i'm kate larson, "abc7 news." >> kate, thank you.e first sent out the alert about this breaking news at 10:38 this morning. to receive news updates and alerts like this one, enable the push alert feature. >>> new at 11:00, a mother and 2-year-old toddler are safe after a stranger tried to grab the child on the streets of san francisco. cornell bernard spoke with a good samaritan who helped stop the man. he joins us live now from the castro district. cornell? >> reporter: eric, that incident happened on 17th street in the middle of the day. that good samaritan stopped the suspect from running away. >> it's probably a combination of adrenaline and fatherly instinct. >> reporter: adam walker said it happened so fast. friday, he and his wife were walking with their son, leo, when they passed a mother with her young son. shortly after we walked by, we heard her screaming, yelling for police, for help, saying someone had taken her child. >> reporter: 34-year-old roscoe holyoak grabbed the child and started running. >> he put the toddler do

. >>> i'm kate larson. after 45 years beach bab lon announced they are closing. >>> live, where you live, this is "abc7 news." >>> the nationwide measles outbreak is hitting home tonight, this time in silicon valley. >> public health officials confirmed a person with the disease visited google's campus. amanda del castillo has late details. amanda? >> reporter: health officials say they've had four confirmed cases of the measles so far this year. all unrelated, all separate from this latest scare t google. the investigation into the meese lts exposure now scans two counties. >> it's not a case in santa clara county. i can confirm the case is an adult and they're a resident of the county. >> reporter: an email claimed a worker who had been to the company's 1295 charleston road building was diagnosed with measles. central location falls in santa clara county. health officials are conducting contact investigations. >> these contact investigations, we're trying to understand is there anybody who might have been

kate larson is live in pacifica. kate? >> caller: the whale here is about a mile north of the pier here on a rocky beach. biologists in the bay area are concerned about the gray whales which are turning up too thin in their migration. a gray whale washed ashore here tuesday. as the tide came in, water crashed over the animal, which biologists anchored to the beach. >> we're looking out, and we just saw this big massive body. >> reporter: this family just arrived from las vegas for a vacation. they discovered the whale on the beach below their camp site. >> i don't know what happened. >> i fear there's a lot of pollution in the ocean. >> reporter: this is one of five dead gray whales found in the bay area this year. this 1-year-old male was found two weeks ago. after floating in the bay f days, sky 7 found this gray whale had finally washed ashore tuesday in richmond. >> right now, it's the great whale migration, so they're going north towards alaska. >> reporter: she says there has been an increase in stranded whales turni

live in san francisco, i'm kate larson, abc7 news. >> okay, kate, thank you. a san francisco police are asking for your help to track down a dangerous dog. police say the dog bit two middle schoolers at joe di maggio playground. it was during a school p.e. assignment. they did not provoke the dog. the dog is large and white with black and gray colored spots, apparently. its owner is described as a white woman in her 30s wearing a white shirt and last seen wearing a purple vest. police want to find the dog to get information about its vaccines, of course. the two schil children achildre from their wounds. >> in the south bay, the city of san jose is struggling to find money to keep its parks in shape. >> that's right. as abc7 news reporter amanda dell castillo explains, the problem is so bad many play grounds could be shutdown. >> reporter: quin and his son raj early spent the afternoon at the park in san jose. >> we have to be out. i don't like them in the house. there's school, there's sports. that's it. >> reporter: on the other end, a glimpse of what the ci

kate larson is live in pacifica. kate?ller: the whale here is about a mile north of the pier here on a rocky beach. biologists in the bay area are concerned about the gray whales which are turning up too thin in their migration. a grayle asidein, wer animnchored to the beach. >> we're t, and just saw this tsve . discovered thehale onw their c. >> i fear there's a lot of pollution in the ocean. >> reporter: this is one of five dead gray whales found in the bay area this year. this 1-year-old male was found two weeks ago. after floating in the bay for days, sky 7 found this gray whale had finally washed ashore tuesday in richmond. >> right now, it's the great whale migration, so they're going north towards alaska. >> reporter: she say inease inu bay area this year. >> three out of the four whales we have examined so far died of mall knnutrition, so there's gog going on to cause them not to find the right food. so whether the oceans are warming, not enough food source material, something along those lines. >> reporter: alaska

kate larson, abc7 news. >>> in the east bay, a family is grieving tonight and they're angry. loved one one of three people please believe was killed by stefan jefferson. investigators say he shot and killed man in oakland, san francisco, and likely berkeley friday. spotted in south lake tahoe and arrested in nevada. j jobina is live with more. >> reporter: jefferson made first appearance in nevada carom this morning, basically said he was sorry. made other comments that had some questioning state of mind right now. families on both sides of the bay are devastated. making a surprising move in nevada courtroom monday, apologize. >> first i want to apologize to the city and everybody involved. i want to apologize to everyone, i was born in america, a free man. >> accused of killing three people both sides of the bay and shooting deputy across state lines, all in a single day. >> please forgive me, my intentions were never to hurt anyone. >> reporter: words not enough. primary suspect in murder of her youngest brother. >> why him? why come up and shoot him like this? i wants to k

. >> kate larson in san francisco, new surcharge for the environment coming to restaurant and receipt near you. abc7 news starts right >>> good hearted person, kind hearted, soft spoken. he doesn't believe in violence. >> tonight we are hearing from shocked family members of the plowing his car into pedestrians in sunnyvale. >> police want to charge isaiah peoples with eight counts of attempted murder. say there's no indication of terrorism. >> cornell spoke with the families. >> reporter: peoples' family can't believe he's capable of violence. say he's a troubled iraq war veteran. >> never been in any trouble, arrested, to jail. >> mother of suspect isaiah peoples never imagined something so horrible would involve her son. 34-year-old peoples is suspected of driving into pedestrians thursday night injuring eight people. brother says iraq war veteran, treated for ptsd. >> gone because was battling mental issues because he didn't take the medicine he had for ptsd. >> reporter: joshua says brother was also treated at mental hospital years ago. >> thinking that the government was listeni

i'm kate larson. abc7 news starts right now. >> so they had 550 votes in their fare. >> i think it was wrong. >> reports of massive election fraud in the east bay. not in the city but a school. >> two students in hot water for trying to rig their very own election. >> hive at berkeley hive with the details. >> it is quite a story. berkeley made the move from paper ballots to electronic ones. students were promised a fair and honest election. but it didn't work out that way. >> the movie election showed how fiercely competitive high school elections can be. >> i think it was reckless and wrong. >> students are buzzing about their recent election which ended in large scale voter fraud. >> they had 550 fraudulent votes in their fare. >> school officials say two candidates logged themselves into their classmates email accounts, casting vote in their favor using a default password most every student knows. >> they were working hard. >> i don't think somebody would do something like that on purpose. >> the

. >> kate larson is live in fremont with the story tonight. kate?rter: when i met frederick on sunday he was not only physically beat up, he was just emotionally wrecked after getting attacked for defending a fellow fremont waiter. well, tonight he may still be injured but his faith has been restored after an outpouring of support from the community. >> this is frederick. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> reporter: with tears in his eyes and gratitude written all over his face frederick met the doctor while on face time. while on vacation the palo alto dentist saw his story after someone attacked him outside of this fremont dennys. she found me on twitter and made a very generous offer to frederick. >> we promise frederick is going to have the best smile. so whatever it takes to get his smile back, we guarantee to make sure that he's happy, free of charge, of course. >> it fills my heart with so much joy and love and hope where can't express my thanks to everybody enough for what's happened. >> reporter: on sunday morning while waiting for his foo

live in san francisco, i'm kate larson, abc 7 news. >> thank you. let's go to the south bay now and a really tragic story. a 3-year-old boy is dead, his own grandmother in jail accused of murder. abc 7 news reporter amanda decostillo live with the story tonight. the little boy later died. his grandmother was then arrested wednesday night in san jose. a family is mourning the loss of a 3-year-old boy. police say he was under the care of his grandmother at the time. >> unfortunately, this little boy died, and we had to take the grandmother into custody. >> reporter: police say the incident happened monday afternoon on the 700 block, officers responded to a 911 call. they found the boy unresponsive. >> our officers tried every possible method to try to preserve his life. >> reporter: the county coroner says the boy was strangled. on wednesday the grandmother the 70-year-old was booked into jail for homicide and child abuse. back in the gated communty say it's tough to imagine such tragedy could happen so close to home. >> generally it's pretty pleasant

live on knob hill, kate larson, abc 7 news. >> thank, kate. >> new at 6:00, a ring camera records its own demise. this video was shared and they are hoping that someone recognize the man who pulled the video doorbell off a home early saturday morning. happened on lafayette street. if you recognize that suspect, call police. >> a number of people injured when e-cigarette batteries explode is soaring. that's according to federal regulators. >> the abc 7 news i-team has a story of a sonoma county man badly burned by a blast last month and we investigate what appears to be causing this to happen. >> purchased, registered and confiscated. a bay-area man has his truck taken >> that's where it blistered the pocket. >> a sonoma county man recalled a close call when a battery from his e-cigarette exploded in his pocket. >> and that construction worker suffered severe burns to his leg but research from across the country shows even more serious injuries. even death associated with these exploding batteries. >> they are wild. the i-team's dan noyes has been investigating what's happening. >> the

kate larson explains. >> reporter: we're a long way from westeros on the uc berkeley campus, but rightare the origins for the languages you here on "game of thrones." >> i took arabic, french, middle egyptian heiroglyphs. >> reporter: but for all the languages he studied, he is known for the languages he creates. that's dathraqi peter invented dathraqi for a "game of thrones" language competition. >> you are my sun and stars, and the response to that is you are the light of my life. >> reporter: the hbo series with a worldwide cult following is based on the book series. >> i wanted to look as if my language existed before he ever wrote the books. as if he had taken my language and used it to translate the stuff into the books afterwards. >> it's not just a few words, it's an entire lexicon with its own syntax. >> reporter: she and other l ing uistic students come to the c the campus where they are clearly inspired. >> he is the only one who can make a living at this, basically creating another career. >> reporter: he hopes someday to help other ling uists enter the creative world. >> y

kate larson explains. >> reporter: we're a long way from westeros on the uc berkeley campus, but rightthe origins for the languages you hear on "game of thrones." >> i took arabic here, i took russian, i took french, i took middle egyptian heiroglyphs. >> reporter: but for all the languages he studied, david peterson is known for the ones he creates. that's dothraki, a language first introduced in season 1 of "game of thrones." and valyrian, which speaks in episode 3. >> reporter: peterson invented dothraki for a "game of thrones" language competition. >> you are my sun and stars, and the response to that is, you are the moon of my life. >> reporter: the series is based on the book series. >> i wanted it to look as if my language existed before he ever wrote the books, as if he had taken my language and used it to transition the books afterwards. >> it's an entire language with its own syntax. >> reporter: she was a senior at uc berkeley. she and other lynguists watched the series with peterson, who sometimes comes to the college and meets the students who are inspired. >> he's the onl

kate larson is live with local reaction. > reporter: first elected to city council in dublin in 2010, two years later he was selected to congress, beating 20-term incumbent pete stark. now eyes on the white house. >> i'm ready to solve these problems, i'm running for president of the united states. >> monday night the late show with stephen colbert tlt, entered the race for the white house. >> boy did it feel great to say that. >> reporter: born in iowa, grew up in dublin, california, one of 18 democrats running in crowded primary field. >> he's going to have to do something different than the other candidates, figure out way to stand out. >> reporter: met swalwell when he was running to represent the 15th district in the east bay. >> like he's hands on with the community. >> reporter: chad has lived in livermore whole life and doesn't think he has name and recognition. >> i know he's represented the area but don't know a lot about his politics exactly. >> promise of america. >> gun shop in town that would be open to talking to me. >> reporter: talked about climate change and gun cont

kate larson has one mother's success story. >> i had my son when i was 16. >> she then married her son'sr. that relationship did not turn out as expected. >> it was physically and mentally and emotionally abusive. >> so she filed for divorce. a basic decision that put her in another decision. the brink of homelessness. >> i was working a part-time job and living off basically financial aid. it was just a scary feeling. not knowing what i was going to do. >> she grew up in san francisco was referred to catholic charities. they help her with her rent payments and services which led to a career at sales forceful. >> if i didn't have those resources, i don't know where i would be. >> those resources have been streamlined at three access points. >> we help anyone who walks through the doors. >> eric brown help oversea >> last year catholic charities helped about 1,700 injured and families away from homelessness. >> when there is an opportunity for someone to remain housed in a safe environment, to be prosperous, that's probably the best thing for folks. >> brown hopes more people like andrea

fortunately, she survived and shared her story with abc news reporter, kate larson. >> i just sort ofthing was wrong. >> reporter: elisa rosenthal was in the first trimester of her second pregnancy and was dealing with extreme nausea, weight loss, stabbing pains and some unusual ultrasouth soundnds. >> it really baffled everybody. it's so uncommon. >> reporter: enter dr. fun lamb, an ob/gyn who has been practiced san francisco for over 40 years. >> is this is where experience accounts. >> reporter: he diagnosed her with a molar pregnancy. >> in the united states, it's only 20 women out of 100,000 pregnancies that will be affected. >> i'm so grateful. he mht have saved my life. >> reporter: her molar pregnancy took over the embryo and she lost the baby, but that was just the beginning of her medical journey. >> i don't think i quality grieved, because i was -- i was so afraid of what was going on with my body. >> reporter: after months of improving blood tests, her hormone levels shot up off again. >> hi oncologist said, surgery's off the table, it's on your lungs. you have tumors on y

for more on what's happening, let's go to kate larson in san francisco. >> there is a theme with all of these restaurant closures. labor costs keep rising and customers often don't want to pay higher prices for their food. while deliveries may be convenient for you, they're not great for business. >>> while some restaurants are bustling, others are anything but. in the past few weeks, several san francisco stalwarts have closed or are on the way out. the chef announced her famous fine dining restaurant will close at the end of april, after 21 of award winning food in busy hayes value. around the corner, the cafe closed this week. white paper wraps the windows instead of the sandwiches. in the mission district, blow fish sushi locked up. saying that after 20 years, their sushi concept was actually dead of after 38 years, new orleans inspired elite cafe on fillmore street announced they're closing after easter brunk. >> i hate to hear that a popular brunch spot for me. >> jennifer says she enjoys eating out but also likes to order in. >> i do delivery from local restaurants. >> deliver

kate larson was at that overflow meeting. this may not be the end of the debate, right? >> reporter: dan, that's absolutely right. in fact neighbors who are against the navigation center warned of a legal fight that they intend to take on. and then the port commissioner said tonight at the meeting that this won't be settle here, meaning the meeting. it will be settled in the courts. >> after almost four hours of public comment, the san francisco port commission voted and approved an agreement with the department of homelessness in support of housing to operate a temporary navigation central along the embarcadero. >> i think it will be a good step forward for our efforts to address homelessness. >> he is the director. it will be the seventh in the city located in this parking lot under the bay bridge at beal street. >> this is a good temporary solution to provide a respite from the street and hope play the platform to move beyond homelessness. >> jordan davis was one of dozens of san franciscans who pleaded with them. he now lives in a small unit in the tender loin and cr

kate larson shows us the man's reaction. >> this is frederick. >> hi, thank you so much.is eyes and gratitude written all over his face, frederick ibonie met dr. nidhi pai on face time. the dentist saw the story about how frederick lost three of his teeth after someone attacked him outside this fremont denny's. >> so emotional to see that. i'm really sorry you had to go through this. >> reporter: the pais found me on twitter and made a generous offer to ibonie who doesn't have insurance or the extra money to pay for his treatments. >> we promise frederick will have the best smile, whatever it takes to get his smile back. guaranteed that he's happy free of charge, of course. >> it filled my heart with so much joy. while i hope that i can't express my thanks to everybody enough for what's happened. >> reporter: on sunday morning ibonie stood up for a denny's employee who was being harassed by a belligerent customer. the customer punched ibonie leaving him with a broken nose, palate and teeth. these are security photos of the suspect who fled the scene after attacking ibonie

. >>> kate larson smoke with marine mammal experts about this. she's live tonight. >> reporter: actually just learned of a third dead gray whale here in the bay area. it is hard to spot, but then there's also one on the coast in pacifica and take a look, there is a third dead gray whale in richmond right now. sky 7 spotted the whale in richmond today. researchers at the marine mammal center looked at our video and say the whale is very decomposed and bloated. they say the whale was floating around angel island for a few days over the weekend before it watched up in richmond today. over in pacifica along the coast sky 7 just shot this video of another gray whale which researchers were able to anchor in the water near the rocks. right now gray whales are migrating up to alaska. biologists up and down the coasts are seeing a lot of skinny whales this season. >> three or four whales we've necropsied have actually died of malnutrition. so whether it's the ocean's warming, not enough food source material, something along those lines. >> reporter: now,