abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has new information on the accident. cornell? >> the swedish boat artemis was towed to clipper coffee on treasure island. this as close as we can get to the vessel. security surrounds the boat. the team from sweden was practicing yesterday on the bay for america's cup when tragedy struck. the 36-year-old crew member andrew simpson was killed when the boat capsized at 1:00 o'clock p.m. yesterday. sky 7 was overhead. ten crew members were rescued by simpson was not. he was underwater for at least ten minutes. paramedic spent 20 minutes trying to revise him but it was too late. >> the boat capsized. he was trapped. attempts to recess state him failed. >> we always watch this boat and the others and it was a surprise, we commended on watching them practice. it is sad to hear that someone died. >> the tragedy is less than two months before the start of the america's cup event. the bay area is looking forward to this event. investigators will be combing over the boat. they do not know what caused the boat to capsize but it is possible

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is at the facility. cornell? >> very serious situation at lockheed martin under criminal. firefighters responded to a two alarm place just after 3:00 a.m. and a lot of the file fires have moved to the back side of the facility which is not visible. firefighters say this was an electrical fire which was centered to a work space area in a building only identified as building 150 on the west side of the complex but according to the sign in front it is where research is done on ballistic missile defense systems and airborne lasers. the sign prompted firefighters to approach this building with a lot of caution this morning. >> we had a swing her activated alarm and we responded. we confronted heavy smoke conditions at the front door. we moved into the center of the building and located an electrical fire which we extinguished. now we currently pushing the smoke out of the building and doing damage control. >> the interview done with the captain and this is a secure facility, this complex is huge, according to sunnyval

live in sausalito for abc7 news reporter cornell bernard. >> cornell, keep going! >> one of the first resumeed flights of the boeing 787 dreamliner will land in san jose next month. japanese niece -- japanese airliner ana will resume flights in june. among the first boeing 787 dreamliner is one from japan to san jose international airport. reservations for the flight begin tomorrow. the dreamliners are going through inspections and test flight after a problem with a battery system was corrected. the votes are in and another bay area community is extending a tax to fund its schools. our media partner reports that voters have had 69 percent supporting it, and it extends a tax for eight years and adds $123 to the existing tax bringing the new total to $581. altogether the tax extension should bring in $1.25 million a year. >> we talking earlier of course about bike to work day and cornell is getting far on that bicycle, and we will see what the weather will be like. >> bicyclists don't like it too hot, mike. >> a lot of bicyclists will cross san francisco this morning

cornell? >> they are looking for hotspots in the fire right now. we can say that three people that live in the home, a couple and their elderly mother, all of them got out safely. check out the extensive damage to this home right now. all of the cars inside the garage completely destroyed and firefighters looking for hotspot s in the attic. we could see and somali the smoke from green -- greenbrae. the fire moves to three alarms quickly with ten engine companies responding with parts of the guest house open fire. >> the back building was fully engulfed and going in the garage . >> it took 45 minutes to put it out and the cause of the fire does not appear to be suspicious but the big concern is that there are so many trees here on good hill road and that was the big concern with the fire spreading to other parts of the house and other homes on this street. the red cross is here trying to render assistance which now is displaceed. you can see the extensive smoke and fire damage and a guest house

cornell? >> the swedish racing boat, artemis racing boat was towed to treasure island.rt of the red pontoon is still surpriseibl, the vessel is upside down and this is as close as we could get to the poet with the security. they were practicing for this summer's america's cup when tragedy struck. 36-year-old crew member andrew simpson was killed when it capsized on the bay. we were overhead. ten crew members were pulled to safety but simpson, a two time olympic sailing medalist was underwater for ten minutes. paramedics tried to revive him for 20 minutes but it was too late. several things could have gone wrong yesterday. >> mechanical failure. there could be crew mishap using the boat. of course, also, wind and wave conditions. >> and a sailor can become tangled in rigging and become trapped but the tragedy comes less than two months before the start of america's cup and the bay area is looking forward to a news conference has been scheduled for 11:00 this morning by america's cup c.e.o. we hope to learn more about what exactly happened yesterday on the day. for abc7 n

cornell, fish and wildlife just showed up? >> they did. they are investigating the latest citing here in the lafayette hills of what is being called a very large mountain lion. the cat made an appearance in a backyard last night and a nephew snapped a photo of it and fish and wildlife call it a full grown add dealt maybe the same one spotted in the same area over the week. she will never forget the encounter with the very big cat. >> not going in the backyard anymore at nighttime, that is for sure. we just ran back in the house and shut the windows and the back. >> how large, and you work with dogs, how large? >> pretty big. anything better than a domestic cat i consider big. quite large. you can tell by the photo. >> the dog walker is working with both dogs and cats. >> they talking about what she saw and telling neighbors to keep small pets inside and they say mountain lions are common in the hills and are likely tracking deer but they warn people not to approach mountain lions if they see them, not to feed them, and as attempting as it

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard will join from a limo company in santa clara. we will have continuing coverage of the limo fire investigation. you can get the latest developments any time on abc7news.com and breaking news alerts by follow willing us on twitter. >> developing news from cleveland where three missing women have been reunited with their families after being held captive for a decade. police have just released the pictures of the three brothers accused. katie marzullo has the latest. >> the three brothers could be charged any time and the women are out of the hospital, a six-year old girl rescued with them is believed to be the daughter of one of women, the same woman who escaped saving them all. >> help me, i am amanda berry and i have been kidnapped and missing for 10 years. i'm here. i'm free. >> she vanished in 2003 on the eve of her 17th birthday makes a frantic 9-1-1 careful after she kicked a door and screamed to get the attention of the neighborhood. >> we could not get in, because there was so much in a body could not fit in. so we kicked t

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard joins us from treasure island. cornell? >> when it comes to ideas on how to fix the bay bridge, it look like we have a winner, but fixing the broken bolts on the span will not be cheap and caltran will try but this morning they say they cannot commit to opening on labor day. caltran's announcement moments ago they have chosen a steel saddle system to reinforce 3 dozen bolts that snapped this year after being installed on the new span. the cost of the fix? between $5 million and $10 million. it could take months to complete. as far as opening the bridge on schedule... >> open by labor day? >> that is an outstanding question. there will be a very close race either way. >> caltran will work with the contractor to firm up an opening date but ultimately we are told the governor will have the final say on when the new span opens. there is money available in the budget for the bridge for cost overruns like this one but it is a big setback and we are told that there is simply no quick fix to getting it done. we are on treasure isla

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard, cornell? >> the news conference will begin any moment at pier 27 which is now home to the america's cup event. we help to learn more what happened on board the racing catamaran, an accident which took the life of a star sailor. 36-year-old andrew simpson is a true superstar in the sailing world, from great britain, a two-time olympic medalist. he and his crew of ten were doing practice runs on the swedish rating catamaran artemis and something went wrong. it capsized and simpson was trapped under the water for 10 minutes. efforts to revise him were unsuccessful. the crew was pulled to safety. team is devastated. in a statement the group says "our thoughts are with andrew's family who suffered a tragic loss." artemis will conduct a thorough review of the accident. this is a picture of the room where we will hear from america's cup c.e.o. and captain from the united states coast guard investigating the incident. it is no mystery, these racing catamarans are high performance, traveling at high sp

cornell? >> another blow for the small community. days ago police were looking if a suspect described as a man with long gray hair and now the manhunt is over and leila fowler's own brother is charged with her murder. experts say trying the case will be tough. parents dropping kids off at the elementary school in calaveras county are still dealing with the fuzz. the 12-year-old boy of leila fowler now charged with her murder. >> very sad. what can you say? i am glad it is not an adult. >> grief counselors arrest at the school available to students and teacher whose may need to taught. she was found stabbed to death april 27. her killing set off an intense manhunt across calaveras county. her brother told police that he saw an intruder run from the home but authorities never found the suspect. >> he later joined family members at a vigil. he is a juvenile. his mother says that the boy would never hurt anyone. >> my son has been protective of his sister. i just...i don't know. >> the sheriff will not say what kind of evidence led them

we will have continuing coverage of this tragedy on the bay check back with cornell bernard later in the news conference and at the 11 a.m. news conference with more at eleven with updates on twitter. >> develop news from cleveland where we learn new details of the man accused of holding three women captive if a decade. the prosecution says they could pursue the death penalty against ariel castro, the 52-year-old is now on suicide watch in jail. he made the first court appearance yesterday. we brought it to you on the use a-- abc morning news and he admitted to being a sex addict and cooperating with investigators. stay with abc7 news with were more from katie marzullo next half hour. >> the santa clara department of social services is asking the license of a milpitas daycare center be revoked after an infant was found strapped in a car seat in a closet. the license for the daycare center is suspended and the owner has been licensed since 1995 to run a hope day care but according to a report from social services, an infant boy was repeatedly kept in the car seat alone in a closet in

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is on the scene. what are firefighters working on now, cornell? >> they are looking for hotspots in the fire right now. we can say that three people that live in the home, a couple and their elderly mother, all of them got out safely. check out the extensive damage to this home right now. all of the cars inside the garage completely destroyed and firefighters looking for hotspot s in

>> funding for "to the contrary" provided by: the cornell douglas foundation committed to encouraging stewardship of the environment, land conservation, watershed protection and eliminating harmful chemicals. additional funding provided by: the colcom foundation. the wallace genetic foundation the e. rhodes and leona b. carpenter foundation. and by the charles a. frueauff foundation. >> hello i'm bonnie erbe, welcome to this special edition of "to the contrary," we are in southern california where we are going to introduce you to the new americans and the emerging industry that is growing up around them. ( crying baby ) yang lihao is one such new american. he was born in los angeles in 2012, to chinese parents who came to the u.s. to deliver him. that, so their child would be an american citizen. >> my baby's called, his english name is leo, leo yang. his chinese name is yang lihao. >> yan bo is an affluent interior designer in shanghai. his wife would not talk to us about why she had her child in the u.s. while on a tourist visa. but he explained u.s. citizenship would give his son a

cornell is on the scene of one which is blocking officers streets and the on-ramp and this is anothera of police activity, castro valley boulevard the on-ramp to northbound 238 is shut down at this time and that is going to be closed until further notice. on the waze app we are track traffic with an object in the room on 101 southbound in and out sunnyvale and san jose. you can track your traffic with waze at apple app and google play and everything is smooth on this friday morning elsewhere. >> it could be cheaper to buy a home than to rent depending where you are looking. >> some of the shine could be coming off the appleibl imagine. jane king is here to explain from the new york storm. jane? >> good morning, the poll says apple is losing their edge, 71 percent of those say they lost their cache as an innovator. they are down 40 percent from the all-time high. there is a slight upswing today and over all with the markets in the green. the silicon valley index is following suit. >> the robot of "star trek" will probable take in $112 million in the debut with an usually start in the t

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard joins us from pier 23. cornell? >> too dangerous for one sailing team, we have learned they are pulling out of the event. more on that in a moment. first, today at 2:00, teams and organizers will be here at pier 23 and talk about the progress of the crash investigation and where the america's cup event if san francisco goes from here in the wake of last week's tragedy. as far as canceling the event, that is verien -- very unlikely today. the catamaran broke apart on the bay killing the olympic medalist andrew simpson and prompting questions about the safety of the vessels. some say that the accident is actually raising public awareness of sailing. as for postponing or modifying the race, here is what an organizer had to say about that. >> the opposite in i have heard. people has had their interest piqued and we will see more interest it happens in a positive way. >> after earnest -- after detail earnest crashed, more tuned in and we have learned that a racing team announced they will not take park -- part in america

>> funding for "to the contrary" provided by -- the cornell douglas foundation, committed to encouraging stewardship of the environment. land conservation, watershed protection, and eliminating harmful chemicals. decial funding provided by the cole come foundation, the wallace genetic foundation. the er rhodes and leona carpenter foundation and by the charles afruoff foundation. >> this week on "to the contrary:" first, sexual assault in the military. then, the ethics of freezing eggs. "behind the headlines," international surrogacy. >> hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, the problem the pentagon can't seem to resolve after decades of trying: sexual assault of servicewomen and men. pentagon officials once again claim outrage over developments this week on sexual assault in the military. one was the arrest of lt. col. jeffrey krusinski, who heads the air force's sexual assault and prevention unit, charged with sexual battery. then the pentagon's own annual survey found sexual assault in the milit

what are investigators saying, cornell? >> dangerous situation at lockheed martin now but new is under control. firefighters responded to a two-alarm blaze after 3:00 a.m. the fire department said this was an electrical fire centered to a workization area with a lot of smoke inside building 150 on the west side of the complex and according to the sign in front it is where research is done on ballistic missile defense systems and airborne lasers. that prompted firefighters to approach the building with a lot of caution and they realized there was nothing dangerous or hazardous inside but mostly office space. this is a huge complex and lockheed martin is the largest aerospace contractors and 100 acres surrounded by a lot of barbed wire. we home to speak with someone from lockheed martin in an hour. >> we following developing news from san jose where police are investigating claims a street in front of a school could be a speeding hot speed after a six-year old was hit and killed by an s.u.v., and abc7 news reporter amy hollyf

abc7 news will be there. >> cornell, thank you. if you drive across the golden gate bridge, listen up. officials are meeting to consider a toll increase. the bridge faces a $29 million budget shortfall for the next fiscal year, and the finance committee meets tomorrow. a spokesman says that the toll could go up by 45 to 55 cents. if approved, this word when the toll hike takes effect. the bridge has not raised tolls since 2008 when they increased by a dollar. >> there was a fatal shooting in east oakland where to 2030 round -- 20 do 30 rounds were fired last night at 50th avenue. the victim was driven to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. police and crimestoppers of oakland are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the gunman. >> a fire station about two blocks away from that shooting was hit by bullets. firefighters stationed at engine company 18 on 50th avenue tweeted these pictures around 9:45 last might showing a bullet hole in the front window of the roll door. police is not said if the

>> funding for "to the contrary" provided by: the cornell douglas foundation committed to encouraging stewardship of the environment, land conseation, watershed protection and eliminating harmful chemicals. additional funding provided by: the colcom foundation. the wallace genetic foundation the e. rhodes and leona b. carpenter foundation. and by the charles a. frueauff foundation. >> this week on "to the contrary" first, plan b under fire again. then, are millennial teens more materialistic than prior generations? behind the headlines, sexuality and islam. hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, the plan b battle continues. of all things, the pro-choice obama administration is challenging a federal court ruling that made emergency contraceptives available to women and girls of all ages. this decision came hours after the food and drug administration approved over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception to females 15 and older. the legal challenge will not stop the fda decision from taking e

on your bicycle the hope of the folks behind the annual "bike to work day" and abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is at the golden gate bridge. look at you, on a bicycle, at the end eyeser station. >> if you have ever thought leaving your car at home and grabbing the bicycle and helmet and pedaling to work, this is the day. this is "bike to work day" with tens of thousands of bikers joining forces across the bay area and volunteers here in marin county are ready to cigarette all of the bikers showing up next hour to "bike to work." they are here with coffee, snacks, water, also a lot of encouragement for folks who do it every day or are biking to work for the very first time. this is the 19th year for "bike to work day" starting very small but has become a phenomenon across the pay area. organizers hope it becomes more than a one-time event. >> what we hope is this will inspire folks, more folks, each and every year, to bike every day and you don't have to bike every day, but more frequently, less pollution, better health and it is fun. >> check points have doctors from kaiser permanente

following is this speaker, steven cornel. dave sagan and jenna coleman? >> welcome. >> thank you. >> my name is peter goodman and i am a native san franciscoan and i have been in the picture framing business on polk street to 40 years, the strength of the merchant district of polk street is that it is made up a lot of little businesses, independent businesses, and unlike fillmore street or union street or chest nut street, reducing parking would be the death of many of my friends and neighbors. my picture framing business would deteriorate, you can't carry a oil painting or a valuable piece of artwork on a bike or in the backpack. it is critical that the parking remains the way that it is. now as a property owner i never received a notice from the mta of this change, none of us have. aren't we part of what is going on? this is going to effect property values. and it is going to effect rents. and we have not been notified. they are friends of the small business associations. and the merchants, they hold the critical planning meeting in december and i worke

in this case, art winfree was then a college senior at cornell, interested in biology.e knew that he was interested in it, but he was in the engineering physics program. so anyway, winfree thought about this question of synchronization of -- it could be heart cells, it could be fireflies flashing, it could be crickets chirping, cells in the brain. he abstracted all of them as these differential equations, math that describes rhythmic motion, and put in the computer thousands of them together. so in his math he allowed for some of these oscillators to be inherently faster or slower than others. so that, you see, is a challenge for synchronization, because how are the slow guys going to keep up with the fast guys? and the answer is, because they pay attention to each other. now, what does that mean for a cell, which can't think? it means that it can feel electricity, in the case of the heart. cells send each other electrical currents that can cause one to fire faster than it would have otherwise or that can retard it. so by this chemical and electrical communication, or t

not just because i, too, went to cornell, but because i'm fascinated by it.the closing of some death penalty resource centers. i'm particularly interested in what you guys talked about at one of your symposia on religion and the death penalty. >> well, the cornell death penalty project does a couple different things. we do academic research and also do some appellate representation. but the symposium you talked about, we looked at different ways in which religion influences the imposition of the death penalty and we looked at jurors' beliefs and religious leaves and how that related to their ability or willingness to impose death. we look at arguments which are made, not in capitol cases of how that can skew the jury's decision making and a number of other facets in religion and capital punishment. >> that's fascinating. i would love to see research on that. i think the work you guys do over there is really cool. >> thank you. >> excellent. jamie, john, thank you very much. >>> the ultimate in tax evasion. huge player in the irs scandal is taking the fifth. w

we're live in san francisco tonight abc 7 news. >> cornell, thank you very much. and a search data base on the safety of the bridges in the bay area may be there is one you have in mind near you. go abc 7 news.com when have you a link. >> police in oakland arrested a few suspected robbers today. they say more key arrests could make a dent in the crime rate there. this just hours after a man celebrating his birthday was shot during a robbery. police made it no secret the spike forced them to get creative and today, evidence suggesting a shift may be working. >> we want to identify who is responsible for robberies locate them and arrest them. >> in video you'll see only on abc 7 news opd's task force stopped three men for a traffic violation. officer as rested two men after the stop took a turn. >> we recovered two firearms. >> police tell me they found something eels we have discovered evidence that indicates they are connected to other robberies in the city. >> police have not said if they're expects in an overnight robbery and shooting only saying a man was leavi

want to look back and an interview with one of the few true philosophers remaining in america dr cornel west dr west joined us last month to discuss class race war corporate greed and more so take a look. succulents i mean from oakland to d.c. hearing so much racist comments about how oakland has a lot of crime because it's predominately african-american i mean you're looking at things like stop and frisk obviously these institutionalized policies of racism of over policing african-american. areas of the cities i mean of course that's what's going to happen is you're going to have a disproportionate representation of these minorities in prisons and it can't help but think reckon back again to martin luther king i mean last week was the forty fifth anniversary of his assassination and there are in this system i'm sure you're aware forty five years dr west and. people are i don't know whether it's something in in all of us but think thirteen percent of black youth addicted to drugs thirty was that away due to dictate a drug sixty five percent of convictions in america are black if you wan

be good to talk to him really interesting here your thoughts with us and clinical professor of law cornell law school in the states thank you great thank you. striking parallels similarities with those described by the boston bombing suspect live well to discuss the legitimacy of drawing the parallels between what happened willage in london and in boston the incidents happened within a month of each other as it sort of the atlantic is. so what are the similarities well the primary similarities of course the underlying message it seems that both hard the message that he scribbled on a boat as well as the machete killer it seems that the main message is if you're going to assault muslims abroad. then you should be prepared to you should be prepared for a retribution in your own home country and that of course in the case of your hearts or knife was that was the united states and the machete killer obviously attacked in london so basically they're saying that they're making up for the lives that were lost during the wars in iraq and afghanistan and other places in the east but it appears that

we're live in san francisco tonight abc 7 news. >> cornell, thank you very much. and a search data base on the safety of the bridges in the bay area may be there is one you have in mind near you. go abc 7 news.com when have you a link. >> police in oakland arrested a few suspected robbers today. they say more key arrests could make a dent in the crime rate there. this just hours after a man celebrating his birthday was shot during a robbery. police made it no secret the spike forced them to get creative and today, evidence suggesting a shift may be working. >> we want to identify who is responsible for robberies locate them and arrest them. >> in video you'll see only on abc 7 news opd's task force stopped three men for a traffic violation. officer as rested two men after the stop took a turn. >> we recovered two firearms. >> police tell me they found something eels we have discovered evidence that indicates they are connected robberies in the city. >> police have not said if they're expects in an overnight robbery and shooting only saying a man was leaving with f

abc7 news covering that with cornell bernard. >> the fire is out but, clearly, the damage has been done, as we pull around to show you the extent of the damage. the garage is destroyed. the roof has now collapsed. firefighters are combing every inch of this home looking for hotspots and they found some in the last few minutes. they doused them. three people live in this home: an an elderly woman and her son and his buy. they get out quickly. we could see and smell the smoke as far as at greenbrae this morning. the firefighters arrived here and parts of the house were fully engulfed. the fire moved to three alarms and ten engine companies with firefighters from san rafael and surrounding cities rushing to fight the fire. the garage and gift house was on fire and the fire chief says it took 45 minutes to put out. >> the initial engine company saw a well involved fire in the garage and they started working on that, but it got well involved and got in the attic and run into the main structure^, as well. >> cause of the fire is under investigation but the fire chief says it does not appear t

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard will have more in a report next half hour. >> developing news from ohio. we are learn new details of the three women rescued from a cleveland home following a decade in captivity. abc7 news reporter katie marzullo joins us in the newsroom with what a source is saying about multiple pregnancies. katie marzullo? >> a police source reports that all three of the women may have been pregnant at some point dug their alleged captivity. this were at least five pregnancies inside the house and, also, that one of the women had two or three miscages -- miscages because she was malnourished. one child was important to amanda berry and the six-year-old is her daughter. since escaping where she spent 10 years she called her grandmother yesterday and tells her that the baby was born on christmas and there is this emotional exchange. >> i am glad you back. i thought you were gone. i love you, honey. love you too. >> i thought about you all this time. >> this morning, they are in secure locations with their families and michelle knight is still in the hospital. polic

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard joins from foster city. >> the driver of the white stretch says the fire that killed five of the passengers began with a lot of confusion on the san mateo bridge on saturday night. the driver orville brown says passengers start the banging on the glass partition saying "smoke, smoke" and he misunderstood thinking they were asking if they could smoke cigarettes. moments later the limo was on fire. he tells the chronicle this morning that there were so many flames in 90 seconds the scar was -- car was fully engulfed. video shows how intense the fire was. four women survived, including the driver, but the new bride did not. her friends cannot believe she is gone. >> she was a nice person. friendly. so just...a wonderful soul. >> 31-year-old pride pride was recent -- the 31-year-old neriza fojas was recently married and on the way to a foster city hotel where her news husband was waiting. she mayoror never made it. we hope to learn more how the fire happened from c.h.p. later this morning. >> the brother and sister who shot the cell phone video say they h

according to the study, and another from cornell university, wells are leaking gas and other chemicals into the air of a rate of about three times what the industry can use. the government suggests that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created helping to offset the 24% unemployment. small-scale farmers believe that this is shortsighted. >> it is thinking like this that scientists have been trying to instill in government and public health positions with oversight over the drilling activities. what is in the nature? nobody knows for sure and most companies and not telling. this group has worked with the u.s. national science foundation and the massachusetts institute of technology to uncover a list of 246 products used by the natural gas industry. >> one of our staff set out to systematically set up a database in order to look at the long list of chemicals that we have at hand. those products that have health 1%-6% effect.ave 43% of the product on our list contained in the quinn disrupt the chemicals that could interfere with the development of individuals before they are born and

cornel bernard. >> reporter: we were in watching the baseball game and went out in the backyard with a flash light. >> reporter: tina won't forget what happened next. a large mountain lion was right there standing in her backyard. her nephew snapped the photo of the big cat before it ran off. >> it is big. anything bigger than domestic cat i consider big. it was quite large you can tell by the photo. >> reporter: last saturday a mountain lion was spotted sitting in a tree also in tina's backyard. >> i'm not going in the backyard any time right now at night time that is for sure. we ran back to the house and shut the windows. >> reporter: we were there when the fish and wildlife wardens showed up to investigation. do you think it is the same cat? >> i believe it is. the second sighting is the same location as the first sighting. >> they talked to tina about thes and say the cat is likely hunting deer and not humans and not considered a threat. tell that to heather and her three-year-old on. >> we were hoping they would trap it or remove it or something. not just wait for it to pass th

. >> and that was cornell bernard reporting. >>> out of sacramento governor jerry brown has unveiled a revised state spending plan. outgoing and praise for hollywood super star angelina jolie. abc 7 news reporter is live in the news room with details. >> brad pitt has released a statement calling her decision absolutely heroic and says this is a happy day for our family. he is certainly not alone in his admiration. >> reporter: in her oped angelina jolie writes about her mommy and about the illness that took her away from us. jolie says she can say genetic testing showed she had a faulty gene and had an 87% chance of getting breast cancer and a 50% chance of ovarian cancer. she decided to have both breasts removed. >> she chose to have preventive surgery to convey survival benefit. >> reporter: she had the first procedure on february 2 a few weeks before this walk down the red carpet at the oscars. three months of surgeries and treatments followed. she says we managed to find moments to laugh together. we knew this was the right thing to do for our family and it would bring us cloers

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard will have more in 30 minutes. >> the brother the suspected kidnapper ariel castro are speaking publicly on this shocking case. police say castro helped three women captive in cleveland for more than a decade repeatedly raping them physical they were freed last week. in an exclusive interview with cnn pedro and onil showed no victim sympathy if their brother and hope he spends life in prison. >> monster, hateful, i hope he rots in jail. i don't even want them to take his life like that, i want him to suffer in the jail. i don't care after what he has done to my life and my family's life. >> the cleveland house where castro allegedly kept the three women captive is considered evidence in the case but neighbors are now pushing to have the two-story home torn down. >> police reveal more of a shooting involving concord police officers. the 21-year-old was suspected of dealing drugs and police tried to serve a search war rapt if his home and he got in a car driven by another man which rammed an unmanned police car. he tried to run away but two officers opene

and we will learn more how the accident happened. >> thank you, cornell.the names of the four women who survived. mary grace guardiano, and jasmine in san jose, and amalia loyola, the limousine owner says that the limo stop will "do everything possible to investigate and assist authorities in determining the cause of the fire in order to bring forth answers and provide closure to the victims and their families." they say the company deeply saddened by the tragedy. we will have developing updates throughout the morning and on our website at abc7 news cop -- abc7news.com. >> east palo alto police will reveal more of a shooting near a mcdonald's that left five people wounded. the victims include a six-year old girl and her grandmother. it happened close to 101 on university avenue at bay road. police say the shooter aimed at people waiting for the bus at the curb. four victims went inside the mcdonald's looking for him. officers discovered other victims outside and investigators say it appears some of the victims were target ed. >> i don't believe that it is

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has more from san francisco. >> at 2:00 today, race teaches and organizers will meet here at pier 23 to talk about the progress of the investigation and where, exactly, the america's cup event goes from here in the wake of last week's tragedy. at this point, canceling the event seems very unlikely. the 72' catamaran belonging to team artemis broke apart and killed an olympian. sports marketing experts and many others believe the tragedy is raising a lot of public awareness of sailing and could bring bigger crowds to watch similar to watching nascar racing. >> that draws people in because, wow, this is amazing. i cannot believe there was a car accident, or whatever, they are dramatic and it attracts people. >> most agree that building a new class of america's cup yachts can be done but for some the risk is too great and the german youth team announcing they will not be competing in the america's cup regatta because of the crash raising too many questions whether the team would be safe. >> we are live in san francisco for abc7 news. >> the seven for missing sa

jenni also leaves a two-year old son behind. >> cornell, thank you.ere is a difference of opinion between the limo driver and a survivor on what could have been done in the moments after the fire erupted. orville brown thought the women were asking to smoke when they started knocking on the partition that separated him from the passengers and once he realized the him seep was on fire, brown pulled over and was devoured by flames in 90 seconds. the survivors got out by squeezing through the small partition, but one witness said the driver could have done more. >> he could is gotten out from the car, he just got out from the car. >> the car was engulfed, completely engulfed and i felt that nobody could have survived that. >> investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire. >> abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield will have more next half hour. stay with abc7 news if developing updates in the limo fire investigation with the latest developments at abc7news.com and breaking news on twitter. we continue to follow developing news from cleveland