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♪ ♪ chase. make more of what's yours®. i'm liz kreutz in san francisco where animal shelters are asking for help for 96 dogs and horses were found at a northern california puppy mill. >> i'm lisa amin gulezian where prevention is sponsored by house speaker nancy pelosi and congresswoman jackie speier. >> i'm amanda dell castillo in mountain view where a disputes between landlord and tenant take a terrifying turn. it's eviction through staged home invasion. abc7 news starts right now. >> announcer: now news to build a better bay area from abc7. >> a terrifying home invasion with a shocking twist. mountain view police say it was an attempt by the landlord to evict a family. >> abc7 news reporter amanda dell castillo is live at police

headquarters with new details on this. amanda. >> reporter: dan, ama, police say a rental dispute between a landlord and tenant led to a terrifying staged home invasion, and they say the landlord even reached tout her friends to help in the push. in the end, scare tactics led to the arrest of five people. >> they tried to kick down the door. >> reporter: you could see signs of monday night's mayhem here. damage to a front door on rock street. the landlord 50-year-old was frustrated over late rent payment and wanted the family gone. >> that landlord plus four individuals showed up to the home with the intention of forcibly removing the family from the home. >> reporter: the family refused to leave. police say the group of five seen here took their efforts to a criminal level that someone in the crew cut power to the family's unit, and in the dark suspect steven tried using a knife to break open the door. >> using these methods to try and have somebody leave a home

unfortunately this is not the route to take. somebody could have seriously gotten injured. >> reporter: the family escaped to rengstorff avenue unharmed. steve chandler with the mountain view tenants coalition says the incident is surprising for a number of reasons and in his experience rental disputes usually involve corporate landlords. >> i get the impression like smaller ma and pau landlords, they care about their tenants. obviously this is an exception. >> reporter: the landlord and her crew are facing charges from robbery, conspiracy, assault with a deadly weapon and unlawfully shutting off power to a home. the family was in the home on tuesday but declined to speak on camera. >> i hope they can find another safe place to live. apparently safer than this one. >> reporter: police katie nelson says this is the first time since she's been with a department that steps were taken like this to evict someone from their home. we know all the suspects range from 49 to 53.

in mountain view, i'm amanda del castillo, abc7 news. >> strange. amanda, thank you. new developments to report on the spirit fire in marin county. 73-year-old henry walker of petaluma has been arrested on suspicion of causing that fire. it broke out about 4:30 on the ridge behind spirit rock, triggering an evacuation warning for about an hour. the fire is 60% could be tand, 16 acres. firefighters will stay through the night. >> new at 11:00, in the wake of several mass shootings, washington, d.c.'s democratic heavy hitters were in town to talk gun violence prevention. abc7 news reporter lisa amin gulezian joins us from san francisco high school where they hosted a town hall. lisa. >> reporter: ama, house speaker nancy pelosi and congresswoman jackie speier were here tonight along with 600 of their constituents. >> i'm not taking no for an answer. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi and other state and federal leaders are taking a

more aggressive stand against gun violence. >> we have more guns in the possession of people in the united states than we have population. some 370 million guns. >> reporter: it's b called a preventable epidemic in america, one that's taking lives every day. 15-year-old davon hahn died after being shot in a drive by in san francisco's mission district. >> losing your friend is something that's really hard and i hope nobody else would have to ever go through that. >> reporter: on capitol hill, congress is on a break, but once it resumes, speaker pelosi hopes the issue of background checks will be resurrected. >> background checks saves hundreds of thousands of lives. it really is the most effective way to save lives. >> reporter: howard smith is a youth mentor. he's glad this conversation is happening. >> the awareness is helping stir

the conversation to create more policies and direct, you know, these conversations in a right way. reporter: and speaker pelosi will continue talking about guns tomorrow. she's holding another town hall meeting. this time in colorado. live in san francisco, lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. >> lisa, thanks very much. an airport shuttle bus was carjacked from the international terminal at s.f.o. today. here's that story and other headlines tonight. a representative for shuttle company sky park says passengers were getting on a bus when a man walked up and ordered everyone out. it started at the international arrivals area. the shuttle bus was later recovered on ash by avenue in berkeley. fortunately no one was injured. a chase came to a violent end in oakland when a car that was driving recklessly rammed a c.h.p. unit trying to block it on interstate 80 near highway 24. an officer fired at least one shot, but it didn't hit the driver. the suspect was eventually

arrested, but traffic was backed up for hours. the man accused of attacking a woman outside a san francisco condo will not face charges in a second crime. the public defenders office says austin james vincent was misidentified as the suspect in an assault against a woman and her friends in february. >> another big story in the headlines involves a former google star, anthony lewandowski is a pioneer in self-driving technology. tonight he's charged in a 33 count indictment with stealing trade secrets from google and giving them to uber. >> anthony, anything to say? did you take the 14,000 files at all? >> abc7 news was there as he walked out of court after pleading not guilty to all charges. he was freed after his parents and a business partner posted $2 million bail, but the judge ordered him to wear an ankle monitor. prosecutors say he's a flight risk because of his dual french and american citizenship. at a news conference, the u.s. attorney presented details of the indictment.

>> a forensic investigation revealed that on or about december 11th, 2015, levendowski download today his computer approximately 14,000 google files. >> the indictment alleges that the files include drawings for proprietary circuit boards and designs for the lydar technology that help self-driving cars to see where they're going. his attorney fiercely defended his client. >> anthony is innocent of these charges. he never stole or attempted to steal anything. period. the government has it dead wrong. >> now, the i-team's dan noyes has been digging into levin dowski's background. >> he was a pioneer and he was looked up to especially by a lot of younger more ambitious folks in the business. >> but industry expert and

author ned says today's charges were not a surprise. he was a defendant in recent lawsuits over trade secrets and needer meier says the case announced in san jose sends a message that the feds are willing to step in. >> and i think that's a message that will probably reverberate with a number of companies because we kind of have this gold rush, if you will, around self-driving car technology. i think this is a shot across the bow to say, you know, you don't want to step over these lines. >> reporter: abc7 first interviewed him in 2004. he was a cal state graduate student building an autonomous motorcycle for competition with a million dollar prize. >> victory is very important to us. we want to win. however, we realize that the amount of engineering work that we're sort of taking on is tremendous. >> reporter: he worked on that project for two years and it led to a job at google in april 2007 where he became co-founder and technical lead on the self-driving car project known as waymo. the criminal indictment released today says that while still at google, he started a side

company for autonomous trucks that will become otto. after he resigned from google without notice in january 2016, uber acquired otto and hired him. google then sued uber accusing the company of stealing trade secrets for self-driving cars. the case settled in 2017. uber agreed to pay google $245 million in equity. he refused to testify in the case, pleading the 5th. >> you're all i have is your life. >> reporter: the charge today, he started yet another company for self-driving trucks called pront owe. he spoke with tech crunch about his long road in the autonomous vehicle industry. >> after leaving uber, i spent many nietsz wandering the streets of berkeley thinking through what's next and why it hasn't really happened yet. >> reporter: today pron toe removed him as c.e.o. and removed his name from the company website. the fbi says he is from marin county, but a search found his current address is napa county. it appears to be his parents' home. he also had a state tax lien

this year for $271,000. i left a message at the parents home and did not hear back. i'll be watching the court file this this case and report back when news warrants. for the i-team, dan noyes, abc7 news. >> coming up, how this dog and 95 others were rescued from a northern california puppy mill and how you can help. >> it is out of this world. >> a farmer has created an amazing tribute to the apollo moon landing. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. the cooling is already underway. find out how long the humidity will linger and who has the best chance of seeing dry lightning. >> first here's a look at what's coming up tonight on jimmy kimmel live right after abc7 news at 11:00. >> jimmy. >> spend a few seconds of your life on this. it's one of those things where we're like, they burden me. they've seen every stage. >> yeah. >> mom did. the other was susie

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unhealthy, filthy chaos. that's how bay area animal rescuers are describing a northern california puppy mill. >> nearly 100 dogs and seven horses were rescued over the weekend. and as abc7 news reporter liz kreutz reports, they now need your help. >> reporter: it started with a phone call debbie penrose got from a friend. >> i need some big help. what is it, a dog or two? no, 57. >> reporter: when debbie showed up to a ranch, there weren't 57 dogs. there were almost 100 of all different breeds along with seven horses. describe the conditions of some of the dogs that you saw. >> ticks, fleas. the food bowls were full of

algae. it was awful, it was dirty. >> reporter: debbie immediately n knew it was puppy mill. the breeder died and the relative who claimed the estate found it. >> i immediately went to social media and i made a post and kind of reached out to my rescue community. >> reporter: the post showed dozens of times animal rescue across the state showed up to help. >> he has one eye. >> reporter: one of those rescues is wonder dog rescue in san francisco. rieder is one of the 16 dogs they took in. >> the dogs we are rescuing had five, six, seven, eight, maybe double digit amounts of litters. one of her nipple is distended down 8 inches. it's so sad. >> reporter: the dogs are now in foster homes and will soon be up for adoption. if there is anything good that came from what happened, debbie says it's this. >> there are responsible breeders out there, but please do your research. >> reporter: liz kreutz, abc7 news. >> and if you'd like to help out

with the care of the rescue dogs, we have set up a link to the gofundme account on our website, abc7news.com. >> on the peninsula, a case of card skimming is under investigation at the chevron gas station in wood side. san mateo county sheriff's deputy say an employee found three suspected skimming devices yesterday afternoon at the gas pumps. the employee wasn't sure how long they'd been there. skimming devices are used to steal credit and debit card information. >> a warning for parents tonight about a popular children's water bottle, contigo has issued a voluntary recall of 6 million kids cleanable water bottles. officials say the silicone spout can detach and pose a choking hazard for children. the recall applies only to bottles that have a black color spout base and spout cover. they were sold at costco, target and walmart. thankfully no injuries have been reported at this point. >> developing news in the atlantic, tropical storm dorian is just hours away from hitting puerto rico.

people there stocked up on supplies like water and canned goods today. the national hurricane center says dorian is expected to become a hurricane and could cause life-threatening conditions. the storm is expected to hit the bahamas on thursday, then florida this weekend. >> all right. we want to get a complete look on the weather now. >> yeah, meteorologist sandhya patel, of course, is tracking dorian closely and our forecast. >> yeah, dan and a.m. a a.m. a . it is a strong storm heading towards puerto rico. also newly tropical storm aaron expected to move north, northeast ward. dorian will bring rain and swells to puerto rico. as we head toward the next two days, then inching closer to florida, right now the exact projection of what area of florida will get hit is unclear, but if you have weekend plans for labor day weekend, sunday night could be a category 1 hurricane hitting the florida coast line. keep that in mind. we're getting a little bit

of the tropical feel as well. i want to show you our sunset tonight. east bay hills camera had the fog below and clouds from what was once tropical storm ivo in the pacific. sure made for a beautiful sunset. left overs of ivo continue to stream in. that was responsible for those thunderstorms in the sierra today. same general vicinity, we'll be seeing more thunderstorms as we head towards tomorrow, and that is a concern because there is a possibility of dry lightning, fire weather watch, and red flag warnings up for much of the state. as we take a look at live doppler 7 here locally, we do have the fog. we have a stronger delta breeze going, and that's going to help to drive those temperatures down. today those temperatures did drop a few degrees, but you may not have noticed because it was muggy earlier in the day. right now it has cooled nicely. upper 50s to the upper 60s. 59 in san francisco, 66 in san jose. 58 in santa rosa right now. still mild in concord at 74 degrees.

exploratorium camera showing you a foggy view of coit tower tonight in the city. tomorrow morning it's going to be mild. mid 50s to mid 60s, but certainly cooler right around the coast and the bay so you will notice it. exploratorium camera showing you why we have the fog out there. slight chance of dry lightning in the north bay overnight tonight. humidity lingers through tomorrow. there is a cooler pattern setting up the next few days. dewpoints tomorrow morning will be in the comfort zone as we head towards tomorrow afternoon, the hour by hour forecast will show you those dewpoints getting up into the low 60s which is muggy. expect that to continue to linger into the afternoon hours. but the good news is your temperatures are going down. so inland areas, low 90s along the coast. mid 60s. a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. it will feature cooler weather from the 90s to the 80s thursday and friday. enjoy it. dryer air for the long holiday weekend, and it's looking nice, back to the usual pattern for lbor day. so enjoy yourutdoor plans this

upcoming weekend. >> yes, for sure. >> thanks, sandhya. >> okay, tomorrow on "good morning america," abc news exclusivity, michael strahan goes one on one with rob gronkowski to talk about his retirement from

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we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. for chris, sandhya, all of us at abc7 news, thanks for joining us. jimmy kimmel live. milo. >> hav >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight, milo ventimigli, from "glow", alison brie, this week in unnecessary censorship, and music from the head and the heart. and now, for the most part, jimmy kimmel! ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: very nice. hi, i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the ow. thank you for watching. thanks to all of you for coming. it's very kind. and hey, you know, i don't know if you're following the calendar, but you know what today's date is? guillermo, do you know what day today is? >> thursday. >> jimmy: no, the date. >> oh, first.