gerald lindner denies the claims. >>> friends and family members held a somber birthday celebration today for a young bay area woman as she recovers in the hospital from a hit and run accident. >> she's not happy of course to be here but you know she's happy to be alive, she's very thankful to god that she made it this far and i know she's going to pull through. >>> 19-year-old erica luna was hit by a grey or silver suv or mini van on the morning of february 6th. investigators say she was dragged about 2,000 feet on fontane road in east san jose. erica has had four operations and is still undergoing treatment. police released a sketch of the driver last week but say they still need more leads. there's a $6,000 reward for more information for information that leads to an arrest in this case. >>> san jose has a new top cop tonight. the city council unanimously approved the city managers choice of chris moore to take over as police chief. moore has been serving as acting chief when rob davis stepped down. >>> politics are always interesting in san francisco, tonight the progressive party is

father gerald lindner. he's in the news these days because a man who accuses him of molesting him as a boy allegedly assaulted him at sacred heart last year. lindner, it turns out, was also the man who drove the father downtown the day of his death. the last member of the jesuit order to see him alive. >> police ought to ask father lindner about that day, the day of my brother's death. >> but that right now seems unlikely. i talked at length with the san jose police department about their investigation, and they say it was by the book for an apparent suicide. they say if the police department had uncovered any sign of foul play, his death would have been investigates as a homicide, but no such evidence ever came to light. they consider his case with no plans to reopen. >>> here's a look at something we're working on for monday. different cities, different rules. many of us have moved our car o to, just knowing the signs won't tell you. what you need to know. >>> especially monday it is still going to be rai

supporters of william lynch say even though he beat up father gerald lindner, lynch is the victim. lynch say he and his brother were sexually assaulted when they were 7 and 5 years old. lynch does have a pretrial hearing set for this morning. >> a south bay neighborhood is trying to protect his house after a spring of burglaries. they are centered on a number of homes in san jose's ever green area. they are all in a few blocks of each other. the latest happened monday afternoon. the family asked nbc bay area not to identify them. they say the burglars broke in through a bedroom and took lap tops, video game systems and jewelry. >> it's extremely upsetting to think you had somebody walking through your house and touching your things and the kids are frightened now, and my daughter didn't want to sleep in her room last night because this is where they'd come through. >> the family says they will install a security system. the community is talking about setting up a neighborhood watch. >> we have new details about what happened as a man died during a run. bay air firefighters who saw

william lynch is charged with assaulting father gerald lindner at the sacred heart center in los gatos

gerald linder. he says that lindner molested him. father denies the accusations. lynch wants to go to trial so he can raise awareness about clergy abuse. >> lindsay lohan is expected in court again to face charges of stealing a necklace from a boutique. she is pleading not guilty to the theft charges. she claims she borrowed the necklace. if convicted she faces up to three years in state prison. the 24-year-old star has been in jail three times over the past three years on various charges. >> law professors taking the police to task. clark fresh men and the police say they broke the law when they served a warrant at his home. they say he knocked on his door early january 11 and now announcing that they did have a warrant but he says they refused to show it. freshman says that officers made a series of mistakes. >> one, search without a valid warrant, two, not respecting my right to remain silent, not respecting my right to counsel and excessive force handcuffing me when they had five armed people there and i was in a bath robe and shorts. >> he says that the warra