some school leaders are not taking any chances with their students. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm dion lim. alma has the night off. local law enforcement is working to investigate the threats. >> kate is in emeryville aer someone sent one of the e-mails to a superintendent about a planned shooting. kate? >> reporter: well, dan, dion, emory high was closed to the as were all of the schools in the district after i superintendent received the threatening e-mail. i'm told the e-mail said something about a student in need of help who had been bullied. but it turns out that e-mail was part of some sort of competition to get schools closed and as many as possible. squad cars in the parking lot, locked doors and an empty campus after someone sent an e-mail threatening to shoot students and faculty in emeryville. emory unified school district canceled class. >> it was the right decision at the right time. >> captain oliver collins with emeryville p.d. said his detectives started investigating

as soon as the e-mail came in sunday night. >> there's been too many instan sis of agencies and organizations not taking threats seriously or vetting them out. >> reporter: by monday morning police determined it was a hoax that originated in an online gaming community. more than 50 bay area school districts received the threatening e-mail. by the time they saw it emory p.d. and other law enforcement agencies had determined it was not a credible threat so they kept schools open. >> it's not a good situation. schools are making tough choices. >> reporter: michelle smith mcdonald works for the all immediate i school district. 13 schools received threats. >> the idea this was a dare or some sort of a bet or something where they want to just frighten and sort of alarm school communities, it's really troubling. >> i think it's ridiculous. kids are supposed to feel safe at school. >> reporter: they were alarmed to learn their schools were also threatened.

many feel it was unfortunate but a smart decision. >> there have been so many shootings at schools that it's better safe than sorry. >> reporter: emeryville p.d. tells me they will have officers stationed here at emory high and at the elementary school to ensure that everyone stays safe when they return to school tomorrow. live in emeryville, i'm kate lawyer larson, abc7 news. >> kate, thanks so. . tomorrow mark zuckerberg will tell congress he's sorry that 87 million facebook users had their information harvested for a political campaign, maybe you. will it be enough, though, to ward off regulation and regain the trust of so many users? here's abc7 news reporter katie marzullo. >> i want to talk about the efforts that we are investing in in order to better protect the integrity of our platform. >> reporter: in plaalo alto a forum called how do we know what's true any more, a panelist from facebook. mark zuckerberg testified before congress about the release of

information about the release of 87 million facebook users for political purposes to cambridge analytica. >> when i got these quizzes, i thought it was funny it was pirnal information i was giving out trying to find out what animal i was. >> reporter: it was a third-party quiz that led to the harvest. zuckerberg is set to apologize in prepared testimony he wrote. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake. it was my mistake and i'm sorry. joe ellen posner teaches ethics. make no mistake, facebook is a data collection company. >> when they say they didn't know, that is disingenuous. >> reporter: steve wozniak is signing off. >> facebook was a good idea, but management didn't do enough to protect our privacy. >> reporter: but plenty of users are staying connected. a >> any time you get something

free it's a catch. you get what you pay for. >> reporter: facebook users should see a link telling them if their information was shared with cambridge analytica. in palo alto, katie marzullo, abc7 news. >> speaking of the social networking site, a black lives matter with almost 700,000 followers is fake. that is according to an online report. according to cnn, the page has ties to a middle aged white man in australia. online fund-raisers that brought in $100,000 to support the cause in the u.s. actually went into australian bank accounts instead. facebook has suspended the page and the fund-raisers. >> today the fbi raided the office, home and hotel room of president trump's lawyer, michael cohen, and one of his most trusted confidants. the washington post reports cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations connected to the payoff of adult film star stormy daniels. abc7 news reporter maggie ruley

is in washington. >> reporter: fbi agents in new york city raided the home and personal office of michael cohen. calls the raid completely inappropriate and unnecessary. it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney/client communications between a lawyer and his clients. he went on to say the raid was the result of a referral by the special counsel's office. sources familiar with the investigation tell abc news the fbi raids were not about russia but did reveal they took a host of documents including some possibly related to cohen's $130,000 payment to adult film star stormy daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election. moments after the news broke. >> i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man, and it's a disgraceful situation. >> reporter: president trump again called the investigation a witch hunt against him. >> but that is really now in a

whole new level of unfairness. >> reporter: just days ago president trump spoke publicly about daniels for the first time. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> then why did michael cohen make that if there was no -- >> you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney. >> reporter: cohen said he entered into the agreement with stormy daniels out of loyalty to his friendship with trump. the white house denies daniels' allegation that she had an affair with trump in 2006. maggie rulie, abc news, new york. >> students at trump university are getting money back. the federal judge today finalized the $25 million settlement to people who attended the now defunct real estate training program. trump university admitted no wrongdoing as part of the settlement. >> a good samaritan who stepped in to stop a stabbing a stack at the coliseum bart station saturday says he did it because he knows how it feels to be the

victim of a crime. david harris suffered cuts to his hands subduing the suspect 32-year-old robert dolf. the suspect is accused of stabbing a woman in her 60s and her brother who is in his 50s. the woman has been released from the hospital. her brother is in critical but stable condition. harris was nearby and jumped in to help. >> i didn't think. i just reacted, you know. i ran over and by the time i got there, she had dropped to the floor and her brother was being stabbed. >> harris says he wanted to help because , too, was stabbed once and none of his neighbors helped. >> now, check out this video san francisco police released today as part of a burglary ring bust as a woman walks into her garage. you can see burglars come out of her front door. one jumps over the ledge. you can see him. two more follow. they'll come out here in a moment. there they go. they hopped into a vehicle and took off. ten people have been arrested over the last 90 days as part of this sting. they're accused of taking part in a crime ring that stole $3 million in money, credit cards

and more. police are still looking for 20 more suspects. >> coming up, the california court makes a major decision about equal pay. plus. >> north bay fire zone is full of dead and charred trees. i'm katie in santa rosa. how one artist is giving them a second life. >> and they can't vote yet, but they'll be ready when they turn 18. the incredible numbers of young teens preregistered to rock the vote. >> plus it was a top secret satellite catastrophe for spacex. but today we find out the company is not to blame. >> i'm meteorologist sand sandhya patel, live doppler 7 tracking a pair of system that will bring us spring showers. i'll show you the time li coming up. >> thanks, sandhya. first he's what's coming up on jimmy kimmel live right after abc7 news at 11:00. >> thanks, dan and dion. here's a snapshot of tonight's festivities. >> last time you were here snoop dogg was here. are you guys traveling together or what? what's going on? >> i open for him sometimes.

richmond police are investigating a deadly shooting in that city tonight. one man was hit by gunfire on harnet avenue by the bay view branch library. he died from his injuries. police say no arrests have been made. officers are also trying to determine a motive. >> six months ago the north bay wildfires killed 44 people and destroyed 8900 buildings. today those still rebuilding faced a deadline to clear fire debris. the deadline applied to fire victims in sonoma county who opted out of a government sponsored removal program. property owners who didn't meet today's deadline face possible fines. >> in the meantime finding beauty in all that destruction, a north bay artist is determined

to give trees burned during the fire storm a second life. >> yeah, and in doing so he's healing himself and helping the fire survivors as well. abc7 news reporteratie yutis has the story. >> there is potential in everything. >> reporter: peter fibs, resident artist in santa rosa, narrowly escaped during the fire storm. >> even just saying the story makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. >> reporter: he lost all of his tools, but not his desire to create. peter start carving charred wine barrels. >> if i went to the dump that would be perpetuating the tragedy as opposed to saving it from the landfill and doing something different with it. >> he's found a way to make something out of it that no one else thought of. >> reporter: walter big owns the winery. as peter sees beauty beneath burns, walter sees it within peter. >> you don't think this rough-and-tumble guy is a great

talent, but he is, i think. >> reporter: from oak barrels to actual trees, peter and his collaborators are healing with art. >> you have to move on and you have to get new things and it's nice when those new things can be beautiful and meaningful as well. >> reporter: peter's work is aldon a bush man has from her now empty lot. dana gave peter free reign rein to come to her property and pickup materials for his art. while here inspiration struck. he started carving this tree. >> that was a total surprise. >> dana and walter plan to rebuild. moving forward inspired by peter's work. >> number one, i feel selfish because this is how i'm healing, you know, from that experience. and i lost a fraction of what most of these people lost. so, it just feels like the right thing to do. >> reporter: in santa rosa, katie yutis, abc7 news. >> we will be focused on the recovery in the north bay all week long as we mark six months since those devastating fires. if you're looking for help, for yourself, maybe a friend, go to

abc7news.com/take action. we have a page of resources designed to help fire survivors there. >> a teacher's successful legal fight could impact how women across california are paid. ilene rizzo sued the fresno county office of education after learning she was paid less than a male coworker. the county claimed the salary was based on rizzo's prior pay. today a federal court ruled that employers cannot pay women less than men for the same work based on their previous salaries. >> california teens too young to vote are ready to impact the next few elections. 100,000 16s and 17-year-olds have signed up to vote. registration automatically activates when they turn 18. >> a hardware failure is to blame for january's loss of spacex's secretive zuma satellite. the "wall street journal" reports a pay load adapter built by northrop grumman did not

properly operate in space causing the satellite to burn up when it reentered the atmosphere. the highly classified government satellite could have been worth billions of dollars. >> a big loss. we know why. let's focus on the weather forecast, changing after a spectacular day around the bay area. >> back and forth and now we are waiting for the rain, sandhya. >> that's right, dan and dion, we're going to go seesaw, up, down with theweather. dry, showers, dry again. we need the rain, as you know. let's check out live doppler 7 right now. we have the clouds, but as dan mentioned it was a beautiful day. look at how warm it was. temperatures well above average this time of year. everyone in the 70s and the 80s on this map here. 83 in santa cruz. 82 gilroy, san jose 81 and pretty much everyone else in the 70s. i do want to show you a quick update on the drought. the yellow areas are abnormally dry areas. parts of our inland valleys abnormally dry clearly.

when you take a look at the statewide map, moderate to severe drought covers a good portion of southe california and there are even some extreme drought situations there well to the south. so, yes, the atmospheric river last weekid help us out here in the bay area. but we certainly can use more rain. so, take a look at our rain chances. this is encouraging for april. we have the next three days where we have level one systems. they're not an atmospheric river. they're not going to be big soakers, but we havehances of rain. early next week we also have a level one system coming our way. so, certainly is encouraging. right now temperatures in the 50s, the 60s. these really loo like highs for the day. it's so warm outside. still 68 degrees in san jose. it's hard to believe it's 66 in napa right now. these are actually current temperatures so we're still holding on to some of the warmth from earlier in the day from our east bay hills camera. view is terrific looking across cooler tomorrow with a few showers. another round of rain wednesday afternoon, evening, and it is going to be sunnier and warmer end to the week.

tomorrow morning so mild you don't need a jacket or sweater. temperatures will be primarily in the 50s across the bay area. tomorrow afternoon, yes, you will see some spotty showers so if i were you i would grab the umbrella before you get going tomorrow morning. you will need the umbrella for a brief time. if you blifrpg you'nk you'll pr miss it. just passing through. the storm impact scale say level 1 system. tomorrow through thursday morning, light to moderate showers. tomorrow is the lighttuff, moderate wednesday night. basically looking at 2/10 to half an inch to most areas during this time period. it is going to get windy on wednesday. 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, a few showers in mendocino county. you wait until 9:0a.m., it's still to the north county. noontime sliding south ward. by 1:30, it is across the east bay, san francisco peninsula 2:30. then it's gone, an isolated shower or two in the south bay and that's about it. we fast forward to wednesday. this looks more organized with yellows here indicating moderate in. 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the north

bay, by 7:00 p.m. sliding south. this one is colde so it will bring the potential for some snow in the hills above lake county. 8:30 wednesdaynight, widespread rain across the region. and then the system winds down thursday morning. rainfall totals for most of you will be in the quarter to half an inch by thursday afternoon. but places like ukiah will pickup more and this does turn to snow. pleechl believe it or not for springtime late in the season i've seen this happen. 7 inches tahoe. level one systems tuesday through thursday, light showers tomorrow. spotty. cooler weather the next few days. much cooler as a matter of fact and then we bring in a few warmer days friday, saturday, only to see another level 1 system on monday. dan and dion? >> it is spring, isn't it? ndhya, thank you. >> all right. tomorrow on "good morning tomorrow on "good morning america," one of the sta

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ah, now to a story about life in the slow lane. the very slow lane. a family crossed paths with a tortoise during their vacation and in crimea, a family walked beside the reptile until they realized the road was just too busy for the tortoe to cross safely. so, they moved the animal to the side of the street. turtles are on the move, albeit slowly, when the weather gets warm there. how sweet. >> off he goes. like me running the 40 back in my day. >> shu, you're a superstar. >> a little nba action, denver, new orleans, utah, san antonio. who will the warriors face in the playoffs? you know kevin durant doesn't want to go back to

>> abc 7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> derek holland on the hill for g man whose starting pitchers have given up a major league baseball two home runs this season. got to support your team. holland depth give holla holland didn't give up a home run. that score. giants down 2-zip after one. d-back starter was pretty good. nine swinging strike outs. brought one down three times. finally got on the board in the 8th. brings in brandon crawford to make it 2-1 d-backs. unfortunately, that would be your final. same two teams will go at it tomorrow. all right. warriors in the regular season

tomorrow in utah and will be the second seat in the western conference playoffs. with five teams still competing for four playoff spots, dubs don't know who they will face in round one until wednesday night. several teams could clinch at least a berth with a win tonight. starting with russell westbrook and his thunder. in miami a win and they're in. thunder trail by 18, but he brings okc within 5 with that tough layup. the triple double machine was at it again. driving finding jerami grant to tie it up at 76. thunder outscore miami 39-12 mt. fourth. westbrook, 23 points, 18 boards, 13 assists. now the triple double, okc wins 115-93. and they are in. they win their season finale against the grizzlies. they'll finish worth than 6. they won't face the dubs in the first round. spurs can clinchheir 21st playoff beating the kings. but they were down 14 before big comeback themselves. thanks to the old man,

40-year-old ma angie -- ginobli got hops. spurs win 98-85. so, they're in but they could still finish anywhere from 4th to 8th. most experts say the dubs will most likely face the t wolves in the first round. they're taking on the grizzlies. wolves in control. great behind the pass from carl. anthony with the finish and the foul. then jeff t. tosses it up for town's the big cat. 24 points, 18 boards. minnesota wins easily 113-94. but they have to beat denver in the finale to make it to the postseason. this is abc 7 sports report brought to you by river rock casino. the dubs will play the t wolves nuggets winner. even the jazz okc if things happen. i hope that clears it up. >> clear as mud. >> sure does. >> unbelievable.

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