dan ashley joins with us how one resort is attracting skiers. >> it has been so-so. and you never have enough money or snow. and you know the president's holiday weekend is coming up and that is one of the biggest weekend for ski areas. and there is conditions better than a lot of people know. when you watch sean white get a perfect score in x games you probably don't think about the super pike he's riding on but without it, these tricks just would not be possible. north star is the home mountain with one of only six in the country. a super pipe has high yes, steeper sides that helps gou faster and get more air. and this takes dedication. our news crew rode along on the night shift. >> takes a sobering amount of work. >> first challenge is just making enough snow. >> we put in 688 hoirs to get the snow you can see here tonight. 32 days, start to finish. >> and this is 550 feet long but size and shape of the wall are critical. they're 22 feet high, built of snow and smooth with a giant arm. >> and i've got about 80 hours insofar this week. >> and

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. >> they may not respond to calls, but authorities in another city are cracking down with force. alan wang is live with the story tonight. alan? >> yes, dan and carolyn. this could have other cities examining the way they respond to calls for mutual aid. tonight the city of berkeley passed a standard mutual aid agreement, but they still want to set parameters around the decision to help other police departments. incidents like this one during the occupy oakland demonstrations, and on this one during the occupy protest at uc berkeley, they lead the city of berkeley to refuse mutual police aide to oakland and the university last fall. >> we don't necessarily want our police to automatically respond. we need to seriously evaluate how to respond. >> and now the city councilmember wants to make it clear they will not offer mutual aid to mutual administrations. >> what i saw in terms of abuse of police authority are not the things that members of the armed forces went into the service to defend and protect the constitution. >> the proposal calls for b

. >> and i'm dan ashley. they say enough is enough. >> they are banding together to protect themselves and their businesses. thomas roman is live in oakland for us. >> carolyn, the association of 120 mobile food vendors say its members are defending themselves because of too many robberies and deaths deaths in east oakland. as the video shows, the last robbery almost left two people dead. >> in the foreground, 32-year-old omar cassie yeahs is sweeping up the parking lot where the truck has done business for 12 years. according to police, one with his arm extended is sean ward morris. she accompanied by a 17-year-old who has not been identified. police say morris casiass said be cool and give me what you go the. casias runs and gets shot. he returned fire and hits morris who wrights on the ground -- wriths on the ground and stumbles away. >> we are not going to take this anymore. >> shelly garza is with rising sun on pro trough inures. she says she doesn't condone the vendors shooting back, but they are fed up

. >> i'm dan ashley. it began 17 hours ago when the federal officer was shot in front of his home in newark. >> alan wang joins us live from the apartment building of the suspected it shooter in piedmont. alan? >> carolyn and dan, after arresting dennis bagwell agents began scouring this apartment building off piedmont avenue. what we mains a mystery is why an op optometrist who became an apartment manager would want to shoot a u.s. customs agent. federal agents from the fbi, homeland security and customs comb they had apartment building where dennis bagwell is the property manager. newark police say he shot a customs agent before 6:00 this . >> this was an off duty incident. >> he waited for him to walk out of his home and fired five shots, seriously wounding the 61-year-old agent who works out of san francisco international airport. >> i never would have guessed he had a gun. >> residents in peaked -- piedmont say he took over in october. >> dennis was always helpful. anytime there was any issue you cal

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. he was buried up to his neck, but at least he could breathe. >> that's the only reason he could survive trapped for hours in the dirt. rescuers worked for hours to dig him out. it happened in brentwood. alan wang is there live. alan, what a desperate scene. >> yes, a pretty dramatic scene out here tonight. about two hours ago the front yard of this house was buzzing with firefighters. the neighbors gathered three deep just to watch this rescue. it all ended with a cheering crowd and a man happy to be alive. after more than three hours of constant digging, rescue crews pulled the man from the collapsed trench that almost became his grave. >> the danger is you have all of the weight of the dirt. the dirt out here is a heavy, muddy clay. it is not real light and fluffy sand. it is pretty heavy dirt. >> firefighters say the 50-year-old man from oakland dug a trench 10 feet deep while working on a residential sewer line. it was about 12 feet long and 30 inches wide, but it doesn't appear h

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. >> i'm dan ashley. the public health department recommended the shutdown and this deep cleaning. >> it is highly contagious which is why the school administrators are can selling classes for tomorrow. john alston is live with the story. john? >> the illness carried into tonight when some students became sick during the basketball game. more than 1400 students attend saint ignacious. 50 students called in sick today and another 150 went home after not feeling well. the college and prep school is getting a thorough cleaning after an unpleasant day for about 200 students. >> people were throwing up everywhere and coughing everywhere. >> i came out of class and there was about 20 students sitting in front of the dean's office with trashcans. i actually saw some kids throwing up. it was not a sight to see. >> school is canceled on wednesday while the crews sanitize any surface the crews may come in contact with, desks, lockers, door handles. the city health official doesn't believe it is influenza, but an ou

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. our other top story, the weather. >> a powerful storm is sweeping into the bay area. it is pouring in san rafael where you can see sheets of rain coming down. >> and you will need chains if you are headed to the sierra. the storm could drop as much as four feet of snow before it is all over. >> now certainly a welcome sight for the ski resorts. they have been operating on a meager three feet of snow during this very dry winter. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here with doppler 7hd for us. >> carolyn and dan, let's show you doppler 7hd, it has become more active as the night pro tbressed. rainfall has been coming into the bay area, and as we go to the north bay that's where it has been raining. reports of rain to san rafael on twitter, and there is heavy rain beginning to move in between ukiah and cloverdale. we will take you down to the street level where mountain house road is getting pretty wet here. we do have some moderate to heavy rainfall there and check out what live doppler

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. thanks for joining us.e a terrific weekend. >> we appreciate your time. for larry beil and sandhya patel. have a great night.8x8x8x8x8x8xs matt mccloskey entertains audiences with jokes about his weight. let me move this so you guys can see me. when he stepped on the scale it's tears that flow, not laughter. it's been two years since i've been on a scale and it's just hit me right now. twenty six years of pain had added up to almost 400 pounds. yeah i'm fat but because of you making comments i'm going to go eat something. i'm going to just go sit in my room and cry. but now, matt is ready to laugh, to love and to live big! with her help! ali vincent, the first female winner of the biggest loser. the world watched as she lost it all and won big! in that moment i started living the big life, the life i've always dreamed of. congratulations. it's kind of funny when you think about it. it took losing half of me to live the big life but that's the way it happened. now ali has a new mission that will take her acr

wee here is dan ashley. >> dan: just how do you fix the economy? we asked the people that know that subject inside and out. robert reich is a professor at goldman school of public policy. shawn randolph is ceo of bay area economic institute. david henderson is a fellow at the hoover institution and was on the president's council of economic advisors under robert reagan. christopher is an owner of a private research firm in los angeles. scott anderson is senator economist with wells fargo and advisor to the federal reserve. we asked this panel to comment on the state of the u.s. economy and offer advice how it could be fixed. economy bottomed out in mid 2009 since then it has been on a slow crawl to recovery. they agree the root of the problem is jobs and most believe the government needs to step in to create them. >> robert thinks the great depression should be a road map. >> we need a wpa, modeled what we did in 1930s who are long time unemployed. >> henderson says the way to fix the economy is to reduce unemployment benefits. >> people are picky

dan ashley shows a possible compromise. >> dan: hunt bears was illegal in nevada.wildlife video shows how they scare bears away from populated areas. but last august, they launched a bear hunt and allowed the use of dogs. it allows to shooting up to 20 bears but fewer were killed. >> we had 14 bears taken, nine males, five females. >> chris is with the nevada department of wildlife that caught 100 illegally baiting the bears. >> using apples. using bacon grease and also using an oil that would attract the bears. >> it has a huge public outcry. sam runs the bear league which helps tahoe residents with problem bears. she gets calls about hunters with guns. >> we had calls from people that were frightened, that were threatened. that were scared on the hiking trail. >> thoi shores is divided between california and nevada. california has bear hunting for years but the range is huge. hunters tend to stay out of tahoe area. in nevada, most bears live in a small corner of the state right near tahoe. even though the nevada hunt is tiny compared to california. >> people in t

penguins have been crowd pleasers for years and dan ashley will take a look who will be sharing the spotlight>> dan: these are pajama sharks. they were born in an aquarium in portugal and six of them are adjusting to life behind the scenes at the academy of sciences steinhart aquarium. sooner they will be moving. >> did she say they are putting sharks in here? they will be sharing this 25 gallon exhibit tank. >> the sharks are docile. they are easily approached by divers. >> they may not be a threat by biologists the two species don't wind up in a food fight. penguins are fed by hand. the sharks have to learn at a different time. >> that is going to be a delicate process. >> biologist nancy levine trains the sharks. first she puts a fish near a target. then she rings bells under the water. >> that means there is food in the water so they start looking for it and know that it's feeding time. >> their eyesight is not very good but a great sense of smell. >> they you'll all their senses in order to survive in the wild. >> sharks do not naturally eat on command so it takes weeks to figure out the

i'm dan ashley. in the central valley investigators say they reached the bottom of a well in their grim search for human remains. possible victims of the so called speed freak killer. now, they are bringing up high tech equipment to help before they start another dig. authorities spent today sorting through bins of everything dug up from the old well in linden. laura anthony was there. >> reporter: five days into a massive dig at a ranch east of stockton investigators say they have now reached the bottom of the 50-foot well and have collected about 1,000 human bone and skull fragments. >> there is very little remains that are coming up out of the well in our last five to seven piles that we brought to the surface if you will. >> reporter: police will not speculate how many bodies might be buried here or in other locations near linden. in letters and maps sent to the stockton record, convicted mass killer wesley claimed he and a boy hood friend dumped the remains. records tentively identified one vict

i'm dan ashley. in castro valley the roadway cordoned off, law you enforcement fanned out and huddled up after a man was shot and an officer injured. police still on the scene at groveway and center street. leslie brinkley there live with the latest on this. leslie? >> reporter: the alameda county sheriff's department is saying a suspect waced into a police officer while he stood between several vehicles here. another officer then shot the suspect. that all happened about four hours ago. here is what we know. several berkeley police officers following up on a criminal investigation and tailing a suspect. at 5:00 they did a vehicle stop at the intersection of groveway and center in castro valley. the suspect's car is red, the undercover vehicle is silver. >> they are in an unmarked car so it looks like maybe they came out of the car and somehow engaged the suspect and somehow during that time the officer got pinned between the two cars. and at it his partner fired at the suspect. >> the suspect was sh

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researchers say they have solid finds behind them. >> that was dan ashley reporting.commission reports on the proposal today but there's no certainty it is going to pass. the two sides can't even agree on whether any bears were actually killed in the tahoe area because they don't agree on what its boundaries are. we have linking to the websites of groups on both sides at abc7news.com. just click "see it on tv." don't go away. 7 on your side is next. >> if your personal information is stolen, do you have any rights? i'm michael finney. coming up on 7 on your side, knew legal protections that will protect you. [ mom ] hey guys. guys... [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls with cinnabon cinnamon are an irresistible sunday morning idea. nothing calls them to the table faster. sunday morning ideas made easy. how to solve a brother-sister standoff. ♪ pillsbury chocolate ch cookies, warm out of the oven. another sweet idea for bringing families together from pillsbury. >> welcome back. a live picture of heavenly mountain resort. lake tahoe in the background. you can

in this morning's assignment 7 report, dan ashley tells us why that may be dad news for people, too.n takes a winter walk near lake tahoe, she does not expect to see any bears. they should be hibernating. but this year things are just out of whack. >> we had some that went to bed and then got back up when the weather warmed up. >> she runs the bear league. it's a network of 200 volunteers that help people and bears share the tahoe basin peacefully. the league gave us this video of bears out and about when they should be tucked in their dense. it was one of the best-ever summers for bears. that's best as in very few confrontations with people. and she credits last year's heavy snow that created a lot of food. >> when the snow started melting and the water started to flow, the green-up occurred and it was like someone flipped a switch and the bears went back in the forest and it was the quietest season on record. >> sometimes they could get as many as 150 calls a day from people saying bears were looking for food by businesses and homes. >> last year i thought something happened to all

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researchers say they have solid numbers and science behind them. >> that was dan ashley reporting.ildlife commission reports on the proposal today but there's no certainty it is going to pass. the two sides can't even agree on whether any bears were actually killed in the tahoe area because they don't agree on what its boundaries are. we have links to the websites of groups on both sides at abc7news.com. just click "see it on tv." don't go away. 7 on your side is next. >> if your personal information is stolen, do you have any rights? i'm michael finney. coming up on 7 on your side, new legal protections that will protect you. >> goal back. you might as well enjoy the beautiful sunshine coming our way, says lisa. every year millions of people have certainly information stolen in a data breach. often it's of no consequence but you have to wonder if someone is going to steal your whole identity. california now has a new law. here's 7 on your side's michael finney to explain it. >> i want to know where my information is. >> the last time we saw todd evans longo he received a frighteni

in this morning's assignment 7 report, dan ashley tells us why that may be dad news for people, too.kes a winter walk near lake tahoe she does not expect to see any bears. they should be hibernating but this year things are just out of whack. >> we had some that went to bed and then got back up when the weather warmed up. >> she runs the bear league. they help people and bears share the tahoe basin peacefully. she gave us this video of bears out and about when they should be tucked in their dens. it was one of the best-ever summers for bears. that's best as in very few confrontations with people. and credits last year's heavy snow that created a lot of food. >> when the snow started melting and the water started to flow, the green started to occur. and someone flipped a switch and the bears went back in the foret and it was the quietest season on record. >> sometimes they could get as many as 150 calls a day from bears looking for food by businesses and homes. >> last year i thought something happened to all of them. we went out and looking for the bears base thought are they okay an

. >> i'm dan ashley. it began 17 hours ago when the federal officer was shot in front of his home in newark. >> alan wang joins us live from the apartment building of the suspected it shooter in piedmont. alan? >> carolyn and dan, after arresting dennis bagwell agents began scouring this apartment building off piedmont avenue. what we mains a mystery is why an op optometrist who became an apartment manager would want to shoot a u.s. customs agent. federal agents from the fbi, homeland security and customs comb they had apartment building where dennis bagwell is the property manager. newark police say he shot a customs agent before 6:00 this . >> this was an off duty incident. >> he waited for him to walk out of his home and fired five shots, seriously wounding the 61-year-old agent who works out of san francisco international airport. >> i never would have guessed he had a gun. >> residents in peaked -- piedmont say he took over in october. >> dennis was always helpful. anytime there was any issue you cal

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. >> they may not respond to calls, but authorities in another city are cracking down with force. alan wang is live with the story tonight. alan? >> yes, dan and carolyn. this could have other cities examining the way they respond to calls for mutual aid. tonight the city of berkeley passed a standard mutual aid agreement, but they still want to set parameters around the decision to help other police departments. incidents like this one during the occupy oakland demonstrations, and on this one during the occupy protest at uc berkeley, they lead the city of berkeley to refuse mutual police aide to oakland and the university last fall. >> we don't necessarily want our police to automatically respond. we need to seriously evaluate how to respond. >> and now the city councilmember wants to make it clear they will not offer mutual aid to mutual administrations. >> what i saw in terms of abuse of police authority are not the things that members of the armed forces went into the service to defend and protect the constitution. >> the proposal calls for b

good evening i'm dan ashley. carolyn johnson has the night off. that man's son is accused of beating well liked businessman to death at his home. john is live in berkeley tonight with the story. john? >> we learn a berkeley council member is calling for an investigation that how police handled that call and the suspect's father is apologizing to the victim's family tonight 2 berkeley police officers met with the murder suspect parents at the home in alameda. police didn't talk but the suspect father wanted to get something off his chest. >> i weren't to apologize or say i'm sorry to the family involved. the victim and his family i'm truly truly sorry. >>reporter: 43-year-old daniel jordan dewitness described as paranoid schizophrenic in jail for the murder of 67-year-old berkeley hills resident identified as peter the man beaten with a flower pot saturday night at his home at grizzly peak boulevard an shasta road. he called the case a failure of the mental health system. >> they drug him and let him go again. in and out of the hospital and that's

. >> and i'm dan ashley. they say enough is enough. >> they are banding together to protect themselves and their businesses. thomas roman is live in oakland for us. >> carolyn, the association of 120 mobile food vendors say its members are defending themselves because of too many robberies and deaths deaths in east oakland. as the video shows, the last robbery almost left two people dead. >> in the foreground, 32-year-old omar cassie yeahs is sweeping up the parking lot where the truck has done business for 12 years. according to police, one with his arm extended is sean ward morris. she accompanied by a 17-year-old who has not been identified. police say morris casiass said be cool and give me what you go the. casias runs and gets shot. he returned fire and hits morris who wrights on the ground -- wriths on the ground and stumbles away. >> we are not going to take this anymore. >> shelly garza is with rising sun on pro trough inures. she says she doesn't condone the vendors shooting back, but they are fed up

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. vandal usa tacked a catholic church this ash wednesday, and the father says he is leaving the damage up at least through tonight so people can see what happened. >> he wants them to see it. and many of those who came by say those at anne's church was visibly upset. >> leslie leslie brinkley is live for us. >> that's right. the satanic images like this on the side of the church, and extra police detectives have been assigned to keep an eye on things at st. anne's church especially in light of the destruction from overnight. >> permanently -- personally it shocks and disgusts me. as they surveyed the damage, they were shocked. an eight-foot cross split and toppled from a cement base. a stone monument overturned. statues of the holy family defaced with black spray paint. four foot pen tau grams -- pentagrams scrawled across the wall. >> once we recognize the satanic symbols and the fact it was at a church and ash wednesday, obviously that made it more than coincidental. so we have classi

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. the nursing students are in a jam. >> the school they paid thousands of dollars to attend is not legit so, they wasted their time and their money. alan wang is live at the oakland campus. what a shock for them. >> yes, dan and carolyn. we watched the students walk out of the school in total shock. this was the training they needed to get out of their dead end jobs in this struggling economy. about 300 students at the institute of medical education were paying $25,000 to $30,000 for training to be mri and ultrasound seek anythingses. technicians. >> it is very important for me and my family. >> reporter: others were studying to be nursing assistants and dental hygenists, but state regulators are shutting down their hopes for a better future because the school falsely advertised their accreditation. >> i am very, very upset. i only have two weeks of school left. >> reporter: it comes as a shock because the students were told their programs were accredited by the western association of s

i'm dan ashley. carolyn johnson has the night off. we now know the man shot by oakland police is related to oscar grant, the man killed by bart police. john alston is live with the story you will see. >> police have said nothing about the weekend shooting beyond a press released they issued yesterday and they have not addressed the new information. the man was seriously injured ever after being shot in the grant. >> it emerged from a hospital in oakland after waiting all day to see her son. she says he was shot in the lower back after running from oakland police late on sunday night. >> i talked to my son and my son said mama the officers is lying. they watched me get out the car. they watched me walk, and then they started speeding up. i took off running across the street. when i took off running i heard it go, bow, bow, bow. >> her son is tony jones. she says he is a cousin of oscar grant, the hayward man shot and killed by a bart police officer on new year's day 2009. sunday evening short lebefore midnight, oakland police stopped a

. >> i'm dan ashley. the public health department recommended the shutdown and this deep cleaning. >> it is highly contagious which is why the school administrators are can selling classes for tomorrow. john alston is live with the story. john? >> the illness carried into tonight when some students became sick during the basketball game. more than 1400 students attend saint ignacious. 50 students called in sick today and another 150 went home after not feeling well. the college and prep school is getting a thorough cleaning after an unpleasant day for about 200 students. >> people were throwing up everywhere and coughing everywhere. >> i came out of class and there was about 20 students sitting in front of the dean's office with trashcans. i actually saw some kids throwing up. it was not a sight to see. >> school is canceled on wednesday while the crews sanitize any surface the crews may come in contact with, desks, lockers, door handles. the city health official doesn't believe it is influenza, but an ou

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. 5* critical piece of evidence is now public tonight. >> the photograph is taken from a video of ross' wife. prosecutors claim they are proof of domestic violence. his attorney is furious about what you will see. thomas roman is here with the story. thomas? >> reporter: they tell abc7 that the released of the stills is pure games manship and unconscionable especially since a judge has yet to rule if the videos were taken and will be admitted as evidence. it is crucial proof of domestic violence. these are stills lifted from a 50-second video taken from ivory madison. they are asking if they can show them during the domestic violence trial. the video also contains audio. in the district attorney's affidavit, the neighbor who reported domestic violence stated that lopez said her son cried "daddy made boo-boo on mommy's arm" and she completely burst into tears tears and was crying. >> i don't think it was appropriate to put out the photos knowing that we are litigating a motion as to whether or not the video was even admissible in the case. >> rep

jay i'm dan ashley. it is a strange sight you can see behind us. the upper deck is completely free of traffic. >> the approach to the bay bridge from emeryville, traffic is moving in the left lanes. as you can see it is toward oaknd la. the right lanes toward the bridge are blocked. in all, there are five closure points including westbound 80, emeryville's pal street on-ramp, the westbound 580 connector, the northbound 880 connector and the west grand on-ramp. they are all scheduled to stay closed until 5:00 a.m. tuesday morning. ama dates is in emeryville burkts we begin with thomas roman near a deserted toll plaza. >> yes, it is of the carolyn, cal trans says they would have the bridge closed by 8:00. when we saw the last come through the toll plaza, look behind me. there is an army of workers out there tearing up the old roadway. they are trying to beat the clock and the weather to get the approach to the new bridge done on schedule. bay bridge traffic started to slow to a trickle before 8:00. the last car passed through at almost exactly 8:00.

good evening i'm dan ashley. carolyn johnson has the night off. that man's son is accused of beating well liked businessman to death at his home. john is live in berkeley tonight with the story. john? >> we learn a berkeley council member is calling for an investigation that how police handled that call and the suspect's father is apologizing to the victim's family tonight 2 berkeley police officers met with the murder suspect parents at the home in alameda. police didn't talk but the suspect father wanted to get something off his chest. >> i weren't to apologize or say i'm sorry to the family involved. the victim and his family i'm truly truly sorry. >>reporter: 43-year-old daniel jordan dewitness described as paranoid schizophrenic in jail for the murder of 67-year-old berkeley hills resident identified as peter the man beaten with a flower pot saturday night at his home at grizzly peak boulevard an shasta road. he called the case a failure of the mental health system. >> they drug him and let him go again. in and out of the hospital and that's

i'm dan ashley. carolyn johnson has the night off.ow the man shot by oakland police is related to oscar grant, the man killed by bart police. john alston is live with the story you will see. >> police have said nothing about the weekend shooting beyond a press released they issued yesterday and they have not addressed the new information. the man was seriously injured ever after being shot in the grant. >> it emerged from a hospital in oakland after waiting all day to see her son. she says he was shot in the lower back after running from oakland police late on sunday night. >> i talked to my son and my son said mama the officers is lying. they watched me get out the car. they watched me walk, and then they started speeding up. i took off running across the street. when i took off running i heard it go, bow, bow, bow. >> her son is tony jones. she says he is a cousin of oscar grant, the hayward man shot and killed by a bart police officer on new year's day 2009. sunday evening short lebefore midnight, oakland police stopped a car on th

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. he was buried up to his neck, but at least he could breathe. >> that's the only reason he could survive trapped for hours in the dirt. rescuers worked for hours to dig him out. it happened in brentwood. alan wang is there live. alan, what a desperate scene. >> yes, a pretty dramatic scene out here tonight. about two hours ago the front yard of this house was buzzing with firefighters. the neighbors gathered three deep just to watch this rescue. it all ended with a cheering crowd and a man happy to be alive. after more than three hours of constant digging, rescue crews pulled the man from the collapsed trench that almost became his grave. >> the danger is you have all of the weight of the dirt. the dirt out here is a heavy, muddy clay. it is not real light and fluffy sand. it is pretty heavy dirt. >> firefighters say the 50-year-old man from oakland dug a trench 10 feet deep while working on a residential sewer line. it was about 12 feet long and 30 inches wide, but it doesn't appear h

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. the nursing students are in a jam. >> the school they paid thousands of dollars to attend is not legit so, they wasted their time and their money. alan wang is live at the oakland campus. what a shock for them. >> yes, dan and carolyn. we watched the students walk out of the school in total shock. this was the training they needed to get out of their dead end jobs in this struggling economy. about 300 students at the institute of medical education were paying $25,000 to $30,000 for training to be mri and ultrasound seek anythingses. technicians. >> it is very important for me and my family. >> reporter: others were studying to be nursing assistants and dental hygenists, but state regulators are shutting down their hopes for a better future because the school falsely advertised their accreditation. >> i am very, very upset. i only have two weeks of school left. >> reporter: it comes as a shock because the students were told their programs were accredited by the western association of s

jay i'm dan ashley. it is a strange sight you can see behind us. the upper deck is completely free of traffic. >> the approach to the bay bridge from emeryville, traffic is moving in the left lanes. as you can see it is toward oaknd la. the right lanes toward the bridge are blocked. in all, there are five closure points including westbound 80, emeryville's pal street on-ramp, the westbound 580 connector, the northbound 880 connector and the west grand on-ramp. they are all scheduled to stay closed until 5:00 a.m. tuesday morning. ama dates is in emeryville burkts we begin with thomas roman near a deserted toll plaza. >> yes, it is of the carolyn, cal trans says they would have the bridge closed by 8:00. when we saw the last come through the toll plaza, look behind me. there is an army of workers out there tearing up the old roadway. they are trying to beat the clock and the weather to get the approach to the new bridge done on schedule. bay bridge traffic started to slow to a trickle before 8:00. the last car passed through at almost exactly 8:00.

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. our other top story, the weather. >> a powerful storm is sweeping into the bay area. it is pouring in san rafael where you can see sheets of rain coming down. >> and you will need chains if you are headed to the sierra. the storm could drop as much as four feet of snow before it is all over. >> now certainly a welcome sight for the ski resorts. they have been operating on a meager three feet of snow during this very dry winter. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here with doppler 7hd for us. >> carolyn and dan, let's show you doppler 7hd, it has become more active as the night pro tbressed. rainfall has been coming into the bay area, and as we go to the north bay that's where it has been raining. reports of rain to san rafael on twitter, and there is heavy rain beginning to move in between ukiah and cloverdale. we will take you down to the street level where mountain house road is getting pretty wet here. we do have some moderate to heavy rainfall there and check out what live doppler

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. it is all happening in castro valley where a ploorve -- a police officer was badly hurt. >> the man responsible was shot moments later. you can see what was happening on grove way and center street earlier tonight. the traffic was stopped as police swarmed in. leslie brinkley has more on the latest. >> the alameda county sheriff's department says a suspect backed into an undercover over. officer. they tried to make a vehicle stop here about six hours ago. they say the suspect may have used his vehicle as a weapon basically. so far they have not found a gun in the suspect's car. here is what happened. several berkeley police officers were following up on a criminal investigation and were tailing a suspect. at 5:00 they did a vehicle stop at grove way in castro valley. the suspect's car is red and the undercover vehicle is silver. >> they are in unmarked cars. it looks like maybe they came out of the car and somehow engaged the suspect and somehow during that time the officer was pinned

good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> we brought thu story last night when police would not allow his motherattorney into the hospital. tonight police tell us his story is just that. a story. and abc 7 is live at police headquarters in oakland for us. laura? >> i'm here at the hospital where tony jones is in stable condition. as for police, they're letting charges against tony j

. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> beginning with developing news on the capture of a disturbed assault suspect. >> the 32-year-old was released from the hospital after his arrest on a dil charge. >> abc 7's vic lee is live where hernandez is now in custody. >> police tell me they caught hernandez driving a car here in hayward, all of this happened in the last hour and a half, he was brought here to the hayward police station at 5:00. now, the p 2-year-old domestic violence suspect first arrested on saturday night, when he tried to break into his former girlfriend's apartment in hayward. a neighbor told me he appeared to

. >> i'm dan ashley.ne system needs updating. >> the disaster 16 months ago exposed many problems and sparked new regulations and changes are coming up. advocates argued today that pg&e needs to pay. abc 7 is live from the public utilities commission hearings with the story for us. >> pg&e first filed it's proposal in august. politicians and consumer advocates didn't like it much then, now, they don't and they're increasing volume of their criticism. the deadly 2010 pipeline disaster revealed a long list of safety f

. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> and we begin tonight with an apartment complex in mountain viewd by flames. >> several units caught fire today. and firefighters raced to put it out. abc 7 is live on the scene for us tonight. >> right. the fire is under control. there is still a little bit of panic on the street. parents coming to bik up -- pick up their children seeing commotion and worried. let's take a look. some of the video that sky 7 captured earlier. this fire was at the dana gardens apartment and broke out around 3:30 this afternoon, you can see flames shooting up through the roof.