mary's high school in berkeley. as katie reports, there was more on the line than a leg championship. about. >> it was destined to good this way. >> pinole valley high school and st. mary's of berkeley no choice but to address racial tension head first in the home plate. >> still big issue and still topic around our school. >>reporter: two week after racial slur caught on camera caught the pinole valley player college scholarship. >> i understand he was wrong. he understands he was wrong. >>reporter: the team met again at leg championship app the father spoke out notch way he could get through this unscathed. he has to learn a

ending in berkeley. the vic lee is there. >> if i was like wow! t crazy. >>reporter: this is what neighbors here saw. the mangled wreck of 2 cars. the stolen honda crashed in an suv. this after the driver traveled about 30 miles the wrong way on 2 freeway at speeds up to 80 miles an hour. the honda accord was stolen out of concord. city police followed it until it got on highway 4. chp helicopter spotted the car going against traffic then to interstate 80. again going the wrong way. chp ground units stayed near the honda but left pursuit to the chopper. >> car helicopter continued with it lit up. that way it could alert the oncoming motorist of the danger. >> they demand police stop following him. >> he called 911 and made a few statements to our dispatch. and relayed that he wasn't going back to jail. >>reporter: began the ground pursuit once the driver entered berkeley. the collision happened about midnight here at north berkeley. driver of the suv sustained minor injuries. officers with canine searche

kpix 5 news lisa chan joins us live from near the site of the crash in berkeley.> reporter: good morning. chp went door-to-door in this neighborhood searching every home and yard in a one block area but didn't find the suspect. this started at 11:30 last night in concord. chp received a call about a suspect in a stolen honda accord driving the wrong way on the freeway. the suspect drove in the slow lane and shoulder of highway 4 and i-80. the suspect went through nine cities before crashing with a gmc envoy here at california and hurst. at one point the suspect called 9-1-1 and told officers he didn't want to go back to jail. >> he related he knew the police were following him and that the helicopter was above and that if the hospital would stop following him he would -- helicopter would stop following, he would then stop his car. but because of the safety of the public our helicopter continued lit up to alert oncoming motorists of the danger. >> reporter: the driver of the gmc envoy was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. the suspect is a young white man be

it collided with a gmc envoy at hurst and berkeley. the driver was transported to the hospital for minor injuries. officers are still hooking for the suspect early this morning. they went to all the houses in this neighborhood, searched the homes and yards looking for the suspect but they didn't find him. he did just tell us they have a couple clues as to where they can find him and will follow-up on. the suspect is a white young man, between 20 and 25 years old. the cph told us while they were chasing the man he called them to tell them to stop following him and that he did not want to go back to jail in. berkeley, lisa chan, kpix 5 news. >>> a man suspected of trying to kidnap a pre-teen girl as she walked her dog was asian, 5'7" with a medium build and wearing a black and white striped beeny. surveillance video from the scene describes a teenaged boy now in the hospital this morning after being shot at a gas station in san francisco. >>> moving along, a 14-year- old victim was shot and is expected to recover. >>> nine people are dea

now the tax is also affecting soda sales in cities bordering berkeley, as well. carolyn tyler is live in berkeley city hall with more on that. carolyn? >> hi, dan. you know they call it a soda tax, but it's not just for soda. it's for anything with liquid sugar so that means frappucchino frappucchinos, energy drink, sweet teas and things like that. they gathered at city hall and said implementation has been going very smoothly. at bob's liquors the manager says the soda tax is hurting business. city voters overwhelmingly axe proved a penny for all tax on sugary beverages. >> we see the difference and now the customers don't want to add that extra money on the taxes on the same time. they started complaining about it. >> reporter: city officials are cheering and they have their first data from march, $113,000 putting them on pace to collect as much as $1.5 million this year. >> it's good to have a solid indication of proceeds with not everyone paying the tax yet and it's just the large distributor. the money is earmarked for public health with half going to the sc

increasing clouds for berkeley alameda. san rafael, 64. san francisco, 59 and st. helena 66 degrees. a soggy day on thursday. you want to dry out? weekend. good timing mother nature. but another rain chance next monday. mother nature reminding us she's in full and total control. now that it's not supposed to rain, it is going to rain. >> basically we know nothing. >> that's what it boils down to. i know a little bit more than nothing. i was going to say less than nothing. that would be bad. >> just roll with it. >>> tom brady benched over deflate gate but the quarterback is enjoying an unexpected boost. how fans are rallying in support. >> and the countdown is on. just seven shows left for david letterman. tonight dave welcomes president bill clinton and adam sandler. just can't seem to escape... another sneeze attack... you may be muddling through allergies. don't get caught off guard. try zyrtec® dissolve tabs. powerful allergy relief, now in a tablet that starts dissolving instantly. zyrtec® dissolve tabs. muddle no more™. ♪ at kaiser permanente everything you n

chp had a helicopter following the car all of the way to berkeley. at some point this is the hot part. the driver apparently called 911 and said i'm not going back to jail. if you guys leave me alone without the helicopter i will stop my car. that didn't happen, of course, for public safety and this is where it all ended. and then he took off on foot. so police the last few hours were looking at the homes here in the backyards, with flashlights. unfortunately they did not find this young man who they describe as 20 to 25, young white male. again, what you're seeing now is the car getting up righted. the drive vert of the car, innocent person, wrong place, wrong time, is okay. minor injuries. at the hospital. that's the good news. no major injuries. again, wrong-way car pursuit that began in concord this morning ending in berkeley. the driver of this stolen vehicle still on the run. of course, we will talk more to people here in this neighborhood and have more throughout this show. live in berkeley, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> thank you v

we are live in north berkeley this morning. police cleaning up the scene now. they have called off the search for the man suspected of leading the chp on a chase in a stolen car. this happened in the neighborhoods just moments ago. tara moriarty is out there at the scene as well. she is going to have more on the man that police have been looking for and the call he made to 911. really a crazy story. thank you for joining us i'm pam cook. >> and i'm dave clark. let's talk about weather and traffic. steve paulson is saying everything is cool. >> very cool for me. especially away from the coast. by the coast they are running a little below normal. still we should be 64-48 degrees. mostly cloudy. cool and breezy. lots of clouds. a few showers possible later today. you can see the moisture streaming off the sierra. best bet looks to be the north bay today. a stray shower or two is in the mix. over all it's a mostly cloudy, partly sunny cool, breezy pattern. 40s and 50s. there is a decent breeze in place. we will continue to get a lot of cloud cover over us. a mix of

the city of berkeley believes it should. >> we're talking about warnings.t night it became the first anywhere in the entire country to agree to warn consumers about buying phones. stephanie trong is live in berkeley where the industry is calling this basically a bunch of hooey. good morning. >> your cell phone already has a warning in it. but many people are unaware it's in here. last night berkeley city council members here in the city unanimously voted to pass the right to know ordinance. it would require retail tore warn people about the possibility dangers when they guy a cell phone. part of it reads, quote, if you carry or your year phone or tucked into a bra when the phone is on and connected to a wireless network you may exceed the federal guidelines for exposure to rf radiation. this risk is greater to children. >> alarming consumers and questioning the safety of cell phones -- >> reporter: so one harvard law professor is promising to defend the city in this fight free of charge in the expected legal challenge by the cell phone industry. with you in

and she feels berkeley unified has done little to stop and prevent sexual harassment. in fact, back in october, some boys at berkeley high were caught using instagram to harass female students. >> there was what's called a slut page where they would post photos of girls, you know, drunk at parties looking unflattering and would write really offensive things about the girls' sexual habits even if they were not true. >> reporter: after getting complaints from parents, the office wore civil rights came to berkeley high last week to investigate the district's harassment policies. but many people claim the district stopped investigators from talking to the students. they say the district told federal investigators students would need parental consent and it would interfere with learning. >> to, like, accurately investigate them they need to be able to talk to all the people who are affected by it. >> how do i feel? i feel heartbroken. i feel -- i feel devastated. i feel devastated for the girls who had the experiences over and over and over again. >> reporter: parents and s

we reached out to the berkeley unified school district. they declined to talk on camera. but they are assisting the federal investigators. da lin, kpix 5. >> this is the second investigation by the federal government at berkeley high in five years. in 2010 they opened an investigation after a 16-year- old girl sued her counselor. >>> we have been keeping an eye on the storms that have brought wild weather to the bay area today. we have seen a little bit of everything. right now hi-def doppler shows most of the action happening in the south and east bays. but one of the rarest sightings happened up north. it was a funnel cloud spotted by a kpix 5 weather watcher in sebastopol. chopper 5 showing us cloudy skies scattered showers in san jose. earlier this afternoon, raindrops were hitting the camera lens. and in walnut creek umbrellas were out. people pulling on their hoods to stay dry. chief meteorologist paul deanno with the overview and our exclusive weather watcher network that spotted that rare funnel cloud. >> we have 120 extra pair of eyes and ears all throughout the

it went nearly 30 miles driving the wropg way south to berkeley.e else was seriously hurt or killed. he saw the chase last night and says he lives not too far from the crash site where he says neighbors are likely quite nervous this morning. >> for other people in the neighborhood, yeah, it could, you know, i mean, if he's running and hiding he's desperate. if he's desperate, he's scared. a scared person is always three time more dangerous than a regular person anyways. >> some concern this morning. now, berkeley police helping chp officers with their rifles drawn go door to door earlier in the morning searching back yards. one square block around the crash skit. came up empty after a few hours. they think they know who this man is. that he lives in east contra costa county who apparently was in jail before and back in jail aga again. live in berkeley, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >>> microclimate forecast at 6:46. a live look outside. you know what? have you experienced some of those annoying pollen related allergies so far because let's

mary's high school in berkeley after gang. the smart phone video shot back on april 29th has generated out race since been posted on twitter the baseball player from the knoll eye whose name we are not using is heard in the video first using then racial slow and then say go back africa. >>: it was a bad incident that was worse because of the mood of the country about race and social media does have to take off like wildfire >> reporter: peter imperial as the principal at st. mary's and has spoken to the young men from both schools he says the canal valley player claims to feel remorse about the remarks >>: life is more complicated than just giving satisfied a move on >> reporter: the students who did have a scholarship to play baseball from cal state northridge has since lost that scholarship after the video when i wrote kron 4 did reach out to the contra costa county school districts that would not say what kind of discipline was taken against them however according to this that's the student has five games right after the in

less than 10% of the berkeley fire department live in the city. >> i mean it means a lot because growinghere to give back to my community and the people i am around. >> remember carry it up. >> we would like our local youth to become firefighters. >> primarily gear to berkeley youth and specifically at rescues who are not college bound, who don't have the financial support to go to college, but who do want of a good paying job, good benefits. >> most definitely. >> senior perez says this course was an eye opener for him. >> these class are ones that definitely open door to many people whether if they have plans of college or not. >> today these kids are trying all the gears for practice. in a couple of years many of these students will being in the field as berkeley firefighters. >> a dream job for many of these students. >> that's now well within reach thanks to this real world training. alex salvigge, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> that story tonight starting at 5:00. thank you for m ktvu channel 2 news your choose for news, we are always here on www.ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter

mary's high school in berkeley. as katie reports, there was more on the line than a leg championship. about. >> it was destined to good this way. >> pinole valley high school and st. mary's of berkeley no choice but to address racial tension head first in the home plate. >> still big issue and still topic around our school. >>reporter: two week after racial slur caught on camera caught the pinole valley player college scholarship. >> i understand he was wrong. he understands he was wrong. >>reporter: the team met again at leg championship app the father spoke out notch way he could get through this unscathed. he has to learn a lesson and he did. >>reporter: the lesson is perhaps twofold. >> the words the words have power. >>reporter: and words may be posted to social media that can't be taken back. >> could have been a better way to handle all this. >> social media created wildfire around this so everybody had an opinion. >>reporter: conversations happening in person too. >> we have to learn and grow in different wa

"today in the bay's" stephanie chuang joining us live from berkeley. the last time we saw you crews were overturning an suv involved in the crash over your shoulder. we see cars still behind you and still looking for the person responsible. >> they are, sam and laura. the good news is investigators believe they know who this man is who is still offen the run who they say stole a car that out of martinez. drove the wrong way from concord and crashed in this brkly neighborhood where you see the last bit of the scene to go. the tow truck driver getting ready to tow this suv away. this is not the stolen vehicle. this is the vehicle that was crashed into here. luckily the driver of this suv suffered just minor injuries. now, chp says the young man who they're still looking for in his 20s was driving a honda accord, older model, crashed into again this second car here on herst at california. it began when concord police chased him until he got on highway 4 around willow pass road going westbound on eastbound lanes around 11:30 last night. then chp had a tele

. >>> we're lav in berkeley, where a -- we're live in berkeley, where a dramatic police chase ended in a crash. tara moriarty is following the story. coming up, she will tell us about the surprising phone call the suspect is said to have made right in the middle of the ordeal. good morning, well dumb to "mornings on 2." it's monday, may 18th. i'm tori campbell. >> i'm dave clark. let's check weather and traffic. was it still chilly when you came in? >> yes. >>> very gray and cool. i don't see any changes this week. in fact, if anything, there might be more thunderstorm activity, wednesday and thursday. skies lit over lake county yesterday. mostly cloudy, partly sunny. breezy, cool, cool. a lot of clouds this afternoon. a few showers to the north again. and mostly cloudy continued cool with the possibility of more showers, later in the week. this is from chloe, lightning bolt hilt a house in clearlake, area of clearlake at 5:53. check your facebook for more. i already did. and there were a lot of reports there coming in. in fact, e-mail and facebook. good information. thank you. the moi

they would include as well oakland, berkeley, emeryville and san jose.ittee will look at a pilot program on the peninsula to cover palo alto and mountain view and redwood city funded by a bike sharing company. >> a senate economy will discuss relief options for students backed by the closing of corinthian colleges. the meeting will look at ways to help students transfer to other programs. 16,000 students attended the vocational school run by corinthian colleges. they tried to sell the schools but said the regulators made the sale unattractive to possible buyers. >> a family favorite that could be putting you in danger, the lazy boy recline are is pulled off shelves and what is prompting the recall that will make you want to ditch it. >> a look at san francisco international airport with heavy cloud >> covering walnut creek burlingame campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> at 6:44. berkeley is considering a tobacco ban that would be the most restricted in the nation. >> mom-and-pop shops are sounding the alarm and they were loud enough for t

we are in berkeley where that chase ended in a collision. >> that's right, zia raro is okay now. just before midnight. >> i don't believe it either. just a few bumps and scratches on his head. he walked away after survivaling this scarey accident. that is his suv upside down after being hit by the wrong side driver. it was a chase that stretched 30 miles. >> all i saw was a car get close to me with no lights. that's all i remember. >> this began around 11:00 when police spotted a stolen car. but when he started going the wrong way, they backed off and tracked him by helicopter. he exited in berkeley where he was driving at extreme speeds. >> the suspect plowed into him. >> before it was close, i saw there was no light on. i the he was playing smart because there was a helicopter chasing him. >> the suspect ran and they started a house to house search but never found him. >> there is still no sign of the suspect. he told 911 dispatchers in the pursuit that he did not want to go back to jail. >>> thank you. what went wrong? that's what many fans of extreme athlete dean potter are a

mary's high school in berkeley.s, there was more on the line than a leg championship. about. >> it was destined to good this way. >> pinole valley high school and st. mary's of berkeley no choice but to address racial tension head first in the home plate. >> still big issue and still topic around our school. >>reporter: two week after racial slur caught on camera caught the pinole valley player college scholarship. >> i understand he was wrong. he understands he was wrong. >>reporter: the team met again at leg championship app the father spoke out notch way he could get through this unscathed. he has to learn a lesson and he did. >>reporter: the lesson is perhaps twofold. >> the words the words have power. >>reporter: and words may be posted to social media that can't be taken back. >> could have been a better way to handle all this. >> social media created wildfire around this so everybody had an opinion. >>reporter: conversations happening in person too. >> we have to learn and grow in different ways. this has bee

the ordinance bans the sale of tobacco 1,000' of schools and parks in the city of berkeley. the behind is to keep the community healthy and reduce tobacco waste but the main reason is to protect berkeley youth. city council pen miles said that many tobacco products target children. >> we have complete imperative to move away from smoking and to encourage particularly our young people not to smoke because of all of the consequences, the health consequences. >> those against the ordinance argue it will put local shops out of business. others say people should have the freedom to make their own choices. they do care about the welfare of the store owners so they are going to take another look at this before hague a final decision. if the city council does decide to pass this tim go into effect january 1 of next year. >> thanks. the brighter news here, tomorrow the warriors will try to defend their home court against the grizzlies in a pivotal game five at oracle arena. >> monday night they went into the grind house in memphis needing a win and surveillace camera stick regained t

>> berkeley's soda tax. and where will the money go? >> looking inside of the underground muni. new transit tunnel and how builders get the mark. >> this is a picture from sky 7 hd over a neighborhood in san mateo. a search is underway for a mountain lion spotted three times, and may be still roaming the streets. good evening. >> thanks for joining us. it appears that lion has been holed up in a residential neighborhood all day. here is the search zone all three sightings have been just off el camino in the palm and hayward avenue area. cornell, what have you been able to learn? >> one police officer told me that that shot was not related to the search for the mountain lion. we can tell you still it's an active search for that mountain lion. we're two blocks from el camino real. the big cat was last seen in the back of an apartment complex a block from here. 10 10, 9th avenue. officers are going door to door with guns drawn. very carry fully searching backyards. let's go live overhead to sky 7. that search continues by police officers. the lion was first spotted walking around a

working in the field as berkeley firefighters. >> all right so now that is good. >> reporter: a dream job for many of these students. that is now well within reach. thanks to this real world training. alex savidge ktvu fox 2 news. >> a great program. was thats as a or darth vader? >> exactly. >>> we are wearing purple for a reason. >> a lot of people think of breast cancer but lung cancer is the number one killer of women. >> that is surprising to me. >> i was surprising. it took over back in 1987 i think. but heart disease of course a big one. but yeah number one cancer killer. this is take over. turquoise take over to raise awareness. and some of the landmarks will be turquoise. >> you know who should do well on this? sharks fans. >> yes. >> sharks fans have all kinds of turquoise. >> there is your excuse. >> wear it to work. >> why not? >>> good morning, everyone. it's a great cause by the way. thank you for letting me know. this is a look starting off in the east bay and start off with highway 24 westbound and right now traffic does move well from walnut creek to oakland if you ar

mary's high school in berkeley.e reports, there was more on the line than a leg championship. about. >> it was destined to good this way. >> pinole valley high school and st. mary's of berkeley no choice but to address racial tension head first in the home plate. >> still big issue and still topic around our school. >>reporter: two week after racial slur caught on camera caught the pinole valley player college scholarship. >> i understand he was wrong. he understands he was wrong. >>reporter: the team met again at leg championship app the father spoke out notch way he could get through this unscathed. he has to learn a lesson and he did. >>reporter: the lesson is perhaps twofold. >> the words the words have power. >>reporter: and words may be posted to social media that can't be taken back. >> could have been a better way to handle all this. >> social media created wildfire around this so everybody had an opinion. >>reporter: conversations happening in person too. >> we have to learn and grow in different ways. this

amy hollyfield is in berkeley with more on how all this unfolded. amy?es it ended here in berkeley with a crash and police went door-to-door looking for this guy but he got away. he crash the the into -- stolen honda into an s.u.v. the miss released the car was stolen and he took off driving the wrong way on highway and interstate 80 and racing through berkeley city streets. three toll dispatch to call off the police and he was not going to be caught. >> the suspect vehicle or car ended up crashing behind me and at that time the driver got out and ran into the residences in the neighborhood. we made sure for safety purposes to check east house and back yesterday to make sure the suspect want still hiding or, in fact breaking into one of the hows. >> i was back down university and i saw him, and citizen or 15 minutes later at the gas station i was buying cigarettes and there were a bunch of lights and a car flipped on the crazy. police searched homes and yards in a one block radius but no sign of him. he told dispatch to call off police, "i do not want to

. >>> using spare change to create change, the new boxes you may notice around berkeley and hot they are being used-- what they are being used for. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2. 4:23 is the time. take a look at the damage. 5 people now dead after sund a's severe weather outbreak in the southern plains van texas was one of the hardest hit areas. 2 people die said there and a tornado destroyed or damaged about 120 homes. dozens of people now spending the night in a shelter. volunteers handing out clean-up supplies today. the victims say they are just lucky to have each other. >> it is just stuff. and it can be and will be eventually replaced. >> in the town of nashville arkansas a young couple died trying to shield their baby girl from a tornado. that 18 month old girl survived. one man in nashville helping in need handing out hundred dollar bills. the governors of arkansas and texas considered these. >>> tropical depression ana dropped rain on eastern north carolina causing heavy flooding in hoebl home park. many strand-- mobile home park. many stranded and the water has been dra

as you may know berkeley recently passed the first soda tax. now it is going after tobacco. supporters say they want to protect the community's health while opponents want to protect their right to sell a legal product. >> the proposed ordinance would ban the sale of tobacco goods within 1,000 feet of schools and parks in berkeley. >> we stopped selling them how will we make money? we would rather close down the market. >> most of the mom and pop shops would be impacted including the ashby market. >> i always thought that i was liberal when i moved to berkeley. >> they say the city doesn't need another nanny law. >> they don't need to protect myself from my own actions. that is what is called freedom of choice. >> but many tobacco products are enticing children with these when they come of age. >> we have comparative to month move away from smoking. >> she says she is sympathetic toward the city's small businesses. if the council decided to postpone a vote on what could become the most stringent tobacco buffer zone in the nation. allen wong, abc7 news. >> a lot more to come.

berkeley took in $116,000 in soda tax money for march.ity is projecting over the next year it will take in $1.2 million. >> we are thrilled. >> reporter: experts will recommend where the money will go but the public schools nutrition program will get a large portion. >> in addition to that, the community programs for healthy foods. areas of berkeley that don't have access to good quality food. >> reporter: opponents argue the tax hurts low income people the most. >> not going to be buying it. not going to do it. >> i will pay the tax. >> reporter: supporters of the measure say their goal is to collect no tax because that means no one is buying sugary drinks. rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> the ktvu fox 2 news at 6:00 p.m. starts now. breaking news on the peninsula. right now police and wildlife officials are searching for a mountain lion. good evening. >>> i am julie haener. >> and i am frank somerville. >> that breaking news is in san mateo. it started this morning when a call came in about a mountain lion. an officer saw the animal but i

live in berkeley, tori, back to you. >> thank you. >>> gray skies out there. talking to sal, and saw it, a little warm-up heading our way? >> yes, if you've been looking forward to the warm-up it starts tomorrow. today more of the same. we remain in this pattern one more day. a live look at the oakland estuary, we have partly sunny skies, mostly cloudy, san francisco there in the backdrop. we started out with a damp one in many areas. san francisco showed accumulation of 2/100 or so. notice spin here, that helps to erode the clouds so we're looking at a bit of a better clearing in areas for today. let's look at where we still have the cloud cover. santa rosa, petaluma, novato, highway 101, it will be here. american canyon beginning to clear out some. to the east bay, shoreline remains mostly cloudy there. across and over the east bay hills and inland communities, enjoying some hazy sunshine. and the southern half of the peninsula into the south bay we have partly cloudy and mostly for today. the winds remain on shore, quite strong through fairfield all morning

for nearly four hours chp and berkeley police combed the area within a one block radius.s described as a white man with short hair, a medium build between 20-25 years old. we'll let you know if we receive any updates from authorities. live from berkeley i'm tara moriarty back to you. >>> over the weekend amtrak was ordered to expand the use of a speed control system near that crash site. federal investigators say the train was speeding at 106 miles an hour as it headed into a curb and then derailed last tuesday. eight people were killed. more than 200 were hurt. authorities are also trying to figure out if an object was thrown through the air that left a hole in the engines windshield if it had anything to do with that derailment. reportedly it's not uncommon for trains in that particular area to be hit by rocks, bottles, bricks, thrown by people along the tracks. >> that is exactly what we want to determine. we are looking for everything at this point. >>> 55-year-old aved gilani was laid top rest in hayward. he was a married father of two. he worked at wells fargo as an

at california and hearst avenue in berkeley. the suspect would called 9-1-1 to say that he was not going back to jail, ran away. gone. police officers and k-9s searches the neighborhood and have not been able to find him. >> officials are trying to figure what caused two experienced extreme sportsman to fall to their death at yosemite. leader is more from the newsroom. >> yes, the men were attempting a base jump when the parachutes failed to open. extreme agent lean dean potter and graham hunt were killed. they jumped from a 7,500' cliff on saturday at taft point and the bodies were found the next morning. they were wearing wing suits like this with flaps designed to help them glide. this is actually video of potter from last year when he base jumped from the swiss alps with his dog. the dog was not on this trip. the 43-year-old was well then for the extreme and risky adventures like type rope walking and pair cluteing and completing the most challenging climbs. he spoke with abc in 2012 of his death-defying stunts. >> you think

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as you may know berkeley recently passed the first soda tax. now it is going after tobacco. supporters say they want to protect the community's health while opponents want to protect their right to sell a legal product. >> the proposed ordinance would ban the sale of tobacco goods within 1,000 feet of schools and parks in berkeley. >> we stopped selling them how will we make money? we would rather close down the market. >> most of the mom and pop shops would be impacted including the ashby market. >> i always thought that i was liberal when i moved to berkeley. >> they say the city doesn't need another nanny law. >> they don't need to protect myself from my own actions. that is what is called freedom of choice. >> but many tobacco products are enticing children with these when they come of age. >> we have comparative to month move away from smoking. >> she says she is sympathetic toward the city's small businesses. if the council decided to postpone a vote on what could become the most stringent tobacco buffer zone in the nation. allen wong, abc7 news. >> a lot more to come.

in the east bay a manhunt in berkeley after a car led police on a long chase across several freeways. kpix lisa chan has more right near the crash zyte. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. police found information in the car. they believe they know who the suspect is. they don't think he is in the area anymore. right now they are cleaning up crash behind me, then they will open up the streets again. this started at 11:30 last night in concord. the chp had to stop following a suspect in a stolen honda accord when it started going the wrong way on highway 4 and i-80. the suspect went through nine cities before crashing with a gmc envoy here in berkeley. >> the driver actually called 9- 1-1 during all this going on and made a few statements to our dispatch and relayed that he wasn't going back to jail. >> reporter: the suspect said if the helicopter would stop following him he would stop his car, however the chp continued to follow and record hem from hair helicopter. the chp said they decided to check each house and backyard in this area. unfortunately they were not able to find th

and then flips and crashes on city streets in berkeley. kron 4's jackie sissel has been at the scene since 4 am this morning. he has the details of this dangerous pursuit. >> reporter: anything but quiet in the overnight hours as you said after the suspect was wanted for stolen car on a 30 minute mile pursuit traveling the wrong way ultimately ending up at crash here in his berkeley neighborhood answer from the beginning according to chp they say around 1130 last night a concord police officer and ran the plates came back as stolen after he initiated to stop the car fled osmanli ending up on highway 4 traveling of the wrong way. at that point chp concord police department disengaged from the pursuit and has chp helicopter followed the car traveling the wrong way and down the freeway altman lay made its way down the highway 80 power on highway 80 also traveling the wrong way. at some point in the pursuit suspect actually called 911 that the dispatcher and said he did not want to go back to jail and continue traveling to a got to the on ramp

we have you on the uc berkeley campus this morning.ding out about another case of women being secretly recorded while using the bathroom here on the uc berkeley campus. our cameras panning around in this area. tara moriarty is there. she will tell you more about how that camera went unnoticed for at least two weeks. even though it was in plain sight. you will want to hear about that. thank you for joining us friday morning may 15th i'm dave clark. >> good morning, i'm pam cook. thank you for joining us. it is 5:31. a lot of traffic it looks like out there. or check in with steve in a second. people are leaving earlier. >> i was telling somebody that yesterday. by the way my drought story runs tonight. >> that is right. i'm glad you reminded me. >> it's happened before. >> yeah it looks like -- >> the story is fascinating. >> yeah it looks like a good story. >> fascinating stuff. all right that is tonight at 10:00 but right now what time is it? 5:31. there you go. we have mostly partly cloudy skies. partly clear. there is breaks in the

as you may know berkeley recently passed the first soda tax. now it is going after tobacco. supporters say they want to protect the community's health while opponents want to protect their right to sell a legal product. >> the proposed ordinance would ban the sale of tobacco goods within 1,000 feet of schools and parks in berkeley. >> we stopped selling them how will we make money? we would rather close down the market. >> most of the mom and pop shops would be impacted including the ashby market. >> i always thought that i was liberal when i moved to berkeley. >> they say the city doesn't need another nanny law. >> they don't need to protect myself from my own actions. that is what is called freedom of choice. >> but many tobacco products are enticing children with these when they come of age. >> we have comparative to month move away from smoking. >> she says she is sympathetic toward the city's small businesses. if the council decided to postpone a vote on what could become the most stringent tobacco buffer zone in the nation. allen wong, abc7 news. >> a lot more to come.

at this rate it's on track to provide an extra $1.2 million to berkeley schools. the tax is charged when retailers receive the sweetened drinks to sell. it's up to the stores to decide whether to eat the cost or pass it along to their customers. >>> what went wrong? that's what many fans of extreme athlete dean potter are asking tonight after his death at yosemite national park. potter was doing a b.a.s.e. jump with a climbing partner on saturday. neither of their parachutes opened. potter was famous worldwide for his stunts which included tight rope walking, climbing and many sing suit flights. he often b.a.s.e. jumped with his dog on his back. those who knew him said he was always meticulous and careful. more than 250 people have died base jumping since 1981. >>> tonight an nbc bay area exclusive. we go one-on-one with a pioneer of the silicon valley. this is john chambers' first interview since announcing he was stepping down at cisco. scott budman is with us. scott, you've covered chambers for years. cisco such a big part of the silicon valley. >> you're right

. >> police are looking for a man who drove 40 miles the wrong way before crashing his car on berkeley. abc7 news is live with the story tonight. >> this is north berkeley the chp has yet to identify the suspect but sources tell us he's in his early 30s and on probation for robbery. and he says he's determined not to go back to jail if he can help it. >> i was like, wow. crazy. >> this is what neighbors saw. the stolen honda, crashing into an suv. this after the driver was crocked at speeds up to 80 miles per hour the honda was stolen out of concord. police followed it until it got on highway 4. a chp helicopter spotted the car going against traffic then, interstate 80. again, going the wrong way. ground units left the pursuit to its chopper. >> at one point, the driver demanded police stop following him. >> he made statements over dispatch. and we relayed he wasn't going back to jail. >> the driver of the suv sustained injuries. officers searched homes and backyards for the suspect who ran from the scene. neighbor neighbors looking in alleys and parked cars. >> as soon as i opened the

nbc's terry mcsweeney is in berkeley. it's the first city in the country with the soda tax. is it working? >> opponents will say, you can't really say yet, because nobody knows exactly how this money is going to be spent. supporters say, that's true, give them some time. they'll figure it out. and if this money is properly spent, it could save people's lives. >> soda, or more specifically the soda tax, is officially a solid revenue generator for the city of berkeley. $116,000 in the month of march says the city. works out to about $1.2 million for year. we're showing the rest of the country, yes, you can pass it, yes, you can implement it and it's not that hard. the berkeley city councilman is a huge supporter of the tax, overwhelming approved by voters. he said it's not a matter of filling the city coffers. almost 50% of our latino or african american kids will have diabetes in their lifetime leading to all kinds of things amputations and ultimately death. >> you're not going to deter american people from buying soda by imposing a surcharge. >> and that's not the only probl

. >> cover santa rosa, berkeley, san jose, and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >>> 4:42. you are looking at temperatures from valley view, texas aerials of a freight train derailment. you can see all of the cars stack up like tinker toys. this is reported to be a 17-car derailment. we do not know what these train cars may be carrying. we do know that this happened about an hour north of dallas and that is where valley view is. we will give an eye on this. >> more information that the tracks may have been washed away by 6" of rain and flash flooding. we will continue to watch that situation. >> happening today activists land to rally outside san francisco city hall to call for a moratorium on new luxury housing and tenant evicts in the mission district. the rally follows a similar proposal early this week by the supervisor calling for freezing the building of market-rate house in the mission. many workers have moved into the mission the past few years and some neighborhood leaders blame this surge for driving working class families away from the neighbor. >> several media

then ran away. >> nbc bay area's stephanie tran live in berkeley. the suspect actually warned authorities to stay away contacting 911 in the middle of the per institute. >> reporter: that's right, sam and k irs s.-- and kris. the man drive the wrong way through nine cities. during the pursuit he called 911 saying, call off the helicopter following me, or i'll keep going. the chopper continued, and so he did, ending in this berkeley neighborhood. you see fresh tire attacks. he took off and is still on the run. with rifles and flashlights in hand, both berkeley police and chp officers searched back yards for the driver who lead them on a high speed chase from concord to berkeley starting at 11:20 last night. >> he took a sworner -- tires didn't squeal. he was doing perfect. i went to finish my drink and was walking this way. i saw the lights and the car flipped on its back end. on its roof. i was like oh. >> reporter: the aftermath showed the high pursuit. the car was completely crumpled air bags deployed after it slammed into there gmc suv flipping i

the traffic is flowing from berkeley to emeryville. to the right toward the bay bridge you are if great shape and to oakland or highway 24 looking clear. at the bay bridge toll plaza it is slowing. we have big construction protects an the bay area. one is going to shut down a major bridge this weekend. details are ahead. >> coming near you, tough new water restrictions across the state in june. the biggest loser? it could be your lawn. matt will explain. >> residents in san jose are asked to cut their water usage by 20 percent. a history the green lawns will be turning brown this summer. speaking of brown, governor brown issued that water mandate the water reduction mandate for 25 percent across the state for urban water use. the state water resources control board approved new restrictions but not 25 percent across the board each community was placed on a tier depending how well they served in the past. the mandate is define 8 percent and 36 percent and the state believes it is easier for the water guzzling cities to make huge cuts by

that is what it looks like here at pappy's in berkeley. the next game is monday night game 4 big game. everybody keeping their fingers crossed. a lot of people also remaining hope fal. reporting in berkeley, scott rates, kron4. >> we will be watching. >>> coming up, most of the country dealing can severe weather. we will take a look at the latest damage. also what is next. >>> plus-- ♪ >> we will tell you why a court ruling has east bay residents singing in the streets. he how you dn' it hts. th is what ican be li to ve shingles, a inful, blierinrash. if y hadhick pox the ingl vir isalready sideou. 1 in peoe wi getshinglesn thr litime. wishhat ere was sothing i uld to help. the ingl rascanlast up to0 days. talko yo docr orpharmaci abo yourisk. i cat fi my scov car waiti cafree my coun [tch te] troding eeze it, from disver. alls yoto pvent w puhaseon yr acunt in secds iyourard misaced not re.. ♪ and ce y finyourard, you n swch i ght aga. he..yore bk! [tou ton free it,nly om dcover. get at scov.com >>> breaking overnight 5 people were shot a

because a camera is discovered inside a u-c berkeley women's restroom. the camera was found last friday. it was found in a public restroom inside the the central building residence hall. police say, in late april, a sign was posted on the public restroom saying it was closed. and directing people to use the women's staff restroom down the hall. then on may 8-th. the recording device was found in the staff facility. u-c police say, they are investigating someone who is no longer at u-c berkeley. police are also working to find victims in the crime. police say, this incident is completely unrelated to a separate case last month. 20 year old alfred mendez was arrested for unlawful recording with his cellphone. that was after a u-c berkeley student says, she caught a man holding a phone undereath a stall she was using. that incident happened at the unit one residence hall as well. that outburst captured in this viral video cost a local baseball player a six figure college scholarship. the pinole high student you can hear him using a racial slur then saying "

he crashed here in berkeley and he hit a car an s.u.v., and it flipped over.down in the middle of the street. the driver of that car is okay. he suffer minor injuries. the suspect ran away. they still have not caught up with him. they say for now. they are still looking for him. in idea where he is. they are were whering up their scene here and they

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on the bridge but as you look at the macarthur maze from berkeley, emeryville, up to 580 traffic is movely nicely at the bay bridge toll plaza with the cars taking cash have moved out. >> 5:01 we have breaking news with dozens of people killed in another major earthquake in nepal is less than three weeks after a shaker that killed more than 8000 people. >> our reporter is in the country and joins us by phone from katmandu. are you okay? >> doing fine. it was shocking earthquake but doing fine so far. single i don't, describe -- sergio, describe what you felt and saw and heard? >> i am saying in a hotel right downtown in katmandu and i was writing a story i am here on assignment for and i felt a little bit of a shake and i got shuttled to the big open patio area at the hotel complex and there was a rough rumble that lasted 30 seconds and this was a slow rocking that kept going for another 40 seconds and it was erie because the birds took off immediately and a bunch of birds were nesting in this neighborhood chirping and making their beautiful sound and they took off. that was the erie -- >>

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. >>> in berkeley today organizers of the 32nd annual himalayan fair said all of this year's proceeds will go toward relief effort. the organizers start evidence the tradition after hiking through nepal. >> and every time we crossed a high pass and dropped into a valley it was an amazing festival so after this incredible year of festivals i came back to berkeley and wanted to share some of this. >> there's another way to support relief and recovery efforts. if you want to donate, text the word nepal to 90999. >> thousands of runners made their way across san francisco for the bay to breakers. police did did their best to keep runners safe and keep champ from the course, but 11 people were arrested fire for felonies, police made 24 arrests last year so the numbers are down. cornell bernard was at the race today. >> sky 7hd was over the finish line when mwangi from kenya finished first, 35 minutes, 25 seconds, jane kenny from kenya is top female finishes thousands left the starting line and didn't look back, sea of runners, the majority in costume and in character. >> we are katy perry