>> reporter: the van sped off but was found a short time later. the driver taken into custody. >> right now we have nine people that are dead. 16 that are injured. i can assure the public all available resources have been brought in to address this tragic situation. >> reporter: while vehicles have been turned into weapons in prior terror attacks, the mayor of toronto has so far only called what happened today a tragic incident. >> the fact that the driver is alive and can be questioned by police and they can examine his electronics, his phone, his laptop or any other type of device when he might have, bodes well that law enforcement will figure out the motive quickly. >> the homeland security secretary wasn't far from the scene where a g7 security meeting was under way. no member of the u.s. delegation was hurt. three students were hit by a car near oakland tech this afternoon. take a look at this map which shows you where the accident

happened just after 2:30 this afternoon. the high school is located on broadway near 51st street. sky 7 was over the school earlier. a police spokesperson said the injured students were taken to the hospital for treatment. a school district spokesperson said the injuries are non-life threatening. the intersection is closed for a police investigation. 16 people in san francisco were treated after a gas line ruptured next to a homeless shelter. it was first reported about 11:00 this morning with gas leaking from the alley near the next door episcopal community services shelter. ly a-- lyanne melendez is there live. >> reporter: they just covered up the area where that rupture occurred. see how close that alley is to that shelter. that's why so many people became sick. here's what we know. the name of the construction is jay flores construction company and they told me they were doing some sewer work when they hit

that gas line. emergency crews responded quickly to those suffering from the effects of a gas leak near the next door homeless shelter at 10001 polk street. >> they told us to evacuate the building. >> reporter: how are you feeling right now? >> i'm light-headed. my daughter is coming to get me to take me home. >> reporter: 14 people were so ill they had to be taken to local hospitals. two others were treated and released. all of them were either workers or clients of the shelter. it didn't take long to determine the culprit. construction workers in the alley next to the shelter. >> upon arrival, we discovered a construction company had punctured a two-inch gas main on the street and heavy smell of gas in the street. >> just stank. just stank like gas so somebody came through with a trustee mask for me. so now i feel like it still stank out here. >> reporter: pg&e managed to clamp the line in less than an

hour. as a precautionary measure, the area was cordoned off. >> everybody was feeling nauseated, light-headed, shortness of breath. >> reporter: how are you now? >> i'm fine, i'm fine. >> reporter: people were eventually allowed back inside after the building was inspected and the alley assessed to make sure there were no pockets of gas. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. developing news, president george h.w. bush is in intensive care just days after funeral services for his late wife, barbara. a spokesperson says the 93-year-old was admitted to houston methodist hospital yesterday morning. bush is suffering from an infection that has entered his blood. a statement from his office says bush is responding to treatment and appears to be recovering. his hospitalization came just hours after he attended his wife's services. barbara bush died last week at the age of 92. a rapid response team is about to hit the streets in san francisco to take on a different kind of threat, talking about discarded needles.

mayor mark ferrell joined the effort in the south of market neighborhood. he is working to create a dedicated team to remove syringes left on city streets by drug users. >> our needle and syringe issue in san francisco has really become an epidemic on our streets. it is something that i heard about for a long time before becoming the mayor, and now as the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, it is one of the things i hear about the most. people quite frankly are fed up with the conditions of our streets, as am i. >> the mayor says the city will add ten new employees contracted through the aids foundation to conduct sweeps and help collect these abandoned needles. he says residents and busines owners can report needles because calling the city's 311 system. a union city woman is in custody accused of killing her husband. police found the body of a 57-year-old man inside the home after getting a call around 10:15 last night. officers say the man had been

shot several times. two women were at the scene, the victim's wife and another relative. police took the wife into custody. investigators haven't released a motive, but they say the couple had a history with police. >> in 2004 we responded to this address with some of the involved parties where the 57-year-old victim in this case was actually arrested for domestic violence crime. >> authorities aren't releasing the names of those involved until they notify the couple's three adult children. to the weather for a few moments. another day of sun and unseasonably warm weather. spencer christian is here to let us know how long it's going to last, spencer. >> a couple more days. here's a live at live doppler 7. you see fog developing along the coastline and temperatures right now looking like that typical summer-like range. 57 at half moon bay but mid to upper 80s in many inland locations and we have a giants game at at&t park this evening,

taking on the washington nationals at 7:15. game time mainly sunny, breezy, about 62 degrees. we'll see the fog spreading from the coast, across the bay and locally inland overnight. so the day will begin tomorrow with quite a bit of fog around but that warmth will hold up for a while. i'll show you just how long in a few minutes. a big fire engulfed an oakland homeless camp today. sky 7 was over the scene in east oakland. there have been several like it in the last few months, as i said, and one of those fires happened in west oakland last month. today abc 7 news reporter laura anthony talked with residents who say they have been all but abandoned by the city of oakland. >> it's been chaos. we've been abandoned by the city of oakland. >> reporter: west oakland business owner bill eason says he's seen it all in his aaron years on harlan street but nothing as bad as this. it's one of the oakland's

homeless encampments, one eason and his neighbors say living and working here is almost unbearable. last month eason ran over and tried to put out flames that roared through some of the tents. he's even offered the residents small jobs and helped them in other ways. besides servicing the porta-potty and weekly garbage cleanups, the city has done little despite dozens of letters and phone calls from him and others in the neighborhood. >> not once did i get a call back. i've learned to give up. >> reporter: many of eason's calls went to oakland's assistant to the city manager in charge of homeless outreach. >> i can say we get dozens and dozens of calls every day about encampments because this is a crisis, like it is for every city on the west coast. >> reporter: the city does have several initiatives in the works, like the tough sheds which are housing dozens of people. the problem, according to the last census, there are about 2,000 people living on the streets of oakland. in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7

news. some frightening moments today on the ride to school for a group of children in santa cruz county. their school bus was hit by an suv this morning north of watsonville. the chp says the suv drifted into oncoming traffic of the the bus driver swerved to avoid it and crashed into a power pole. no one was hurt. the children were safely taken off the bus, picked up by a second bus and driven to school. the chp says the driver of the suv left the scene and they don't have many leads. testing has begun on a new stretch of b.a.r.t. tracks. matt keller is on the story. >> reporter: what is life like when a massive b.a.r.t. station pops up in your backyard? >> do you get veggies or fruit? >> yeah, everything. >> reporter: it's normal, according to april and bobby, who live in apartments in north san jose. >> since the beginning of the construction, everything is okay. no noise. so i think it's okay. >> reporter: they may notice a

change starting today. vta begins a new stage for testing the ten-mile segment of the b.a.r.t. berryessa extension. trains could be running around the clock up to 20 hours total per day. >> we are running test trains up to about 80 miles per hour, and that way we can start to really look at all how the trains talk to the system and that's how the system talks to the trains. >> reporter: vta says residents may notice sporadic noise and vibration but different from the construction noise they have had since 2012. the vta put up sound walls and triple-pane windows in about 250 homes near the tracks. >> now it's much quieter? >> yeah, it's quiet, yeah. we cannot hear the noise of the b.a.r.t. train. >> reporter: vta hopes to have is testing done by the beginning of the summer. b.a.r.t. will have to do its own tests. the goal is to get the berryessa station open by the end of the year. matt keller, abc 7 news. hundreds of tenants rallied in oakland, los angeles and

sacramento today in support of a ballot initiative they say would slow skyrocketing rents in cities across the state. abc 7 news reporter carlos was at today's oakland rally. >> reporter: with signs that read "rent is too damn high," housing affordability supporters rallied to call for an end to california's rent control law. >> our communities are facing incredible rates of displacement. people are pushed out and some of them end up homeless. >> reporter: proponents pushing to repeal it have enough signatures to place the issue before voters this november. it allows landlords to raise rent to market levels after a tenant moves out of single family homes, condos and apartments built after 1995. >> let's give cities and counties back the right to do rent control, because in fact we had more production when we had rent control than we have today. >> reporter: the affordable housing act would do away with a law that makes it illegal for

cities to adopt certain kinds of rent control ordinances. tenants say skyrocketing costs are pushing them out of their neighborhoods. >> i was in danger of being evicted. actually i was told that if i could not afford the rent, that i should move out. >> reporter: but opponents say placing stricter rent control rules will cause more problems. >> the prices are high, but we don't agree with repealing costa-hawkins to solve the crisis. >> reporter: she says owners won't be able to afford to stay in business. >> our primary concern is that we're going to decrease the rental housing that we already have, which is really and december railway menttrimenf our communities. >> reporter: landlords say there are other solutions. more questions ahead this week from lawmakers looking into the facebook data debacle. >> coming up, the two men british lawmakers want to hear

from. one is a scientist at the heart of this scandal. monkey see, monkey sue. there's a new ruling today in the legal debate over a famous monkey selfie. >> i wouldn't have missed this for the world. and later, britain celebrates a royal birth. meet the newest arrival and the fifth in line to the british throne. >> and 7 on your side's michael finney is taking your questions on twitter and facebook. just post them

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two key firggures are planng to testify about the facebook scandal. they will testify about the data given to a research firm connected to the trump campaign. rebecca jarvis has the latest. >> reporter: he's the scientist at the heart of the facebook privacy scandal. aleksandr kogan, a researcher at the university of cambridge, who lawfully ran a personality test on facebook in 2014 to collect the data of millions of americans. but according to facebook broke company policy when he shared that information with political consultancy cambridge analytica. >> so at the time i thought we were doing everything that was correct. i was kind of acting haonestly naively. i thought we were doing everything okay. >> reporter: kogan telling "60 minutes" what he did on the social network was a common occurrence among researchers. his quiz downloaded about 270,000 times, according to facebook, put as many as 87

million users' information at risk. >> people signed into that app expecting to share the data with kogan, and then he turned around and in violation of our policies and in violation of people's expectations sold it to a third-party firm, to cambridge analytica in this case. >> reporter: the information including everything from user locations to genders to interests, as well as information on their friends, potentially valuable in swaying voters with targeted advertising. >> the idea that we stole the data i think is technically incorrect. i mean this is not a hack. >> reporter: for "good morning america," rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> now in rebecca jarvis' story you heard a brief comment from facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. that was from his two days of testimony earlier this month on capitol hill. today on "good morning america" kogan told george stephanopolous that he thought zuckerberg's testimony was a little misleading, saying the idea that this was a hack was, quote, flat out wrong.

the obama era net neutrality rules are officially dead. as of today the regulations passed in 2015 no longer apply, a move spearheaded by the federal communications commission. under the old rules federal regulators prohibited slowing down web traffic and from offering higher speeds for those willing to pay extra. five states have passed laws to keep many of those rules in place. california is considering similar legislation. a san francisco appeals court says when it comes to copyright laws, there's no monkey business. the ninth circuit court of appeals issued an opinion in the peta lawsuit over this photo. the court ruled animals don't have copyrights over photographs. peta claimed he had the rights to the photo he snapped using a photographer's camera. a san francisco-based self publishing company reached a settlement in 2017 but the court

decided to rule on the matter anyway. thousands of women came together in san francisco -- or come together in san francisco tomorrow for networking opportunities and career inspiration. the 29th annual professional businesswomen of california conference is taking place at the must say con news is a proud sponsor. >> joining together in a mighty chorus that is finally saying time's up. >> reporter: actress ashley judd is a leading voice fighting for sexual iequit and against sexua harassment. judd is the latest thought leader to speak at the region's premiere conference for women. last year's event drew more than 5,000 attendees and featured hillary clinton's first big public peaspeech since the presidential election. >> so despite our stumbles and our setbacks, we've never been better positioned to take on this vital work. >> reporter: this year's theme

is stand up, lift up, and judd will be part of a panel focusing on the me too and time's up movements, along with jackie speier. she recently appeared on "beyond the headlines" with cheryl jennings and said the discussion is timely and important. >> we are truly changing the culture at work for all time so that our daughters and granddaughters are never, ever going to have to deal with frankly what we had to deal with. >> reporter: other speakers are maria shriver, jane fonda and lily tomlin. the two have been outspoken their entire careers about women's rights. members of the abc 7 news team will lead panels designed to help women gain career confidence, media skills and more. but it goes well beyond this one-day conference. throughout the year the organization works with its corporate partners to offer workshops, socials and

mentorships, all designed to empower women in the workplace and in their lives. kristen sze, abc 7 news. >> abc 7 has been a proud sponsor of the professional businesswomen of california conference since the beginning. this year maria shriver will give the keynote speech. other speakers include rosie rios, manual al-sharif, jackie speier and alexandra roddy. tickets have sold out. >> but you don't need a ticket to enjoy it because we'll be there and bring a lot of the information to you. >> perfect. now let's check our weather with spencer christian. >> it is nice. >> you don't need a ticket to enjoy this weather. it is amazing, after a warm summer-like weekend the week is off to a similar start. we have sunny skies across the bay area, although little patches of coastal fog are forming, which is very typical of a midsummer pattern. here's the view looking at a little finger of fog working

through the golden gate right now under otherwise blue skies. it's 63 here in san francisco right now, 67 across the bay in oakland, 74 in mountain view, 80 in san jose, 81 in gilroy, 55 at half moon bay. this is a view looking westward from emeryville. the sky is bright blue. it's 78 up north at santa rosa, 66 in napa. we have low to mid-80s right now at novato, fairfield, concord and livermore. here's one more view for you from the golden gate. you can see that finger of fog that i showed you earlier moving out over the traffic right now. these are your forecast features. we'll see fog near the coast and bay overnight and lingering into the morning hours. inland warmth will hold on tomorrow and we'll have a cooler pattern developing near end of the week. but for tonight this will be the picture with fog moving out over the bay and locally inland. low temperatures will be in the mid to upper 40s in the inland valleys, maybe a couple of 50s down south. san francisco we expect a low of

51. right around the shoreline upper 40s will be the rule. as we look at tomorrow, we'll begin the day with morning fog but it will start to warm up nicely by midday as the fog retreats a bit. we'll see less fog in the late afternoon and it will be even warmer with temperatures inland in the low 80s by mid-afternoon. mid-70s around the bay, mid-60s along the coast. it will be a slow cooldown because of the major warmup. we'll have 82 concord, 81 and the -- antioch. san jose will have a high of 79 and on the coast we'll see low to mid-60s even with the presence of fog. now, later in the week there's a chance of some light rain or sprinkles developing in the north bay mainly. so by 11:00 p.m. friday we estimate right now we'll see a couple hundredths of an inch of

rain. the remainder of the bay area will probably see no measurable rain at all. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. two more days of this warm pattern we have now will be with us tuesday and wednesday. then it starts to get a little cooler on thursday. by friday we'll see increasing clouds with a chance of those sprinkles i just mentioned and a slight, slight chance on saturday as well. but it looks like mainly a dry weekend. even though we'll have more clouds over the weekend going into next week and have a cooldown, there's very, very little chance of any rain. >> nice-looking week. thanks, spencer. passengers witnessed a violent struggle on an american airlines flight. coming up, what the passenger reportedly did that got him tased and pulled from the plane. and the contest one

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good afternoon once again. here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. nine people were killed and 16 people hurt in toronto after a man drove a van onto a sidewalk for several blocks. that driver was arrested. officials say they are still trying to figure out his motive. only on 7, novato police are investigating the theft of some super bowl memorabilia. deion lem talked with the widow of a man who went to 51 super bowls. that's her tweet that she put up on this story.

we'll have exclusive report coming up at 5:00. also at 5:00, the city of san jose has reached a tentative $5 million agreement for more wireless broadband coverage. david louie will explain how they're planning to use the city's light poles to make that happen. in tennessee the manhunt is over for the suspect accused of killing four people at a waffle house restaurant. maggie rulli has new details of travis reinking's capture. >> reporter: the manhunt in nashville is now over. 29-year-old travis reinking is in police custody. >> a tip from the community is what led to the arrest today. >> reporter: the citywide search coming to andy when authorities appe apprehended reinking 24 hours after he opened fire, killing four. >> there's a challenge that we still have in front of us and that is to not forget the victims. providing counseling services to those who were hurt and to the

families who live on. >> reporter: police are now piecing together reinking's crime-filled past. last week they confirm he stole a car from a local bmw dealership. they point to his history of mental illness, citing a 2016 incident report that says reinking was delusional and believed taylor swift was harassing him, stalking and hacking his phone. in 2017, reinking was arrested by the secret service for trespassing at the white house. at the time his four firearms were seized by police and eventually turned over to his father. the father has admitted that he gave all of the guns back to his sun, including the rifle police say reinking used this sunday to gun down his victims. >> he transferred weapons knowingly to a person that is prohibited so that could be a violation of federal law. >> reporter: the mayor of nashville thanked authorities for all of their hard work and said now the community can receive justice and breathe a sigh of relief. maggie rulli, abc news, new york. ohio's republican governor signs an executive order today

intended to improve reporting of gun background checks. john kasich is calling on a state committee to reconvene and study how well police departments and courts report information that could stop someone from buying a gun. te move comes as kasich pushes a package of gun control efforts in the legislature, including a so-called red flag law regarding people who show warning signs of violence. a major step forward today for president trump's pick for secretary of state. a short time ago the senate foreign relations committee voted in favor of mike pompeo's nomination. until this afternoon, pompeo's fate was really up in the air, but kentucky republican rand paul suddenly changed his mind and announced he'd support the nomination, which now goes to the full senate. pompeo would replace rex tillerson who was fired by president trump last month. former fbi director james comey will speak tonight in san francisco. the sold-out event is the latest stop on comey's national tour to

promote his book "a higher loyalty, truth, lies and leadership." the book describes comey's service as fbi director, his investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails and his tumultuous relationship with president trump, who fired him last year. a second adult film star is now backing up claims by stormy daniels involving her alleged one-night stand with donald trump in 2006. abc's serena marshall has the latest now from washington. >> reporter: the night adult film actress stormy daniels allegedly had sex with donald trump, another adult film actress, jessica drake, claims she, daniels and a third woman had an initial encounter with trump in his hotel room. >> i remember he was wearing pajamas. and he kissed all of us on the lips. >> reporter: drake says after she, stormy and the other woman left the hotel room, she received a call asking her to come back. when she said no, drake says someone who worked for trump called back and offered her

$10,000 to return to his hotel room. >> so, jessica, according to your story, donald trump thinks he can buy you and the price is $10,000? >> that was the offer that was made, yeah. >> reporter: drake says she refused to return to the room, but stormy daniels told her she did go back to see mr. trump on her own that night. >> i didn't yet know of her experience until she said he didn't offer to pay me. >> reporter: drake claims daniels is telling the truth and says she's speaking out now to back daniels' claim that she was threatened by a stranger, something president trump described as a total con job this month when daniels and her attorney released this sketch based on her memory of the man who she claims threatened her in a parking lot in 2011 after she told her story to a magazine. >> i just remember him saying, oh, it's a beautiful little girl. it would be a shame if something happened to her mom. >> she relayed the experience to me. i said something like i'm so

sorry, i can't even imagine, what are you going to do? >> reporter: at the time jessica drake made her first allegations, the campaign said mr. trump did not know her or remember her. the white house has declined to comment. serena marshall, abc news, washington. closing arguments are set for tomorrow in bill cosby's sexual assault retrial. the 80-year-old is charged with drugging and molesting a woman at his house in 2004. he says it was consensual. jurors heard from 15 prosecution witnesses, including five other women who say cosby drugged and molested them. the defense called ten witnesses, including a former colleague of andrea constand who said constand spoke of framing a high-profile person so she could sue and get money. it's a boy! we have a first glimpse today of the latest member of the british royal family. there's still one big unknown about him, though. ♪

>> and the show will go on tonight right here on abc 7. the latest in the quest for stardom for "american idol" contestants. i'm spencer christian. weather is the star today. it's been a sunny and warm

there's jubilation across the united kingdom. the royal family welcomed a new addition overnight, the third child to the duke and dutchess

of cambridge. molly hunter is in london with the exciting news. >> reporter: it's a boy. baby cambridge number three is a little boy now fifth in line to the throne and the world's media was waiting. kensington palace tweeted the news, her royal highness was safely delivered of a son. the baby weighs 8 pounds, 7 ounces. kate arrived early this morning at the private wing of st. mary's hospital. a relatively quick delivery, prince george arrived after 10 1/2 hours of labor and princess charlotte after just 2 1/2. the two other cambridge kids arrived at the hospital to visit their new baby brother today. an announcement has been posted outside of buckingham palace today. and just like last time, prince william and kate come out and greet the crowds. the diehard world baby fans and all the reporters. a few words as prince william hopped in the car and they're off, now a family of five. now, we may not have the name for several days, but bookies here have put the odds at arthur

of 5-1, albert 9-1 and jack also at 9-1. a few of the diehard royal fans here have said that philip michael is their favorite, a nod to the baby boy's great grandfather. molly hunter, abc news, london. "good morning america" chief meteorologist ginger zee is out with a new book that follows middle school student and her passion for the weather. jessica castro from abc 7 mornings talked to ginger about the book this morning. >> i'm hoping that this inspires if not, you know, creates a world where people are interested in the environment around them, that the atmosphere becomes interesting and that they find little pieces where they go, hey, i remember reading that in that book. i didn't even realize i was learning. >> in fact the main character's name is a meteorological term. it means the spin in the atmosphere. did you cast your vote? last night was the first time this season that viewers got to vote for their favorite singer

on "american idol." here's what's next for those taking a shot at stardom. ♪ >> reporter: they gain golden tickets to hollywood. >> you're going to hollywood. >> reporter: facing the tough scrutiny of superstar judges luke bryan, katy perry and lionel ritchie. >> your voice just isn't knocking me completely out of the park. >> reporter: battled it out in solo and group performances. ♪ singing their hearts out in hopes of making it through to the showcase round. >> all four of you are going to the next level. >> reporter: the show narrowed it down to the top 24, each performing duets with celebrity partners. in the end, it was an emotional elimination that ended up leaving some fan favorites

disappointed. but only 14 could move on. those 14 facing another hurdle. they have the judges' votes, but now they're competing for america's vote. you now have the chance to have your say voting for the final top ten. each contestant hoping to continue to make the climb, ultimately becoming the next "american idol." the six who are six after america's vote will perform a victory song. the other eight will be performing for the judges. tonight the three judges have the tough decision of finalizing those other four pushing ten idol hopefuls one step closer to stardom. now, did your favorite singer make it? catch the voting results tonight on "american idol" right here on abc 7 starting at 8:00 p.m. it's been a fun season. >> definitely. all right, we want to check on our weather because it's quite warm out. >> and it's going to continue, i

think. spencer christian is here with the forecast. >> it's going to continue a couple more days. here's a look at live doppler 7. we've got main ly sunny skies bt fog is beginning to develop. low temperatures drop only into the mid to upper 40s for the most part. a few locations will see lows in the low 50s so it will be pretty mild in many spots overnight. this is our fogcast starting at 7:00 tomorrow morning. at that point there will be quite a bit of fog lingering from the overnight hours but burn back to the coastline by midday and stay at the coastline most of the day giving us sunny skies once again over the bay and inland locations. under those sunny skies, high temperatures will reach in the low to mid-60s, near the coast, low to mid-70s around the bay and low to mid-80s inland. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll have two more warm days as i mentioned, tomorrow and wednesday. temperatures drop off a little bit on thursday. it gets even cooler on friday with a chance of some sprinkles,

but so far that chance is looking like mainly a north bay event. also a slight chance in the north bay on saturday and dry conditions on sunday and monday under partly cloudy skies but it will be a bit cooler as the weekend approaches. well, a billionaire doesn't want to give up his toys. ahead, his latest effort to buy the bankrupt toys "r" us. and a 50-year sentence for stealing fajitas? why the judge feels the punishment fits the crime. i'm 7 on your side's michael finney. is a medallion signature guarantee worth getting, and what is one anyway? we'll talk about that coming up

a man in texas will spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing fajitas. as jessica castro explains, this was no one-time job. >> 50 years in prison for stealing fajitas? a texas man stole a lot. he stole $1.2 million worth of fajitas and now has pleaded guilty to theft by a public servant. that's according to the brownsville herald. the cameron county d.a.'s office arrested him after a food

service driver called the detention center's kitchen to let the employees know their 800-pound delivery of fajitas had arrived. only just one problem because inmates at the detention center are not served fajitas. jessica castro, abc 7 news. the better business bureau is giving palo alto-based tesla an f rating saying the automaker doesn't do a good job responding to customer complaints. the bbb received 65 complaints about tesla. 23 were resolved satisfactorily. tesla responded saying it has the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the entire auto industry and claimed most of the complaints were resolved long ago. a billionaire businessman isn't toying around when it comes to toys "r" us. according to cnn, isaac larian says he remains hopeful that he can save 274 of the toy chain's u.s.-based stores even though his initial $675 million bid for them wasn't accepted.

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coming up tonight on abc 7 at 8:00, it's two hours of "american idol" followed by "deception." then stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00. even six months after the north bay firestorm, it seems we hear mostly bad news from that area. well, today we change that. >> abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman has been following many of the survivors. as he reports, this morning one of them celebrated a major victory. >> reporter: here's to the difference that climbing a flight of stairs can make and having a key to your own front door. for john, it's the difference of having a place to call home after 91 years of life and then six months of hell that began with the santa rosa firestorm. >> something good finally happened. >> reporter: he's another survivor of journey's end, where the tubbs fire killed two, burned 120 mobile homes and left

44 damaged or charred and warped or unmovable and condemned. since october the red tags fenced john out from his former home and his rose garden. he lived in a small motel room. when we last saw him two weeks ago, the man had been deeply despondent. >> it's not like i'm alive, it's that i exist. >> reporter: today -- >> this is the guest room. >> reporter: john had a youthful spring in his step moving into a new mobile room. >> last time i talked to you, you were depressed. >> i'm very up. >> reporter: for john this is a happier ending than a lot have experienced. he was able to buy this place because he had some money saved and a friend loaned him the rest. as for his old home in journey's end, it's still there and still in limbo. >> some of my neighbors lost everything they had. everything exempt the clothes on their back. >> reporter: but in his case, a resolution at least. john has moved those prize roses to his new front yard. that hotel room and the bathtub

where he did all of his dishes, a fading memory. >> i got a sink with running water. a double sink. >> reporter: john will take nothing for granted ever again. they're more than baby steps for this one survivor from the nightmare of journey's end. >> no, this is journey's beginning. beginning a new journey. >> reporter: in santa rosa, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> nice to hear that. some residents of journey's end are still moving from hotel room to hotel room. >> john tells us he has plenty of unpacking to finish. he hasn't moved in completely yet. >> we could not be happier, though. we can see why. you can get the latest news any time with the upgraded abc 7 news app. it has now enhanced live video features, more customization and personalized push alerts to get more of the news you want delivered to your phone in realtime. that's going to do it for this edition of abc 7 news at 4:00. thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley.

stay tuned. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts now. this is incredibly damaging to his case. why would he do this? >> only on abc 7 news, allegations of witness tampering and the headline making kills for a murder case. plus -- >> there was a gas leak. it was scary. they told us to evacuate the building. >> a lot of people were forced out and more than a dozen people were hospitalized. who's to blame for a scary gas leak? also -- >> somebody went in and cased the joint, came back and stole something of my husband's. >> and they took a lifetime of sports memorabilia. a widower needs your help tracking down who did it. new allegations of witness tampering tonight in a hillsborough murder. the case made national headlines after one of the suspects, tiffany lee, posted a nearly $65 million bail in cash and real estate. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz in for

kristen sze. in february, the suspect cut a deal with the district attorney's office in exchange for testimony against lee and her boyfriend. >> now bayat offered to pay $1 million to an inmate if the inmate testified that adella confessed to the murder of keith green. >> melanie woodrow has the exclusive details on this high-profile murder case. >> reporter: there's a new headline in the keith green murder case, allegations of witness tampering. the bodyguard is a key witness for the prosecution. in february adella cut a deal that will result in prosecutors dropping the murder charge against him in exchange for his testimony against tiffany li and li's boyfriend. adella pleaded no contest to accessory after the fact. his attorney said his