>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> we can't to follow the murder for hire case in oakland that killed a beloved dentist and now we're getting a new perspective into the relationship between the two men arrested. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan. >> only on, abc 7 news tells the two suspects met many years ago on the tennis courts. >> the news of nelson's arrest one week ago for the murder of his longtime partner lily sue did not come as a shock to retired college professor thomas cooney. >> it's not what i expected, the

overall outcome, but i wasn't surprised. >> it was the news of charles' death by suicide in jail that bothered him most. >> i don't know how they'll get the real story of how she was pulled into this. i think people should get a fair shake. >> police say 23-year-old hashin pulled the trigger in what was originally believed to be a robbery attempt. cooney says he met basin here at the tennis stadium in oakland about 10 years ago. basin was an employee and cooney played with chah on occasion. >> i was close we are hashin than nelson. he was phenomenal. they would be playing a lot of tennis and they got to know each other. i of course got to know them. >> connie said -- cooney hired shah to hit with him. >> he had a convertible porsche,

a bentley, a b.m.w. he would arrive with nelson, leave with nelson, lunch with nelson. >> charles' love of singing for an audience began to rub people the wrong way. this shows him singing at a memorial concert for sue in september and an invitation one guest sent me of a musical performance memorial scheduled on the evening chah was arrested. >> he was a narcissist. >> as for basin, more about his past is coming to light. he was arrested for felony assaulten an officer in a mayday protest in 2012. seven months earlier abc 7 news interviewed him. as he sits in jail with no bail, awaiting his next court appearance, cooney isn't sure what changed in basin's life but wanted to talk to me today about the young man he first met more than 1 years ago.

>> there's no one to answer for what was said to him to pull him into this. that bothers me. that's the mystery. >> in oakland, deon lindh, abc 7 news. >> a preliminary hearing is set in the case of the man charged with attacking paul pelosi. they will hear if the attorney for depape and prosecutors. he's accused of breaking into the house of nancy pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer. depape's defense could focus on his mental health. >> the defense attorney is likely to ask questions that substantiate that the defendant was acting bizarrely, oddly, sain, illogical, irrational -- saying illogical, irrational things. >> depape faces 13 years to life in prison if convicted of state

charges. house speaker nancy pelosi spoke about the attack on her husband for the first time today. she shared a brief update as part of a videotaped message to supporters ahead of the election. >> thank you. thank you, thank you. for your kind words, your prayers, and your good wishes for paul. it's going to be a hong haul but he will be well and it's just so tragic how it happen. but nonetheless, we have to be optimistic. >> she said her husband is surrounded by family at home. >> let's move to twitter layoffs. elon musk tweeted there was no choice when the company is losing over $4 million a day. about 50% of the san francisco-based company's work force is a.f.c.ked by this. in the bay area and really all around the world. suzanne is in the newsroom with more on these massive layoffs. >> what a tough, tough day for twitter employees. they found out by email today if they were staying with the

company or being let go and now some of them have filed a class action lawsuit because of the way things have played out. one week after elon musk took control of twitter, a $44 billion company, layoff notices went out to 50% of the company's staff. on this friday at twitter hawshes, all offices were closed and badge access suspended. >> it's horrible. and then i'm like, you know, what about their families? >> i think it's really hard to lose your job on a friday, in the manner and as far as i've seen reported without much severance. >> half the staff got word via work email they were staying. the other half got word via personal email that they're being laid off. we learned some employees were notified at midnight and locked out of their work accounts. cutbacks happened across the board. sales, marketing, engineering, even a group working to make twitter's algorithms more transparent and fair. some people hopped on the social

media plat frm today, some posted, well, my entire team just got locked out officially an ex-tweep, it's been a wild ride. employees are now filing a class action lawsuit in response to the mass layoffs. they say the company violated the federal and state law by not providing the required advance notice. ian sure, editor at large at cnet, explains what musk may be doing to get around that. >> there's a california law that says you have to give 60 dis notice. so he pays them 60 days and doesn't have to warn them of the layoffs beforehand. so i imagine that will probably be what happens this time around but it still, it indicates that people are not happy with the way he's running things. >> for those now out of work, industry expert says here's something to consider. >> tech company jobs generally are still in high demand. so it may be that people will find a place to land in the end. >> twitter is going under a lot

of chairmans right now. it's definitely one of the big tech giants. i personally work at a startup, it's good news for me. i'll probably go poaching some of their folks. >> in his first company message, he said it's an effort to put the company on a healthy pat. he said everyone who has been left go has been offered three meents severance, 50% more than required. >> more as this unfolds. thanks so much. one former twitter employee based in england is talking about being let go today. he's calling the layoffs confusing. >> it seems difficult to me to understand how you would be able to correctly evaluate so many people's positions and performances and you know, ve the value of roles in such a small period of time. that's the kind of -- the part i'm struggling with.

>> simon says he's holding tight to see how the process will play out and people have already reached out about employment opportunities. >> police chief williams announced his resignation today. melanie has been covering the department for years and has the latest. >> about three months after the vallejo police organization declared they had no confidence in the chief the chief has resigned. chief williams writing in a statement in part, quote, while the department still has strides to make toward its ultimate goals, together we have accomplish maryland tasks that i feel have put v.p.d. on the right path to success. during his nearly three-year tenure he experienced a significant decline in police shootings and citizen complaints and claims. according to a news release put out by the city. civil rights attorney melissa nold. >> he's probably the first one to ever do right by the department. he'd been terminating officers who were problematic, he was

holding people accountable. things we said we wanted in a chief. >> it was an opinion not helped by many vallejo police officers and their attorneys, including mike rains. >> hopefully the city gets a >> approximately seven months after he joined v.p.d., an officer shot and killed sean montorosa, and the department waited 30 hours to announce the death. even though he was pro nownsed dead an hour after the shooting. his sisters, ash lea and michelle. >> it took a long time for us to trust the chief. >> they say chief williams earned they confidence, describing the sit-down they had with the chief around the two-year anniversary of sean's death as transformational. >> to get this news today was kind of disheart ping. >> their attorney, lee merit. >> it should not interfere with holding officers account fcial the misconduct reveavealed if hs tenure.

>> jason todd has been appointed interim police chief. the vallejo police organization says we look forward to repairing relationships and rebuilding internal trust. >> new details on san francisco's long-awaited central subway. full service will begin on january 7. the line will run from chinatown to sunnydale with four new stations in chinatown, union square, muscony center and fourth and brandon street. riders can connect to other light rail lines. you can check out the central subway late they are month when it makes its debut with free weekend only service between the four new stations. >> election preparations in full swing in the south bey. they're counts votes but expecting a big day tuesday. >> the largest lottery jackpot ever. it's up for grabs and there's one particular county you may one particular county you may want to buy your this is what voting yes on prop 31 means.

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office but the team is ready for what they're expecting to be a busy election day. >> all our vote centers are fully staffed. we had extra vote centers in case anything happened with vote centers. we have extra staff, extra vote centers. we have people who come here every single day as soon as the vote centers open. >> november elections always bring out the voters but a tight election to decide san jose's next mayor, no doubt has people interested in making their voices heard. in fact, men dez says people are doing less early voting and really studying this important pal lot were turning in their votes. on election day the county is expected between 55 and 65% voter turnout. a major increase from the low numbers we saw on the june primaries. >> it was 35% in june. we're expecting it to be higher but we're prepared for it. we have enough staff on hand to hand physical we had a million voters turn in their ballots. >> poll workers are already hard at work sorting and counting early votes that have been

coming. in mendez says the county is seeing 19% turnout so far. while there's been big turnout, they have had no issues. disblefer voters take a ballot, there's two people with a ballot at all times. all our offices are transparent. anyone can come in and see what the process. but we do make sure where the ballot counting is happening no one can go behind those doors. it's closed, 24 hour surveillance. >> 103 secure vote cents for the total open through 8:00 p.m. on election night. in santa clara county, dustin dorsey, abc 7 news. >> and the contra costa elections division wants everyone to know they're ready for election day. you can visit five early voting sites today tomorrow and monday to cast a ballot. polling places are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on tuesday, november 8. the county has 37 official drop boxes as well as in person

voting locations. on election night we'll be live streaming results for the three hours straight starting as soon as the polls close at 8:00 p.m. you can watch that with our abc bay area app, on your smart phone or smart tv. here on television you can watch abc 7 news at 4:00. then at 5:00, live abc network coverage of national elections. so many interesting races to be watching. with live, local cut-ins every 30 minutes. we'll keep you updated on local races. abc 7 news at 11:00 will have a full recap of all election results locally and nationally. >> the largest lottery please ever is up for grabs with the power ball jackpot hitting $1.6 billion for tomorrow night's drawing. there's a lot of excitement, especially in the south bay which has been on a lottery winning streak this year. during the last drawing, a ticket in milpedas matched five of six numbers, winning a $1 million prize. many residents are hoping the luck will extend to them. >> it's been a lot busier than

usual at this milpeda7-eleven. the prize at this store was worth half the second place prize in the power ball. >> i rab right to my ticket. only won five bucks though. >> i hope for you we win next. >> it's not just this store that's been lucky. this year alone different stores throughout the south bay have sold several big winning tickets. three $1 million scratchers tickets sold in san jose between january and march. a $20 million was sold in san jose in september. the biggest of the year so far has been the $247 million mega millions win in san jose. that was followed by more wins including that most recent win in milpedas. >> santa clara county has become a lucky one in california. >> with all eyes focused on the big jackpot prize, kale lottery spokesperson carolyn becker says there are critical things play

verse to know. >> the person has to realize and keep the ticket safe. secondly, at their own pace, they have a year to come forward. come into on of our offices. we have offices all over the state. they're listed on our website. >> lottery williams in california's names are subject to public record but the state doesn't tax the prize only the federal government. at this point if a winner claims a prize as a lump sum, they will get more than $700 million. but some of the real winners are the public schools the lottery raises money for. in the most recent school year more than $22 million raised for santa clara county public schools alone. >> it's something we're really proud of. it's something we consider a big win for california. even if no one here ends up hitting that big one, schools are going to win either way. >> in the south bay, zach fuentes, abc 7 news. >> rain is coming. get ready for showers tomorrow and a wet week. >> we'll be back with the foul forecast, stay with us.

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doppler 7 wider picture. the reason it was so mild that areas of high pressure. we do have an atmospheric river moving into the psk northwest. they'll get soaking rain. already seeing the rain and the mountain snow. that's where the energy. is we'll get a little bit of rain tomorrow. a little bit more sunday night and then we'll get wetter monday and tuesday. on live doppler 7 you can see a lot of cloud cover at this hour. temperatures in the 50's and the 60's as you check out the forecast for tomorrow. the walk to end alzheimer's right here in san francisco, our very own mornings anchor will be emceeing that event. registration, mid 50's, there'll be fog and clouds. the walk begins between 10:00 and 10:30, it'll be about 57, ideal walking weather. at noon a chance of showers so just be ready for that. and say aloha to new zealand. here's a look at the hawaiian airlines forecast. mostly cloudy locally. showers, low to mid 60's.

auckland, new zealand, tomorrow, 68 degrees. showers and windy in chicago, 61 in los angeles, looking at bright skies. 72 degrees. not exactly bright from the golden gate bridge camera. rain arrives this weekend. fallback sunday mork. daylight savings time ends. a wet pattern continues into next week. exclusive to abc 7 news a light level one storm, saturday and sunday afternoon and evening, showers arief tomorrow afternoon and continue through the night and then rain arrives sunday night, rainfall estimates .05 to about a half inch for most of you. dent be surprised if you see patchy drizzle. rain in the north bay as we head into 4:00 p.m. you can see the showers don't have a whole lot of umph to them. 7:30 starting to move toward the south bay. some of you may not measure at all. but by sunday, things start to change in the nighttime hours, moderate rainfall starting to arrive sunday night at 9:00 in

the north bay. eventually by 11:00 p.m. across other pars of the bay area. your weekend rainfall totals, tuple hundredths out toward brentwood. .04 in clairewood. winter storm warning for the seer radio, 4:00 p.m. sunday until 4:00 a.m. wednesday. heavy snow expected. one to four feet. gusts 50 to 0. difficult to impossible travel. hold off in that time you'll have plenty of time to enjoy that powder. 40's, 50's tomorrow morning with drizzle. tomorrow afternoon some showers. it's going spob spotty. it won't be all day. he's your accuweather seven-day forecast. don't forget to fall back one hour tomorrow night before you go to bed. we gain that extra hour of sleep. light level one for saturday. sunday. monday. election day. i love the way this looks. slight chances lingering on wednesday and then on friday which is veterans day. one thing is for sure, it is going to be chillier too next

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tonight, breaking news, severe storms bearing down across several states as we come on the air, and the 100-car pileup. those tornado warnings and watches across the south and the heartland. reports of a possible tornado outside dallas. dallas, austin, little rock, and oklahoma city all on alert tonight. the 100-car pileup in denver. temperatures plunging from the 70s into the 20s. this system on the move. rob marciano standing by to time this out. house speaker nancy pelosi's first public comments since the brutal attack on her husband. what she said today and what she revealed about paul pelosi's condition. mola lenghi in san francisco. tonight, with elon musk in

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