nbc bay area's elise kirschner joins us. elise? >> this is a very busy street. the woman was dragged down fair oaks behind me, and that's where she was brutally raped. >> this is where i guess some of the blood spilled from the victim. >> it happened to fast, no one heard her screams. >> i came out with the dog to maybe 15 minutes after it happened to crime scene tape. >> the woman's blood was washed off the street in the noe valley neighborhood, but people are still shaking, especially as details are emerging about the attack. >> i was shocked and scared. >> reporter: within hours of the brutal rape on thursday morning, a neighborhood group sent out this e-mail, describing how a man grabbed a woman from behind on 24th street, allegedly broke her neck, raped her on the less traveled fair oaks street and then robbed the victim. it all happened right in front of anderson's front door. >> not what you like to hear. not in your neighborhood, not in front of your house, and certainly not when you feel safe. >> in a surveillance video, this man attacked another woman

elise kirschner is there on the site. as you saw the protesters have not arrived at the shipping area yet but they are en route. of course, we're going to continue to cover that for you and we'll have more on nbcbayarea.com as soon as they arrive. we'll take you back to that scene. >>> in other news the coast guard says the oil spill from a sunken tug boat in richmond doesn't appear to be threatening wildlife. the sunken tug is located at ship yard number 3 at the end of canal boulevard in richmond. oil response teams used booms and skimmers to keep leaking oil away. no wildfire life has been impacted. saturday the historic naval tug "tiger" sunk for unknown reasons in the richmond harbor, a sensitive bird habitat. >> any sensitive sites that have been predetermined when we work with state fish and game, we try to pool those off as soon as possible. >> the coast guard says it warned the tug boat's owner back in october the ship was unstable. it says the owner, based in greece, has not responded and could face penalties. >

elise kirschner has more on the tragedy. >> his bed was right now and being shot right there. >> reporterwas sleeping in the next room when she heard gunshots ring out early saturday morning. >> i woke up to like at least four to six like gunshot sounds. >> reporter: one of the many bullets passed through this door before striking her father asleep in the front room inside their oakland home. >> i was like dad, dad, are you okay? he was just making noises and he wasn't responding. i was like dad, dad. >> reporter: 46-year-old thorn heath didn't respond to annie or her 13-year-old brother who was also at home. the father of three died in their living room. >> when my mother call me, i pick up the phone and she said my husband got shot. i don't know how. >> reporter: married for 20 years, his wife who was at work at the type of the drive-by, says she doesn't know why their house was targeted. >> my husband never have problem with somebody. >> reporter: but this isn't the first time their oakland home than has been riddled with bullets. >> the third time. >> it's very odd because this block

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