moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news on very lucky. i am just i'm very lucky. i had some angels on shoulder that day for sure. yeah, somebody somebody was looking out for me. are definitely because you know once i realize i got shot in the neck. i thought that was it. tonight the man who was shot while driving on 580 and livermore last month is speaking publicly for the first time good evening. i'm amadates and i'm dan ashley. thank you for joining us. he was in the truck with his wife and two grandchildren when this shooting happened and today abc 7 news anchor dion limb spoke to him about the terrifying experience in a story. you'll see only on seven. i got a second chance. that's what i'm calling. it is a second chance, so i'm gonna just try to try to take advantage of it the fact i'm very lucky.

i am just i'm very lucky. i had some angels on my shoulder that day sure and share the dramatic. events happen to him while driving along 580 and livermore january 27th is nothing short of a miracle. this is driving. the bullet entered here accident hit me here. came out my jaw. straight through the other window. yeah, the reminders right here. the bully went through shattered the glass still apparent on the truck parked outside his series home. i got all this blood that just i've tried cleaning it. it don't want to come out. the seatbelt. i've been trying to scrub that clean christopher. who's driving his? i've seen people drive crazy before so i didn't think nothing of it. my focus was to get away in an instant. had been shot i was able to make it to the side of the road put it in park. and yeah, basically just sat there.

i didn't want to take my hands off my neck. i've kind of just really sat there waiting to die. really 11 year old nicholas still is sarah. i'll screaming quickly sprung into action to help his three-year-old cousin during the chaos. i tried to unbuck my cousin and i did and i put him on the floor as soon as it happened. he tried to protect my three-year-old grandson jumped on top of them one christopher's mostly out of the woods. i still can't believe it. i still have thoughts about it. i have our time sleeping because every time i close my eyes something's blowing up. i hear the windows blowing up. it'll still be a wild before he returns to the for his job as a truck driver he has this call to action. i like to see a little bit more highway patrol on the freeway for sure. maybe they can use some more cameras or something their family counting their blessings tonight our bond. definitely. yeah. that was stronger in series dion limb abc 7 news amazing story button this up 24 year old armando. perez was arrested about 15 minutes after christopher was

shot. the chp says perez is also accused of crit. injuring another person and is shooting just 30 minutes earlier on interstate 205 near i-5 in tracy one of the sung death of retired area police officer kevin shida appeared in court today two of nishit his family members attended the hearing in dublin the suspect shadia. mitchell is accused of shooting nishita in oakland while he was providing security for a tv news crew. he waved his right to a speedy trial mitchell and two other men herschel hale and lauren gilbert are charged with murder. attempted robbery and assault hale is in custody. gilbert is still on the run in the central valley investigators believe that drugs or alcohol contributed to a deadly crash that claimed the life of a two-year-old girl from richmond. it happened just before midnight last night on interstate 5 south of kettleman city in kings county. chp officers. say 29 year old unhelm michelle was driving the honda civic that drifted off the road hit the

shoulder and then overturned he suffered major injuries and was taken hospital his two-year-old passenger sadly died authorities say both were from richmond. police and morgan hill have made an arrest in a crime. they say was sparked by a social media challenge two teenagers face charges for shooting water beads from a passing car hitting two pedestrians both victims suffered minor injuries. however, similar incidents have been reported across the country police say they're part of a so-called orbeez challenge on tiktok orbeez is the name of the brand that makes those water bees. all right, let's move now to a wild accident in san francisco involving two fire trucks that crashed. racing to an emergency. it happened this afternoon on greenwich and laguna in the city's calhollow neighborhood abc 7 news reporter corina. nova has the story. sky 7 flew over the crazy scene in the cal hollow neighborhood of san francisco, the crash happened at the intersection of greenwich and laguna streets. trucks from different fire stations were heading to a call when they try to avoid each

other but crashed at the intersection shortly after noon one truck. also hit two parked cars with so much force one car ended up on top of the other that fire truck ended up almost hitting the gray apartment building the owner of the silver car. grant miller was home across treat at the time watching tv. how's expecting like a bracket buster, but this is a car buster. miller says that's no's no's n's that's like there's a car on top of my car like it's all crazy. i don't know like i'm still kind of in shock about it, you know. i bought that i worked hard for it and now it's just destroyed. leonard jonathan baxter with the san francisco fire department says there will be everything that. we played are the things that we're going to be looking into are training systems our expectations of our driver operators responding to an incident. all these things are going to be factored into this this

investigation both from san francisco police department, but also through our administrative leave baxter says the good is out of all of this is that no one was hurt. one of the fire trucks was able to be driven away and both cars were eventually towed in san francisco corina nova abc 7 news a vacant commercial building in santa clara county is still smoldering hours after being destroyed by a forearm fire fixed smoke poured from the three-story 50,000 square foot building near dell avenue in knolls drive the fire broke out just after 10 this morning fire crews training nearby responded within minutes, but were pulled out soon afterward. conditions quickly deteriorated the roof gave in a short time later people working nearby watched the firefight step by step. the building was straight windows on fire when i got here and then just recently i saw the balconies were kind of lifting up a little bit. all you could see was smoke pouring out of the second story windows. this is three stories and it was excuse me.

crews were able to keep the flames from spreading to nearby buildings and landscaping. no one was inside the building that had been empty for several months. all right. well, there is finally some good news in the forecast. rain on the way and i'm a for our younger viewers who have never seen it. that's a liquid. that's all moisture meteorologist said he patel is here with the forehead. yeah for those younger viewers. it's the pitter-patter of rain jobs that you will be hearing tomorrow, dan and alma. i want to show you a live picture right now from our mount tam cam. we're already starting to see some changes underway clouds are gathering ahead of the storm. that is coming tomorrow. here's a look at your weekend storm and the pacific northwest has seen the energy right now. we will see that wet weather move into our area. so it's time this out for you tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock showers begin to move in. they won't be widespread initially as we head into 8 am light to moderate rain and then you will notice that noon time a heavier batch is coming into our region on our storm impact scale exclusive to abc 7.

it's a one light to moderate rain tomorrow gusty, especially along the coast. there's a possibility of thunder and hail. i'll you know how the second half of. weekend is looking as we turn the page over to spring dan. all right, sandy. thank you very much. well, it's nothing new for bay area home buyers, but housing prices are out of control higher than they've ever been in fact and while it's a story we've all been hearing for years now experts say this spring is going to take prices to a whole new level abc 7 news reporter. dustin dorsey has the story. if you are someone in the market of buying a home, you've probably felt or heard this before being a first-time homebuyer is a stressful experience, but in 2022, it's heightened to an all-new level with everything being as high as it is. we have to make the tough decision between you know, do we pay, you know, 3,500 to rent or do we spend over a million dollars buy a house and so it's crazy right now homes are selling at record prices and their values are only growing according to redfin more than 45% of homes sold in san jose

went for at least 1,000 over asking from january 1st to february 15th and while the medium income and san je is 93,000 zillow says home values increased more than an average of 229,000 over 2021. we've gone through, you know crazy markets before this one just seems to be a little bit different than others. this year is already off to a record start but the springtime is typically the best time to sell your home high demand low supply. so the question is will this spring selling then be the craziest one ever. it's gonna be the craziest spring in homelite. it's the craziest january february march that i've ever seen in 30 years of selling real estate. obviously. this means experts say it's a great time to sell. but when will it be a good time to buy federal interest rates have just gone up and that's not expected to dip costs and they're still record low inventory when you get up to about 1800 2000. to 2500 the market will subside a little bit and it'll be in more in the buyer's favor at

that time. so in the meantime, what's their best advice to home buying you need to be in a position where in your mind you're thinking? i won't lose because the winners in this market are people who won't lose they're not somebody who has a really good offer. you'll be able to get, you know, get into a property. it just may take you a lot longer than you know, typically in the south bay, dustin dorsey. 7 news still ahead a closer. look at russia's influence in sonoma county will take you to fort ross and have reaction to one lawmaker's claim that it should be taken back by russia plus a close encounter for one man in southern california after a pair of curious bear cubs tries to get into his car abc 7 centuries ago, native californians thrived on this land.

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china would face if it provides military or economic assistance to russia's invasion of ukraine. meanwhile, ukraine's interior minister says, there is a desperate shortage of personnel and equipment to put out the fires sparked. russian bombardment, he says it will take years to defuse unexploded bombs after the russian invasion. russia's warn. ukraine is highlighting a part of the bay area once settled and occupied by russian colonists in the 1880s, fort ross on the sonoma coast is now a california state park but tensions over us sanctions are prompting some russian lawmakers to reclaim the fort abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard has reaction from the north bay. maybe fort ross ross is an amazing place on acres check out the stunning views of the pacific just off highway 1 and then there's the rich history for mining visitors that a lot was happening in northern california long before the gold rush as most people don't know that there were russians in california in the 19th century the russian river. i guess they named that for a

reason russian traders settled, fort ross in 1812. their influence is everywhere from the chapel architecture to the flag and interactive field trips for school kids where everyone plays a part even teachers i am the commandant of fort ross and he was in charge of you know running this. russia's remote outpost colony the russians only stayed here at the sonoma coast for about 30 years in 1841. they sold fort ross to john sutter now summit russia want to take it back this week a high-ranking member of russian parliament suggested that his country should reclaim territories like fort ross as payback for us sanctions it prompted this response from fort ross conservancy ceo. sarah swedler, it reminded me that america doesn't have a monopoly on. it's not even worth. you know talking about the specifics visitors had their own take first on us soil. you know, i mean, i don't know come give it.

you know good luck with that. i mean that's like saying let's go get alaska. they sold these places to us. so it's ours now. sorry fort ross became a state park in 1906. it's played hose to russian festivals and a meeting with former governor jerry brown and the russian ambassador in 2018. the conservancy said that once accepted donations from russian companies to keep the park going but is no longer working with them and make no mistake fort ross remains a part of california unless the pelt industry comes back with strong force. i don't think there's any reason for the russians to come back and take for ross on the sonoma coast cornell bernard abc 7 news. after the break a slight rebound for one bay area school district following concerns about declining enrollment what some say helped attract families back to i've been making yogurt that is less sweet and high in protein since 2005. now we're doing the same for plant based. still rich and creamy. plant-based siggi's: more protein and less sugar than leading yogurt alternatives.

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it's only up a little bit but as abc 7 news senior education reporter liam melendez explains. there's reason for optimism. san francisco francisco franciso 14,127 applications compared to 13,917 the year before for starters more four year olds were eligible for transitional kindergarten under california's new universal tk program now a child turning four between september and february can attend. we opened nine new transitional kindergarten classrooms across the city to accommodate all of those families and the demand for tk and our district. outreach also played a role in getting more families to sign up including helping them fill out the applications on time. it's pretty good process there. nice people in there. they making sure i get through everything correctly still it's not where the district would like to be during the pandemic public schools in san francisco saw about 3,500 students leave the district. that's a loss of six percent.

this means the district will get less in state funding per student. the district hopes the numbers will back to pre-pandemic levels as more families learn about the zone-based admissions policy new beginning in 2024. so zones will be composed of up to 12 schools that are closest to students home and so students will have a lot more predictability this coming monday families will be told where their children will be placed according to the district. 57% of students will get their first choice and more than 88% will receive one of their top three. choices families must respond by april 8 in san francisco lee ann abc 7 news high school students hosted a discussion with us senator alex padilla. it was held this morning at south san francisco high school, senator padilla discussed the confirmation process and historic nomination of us supreme court nominee. catanji brown jackson

confirmation hearings will be underway starting monday, march 21st, if selected by the senate judge jackson will be the first black. to serve on the us supreme court all right. let's get a check on our weather. i'm guessing t-ball is going to be washed out tomorrow. so yeah, that's a good question. is it sandia? that's were you hoping for it to be a washington? oh, yeah, dan and alma tomorrow morning it is going to be wet. so their chances are it might get canceled and if you your kids have games tomorrow just be prepared for some wet roadways starting early in the morning to the aftno. so let me show you the storm on live doppler 7 right now the civic northwest is starting to see the leading edge moving in we're going to start to notice some changes already clouds gathering and as we told you yesterday, we'll see increasing clouds this afternoon and evening beginning in the north bay winds are certainly picking up 31 miles an hour in san francisco 20 and oakland. those are the onshore winds as we look at a

our golden gate bridge camera. you see those higher clouds there 56th in san francisco at 62 in oakland lowe's 70s, san jose santa clara mountain view, by the way, those temperatures came up today. hi so far mid 50s to the mid-70s, but fairfield almost 80 degrees coming in at 77 from our south beach camera. we are seeing the clouds in the traffic, of course 68 in santa rosa 66 napa. it's pretty mild around concord livermore low to mid 70s if you're getting out of town this weekend, here's the hawaiian airlines forecast like to moderate rain tomorrow gusty winds mid. for 50s for honolulu, you're looking at 82 and sunshine new york city 62 degrees with some showers wet windy chicago 43 and los angeles pretty much mostly cloudy 67 degrees as we look at a view from our suture tower camera looking at san francisco looks calm right now, but it's going to be wet windy and cooler tomorrow spring starts sunday chilly or morning milder afternoon, and then much warmer weather is coming our way next week records are possible tuesday and wednesday as we look

at our storm impact scale light. it tomorrow it's a level one gusty winds especially near the coast and as we get a little bit of sun break in the afternoon, there is a possibility of thunder and hail. so as you look tomorrow morning 7 am i'ma take a look tea ball paying attention. we've got weather moving in. i was just kidding. all right noontime like to moderate rain. the rainfall does intensify. you will notice some pops of oranges and yellows heading into the south bay the santa cruz mountains, so don't be surprised if you get caught caught under one of those downpours now, saturday evening at 5 o'clock. just some spotty showers and then it's pretty much done for the day rainfall totals. i've got to tell you this is the wettest model picking up anywhere from a 10th in fremont to about a half an inch in novato. there are other models that are showing far less rain if you get caught under one of these thunderstorms, we can see higher totals or lower if we don't see the thunderstorms winds will certainly pick up saturday evening 35 to 40 miles an hour and then still breezy going into sunday morning in the mountains. we have a winter weather

advisory. tomorrow looking at at a $5,500 feet two to six inches of snow up to eight inches above 7,000 reduced visibility slippery roads. watch out 40s 50s in the morning grab your umbrellas before you go for the afternoon. hang on to them much cooler weather is certainly windy 50s and 60s. here's your accuweather 7-day forecast rain and wind tomorrow with the level one storm spring arrives sunday and look at the warm-up. i mean after chili mornings. yeah, it's gonna feel like summer around here mid 80s inland records. will upper 60s to low 70s at the coast, dan and alma. here we go. yeah, sandia, thank you. t-ball is on. yes. all right, take a look. at too curious and seemingly hungry bear cubs open the car door of a man who is eating a corned beef sandwich. maybe they knew it was saint patrick's day. they wanted their corned beef the man pulled the door shut. but thehe bea opened it a second time. look at that the man bill duval says he's used to seeing bears

in his sierra madre neighborhood the bear cubs eventually left without incident. those aren't just the tiny bear cubs. those are bear cubs getting a teenagers. oh, yeah, you know, he could have locked the door too. that would have helped governor newsom has proposed giving 100 million dollars to native american tribes here in california. it's part of the governor's plant to make sure about a third of the state's land in coastal waters are preserved by 2030 the governor wants to tribes to have a say in what lands get preserved. he pitched the idea to try the leaders. california truth and healing council today coming up an update from the golden state warriors on steph curry's foot injury and the minimum amount of

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that you can get our live newscast breaking news weather and more with our new abc 7 bay area streaming tv app on apple tv android tv fire tv and roku just search abc 7 bay area and download it. all right new details about curries injury today the warriors confirmed that mri results show the star guard suffered a sprained left foot ligament. he exited wednesday's game versus the boston celtics with four minutes and 9 seconds remaining in the second quarter of the team says a curry will be reevaluated in two weeks time and there's optimism that he

will be back for the playoffs. so fingers crossed for that. well finally tonight golden state warriors community foundation in partnership with kaiser permanente is launching a first of its kind program for at-risk children. it's called generation thrive and is located in oakland. the new program will provide educational equity health career and college readiness programs for children in addition generation. thrive will provide resources for community youth. about has given me everything that i have in my life now, and i'm fully aware of that.

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tonight, as we come on the air in the west, several developing stories. for the first time, russia strikes in lviv, ukraine. just 40 miles from the poland border. and the missing american osprey tonight, four onboard. but first, verified video circulating on social media tonight showing the explosion near the airport in lviv. the missiles came from russian aircraft, firing from the black sea. four missiles appearing to hit the target. two intercepted. lviv, ukraine, until now, had been a safe place for tens of thousands of refugees. one of their last stops in ukraine before getting out. tonight, russia's foreign minister and his new threat to the u.s. and the west, calling new military shipments legitimate targets.

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