reporting live from lafayette, lesley brinkley, abc7 news. >> very good. thank you. dozens of birds left hopeless tree after a phi cuss tree fell in oakland. they're now in the caring hands of international bird rescue in fairfield. staff are caring for 89 birds and eggs that includes a snowy egret and black crowned night girons, both considered endangered because of climate change making the rescue's mission even more important. >> the youngest of these birds will be in care for six or seven weeks. the oldest, the ones nearest to flenling, meaning there about to fly could be out of here in the next week org two. >> the rescue asked for the public's help. we have a link on abc7 news.com if you would like to donate to the cause. >> it is a good cause. google transformed its moat heavy desert solar farm into a gigantic portrait to honor one of the unsung heroes of the pa pol local mission. it reversed engineered the solar mirrors to freeh reflect the moon's light to the reflect margaret hamilton that by the flight software for the lunar lander to allow humans to land o

i'm lesley brinkley, abc7 news. >> lesley, thanks so much. on a related note, faith leaders and it cantivists with the rapid response network spread the word about support services available to santa clara county residents. >> our focus is helping people from the faith community perspective is letting people know not to bury their hands in the sand bud to know your rights, speak from a place of power and not panic. >> the trump administration will not will not terrorize this community. you have a lot of advocates here not only locally but nationally. >> in san francisco, religious action groups converged on i.c.e. headquarters. the demonstrators included japanese americans interned during world war ii and survivors of the holocaust. 97-year-old ben ste'7"-year-olde us his tattoo from the ausz witnesses vacation camp and says he doesn't want to see families separated the way they were in nazi germany. >> because i want to pour out my heart in support of the and the children. >> the interfaith group called for an end to detention camps and raid

today abc7 news reporter lesley brinkley got a better idea how that app works. >> get around is a bit like airbnb for your car. >> rick benson took us for a spin in his 2018 audi convertible but listed on the app for a year. >> people can rent it online and use it and helps me cover my payment. >> reporter: get to envoy your convertible. >> when i'm home and other people pay for it when i'm not. >> reporter: it rents for 1 under a day up to 150 on weekends. i called the get around customer happy line. you unlock it with the cell phone. the keys are locked inside the vehicle. no need to meet the owner. in fact, you can pick up the cars along a street or in a parking lot anywhere anytime. traditional car rental companies only rent to drivers 25 and older. get around rent to drivers 19 and older unless it's a special car. a tesla model 3 like the one in the pedestrian accident is not a specialty car. thus the 21-year-old driver had access to it. benson says he's had plenty of problems. >> i had a gentleman rent my car on a tuesday. and get arrested unbeknownst to me on wednesday for iden

lesley brinkley, abc7 news. >> absolutely. thanks. i was in the kitchen and i felt it. >> really? >> always a good reminder to be prepared. the seismograph recorded theers quake what you see back there, it happened on a fault line that few of us knew about. >> let's bringing in meteorologist sandhya patel for more on that. >> dan and kristen, let's take a look at this earthquake. we saw multiple earthquakes happen this afternoon in the east bay and as we take a look here, those earthquakes were of magnitude 4.3 at 1:11 followed bid two aftershocks. they're on a fault line not many know about, the greenville fault. on the west side is the calaveras fault. the greenville fault is not known unless you live in the area. today's earthquakes, shaking intensity was felt all the way towards the north bay, parts of the north bay, peninsula towards the south bay. certainly the strongest shaking was in and around the earthquake zone. dan and kristen? >> sandhya, thank you. >> the last significant quake on the greenville fault line was in january of 1980. some of the worst damage from that 5.

news reporter lesley brinkley was in court. >> reporter: for a second day, ghost ship founder derick almena took the stand in his defense. he pulled a list out of his jacket, a handwritten list his lwyer tony sarah says he made while sitting in jail for 2 1/2 years. on the list, names of dozens of city officials he said walked through the warehouse, including 16 visits by 28 police officers. and 13 members of oakland fire department who he testified came by five separate times. >> make no bones about it. we believe that the fire fire department perjured themself when they said they never went in. >> he described a pig roost and how three other firemen dropped in. sarah asked, did you ever hear you were in violation of fire code. >> never, he replied. they were enjoying themselves. referring to previous testimony from officials who said they never were in the building, he said they're good people and lying. he is facing 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter along with co-defendant max harris for the december, 2016 warehouse fire that killed 36 people. as cross-examination got under wa

abc7 news reporter lesley brinkley was in court once again and has details on the theory the defense drove home during its final day today of closing arguments. >> reporter: it's an unprecedented case. each of the two defendants facing 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal 2016 fire in an oakland warehouse. the attorney for max harris the prosecution says was the artistic director gave his closing argument. curtis brigs argued there was reasonable doubt in the case. he claimed preliminaries officials never reported hazards and later plagues by what they could he have done differently to prevent the fire. he said there's a theme, no matter what is convict max harris even though max didn't sign the lease, convict anyways. there was a gangaly man with a mohawk and pearcings. somebody who didn't fit into a mold and they pursued that reason. families of victims weren't buying it. >> there are no excuses. everyone is wrong as far as i'm concerned. you knew right from wrong. >> reporter: brigs stressed the cause of the fire remains undetermined and alluded to possible arson by

. >> lesley brinkley live in walnut creek with more on this program. lesley? >> reporter: i've talked to a lot of business owners here today. some say they allow the homeless to sleep on their property, others not so much. they're worried about safety and scaring away customers. so walnut creek police thought why not try something new. why not keep the problems that homelessness creates from ballooning out of control so they gave a new idea a shot. walnut creek police say they field 3,000 calls a year related to homelessness about, ten call full-time officers to respo e calls aut encatchments, littering, trespassing and panhandling. > a lot of time it's people shopping downtown and really don't want to be bothered by people panhandling, we get a lot of complaints about it. we have a lot of people that are concerned that walnut creek is going to turn into some of their close neighbors like sfleens officer clemente and officer silva volunteered for the four-month pilot program that launched in mid-june. they've made 25 arrests so far mostly for trespassing. they

reporting live from black hawk, lesley brinkley, abc7 news. >> thank you. the quake and the aftershock hit on the greenville fault. the usgs says it's the eastern most of all the major faults in the bay area. >> this fault is a little more quiet and the other ones but has experienced magnitude 5.4 and 5.in 19 0. >> the usgs says the general rule is there is a one in 20 chance that a larger earthquake will follow today's 4.3 magnitude. >> coming amid ongoing shaking in southern california following the earthquakes in ridgecrest over the holiday. in just the past few hours, several aftershocks rattled the area, the largest a 4.5. you can see both on this map. clearly there are significantly more earthquakes near ridge kret. you can see the quakes in the bay area. >> spencer has a closer look at the earthquake and what it means. >> an interesting graphic. we put it together in our weather department today. at 11:00 p.m. is when the main earthquake occurred, 4.3, a depth of seven miles was followed as you may have just heard several minutes later by a 3.5 after

>> lesley brinkley sorts it out for us. what can riders expect? >> reporter: this new gm is a b.a.r.t. insider. he's an engineer who knows the system. andize promising already in the next few weeks to get out here on the trains, on the platforms in the stations to talk face-to-face with frustrated riders. >> i will sit with social media and listen to what's being said in the digital space. >> reporter: the new general manager bob powers is big on promises and some board members believe he can take the system to the next level. >> we have the urgency of now. we have rider frustration over a number of different issues. and bob are understands those. >> so it's not any ramping up or on the job training. he's ready to go out and help fix what's not working now. >> reporter: there's a lot to fix. abc7 news is part of building a better bay area has been grilling b.a.r.t. what they plan to do about homelessness and fare evasion. new tougher to jump over fare gates in richmond have drawn criticism but -- >> so far with the limited data we have, we've seen

news reporter lesley brinkley? >> reporter: i'm down here in black hawk at the shopping center.rly everyone said they felt the shaking. even though they're miles from the epicenter. behind the me the black hawk theaters. imagine being in that dark theater reclined back in your seat and the screen starts swaying. what do you think? did people panic or take it all in stride? we found out. >> there's nothing to really have for