likely lasting a few hours. let's give you a look at what it looked like in orinda this afternoon. it was enough rain to make driving pretty difficult for some folks. some light rain in oakland with a few still walking their dogs or braving that afternoon jog around lake merritt. >> fido's got to go out at some point, so we have team coverage of the storm, starting with lisa. arjun. lisa, you're tracking the storm and what are we in for? >> well, it looks like tomorrow is going to be a very rainy day when we increase our storm impact scale to a level two with the wind. and this is all coming from hawaii. the southwestern trajectory of this is allowing for the moisture to continue being pumped up into the bay area. they've had over three inches of rain per hour in parts of maui. so big problems there. but back home, as we take you into the bay area, you can see the heavier rain in the north bay. it has been light and scattered throughout much of the day. it is beginning to fill in light rain over into the east bay and you'll notice out towards the delta. now this is a warm system so snow

levels are high. we do have a flash flood watch through sunday. we could see anywhere from 1 to 3in of rain in general, five inches at the highest elevations. e are looking at this level one tonight to kind of give us periods of rain, some downpours outside. you can see the raindrops on the lens and the golden gate bridge. not too bad right now, 40s and 50s outside, but there is fog, so visibility is reduced. in our inland valleys we have breezy winds that will continue and the rain throughout the evening commute. so we'll track it all for you and talk about big time snow in the mountains through next week and accumulating rainfall through next week as well. kristen. larry. >> thanks, lisa. she's a big time in the north bay. the rain is back breaking a long dryrain spell, but the storm is also bringing flooding concerns to the region. >> abc seven news reporter cornell bernard joining us live now in santa rosa with details. cornell. >> yeah. hey, larry and kristen. really nice to see the rain back after almost a month, right? that's what we're hearing from folks in santa rosa today. but

with storms intensifying tomorrow, it looks like flooding is definitely expected. >> we are at mark west, station road and star road, and i'm just kind of surveying the area to see how the creeks are looking. >> sonoma county fire district inspector ryan osborne is doing a pre storm check of local roads and creeks after a long dry spell. he says it won't take much to flood. >> we're probably six feet down from the deck of the roadway here. but that can rise very quickly. >> what will this road look like tomorrow? >> likely we're going to have water coming over the top. >> osborne expects some low lying roads will flood. detours will be in place. >> closed and road flooded. signs that the county roads puts out kind of prepositions. these right before a storm. if you see any red tape, yellow tape on these across the road, please do not go around them. >> last november, a driver lost his life after driving through

flooded maze canyon road in guerneville, the second such drowning fatality in two years. >> we are always encouraging folks to, if they see the road closed, road flooded signs and the red or yellow tape across the roads to, you know, turn around and not drown. >> this sonoma county road worker was filling potholes ahead of the storm. we found this crew busy trimming tree limbs around power lines for p-g-and-e's. the utility says it's bringing in extra crews to the north bay and pre-staging equipment like wires and transformers in case they're needed. >> in addition, we encourage our customers to make preparations as well, whether that's making sure that you have batteries on hand, should you should you experience a power outage? >> yeah. we've been waiting a long time. really glad to have the rain back. >> julian loveland says he's ready for it. >> got new tires yesterday. that helps. >> umbrellas are back on duty. ready or not. >> i don't really love the rain when i'm going out. i'd rather be inside, but it's good for us.

i know that we need the rain. >> and light rain falling right now here in santa rosa. firefighters and the chp reminding folks who may have forgotten how to drive in the rain to be safe. take it slow out there. it's going to be wet for quite a few days. we're live in santa rosa. cornell. bernard, abc seven news. >> cornell, thank you so much. our other big story. federal investigators from the national transportation safety board have provided an update on that deadly mid-air collision near washington, dc. the black box from the military blackhawk helicopter has been recovered in good condition, and agents are confident they'll be able to recover all the data. they're still mapping out where debris landed in the potomac river, but say large chunks should be easily recovered. and the reagan national air traffic controllers have been interviewed. now, reporter josh einiger has more on the investigation. >> the key mystery in this tragedy is why? why did a blackhawk helicopter fly

directly into a passenger jet on approach to reagan national? here behind me. well, now that the ntsb has recovered the so-called black box of that blackhawk, they may finally begin to unlock the mystery to the people who happened to be looking up near reagan national wednesday night. >> what happened? oh my god. >> it's impossible to understand how two modern aircraft piloted by professionals on a clear night just collided, killing dozens in an instant. >> in this incident, it should not have happened. we have an aviation what's called a swiss cheese approach, wherein if something fails, a backup should catch it. multiple layers of redundancy. it's been a very long time since we've had a major aviation incident in the united states. >> the ntsb vows it will figure it out. its technicians already mining the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the american eagle regional jet, and it's already given them a treasure trove of information. >> it is not one point that tells us everything. it's

layered into a lot of other information that's very critical. >> just before 9 p.m. wednesday, the national airport tower controller requested the pilots of american flight 5342 change their runway assignment. they lined up for runway three three, just 2400ft from touchdown. the jet was now a bit closer to the black hawk as it approached from the north. flying at least 100ft higher than it was supposed to. >> it could have drifted them a little bit further into the path of that black hawk. if there was some altitude discrepancy that the black hawk wasn't holding. >> also today, a salvage crew took position along the potomac to lift the wreckage onto a barge in hopes recovery crews can access the bodies of more than two dozen victims still beyond reach underwater. >> we think we know where they are. we won't know until we're done. i mean, we're going to continue this search operation, but we've searched a large portion of this river, and we are right there. >> the ntsb announced

tonight they have now flown in an identical airplane to the one that crashed a crj 700, just like that american eagle plane. so investigatos can look over it to see how itos should or shouldn't have worked or looked. as they try to solve this mystery, 100 family members of the dead hanging on their every action right here in washington at reagan national airport. josh einiger, abc seven news. >> and as we learn more about this crash and the people involved, we'll post updates to our website, abc seven news.com and the abc seven bay area app. >> east bay congressman mark desaulnier spoke with abc seven's gloria rodriguez and karina nova today about the crash. at a press conference yesterday, president trump was quick to blame the crash on dei diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. desaulnier criticized those comments. >> in one word madness. this is where focus comes in. important and listening to experts. uh- common sense would tell you to

listen to your doctor if you have cancer like i do, rather than blaming something just because it's an opinion. in this instance, i just found that outrageous and quite unhinged. to tell you the truth, out of respect for those people who died and their families who are suffering so much. why? why would you say something like that? those kids, man, those kids, those skaters, i i'm sorry. it's just completely unacceptable why anyone would vote for somebody who would say things like that. to be perfectly honest, it's hard for me to comprehend. >> desaulnier sits on the aviation subcommittee of the house committee on transportation. he says the committee was briefed on the crash, but says it's too early to speculate on a cause. >> now, san carlos airport, which, as you know, is a general aviation airport for small planes. it was going to operate with an unmanned airport towere starting this weekend. but a last minute deal appears to have solved the issue here. county officials say the controllers have reached an agreement with

the company that operates the airport, and it's business as usual going forward. an aviation consultant says small airports can operate without air traffic control staff. but of course, having that extra layer of security and safety is better for everyone. >> hundreds of people rallied in san francisco today in support of transgender youth and their families. abc seven news reporter tim johns tells us this is a show of support after president trump signed multiple executive orders targeting trans youth. >> if donald trump and his authoritarian regime are coming for our trans residents, they're going to have to come through us. >> powerful words from state senator scott wiener. wiener calling a rally friday in support of transgender youth, their families and their teachers since coming back into office. president donald trump has signed several executive orders targeting trans people. san francisco city attorney david chu says while california can provide some protections for those impacted, his office will

be fighting for people around the country. >> when donald trump violates the constitution, violates the law, we think that that judges who follow the law will rule the correct way. >> chu says his office is specifically fighting for people like minda murphy and her child, kanoa wilson. >> if we do not speak up now against the hatred and ignorance and vitriol that is coming from donald trump and his administration, then their voices are going to be the only voices in the room. >> wilson is non-binary, they say. while they're not surprised by the president's actions, they're speaking out against the attempted erasure of their identity. >> i've tried different pronouns all my life. i've tried everything out. i've figured out what has worked for me, and this is my truest form. >> wilson says despite everything going on, they're not scared, something that makes their mom proud. even if she doesn't feel the same. >> i would be foolish not to be. you know, we're in the second week of this presidency, and my

family has become a direct target. >> and despite the challenges their family may face in the future, both murphy and wilson say they'll continue speaking out. >> they can write my child's identity out of existence in our federal government. my kid's still going to be my kid. they're still going to be exactly the same person that they are. >> in san francisco, tim johns, abc seven news. >> as deportations of undocumented immigrants continue across the country. a san jose woman is telling her story about how a deportation split her family. abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has the inspiring story of perseverance through this painful ordeal. >> fear is at an all time high for many immigrant families. fear of the unknown. fear of losing family. fear of deportation a feeling that hits home for san jose's hayley ayala mejia. >> i don't believe family should be separated, and as a mexican american, i feel strongly impacted because a lot of mexican immigrants sometimes don't have family in the united

states. all they have is clothes and a dream. and my parents were those people. >> what started as a dream became a nightmare, starting when ayala mejia was just eight years old, her mother was deported to mexico, leaving her father as the lone parent to ayala mejia and her younger sister. >> this is my father. his name is miguel angel ayala mora. >> in 2022, when ayala mejia was just 16, he died from complications with the covid vaccine. how challenging has that been to lose both parents in that respect? >> hard. but i think i became harder. i knew that i was the one responsible for my future. i could not change my past. >> after bouncing around the foster care system, the socal native made her way to san jose. here, ayala mejia is connected with services specifically for foster youth, so she could finally stand on her own two feet. what does it mean to have a place of your own? >> to have a place of my own means? stability means comfort, means peace. i'm just so

thankful to jamboree and the bill wilson center. i'm also thankful to my social worker. >> now, both ayala mejia and her sister are on full ride scholarships to dartmouth and stanford, respectively, a story she hopes can inspire others who may end up in a similar situation. >> i was told by various people that i wasn't going to be anything, that i was going to be another statistic in the foster care system, and i told them, that's not going to happen to me. i'm smart and i'm strong, and i'm gonna show you and i did and make my parents proud. you know, they didn't cross the border for nothing, and they didn't decide to have children here in the united states for nothing. >> now 21, she knows her parents would be proud because when life got tough, she got tougher in san jose. dustin dorsey, abc seven news. >> there are a lot of changes happening in the trump administration's first week. we're keeping track of the first 100 days, and you can too, with us at abc seven news.com and the abc seven bay area app. encouraging news for some san

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brain. >> you can have side effects like itching and muscle spasms. studies have not been done yet on chronic pain. >> we're learning new information today about the potential impact of the bird flu outbreak. it erupted last year and has spread widely, leading to concerns about animal health, food production and, more broadly, the economy. this afternoon, experts with the scientific society called silian meeting to talk about the scale and speed of the outbreak. one researcher explained how consumers will be affected. >> if you're talking about a layer system, this is going to impact the birds that are laying the eggs. if there's no birds to lay eggs, there are no eggs to have. and then we have a supply shortage. and that leads to higher prices because of supply and demand dynamics. >> so far, the outbreak has killed one person and infected dozens of others. in the u.s. two children have been diagnosed with bird flu in california. the state also declared a state of emergency after the virus began to spread in dairy cows. >> san jose city hall was transformed into a medical clinic today. dozens of

organizations filling the rotunda, offering services like free dental and vision exams, health screenings, blood pressure checks and flu shots to unhoused people. some were even able to get a haircut while there. this event has been organized for the past 14 years by state senator dave cortese. it's estimated 10,000 people are homeless in santa clara county, and nearly half of them are age 55 or older. >> all right. take a look at this weather. what do you see? it's that rain. >> we've been waiting. a lot of rain, a lot of clouds. a lot of fog. >> commute? >> yeah. yeah. drive slowly, everybody. lisa argen is here now with a look at a very wet weekend. >> that's right. setting the stage for a level two on saturday. we get a bit of a break on sunday, but all this rain is going to accumulate. there's a much colder and stronger storm for next week. so as we get started right now. live doppler seven showing you all the rain moving in. it has filled in quite a bit, but this is what's to come. as we look at the loop out in the pacific, here is what we're going to tap into for your saturday. and this

is going to bring some pretty heavy downpours. so right now across the bay it's been light. it has been filling in though you can see off the coast through san francisco. and rainfall amounts have been three quarters of an inch up in petaluma, about a 10th to a third through parts of marin county. and as we take you into the east bay, 5/100 to a 10th out through berkeley looking at rain in orinda, you had about a 10th of an inch in moraga and then hit or miss along the peninsula. but there's all this that's going to fill in throughout the evening hours and a bit of a break. you saw a little bit of rain in san jose, 5/100 around ben lomond, and we could see upwards of three and four inches through the weekend in the santa cruz mountains, upper 40s to 50 right now, vallejo, concord, 52, in san jose. and look how wet it is outside from our roof camera. so the rain getting a bit steadier throughout the day. a level two system as we go through tomorrow, that atmospheric river gets pumped up and then as we get into sunday, looks like the line of rain is going to shift to the north, but then

much colder systems. and that's what we like to see for the mountains come monday into tuesday. upper level winds over 40 miles an hour along the coast. here's a look at today and tonight. as you can see, that solid swath of rain pushing to the east. and then by 9:00, scattered showers. this is 7:00 on saturday. so this is our level two. the system gets closer, we get gusty winds and pretty good downpours through the midday hour into the early afternoon. this is 3:00 still heavy rain. napa to concord then a bit of a break into your sunday. still rainy though and then into late sunday. that's a better break after 3:00. so rainfall through today a 10th to 2/10 taking you through early saturday, three quarters of an inch to maybe a third and then all the way through the weekend, maybe two inches up in the far reaches of the north bay, about an inch in san francisco, perhaps a half inch from mountain view in the santa cruz mountains, maybe an inch and a half. so starting out with this warm side of the system, upper

30s for the tahoe valley airport right now. so winter weather advisory through 4:00 on sunday, snow levels will be quite high above 6500ft up to 18in. and then we're going to add up a foot here for saturday, another foot for kirkwood on sunday and monday. this takes us through next week. we're talking 5 to 6ft of snow with the colder air moving in. this is a seven day total where we're talking over six inches in santa rosa, maybe four inches in san francisco and over two in san jose. so there's more to come. it started out late last night, i should say, and late, and we get windy and rainy early monday, early saturday and then monday as well. sunday, monday. and then by tuesday it's heavier, colder break on wednesday. and there's our lighter rain thursday and friday. so yeah it's we're getting into it. >> all right. >> thank you lisa. >> yeah thanks. >> so much. right now we got to bring you some breaking news out of the east coast. philadelphia. a small plane has crashed in the area of northeast philadelphia.

just take a look at the scene. this crash happened just after 3:00. our time there. i used to work in philadelphia for wpvi. this is an area that has a lot of row homes there. and reportedly this plane hit several buildings. there's also a mall there, the roosevelt mall, so busy mixed residential and commercial. >> the fire, their large emergency response. multiple casualties. casualties reported. developing situation. so we're going to work to more, to learn more and bring you details as they come in. but this is the situation in philadelphia as we speak, as emergency responders try to deal with the casualties of a situation here. second plane crash this week. very scary. and more

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quality and environment of malibu. there's a lot at topanga and pch. that's pacific coast highway. it will be used as a transfer site for dangerous items like lithium batteries, propane tanks and pesticides that cannot go into a landfill. >> how will we know that the epa truly do leave this landscape and this ecosystem as they found it? i don't know how i can entrust that from happening, and they really haven't kind of at all attempted to have a dialog with us as a community. we feel totally blindsided that this has just happened. >> the epa is saying protections are in place and that some debris will be isolated, triple wrapped, and sealed before being transported. >> a message of hope and raising funds to rebuild a fire aid benefit concert was held in southern california last night. the event was fully packed with stars including the legendary singer songwriter stevie nicks. >> and she gave a surprise shout out to some bay area firefighters. but as abc seven news reporter lena howland explains, there was one small

thing that she didn't quite get right. >> some of the music industry's biggest names united in los angeles thursday night, all to support communities impacted by the wildfires. >> and i was pretty sure as they whisked me away and evacuated me, my least favorite word. now to another safe place that when i turned around and looked, my house would be up in flames. >> legendary stevie nicks opening up to the crowd about her home in pacific palisades, built out of wood in 1938. >> it would have set the rest of the whole street on both sides on fire. >> the historic fires destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures and burned over 14,000 acres, but her home was miraculously spared from the flames. >> the reason it got saved is because it was a team from santa rosa, the santa rosa firefighters that saved her, and they never gave up. i have to

tell you, not just on my house, but on the whole side of the whole mountain canyon that was coming up towards us. >> nicks giving a special shout out to santa rosa firefighters, some sitting in on the crowd, a crew from santa rosa fire engine one was on a strike team sent to the palisades. >> i'd like to dedicate this next song to all those firefighters because until you really see it happen, you can't believe it. you just simply cannot believe the bravery of these men, captain dean especially. >> but here's the thing a spokesperson for the fire department says while they do have a captain dean, he wasn't on this fire. it was a different fire captain from their team. >> take my love. and i took it down. >> the benefit concert raised more than $60 million in ticket sales and sponsorships in santa rosa. lena howland, abc seven news. >> coming up, seven on your side

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weren't. >> they were not. kristen one of these golden eagles. you can see it here. it's pretty small. worth $59. that's how much it cost to purchase them. supposedly the trade in value more than $100,000. one pittsburgh man thought he'd be a millionaire. turns out this is a worth less than its weight. marine corps veteran wesley skelton is dumping out $2,500 worth of golden eagles, along with what he thought were trump silver coins. >> he said that he was going to help the people become millionaires. i could trade these in for cash at bank of america, supposedly $110,000 apiece. >> 110,000 apiece. >> correct. >> which is why skelton bought 324 of them. so you thought you were getting. >> over 35 million? >> skelton became aware of the project after watching what he now knows were fake. likely, ai generated videos of president donald trump on telegram. >> and i want to congratulate everyone who has already gotten their trump golden eagles and

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16 cities. they found that two thirds of them had a jump in their rat population, and that includes san francisco. the study says warmer temperatures gives rats more time to forage for food and reproduce. rats are get this a $27 billion problem for u.s. cities. they don't just damage infrastructure. rat droppings can also carry diseases. i once found a rat inside the engine of my car. yeah, because he was he crawled up in there and he was chewing on the plastic and eating the plastic. they'll eat anything. they'll eat anything. so. >> and it's just creepy to see one when you see one running across the street. i mean, thankfully here it doesn't happen as often as it might in new york city, but it's just, you know. >> i had to google it. 3 million rats in new york city. that's a third of the population of people in new york. >> so not quite a rat for every home, but. >> they're not as cute as they are in the movie ratatouille. >> no. and in new york they

have, like, you know, steroid infused rats. i mean, big, big creatures. >> you don't mess with those. >> no, no, you go the other way. >> all right, show me the money. that's the message that bombarded lawyer ann fong after she announced a contest to design her new billboard. the flamboyant and unique personal injury attorney had first offered $500 to the winner, who designs her new billboard. but after getting shamed on social media, the multi-millionaire lawyer upped the prize money to $5,000. the contest ends february 10th. if you have an idea. she wants something catchy. obviously a lot of people, you know, see her billboards, they're off the freeway there. yeah. what do you think? >> well. >> i mean, she went up. from what? 500 to 5000. so, you know, clearly she got the message there. i, you know, i'm kind of with the law brothers or or jacobian. meyer. you know, i'm just joking. >> one 800 million. >> you know what i would prefer if i won that contest? like, i

can call her and use her as a lawyer. anytime anything happens for life, right? that's. that's worth more than probably $5,000. >> yeah. people work harder to design a billboard like that. yeah. >> i guess i wonder, karina, what you have planned for the future? >> you never know. >> yeah. >> you never know. why do you need a lawyer? >> when you need a good lawyer? >> should we be worried? no. you know what? she could have gone to fiverr. you know that app or the website? the platform. and she could have offered to pay someone 5 or 10 bucks. so 5000. >> or i. >> i know exactly these days. >> so many options. >> yeah. >> all right, so we should jump on this right after the newscast. a new asteroid discovered this month has turned out to be anything but. in fact, it isn't even a natural object. the wannabe asteroid announced on january 2nd is actually space junk. it's a tesla roadster launched into space years ago by spacex ceo elon musk. why you would do that? i really don't understand. but the company sent the car into a long orbit around the sun. this was back in 2018. earlier this month, the

harvard-smithsonian center for astrophysics announced this discovery. thinking we found something out there. no. then they retracted it and figured out it was courtesy of elon musk. >> there is a lot of space junk out there. that is true. but you guys, there is actually this asteroid called 2024 r4 that could potentially hit us. it's a 1.2% chance in the year 2032. >> that's pretty high. i mean, i know it's low, but a 1% chance of it actually hitting us. yeah. that means there's a chance. yes. >> decent chance. >> and you you talked to an expert about this, right? i did, at 3:00. what did they say? should we be scared? >> no, he said we don't know enough about it yet. but in april, by april, we should know more about the trajectory so we can be more certain. so maybe we panic then, but not yet. >> okay. okay. yeah. >> all right, so i have a couple of months before i panic. >> kristen will let us know. >> in the meantime, i've already booked kind of a splurge dinner

because i was like, well, 20, 32. >> well, maybe i won't need an fogg after all. >> well, yeah. after 2032. >> i mean, you know, you see the movies like armageddon. can we go up and, you know, if we knew it was blow it up or, you know, like, lasso it with in some way? i don't know. >> we nominate you, larry. >> i'm ready. i'm ready. i'm ready. >> to go. >> put me in, coach. all right. watching the super bowl can get fans a little salty. and we're not talking about the slang use of the word. a medical study found that 10% of nfl game commercials advertise salty food. the median amount is three times what you're supposed to eat in an entire day. and it's not just fast food. grocery items on commercials are usually for prepared foods with high sodium uh. so see if you watch that and you fall for the marketing, you're consuming more sodium. larry. >> yeah, larry. i don't eat a lot of processed foods, but, you know, uber has that whole series of commercials where the premise is the nfl is really designed to get you to eat that food. you

know, like jerry rice, kind of. anyway, the thing that people don't realize about a lot of the stuff that you see in the middle of grocery stores with all the prepackaged foods and the chips and the pretzels, all this stuff. there are labs that specialize in creating, like the perfect mix of salt and sweet so that you're addicted to it. and i don't know if you guys have experienced, like, doritos is perceived to be one of the more perfect foods in that category in terms of how they combine everything and put it together. >> don't you wish that the next time we watched the super bowl, there'd be just commercials for fruit and veggies? >> yeah. >> i think. >> i think. >> those industries can't afford 7 million a pop for that 30s or whatever it is. >> it'd be nice to see it. >> i think you got. >> a better chance of getting hit by the asteroid, right? >> that's true. all right, 1.2%. >> there you go. all right. 20. 32. >> live it up, guys. >> enjoy your weekend. no regrets. that' ...and blurry vision, you need clear answers.

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five chinese new year parade. we're just two weeks away from the big event. you can watch live right here on abc seven. 6 to 8 p.m. and of course, everywhere you stream abc seven. >> all right. speaking of streams, there's going to be a lot of streams coming from from the mountains. different kind of stream because of all the rain we're going to get. >> it's been a while, lisa. >> yes, and we need it. but by next week, if not saturday, some

of those streams could get pretty high. and the creeks? the rivers, not so much. here's a look at live doppler seven, where you can see the rain filling in pretty good. and it has shifted from san francisco. the heart of the bay there looking at the light rain. so the evening commute, our level one system certainly impacting the drive home in san leandro and also along the peninsula out towards san mateo. you haven't had much rain. about 3/100 and more is on the way tonight. fremont. some scattered showers, upper elevation winds, quite gusty and we get into all of it. the rain and wind tomorrow. heavy at times. this is overnight tonight. there's the heavy rain early tomorrow through midday. then we do get a break, but more arrives on sunday. it won't be raining the whole time. rainfall amounts anywhere from a 10th to a third today. and then tomorrow we add in another three quarters of an inch for totals of about an inch in the city, about an inch and a quarter over in oakland. a half inch through sunday in the south bay. this takes us through next thursday, so there's more to come. it's a colder system as we get into next week,

which is some good news because right now it's really going to be a warm one out there. so level two tomorrow, another level two on tuesday. >> all right lisa thank you. we're still following that breaking news out of pennsylvania philadelphia tonight. investigators say t least two people were on board a twin engine jet when it crashed in the area of northeast philadelphia in a very populated area. >> residential area. the conditions are unknown, but new video from the aftermath looks almost post-apocalyptic. the crash happened around 3:30 p.m. our time. the ntsb says the plane had just taken off from northeast philadelphia airport and was en route to missouri. >> our sister station, wpvi in philadelphia, is reporting a plane possibly hit several buildings and cars in the area. and based on the wreckage and what's burning, that certainly seems to confirm that visually, multiple casualties have been reported. the faa has since issued a ground stop at the northeast philadelphia airport. federal investigators are now

heading to the scene. >> and the crash happened near a mall. our sister station in philly reports. you know, the possibility of the plane careening and you could see all all the fires that have been ignited here. it does look post apocalyptic. so we'll keep you posted as we get more details, but a little edgy for everybody now flying. you know, if you look at what happened in washington dc. and again this is a small plane, it's a different situation than it's not a, you know, a passenger jet, but still, you know, gets people nervous. yeah yeah. >> all right. the murder of a loving husband really shook a small town. and several years later, his widow's life was shaken again when her second husband was also found murdered. >> all right. so who was the hunter here? who was the hunted? this morning, abc seven news anchor gloria rodriguez talked to abc's john quinones about tonight's episode of 2020. it's called run, run, run. >> so run, run, run premieres tonight. what did you find most fascinating about this case?ost >> you know, we traveled to beautiful colorado, to the rocky

mountains. it's a tale of love between allen and miriam helmick, who met later in life after both of their spouses had passed away. they met on the dance floor. miriam was a was a dance instructor, and allen was wealthy but but lonely. a businessman in that grand junction, colorado area. before too long, they get married. he buys miriam her own dance studio, a sprawling horse ranch, and everything seems great, like a marriage made in heaven, right? but then one day, miriam comes home from shopping to discover that her husband has been shot dead on the kitchen floor. it looks like a break in a burglary. the kitchen is ransacked. miriam frantically calls 911, and that's when the investigation, full of twists and turns, begins. >> and i understand the title run, run, run actually refers to a note that was left. right? >> yeah. there's a there's more to this story, more mystery to

it. because after her husband had been shot dead, miriam says she's out shopping all morning and comes home uh- to one night to find a greeting card under the mat near her front door, and someone has scribbled the words on these words on that card. it said allen was first your husband, allen was first. you are next. run, run, run. and of course, that raises a lot of eyebrows. >> and i know with these true crime stories, people alwayse want to kind of figure out who did it. as we watch this story, do you think people will be kind of surprised about who may have done this, who may have committed this crime? >> absolutely, gloria, because part of the twist here is that someone had tried to kill allen a couple of months before he was shot and killed while he was sitting in his car in a parking

lot. someone put a wick in his gas tank and tried to set it on fire. actually, the car didn't explode. he survived. but that's when the authorities started wondering who would want allen dead and why. in the end, his wife winds up in prison and you will hear my interview with her and she'll tell us her side of the story. >> actually, john, i was going to ask you about that because i understand you talked to her and this was the first time she spoke publicly about the case. what was that interview like for you? >> well, it was on the phone because we couldn't see her in person, but she wanted to tell her side of the story desperately. she tells me she had nothing to do with this, that she was railroaded, that she was not involved in her husband's murder. and i think in the end, the viewers will have to be the judge. >> wow. sounds fascinating. well, can't wait to see it. john, thank you so much for your time and so great talking to you. >> pretty bizarre story. all in

all, you can catch 2020. run, run run tonight here on abc seven starting at 9 p.m. and it will stream tomorrow on hulu. coming up, bay area baseball fans will get their chance to say goodbye to a legend this weekend. >> when we come back, a look ahead to the event

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seven news at 11. happening tomorrow. a chance for fans to gather and celebrate the late oakland a's legend rickey henderson. the a's will hold a celebration of life for henderson at the oakland arena. several hall of famers are expected to be there to pay their respects, including former a's manager tony la russa, reggie jackson, ken griffey jr and frank thomas. the event is open to the public, but tickets are sold out. henderson was a beloved oakland native. he died in december due to complications from pneumonia. he was 65 years old. abc seven news is streaming 24/7. get the abc seven bay area streaming tvp and join us whenever you want. i'm kristen sze. that's going to do it for abc seven news at four

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