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the forecast for your neighborhood. the deadly shooting at are remembered. backlash for posting this picture. clever response to why it smashed a car window. next on nbc 7 news at 4:30. >> live where you live, this is abc 7 news. boy, this was not the start to the day envisions. computer problems caused the entire system to shut down for hours causing massive confusion. hi, everybody.m onli >> after the whole system came to a screeching halt and that
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lasted for hours. >> riders showed up wondering why everything was closed and left in the cold for looking for another transportation source. >> cornell barnard is live in berkeley and do they know what caused all of this? >> they do not, not yet. b.a.r.t. says trains are rolling, once again. but earlier they were stopped cold. a computer which powers the entire system failed overnight. >> once again, we're currently not running any trains. >> reporter: not the news b.a.r.t. riders wanted to hear on a saturday morning. no trains running anywhere. not one. breline was trying to get to school in haywood. >> what time are you suppod tot. :k wgas utnly mite svice aila.
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city and sfo. that was a huge problem for maria who works for virgin atlantic airlines. >> right now waiting for the 're still waiting. >> frustrating. >> frustrating. >> i have to go to san bruno and take a bus from there. >> reporter: many complain there weren't enough buses available. >> do you have any idea how long that is going to take? >> i'm not sure. >> reporter: many riders were frantic, especially those who had flights to catch. >> my flight is five hours delayed anyway. >> does anybody want to share a ride to the airport? >> reporter: some grabbed a taxi. >> uber. ile,ti mysterd dheth viy,itut tt and no b.a.r.t. service likely put many people in their cars braving rainy weekend traffic.
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now, all trains were rolling by 11:00 a.m. rides were free for a time because, get this, the computer glitch prevented fare gates from closing. b.a.r.t. says it's conducting a full forensic analysis to find what happened to find the cause and to make sure it doesn't happen, again. cornell barnard. >> problem on top of problem. thanks. this is the bay bridge toll plaza at 10:00 a.m. if you have driven into san francisco on the weekend days, you know traffic isn't usually like this. totally backed up. traffic has thinned out which means it is likely that people were well aware b.a.r.t. was not an option and they got in their cars. we have been sending out alerts since early this morning through the abc 7 mobile app. one way to stay on top of breaking news. just enable the push alerts to you may recall last month we spent an entire week looking at the issues that b.a.r.t. and it
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commitment to buildi a better by area. this includes bringing service to the south bay and upgrading to a modern fleet. but the main focus was the complaints we heard from you about the train system in its current form. >> do you want riders to complain? >> of course. that's how you fix it. >> we have been answering your questions as they come in, but it's not all bad. we're also looking at some of the things you tell us that b.a.r.t. is doing well right now. we do want to hear your thoughts about what we can keep doing to build a better bay area. head to abc7news.com and search the words better bay area and write us your comments and suggestions. on twitter and on facebook, we would love for you to join our better bay area group as we work on finding slufolutions togethe we are seeing all kinds of weather around the bay area. >> this picture was taken in the
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oakland hills. that is hail you are looking at. let's check in with lisa with the weather. >> we had sunshine, but, once again, on the cool side. we will see scattered showers continue through the evening hours. the overnight hours and a poorgz of your sunday. as we look at live doppler 7. you can see the lightning strikes off shore. going in closer into the north bay. a rain/snow mix on cobb mountain and over into the east bay. a heavier cell here south of 680 going into danville boulevard and southwest ward through hayward and castro valley. light to moderate showerix santa cruz trhrough the santa the southwest to the northeast. still looking at the showers. we'll talk about the later sunset tomorrow forward. and some spring-like weather.
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would you believe it in my seven-day outlook coming up. >> thank you very much. drivers might have a little bit of a smoother ride on some of san francisco's major streets. this weekend the city is doing a pothole blitz repairing as many streets as it can. we found this crew on gary boulevard. this is one spot they're hitting and repairs planned on 19th avenue and lombard street. crews have been busy because of all the rain. they filled nearly 1,800 potholes last month. people gathered in yountville to remember christine loeber, jennifer grey golik and jennifer k. gonzalez shushereba were killed one year ago. the gunman was found after an hour-long standoff. a residential therapy program at the home. >> people wanted to come tgether and commemorate to remember the women. to remember the work. to think about the people who
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survived. and to think about how important it is to continue working with these vets who are coming back from deployments with physical and mental health issues. >> the pathway home has been closed since last year's shooting and will not reopen. cleanup from the devastating camp fire is halted because of the weather. the hills around the city are saturated and state officials are worried they could give way and cause a mudslide. workers on hold until at least march 19th. the camp fire destroyed a huge portion of the town while killing 85 people. it is expected to take a year to remove all the debris. there are about 11,000 properties scheduled for cleanup. the sacramento bee reports just over 200 have been fully cleaned. singer r. kelly is o o ja, i $161 i ok fiut how he his lee.
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r&b singer r. kelly is out of jail after a child support payment was made on his behalf. he spoke to reportarers gathere outside the jail in chicago. >> i promise you, we'll straighten this stuff out. i promise you. >> a judge ordered kelly to jail for three days until the child support was paid in full and an official who said someone who wanted to remain anonymous handed a check to the clk' oftetsaggravat he n guilty. unvaccinated 6-yea in oregon spent two months in the hospital after contracting tetanus. the first pediat rack case in more than 30 years. the case is from 2017, but was
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just chronicled this week in a case reported by the centers for disease control. the boy spent 57 days in the hospital racking up more than $800,000 in medical bills. there are continuing tensions over vaccinations as the u.s. experiences a measles outbreak. so, a driver learns the hard way, don't park in front of a fire hydrant. but firefighters got an earful after posting a picture of the hose running through the car. they'll explain why they can't put the hose over or around a vehicle. 53 degrees. a little sunshine here from the golden gate bridge. sun setting at 6:11 tonight. tomorrow, 7:12 and that sunkeep rise is at 7:28. we'll talk a about a few more showers for your sunday and
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front of a fire hydrant. >> take a look, comes after anaheim fire and rescue posted this video on social media and it went viral. you can see they broke the car's windows. some people questioned why they had to do that so firefighters released an instructional video on why they couldn't go over or under the car. >> demonstrate to the people that it's not feasible to do that and it reduces the flow of the water because of the kink in the hose and it's just not possible. >> no one was hurt in that fire and the car was later ticketed and toed because of overdue registration. big news for an east bay junior high school orchestra that we first told you about last night on ab advand orchest hopkins junior high won second place at the national orchestra festival. 16 high schools and 6 junior highs schools were invited and hopkins was the only one from
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california. meantime, dozens of teens spent the kay shopping in silken valley. the oaks event center where the princess project silicon valley has 8,000 dresses for the for taking. all teens qualify. the majority of dresses are brand-new, donated by manufacturers and local retailers. you could head to abc7 news.com for a link to make an appointment. >> i'm not an expert on live doppler 7, but i do notice green on it today. >> lots of it. >> hey, lisa. >> are we sick of this yet? yes, you heard we need it, but too much of a good thing. i know we need some sun, too. and plenty of that on the way. in my seven-day outlook. as we look live from lake tahoe, looks pretty wintry there. we still have some slick roadways and conditions will remain quite hazardous through
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the next couple of hours into tomorrow as the rain and snow end in the bay area. but let's get you caught up on what happened today in terms of rainfall. a good deal in the north bay anywhere from over a half inch there to just over a tenth around mountain view and in san jose and you saw live doppler 7 and more is coming. as you look at where we are today, you would think we would have a lot more than this. 128 is respectable and oakland 153%. so, certainly doing well here. and we're looking at, still, a couple more showers headed our way. here's a look at live doppler 7 and you'll notice lightning strikes there off the coast and that will be a system that continues to work its way out of here throughout the overnight hours. gurnville looking at rain around river road and to the north and east looking at some showers and a rain/snow mix around cobb mountain and taking you into the east bay where we have heavier
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down pour around walnut creek and wall interboulevard and more spotty showers as we get towards castro valley and hayward and san leandro light rain and mt. hamilton that rain/snow mix and santa cruz mountains coming down pretty good and off shore we're still looking at some active weather headed our way. so, if you have some plans for your saturday night, you will need the rain gear. here's a live look outside. 53 san francisco. it does look stormy, doesn't it? 49 in morgan hill. this system will be winding down so, if you have plans on sunday, it does look better. 52 by the delta. this is walnut creek and the rain is coming down there. looking at the breezy conditions, as well. winds gusting to over 20 miles per hour at the coast and also in san francisco. sunrise tonight is at 6:11. tomorrow 7:12 and it won't be up until 7:28. but we'll look for those showers and then turning to sunshie as soon as monday. the rest of the night tonight,
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looking at a few showers. 8:00 right around the city taking their time to push on through the bay. still spotty. the peninsula, the coast and overnight lows will be cool with those scattered showers. lows in the 40s and then look what happens tomorrow. starting out with the shower activity and, in fact, just a little bit stubborn here in t along the shoreline, again. but we, also, will see some sunshine. upper 50s tomorrow. 59 for you in san jose. so little league tomorrow and maybe a few morning showers and throughout the afternoon and we'll be looking at drier conditions. ipt a one on our storm impact tomorrow. breezy but dry on tuesday and have you ever seen a stretch of sunny days lke this in the past couple of months? i know-how about a round of applause. we'll just sit and ponder that and by the end of the week, we're in the upper 60s. who is excited? >> i can't comprehend. what are you going to do as meteorologists? >> i tell you, just so fun to stsemperatures.an.hank youyou c
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division, but for the western conference. burns 34 years old and the kids went to work with dad and made happy birthday signs out of cardboard boxes. i love it. joe thornen ties for 14th all time in points. the assist to team omier and game tied at 1-1. look at the no-look behind the back pass and great finish. forehand backhand. that's his 26th of the year. san jose on top. in the second period. two seconds left. stops the pass and it goes right to brendan shen and game tied, again. in overtime, the blues pick up a point and kevin got the point that matter. game winner. sharks take this one 3-2 and first in the western conference. >> only one point. we still have a lot of work to do. but it's definitely nice knowing you're at the top of the conference. >> just about playing hard every night and trying to put those points in our column and work
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towards the first place and keep improvement. >> climb on top and we have to keep going. you know, we have to play our game and a lot of games left that we have to get some wins. >> clay thompson returned from a two-game injury hiatus. a game high 39 point in a 17-point win over denver. thompson around a troubling trend. warriors lost three of their last four games before friday night. battling the nuggets provided additional motivation and the warriors need to keep that momentum going against last place phoenix tomorrow. >> having the right energy. night in, night out. and over the course of, you know, four or five-year stretch. that's part of the mental challenge that is good for us to have and see how we continue going to the playoffs. >> everybody in this league has talent and great players. so, it's a habit and the detail
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and any one of the other 29 teams you have to have that for. >> girls division iv championship goinghe first state title since 2005. jordan smith with three threes and 19 points as tech led by a dozen after a quarter. stephanie ocallie was just incredible. 24 rebounds. one off the state record for any division title game and 16 points. tech wins it, 55-27. a sweep for the town as oakland girls also won the d3 title yesterday. congratulations to them and all the bay area teens in s sacramento. good allri thank you. sth us, since we have a basketball game next on abc
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okay. talking about that basketball game that is next on abc 7, we have a perfect story to leave you with. >> a perfect shot from the student at university of north carolina. >> you got this. >> got it! he got it! >> he got it! >> that shot was worth $19,000 for his school. this happened during a pregame show on our sister network espn. north carolina faces it rival duke tonight. maybe that's a sign, duke. dangerous prediction.
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