muck spaces in the bay area in the last two months a mall san francisco barber shop, the veterans home in yountville and youtube in san bruno all targets. these events and others around the facing have groups like national vip's on high demand. >> organizations are beginning to realize that they have a really significant role in protecting their people. >> reporter: the non-profit based her here in the baifr offers active shooter prevention and preparedness services

nationwood. today they were offering a class at casino matrix in san jose. >> it makes you feel empowered, mab makes you feel there is something you could do. >> we are attempting to lock ourselves in this room perhaps. >> our teacher for the day and one of the program's founders kari harris is an exlaw enforcement officers who recently retired in the san mateo sheriffs department. >> to a perpetrator who means to hurt us has to go through all bar years to get to us. >> for example, in a room like this, this story swings inard when we close it we might think about using an object like a table to barricade shut. for look around. these durs are the little bolts you could use a belt to secure it. >> what do we have in terms of room? we have fire extinguishers coffee cups with be pots, we've computers, all sorts of stuff in there. >> but kerry says if you have time run for it. create space between you and a threat. ? san jose, jessica castro, abc 7

news. sober be, well the fatal shooting of stephon clark is prompting the sacramento police department is written police as to when an officer can turn off the body camera. the new policy requires officers to verbalize the reason for turning off the microphone. up until now the department had no written direction on when the equipment could be turned off. this move comes more than three weeks after body camera footage of the killing of the 22-year-old young man named skauchb clark revealed two officers wereland told to mute microns several minutes after the shooting. >> we have new gemts developments on the tesla autopilot crash in mountain view. abc 7's tan i dos interviewed the victim's wife and his brother. the i-female is preparing a report to begin on the 5:00 news. the 38-year-old walter huang died two and a half weeks ago when his tesla hit a barrier hit

earlier in an den. it was confirmed huang was using all the piet. >> former quarterback colin kaepernick answered questions under oath in his collusion grievance. it's the first deposition taken by the league in connection with the grievance kaepernick filed last year. the quarterback is accuseding the league owners and teams of acting together to keep him from landing another job in the nfl as punishment for the national anthem protest he started in 2016. kaepernick has failed to land with a new team since he opted out of his contract with the niners in march of last year. san jose will tighten its sister city travel policies as half the city council is currently visiting japan. they're marking the 60th aefrs of sister city representation. the mayor says in the future the nar should nominate one council member to represent the city. counts approve should be sought if more than one member wants to

go. 34 people crewing family members are on this trip. the city footstep the bill only for employees and elected officials. one of the council members is paying his own way. officials in san francisco are hoping a recently face lift could change the face of public housing across the city. mayor mark farrellhood helped unveil the newly remodelled senior housing units. at 227 bay street. the projects was spear headed by the chinatown community development center with the help of public appear private partners. >> as you think about affordable housing in san francisco we have to build more. that's no secret. we have to speed up the production of it. but it also includes rehabbing existing existing units that have been neglected for decades. >> the renovations were part of a larger effort to transfer other thanship of public using sites from the san francisco housing authority to community-based groups that would work with affordable housing developers in order to update them. rising from the ashes of the

north bay wildfires six months later. >> there is potential in everything. >> the artist is determined to give trees destroyed during the fire storm a new life. plus a popular east bay bakery shutting down after more than 6 decades in business. this sweet history behind the place. and you already know mark zuckerberg was on capitol hill. but what about hundreds of zucks. we'll tell you what these are about. let's take you outside at 4:11 on this tuesday looking at the san francisco skyway. pretty rough in both directions, expected this time of day. it's moving but s

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facebook founder mark zuckerberg is all over capitol hill in person. enact still testifying now as well as his likeness. an advocacy group called avaz placed 100 card board cutouts on the lawn with zuckerberg wearing a tee shirt saying fix facebook. it's an online organizations active on issues such as human animal rights climate change and poverty. it's an interesting day on capitol hill. appear opinion and now to the testimony op capitol hill which is still going on as i said right now. doctor matthew cabot from san jose state university is here with meme thanks for coming in. >> happy to do it. >> how did he do. >> he is still doing it. he did better than we thought. the bar was low for his

performance. but in terms of crisis communication it was textbook. >> right. >> he acknowledged the problem. explained what happened and why. he took responsibility. he saids in my company. i'm sorry. and then he talked about what they're doing to fix the problems. >> it was textbook crisis management absolutely right. i watched a good bit today. typically for a guy in social media he is not that social when it comes this type of performance. >> right. >> we know as we reported he was preparing heavily for this. >> um-hum. >> but obviously that paid off. this doesn't come easily for him. >> he is a reluctant spokesperson for the company. you know, he knew as the chief executive he had to come in and do this performance. and the stock price was up 5% today. so an indication that he did better than people thought. >> right. >> what do you think he has learned and what do you think facebook will do as a result? >> zuckerberg throughout the testimony today talked about his days of creating facebook in his dorm room.

now he has 2 billion users out there. i think he is less naive about the power and he has and the platform has. he has learned his platform can be used for good and can be used for evil. he is taking that seriously. i think that we should -- he showed a maturation of his ceo position. >> i agree. i thought the same thing as i watched. i saw a transition in his demeanor and his way of casting this issue. it reflects i think some personal growth but also corporate growth for facebook potentially. >> this -- this was a pivotal moment for facebook and could be a pivot almoment for tech companies in the valley. there seems to be a sense that something has -- has to be done now given the power and the pervasiveness that social media has in our lives. >> do you think going forward in will affect the company in any sgnificant way in terms of stock price or users who continue to sign up or sign off?

is it having any long-lasting effect or do we have short frerm memories >> we have short memories but all it takes is another crisis and the reputation takes another hit. there will a positive bump from the testimony. tomorrow is another day. he has another chance to do well or not do well. but i think in general if he is able to put in place the things he talked about today, the company should do well. there is also a sense he will be working closety -- the company will work closely with the government to find out the things they need to do to make things better. >> one thing he wanted to avoid and certainly all of silicon valley wanted to avoid was more regulation coming out of this. do you think he will avoid that. >> he said he would be okay with regulation. >> okay. >> there was regulation that i think -- today that was talked about that he would be okay with. >> some he won be. >> some he wouldn't be. he got pressed. >> but lawmakers said would you be in favor of a law? he said in principle i'm in

favor of the idea but yoenltd if we need a law. >> it will be critical at the midterm elections has facebook righted the ship. >> exactly. >> matthew thank you for coming in from san jose state. as mentioned zuckerberg is set to testify before the house energy commerce committee tomorrow. we will stream the testimony live on the website and on our abc 7 news app as well. turning attention now to the north bay wildfires, six months later. the north bay artist is gifting trees burned during the fire storm a second life. in doing so he is healing himself and helping fire survivors. abc 7 news reporter katie utehs has the story. >> there is potential in everything. >> peter fibbs is is resident artist at paradise ridge why winery in santa rosa he narrowly escaped the fire storm. >> saying the story makes the

hair stand up on my neck. >> he lost all the tools but not his desire to create. he started carving charred wine barrels. >> if it went to the dump that would perpetuate the tragedy. but this is doing something different. >> he has found a way to make something out of this that no one else thought of. >> walter bick owns the peter sees the butt in peter. >> you don't think of him as a talent but he is. >> from oak barrels to trees. peter and his collaborators are healing with art. >> you have to move on with new things it's nice when the new things can be beautiful and meaningful. >> his work is all dana has fl the empty lot. dana gave peter free reign to come to property and pick up materials for art. while here inspiration struck. he started carving this tree. >> that was a total surprise. >> dana and walter both plan to rebuild, moving forward inspired

by peter's work. >> number one i feel selfish because this is how i'm healing. from that experience. and i lats of fraction of what most these people lost. feels like the right thing to do. >> in santa rosa, katie utehs, abc 7 news. stay with abc 7 news for cntinuing coverage of north bay wildfires six months later. we'll have coverage all week long. coming up at 5:00, the viral song that came out of the wierlds. >> moving on the weather a after the starkling day yesterday. you notice the clouds changed. i'm no sherlock holmes but i suspect that means something happening. >> good detective. we have lost the sparkle. at least i have. here is a look. >> but not our alarm. >> here a look at life doppler 7. here the moisture dweflgs and several reports of light scattered drizzle around the region. but it's not widespread. what's widespread is the cool

downaredown we experienced. here a look from the roof top camera .76 right now. yesterday at this hour about 7 it or 73. oakland is 60. mountain view 62 process. 70 in gilroy. 5 a at half moon bay. this is the view if in emeryville and damp there as well. we have temperatures readings in low to mid-60s pat noft of concord and livermore. one more live view from the mount ta had. m camera looking down to the clouds. these are the forecast features. we see rainy and windy conditions developing late tomorrow into early thursday. it will sunnier and warmer the end of the week. and then another round of rain coming in starting late sunday into monday. overnight, look for decreasing clouds. it will be partly mostly clear. and low temperatures in the 40s maybe 50 in san francisco. let's look at approaching storm or the current storm kinning for a while. ranks one on the impact scale.

a light intensity. tomorrow evening in thursday expect showers, drizzle thursday morning and windy conditions especially late tomorrow. here is our forecast animaton starting at 7:30 tomorrow morning clouds increasing. and rain north of yukia. but late morning midday rain moves to yukia down to northern portions of sonoma county. later in the day we'll see more vigorous rainfall, more widespread and steadier rain across the north bay. it sweeps southward and eastward in the early evening. probably a messy evening commute tomorrow. then the rain continues on to the south bay parts of the east bay to the nighttime hours. breaking up into just scattered pockets of light showers activity late wednesday night into early thursday but the rauchl estimates indicates wet from .2 to .5 inch across the bay area. and certainly windy especially tomorrow night. now tomorrow afternoon about 3:00 we'll see gusts around 12

to 15-mile-per-hour. but look at what happens later tomorrow night. gusts from 25 to 35-mile-per-hour. especially near the coast. and right around the bay shoreline. highs tomorrow will be mainly in the upper 50s on the coast to low 60s just about everywhere else. here the accuweather seven-day forecast, once again, the storm ranks one in the impact scale. it's a storm of light intensity but producing wet weather and tomorrow evening commute will be the wettest time of day. then we'll have sunnier and milder weather friday and saturday. warm and saturday with highs in the upper 70s inland. but the next round of rain comes monday and showers likely -- starts on sunday showers likely to continue into monday. >> this is great actually i was getting worried won't get much rain until -- we got some the end of the zbloonz this is when we need it most. >> thanks nks nks all right decipito pulled from youtube. >> the call for help from

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several popular music videos disappeared temporarily from youtube because of a security breach on the confident video platform vivo, including the the video for despacito which has the most views in history. it was replaced by masked people pointing guns. it's been fixed. videos from taylor wift, drake and sharka walsh were aircrafted. >> roseanne is backs back for the all new episode, the reboost of the classic was tv's biggest premiere this season. natasha zufz talked with michael. >> the world has changed significantly since roseanne aired. how are you as a cast negotiating that. >> we've always been brave and always willing to have the real honest conversation that is

people shy away from high pressure and definitely gets people's attention. but i think people can relate to the rfrgss conversations and relationships and having the underlying hard times but humor kind of seeing your way through. people relate to that. >> you can see a new episode of roseanne tonight at 8:00 here on abc 7. allegations of discrimination in the san franciscos police department. the new accusations from an officer who says he has been the victim of religious and ethnic discrimination. >> and a fraternity under fire that calls for change at cal

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entresto, for heart failure. and here the stories making headlines at 4:30. ceo mark zuckerberg wrapped up testimony just now before a joint hearing of the senate judiciary and commerce committee attention. he filled in questions on the data collection practices and apologized for mistakes leading to the scandal. authorities say an suv swept away in a humboldt county river matches the description of a vehicle driven by a missing southern california family on their which to san jose from oregon. abc 7 news reporter chris wynn says family members are heading to the scene now. he will have more on abc news at 5:00. the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york

has been recused from the investigation into president trump's personal attorney michael cohen. jeffrey berman was appointed by the president. he was not involved in the decision to raid cohen's office yesterday. an officer of afghan accident filed a complaint with the san francisco police department saying he has been the victim of religious and ethnic discrimination. abc 7 news reporter vic lee is live at police headquarter was the story vic. >> reporter: the officer who joined the department in 2016 actually filed two complaints, one in november with the internal affairs department, the other in january with the city's human resources department. now, public defender jeff adachi is representing him. . he held a news conference. we spoke with jeff but also spoke with his client. here is what he said. >> when i join the san francisco police department, i was fulfilling a boyhood dreef. >> but for this officer of afghan muslim decent it turned

into a nightmare. >> i experienced racial -- racial and religious harassment and also witnessed blatant misconduct against citizens. >> the officer does not want to be identified because hefers for his safety and that of his family. san francisco pd jeff adachi filled in the details. saying it started soon after he joined in 2016. he was assigned to central station. >> his sergeant with, his superior officer, asking him about his background and then saying do you know any towell heads. >> another talking about his duty badge. >> it's heavy can you leave your additional equipment rpg of an and grenades at home. >> the taunts were relensless. >> i would appreciate it if you tell me the plans of your froeft network so i can plan in advance. >> someone squechd o sketched an isis flag on his locker and inscribed go back. last notify he reported the harassment to internal affairs, asking that the officers go

through implicit bias training. he says investigators leaked his complaint? >> since making the complaint i've been labeled a rat, singled out by colleagues, and now fear for my safety. >> that boyhood dream, he says, turned to disappointment. >> i have lost respect for in sf p. d. administration. >> well since that news conference this morning we have learned that the officer was also in oakland's -- the oakland police academy prior to joining san francisco's police academy. reliable sources tell us he never completed in oakland. we are trying to find out why. and that's the very latest. he did not mention to us, by the way, in that news conference this morning about that part of his background. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> interesting. vic thanks very much. more troops are heading to the u.s./mexico border. new mexico has announced more

than 80 national guardman will deploy later this we can. our reporter danya bacchus has the latest. >> reporter: after the call for up to 4,000 national guardman to mobilize at the u.s. mexico border, mexico's president enrique calling for a formally review of u.s. cooperation. so far texas and arizona have deployed more than 500 guardman for what the department of homeland security is calling a growing migrant crisis. >> your mission is to support the efforts of the u.s. department of homeland security in their efforts to secure the border and keep the communities on the border safe. >> new mexico just announcing more than 80 troops deploy later this we can. it's also beginning wall construction along a 20 mile stretch of border this month. >> it's harder to get over, harder to get through, harder to get underneath. it's a 5-foot anti-scaling

plate. >> the border crossing increased 20 oh% in march compared to last year when they were at historic lows. some are worried about the military presence. >> it's important to keep our country safe. >> sister norma runs a a group waiting asylum. >> it's never not important to to look at the human needs. >> california is the only state not committed to sending guardman to the border. a guard spokesman says the governor is considering it. dawnia bacchus, abc news los angeles. president trump is skipping an upcoming summit in south america in order to oversee the u.s. response to the suspected and deadly chemical attack in syria. the white house says the president will not attend the summit of the americas in peru or travel to botha colombia was o as planned. the vice president will attend in the president's place. actor t.j. miller is out on

bail after being arrested on a charge of calling in a fake bomb flet from an amtrak train. the former silicon valley called last month and said a passenger on his train from washington, d.c. to new york had a bomb in her bag. officialed stops the train and searched it. any say they found out miller was actually on a different train and that train was also stopped and searched. no explosives devices were found. students at cal poly are demanding accountability after fraternity members appeared in black face on social media. hundreds of people appeared a townhall meeting last night to complaint. the lamda, chi, alpha fraern has been lab placed on her interim suspension while the attorney investigates. s the lawsuit over the value meals what a judge said this week frmts coming clean 7 on your side michael finney teams up with reporters to figure outs the best did he terjants to help you clean up. >> spencer christian looking at

clouds and moisture injurying. more showers on the

no one likes doing laundry. but most of us have to do it. >> to help get the job done, 7 on your side michael finney looks at new detergents ratings. >> liv does a load of laundry a day and is picky about the detergents.

>> my son plays sports and there is constant grass and dirt stains all over his clothes. >> consumer reports test laundry did he ternlts to see how they perform against many types of stains. testers use the special fabric swachs stained with ingredients like body oil, dirt, blood, chocolate, wine and tea. >> because we have an instrument that can miss houfrp stain is removed we can tell how well the detergents work. >> you can clearly see the difference. here is unwashed stained frark fabric swach who here is the swach rachd washed in a fop rated detergents cleaner than the original. >> if you just washed it process with water you can see the water isn't different from the original. >> and if you use one of the lower rated detergents by trader joe's liquid raund laundry ag or extra sensation you clean with something that performs only slightly better than plain water in consume reports tests. the top scoring detergents tide

plus, ultrastain reless appear power liquid two in one are tops at removing body oil and dirt. if but those detergents are not cheap. consumer reports experts say you might not need all that cleaning power. >> if you're not up against tough stains like grass or you don't have a bunch of grungy clothes toway wash there are lower priced did he eternities that do the job. >> this member as mark ultimate clean or the ultraclean free and clear from costco are both good options. so is all stain lifter detergents for half the price of tide. another money saver be skip stain removers and pre-treat like liz. >> i usually take some of the laundry detergents and pour it on and let it sit for a while before putting it in the laundry. >> consumer reports says it's important to add the correct amount of detergent using too much is not only a waste but also leave a residue in the

clothes. michael finney, 7 on your side. >> good tips. a federal judge sees no value in a class action lawsuit against mcdonald's and the value meals. a judge tossed out the suit claim that extra value meals cost more than the sum the total of the individual components bought separately. the chicago woman based on what she paid for the sausage burrito breakfast value meal process and just because consumers don't bother to compare prices doesn't mean they can claim they've been fooled. >> announcer: now the accuweather foevgt. no fooling here. a look at live doppler 7, moistures moving over the area. sprinkle and drizzled to a. . the storm we have now through thursday ranks one on the impact scale. we will see the showers tomorrow in the afternoon and evening hours. and then overnight in early thursday along with some gusty winds and here we go with --

there there is the movement over the seer aire where there will be snow. as a matter of fact by 11:00 p.m. thursday we expect to see anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of snow generally in the central sierra from the same storm bringing us rainfall. here is the ac rgt seven-day forecast after a couple of days of some light rain and showers. and some gusty wind here. we'll see clearing on friday. in fact sunnier and milder and warm on saturday with highs in the mid-to upper 70s inland, mid-70s around the bay. mid-to supper 60s on the coast. rain and sunday continuing into monday morning and clearing next tuesday. >> good. >> still unsettled. >> yes, thanks spencer. all right. it's equal payday. coming up, the effort to close the loop holes in the gender pay gap. and one bay area ceo really trying to make a difference plus. >> we are et sweet on each other, yeah. >> lots of love and laughter and now a popular berkeley bakery is

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work to equal what men made the previousier. nancy pelosi said today it reminds us of the work that remains to realized the fundamental principles of fairness and secure equal pay for equal work. and joining me food is linda crawford ceo at help shift to talk more with us about equal payday. thank you for being with us today. i understand you actually came out of retirement to become ceo at help shift about six months ago to help other women. tell me about that. >> i did. i think of help shift being a company of change or changing the way consumers interact with the brands that they love through ai. and also i think of our company being about change for women and specifically for me to change the trajectory of women in technology through being a ceo of a fast-paced start judgeup. >> one of the first thing you did was really to look at compensation based on gender. why was that so important to you. >> over the last few years we've heard story after story of women

struggle in our industry. i felt to be authentic i needed to make sure this was one of the first issues i tackled. i was pleased to say when i looked at the data we as a company were in great shape. i really dnts have to make any changes. but i think that companies in our industry that's few and far between. >> this is equal payday. it's what, april 10th? we'd to work this far into the year to make, what, they made last year, which is. >> exactly. >> awful. >> $.80 on the dollar. worse for minor women. when i came back in the industry i wanted to make the change from the top. woman o women ceos have influence on the leaders they collect to come into the companies. they have influence over independent board members. and in was one way i felt i could give back. i had a very successful clear.

a lot of well-done star ups in the value it was time to take a stand. >> we appreciate everything you have done. >> absolutely. >> do you feel like we are making progress. >> i do. the data shows some progress. and i would say to any woman listening to this today, just ask a simple question. am i being fairly and equally paid? and just do it nice. and matter-of-factly. >> thank you for being here today we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> great information. all right well a berkeley bakery famous for birthday cakes and bear claws is closing. and passion knit customers are clamors now to scoop up favorites. our career leslie brinkley is live at the virginia bakery. pick up a few things for me, leslie. >> i am bringing them back to the station for you, dan. i got to have a few samples myself today. you would think that a bakery closing down, not necessarily a big deal. not so with virginia bakery. here in berkeley's gourmet ghet

o. some things lester in the case but since announcing the closing there's been a run on the baked goods today. >> i got so many text messages saying virginia bakery is closing. >> this bakery inspired loyalty far and wide in the east bay and beyond. it was bought by the erdman family in 1973. second generation owners john and anne made a specialty out of theemd birthday cakes. john the baker and organizers. >> anything else for you? >> and the result has been sublime. >> they are petite fumbling cake is the best in the world. my husband buys croissants and bear includes and flips out over them. >> pink champagne. that was a must. what are we going to do? can we bay them ahead of time and freeze them. >> we've been in love with this place sin we were kids. and it's heart breaking to hear

they're closing. >> the barretts spent two hours driving from sacramento to bag goodies. they found out like many others on facebook when anne noujzed monday they would be retiring and closing for good on april 28th. >> it's bittersweet, you know, i mean we're doing what's right for ourselves and our family. but we realize we have a big family, big virginia bakery family. >> we got their strawberry wedding cake in 1977. every year i've had a birthday we came here. >> i want that the butterfly one. >> threes a pedestrian office up the street. a lot of kids would come after the doctor's appointment because the parents would bring them to get a cookie after a shot or something like that. all good memories. >> for everybody. >> reporter: this is carmen. carmen worked here 27 years. and she has been treating me really well today. i got a lot of good samples out of this place. in kind of symbolizes how i feel

about the stuff at this bakery. i get the benefits of this job today. reporting live in berkeley, leslie brink areally. abc 7. >> that lax good. >> it does. thank you, leslie. a buying blitz boosted sales of a sugar waver candy most remember from uthe. sales of necco candy soared mo than 60% since last month. it's there is a roert the company could be closing .massachusetts company says if if can't find a buyer it could shut down as soon as next month. i love those things. >> yeah. from devastation in puerto rico to the hafls of the san francisco balta. up next the young woman whose call for help was answered. >> news at 5:00, a family disappeared, headed to san jose and never made it plus. when did you first know that you were in a bad position that

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it was her love for ballet that forced her to leave her island and her parents. >> the first week that my mom left i was like i'm doing this alone. >> she has been training at two schools in san juan. but last september is the hurricane changed everything for her and millions of puerto ricans. >> it was just like back to square one. we had to start from zero. >> with no way to advance the training she decided to write a letter to the director of the san francisco ballet school, parktd armandp. she had recently done a four-week intensive program at the san francisco ballet the summer before. but would they accept her? few get in. >> obviously i've been following on the news and have friends in puerto rico i thought it was really a horrible time for them receiving that letter, you know, i had to help. i mean, it was like a cry from the heart. >> and right before christmas after weeks of waiting it is finally received word from the

san francisco ballet school inviting here to join them. >> i was like, mom, i got in. i started crying. my mom is cry zbroog she received a scholarship from the ballet. her parents a teacher her community even a puerto rican actress pifrpd in to help pay for room and board. >> i really want to continue this for the -- the for as long as i can and just train for in. and dance professionally. >> she wants people to know she is one of the lucky ones able to leave an unbearable situation. >> this is so affecting many, many families, this is not over. >> like many on the island she continues to carry herself with grace under pressure. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. now you can get the latest news any time with the upgraded abc 7 news app enhance the video features abmore skmmgs and personalized push alerts to get more news you want delivered to your phone immediately.

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>> if you have messaged anybody this week would you share with us the names of the people you have messaged. >> sno are, i would probably not choose to do that publicly here. >> i think maybe what this is all about, your right to privacy, the limits of your right to privacy and how much you give away in modern america in the name of, quote, connecting people around the world. >> a stunning the illinois. zuckerberg put on the spot. i'm ama daetz for kristin sze. high drama in many ways. the ceo facing a bank of senators ready to challenge him over privacy concerns with the future of the world's most popular social nashville network on the line. >> zuckerberg appeared to holed up well over four hours apologizing and promising change as he has done before when mistakes were made. >> our news reporte