so i want to thank the judges for putting forth david louie as a finalist. for janana hero.wn up with jan. evening magazine from the mid 1970's to the 1990's, all. great wonderful shows that she's sponsored, pacific fusion and others. and you know jan is all around the bay area. all around the san francisco communities. she's helped us on engagement with our public and helping us dialogue with a difficult -- with difficult topics and being moderator or immediate -- mediator and hosted so many nonprofits and being there for every important fundraiser like the ones we've had with kristi yamaguchi and always dreaming foundation and being part of the osaka sister city association, founder member of course, and asian-american journalist association, again, others following her. for david and for jan, if you look at television today, no matter what channel you turn to, there are asian americans on the journalism positions. and i believe and i know it's because of both david and jan's work behind the scenes, in front, bringing just that whole professional care to what they do every

. >> david louie looks into when markets might settle down coming up coming up at 6:30. >> also today m a special weak report on home sales, sales fell down 3.5% in july. and the number of people applying for unemployment rose above 400,000 mark again. the average is at the lowest level since april. in dublin a big housing developer put hundreds of people to work there. >> this is a sweet sound of employment. something mark anderson has been waiting to hear. >> i was out of work, waiting for a job. my union would give me a call to come to work. >> the call finally came on monday. now, what comes next for this apprentice construction worker will be a much-needed paycheck. >> it means everything. like a life safer. >> that life preserver came in the form of a 24 acre housing development built by kabee homes it means it's back to work. >> going to create 800 jobs during this project that. is a lot to say in this period of our history. money is so tight. unemployment is high. >> this new community of nearly 400 homes is doing more than providing jobs. but a development finally opened, hal

david louie, "abc 7 news." >> cities are huts go so are families.d pantries for help is increasing. monument crisis center in contra costa county is one agency providing invaluable service. >> when they opened eight years ago, executive director never imagined would it grow like it has. >> when we started it was very small. 84 families, now it's 9,500 that are registered here. >> in many ways it's a sign of bad economic times but an example of the center's commitment. a chef who was recently laid off says the center has helped him in many ways. >> these people are helping me. gave me a job and also helping me for food for the family. >> a service provider for another local nonprofit. it uses the service to help clients. she says the population has evolved over the years. >> it changed dramatically because of the economy and because the crisis was growing. >> the crisis center wouldn't be what it is today without the dedication of staff and countless volunteers who worked here through the years. >> just wanted to help people to get fed and clothed wh

. >>> david louie is live in redwood city with an analysis of the announcement. >> analysts say the company had very innovative technology but like most high-tech start-ups there was built of risk involved. president obama did visit the company in may last year to check out the automated assembly line that was built by $535 million in taxpayer money. it was part of the federal stimulus program, giving the government a stake in the success. investment has gone sour. private investors have also lost their money. the company used only 1% or 2% in standard solar panels and when prices spiked that gave them a big advantage. >> investors and entrepreneurs might have misappropriately thought the price would stay high but like any commodity the price dropped and the price fluctuates. and they were caught in that vice in having to keep up with chinese and american vendors who were riding the price of silicon low. >> a kilogram costs as much as $475 in 2008 but it has fallen to $51 today or even $45 in the futures market. as part of the bankruptcy filing they say they will try to put the company up f

in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >>> in the golf course to the parks.ext year, dozens of state park facilities will be shut down around california. victims of a $23 million budget cut. a san francisco photographer decided to show the closing parks to remind us of what we are losing. eric thomas has tonight's assign mint 7 report. >> reporter: at the state park in marin county, san francisco's elia salub is on a mission. to take photos of the 70 state parks and beaches proposed for closure because of budget cuts. >> when i heard they were closing, i was leak i have to see all these places. >> he hopes to raise awareness by posting photos on his website closing, california parks.com. the governor and legislature say the close eggs are necessary to cover the two year, $22 million cut in the state park's budget. the plan was passed in march and the parks are slated to close next july. >> see a place like this and it just, i don't know, i can't imagine it not being some where where everyone can come. >> reporter: but park officials say they are left with no

. >>> david louie is live in redwood city with an analysis of the announcement. >> analysts say the company had very innovative technology but like most high-tech start-ups there was built of risk involved. president obama did visit the company in may last year to check out the automated assembly line that was built by $535 million in taxpayer money. it was part of the federal stimulus program, giving the government a stake in the success. investment has gone sour. private investors have also lost their money. the company used only 1% or 2% in standard solar panels and when prices spiked that gave them a big advantage. >> investors and entrepreneurs might have misappropriately thought the price would stay high but like any commodity the price dropped and the price fluctuates. and they were caught in that vice in having to keep up with chinese and american vendors who were riding the price of silicon low. >> a kilogram costs as much as $475 in 2008 but it has fallen to $51 today or even $45 in the futures market. as part of the bankruptcy filing they say they will try to put the company up f

david louie is live with the story tonight. david? >> well steve jobs has been on a medical leave since the first of the year but neither he nor the company have been willing to say what the medical condition s that has led to speculation. with today's surprise announcement, the company made it clear it was prepared for this day. now jobs has been apple's front man for years. the public face of a company with loyal customers. his key note speeches at conferences inspired them to create applications to run on ipads, and mac computers. he built apple into a best known brand recommending his number-two executive tim cook succeed him. the board agreed. there are now concerns whether he can fill steve jobs' shoes with the same style. >> tim cook could never do what steve jobs did for apple. i don't see him as the kind of person that can have the focus whurk look at steve jobs he's a different kind of leader. he's not just a business person. he's someone who really thinks about the human experience and tells you what you want to think. >> a

david louie explains why. >> two years ago, child psychiatrist went on trial charged with molesting youngoys he was treating. the trial ended in a hung jury. plans for a new trial have been derailed because the prosecutor and defense attorney decided he is not mentally competent. its a painful development for victims who don't want to be identified. we'll call this man clark. he said he was molested as a teen-aged patient. each session, the sokt doctor would use a phrase you know the drill. the drill remove pants and under wear and sit on a chair in front of him, naked from the waist down. >> victims tell us they don't believe he has demenia. this is a under cover video showing him having lunch on thursday, in san francisco. >> he discussed everything from the iowa straw polls to the future of the republican party. he talked about a business venture in the 1980s, talked about how he's going to have to go to court. >> the district attorney thinks this video is inconclusive. >> my view is that it shows someone still engaged in some aspect of live. but it doesn't change the fact that he is s

in palo alto, david louie abc 7 news. >> and just head here tonight, 7 on your side's michael finney. >> investigating the attorney whose advice landed clients in jail. >> and martin luther king got arrested and so did other world leader that's turned out to be right in the end. >>> a southern california attorney is facing felony charges tonight and could wind up getting disbarred. >> he advised clients to break into their former homes after losing them to foreclosure. >> michael finney has the story. >> going to precipitate an armed conversation. >> i'm going force an armed confrontation. >> and this was reported in san diego. our sister station on hand in october. he and his family break back into their foreclosed home. it's the same thing this 75-year-old woman he says he told her to do, too. the police department ended up hauling ursula away in handcuff autos just humiliating. i can't believe what's happening. so inhuman. >> you can see bruising. he has been arrested numerous times for trespassing and confronting security guards while helping his clients break into their old homes

david louie talked to some of them. >> dead body of a 52-year-old woman discovered inside of this garage friday. police say this was a had many side. then, someone tried to set the house on fire twice. neighbors say they've seen trouble brewing here. squatters have taken over the house them called police. >> you call police z making claims but they don't do much. they kind just came here and kicked them out. as soon as they left, they came back, again. >> police are well aware of the house. they've responded 10 times on the past two months making arests for weapons possession. people in possession of, or under the influence of illegal drugs, prostitution, theft of services, and receiving stolen property. officers responded again today, we found people trying to break into the burned out garage apartment where the body was found this, prompted police to put up crime scene tape to keep people waichl a neighbor said prostitution activity was blatant. >> i see the front of my house, condoms to people doing bad things in front of the house. in the night time. i see all of the people walking a

and david louie is live in a goodwill for us. >> making ends meet has never been more challenging. thrift shops offer bargain prices and consignment shops offer a chance to raise cash from things they no longer need. both are bright spots in an otherwise fragile economy. more kinds of people are showing up at thrift shops. each in search of bargains to help them cope with the economy. sales reflect demand. >> our increases this year about plus 22% year to indicate. -- date. >> michael fox is president and ceo of goodwill of silicon valley. sales last month at 17 stores totalled $1.6 million. christine is looking for job interview clothes. >> you need a top here for $8 that at talbots would be $50. >> goodwill has been remodeling stores to make them more inviting. aisles are wider, there are music videos playing and new merchandise is added daily. it's become a life safer for unemployed and financially stressed. and mom pass a kid shop in search of children goods to save money. >> we're seeing an uptick of people wanting to shop which is good, i think with this will help realize may

david louie says that was the focus today. >> they're a team of all stars, tapped by the proz adviseconomy in gear. and this is including cheryl sandberg. however, as investor founder points out, washington has been preoccupied. >> time and attention in washington and this needs to shift to jobs and economy, hopefully, people will get a few weeks of vacation ask come back in september that. will be the main event. >> these presidential advisors gathered and hammered away at cuts in education, embracing entrepreneurs and job creator autos this next wave of social, local innovation of entrepreneurs everywhere trance forms businesses, i think, has great opportunity. >> this venture capitolist at kleiner perkins says innovation drives job growth here. >> there is a giant campus next door so we can continue to grow. >> if you think they never lead to anything, news today disproves that. there is a way to keep immigrant entrepreneur ndz the u.s. after finishing studies, those with a half million dollars or more to fund a start up who will create at least 10 jobs can apply for a special gre

the area expected homes and businesses and david louie is there and joins with us more, david? a really highly unusual situation. that is when pg&e says. some tree limbs fell on power lines. it ended up with a huge power surge that damaged a a.ply yenss inside of the houses. and now, pg&e is saying they have much more work still to do. pg&e crews have been going door to door, replacing electrical meters damaged by the powerful surge. residents were startled and four kilo volts of electricity coursed through lines. >> that there just blew up. >> with a flash? >> there was a bright flash. brighter than it would usually be. >> tv sets were damaged and stanley parker was watching tv at the time. >> it is just smoking. too much feed in the tv. then, fuse boxes. everywhere, going out. just over loaded amps in the house. and this is like spot lights. >> pg&e says tree limbs created a surge. and checking and circuit breakers didn't trip and a surge can cause wide spread damage. >> and what they can do is overload a meter, you're get morgue electricity than normally would go into a home

abc 7's david louie joins us now from menlo park. david?s here at the geological survey say it's no surprise the virginia earthquake was felt far and wide. the soil is such as rocks transmit energy created easily. and washington, d.c., portions of it are built on former swampland. seismologists say the earthquake was centered in a ribbon of faults between blue ridge and smoky mountains and coastal plain. energy released was felt hundreds of miles away, interrupting a news conference, emptying high rises. people feared it was a terrorist attack. >> i've been through earthquakes in seattle. >> a building partially collapsed in baltimore, sending bricks flying. and the epicenter was shallow, about four miles down. the force triggering this event came from far out at sea. walter moony is a seismologist. >> the energy that caused this earthquake actually is in the middle of the atlantic ocean at new atlantic ridge there. is a push coming from the mid atlantic ridge, opening even to

. >> and david louie is live with a look at what they're planning to construct. >> this is only an empty lot, but architects have a vision out whaft stadium is going to look like. taking into account the climate, views of the hills and a better experience for fans. >> this is not candle stick. the new stadium has been designed to bring fans on top of the action and this is like college stadium z premium club swoouts on the west side. >> some stadiums isolate fans. and they want this to be about an enhanced fan experience. >> and the national design director designed a stadium for broncos. fans will enter via escalators. the terrace features a grand panorama of the playing fields. the seats will be in two shades of red, reflecting colors of wine. the stadium will have plazas and glassed in vending areas so fans won't miss game action. a a.top the suites will be a green roof. >> people goring to be able to go to the roof deck. there is a garden there with regional species. water resistant and natural grasses that don't need to be watered artificially. rain water will be fine. it's shaded b

today going for more than $1700 an uns, up $68 just since friday, coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00 david louie takes a look at the other presumably safe havens for investors now. >> and brazen shooting on a busy street this afternoon left a 3-year-old boy dead this, happened in east oakland at 64th and international boulevard out sifd a little ceasear's pizza shop and near a lockwood school. witnesses reported hearing nearly a dozen shots fired. and police are still looking for those responsible. and abc 7 is live near the scene for us now. >> this little boy had been in grave condition when taken away from the scene here at about 1:00 this afternoon, he was rushed to childrens hospital that. is where police say he has since died. i want to show you the scene here this, is still a very active crime scene. international blocked off between 66th and 64thth avenues in the middle of the afternoon there. is one word for what happened here today. brazen. witnesses say the 3-year-old boy was sitting in this toy car, being pushed by his family, and was caught in the cross fire. >> this is broad daylig

. >> and that was david louie reporting. state wide hispanic chamber recognizes other minority businesses are hurting as well. they're reaching out to work with african american and asian american small owners to work together. >> and to london nouchl a student attacked said he was shocked to seat video of his apack tackers rifling through his belongings while he bled on the pavement. that video recorded during monday's attack. it's gone viral since then. a group of about 20 teens and preteens surrounded the 20-year-old, grabbing his bike, mobile phone and broke his jaw. others pretended to come to his aid but they were emptying his backpack. >> i feel sorry for them. and this is really sad, amongst them, there were children. it was very sad. >> he was helped by a local woman who brought him into her home. others offered to help replace items stolen from him. police have arrested more than a thousand people since the rioting in london saturday. >> pictures surfacing from a woman who underwent a full-face transplant after bei

david louie abc 7 news. >> thank you very much. and hurricane irene is taking aim at the southeast coast tonight from tip of florida to carolinas, people are preparing for first major hurricane in three years. it's forecast to make land fall this weekend. and irene was down graded today to a category one, but has potential to come ashore saturday, as a category three, that would be the most powerful storm to hit in more than a decade. right now, she was churning through the caribbean. president obama declared a state of emergency in puerto rico. >> and libyan leader muammar gaddafi went on the radio today vowing either victory or marredder dom in his fight to remain in powerful earlier today, rebels stormed the compound, on the radio gaddafi said he withdrew as a tack can i ti cal move after the compound was hit. and rebels have been looting guns from the fortress considering a symbolic victory. the leader's whereabouts are still unknown. >> and investors packed bankruptcy court this afternoon. the crowd spilled into hallways and t

david louie explains how it affects the market. >> it wasn't that many years, that stock transactionsy people using hand gestures, standing in trading pits. then computers took over. latest development in software that monitors company news and can do trades in microseconds. it's called speed trading or high frequency trading. it's put put the market on steroids. speed trainer provides the training to individual investors. >> the volume doubled from where it was a week ago before it hit the markets. i would guess that 70% of that is through trading. >> spikes can be caused by not just money or panic by by the faster speed of training. it takes three microseconds to execute a trade and one microsecond to get data from for a stock. a camera flash takes 1,000 microseconds. >> increase in speed, trading firms are locating their servers right at the exchange and they are using software that detect trends much the way google is able to predict your search. >> it's monitoring whether others are buying or selling. >> people sense the orders out of market they will also back away, as well. is.

more on that from abc 7's david louie. >> reporter: this is what nearly $1 million can create. a new -- $1 billion can create. a stadium that puts fans closer to the field and provides game excitement whether you are in a luckry seat or the new stands. escalators take patrons to a grand terrace. the west seed has a structure that houses a the club suites but most of the seating in the c-shaped stadium is general admission. so stadiums isolate the fans from each other. we have never really wanted to do that. we want this to be about an enhanced fan experience for all patrons. >> tim cahill from hntb architecture points out the mild santa clara weather allows the stadium to have several plazas including the endzones but additional seating can be added if needed for a super bowl. glassed in areas. the seats, by the way are not 49er maroon. they will be two shades of red to reflect california wines. atop the suites a green roof. >> people will be able to go to the roof deck and there is a guard thereby with the existing regional species. water resistant. the rain water will be fine