friedman joins us from one of the prime target spots. fisherman's. >> maybe you can hear that in the background high pressure this is a prime carrier. but the whole city is prime. in fact today after the press conference we went driving around and found glass on every street where we looked. there are diamonds in the streets of stris. trickles of them sometimes rivers and they're not your best friend. if these came from your windshield they're your worst instead. >> the status quo on the streets is not acceptable. >> that was frist mayor mark farrell this morning. the leading man with supporting cast of the city's police as they announced a crack down against automobile break-ins. >> my car was broken into a few years ago. our home was broken into last year. our family home. so in gets personal very quick for a lot of people. >> personal times 30,000. that's how many break-ins the san francisco police logged last year. 82 per day.

fisherman's whav, the palace of fine arts are prime areas, ranking highest among target hitch environments. >> looks like a nice area. >> you wouldn't expect it. >> hence this campaign the city launched today. you'll see the signs on streets, buses even in rental cars. and printed in at least 4 different languages. commander david la czar thought up the slogan hoping to knock down supply and demand we leave cars empty educate merchants and residents and send a message that those that exit the crime that this city is not the place to do it. >> meantime across the street in the calf oi the visitors wausau the fair and the fingerprint demonstration and began to inventory what it was they did leave in cars. >> tents, sleeping bags, clothes, my computer. like everything. >> lose those and even a world famous irish coffey or two or three or four. won't help. in san francisco, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. police in alameda need your

help. a restaurant owner has now died after an attempted robbery outside her restaurant on webster street. eric thomas is there life with the new surveillance video of the attack. eric. >> reporter: you're going to see that surveillance video in a moment. the female victim was coother than of the faux and dao restaurant in alameda. we haven't been able to talk to family members or coworkers yet. but the manager of a nearby business said he heard the commercial last friday, the attack that started the cascade that claimed the woman's life. he looked outside saw her bleeding from the head and vomiting and called 911. he did not see the compact incident but police are now investigating what began as an attempted robbery and turned into a vicious homicide. look closely at the top of the skren and you'll see the struggle tu turning that case attempted are to homds. the surveillance video from a in addition base shows the attackers beating 61-year-old cindy leeann a 28-year-old man

who tried to help her happening last friday night around closing time. both victims rushed to the hospital. >> the female victim sustained serious traumatic injuries and eventually succumbed to injuries on tuesday april 10th. >> the male victim was treated and released. employees of the restaurant didn't want to go on camera. neither did managers of nearby businesses. but they say lee owned the restaurant here and another in oakland with her husband. alameda police have assigned the violent crime investigations unit to the case and they vow to find the killers. >> since this occurred we have devoted every available investigative resource to exclusively to this investigation. all of our investigators led by our violent crimes unit have been collecting and analyzing evidence. >> if you have any information you are asked to call alameda police in alameda eric thomas abc 7 news. >> richmond police are investigating that city's third homicide in just the past week. sky 7 flew above the skriem

scene after a man was shot and killed 9:40 this morning. you can see on the map where it happened, south 15th street and main avenue. detectives haven't said what prompted the shooting or if they made arrests. richmond went several months as we reported without a homicide ever after the first of the year until this weekway o with the last one being in november. well the search for suspects is on after two highway shootings within hours of each other last night in contra costa county. the chp says the shootings are unrelated but each is a case of road rage. they have that in common. the first of walnut creek. the second at 11:15 and state highway 4 near the 242 junction in concord. the first shooting shatters a victim's car window and left a bullet fragment inside the vehicle process that fan with two men rg o rg aing. the second after the subject

opened fire after exchanging words through open car windows. no one was hurt in either shooting. the santa clara prosecutors formerly charged reuben foster with three felonies includingflect violence. foster appeared briefly in court in san jose a two mafr months after the arrest. he physically attacked his live in girlfriend dragging her by the hair punching her in the head eight to ten times and throwing her out of their home. if convicted the linebacker could face 11 years in prison. he is represented by josh bentley who also represents former ninerer and raider alden smithen vac valhalla police arrested two after a high-speed chase last night. this 20-year-old man reversed his car into a patrol car after being pulled over. his 24-year-old companion was in the passenger seat. the suspects led police on a chase on eastbound 80 at 120-mile-per-hour to dixon including driving through a

walnut grove before heading back to vac valhalla and crashing down the embankment. they found fake checks id cards and drug related items in the car. along with the pit bull akills o kilz who is okay. google continues to acquire land near downtown san jose to create a campus for tens of thousands of workers. at the same time google started a community engagement process to allay fears and work with residents who will be affected by in development. today it received some specific demands from eye coalition group. abc 7 news reporter david louie has the story. >> after polling 1,500 residents the gup sol convalley rising showed up with a list of demands as plans unfold for a megagoogle campus near downtown san jose. an estimated 20,000 people could work at the complex near diridon train station and sap center. >> if they want to come to san jose we have expectations how they could be good neighbors.

>> she and othersant want goo google to commit to affordable housing funds for local schools and public transit and jobs for local residents. there is concern about displaysment of existing residents. >> you're talking about well they can always come back three and a half years later really a couple with children? they had it relocate school and everything else you're telling them to come back. >> silicon valley rice something a coalition of faith community and labor groups. >> we ask the blessings upon google as well that they take the time to take us seriously, to hear the needs of the community. >> a google manager was on hand to receive the survey results and list of demands. >> it's a very robust community engagement process the city sat up we are looking forward to the discussions. >> google already had community meetings outlining vision of the project. they hope will they will meet a lift of demands as facebook did. there was a total of 30

organizations in dlieg with google. the company says it's a long conversation stretching out perhaps over the next ten years. in mountain view, david louie, abc 7 news. san francisco based uber is going to start performing annual background checks on all of its u.s. drivers. in addition uber is hiring a company that constantly monitored criminal arrests. uber is also adding a button in the uber app that allows passengers to call 911 in an emergency. the moves are made to improve passenger safety. meanwhile, you'rer has agreed to expand settlement terms with the federal trade commission. the deal including the 2016 data preach when hacker stole data on 57 million users and drivers. under the settlement uber has to supply additional audit reports and could face civil penaltes if it fails to notify the agency of future data breeches. go-to ready for big waves. the national weather service says they may hit 20 feet starting in just a few hours. for more let's o go to our

meteorologist sandhya patel. surf's up. >> look at the wave heights current 10 to 12 feet and continuing to build. we have a beach hazard statement. 2:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. northwestly breakers reaching up to 20 feet as you mentioned. strong rip currents, sneaker waves possible. something you need to watch out for. right now the waves are gentle in santa cruz if you are heading there. you will definitely need to keep an eye out for that. live doppler 7 showing a quieter picture despite the fact that we did have showers through the afternoon hours in the north bay today. there are more rain chances in the future. i'll be back to let you know if the rain chances will be coming in this weekend, or if they'll hold off until next week. ama. >> thank you sandhya. we're nearly a month into spring. but if you plan on driving to southern california it might look like winter along the way. snow covers hills, build attentions and vehicle in frazier work. that's near the grapevine section of i-5.

a high wind warning in effect until early morning. gusts could make it the driechgt difficult. . this snow fell after a heat wave. >> here is an interesting question. is california too big. a billionaire has enough signatures to trigger a referendum. housing lockouts how the american dream is becoming nearly impossible for some. >> i met the man who used to live in this house six months ago when the north bay wildfires broke out. we'll check in with neil and his family and the road to recovery. also here, marijuana mystery. how did a bunch of pot end up covering a california beach. >> and nig

the north bay wildfires destroyed 3,000 homes just in

santa rosa. dion lim met one man who lost his house day one. today she checked back in. >> reporter: i met neil blodgett covered in ash wandering dazed along the side of the road near the hilton sonoma wine country. his home just insin rated by blames. >> this is all i'm wearing. this is all i got. i don't know how i'm going to function. >> reporter: when we caught up with neil weeks later on his first trip back to the home he and his wife and family lived in 15 years all that were left were memories. >> just trumized. i got nothing. i should have been able to grab something. >> today they are living with his mother, the home he grew up in. >> i was about 19 years. >> reporter: but neil says dealing with insurance and planning has been challenging along with a new wave of emotions. >> a war-like feeling like when you're in battle and you come back home you have the feeling that -- that you're sparked off or something, it's just, like, it's just this fire has done the

same thing i feel to me. >> reporter: crisis counselors say what neil is experiencing right now is completely normal, that it's at about this time six months after tragedy that the sight or the smell or the sound of something can trigger an emotional response. >> some people are going through a lot of emotioning with feeling really sad or angry, or guilty about feeling sad and angry. >> reporter: for neil and his wife getting through tragedy meenz focusing on rebuilding and they know they'll get through it together. >> one day at a time and we'll snow the story at the end. >>? santa rosa, dion lim, abc 7 news. >> one day at time. a new study shows african-americans are at a distinct disadvantage compared with whites and asians when it comes to buying a home. the report by real estate database company zillow says white buyers in the bay area could afford 53% of the listings in the asian. asian could afford 48%.

african-americans could only afford 5% of the listings. >> what that shows me and tells me right is that black households are kept out of the our basically economically barred from many neighborhoods all across the metropolitan area. >> olson says thedown side from this is that where you live determines your future, notably the quality of education and ability to move up in income one day. and unlikely duo is pushing for the de to stop meddling with medical marijuana research. kamala harris have joining with hair inhatch they're calling on jeff sessions to stop blocking research on medical pot. the university of mississippi is only the researchers licensed to produce the research grade marijuana. more than 2 dozen other applied. erris and hatch are concerned about that the justice department is sittingen on the applications. marijuana has been washing

ashore off santa barbara. it's not clear how it got there. our reporter has the story. >> reporter: well, you don't see this every day. there is buds just washed up on shore. >> a large amount of marijuana washed up along santa barbara. >> all this bud washing up. >> a viewer made the video of the ha that has been circling around and social media. >> smuggling it's a possibility. >> the harbor patrol isn't ruling smugglers out. the harbor patrol was first told about the pot back on march 31st. that's when the dredge company called them saying they saw what appeared to be marijuana floating in the water. >> we don't know if this -- this product came about as a result of the dredging operation or washed on shore from offshore. we picked up some -- some quantities and disposed of

those. >> the marijuana was found in smaller clumps called bud like you see in the video. >> we didn't go through all the rip wrap along the beach to pickous pieces. >> that's weed. that's weed. >> that's reporter loss it looks like voters will good get to decide whether california will be split into three states. a beller offered a initiative to break up the state. he says it's received enough signatures to qualify for the notify ballot. submitted to election official this is week. the three-way split goes like this northern california includes the beau to oregon border. southern california covers frezio onand southern state np a new california would begin in los angeles county and cover the coastal areas. even if the measure passed congress would have to have the final word here. it seems unlikely. by the way, this initiative has no connection to the efforts

could have california remove from the united states. it's time to dry out. we got needed rain obviously. a look at difficult doppler 17 7. a few clouds passing through. in terms of rainfall totals last 24 hours anywhere from about .4 of an irchl in mountain view to .58 in yukia, san jose, 15. oakland towards livermore, we got some rain. this was not a huge storm. we didn't expect it to be a huge one. but we have more rain in our future. let's look at our rain chances. sunday into monday, we have a level one system coming and the middle of next week there will be other opportunities for more wet weather. so definitely put the umbrellas away at least a few days. you get a chance to noinl sunshine. what it looks like right now on live doppler 7 in the sierra they are still seeing some snow showers. anywhere from a few inches all the way to 8 inches being

reported at the resorts. no traffic restrictions or chain controls right now. but just something to keep in mind if you're heading up to though the next couple days. it will be dry and rain snow mix comes back on sunday. right now gusty. sand carlos reporting wind gusts out of the west 25-mile-per-hour. 22 in concord and that wind making it feel even cooler. it has ben a cool day today. most areas in the upper 50s to low 60s. a live look from sutro tower. we're looking at the golden gate bridge and marin head lds. 55 in san francisco. you need a jacket there. 55 degrees in half moon bay. south beach camera looking towards the port of oakland where we have a few clouds overhead. upper 50s from santa rosa to napa. concord at 61 degrees. and one other live picture from the east bay hills camera. just a few clouds not bothering you. clear and chilly overnight. sunny and warmer the next two days and rain returns sunday. when you get going tomorrow morning you'll feel the kmil in the area. temperatures in the mid-30s to

upper 40s. bundle up as you leave for work or for school. temperatures in the afternoon low 60s to low 70s. you'll see plenty of sun for friday. it's warmer. saturday still dry and then sunday afternoon into monday a light level one storm comes our way. light rain, .25 to .5 inch for most. sunday afternoon we somehow the time line. 2:00 up to the north. as we head into about 6:00 p.m. the north bay gets wet. we start to see the rain widespread sunday night around 11:00 p.m. and the wet breezy pattern carries over into monday. it's pretty much an all-day thing on monday. there will be snow in the sierra with that round as well. mix and rain and snow. near mendocino and lake counties. in terms of rainfall totals, most areas about a acquire to half inch during the two-day time period. you can download the ach and keep track of the temperatures or live doppler 7 any time you want. accuweather sevgts sin sunny and warmer next two days.

temperatures in the mid-70s inland. he low 60s coastside. and sunday afternoon into monday when we cool it off considerable. level one system brings rain. short break and tuesday before another chance middle of next week. wednesday night into thursday. that's not as promising. it's skirting the coast. but dan and ama we will keep you posted. so here is a question are air friars more than hot hair. michael finney puts them on to the test. >> next at 5:30 on world news with david murd. >> from beirut the the eyes of the world on president trump. the potential strikes on syria. breaking news involving fired breaking news involving fired fbi director james come in and ♪ ♪ hi! leaving a career to follow a calling takes courage. a personalized financial strategy

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tosswood a bit of oil rather than completely immersed. consumer reports tested 7 appliances. and although they appear similar from the outside consumer reports found some real differences one difference see is basket size. some are so small they require cooking food in batches. >> this new wave is the $140 the largest tested with a 5.8 quart capacity. easy to use controls. the new wave is a little noisy. similar to a microwave. consumer reports calls this model a best buy, $70 and one of the quietest they tested. the controls are fairly easy to see and use. it holds 3.2 quarts but note that the nooks and crannys if the food basket make it tough to clean. the fry frere black and decker has temperatures settings printed so tiny difficult to read. and the small basket holds just 2 quarts. fine if you're not cooking very much.

but you'll have to do multiple batches if if the kids bring friends for nug et cetera. michael finney, 7 on your side. stay with us. the warriorsable finally on the road for the playoffs and coach kerr is taking on his opponent and mentor, that's next. but first we want to thank hey ary for this picture of the fog over mor maen county. share your p

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bay fires, six months tonight, as we come on the air from beirut, the eyes of the world on president trump. his decision coming, if and when to launch strikes on syria. the president meeting with his national security team late today. the u.s., france, britain, all getting military ships and war planes into position. and just across the border here in syria, russia now moving ships out of harm's way. and what assad's forces are now doing. there is also breaking news tonight involving fired fbi director james comey. and his description of what played out with president trump. conversations, the private dinner, saying the president sought loyalty like mafia boss sammy the bull. the hush money. the fbi raiding the president's personal attorney, and tonight, there is now news about this doorman at trump world tower,