>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> the bay area got drenched today, but how long will this round of much-needed rain last? we are tracking your forecast, but first -- >> a judge has ordered the man accused of breaking into house speaker nancy pelosi's home, beating her husband, and planning to kill her, held without bail. i am dan. >> his right arm in a sling. dan: abc 7 news reporter stephanie sierra is live with new developments on this story. stephanie? stephanie: yes, dan, david and

pat pleaded that david depape pleaded not guilty. we learned killing new details about what prosecutors alleged depape was planning, and a warning to you, this is graphic. a court filing indicated depape was on a suicide mission and politicians -- mission and plants target other state and federal politicians. paul pelosi woke up in a pool of his own blood after depape hit him with a hammer. cameras not allowed, but courtroom entered the courtroom with a sling on his arm. his public defender said several times he is vulnerable to misinformation, making it clear he would be thoroughly looking into his mental state. we ask district attorney brooke jenkins about that, but she was quick to point out there to be no assumptions of mental illness

at this time. >> so what is defense will become a we don't know, that is something we will have to see play out in this case and what access to social media he had specifically is something that would still be a part of the investigation. >> what i will say is there has been a lot of speculation regarding mr. depape's vulnerability to, uh, to, um, misinformation, um, and that is certainly something we are going to look into, that we are going to delve into as his defense team. stephanie: meanwhile, speaker nancy pelosi stopped by her pacific heights home today for her husband, paul, continues recovering from his skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hand. the judge granted a protective

order for both speaker pelosi and her husband that requires depape have no contact with them and stay away from her home. as the speaker mentioned last night, at age 82, paul is making steady progress and what will be a very long recovery. depape will remain detained at the san francisco county jail without bail. his preliminary hearing date will be set this friday at 9:00 a.m. he waived his right to have that hearing within a 10-day period, so it will happen sometime within the next 60 days, up until january 3. dan and ama, there will be time to prepare for that hearing, questions about body camera footage, that 911 call pelosi made, as well as witness testimony made. we are told the hearing is expected to be five hours long. we are live in san francisco tonight, stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. ama: thank you give you can dive

into all the details with the abc 7 news streaming tv app. downloaded for your apple to become a global tv, amazon fire, or roku. we are on 24/7. dan: check it out. the pouring rain came, a relief -- came down hard in redwood city, a relief from the dry weather we have had. ama: from walnut creek to san jose. dan: today is also bringing snow to the sierra. the chp tweeted moments ago they are working multiple spinouts and crashes near donner summit and in the truckee area as well and they are asking drivers to use caution, but once again, great to cns we -- great to see. ama: sandhya patel has more. sandhya: while you may be seeing some sun, like from our

emeryville camera, check out the news, it is snowing in the tahoe area come in the mountains, which is a great site, as we look at live doppler 7 must still some showers off the coast line heading in our direction this is right around mendocino park road. you will notice radar showing you some spotty, like return. as we widen out the picture, we have cold, unstable air coming in behind this system, and that means we will be looking at more showers, exclusive to abc 7 news, a light storm, spotty showers run 9:30 tonight good as we head into tomorrow morning's commute, make sure you grab your umbrella, because there will be a few showers around. that is not the only storm shared i will be back to tell you about another in a few minutes. ama: thank you. >> i knew one of the biggest promise in my life was nelson, my father. ama: the son of a man expected it -- suspected in a murder for hire case is speaking out.

his father, nance -- nelson chia, died by suicide where he was being held in the murder of his longtime girlfriend dr. xu. dion lim sat down with the son and said it was his father's agreed that drove him to kill. dion: the tears melting when we sat down for this interview in august after his longtime girlfriend's murder. >> that was one of his best manipulations, prone to theatrics. when i watched that, it just reminded me of things he's done his whole life, which is to manipulate people. dion: on friday, october 28, just hours after how was

arrested, chia died by suicide in his holding cell. >> i did not have any emotions with the news of my father passing. it was like a huge, ominous monkey off my back. dion: byron describes a childhood filled with abuse. >> he grabbed the phone off the wall, through it, and it was bleeding everywhere. dion: he said his father's narcissism broke the family apart. >> he had is there -- he had other female companions for sure. dion: he said his father had sociopathic tendencies and was incapable of feeling empathy. >> he like to see people suffering or animal suffering. dion: a consulting company in the 1990's, she described chia as a good man but one with two sides. >> he was a talker, a persuader,

and he had obviously a love and a need for money, and that is what broke him to where he eventually ended. dion: court documents show his estimated net worth at around $12 million to $14 million. basin was arraigned tuesday and will not enter a plea until november 15. he remains in jail. in the east bay, dion lim, abc 7 news. dan: the family of a fremont police captain who died earlier this year is now suing the city wrongful death suit follow behalf of the widow of fred bobbitt junior called severe emotional distress that contribute to bobbitt's death. he had been a police officer for 30 years and was getting close to retirement. fremont city officials have not responded to our request for comment.

ama: the fight for local school or maybe some of the most contentious races on the ballot. it is something liz kreutz has been tracking. dan: very closely. she reports from contra costa county. liz: in contra costa county, concern over this year's school board races can be traced back to a single yard sign. >> back to education in lafayette. liz: chad, who runs a facebook group called chronically right wing extremism, said it seems reminiscent of make america great again. he made in question, who are these candidates running for school board, and what is their agenda? >> what are we getting back to, and where we going that they don't want to go? liz: the sun, it turns out, are part of three candidates part of a loosely coordinated group of parents who are frustrated by how schools handled the pandemic and decided to run for

school board, but chad said it is part of a larger effort we covered across the bay area in conservatives of school board positions. he is one of more than 500 parents who signed a petition in the area against these candidates. one piece of these, wife of supreme court justice clarence ch ginni thomas. chad: conservatives have explicitly said we, conservatives, need to take over schools. >> i believe the crowd said virginia thomas donated. liz: although the donation did not go directly to him, it did go to one of the two other candidates he is running with, and he also has ties to prominent conservatives, including two venture capitalists peter teal and david sachs, who helped with the

district attorney recalls. he also served on president trump of the transition team, but he does not say he is politically motivated. >> i am not a republican. i identify as conservative. liz: he says he never volunteered with donald trump. >> my main priority is improving the academic performance of the schools, into a large degree, the current board is focused on things other than academics. liz: chad believes he is hiding his real agenda, pointing to focusing on academic excellence over ideology. chad: what that says to me is they believe we are focusing too much on diversity education and too much on gender issues and that is costing our students in terms of their education. >> there's nothing coded in this. it is all i want to focus on. it is what i think is important. liz: they acknowledge the heightened interest in this race

helps to politicize and polarized they have become. liz kreutz, abc 7 news. dan: a renewed effort to boost business and san francisco.

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city last summer and has now dropped to third for one-bedroom highest idiom rent. >> we will be surpassed by boston. san francisco has just not recovered fully. new york so more people migrating into the city than pre-pandemic, and boston has a bigger student population. melanie: ernest chen experienced it firsthand for he recently returned to his san francisco teaching job but continued renting out his home, opting instead to rent out an apartment in the city. he says he got a great deal in his new apartment but also took a loss on the home he is renting. >> it was $400 less. >> if you're a renter and you want a good deal, now is the time to start looking. melanie: bay area housing prices are still high it when looking at two-bedroom median rents, san francisco holds onto second place, and san jose and oakland make the top 10 list for one-bedroom and two-bedroom median rent. >> it will never be a supercheap

city that no one wants to live in, so i think prices will stay high, but it is nice to see that there has been a softening. [laughs] melanie: scott's savings were short-lived. she ultimately moved again to new york city, an even more expensive city van sf. >> it's crazy how life unfolds. melanie: for the i team, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. ama: new at 5:00, a panel about reimagining the future of downtown san francisco after the covid-19 pandemic. >> deeply understand the crisis but also the opportunity we have right now to really literally fill our vacancy in our economic core with new kinds of businesses, new kinds of activities, and, of course, all of that fits within the public realm. ama: stakeholders hope to make san francisco pedestrian-friendly and create space for more art and entertainment. studies show roughly 300,000

people left san francisco since 2019. the program hopes to reimagine downtown san francisco for residents, tourists, as well as the workforce. dan: the california state board of agriculture is looking at the ongoing drought throughout the state in the past three years has been one of the driest and hottest three-year periods ever. in 2022, more than $5 billion of crop revenue was lost. state officials say it resulted in the lost of over 19,000 jobs. ama: a live look at san francisco. hopefully we will get a live look for you we will talk about the sun coming out after a round the sun coming out after a round in a recent clinical study, patients using salonpas patch reported reductions in pain severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life. that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. chocolate. vanilla. strawberry. but this

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dan: new at 5:00, an updated report tracking climate change throughout the state indicates temperatures are continuing to accelerated the california epa says 1000 temperature records were broken statewide during a 10-day heat wave in september. the epa report finds wildlife, education, and diverse ecosystems are experian think lasting impacts -- experiencing lasting impacts from rising temperatures. impacts include algae blooms and changes to migratory bird paths. ama: that is scary. at least we got a little bit of rain today. dan: that is true, and it is great to see as we start a new month. meteorologist anja patel is tracking that for us. sandhya: yeah, it was nice to see umbrella whether peer i want

to show you live doppler 7 graph. -- right now. it is pretty quiet. don't be surprised by this. as you look to our north, there is still some showers showing up. this is called, unstable air that came through and soaked us today. along that cold front, we had steady, widespread rain that move through the bay area. in the mountains, hweavbeene e sierra, which is obviously good news for our water supply could as we check out the winds right now, they are gusting to 20 miles an hour in oakland, 31 in nevada, onshore, so you might be seeing a little bit of that chill out there. temperatures at this hour in the 50's, for pretty much all of you could as we check out the rainfall so far, it has ranged anywhere from 1/ of an engine santa rosa road to about10 4/10 in san jose. a live view from our san jose

camera, sunup above, occasional showers through tomorrow, cold mornings with frost through friday, and more rain is expected to arrive this weekend. on our exclusive storm impact scale, this is a light level 1 storm for abc 7 news today, tomorrow, breezy to gusty, up to 1/10 of an inch of additional rain. not expecting a whole lot more, but keep that umbrella handy. 9:00 p.m., they race body in nature, could pop up just about anywhere. we will call it pop up showers for tomorrow morning's commute between 5:00 and 8:00 a.m. as we head through noon time, the focus is on south bay and some showers off the coast here. as we continue to go through tomorrow evening, it will be more clouds and that chill really settling in. additional rainfall, you could see anywhere from nothing measurable to about 11 hundredths of an inch of rain. in the mountains, we do have a winter storm warning until 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. windy conditions, gusts up to

55, difficult to impossible travel. they already have chain controls up there, so i would hold off on traveling. 10 inches to 15 inches above 7000 feet. the snow level will be dropping overnight into tomorrow morning, between 3500 and 4000 feet. tahoe under a winter weather advisory to 8:00 p.m. tomorrow, 80 to 100 mile-per-hour wind gusts will make it treacherous to travel. you need the heavy winter coat tomorrow afternoon, breezy, 50's, 60's, a cool day. the accuweather 7-day forecast, a light level 1, then cold thursday, friday before we bring in another opportunity for wet weather this weekend into next week. don't forget, fall back one hour sunday morning. ama: all right, thank you. dan: all right, one man was captured, literally, running from the law, and his running form is

dan: all right, a traffic stop dashcam video has people talking. ama: it is because a man's running is drawing comparisons to one tom hanks character. police pulled over this car when they noticed a stop sign violation in pottsville, arkansas. the man got out of the car, dropped his backpack, and took off running. dan: how funny. ama: does it remind you of someone? here is a clue. >> running and running and running. >> keep running! dan: that is funny. the man did not have to sprinkle because the sergeant only found corn chips, a flashlight in the backpack. ama: that is interesting. dan: world news tonight with

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come tonight, breaking news as we come on the air in the west. the breaking news tonight involving the suspect accused of attacking speaker pelosi's husband. the filing that told police the suspect on a suicide mission. that suspect in court, pleading not guilty to state charges, including attempted murder. the d.a. tonight calling the attack politically motivated, saying the suspect broke into the house, looking for speaker pelosi. she was seen leaving her home today, and tonight, what we've learned about the 911 call and the police body cam video that will soon be shown to speaker pelosi and her family. mola lenghi in san francisco. also, more on that manhunt under way in newark after a suspect opens fire on two officers serving that search warrant. they say he took aim