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this is clearly a parking lot. but developers pushing to build an 8-story building right here and affordable housing in the basement. some people don't agree with that. your weekend system is a splash of dash variety. i'll let you know who will see showers and when coming abc 7 news starts right >> developing news, the nation is bracing for what iran's supreme leader has vowed to be forceful revenge against america. >> it comes one day after the u.s. killed the country's top general with a drone strike at the order of president trump. there was high praise and criticism from lawmakers worried america is on the brink of war. >> reporter: president trump says the number one terrorist anywhere in the world is dead. iranian general qassem soleimani

killed minutes after he landed at an airport in baghdad, the president saying he ordered the strike to save american lives. >> soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel. but we caught him in the act act terminated him. >> reporter: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff saying there was clear unambiguous intelligence. president trump saying the decision to kill the general was meant not to start a war but to stop one. yet less than one day after the attack 3,500 troops are on their way to the middle east and iran's supreme leader is promising severe revenge. in iran thousands taking to the streets chanting down with america and revenge, revenge. back home, democrats say they weren't informed of the strike until after the fact and worry this has opened the door to

another war in the middle east. >> i think if the threat was real what i don't have confidence in had the administration fully thought through all the implications of this action. >> reporter: but the president's supporters are lauding this swift military action. >> this was a preemptive attack that let anybody in the world know from north korea, just anywhere else that if you come after americans on president trump's watch you do so at your peril. >> reporter: as retaliation from iran appears all but certain, president trump issuing a warning saying at an event friday if you value your own life you will not threaten the lives of our citizens. abc news, new york. >> as of now there are no credible threats to san francisco. that's according to the police department. but the sf pd is increasing inc patrols as a precaution. the golden gate bridge is also asking the public to report anything suspicious. >> situational awareness is extremely important in the

nation and across the world so people should be aware of what's going on and especially us here at the golden gate bridge as we are a landmark. >> both the bridge district and sfpd say they monitor the situation closely every day. >> there you can find reaction from bay area persian and arab communities to the escalating violence. new developments two men accused of stealing a man's laptop are now facing charges in his death. >> he went after the suspects but was hit by their get away car and later died. >> lee is charged with involuntary manslaughter and second degree murder. reed is facing a special circumstances murder charge and a second degree robbery charge. reed's sister says he was at her home watching her 3-year-old. >> helping me out. i have four kids and no daddy in their life. my brother is there all the time. and now they want to take him

from me. that's not fair. >> according to the charging documents reed was convicted in vember of 2017 of second degree robbery in san francisco. >> now, the memorial for him continues to grow outside the starbucks where all of this happened. >> and that's where our abc 7 news reporter lauren martinez is tonight. lauren. >> reporter: ama and dan, the u memorial continues to grow. there's a big outpouring. post it notes say rest in peace, you are loved, you are brave. earlier tonight we're at oakland first friday where people there say they feel for his family. they say this is tragic incident but they will continue to have faith in the community they love. >> it can't really stop us from continuing to do positive things in the community. >> reporter: one of the thousands of people enjoying oakland's first friday of 2020. she brought her young grandsons along to show them this is what

the community has to offer. a blend of music, art and cultures. she says news of the deadly laptop theft in mont claire was tragic but that won't deter them from coming out. >> sometimes we hear about it and sometimes we don't. >> reporter: andrew is from britain. he's lived in oakland for over 30 years making his time in the bay area longer than his time back home. his car was broken into this week. news of the laptop theft made him think about what we value in the heat of the moment. >> i think it's important to realize that there are more important things than stuff, and sometimes although it's not your instinct it's better to let it go. >> reporter: kenneth kid was born and raised in oakland. he says the news of the laptop theft is sad and reminds him to be vigilant, but that won't stop him from enjoying one of oakland's melting pots. >> i love oakland, i love what

we have here. i'll always keep coming out to first friday and always embrace oakland 100%. >> reporter: the event runs the first friday of every month from 5:00 to 9:00 off telegraph avenue. if rain is in the forecast then they'll run the event possibly the following wednesday. lauren martinez, abc 7 news. >> lauren, thank you. let's take a live look outside right now from our golden gate bridge camera. it is dry now, but that is going to change in just a few hours. sandhya patel tracking a few showers. >> and those showers will be just enough to dampen the crowd. we have clouds around but we are tracking rain. as we time this out for you those showers will be developing beginning around 2:00, 3:00 in the morning and spreading southward as we head into 8:00 a.m. the question is how long will those showers last and will they impact your plans?

i'll be back with a full look at the time line coming up. ama? >> remember you can always track the rain on live doppler 7 on the abc 7 news app and free to download. a suspected home invasion robber shot by his victim faces criminal charges. that tops our look at tonight's headlines. we're now getting a look at the man facing murder charges after a botched new year's day home invasion robbery in the dublin neighborhood. 28-year-old vallejo resident was shot after exchange of gunfire with the victim. police say his accomplice was killed in that nighttime gun battle. investigators say she was the ex-girlfriend of the home invasion victim. alert witnesses called mountain view police after authorities say these two men were spotted casing cars thursday afternoon. they're both richmond residents. detectives busted both of them after a citywide search. in their car police say they

found belongings from eight victims from auto burglaries that happened sunnyvale and mountain view. cyber criminals have targeted the contra costa library. hackers launched a ransomware attack on its network last week. however, branches are open and you can check out materialwise a library card. the county says personal information has not been compromised. you can find these stories and other headlines on our abc 7 news app. a daring rescue in bakersfield. two deputies rush towards a burning house searching for an elderly couple. affordable house in the basement. that's what a developer is pushing for in this parking lot. we'll tell you what the san francisco planning department is saying about this. and an east bay town hires a tracker to take down rampaging pigs. first here's a look what's coming up tonight on jimmy

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new dramatic body cam video tonight. two deputies rush to try to save an elderly couple from a house going up in flames. abc news correspondent will carr has the story. >> reporter: dramatic body cam video of two california deputies racing towards a house fire. they found an elderly woman in a wheelchair clutching her dog. quickly get her to safety. >> is there anybody else inside the house? >> reporter: with flames tearing through the roof and cracking like fireworks the deputies race into choking smoke looking for the woman's husband, finally finding him tearing down part of a fence and getting him out of the backyard. >> we got your wife. she's in the front. we knew we had to make a decision and act because the fire was growing fast. >> reporter: deputies say they

were just doing their jobs. but the elderly couple unharmed the people who live in that neighborhood say there's no doubt their acs were heroic. the housing crisis is a major challenge for where we live, and it's a key focus of our effort to build a better bay area. in san francisco finding affordable living solutions as you well know can often be tricky. case in point, plans for a new apartment complex on 15th street and van es avenue in the mission, the budget units would come with a big catch. >> reporter: in san francisco it seems a new project starts every other day but there's still a housing crisis. how do we fix this crisis? >> one of the things we need to put massive amounts of public investment into affordable housing. >> reporter: a kansas based developer says he has an idea. his project 219 market rate

housing units. 154 of those above ground microunits, and here's what some might see as a catch, 65 affordable housing pods underground. >> what would you rather have? what's a more pressing concern? place them. for people to sleep or a place to park your bike? >> reporter: chris elsy owns this parking lot and he wants to use the basement of his projected building to create sleeping pods. each will cost between a $1,0000 to 1075 a month. an december 0th the san francisco planning department sent back those plans to the developer who said the revised version to involve windows of those pods. habitable rooms within developing units or congregate residents shall be provided with natural night by exterior glazedopings. he says he fixed that by adding

a courtyard where natural light will hit the pods. we contacted the planning department for comment but are still waiting to hear back. >> a reminder, we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. share them by joining our better bay area group on facebook. new developments, a san jose church struck by thieves before christmas now has raised enough money to hand out toys to hundreds of children this sunday. that wasn't the case after two hooded thieves as you see here walked away with a donation box with more than $2,000 inside. the money was meant to buy toys. thank tuesday a gofundme campaign the church has now raised more than $13,000. >> it's amazing to see how many people actually contributed. it was shocking because we weren't expecting that big of an amount coming in. >> a youth group gathered tonight to sort out the toys and on sunday they'll be given to the kids of the congregation.

new developments in lafayette where the city says it's winning a messy fight with wild pigs. trappers have humanity removed 19 feral pigs from parks and trails. at least two dozen animals tore up front yards, parks and an elementary school. some trails in a community park have also now been reopened. >> new developments in cap tolla where the city is hoping to reopen it's 162-year-old warf. on new year's day powerful waves snapped causing concern one section might actually collapse. today workers put in a steal beam as a temp chaer fix. employees were allowed back to cleanup after being forced out on wednesday. >> people in the restaurant jumped up and ran. >> we would have made so much money but we had to go. >> as long as they open soon --

>> broken pilings are not unusual for the capitolla icon. it's been renovated roughly every 22 to 30 years. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking for us. >> it's not going to be a lot but we are going to see some. sunset from our santa cruz camera. it was just a stunning one. we did see high clouds which added a little bit of cull door the skies. those high clouds are made of ice crystals. now tonight we're looking at live doppler 7 and waiting for that rain. visibility right now with some heavy fog in santa rosa. a quarter mile, half a mile in fairfield. definitely watch out around petaluma, just over a mile. temperatures at this hour anywhere from 36 degrees at clear lake to 55 in san francisco. so quite a variety. from our san jose camera we're looking at a lovely view from the shark tank. and foggy areas tonight, dense

in patches. showers move in overnight, near freezing temperatures for sunday to monday mornings. it's a level one system early tomorrow morning. look for scattered light showers, breezy in the hills. while you're sleeping that shower activity begins at 3:00 a.m. in the north bay and still primarily in the north bay at 4:00 a.m. but as the morning goes on around 5:30 we start to see some of those showers crossing the central bay and continuing right on through to about 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. it will be just enough to squeeze off those showers or a bit of drizmism really for your afternoon it's going to be dry, a mix of sun and some clouds as well. here's a look that rainfall totals. up to 0.13 around clover dale. looking like temperatures are dropping even more. even though we're expecting the heavier cloud cover, we're still going to see some cold pockets. inland east bay valleys in the

upper 30s. 40s, 50s, showers to begin the morning. make sure you have the umbrellas and for the afternoon you'll need those shades. cooler air mass for your saturday. on the subject of cool, you know it's winter when sunday morning you wake up to mid to upper 30s inland. monday morning is going to be a cold and frosty one. temperatures near freezing in some of our coldest spots so just keep that in mind. morning showers tomorrow, rest of your weekend is dry. certainly sunday, monday will be chilly to start the day but bright in the afternoon. chance of some rain on tuesday. certainly looking like a rainy pattern next friday going into the following saturday. so every few days we have weak systems bringing us some rain. >> at least it's something. >> heads up about new programming here at abc 7. on saturday mornings you can now catch two hours of good morning america. >> abc 7 news airs 5:00 to

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one, two, three, zoo keepers at london zoo have dug out their clip boards, calculators and cameras. they've begun they're week long head count of all the animals. keepers face a task of tallying up all the animals at the zoo. it's home to 580 species. the yearly audit is a requirement of the zoo's license. >> remember they did the bird count in san francisco. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. >> who's hiding the rhinos? i'm short three rhinos. what happened? in sports tonight richard sherman, he did what few athletes ever choose to do at all. did it pay off? honors and cas

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good evening, some quarterbacks and agents they laughed when richard sherman negotiated his contract and now sherman's the one laughing after getting a $2 million bonus today. wasn't really clear how much sherman had left in the tank but he was named -- that honor earned sherman a cool $2 million bonus. it's clear, though, he's focused on getting set for a playoff game next week not individual rewards. >> it is an honor, but it's something i'll celebrate hopefully in a couple of weeks after we win some more games. >> it's even more special coming of the achilles and knowing the

ups and downs of that injury and how it derails a lot of careers. i really wanted it, but you never know if it's possible until it happens. so i'm thankful. hopefully i can continue to grow. >> when christian mccaffrey came out some doubted his speed, his ability to run inside. no doubts anymore. at two positions, running back and the recently created flex position. the panthers star became only the third player in nfl history with only a thousand receiving and rushing yards. musgrave and cal's new offensive coordinate replacing and backup quarterback for the niners in the early 90s. helping carr raise his game when he was on that raiders staff. cleaning ball, the boys need the

famous idaho potato, that's a big spud. that's got to be fake, right? ohio and nevada, quarterback nathan rorke, 35 yards. gatorade that sold last decade. he gets a french fry shower and he actually ate one of the fries which was funny. pac 12 play and single coming back from an acl tear, back-to-back threes at the half and keep an eye on, back door for the layup and one cross over, two cross overs. they're 66 and 0 all-time

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- don't [bleep] play with me. don't [bleep] - don't [bleep] put your hands on me, [bleep] - [indistinct] - oh, my god. - what's up, huh? what's up? what's up? 'cause i'm [bleep] done with you. call me a [bleep] one more [bleep] time and i'm gonna [bleep] pop your ass. what's up? what's up [bleep] what's up? - whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! - oh, damn, bro. - hey, hey, jordan! that's enough! - what's up, bitch? - yo-- - it's a tough one. well, many people online praised jordan for what they saw is him standing up for himself, but others were uncomfortable with the violence that resulted from it. and jordan is here today with his mother, angie bush. thank you both for being here. - thank you, tamron. - [applause] - jordan, a friend of mine who's openly gay sent me this video. and i never look at, you know, these videos that circulate around of people having fights outside of restaurants. i never click on them. i clicked on it because they told me the context of it. and when i saw it, i thought,

"what has he been going through that it got to this point?" what have you been experiencing before that video? - just constant, over and over, you know, bullying about who i love and, you know, what i prefer, you know, love-wise. i've been called faggot at least in terms of 10 times a day. and it's just constant over, you know, and over again. like, it does--it doesn't stop. it's repeated. - and this didn't just start now? - no. this has been happening since second grade. - since second grade? - yeah, before i even came out. - and you said you didn't even know when you were in second grade when people were calling you these names, what they even were talking about. - right. yeah. it's just--i--you know, people would be like, "oh," you know, "he likes guys," you know, and things like that. i was like, you know, "no." like, you know, "what?" like, "what are you talking about?" you know. and i would be called, you know, like, homo and fag, you know, like, you know, faggot, things like that constantly and it's just kind of like i don't even know

what these mean, you know what i mean? like, why am i being called this, you know, for just, you know, being who i-- you know what i mean? like, i didn't--i didn't even think like i acted out of the ordinary. i thought, you know, i acted just like everyone else, but-- - before you tell me what happened in that video, angie, were you at all aware that he'd been dealing with these-- - oh, yeah. - --words and these attacks? you did? - yes. - what was he [indistinct] - for years. well, he used to come home and tell me that kids would say that he was gay, since when he was little. and, i mean, he always talks with his hands. you know, like, he's feminine and he's--you know, he's just always been-- and we've always known since he was probably three. so--and he would just come home and complain and say that people are constantly-- and then they would start-- they were being mean to him and, you know, pushing his books off the desk at school. and then when he would stand up for himself and they would make him come home because he needed to cool off rather than doing something about the incident and... - so, he was always thone,

in your mind, punished-- - uh-hmm. - --for what was happening at school? - right. - to this video, jordan, what happened that day? as i understand, you didn't even know the student who was saying this to you. - that's right. - he was new to the class. - he was-- we shared the same class. it was like our same-- our same class hour. we had, you know, the same teacher and everything. but i didn't know his name. i, you know, just kind of saw this, like, a familiar face, you know, that kind of blended into the crowd i guess you could say. but then someone the previous day had sent me a screenshot of what had happened. did--you know, like, they said, "did you know, like, this happened?" and i was like, "no." well, you know, like [indistinct] you know. and i was just kind of like, "i don't even know who this is." i'm like, you know [indistinct] - what was the screenshot you received? - it was a picture of me with the caption "i really hate," or "i still hate gays, though," with, like, a few emojis after that, you know. and it, like, kind of, you know, hit me. like, i don't even know who this is, you know what i mean? like, you know, it just-- it's--i just didn't even know, like, what's... - and you got to class that day?

- yeah. - i hear the bell-- we can hear the bell ring indicating the class is about to start. and it looks like, from what we can see, this incident started right then. - yeah. i had walked into the class and i had the post right down my phone because i was gonna ask him why he posted it. and i walked, you know, to his desk. i met him there. and i showed him. i was like, "what is this?" and he was like, "it's just a post." and i was like, "about me, right?" and he said, "yeah. and what are you gonna do about it?" and so, i, you know, took--you know, i shoved him first because i was just like, you know, at the same time like, "why?" like, "why would you," you know. and then he goes, "don't put your hands on me, faggot," as you can see when we're going around. - when you shoved him first, was that about him or about just years of this? - years. - and he's like the breaking point for you? - no. it was years and years over, built up. - in that video, he called you the slur multiple times.