. >> i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. let's take a look at the port of oakland and you can see crews unloading container ships. >> alan wang is live with the story. >> i interviewed the spokesman for the longshoreman and asked if the union accepts responsibility in the blow to california's economy. he essentially said this was something that had to happen. >> there is blame going around. it is part of the democrat tib process. the workers have to have a voice and they have to stand up. >> the port activity is going to be restored to full capacity. a five-year tentative agreement will leave coastal ports and it ends a 9-month labor dispute. california exports like agriculture has been riding on the docks waiting to get out. president obama ordered the labor secretary perez to come to san francisco to intervene. he still has confidence in the arbitration system. >> i think it is an efficient system that works. sometimes it takes too long and in this case it took too long. >> the labor dispute between the long shore men and

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama dates. abc -- i'm ama daetz. lilian kim has the latest. >> ama three southwest flights have been canceled at sfo. at oakland there were five cancellations. southwest grounded 128 of its boeing 737 aircraft after realizing it failed to do a required maintenance check on the stand by hydrolic system. the back up is used to control the rudder if the main system fails. because of this discovery they canceled 90 flights so far. it covers a fifth of the fleet and southwest has roughly 700 planes. the f.a.a. has been notified and the agency says it is working with southwest and boeing to come up with a plan that would allow the planes to operate until the inspections are completed the next few days. until then if you have a southwest flight coming up soon, best to check to make sure it is still a go. oakland international estimates a handful of southwest flights will be canceled tomorrow. we tried to get numbers from mineta san jose but they referred us to southwest corporate headquarters. that's the latest from sfo, li

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. it is a story we first brought you last week on abc news at 11:00. >> that's when a 22-year-old woman turned up at the petaluma police station. she told them she was kidnapped and held captive and beaten and sexually assaulted at a home on stoney point road in unincorporated santa rosa. >> she was held sometime during the holidays and was able to escape when her captors left the door open. they arrested jose angel bough bough -- barellas. he was the mastermind and the one who carried out the uh -- attacks. he is being held on $6 million bail. >> the other two suspects are charged with false imprisonment. all three are being arraigned on friday. the sonoma county sheriff's office says it is an on going investigation and charges could be filed. >> one man is dead and a woman is in serious condition. abc7 news reporter alan wang is live with what police say is normally a quiet part of town. >> and dan and ama the police just started searching the inside of the home. they have a suspect i

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama-daetz. there is disturbing new details about the suspect. alan?> investigators had suspected it this guy had done this before and tonight they say their suspicions were confirmed. meanwhile customers and employees in the store say they were happy to hear of the arrest. the identity of the suspect has not been released, but the alameda county sheriff investigators say they positively identified him on surveillance cameras. they say he is a 33-year-old man who sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl in the toy aisle of the 99 cent only store. we are finding out more of the suspect when investigators hold a press conference tomorrow. reporting live near hayward alan wang abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> and now to the weather. the storm that is set to soak the bay area. let's take a live look from our tower camera. there is no rain just yet but it will be here soon. sandhya patel is tracking the system and she is here with live doppler 7hd. >> the rain that we need and deserve will be here soon. let's look at live doppler 7hd. we have the cloud cover that

. >> and i'm dan ashley. tonight, new damage across the bay area. >> first sandhya patel is tracking the storm right now on live doppler 7hd. sandhya? >> as you look at live doppler 7hd you will see the storm winding down. and we still have some wet roadways but the intensity of the rain has dropped compared to earlier this evening. in the north bay we are seeing some rain. we have had reports of flooding around 10:00 p.m. in mendocino county and highway 175 at the russian river bridge. it is closed due to flooding. there is a flood warning for that river up there in mendocino county. navarro river until 10:00 a.m. it has already gotten up to flood stage and is expected to crest. when you look at the south bay radar returns san jose to gilroy and we are starting to get steady light rain right now around the east foothills area and lightening up considerably san francisco in the east bay. numerous reports of wind damage today. the wind advisory goes until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. we are still talking about gusty wi

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i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama dates. abc -- i'm ama daetz.lilian kim has the latest. >> ama three southwest flights have been canceled at sfo. at oakland there were five cancellations. southwest grounded 128 of its boeing 737 aircraft after realizing it failed to do a required maintenance check on the stand by hydrolic system. the back up is used to control the rudder if the main system fails. because of this discovery they canceled 90 flights so far. it covers a fifth of the fleet and southwest has roughly 700 planes. the f.a.a. has been notified and the agency says it is working with southwest and boeing to come up with a plan that would allow the planes to operate until the inspections are completed the next few days. until then if you have a southwest flight coming up soon, best to check to make sure it is still a go. oakland international estimates a handful of southwest flights will be canceled tomorrow. we tried to get numbers from mineta san jose but they referred us to southwest corporate headquarters. that's the latest from sfo, lil

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i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. it is a story we first brought you last week on abc news at 11:00. >> that's when a 22-year-old woman turned up at the petaluma police station. she told them she was kidnapped and held captive and beaten and sexually assaulted at a home on stoney point road in unincorporated santa rosa. >> she was held sometime during the holidays and was able to escape when her captors left the door open. they arrested jose angel bough bough -- barellas. he was the mastermind and the one who carried out the uh -- attacks. he is being held on $6 million bail. >> the other two suspects are charged with false imprisonment. all three are being arraigned on friday. the sonoma county sheriff's office says it is an on going investigation and charges could be filed. >> one man is dead and a woman is in serious condition. abc7 news reporter alan wang is live with what police say is normally a quiet part of town. >> and dan and ama the police just started searching the inside of the home. they have a suspect i

that is it for this edition of abc7 news. >> i'm ama daetz >> i'm dan ashley.appreciate your time. >> have a great evening, everyone. out how you're doing. you seem a little bit out of it today, even for you. i don't know what's wrong with me lately. i've been spacey and forgetful... but i've been snacking a lot. have you been doing a little bit of this? making turkey shadow puppets? sometimes. mostly when i'm high.

. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. in the east bay. >> investigators work on hercules first homicide in more than two years. they have detained a suspect. >> sky 7 hd shows us police on the scene. witnesses say two men were struggling in front of a home on mair gold place and buttercup court. when police arrived, they found a dead man in the garage and a woman found injured just inside the front door. she's at the hospital in serious condition. the last homicide in hercules was october of 2012. >>> a cab driver beaten badly in peninsula talking exclusively with abc7 news. several people witnessed the attack walked by and did nothing to help. abc7 news reporter vic lee spoke with the victim and has his story tonight. >> reporter: february 15th just after midnight, 60-year-old solomon solomon nyugen was celebrating valentine's day but he did not want the full face shown. >> he came up to the cab saying he had drank a lot. >> reporter: he had a dress shirt in a pink or reddish tie. told nyugen to go to geneva avenue and a

i'm ama daetz. >> i'm dan ashley. he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. here is abc 7 news reporter tiffany wilson. >> reporter: like many young couples, lauren miller and joel ramirez were inacceptable. >> he was the most caring, loving boyfriend i could ask for. >> reporter: they had a routine of texting. this is how he left her december 14th. >> he told me go back to sleep, i love you, i'll text you when i get home. >> reporter: when miller woke up, she realized something was wrong, no text so she drove to his house. >> his car was running and caution tape running across the front street and cops. it just couldn't have happened to a less deserving person. >> reporter: police are coming forward with information about his murder. ramirez unknowingly lived behind a marijuana grow house. investigators believe he was shot by someone connected to that operation. >> we with held joel's name because we knew a killer was on the loose. because we knew joel was not the person intended to be killed and we newerly on in

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jennings. thanks for joining us. hillary clinton talked about equal pay for equal work as she continues raising her profile. in april she spoke at a software conference in san francisco. in july she made the rounds to facebook twitter and google. in october she headlined a conference sponsored by sales force and today in the south bay, so many women came to hear hilary speak, the men's rooms were relabeled as women's rooms. david louie tweeted this picture and video and joins us from santa clara. >> cheryl and dan, mrs. clinton based on the applause from today is in tune with silicon valley on the issue of bay and getter. she could be testing waters to see whether those issues might resonate as she prepares for a yet undeclared candidacy. the women that came to hear her were hungry for inspiration and insight into how they can advance careers while balancing family life and one of the first issues was the gender and pay gap. >> a woman with a bachelor's degree makes 60% less than a man with the same degree. >> report

i'm dan ashley. let's go right to drew tuma and live doppler 7 hd. we've been waiting more than a month for this. >> a lot of us very excited about the rain headed our way. dan this time tomorrow we'll be tracking our first band moving into the north bay. live doppler 7 hd at the moment is quiet and it will be rather active over the next couple of days as not one but a series of storms moves through the area. about 18,000 feet in the atmosphere is where storms gather their moisture and move. that line of arrows is the jet stream. that pretty much dictates where storms go. in the next couple of days, that jet stream will set up shop right over the bay area. our first storm arriving friday into saturday, and then the second storm moves in right on the heels of the first to round out the weekend. so the storm risks we're looking at for this first storm on friday certainly flooding it at a high potential because several inches of rain will fall especially in the north bay. mud and rock slides are possible. so is wind damage. the winds will start to become

. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm katie in for ama daetz. olice roped off several sections. >> alan wang is there live with the latest. alan? >> dan and katie, they just opened up a street behind me. it appears the danger is over. earlier tonight around 8:00 it started out when someone found a suspicious package with wires hanging out of it. they brought in a bomb squad robot and evacuated the building closest to the package c. people came out with their pets and cages and no where else to go. police shutdown a two-block area between mission and valencia from 22nd to 24th street. a lot of people walked out of their homes unaware of what was happening until police success scoterred them out of the evacuation zone. this was a huge two-hour inconvenience for a lot of people. reporting live in the mission district of san francisco abc7 news. >> it sure was. thanks very much. >>> to weather now and a blustery night across the bay area. here is a live look from our roof camera. you can see how the wind has the flags blowing pretty hard. in sausalit

abc7 news anchor dan ashley has the details. >> bay area scientists are constantly traveling the world the mysteries of biology. but even when they find a plant or animal believed to be a new species, it can take years to confirm it. in 2011 abc7 news went along on an expedition to the philippines. that's where one found this weird thing more than 3,000 feet deep in the ocean. >> it's a war eel. >> most of smaller. >> it's three times the lent of the previous known one and larger. it's a lost war eel. >> he was sure he had a new species but the work was just beginning. >> you have to x-ray them because there are no many small bones and vertebrae within the body. >> you also have to to disect the bones in the eel's float to compare them with other known eels. >> here you see the little small teeth within the throat bones. >> add in dna analysis and three years of research and yes, it's a new species. >> you have to know the cast of characters if you want to understand the ecology and the biology of the oceans. >> the eel is just one of 221 new species confirmed by the academy of scienti

abc7 news anchor dan ashley has the details. >> bay area scientists are constantly traveling the worldunlock the mysteries of biology. but even when they find a plant or animal believed to be a new species, it can take years to confirm it. in 2011 abc7 news went along on -- with the academy of sciences on an expedition to the philippines. that's where one found this weird thing more than 3,000 feet deep in the ocean. >> it's a war eel. >> most are a lot smaller. >> it's three times the length of the previous known one and much larger. it's a lot of war eel. >> he was sure he had a new species but the work was just beginning. >> you have to x-ray them because there are no many small bones and vertebrae within the body. >> you also have to to disect the bones in the eel's float to compare them with other known eels. >> here you see the little small teeth within the throat bones. >> add in dna analysis and three years of research and, yes, it's a new species. it's critical to understanding life on earth. you have to really know who is the cast of characters if you want to understand the e

. >> and i'm dan ashley. tonight, new damage across the bay area. >> first sandhya patel is tracking the storm right now on live doppler 7hd. sandhya? >> as you look at live doppler 7hd you will see the storm winding down. and we still have some wet roadways but the intensity of the rain has dropped compared to earlier this evening. in the north bay we are seeing some rain. we have had reports of flooding around 10:00 p.m. in mendocino county and highway 175 at the russian river bridge. it is closed due to flooding. there is a flood warning for that river up there in mendocino county. navarro river until 10:00 a.m. it has already gotten up to flood stage and is expected to crest. when you look at the south bay radar returns san jose to gilroy and we are starting to get steady light rain right now around the east foothills area and lightening up considerably san francisco in the east bay. numerous reports of wind damage today. the wind advisory goes until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. we are still talking about gusty wi

. >> i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. let's take a look at the port of oakland and you can see crews unloading container ships. >> alan wang is live with the story. >> i interviewed the spokesman for the longshoreman and asked if the union accepts responsibility in the blow to california's economy. he essentially said this was something that had to happen. >> there is blame going around. it is part of the democrat tib process. the workers have to have a voice and they have to stand up. >> the port activity is going to be restored to full capacity. a five-year tentative agreement will leave coastal ports and it ends a 9-month labor dispute. california exports like agriculture has been riding on the docks waiting to get out. president obama ordered the labor secretary perez to come to san francisco to intervene. he still has confidence in the arbitration system. >> i think it is an efficient system that works. sometimes it takes too long and in this case it took too long. >> the labor dispute between the long shore men and

i'm dan ashley. larry beil is on assignment. >> i'm aum pla dates. >> another summer-like day in february. taking a live look outside right now where we've set at least one heat record and tied another. >> in san francisco, the unseasonably high temperatures drew hundreds of people out to the embark dera on their lunch breaks. it's beautiful. >>> spencer christian is here with a look at how hot it got today. >> there's a lot of sun to be soaked up today. let's take a look at some of today's highs including records. 77 at san jose, a new record for this date. 73 at moffett ties the record high for this date numerous mid-70s around the bay area. 76 at oakland so far and fremont 74 in san francisco. 81 in santa cruz. live doppler 7 hd you can see hardly a cloud to be found. meanwhile, we still have the beach hazard alert in effect for rip currents, large breakers. looking out over san francisco on this sunny afternoon. mostly clear this evening and mild. cool inland in the early morning hours. warm agai

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. it happened at a school board meeting. >> lilian kim is live tonight with this story. lilian, he was affected. >> dan marin county residents have certainly developed a reputation for being wary of vaccines, but tonight the reid union school district defied the stereo type. >> soon we will say gone with the measles. >> 6-year-old leukemia survivor rett will get his measles shot in a matter of days. it will be one year since his last chemo session and will be finally well enough to withstand the vaccine. >> this is not about rett anymore. it is about the expectant mothers and the babies and the hundreds of kids currently with suppressed immune systems. >> tonight rhett's irnts pa urge the bill for every student vaccinated. no more personal belief exemptions. the only exemption is for kids too sick to get the vaccine. >> the rate of adverse effects from vaccination is much less than the disease itself. >> marin county has the state's highest number of personal belief. 6.5% of all kinderga

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. fremont police are looking for this woman who called herself chrissy. >> alan wang is live with the story. alan? >> dan and ama if there are more victims police think they are too scared or embarrassed to report the crime. now there is a picture of the suspect and police want to know if you know who she is. >> he admitted he solicited a prostitute on a casual encounter website. she e-mailed the picture and says the same woman showed up at his home in the area of fremont. she thinks he drugged him and when he woke up his hands were tied behind his back. three men were in the house and they along with the woman beat him until he told them where his cash and valuables were located. >> it doesn't surprise me. all of these things that are all on-line and you are hooking up on-line you have no idea what you are walking into. >> this man said his friend solicited a prostitute from a similar website that openly advertises for. it -- for it. >> i don't think it is safe. >> and now police want y

. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm katie in for ama daetz. police roped off several sections. >> alan wang is there live with the latest. alan? >> dan and katie, they just opened up a street behind me. it appears the danger is over. earlier tonight around 8:00 it started out when someone found a suspicious package with wires hanging out of it. they brought in a bomb squad robot and evacuated the building closest to the package c. people came out with their pets and cages and no where else to go. police shutdown a two-block area between mission and valencia from 22nd to 24th street. a lot of people walked out of their homes unaware of what was happening until police success scoterred them out of the evacuation zone. this was a huge two-hour inconvenience for a lot of people. reporting live in the mission district of san francisco abc7 news. >> it sure was. thanks very much. >>> to weather now and a blustery night across the bay area. here is a live look from our roof camera. you can see how the wind has the flags blowing pretty hard. in sausali

. >>> i'm dan ashley. for all of us here, we appreciate your time. >>> breaking news this monday night. the next major storm hitting tonight into tomorrow. 20 states, a dangerous morning commute. already tonight, states of emergency. the frozen disaster scene. firefighters battling the blaze and bitter cold. the roof collapsing at a lowe's. the highway pileups. >>> also breaking tonight, the explosion. the train derailment late today. homes evacuated. hundreds sent looking for shelter. >>> the "american sniper" trial. and tonight, for the first time, we're now seeing the accused killer's confession. >>> and, the real money team is back tonight with a real eyeopener. how to save thousands on that car. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a monday night. 90 million americans bracing for

i'm dan ashley and ama is off. a horrifying crash caught on camera. look at these pictures. it reveals a different view of the plane the moment before it went down in taipei. the trans asia flight carrying 53 passengers and five crew members clipped a bridge and crashed into a river shortly after takeoff. the south china morning post says 12 people have died and 30 are still missing. expect the number of dead to go up. rescue efforts are continuing and so far 27 people have been pulled from the plane. the flight was heading from taipei to the out lying island of kinmen when it lost control minutes after takeoff. officials say the pilot tried to control the plane as it was descending and the wings grazed an over pass and partially crushed a taxi. there you can see the result. officials say the plane was less than a year old and completed the latest safety checks just last monday so it was good to fly. last july 48 people were killed off taiwan's coast. obviously we will continue to update this story on air and on-line. you can get breaking news updates anytime on twitter at a

. >>> i'm dan ashley in the abc 7 newsroom.ecided not to charge a suspect in the torso in a suitcase case. new at 5:00, the evidence he says is missing. also -- >> he would say fine you want me to take it down, give me some money. >> the state attorney general goes after a new kind of criminal. she says they're turning humiliation into a commodity. plus, the fox threatening a multibillion dollar project in california. all of that is next when don't wait for awesome... totino's pizza rolls... ...gets you there in just 60 seconds. go bold with flavors that kick. (humming) oh yeah. (humming) they're magically delicious. ha! very funny, kyle. >>> in honor of black history month, we're using our abc 7 news instagram feed to celebrate the amazing people who live where you live. today we honor oakland resident, dr. jewel taylor gibbs and local gibbs. the first african-american to be professors -- at berkeley stanford. check out taylor gibbs new book. destiny's child, memoirs of a preacher's child. she dated martin luther king -- you c

. >> and i'm dan ashley.onight, new damage across the bay area. >> first sandhya patel is tracking the storm right now on live doppler 7hd. sandhya? >> as you look at live doppler 7hd you will see the storm winding down. and we still have some wet roadways but the intensity of the rain has dropped compared to earlier this evening. in the north bay we are seeing some rain. we have had reports of flooding around 10:00 p.m. in mendocino county and highway 175 at the russian river bridge. it is closed due to flooding. there is a flood warning for that river up there in mendocino county. navarro river until 10:00 a.m. it has already gotten up to flood stage and is expected to crest. when you look at the south bay radar returns san jose to gilroy and we are starting to get steady light rain right now around the east foothills area and lightening up considerably san francisco in the east bay. numerous reports of wind damage today. the wind advisory goes until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. we are still talking about gusty wind

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. the three college students all muslim were shot and killed in a quiet neighborhood in chapel hill. >> the suspect, craig hicks is charged with three counts of first degree murder. his wife said he snapped over a parking situation and it had nothing to do with their faith. >> the sister of one of the victims is a doctor at san francisco general hospital. she says the family wants to see it investigated as a hate crime. >> today we are crying tears of unimaginable pain over the execution-style murders of my brother and his bride and her younger sister and best friend. >> tonight a huge outpouring at unc in chapel hill. hundreds turned out to remember the victims and to support the family. >> the vigil was held at sanford. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard was there and joins us live. >> grief and pain and demanding answers on the deadly shooting in chapel hill. about a hundred students gathered tonight by candlelight. it was organized by the islamic society to remember the three muslim

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. is a story we first brought you last week on abc news at 11:00. >> that's when a 22-year-old woman turned up at the petaluma police station. she told them she was kidnapped and held captive and beaten and sexually assaulted at a home on stoney point road in unincorporated santa rosa. >> she was held sometime during the holidays and was able to escape when her captors left the door open. they arrested jose angel bough bough -- barellas. he was the mastermind and the one who carried out the uh -- attacks. he is being held on $6 million bail. >> the other two suspects are charged with false imprisonment. all three are being arraigned on friday. the sonoma county sheriff's office says it is an on going investigation and charges could be filed. >> one man is dead and a woman is in serious condition. abc7 news reporter alan wang is live with what police say is normally a quiet part of town. >> and dan and ama the police just started searching the inside of the home. they have a suspect in c

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama dates. abc -- i'm ama daetz. lilian kim has the latest. >> ama three southwest flights have been canceled at sfo. at oakland there were five cancellations. southwest grounded 128 of its boeing 737 aircraft after realizing it failed to do a required maintenance check on the stand by hydrolic system. the back up is used to control the rudder if the main system fails. because of this discovery they canceled 90 flights so far. it covers a fifth of the fleet and southwest has roughly 700 planes. the f.a.a. has been notified and the agency says it is working with southwest and boeing to come up with a plan that would allow the planes to operate until the inspections are completed the next few days. until then if you have a southwest flight coming up soon, best to check to make sure it is still a go. oakland international estimates a handful of southwest flights will be canceled tomorrow. we tried to get numbers from mineta san jose but they referred us to southwest corporate headquarters. that's the latest from sfo, li

. >> i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. let's take a look at the port of oakland and you can see crews unloading container ships. >> alan wang is live with the story. >> i interviewed the spokesman for the longshoreman and asked if the union accepts responsibility in the blow to california's economy. he essentially said this was something that had to happen. >> there is blame going around. it is part of the democrat tib process. the workers have to have a voice and they have to stand up. >> the port activity is going to be restored to full capacity. a five-year tentative agreement will leave coastal ports and it ends a 9-month labor dispute. california exports like agriculture has been riding on the docks waiting to get out. president obama ordered the labor secretary perez to come to san francisco to intervene. he still has confidence in the arbitration system. >> i think it is an efficient system that works. sometimes it takes too long and in this case it took too long. >> the labor dispute between the long shore men and

. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm katie in for ama daetz. police roped off several sections. >> alan wang is there live with the latest. alan? >> dan and katie, they just opened up a street behind me. it appears the danger is over. earlier tonight around 8:00 it started out when someone found a suspicious package with wires hanging out of it. they brought in a bomb squad robot and evacuated the building closest to the package c. people came out with their pets and cages and no where else to go. police shutdown a two-block area between mission and valencia from 22nd to 24th street. a lot of people walked out of their homes unaware of what was happening until police success scoterred them out of the evacuation zone. this was a huge two-hour inconvenience for a lot of people. reporting live in the mission district of san francisco abc7 news. >> it sure was. thanks very much. >>> to weather now and a blustery night across the bay area. here is a live look from our roof camera. you can see how the wind has the flags blowing pretty hard. in sausali

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. it happened at a school board meeting. >> lilian kim is live tonight with this story. lilian, he was affected. >> dan marin county residents have certainly developed a reputation for being wary of vaccines, but tonight the reid union school district defied the stereo type. >> soon we will say gone with the measles. >> 6-year-old leukemia survivor rett will get his measles shot in a matter of days. it will be one year since his last chemo session and will be finally well enough to withstand the vaccine. >> this is not about rett anymore. it is about the expectant mothers and the babies and the hundreds of kids currently with suppressed immune systems. >> tonight rhett's irnts pa urge the bill for every student vaccinated. no more personal belief exemptions. the only exemption is for kids too sick to get the vaccine. >> the rate of adverse effects from vaccination is much less than the disease itself. >> marin county has the state's highest number of personal belief. 6.5% of all kinderga

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. the three college students all muslim were shot and killed in a quiet neighborhood in chapel hill. >> the suspect, craig hicks is charged with three counts of first degree murder. his wife said he snapped over a parking situation and it had nothing to do with their faith. >> the sister of one of the victims is a doctor at san francisco general hospital. she says the family wants to see it investigated as a hate crime. >> today we are crying tears of unimaginable pain over the execution-style murders of my brother and his bride and her younger sister and best friend. >> tonight a huge outpouring at unc in chapel hill. hundreds turned out to remember the victims and to support the family. >> the vigil was held at sanford. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard was there and joins us live. >> grief and pain and demanding answers on the deadly shooting in chapel hill. about a hundred students gathered tonight by candlelight. it was organized by the islamic society to remember the three muslim

good evening i'm dan ashley. >> i'm amma. take a live look from our exploratorium camera. you can see some of the clouds there moving in. >> 7 news meteorologist sandhya is tracking the storm but that. >> live doppler 7 hd like you haven't seen tonight days. finally seeing some moisture moving in. i'll take you in a little bit closer here and show you where it has been raining. we get some very light rainfall around point arena. ukiah area seeing rape. i had a viewer tweet me it's pouring in mendocino as you can see some yellow showing up there. sea ranch very light returns. flash flood watch up now through 6:00 a.m. saturday. for the north bay creek streams could rapidly rise we look at flooding in poor drainage area mud slide rock slide pretty good possibility and wind advisory tomorrow morning at 4 until 4 saturday. we are looking at gust 50 to 60 miles an hour taking down trees and power lines certainly a possibility. i'll be back with the rainfall estimate look at the second stomach and how they will differ in a few minutes. >> despite the storm warning some people ar

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama-daetz. there is disturbing new details about the suspect. alan? >> investigators had suspected it this guy had done this before and tonight they say their suspicions were confirmed. meanwhile customers and employees in the store say ty were happy to hear of the arrest. the identity of the suspect has not been released, but the alameda county sheriff investigators say they positively identified him on surveillance cameras. they say he is a 33-year-old man who sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl in the toy aisle of the 99 cent only store. we are finding out more of the suspect when investigators hold a press conference tomorrow. reporting live near hayward alan wang abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> and now to the weather. the storm that is set to soak the bay area. let's take a live look from our tower camera. there is no rain just yet but it will be here soon. sandhya patel is tracking the system and she is here with live doppler 7hd. >> the rain that we need and deserve will be here soon. let's look at live doppler 7hd. we have the cloud cover that

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. fremont police are looking for this woman who called herself chrissy. >> alan wang is live with the story. alan? >> dan and ama if there are more victims police think they are too scared or embarrassed to report the crime. now there is a picture of the suspect and police want to know if you know who she is. >> he admitted he solicited a prostitute on a casual encounter website. she e-mailed the picture and says the same woman showed up at his home in the area of fremont. she thinks he drugged him and when he woke up his hands were tied behind his back. three men were in the house and they along with the woman beat him until he told them where his cash and valuables were located. >> it doesn't surprise me. all of these things that are all on-line and you are hooking up on-line you have no idea what you are walking into. >> this man said his friend solicited a prostitute from a similar website that openly advertises for. it -- for it. >> i don't think it is safe. >> and now police want y

. >> i'm dan ashley. we appreciate your time and we'll see you again at 6:00. >>> on this tuesday night, the commuter train collision. the fiery explosion. slamming into a truck on the tracks. the cars flipping. victims treated on the scene and our team is right there. >>> leveled. the neighborhood worried about the smell of gas. workers arriving to investigate. then, the explosion. the workers raced to the hospital. >>> the deadly driving across the south. 12 states covered in ice. the truck dangling from the highway. and tonight, the cruise ships now stuck at sea. >>> under fire. the head of veterans affairs brought in to repair the v.a., now apologizing after saying he served in special forces when he didn't. martha raddatz standing by. >>> and is this the new face on the front lines against isis? the 28-year-old american who left the u.s. to take them on. >> look on that road. you'll see isis flags.

. >> i'm dan ashley. thanks for inviting us into your homes.last look at the 7 >>> the breaking news this tuesday night on that young american woman held hostage. the letter to her parents revealed. the details she shared with her family. was she given away as a bride? and tonight, word isis e-mailed her parents. >>> the new storm coming. the national guard called in. families taking pictures through their windows. snow higher than the first floor. >>> the emergency landing. the plane with no nose gear. passengers racing off. >>> "american sniper." the trial tonight. the suspect and the photos we had never seen before. and, we hear from chris kyle's wife. >>> and tonight, our oscar series, "the contenders." >> i'm batman. >> batman turned birdman. one-on-one with michael keaton, and what he reveals, right here tonight.

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. it happened at a school board meeting. >> lilian kim is live tonight with this story. lilian, he was affected. >> dan marin county residents have certainly developed a reputation for being wary of vaccines, but tonight the reid union school district defied the stereo type. >> soon we will say gone with the measles. >> 6-year-old leukemia survivor rett will get his measles shot in a matter of days. it will be one year since his last chemo session and will be finally well enough to withstand the vaccine. >> this is not about rett anymore. it is about the expectant mothers and the babies and the hundreds of kids currently with suppressed immune systems. >> tonight rhett's irnts pa urge the bill for every student vaccinated. no more personal belief exemptions. the only exemption is for kids too sick to get the vaccine. >> the rate of adverse effects from vaccination is much less than the disease itself. >> marin county has the state's highest number of personal belief. 6.5% of all kinderga

good evening i'm dan ashley. >> i'm amma. take a live look from our exploratorium camera. you can see some of the clouds there moving in. >> 7 news meteorologist sandhya is tracking the storm but that. >> live doppler 7 hd like you haven't seen tonight days. finally seeing some moisture moving in. i'll take you in a little bit closer here and show you where it has been raining. we get some very light rainfall around point arena. ukiah area seeing rape. i had a viewer tweet me it's pouring in mendocino as you can see some yellow showing up there. sea ranch very light returns. flash flood watch up now through 6:00 a.m. saturday. for the north bay creek streams could rapidly rise we look at flooding in poor drainage area mud slide rock slide pretty good possibility and wind advisory tomorrow morning at 4 until 4 saturday. we are looking at gust 50 to 60 miles an hour taking down trees and power lines certainly a possibility. i'll be back with the rainfall estimate look at the second stomach and how they will differ in a few minutes. >> despite the storm warning some people ar

i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. thanks for joining us. right now on jimmy kimmle, david spade. >> have a great weekend and enjoy the oscars. >> have a great night, everyone. >>> welcome to "beyond the headlines," i'm cheryl jennings. today's special roundtable edition celebrates the achievements, history and culture of african-americans in the bay area. now, the month of february has been officially recognized as black history month by every u.s. president since 1976, but we believe this conversation should be shared all year long. today abc 7 news anchor ama daetz is here with local leaders to talk about some of the current issues affecting bay area african-american communities. >> thank you, cheryl. before we begin, one hot issue has been the protests connected to the issue of police brutality between black men and white officers. earlier this year we saw a weekend of demonstrations during the dr. martin luther king jr. holiday. abc 7 news reporter alyssa harrington reported about how lgbt groups and supporters were standing in solidari

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i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. fremont police are looking for this woman who called herself chrissy. >> alan wang is live with the story. alan? >> dan and ama if there are more victims police think they are too scared or embarrassed to report the crime. now there is a picture of the suspect and police want to know if you know who she is. >> he admitted he solicited a prostitute on a casual encounter website. she e-mailed the picture and says the same woman showed up at his home in the area of fremont. she thinks he drugged him and when he woke up his hands were tied behind his back. three men were in the house and they along with the woman beat him until he told them where his cash and valuables were located. >> it doesn't surprise me. all of these things that are all on-line and you are hooking up on-line you have no idea what you are walking into. >> this man said his friend solicited a prostitute from a similar website that openly advertises for. it -- for it. >> i don't think it is safe. >> and now police want y

. >> i'm dan ashley we appreciate your time hope you have a nice evening. this is the "jeopardy!"ent. here is our first group of semi-finalists -- a fifth-grade teacher from queens, new york... a high-school history teacher from redwood city, california... and a middle-school math teacher from saint louis, missouri... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. hi, folks, and welcome to the first of these semi-final games in the teachers tournament. adam, lydia, and erin, very impressive in the quarter-final matches. let's see if they can keep it going today. good luck. here comes the jeopardy! round. and now the categories. first one is... but be careful on that one. ...which is an acronym for "science, technology engineering, and math." all of them coming up. alex: adam, start. stem for $200. adam. what is mechanics? yes. stem for $400. lydia. what is civil engineering? yes. roots for $200, please. lydia. what is cheeseheads? cheesehead. that's right. roots for $400.

good evening i'm dan ashley. >> i'm amma. take a live look from our exploratorium camera. see some of the clouds there moving in. >> 7 news meteorologist sandhya is tracking the storm but that. >> live doppler 7 hd like you haven't seen tonight days. finally seeing some moisture moving in. i'll take you in a little bit closer here and show you where it has been raining. we get some very light rainfall around point arena. ukiah area seeing rape. i had a viewer tweet me it's pouring in mendocino as you can see some yellow showing up there. sea ranch very light returns. flash flood watch up now through 6:00 a.m. saturday. for the north bay creek streams could rapidly rise we look at flooding in poor drainage area mud slide rock slide pretty good possibility and wind advisory tomorrow morning at 4 until 4 saturday. we are looking at gust 50 to 60 miles an hour taking down trees and power lines certainly a possibility. i'll be back with the rainfall estimate look at the second stomach and how they will differ in a few minutes. >> despite the storm warning some people are going

. >> and i'm dan ashley. it's mountain view's biggest employee. 20,000 people work there taking up office space equivalent of that three empire state buildings. and now google is about to make plans for a new headquarters. jonathan? >> google has been spending time here in mountain view city hall finalizing plans for a newer bigger googleplex that will have an impact here on the city of mountain view. but google will have to convince them a new, bigger googleplex is not going to ruin mountain view. >> if google expands it means good things for this gas station. >> more people, more gas we can sell. >> but he's watch the jobs bring high rents. >> one bedroom, $2400, $2700 is hurting many people. >> google dominates the local economy. one city council sounded relieved. >> just glad to have a company that didn't begin with "g". not that we don't love google. but they've become pacman. >> google has been gobbling up mountain view's real estate. now, the search giant wants to build on top of the old one. >> is the

. >> thanks for joining us i'm dan ashley from spencer christian and all of us we'll see you again at 11:00. this is "jeopardy!" please welcome today's contestants -- a location coordinator from palm springs, california... a director of business development from plano, texas... and our returning champion a communications specialist from washington, d.c... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. some folks think that bright people like our contestants tend to be more reserved and kind of laid-back, so it's always a great thrill for me to see players get really excited in a positive manner when they win a match, and that was the case for jose yesterday. he was up for it. he got a great deal of enjoyment out of that, as natalie and richmond will if they replace him as champion. we'll find out at the end of this half-hour. here we go. we start the half-hour with the jeopardy! round and these categories. we'll give you some choices. give us the song title in... alex: jose, you start us. how innovative for $200, please. jos

. >> i'm dan ashley we appreciate your time hope you have a nice evening.