social justice issues already part of a class action lawsuit. >> santa clara faces that lawsuit for the use of solitary confinement for people awaiting trial innocent until proven guilty. this man says he suffered brutal treatment in jail before he was cleared of any wrongdoing. >> 29-year-old drew johnson moved to san jose to care for his buddy, a fellow soldier paralyzed in a rollover crash. >> this is my best buddy i served with and he was hurt. >> reporter: he was attending college until one october night. his lawsuit points the picture he was walking back from the store when two drunk men tried to rob him and brandished a knife. with his back to traffic, he said he had no choice but to pull a 40 caliber glock and fire

warning shots into the ground. they kept coming so he shot one in the leg and the other in the hip. >> if i wanted to kill them i very well could have. i know what a kill shot is from the military. >> reporter: it took a jury only two hours to clear johnson of attempted murder charges and now suing santa clara for placing him in confinement for 16 months out of three years he was awaiting trial. he said he never knew why they sent him to solitary starting the day he arrived. >> they never explained anything to me. i never got a rule book. i was locked down 47 hours at a time and got one hour out of my cell in 48 hours. >> reporter: after what they tell me were hundreds of complaints from prison inmates they filed this class action lawsuit in 2015 accusing them of inhumane conditions in the jails and subjecting individuals to serious, psychological and

physiological harm and including anxiety, depression, social withdrawal and paranoia and suicidal ideation. >> lawyers tell me it's close to settling and they have spent time to reduce confinement. >> reporter: they declined to speak about the class action and she sheriff said the personnel have worked tirelessly to change the reforms. he complained that when he spent all that time in solitary, guards beat him. >> they cuffed me. they began to beat me, as soon as i was cuffed that's when that began. they beat me up. >> reporter: johnson's lawyers has filed several other lawsuits saying the santa clara deputies mistreat inmates, many like this. he tried to warn one jail

official they would sadistically attack others. >> i'm the one that wrote a grievance on one don't stop him he will kill someone. >> reporter: the officers were convicted of second degree murder. he says it runs deep. >> if someone doesn't get killed in the jails it's a fashion overnight. that's not a one off event, something going on for a long time to lead to the point where someone is murdered by physical punishment in a jail. >> drew johnson is back in college full time. there's one other piece of video i'd like you to see. ♪ that's him dancing with his daughter. she's now 7. johnson tells me he was thrilled to walk her to the first day of school last week. he's making up for those last three years, dan and ama.

>> nice to see. >> now for an update on a story we first broke the evacuation of licensed assisted facilities during the north bay fires. >> nearly one year later the department of social services completed the investigation into three of them. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow covered the story since the beginning. >> that's right and she's in the newsroom with what today's announcement really means. >> the department of social service served oakmont this legal notice to revoke the licenses of one and the other has people living there. oakmont has 15 days to appeal and request a hearing. >> reporter: the department of social services says oakmont failed to protect residence at veranena and villa capris. villa capris burned down during

the october 2017 fire. in a legal notice they detail lack of staff training. there were four staff members overnight at villa capri for 62 elderly and villa residents. director deborah smith failed to insure the four staff members were familiar with the planned emergency procedures. the four had never participated in a fire drill. dsf says they left more than four and family members helped rescue them. had it not been for family members and emergency responders more than 20 residents would have perished. >> i'm your escort service. grab onto my shoulders like we're dancing, okay? >> reporter: dsf says there were two care staff members and two maintenance staff members on duty overnight for 228 residents at the varrenna building.

>> i wasn't paying attention to what was burning or how, i was focusing how to get the hell out of there. >> reporter: when the executive director, nathan condie told them to bring residents back to their rooms because he didn't want to cause issues or make trouble. he then left 70 residents with three staff members not trained in evacuation procedures. the family member helped evacuated those 70 plus residents from the building. >> i knew i needed to be the answer. >> reporter: dsf says three were never evacuated from the building and evacuation took place while they were asleep. dsf says they made false statements about the residents saying they had been evacuated. they're calling for nathan smith or debra being l l l

we called but they didn't respond back. in the newsroom, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >> thank you, melanie. there is new video of the fires obtained by abc news. you can see it on "nightline" just after 12:30 a.m. if you're not planning to be up late, set your dvr now so you don't miss it. trying to find out what went wrong the night the fire sparked. they answered some questions and raised others. wayne. >> reporter: the report tells an interesting story as most people know. the fire caused a drop in water pressure that overwhelmed the system and it blew thrgh area. the report aims to keep it from happening again. there are lesso only for santa rosa but perhaps the

rest of the state. there are places in santa rosa, even though the water flows people cannot drink it. blame the pollution from the fires. continuing to drink bottled water provided by the city. >> every two weeks. >> reporter: when pipes and homes melted the cancer causing chemical leaked into the water system, it's been fixed but not taken as long as expected and natalie finally had plans to rebuild. >> we had wide streets, big water tanks, a fire department being built. we felt we were safe. >> reporter: after staying safe the report recommends a new communication system between santa rosa's water towers and the central control room. it failed the night of the fires. there's more. >> it's tough to say how robust you can make a system to handle that type of demand. >> reporter: doing so may include building a second independent backup water system designed only to fight fires.

projected cost, $100 million. it would serve as a climate change insurance policy. the rest of california may want to pay attention. >> just the changing of our local ecosystems are going to cause problems. we have to either be prepared or learn how to adapt or move on. >> reporter: we asked the santa rosa water department how that $100 million system might affect customers? reality, it could double their rates. a lot to talk about. in fountaingrove, abc7 news. >> wayne, thanks so much. a wildfire has almost completely shut down almost 50 miles of i-5 california into oregon and the road will not open until at least tomorrow morning, we're told. the detour is three times as long as taking drivers and it is taking drivers about eight hours because of all the traffic, as you can imagine. the fire to blame is burning in shasta county, several hours

away from the bay area. here's a look at the location north of redding. the delta fire tripled in size to 18,000 acres. mandatory evacuations in effect. flames are right up against the road. it is simply impanel and too dangerous. a woman who got trapped by the fire yesterday says she is grateful to be alive. the new orleans urban planner spoke with abc7 news anchor kristen. she shared amazing video. >> shoot. kate mckesson said she went to hell and back yesterday after going north on i-5. >> holy [bleep]. oh, my god. i might die here. just in case something went wrong i wanted it to be on film. >> so much could have gone wrong. she was driving a u-haul with

her sister's stuff to san diego and suddenly got boxed in with nowhere to go. >> can't see anything around me. when the flames shot up really high, you can see in the video they shoot up next to me, way higher than the trees and were huge. the firefighters ran the other direction full-speed, completely terrifying. >> terrifying about 10 minutes before the flames burned through the hillside and firefighters returned to spray down her truck and open up the road. road. r mckesson skyped us from san bernardino and showed us her u-haul track in tact except for some mine for problems on the tires and said it will help her in her urban job for an action plan. roll up windows and turning

a/c to recirculate to suck up less smoke. if the fire is there and you can not get out, leave the engine running and get below the windows to shield yourself from the heat, particularly dangerous and good to carry a wool blanket in your car when you can easily access it. not in the trunk obviously because you have to get out of your car to get it. wool is fairly resistant to fire and you can careful yourself with a blanket if you need to run. a new development to the mollie tibbetts case, about seven weeks since this college student was reported missing. investigators return with information about the suspect now charged with her murder. michael finney explains the second step you should take after putting your plane in airplane mode to prevent roaming charges, information that could have saved a bay area family a $13,000 bill. i'm spencer christian, our satellite image

we have new developments to bring you tonight in the mollie tibbetts case. today, agents spent two hours at the dairy farm where her suspected killer worked. mollie tibbetts, a university of iowa student grew up in oakland, found dead in a cornfield about a month after she disappeared while jogging july 18th. investigators say, the suspect t kristian rivera, led them to her body and they visited his former workplace and talking with workers.

the suspect used the name, john budd, while working there and investigators say he is in the united states illegally. and earthquake went across the ocean, 7.8 in miles underground and people only felt shaking. another earthquake killed at least nine people in japan. the earthquake hit japan's northern most island in the middle of the night and triggered mudslides. you're looking at destruction that reminds all of us a major earthquake could devastate people in the bay area. and testing its ability to house and care for people following the big one. live outside mary's cathedral, one of several temporary shelters that could be open. >> reporter: that's right. here's the city with a plan. this plan hasn't been tested, tried out in several years.

what they wanted to do is see if it had any gaps or flaws, because they really wanted to be confident it will work. san francisco performed a disaster response exercise today, the first since 2013, the location, st. mary's cathed cat one of 120 centers active in an emergency. >> today was about the city activating our resources when there is an earthquake and outside resources are not yet available. >> reporter: others are churches, schools and community centers, enough places to take care of 60,000 places throughout the city. volunteers were called to help in the simulation. jeff lin works in san francisco's salesforce but lives in dublin. if public transportation is interrupted he will be forced to stay put in the city. >> in the city, if the office have problem and i cannot stay

in the office, i know there is a place for me to go and get help and food. >> reporter: all temporary shelters would have staff, medical supplies and generators and this would keep people with non-emergencies from crowding local hospitals. tat's the great thing about the shelters we can get medical equipment and supplies in, if they are dependent on electricity to get the medical equipment they need we can do that in this shelter itself. >> reporter: food and water is available as well as translators for those not fluent in english and most here are people who have already taken an oath to become workers in an emergency. >> reporter: more on how to prepare for an earthquake, at sf 72, standing for 72 hours. sign up for text alerts. those are very important. do that at alertsf.

i'm in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> warning builders time is running out to do what could be life saving repairs. touring a building currently undergoing an earthquake retrofit on commercial hill. 300 commercial building owners have still not complied with the mandatory retrofit program and facing a september deadline. >> what happens if you don't put this in front of your building? the consequences of this is saying our building is unsafe and your tenant may not pay your rent. >> they say after the deadline the cases could also be referred to the city's attorney's office. you will find guidelines for stocking an earthquake survival kit and plans for your family.

and it's something we should all do. >> let's check on our weather. a little nicer today. >> it is. the week day is almost upon us. spencer spencer christian is here. >> we have wind surface 10-20 miles an hour and under mainly blue skies, 60 degrees in san francisco, oakland, 63. mountain view, 67, san jose, 73. here's a different view of low clouds moving in from emoryville, 66 doctors in santa rosa, cool down. 66 degrees in santa rosa, fairfield, 80, 83 concord and 84 at livermore. and a lovely view from mt. tam looking southeast under mostly

blue skies. fog near the coast and bay overnight. warm bay and hot inland tomorrow. that describes tomorrow's weather. gradual cooling and very gradual and quite warm saturday in our inland areas around the bay. look for inland skies and tomorrow, highs ranging from 65 at half moon bay to 69 at san francisco. 76 at oakland. mid-90s at east bay, the warmest region of the bay area, we go to the 7-day forecast, warmest areas up to 96 degrees and low 80s around the bay. low 90s inland, 80 around the bay and the gradual cooling down 2 degrees at most locations sunday and monday and next week, midweek, we will have

temperatures below average. >> thank you. is uber about to put self driving cars back on the road? next from the company's ceo and comparison made to amazon. the season opener is monday, pregame

uber expects the self-driving vehicles to soon return to california streets. after the disrupt in 2018 he covered a wide range of topics. dara says he thinks bikes are the company's future and will surpass his ride hailing service at some point. the self-driving vehicles were a hot topic especially after a deadly crash earlier in the year. uber doesn't have a permit right now but that could change shortly. >> there's this drama around is it autonomous or is it people? the reality is people and computers together are the thing. we're focused on getting back on the road and i think we will get back on the road sometime this year. >> he is quite the optimist, telling the crowd he wants uber to be the amazon of transportation. one of uber's main competitors has beaten it to the punch when

it comes to scooters. lyft rolled out its first fleet of electric scooters today in denver and uber is expected to unveil its own scooter fleet in two weeks. twitter has permanently banned alex jones and infowars known for spreading conspiracy theories was kicked off facebook and apple and spotify last month. today, they made the suspension permanent in a tweet saying we took this action based on new reports of tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavir policy in addition to the accounts' past violations. sports and optimism, a powerful combination. an expert helps put colin kaepernick's nike campaign in perspectiv

cristian kaepernick taking a knee would have been all but irrelevant except for one thing,

it went viral. >> oh, it did go viral and he's still going. as the nfl opens its season tonight, the colin kaepernick controversy is not going away, even if the athlete is no longer on the field since taking a knee during the national anthem. the former 49er qb is not on the team, in the face of a new nike commercial that has a lot of people talking including a well-known activist and >> we have a preview. >> reporter: in the nike ad seen around the world, former quarterback says stand for something even if it means sacrificing everything. >> don't ask if your dreams are critici crazy or crazy enough. >> reporter: it's not the first time politics and sports have

intercepted. >> it's important to understand the interface of activism and athletics. >> reporter: the policy highlights more than 100 historical collections from dr. harry edwards, a renowned sports archeologist. the boycotting of the 1968 olympic games over racial injustices, kaepernick's social activism now featured in the exhibit. >> he will take his place alongside other athlete icons in the history of western civilization. not because of what he did on the field, but because of what he used the forum on the field to do. >> reporter: dr. edwards says the latest nike commercial is a good business move for the company and others will follow. >> it's the role for companies in difficult times to step into the breach and remind us who we

are and what we stand for. >> reporter: whether kaepernick plays again in the nfl is irrelevant, saying kap has already left his mark. >> nike rose another college says it will remove all jerseys associated with nike. others see it as a good decision. cc sabathia. >> nike is always at that when they were fighting about jordan shoes and made him the face of the brand. nike does a good job listening to what's going on and see how it turns out. >> at vallejo high school his ama matter about the pitch foundation to help kids raising

their self-esteem through school and sports. >> a terrific effort there. a teenager from israel has died at yosemite national park reportedly while taking a selfie. a reporter from our sister station in fresno has the story. >> reporter: it was a horrific fall, the yosemite national park teen plunged hundreds of feet to his death near the fall. the victim is an 18-year-old israel citizen. yosemite park officials aren't releasing too many details. there was a fatality tuesday afternoon in yosemite national park. >> reporter: the victim's mother spoke to israel media telling them her son was trying to take a selfie near the waterfall's edge when he lost his balance and fell more than 800 feet. also visiting from israel, he says hehe victim but found out what happened when his family started calling. >> the people think it's about us because we are here the same

date. it's scary because we need to be careful and to do the trip and enjoy and look where you go. >> reporter: park rangers say they're still investigating what happened but advise visitors to do pre-planning before coming to the park and be prepared. >> use good maps, stay on the trails. have good footwear, have a day pack. we want you to achieve a goal to have a good time and go home and see your family the end of the day. >> reporter: the last time visitors died while at the park was the last time two rock climbers were killed climbing el capitan in june. we tried to reach the victim's family and they declined saying they're too emotional at this time. the coroner's office is working with israel to get the teen's body back home. president trump will not answer any questions whether he tried to block investigators

probing russian meddling. that comes from the top attorney, rudy guiliani. special counsel robert mueller has attempted to interview the president in the past. guiliani said doing so is a no go. the supreme court hearings for brett kavanaugh continued with more tough question from senator harris. she grilled him on justice juste rehnquist. kavanaugh thanked rehnquist for the rights not written in the constitution, the right to abortion and the right to vote and the right to marry. >> when you praise a just who attempted to end those rights, which rights in particular do you believe are praiseworthy on ending. >> the supreme court is relied on for forward-looking future of rights. >> i'm familiar with that. i think you will not address the specific enumerated rights.

>> the kavanaugh hearing is expected to continue tomorrow. a system called shots fodder is about crime detection as well as prevention. >> for the first time ever it's being used on freeways. next, see how it works to keep drivers safer in the east bay. a family gets a bill for $13,000 for data roaming they say they never used the say they never used the in california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours.

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in contra costa county, a major project is being worked to prevent guns on freeways. >> it's called shot splatter helpful solving crimes and preventing them. >> chris explains how it works. >> reporter: for a period of time, residents in the east bay were being alerted about a freeway shooting nearby in what seemed like a weekly basis. vince colin says the stress can be tough. >> you don't know that you might be the target, that they have daughters and they drive on this freeway. >> reporter: progress is being made on what's called the free work security network project all aimed at reducing gun

violence on highways 480 and 680 in contra costa county. they did a test of shot splatter technology stem that allows microphones to pick up the sound of gunfire alerting law enforcement to the shootings. >> we need a live fire drill to see how it works and how fast it picks it up, the exact locatin and gps spot and how that matched when we did the live fire last night. >> reporter: the technology is just one component of the project which includes a network of veins cameras and license plate readers. shot spotter is already in dozens of cities across the country but being used on this scale at the local freeways at this time. the city of hercules is confident it will help deterring crime. >> we'll not only know about the shooting but the vehleall of th

system. >> reporter: overall the project involves six cities with support from the chp, sheriff's office and district attorney's office. the goal is to have everything online by the end of the year. abc7 news. taking a live look outside right now, the roadways, you can see the fog already moving in

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today, we used the abc7 news app to send out this push alert. hollywood legend burt reynolds has died at the age of 82. the actor's career spanned more than 50 years pivoting from heartthrob to tough guy to comedy. the thriller, "deliverance" is credited as his breakout performance. >> you don't beat it. you don't beat this river. >> in an interview last year, he said he wanted to be remembered as a good man and somebody who loved the business. the end of his 2015 memoir reads quote, nobody had more fun than i did. some of the celebrities we lost recently, a gallery honoring

them online. a santa fe family received a shocking cell phone bill. >> $13,000 for international data roaming when they say they never used internet. that's awful. >> can you imagine? "7 on your side," michael finney is here with how in the world that could happen. >> what was reading that bill like? even t-mobile says it's a mystery how they could rack up $13,000 in charges in a short time as they flew over vietnam. the family assured the phone was in airplane mode for their whole trip. that should cut all data use off, right? but did it? >> niklas ho admits he was playing this video on his phone on the long flight overseas. >> i wanted to stay busy. >> reporter: but he is sure his

phone was in airplane mode. >> i know for a fact when you're in airplane mode you cannot have internet access. >> reporter: until his mother was shocked to find a charge on her t-mobile bill, $13,000 for using nearly 900 megabytes of data. >> it's like, whoa, what is going on? >> it would be pretty unusual when you have airplane mode on to in cur any data charges. >> reporter: jessica of cnet says it does block all data use but a mistake is as easy as a flick of the switch. >> it's a lot easier to accidentally turn airplane mode off when you're just turning on another control on your phone. >> reporter: to be doubly safe, she says go to settings on our android or iphone and make sure the cellular data button is also in the off position. the two-step process is more secure. even if niklas turned off the airplane mode by mistake, jessica says it would take a lot of surfing to use that much data

so quickly. >> uploading takes a lot of data, downloading and streaming a movie. >> reporter: we called t-mobile and it tried to track down the source of the data use but told us it had limited information because the data was provided by the vietnamese network that partners with t-mobile. >> i was confused and scared. it's a lot of money. >> reporter: at first, t-mobile only agreed to reduce the $13,000 charge. after we contacted the company, they canceled the whole bill saying niklas obviously didn't plan to use that data. >> on that day i was so relieved, i said, yeah. >> t-mobile said it sent text alerts to niklas' phone warning he was racking up charges. niklas said he didn't get any alerts because he was in airplane mode. to be truly safe you may want to turn off airplane mode entirely. we created this video with step-by-step instructions for

turning off data on android and iphones. i posted the link so you can follow the instructions at abc7news.com, check it out on "7 on your side." >> what a relief. >> thanks, michael. time for another check on the forecast. >> spencer is back with that. >> i'm not in airplane mode. we've got sunny skies across most of the bay area now. a little fog at the coast not pushing too far across the bay tonight, overnight inlands in upper 50s. and tomorrow is likely the peak of the warming period. upper 70s around the bay. mid to upper 60s around the coast and high of almost 70 in san francisco. let me show you a water vapor satellite image. the warm and drier air mass moving here the last couple of days and almost here now. tomorrow will be the peak of the warming certainly in the inland areas.

the 7-day high temperature forecast for concord. you can see mid-90s tomorrow. temperatures dropping off a couple degrees each day most inland areas will see as we look at the accuweather 7-day forecast. 96 degrees inland tomorrow. on saturday and 90 on sunday. the drop-off in temperatures will continue into the middle of next week. it will be a nice warm end of the week and warm beginning of the weekend. >> sounds good. thank you, spencer. >> larry b is here. >> larry b, do it. >> if only he was sitting next to me it would be better. jimmie g with vikings on the

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now, abc7 sports with beil. >> the 49ers open with a big road test with minnesota that figure to be in playoff contention. with 49ers, it pretty much starts with jimmy garoppolo. he started with them last year going nowhere and he's ready to start this season in enemy territory against a stingy vikings defense. >> it's exciting, yeah, it definitely is. kind of you against the world environment that you're in, especially these guys, i've never played there before but heard good things about the stadium.

they're talented across the board. those guys have been playing together a while, just about all of them. they're comfortable in their scheme and play to their strengths and try to expose your weaknesses. it will be a chess match really. >> richard sherman will be a full go sunday for niners hoping to help that niners defense ranked 24th in total d last year. he's coming off a torn achilles and pulled his hamstring during the preseason. 49ers believe sherman is back to his old self. >> looking at the forward, he looks great. the speed, i know, there's a lot of talk about the gold ball on his first remember and all that stuff. i haven't seen speed deficiency, we haven't seen speed deficiency. his communication and instincts, all of it looks fantastic. >> raiders open at home monday night against the rams, right here on abc7. marshawn lynch listed as questionable today with a groin

injury. rams head coach, sean mcvay, had quite a history with one another, gruden's father worked with his grandfather, a work ethic being named a head coach at a very young age, they're friends but gruden homes mcvay struggles monday night. >> we will try to slow down that rise, douse the flames, he's smoking right now. it's exciting. any time you see a young guy come into a profession and do what he's done, it's awesome. he turned around a franchise that's really important to the nfl. i'm really happy for him. jason kidd and steve nash will be inducted into the hall of fame and also is rick welts who started his career as ball boy at age 16 and worked for the nba office in new york. he's been the president of suns as well as the warriors, nba

lifer dedicated to the game. >> one of 50,000 people responsible for putting on the nba and making it what it is today. those people don't get af recognition. i'm representing them and hope i do well because i think those people deserve to know what they do is important everyday. for me to be recognized this way is a way for them to be recognized as well. >> a big segment on rick tomorrow. first round on the bmw championship in pennsylvania. tiger woods starting on the back nine, scorching, 6 under par, the approach to set up an eagle on 16, finished at 8 under par. his best since winning the 2016 bridgestone his last victory, some company atop the leaderboard, rory mcilroy, co-leaders by a stroke. serena williams reaches the final of the u.s. open, what else is new.

falcons leading defending super bowl champions 3-0 in the second quarter. the first game of the season. scientists who monitor glaciers say they haven't seen this in 36 years, "the big melt," tonight at 8:30. >> tonight at 11:00, the delta fire continues to rip through shasta county, what firefighters are saying about extreme conditions. at 8:00 "celebrity family feud" and "match game" and "take 10." >> and then jimmy kimmel. >> we appreciate your time. >> for all of us here, thanks for joining us.

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