. >> ashley johnson is the founder and executive director of literacy lab. >> i have learned it is possible for students to make significant growth quickly. with consistent instruction from a professional adult who is coming you know, twice a week for two hours each time, the kids can make huge gains and you can see the student really actually enjoy reading, rather than trying to avoid it i don't i'm going to share this with you. i think it is so important. it is 10 great reasons to read. read to understand the past, explore your world, plan for your future, view new places, create new things, make a good decision, have fun, exercise your mind, keep in touch, read because you can. when a student gets into the hit that issy lab program, no only do they change their reading scores, they actually change their life. shannon fine blat the principal of smooth theres elementary school knows the importance of having the hit that issy lab on site. in three years the program has made a significant difference. >> we can't do everything in the six and a half hours we have the students. we have a lot of

ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. it is not over yet. sandhya patel is here with a look at live doppler 7hd. >> carolyn and dan, this system has been slugish to say the least. all day long we have seen this front stalling out over the i want to show you where it is raining right now. as we head into bodega avenue we are get something rain and right around the calistoga area you can see some light rainfall right now. it is pretty widespread and steady in the east bay. also san francisco down the peninsula. we are getting some moderate pockets of rain here. you can clearly see it around alpine road and they are getting light to moderate rain. we take you down toward the monterey bay where the santa cruz mountains are picking up a little activity. the rainfall totals have been close to an inch. they are not close to an inch. about a third in san jose and livermore is .19. we have more wet weather on the way. i'll let you know if the showers that are in store for tomorrow will impact your commute. >> see new a couple minutes. >>> he was arre

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. >> reporter: ashley johnson, a former high schoolteacher is the founder and executive director of literacy lab. >> i've learned that it is possible for students to make significant growth quickly with consistent instruction from a professional adult who's coming twice a week for two hours each time. the student can make huge gains and you can see the student really actually enjoy reading rather than tying to avoid it -- trying to avoid it. >> reporter: i want to share this with you because i think it's so important. it's ten great reasons to understand. read to understand the past, explore your world, plan for your future, view new places, create new things, make good decisions, exercise your mind, keep in touch, read because you can. when a student gets into the litty lab program, not only do they change their reading scores but they actually change their life. shannon, the principal of smothers elementary school, knows the importance of having the literacy lab on site. in three years the program has made a significant difference. >> we can't do everything in the six and a half hours that

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. you can keep track on twitter bay area. >> we appreciate your time. thank you. >> good night, everyone. >> reporter: the people of henryville, indiana, needed all the help they could get. so when gerald flint showed up dressed in the kind of flight suit he's worn to disasters all over the world, he was welcomed with open arms as he started to issue orders. >> he portrayed himself as some kind of commander. >> saying he was with the natural disaster relief group. >> reporter: then he began to collect loads of emergency supplies his badges and claims, people in henryville began to haf1 o icio wh say he asked residents to collect donations. >> collecting cash and having people make checks out to cash. >> reporter: it was enough for people in henryville to call the state police. now flint has been charged with the theft of some of the supplies and impersonating a government official. >> based on what you know, he >> tt.great imposteo c >> reporter: in a jailhouse interview, flint denied t

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. you can keep track on twitter. >> check us out when you can. thank you for watching, and we appreciate your time. swy guy good -- >> good night, everyone. gas prices have been going up, and mr. obama said speculators are partly to blame. some analysts believe we may have seen their peak. for the second week in a row, prices have dropped, down 2 cents. the $52 million legislative plan the president unveiled would boost federal oversight of energy markets and would implement a tenfold increase in the penalties for market manipulation from $1 million to $10 million. but even as he pointed the finger, the president didn't point out any specific examples of this type of illegal activity. >> i haven't seen anything specific to say that the energy markets are being manipulated. >> reporter: republicans dismissed the president's proposal as gas price theater. >> the president has all the tools available to him if he believes that the oil market is being manipulated. >> reporter: this announce

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ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. investigators say their search will continue. it is focus owed a series of ponds not far from sierra's home. lisa amin gulezian is at the sheriff's office. lisa? >> reporter: carolyn, this will be a very long night for those here at the sheriff's department. they are processing all of that data that they gathered after searching several ponds today. >> it was a really bright yellow so we got a strong return. >> reporter: robert niaves spends dozens and dozens of hours with scans like these. he is looking for evidence, anything in the sonar shot that could lead to sierra lamar. the 15-year-old disappeared one month ago. >> we don't want to leave any blank spots out there. we want to make sure we cover the entire pond. >> reporter: and these ponds are less than a mile from her home. today divers found two cars in the pond. >> we wanted to make sure they had been there. we will look at them to see if they were there for awhile. >> reporter: as they search for anything out of ordinary underwater, detectives follow-up on new leads com

ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. police released the booking photo of juan go. he is awaiting his arraignment scheduled for tomorrow. >> right now, however, divers are in the water off the oakland shoreline looking for the weapon used in the shootings. john is there live for us. john? >> dan and carolyn, so far they have not found a weapon. they have been at it for more than two hours right now. there are about 25 divers rotating in and out of the water here. they are searching a stretch of shoreline that runs a hundred feet and hoping to find a key piece of evidence in yesterday's rampage. the first diver went into the water after 8:30 in the hunt for the 45 caliber semiautomatic weapon used in the killing spree. the search at the bottom of the estuary was described as making snow angels in the mud. >> even under the best of circumstances, it is zero visibility. the decision was made to dive at night because it really didn't matter whether you had sunlight or not. you are underwater. it is murky. it is very difficult, and you are trying to find the item by feel

ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. it is not over yet. sandhya patel is here with a look at live doppler 7hd. >> carolyn and dan, this system has been slugish to say the least. all day long we have seen this front stalling out over the i want to show you where it is raining right now. as we head into bodega avenue we are get something rain and right around the calistoga area you can see some light rainfall right now. it is pretty widespread and steady in the east bay. also san francisco down the peninsula. we are getting some moderate pockets of rain here. you can clearly see it around alpine road and they are getting light to moderate rain. we take you down toward the monterey bay where the santa cruz mountains are picking up a little activity. the rainfall totals have been close to an inch. they are not close to an inch. about a third in san jose and livermore is .19. we have more wet weather on the way. i'll let you know if the showers that are in store for tomorrow will impact your commute. >> see new a couple minutes. >>> he was arre

johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. this massive demolition job is expected to continue for 57 hours straight. we can show you a live picture from sky 7hd showing the heavy equipment pull vair rising the structure that stood for 75 years. >> abc7 news reporter nick smith on the traffic detours and ama dates is on the construction site. ama let's begin with you. >> reporter: hi, carolyn and hi, dan. it is dusty and loud, and it is pretty darn impressive. just take a look at the demolition going on behind me. they are actually working on a few different priority points at once. that is places where the old doyle drive is in the way of the new construction. you can see through this whole area, this was a stretch of doyle drive. this chunk has been wiped out. demolition crews had to weaken the top of the structure and they eventually punched holes into the road. you can describe it as giant jackhammers. and then they can start ripping out all of the steel beams. finally may be the best word to describe the demolition of doyle drive. >> it is dramatic. it is history making. >> it is what everyone h

johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. the april weather produced a rare tornado in california. a viewer caught this image near stockton and september it via you report. it happened in san juaquin county west of stockton. alan wang reports from the spot where that twister hit. >> i heard a loud, loud noise like when an amtrak goes by. >> when they looked out the win doe they saw the twister. >> they got to the shop and lifted the shop up like it was one piece. >> it was like it was lifted up and a bomb went off and it was spit out that way. >> sheet metal and splint erred wood and debris shot across the field just missing the house. >> a piece of metal was coming right at me. so i ducked and it hit the grill before it hit my window. >> his boat and 71 caprice was parked in a 50 by 50 shop, his pick up buried. and a 53-foot trailer flipped on its side. >> it was a matter of seconds. >> look how close the house is. it could have been the house and awful us. >> his four kids, wife and parents were safe. other survivors is this one week old miniature pony and a four-horned goat. >>

johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. this massive demolition job is expected to continue for 57 hours straight. we can show you a live picture from sky 7hd showing the heavy equipment pull vair rising the structure that stood for 75 years. >> abc7 news reporter nick smith on the traffic detours and ama dates is on the construction site. ama let's begin with you. >> reporter: hi, carolyn and hi, dan. it is dusty and loud, and it is pretty darn impressive. just take a look at the demolition going on behind me. they are actually working on a few different priority points at once. that is places where the old doyle drive is in the way of the new construction. you can see through this whole area, this was a stretch of doyle drive. this chunk has been wiped out. demolition crews had to weaken the top of the structure and they eventually punched holes into the road. you can describe it as giant jackhammers. and then they can start ripping out all of the steel beams. finally may be the best word to describe the demolition of doyle drive. >> it is dramatic. it is history making. >> it is what everyone h

johnson. >> and i'm dan ashley. we will start with the rain as you can see from these pictures it came down in vallejo where the chp warned drivers to slow down and be careful. >> the same story in san francisco tonight. the lights of the city traffic bounced off the streets. sand yaw patel is -- sandhya patel is tracking it for us. >> want to show you live doppler 7hd, and you will see where the wet weather is located. let's start in the south bay. they took a pretty big hit. i want to show you that it has lightened up quite a bit. snell avenue, blossom road, morgan hill and san mar teen and the gilroy area is getting light showers as well. in the east bay, concord, walnut creek, we will take you down to street level here, and you will seat treat boulevard is pretty wet here. very, very light returns right now. in the north bay, it is not much. you will see on the rainfall totals, .01 of an inch and oakland and half moon bay, and get out toward livermore, .15 of an inch. look at the peninsula, and it got soaked. .4

johnson. remember, you can keep track on the latest breaking news on twitter and you can talk about it on abc 7 news and news at 5:00 continues right now with dan ashley and cheryl jennings. >> this could have and should have been prevented at uc davis. that is part of a finding by a task force using pepper spray on students. >> and the next storm will soak the bay area, i'll have a time line of when it arrives and how much rain we'll receive. >> new focus in the search for missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. the efforts to find her takes an emotional toll. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> we did get a break from the rain. >> it did not last long. north bay got a healthy dose this afternoon. this video shows it coming down in santa rosa. >> here is a live look west across the bay. there are clouds back and more rain is not far behind. >> there is a look at radar and where it's raining now. >> i want to show you a few showers showing up and there is most of those concentrated in the north bay. so let's get new closer here and show where we're seeing the light to moderate rain just south of there. you can see rainfall around south of calistoga