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 reporter david louie

begins coverage and says the california senators put zuckerberg on the hot seat. >> it was mark zuckerberg's first time testifying in congress, still photographers trained lenses on him while 44 senators prepared to pepper him with tough questions. the 33-year-old founder first read a prepared statement apologizing for the data breach. he kept eye contact with the senators not appearing to rely on notes or a script. california senator camilla harris wanted to know if zuckerberg was involved in not informing users their information had been compromised >> senator? retrospect we clearly view it as a mistake that we didn't inform people. we did that based on false information we thought the case was closed and the data was deleted >> there was a decision made on that basis not to inform users is that correct. >> that's my understanding. >> diane feinstein wanted to know what facebook is doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections. >> we have deployed new ai tools

that do a better job of identifying fake accounts that may be trying to interfere in elections or spread misinformation. >> ai refers to artificial intelligence. zuckerberg acknowledges he is open to regulation to rihn in privacy. impurity scientist says he is not clear that means. >> it requires details and from this testimony we don't have the details how facebook is going to execute those regulations. for their platforms. >> zuckerberg returns to capitol hill in the morning for a hearing in the house. david louie, abc 7 news. while mark zurg berg was testifying to congress facebook users were checking to see whether information had been shared in the cambridge analytica scandal. >> the our news reporter melanie woodrow has that part of the story. >> carolyn springman says she spoefts more photos of her dog to facebook this these days but

hasn't deleted the app yet. >> it has crossed my mienl. >> springman had no idea she could check to see if the information had been properly improperly shared with cambridge analytica. at first things sounded promising. >> based on our investigation you don't appear to have logged into this is your digital life with facebook. >> but while springman didn't log into this is your digital life. a friend of yours did log in. >> which resulted in her information being shared. >> your public profile, page linings birthday and current city. i guess i'm confused as to who it was shared with. >> cambridge analytica allegedly misused data obtained through a third party quiz app. cambridge analytica which worked with president trump 2016 election campaign then reportedly used the information to build psychological profiles to target voters with ads. politics was the reason nasty says he stopped signing onto the app. >> too political. too much this and that. >> it ourns out his information wasn't shared. >> just a boring person i guess. i don't have to worry.

but thank you. >> same for jamie nolte. >> it's it's not a great relief but nights nice to know. >> fischer is cutting back information it shares with third parties. in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. well if you're wondering if your data was improperly shared go to our website, abc 7 news.com we have a link showing you exactly how to find out. >> right now, a massive search for a california family who went missing on a road trip north of the bay area. they were heading from portland to san jose this past weekend to visit relatives but they never arrived. now investigators are looking at a remote area in mendocino county where a vehicle was reported to have plunged into a river on friday. of course raising fears that there may abconnection here. abc 7 news reporter chris wirn has the update on a developing story from san jose. >> reporter: torn a southern california family remains missing as friends and relatives hold out hope. >> they were employing oh on a road trip and very excited to do

the oregon trail. >> this flier posted on social media shows the thought a pilly family of valencia. driving back from a spring break road trip to portland but failed to show up in the bay area for a scheduled stop friday. relatives became concerned when they couldn't reach the family and called san jose police to file a missing person's report. the family of four including two children ages 9 and 12 was traveling in a maroon honda pilot. investigators are looking into the possibility that the family's vehicle may have plunged into the river off 101 in mendocino county. friday afternoon, a witness called chp to report that he saw a vehicle go down a steep embankment. that vehicle description is similar to the one that the thought a pilly's were traveling in. but investigators can't say for certain if they're the same. >> something substantial like a serial number or license plate it's hard to say that this is definitelyively the same vehicle. >> due to heavy rain crews

haven't been able to pull the vehicle out of the water. >> the safety issue with trying to put divers into the water at that point because of the debris and the swift -- you know, the rate of the current right now. >> reporter: anyone with information on the case is urged to call the california highway patrol. in the south bay, chris wynn, abc 7 news. two suspects wanted in connection to pleasant hill's first murder in 6 years are now in custody. police say keith jones and luther lee shot and killed 23-year-old elo are the at a house on north drive on saturday night. investigators believe it was a drug deal bad. authorities in the jair arrested the two on a chase in northern arizona. after nearly five months without a murder as we reported the other day richmond police are sadly now investigating two homicides in three days time. the first saturday afternoon when police say 20-year-old

foster was is not in his car on south 5 ath street. and then last night police say 29-year-old mark henderson on an aefr. no arrests in either case. before idea sadowski the last homds was november. an east bay man is facing a murder charge in addition to drunk driving charges after a crash more than two weeks ago. the chp says 41-year-old jose rivera aband two women were injured when they crashed into a van on highway 4 near willow pass road on march 23rd. one victim died from injuries a week later. chp says rivera was released from the hospital and booked into the detention facility to face charges. the wife of the apple engineer who died in a tesla crash in mountain view two and a half weeks ago has given an exclusive interview to the i-team's dan noys. >> he is here with the story. dan you've been on it from the beginning. sure have.

it's a great love story met in middle school process taiwan appear when walter came here and started working in high-tech he tracked her down they married had and kids. rife looking up. walter got a new job at apple and bought a tesla. but his wife tells me ocomplained the autopilot would sometimes swerve toward the barrier. >> and he want to show me a lot of times it not happen. so, yeah. >> he told you that the car would drive to that same barrier? >> yes. >> the same barrier that he finally hit. >> yeah that's why i saw the nuance i know that's him. >> that right. she told me she knew scherr husband crashed from seeing the midday news. he recognized the location and the color of the model x you'll here why the family was disappointed when tesla put a

statement out on the crash. >> terrible all the way around thanks so much. san francisco supervisor aaron peskin today introduced a proposal for the november ballot to tax ride hailing companies uber lyft and charity. the san francisco examiner reports peskin wants to place a gross receipts tax on the revenue of companies the state designates as a transportation network company. if approved, it would also repeal the so-called twitter tax break which allows companies located in the blighted mid-market street area to avoid pays san francisco payroll taxes. the city projects the tax would generate $35 million annually. >> google is close -- close enough to owning properties in san jose to create a viable transit oriented development here the diridon train station. according to our media parent, the mercury news that's when a a stop executive told the station area advisory group last night. the group was formed to gather citizen input about the tech giant's oh proposal. goog the spent more than $220

million buying properties around diridon and the sap center but says it's a major probability that will take time. >> keep the umbrellas handy. that's right you will need them tan and ama. a few spotty showers but live doppler 7 is tracking another system. bringing widespread rain and gusty winds. we'll look at the time line. ♪ a song of hope in sonoma. the song writers who were inspiring residents six months after the north bay wildfires. plus. i thought it was a smart girl and my parents raised me well. it went out the window because i was so lone will zbli a popular fighter opens about the secret that changed her and so you mixed martial arts saved her life. bay area scientists say they have

all week abc 7 news is looking back at at 60-month anniversary of the north bay fire storm. and looking ahead. tonight's story came from a viewer email. as our reporter wayne friedman reports it's about loss and hope and gratitude all set to music. >> that area right there. >> reporter: how often in the last six months have you we shone you a seen like a husband and which have on burned home site dealing with memories and sentiment could it be any easier that for these two they had just moved. >> our eighth night we were evacuated. >> that's just kind of cool. >> that's what we thought. >> that picture of the kids on the back seat? >> yup that was everything we had in our van. >> everything? >> everything. ♪ >> everything a word on which the world can turn and maybe a song as well. when jordan's cousin joe label wrote this music with her

father. >> we did it because it was -- it was possibly the only thing we could do to really help. >> got out with just the clothes on our back. ♪ >> a you for a notes, you a few words absome pictures, a bull's-eye. >> ♪ up in flames ♪ ♪ >> maybe you've already heard and seen the song they put up on youtube, it's name "everything, be" the message moved beyond family and touched a region. >> there is hope. there can be life after tragedy. that there is -- there is a lot to hold onto. >> writing music has always been a family tradition, a way to express the peaks and valleys of life. but this. >> it's just -- i was crying. i could barely see it through my tears. >> something beautiful rise attention from something hoeshl and oh so personal, a gift of everything. ♪ >> reporter: in santa rosa, wayne friedman, abc 7 news.

beautiful. and if you'd like to see and hear "everything" in it's entirety we have a link on abc7news.com. our coverage of the northing bay wildfires six months later continues at 6:00. coming up a family whose home burned down but the bills kept coming until 7 on your side's michael finney stepped in. one of the founders of the burning man global summer cultural event is in critical condition tonight after suffering a massive stroke wednesday. 70-year-old larry marv burned the first man at san francisco baker beach back in 1986. the 8 foot structure was made of scrap lumber and 2 dozen watched it. the gathering has grown to 70,000 people and the black rock desert with 770 foot tall structures. the harvey as progress know size is unknown at this time. one of the last privately owned beaches in california has new ownership according to the

press democrat. san francisco restaurant owner has purchased the dylan beach resort which maintains the beach about 24 southwest of santa rosa. it includes a general store, cafe and three rental cottages and a mile long canine friendly beach. the previous owners purchased the 5 a acre property i for 2.7 million and listed it for 7 million. neither party commented on the sale. but a notice posted on the resort stated it will be business as usual. a stunning admission fl ufc paige vancen. revealed he was sexually sexual assaulted and bull idea as a heerj she poke to our zbliej her fighting style in the ring made her one of the most successful rookies in ufc history high pressure. leerks looks and dance

background proposal proposaling her to fame. placing second on dancing with the stars. now in the member roir titled rice she opens up about the difficult childhood that started with being bullied in high school. >> i didn't have anywhere to run. didn't have anybody to turn to. and when it gets bad enough i had to run in the bathroom and eat my lunch on toit era toilet in the bathroom because i felt too scared to eat in the taf tieria. >> she was sexually assaulteds at a party. >> my parents raised me to know better and to have sbugs and it wentz out the window because i was so lonely i was in so much pain. i just all i could think about is wow, i have somebody that wants to be my friend. >> when did you first know that you were in bad position that night? >> when i walked in the door. >> you still went in. >> it did. >> the first time she recounted the events of the night she says nearly destroyed her life. >> i really was i was a charng

person through the whole thing i became a totally different person. >> and she says classmates found out about the alleged sault leaving her feeling alone and looking to end her own life. >> i didn't see any other way. when you're in that position, feeling that much pain you feel like it's not that you want to die. you just don't want to be in pain anymore. >> vanzant only recently revealing the secrets to her patients. >> i didn't want them mad at me. once i told my parents it would have been real. >> but she survived and thrived coming back stronger than ever finding a passion, mma fighting. >> it definitely saved my life. it saved who i was as a person too. >> winning her first ufc fight at just 20 years old. >> now at a crucial time where the call for women equality reaching a fevered pitch she says she is encouraged by the brave voices coming out from the me too movement and she is

finally ready to share her story. >> i really hope if i can change one life then me telling my story is worth it. >> abc news. vanzant is recovering from a badly broken arm she sustained during a fight. she hopes to be back in the ring next year year and also getting married and preparing for a wedding. >> announcer: the accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. if you blinked you missed the showers. they were spotty and light. and here is what it looks like right now on live doppler 7. we weren't expecting much and we didn't get much. let me show you what's going on right now. there was a lightning strike south of santa cruz process. off the skoeft line there tracking a a showers in santa cruz and also parts of the south bay. street level radar, highway 101 from coyote to morgan hill, across coyote creek golf drive. spotty light showers. towards the dealt an, oelk oakley nights and brendanwood, discovery bay damp roadways.

in the snow levels in sierra above 10,000 feet this has been falling in the form of rain. south of there some snow showers but that's changes as we head into thursday. snow will be accumulating and the levels will be dropping between 2,503,000 feet thursday. we are looking at 9 to 10 inches of accumulation by then. get your skis ready if you are heading up there. numbers right now in the 50s, 60s. a few 70s. much cooler today in most areas. golden gate bridge camera showing yous top of the tower is pairly visible take it easy on the road. dry and warmer friday, saturday within, and another system on sunday. 40s, 50s, cooler than this morning. tomorrow afternoon. get ready for that next right now of rain it starts in the north bay in the afternoon. and spreads later in the afternoon and into the evening across the rest of the area. it is going to be breezy and then eventually turning windy. 50s walks 60s on the storm impact scale it's a level one system. tomorrow afternoon evening light

to moderate rain. anywhere from about a .1 i think to of a half an inch. winds at 25 to 40-mile-per-hour gusts. tonight cycler lingering clouds. heading into tomorrow morning just clouds but noontime the rain moves into mendocino, sonoma counties. then in the afternoon hours between three and 5:00 a.m. p.m. moderate rain showing up in the north bay. the sliding south ward by 7:30 widespread rain. in the hills could see snow. land colder storm. 10:00 p.m. spotty light showers. and carry on with the theme thursday morning. occasional light showers in the and by afternoon still spotty showers showing up between 12 and 2:00 p.m. the rainfall totals with this system typical for springtime. in the tenth to half inches category. yuk where a would o could pick up more. you can download the 57 appear track the temperatures any time.

the winds pick up tomorrow afternoon. watch the winds as we head into tomorrow night. about 30 to 35 miles an hour. and that gusty windy pattern will continue into thursday morning. here is look at what's going to happen as we look at the accuweather seven-day forecast, level 1 system, evening, level one eone for wednesday abthursday, brighter and warmer on friday and saturday. . and then another level one system breezy and wet between sunday afternoon and monday. tuesday is cry. we're in the time of year where we get a few showers, dry, few showers, dry we'll take any rain we can get. >> absolutely. thanks so much. the planet hunter. >> comin

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coming ton on abc 7 news at 6:00. the complaint buy a san francisco police officer of afghan decent alleging religious and ethnic skrims. tonight the relentless staunts and threats he said he received. one city official calls them shocking. also the all important move today breathing new life into the controversial new plan to remake the state's water system.

and wroeken hearts in the east bay. a bakery popular for decades about to closing up. it's more than cakes and cooke processes coming up on news at 6:00. >> now you can tour the moon without leaving the living room. sounds easy. check this out. nasa yesterday release add 4 k tour of the moon. the high revolution video is the latest imagery there the lurn reconsequencen orbiter mission which has taken photographs since the launch in 2009. >> up close and person with the rough surface of the money moon and the stunning lurn larges. it's the best we get unless you you have hundreds of thousands of course to spend on a tours in space flight. >> that is stunning. >> nasa about to launch a new planet hunting expedition. the agency is set to go on a mission to search for possible alien light pb the transiting exoplanet survey satellite t.e.s.s. easier to say. >> it's expected to map 85% of the sky over the next two years,

finding thousands of exoplanets, the planet beyond our solar system that orbit a star. >> we're excited about them because over the past 20 years or so we learned about this crazy plethora and diversity of planets existing elsewhere in the galaxy. they're helping to us better understand our place in that much bigger picture. >> nasa plans to follow up with further exploration of exoplanets that may be located in habitable zones where wick which had water is possible which means the possibility of life. >> we appreciate your time see you at 6:00. >> announcer: we have all stood with the north bay through fighting fires to finding shelter. through burned homes to new builds, through the heart ache of the moment to hope for the future. abc 7 stays on the story through the progress and the problems. now we look at what we have learned and ask, what's next? a week dedicated to the north

bay fires, six months later. spec tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. does president trump have the power to fire robert mueller? what the white house said late today. the president now furious over the fbi raid targeting his personal lawyer. tonight, we have new reporting here, the moment fbi agents showed up at the door. facing the heat. the crush of cameras, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. his message tonight to millions of americans who are on facebook, and the grilling today on capitol hill. you will hear what he was asked. will there be u.s. military action against syria, and when? what we've learned tonight, with a u.s. destroyer now in the eastern mediterranean, with missile strikes possible from submarines and b-2 bombers. martha raddatz standing by. >> the plane crash on a well-known golf course, just after takeoff, several dead. escaping the flames. the young girls, d