-spencer: morning. -lemonis: how are you? -i'm marcus. -spencer: spencer. -lemonis: hey, nice to meet you. -spencer: you too. -lemonis: i'm marcus. -paul: how you doing, marcus? -i'm paul. -lemonis: nice to meet you. -paul: good to meet you. -lemonis: wow. you got a lot of good stuff. paul: yeah, we're working on it. man: how you doing? do you have 2 pounds of red snapper? spencer: no reds today. -man: no reds? -spencer: no. man: well, i'm gonna try some grouper today. 2 pounds. spencer: okay. lemonis: what else are you out of? paul: i believe we are out of tuna. lemonis: tuna's kind of a popular fish to be out of. is gary, the owner, around? spencer: yes. i'll go get him. he's in the office. lemonis: okay. the place is definitely underutilized. i look to the left, and there's this big counter with nothing on it, nothing merchandised on it. it definitely has room for improvement. paul: i mean, this is a great place. i love the job and everything. it's just that sometimes it gets a little bit stressful when you don't know what's going on. lemonis: what kinds

reporter andrew spencer has the latest from washington, d.c. james clapper, former director of national intelligence: "the developments of the past week are very bothersome, very disturbing to me."james clapper, the former director of national intelligence under president obama, says he feels, in many ways, u-s institutions are under attack. james clapper, former director of national intelligence: "...both externally -- and that's the big news here is the russian interference in our election system -- and i think, as well, our institutions are under assault internally."voice of jake tapper, host of cnn's 'state of the union': "internally from our president?"clapper: "exactly."clapper says he feels the government's system of checks and balances "is eroding."the criticism follows nearly a week of backlash over the firing of now-former f-b-i director james comey.u-s ambassador nikki haley defended the move on a-b-c's "this week."nikki haley, u.s. ambassador to u.n.: "the president is the ceo of the country. he can hire and fire whoever he wants. t

our darcy spencer also at the scene. she were bring us live updates as they happen. >> in the meantime, we turn to melissa mollet with big time traffic on the beltway. melissa, what's goi ing on? >> we're talking about a five-mile backup. inner loop one lane getting by but now all lane it's open. still a five-mile backup, major for a lot of people headed through that area. chuck. >> all right. we've got a foggy start again after pretty powerful thunderstorms late yesterday. things have settled down quite a bit overnight. certainly a foggy start early this morning. it's not going to change too much between 9:00 and 11. there are pockets of visibility down after a mile. sunshine making a comeback at 9:00. more sunshine to move temperatures from the low to mid-60s up into the low 80s. though there will be a chance of an isolated thunderstorm or two. right now, 66 and in the fog. sheena's got that peek at the weekend coming right up. >>> angie goff here at the live desk. it's something that think about whenever we fly. it's

abc 7 news bay area. >> check with spencer for a look at the forecast. spencer. >> okay. the sky blue have given way off to increasing clouds. see here on live doppler 7. little chilly out there right now. and windy. soon going to be soggy. as we expect widespread drizzle overnight with low temperatures early morning hours. in the 50s. so maybe a slow commute for commuters. give way to sunshine tomorrow. away from the coast. with highs reaching only into the mid to upper 70s inland. mild, still, below average for this time of the year. it is graduation day tomorrow. at alta vista. mountain view. graduation at 4:30 in the afternoon. during the afternoon hours. mountain view will have sunny skies. temperatures in the mid 70s. here is accuweather seven-day forecast. after two more days tomorrow, thursday, of slightly below average temperature thousands. start to warm up. friday, saturday, sunday. by monday, tuesday next week. see inland highs, 90 degrees. 80s around the bay. mid 60s along the coast. >> nice. feel look summer. >> thank you, spencer. >> after the big fight yes

george spencer: he's been called america's first serial killer. described at the time as a case without known parallel, a case that author matt lake says philadelphia broke wide open. matt: we caught him and we got the body, yeah. he'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those darn philly kids. george: most of h.h. holmes' notoriety centers in chicago, around the site of what's now this us post office. it was there, in 1889, that he built his famous murder castle hotel ahead of the city's world fair, a castle full of secret chutes and gas chambers. some who arrived were never seen again. matt: he'd wind up putting them into an airtight room and turning a gas on in there until they suffocated. george: experts believe holmes made big money selling his victim's body parts and swindling their insurance. and in 1894, holmes brought his swindling to philadelphia and this corner of 13th and callowhill. it was here, lake says, that greed finally got the best of him. in his scheme to get insurance money, he killed his business partner, making it

now that it looks like everyone will be okay, kron four's spencer blake brings us the hero's story from hayward. (spencer blake)"imagine even being able to reach that second-story window sill up there, let alone actually grabbing onto it and hoisting yourself up. that's exactly what 18-year-old petelo finau did to save his brother's life."(nats)firefighters say there was much more smoke than there were flames at this fire friday night.and the biggest concentration of smoke was coming from áthis window, where 13-year-old francis finau was trapped.the fire separated the boy with autismfrom his other family members."i tried to enter the kitchen but then the heat was too strong and it started burning my hair and my beard." so 18-year-old petelo acted quickly.he jumped from his own window upstairsthen in a parkour-style leap, grabbed onto the sill of francis' window."he was too scared to jump out the window so i was trying to yank him out of the window but he was crying - he was just too scared. so he closed the window on me."as neighbors started to gather below, petelo waited for some help.

spencer christian ready to take off with sunnier warmer weather, spencer. >> yes, sunnier and warmer a few days. we have the #dubson7 coming up, the nba finals beginning tomorrow evening. the dubs taking on the cavaliers the third consecutive year for the nba title. game one tomorrow evening right here in oakland at the coliseum. sunny and mild in the evening hours as you are headed over to the coliseum in your car or public transportation or in larry's limo. so, enjoy. here's a look at live doppler 7. mainly sunny skies across the bay area. away from the coast line, near the coast it looks a lot like this right now as you see fog has set ltd in over the golden gate. these are our forecast features. sunny and mild conditions tomorrow and friday. it will be a little bit cooler this weekend. actually than we had expected. it will be warming up next week. just a brief cool down. right now we're looking at gusty wind once again. this has been the pattern the last several days. 25 mile per hour gusts at novato right now. 20 mile per hour winds at s.f.o. 24 down at san jose. so -- down in

. >> they're telling spencer they're shooting a corporate video.hat he doesn't know is that michael is going to join him. michael is an elderly man also known as stewart. and here he is undergoing his transformation. >> this is cool. they're turning him into an old man. >> he has no idea what he's in for. michael and spencer meet. and their first stop is the cafeteria. >> this is my place to work. i'd eat all these cookies every day. >> he sees spencer trying to show michael how it's done. michael don't care. >> sir, that's not quite how the cafeteria works. now they're in the appliances department. >> vacuums your floor for you. >> what? >> you set it on the ground. >> here's why kids are lazy nowadays. >> that is an old person right there. >> do you do the book faces? is that what kids call it? book face and chat snap. >> they mention stewart. he says he came in the store glp did you say hi? >> yeah. >> was he cool? >> yeah. he was so cool. >> michael down! >> i'm fine. i'm fine. >> stewart, michael, takes off his glasses. and spencer is speechle

. >> spencer christian is here with the forecast. spencer. >> alma and larry, you noticed the cool down. all of us who have been outside at least. live doppler 7 shows clouds over the bay, low clouds and fog stacked up over the coast line. a whole lot cooler than it was this hour yesterday. 24-hour temperature change, 20 degree cooler in fairfield. this time yesterday 18 degrees cooler in concord. 11 degrees cooler in novato and santa rosa. san francisco 3 degrees milder and half moon bay is two degrees milder. mostly blue sky. 60 degrees here. quick on the draw. 66 in san francisco, 66 in oakland. this is how it looks from mount tam, few clouds in the sky. 62 in santa rosa. napa 66, low 70s at novato, fairfield and concord and 7 p at the grizzlies right now -- 77 d. temperatures will drop low, in the mid 50s in the late night and overnight hours. i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up. larry? >> highway damage statewide from winter storm is projected to top more than a billion dollars the first time in california history. the

>> thank you spencer. san francisco city attorney is taking on people who abuse the city's affordable housing program. >> suing two women, one who bought two condos at below market rates when you can only have one, and another who bought a condo under the city program but doesn't even live in the bay area. >> abc7 news anchor eric thomas is live in san francisco with the story. eric. >> reporter: one of those condos is in this building on beale street. everybody knows there is a housing crisis here in san francisco, which is why there are rules about this affordable housing program. income requirements, you can only be a first-time home buyer and of course you're supposed to live here. the city attorney says these women violated those rules. there are rules about buying below market rate condos under san francisco's affordable housing program. two women are accused of abusing those rules. >> one of them rented it out and lived away from the bay area and took the profits a second home in butte county. >> re

we'll explain coming up. >> i'm spencer christian.y skies and very breezy, even gusty conditions around the bay area today. they will persist. i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up. >> and taking a live look at our traffic through san jose, this is 101 southbound and really not moving at all at this point. barely creeping along. northbound looking good as usual, and 880 is moving in both directions. back in just a couple >>> nasa astronauts took part in an historic space walk today outside the international space station. the repair work done by astronauts peggy and jack were just routine, but the space walk itself was the 200th at the space station. it was also the first for fisher and the 9th for wood son, extending her u.s. record for most space walks by a female astronaut. the first space walk by a pair of astronauts took place in 1998. >> the marine corps is looking for a few good women. >> some have it, and some don't. it's the fighting spirit and it needs to be fed. >> this ad began r began running today, the first ever

>> all right, thank you, spencer. see you in a few minutes. what a great day to do some whale watching and you didn't have to head out into a boat on the pacific to do it. sky 7 captures these shots of whales swimming around the golden gate bridge. this is all seen live during abc7 mornings. holly field has a story you'll see only on 7. >> reporter: they're back and they're beautiful. when chris heard this morning the whales had returned to the bay, he grabbed his camera and headed to the bridge. >> last year i took a lot of photos of the whales out here. hoping to see them again. >> reporter: it is their second year to venture into our bay. marine biologists say it is their feeding season so they will probably chasing food like kril and an choechl is. they aren't sure why now, why these last two years. maybe just some smart enterprising whales have figured out this is a yummy place to be. >> we're going to be very much on the look out this year to see if some of the same whales that kept coming in on a regular basis last year are the same one

spencer, king of leisure. spencer christian. >> we have weather that is going to be conducive to lots of leisure activities this weekend. although it will be quite a bit windier than average. it will be pleasant i think. here's a look at live doppler 7, you can see what happens' happening now. lots of low clouds have returned to the coast line. high clouds moving over land masses and we have breezy and much cooler conditions than we had yesterday at this hour. right now we're looking at temperature readings ranging from upper 50s on the coast and here is san francisco just 60s to about 70 right around the bay, but 89 in antioch. that's our hot spot, our only hot spot as a matter of fact. this is the view from our abc7 exploratorium pier 15 in san francisco. looking at the sky line and the clouds above, and these are our forecast features. we'll see widespread fog, breezy and cooler going into the weekend. temperatures will rebound next week. overnight we might see some spotty drizzle near the coast line, but g

>> i'm not afraid of richard spencer's ideas, and we all think we're all as woke as each other. we're not all #woke. some of us are #asleep. yeah. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: so in that world, basically, what you're saying is you're not afraid richard spencer is going to have some new racism that will convince you? >> yeah, like, "oh, you're right. black people aren't as good as white people. thank you, sir." and giving him a platform means if i went and said, "hey, man. you take the show for the hour. i'm taking the week off." that's how it works. it's very clear when you watch the show whose side i'm on-- everybody else's. the election popular results show that my ideas can win this country if we get rid of the, you know, electoral college, leftover slave holder math. then we'll be fine. ( cheers and applause ). >> trevor: let's talk about-- let's talk about that free speech, because you live in berkeley, last i checked, right? >> yes, i'll fight you, yes. >> trevor: did you say "i'll fight you"? >> i live in berkeley. what, what did you say? berkeley is the new compton

spencer we're talking about a bar, a comfortable night, and the warriors. to many it doesn't get any better than that. (adlib depending on game) this watch party ádid have some of the faces you might recognize from oracle arena. warriors dance team captain amira, who was nominated as woman of the year by the leukemia lymphoma society, hosted a fundraiser here.fans got to buy raffle tickets for a shot to win some autographed dubs merchandise.but of course, most people's eyes were glued to the t-v all night.one of the guys who works security at the brick yard looks forward to watch parties. "game nights you get a bigger crowd, you've got a lot of energy up in here, everybody's rootin' for the home team.""i don't like anything about utah.""just win all the way. no foolin' around!"(vo)(adlib depending on score)the brick yard got fuller and fuller as the evening went on.more and more people in their blue and yellow. keep it right here for warriors updates tonight.live in san francisco, spencer blake, kron four news. coming up at eight. kron 4 is looking into a s

now here is spencer giving a speech after trump victory. he got in a confrontation with a woman here. the gym management became away he was a member and they terminated his membership. this is what one of the gym members said about the termination. >> it's not his alt-right point of view. it's debatable. from a political perspective, yes. of course. i don't support the alt-right movement at all. steve -- stephen: that is the sentiment of all the gym members of whom we spoke. they question whether it's appropriate to terminate the membership. we reached out to the gym and the woman who confronted spencer. noal calls back. but the members pointing out this a private club which has control over its membership. stephen tschida, abc7 news. michelle: virginia residents have until 11:59 to register to vote in next month's primary election. you have until 5:00 to register in person. you can register by mail if the application has the postmark today. you can register online until just before midnight. the primary is june 13. jonathan: we have the ta

. >>> i'm dorothy spencer in croston spreading messages of love and hope after a hate incident at a local middle school. >>> an urgent warning tonight as you get ready for work tomorrow. the cyber attack causing chaos across the globe. good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. i'm erika gonzalez. >> and i'm leon harris. security companies are urging you and your company to make sure you're protected. nbc's kelly cobiella is in london where hospitals were especially hard hit by this digital extortion scheme. >> reporter: team the europol director is calling in an attack of an unprecedented scale, saying there's 100,000 victims in at least 150 condition industries and twarng could get worse when people go back to work and turn on their computers. >> unprecedented beyond anything level of infection and the amount of damage it's potentially inflicting. >> reporter: britain's national health services computer were the first to be hit friday morning forcing hospital emergency rooms to shut down, stopping surgeries. doctors and hospital staff unable to access patient records or anything el

>> all right, thank you, spencer. the damaged main spillway of oroville dam will soon get some much needed repairs. the state plans to shut down the spillway tomorrow to start on the $275 million rebuilding project. it hopes to finish by the time the next rainy season starts. parts of the spillway began crumbling and washing away back in february. nearly 200,000 people were evacuated when the dam's emergency spillway also began giving way. they were allowed to return two days later. >> huge flames, a major fire fight in san jose. an auto parts store damaged by flames for the second time in less than a year. abc7 news reporter matt keller has the details on a possible cause. >> reporter: the smoke from this 2-alarm fire could be seen from miles in san jose. when my photographer and i drove up to south white road off story road, a part of the building collapsed. >> you see that? what was that? >> a building. >> exploded? >> went down, flat. >> reporter: fire fighters got the call at 3:02:00 a.m. when they arrived, the f

spencer? >> it's going to heat up big time, by the end of the week.er 7 has dark clouds, spotty drizzle. overnight we'll see the clouds lingering and the spotty drizzle lingering as well. low tem turds will ran low. after a few morning clouds wee see bright sunny skies in the afternoon. breezy at the coast. highs will range from upper 50s at the coast to mid and upper 60s around the bay and low to mid 70s inland. the warm up begins after that. before we get to that, here's a look at weather wellness conditions. we don't generally associate today's weather pattern with high pollen, but we do have high tree pollen and grass pollen right now. allergy sufferers no doubt have noticed. weed pollen not a factor now. mold spores are low but u.v. index is high. let's talk about high temperatures. accuweather seven-day forecast, big warm up begins on thursday, continues through the weekend. as a matter of fact, on saturday and sunday inland highs will be in the mid 90s. we'll see mid to upper 80s around the bay and low to mid 70s on the coast. the temperatures

sometimes people fall into richard spencer's narrative and give the article about ty richard spencer likes israel and that it must be okay. and it's not. he likes israel and the white supremacists like israel because they want all the jews to go there. >> if you like i have to in. i don't think white supremacist like israel. >> now, now, mr. spencer. >> david duke who speaks with richard spencer, they both agree that you know, israel represents is not a good thing, nor is israel. to the degree they go to israel, it's not even an evangelical movement. this is white zionism and the sort of tongue-in-cheek the israeli model as a homeland for the. we need one for the whites. when they say things about israel, is actually in no way positive. >> yeah, absolutely. adding a mac >> have you looked into whether the rise in hate crimes is a destabilizing after by russia, for example saying that you didn't know where they were coming from. some of these are coming from an international after to destabilize other countries. and the second question is the tolerance goes to exception and i am wonde

. >> spencer christian is here with the weather. >> we have warmer weather coming our way. we're looking at relatively cooler weather. live at the coast, it is exerting its influence. we have gusty wind which may elevate concerns about fire as temperatures rise over the weekend. right now we're looking at gusts of 20 to 30 miles per hour across most of the bay area. temperatures, however, are lower than average for this time of the year. they'll be rising saturday and sunday. san francisco is at 60, 66 in oakland, upper 60s at mountain view, san jose, 65 in gilroy, 957 at half moon bay. here's the view from sutro tower looking north. mostly clear skies at 62 in santa rosa right now. napa 65, upper 60s at novato, fairfield, concord, livermore 71. >> here's the forecast animation for overnight hours. we'll possibly see spotty drizzle along the coast line in the early morning hours. it will be a dry day tomorrow. the big warm up comes this weekend and i'll give you a look at the seven days ahead in just a few minutes. larry? >> all right, spencer, see you i a few minutes. >>>

kron4's spencer blake has details on what police and witnesses say... led up to the shooting.(pkg) this video was taken by an eyewitness moments áafter a fremont police officer shot a suspect in the parking lot between lucky and orchard supply hardware."one of our officers, a uniformed patrol officer was flagged down indicating, basically a citizen contacted him advising him that a subject was waving a pipe threatening people."a witness says she saw the pipe, and it was about three feet long.the officer that had been flagged down found the man in the parking lot.there was a short foot chase, and a confrontation after a witness says the suspect ran into a car. "he had, the pipe was in his hand. the officer for a brief moment was in shock himself because the car was there, he bounced off the car. and then next thing you know, the cop shot him. he shot him three times."the witness says the man had his hands up and did not charge at the cop. public information officer ricardo cortes says two officers immediately rendered first aid, and an ambulance took the man to a nearby trauma

in custody facing multiple charges for possession of child pornography. 19-year-old ryan michael spencer of aptos and 24-year-old bryan petersen of tiburon are charged with multiple crimes. according to the fbi, both men worked with children. petersen was as a chess coach, a babysitter, and tutor in tiburon while spencer worked as a camp counselor, babysitter and teacher in training in aptos. investigators say that they used those positions to take pictures and videos of the children in their care. in the newsroom, charles clifford kron 4 news. here at contra costa county district attorney's office in martinez, they are pleased to announce 1.5 million dollars in state funding will be used for a new shot spotter surveillance camera network. the cameras will be placed on i-80 between richmond and highway-4 in antioch

spencer christian is here with what's ahead. spencer. >> big changes coming. as you pointed out it is warm. here is doppler 7. sunny skies across the bay area and temperatures have reached close to 90 degrees in some spots. uh we look out over the bay from the rooftop camera, 65 here in san francisco. not very warm. we have low to mid 70s in oakland, mountain view, and gilroy 84. sutro tower looking northward, 77 in santa rosa, 77 in napa, 84 in novato, 88 in concord, 85 in livermore. that is all about to change big time because a spring chill is on the way brought to us by this advancing cold front moving down from the gulf of alaska. temperatures will drop sharply tomorrow and we're going to have quite a cool spell or quite a spell. i'll show you how long it's going to last in just a few minutes. larry? >> thank you, spencer. we'll see you in just a spell. a power pole and downed lines strewn across danville. an oak tree came crashing down near green valley road. the good news is the tree fell into the street. no homes or cars were damaged. bad news is 2900

>> thank you, spencer. five years ago the bay area was horrified following a mass shooting which claimed the lives of seven people at an oakland college. that case is nearly over as the gunman pleaded no contest today. that means he's going to serve the remainder of his life in a state prison. abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez live in oakland with the details. lyanne? >> reporter: well, you know, larry, from the beginning the gunman said he alone was responsie, but he never quite understood the implications of his actions. it took medication and several psychiatrists for him to understand what he had done and to get to this point. the few family members of the victims were escorted through a back door following the out come of today's court proceedings. this man, juan, shown here several years ago, pleaded no contest today to the mass shooting at oakhurst university which occurred in 2012. >> it is expected that in july he will be sentenced to seven terms of life without the possibility of parole. >> repor

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. >>> i'm spencer christian. increasing clouds right now, but clouds will get steadier going into the holiday weekend. the forecast coming up. >>> next an especially wet winter now giving way to a potentially dangerous summer on california's rivers. a live report from lake tahoe. >>> and abc 7 is the only place you can see the nba finals, game one of the warriors and cavaliers is thursday. [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when they're smoked. [ rat squeaking ] they're dangerous long after. cigarette butts are toxic. they release chemicals that poison our water... and harm wildlife. and millions... are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] >>> new at 6:00, a fireball burst from an suv in marin county. it happened about an hour ago on southbound 101 near sir francis drake. the woman hit a box in the road. the car began trailing flames. then she pulled over and got out just before it exploded. sky 7 just flew over the scene minutes ago. this is what is lef

. >> actually what i said, i said spencer christian, it's cold outside. and i need a sweatshirt this morning. what is going on? >> you're right. it is a bit chilly. it will make us appreciate the warm upcoming our way this weekend a bit more. here's an interesting feature look at live doppler 7. you see this coastal eddy generated by today's circulation. massive clouds swirling in a counter clockwise fashion just offshore. we have these once in a while when the circulation is right. this is the rooftop camera overlook being the bay. mid to upper 60s in oakland, mountain view and san jose, 59 in half moon bay. here's the view westward. we have clouds at various levels of the atmosphere. it is mid 60s right now. santa rosa, napa novato upper 60s at fairfield. concord and livermore. fire works tonight, at&t part park. the giants take on the braves. after the game, cloud conditions cooperating, you'll be able to see some nice fire works. on we go to our overnight forecast animation showing the clouds will thicken during the overnight hours, but they'll pull b

kron4's spencer blake has details on the video -- behind the controversy. "the main quad on campus is empty now but during fifth period friday the district says about five hundred students left class and came here."(nats)students shared the videos they took with kron fourthough most of them were posting them straight to snapchat.though not part of curriculum, the walkout was not spur-of-the-moment. "students were planning on doing this for a couple days now."aside from the music and chanting, there were also some speakers who addressed more than just the issue of an islam terror-themed video.it was a fictional campaign production one student created to run for associated student body president.he was removed from his post as junior class president, but the district quickly reinstated him after threats of a lawsuit."they said it's not about the video at all. they said it's just toward the idea of racism in the district."one of the speakers says minorities and l-g-b-t students often feel marginalized, which is why she attended this week's school board meeting

in vallejo, spencer blake, transformers the chief coroner for marin county in custody - facing charges he molested a young girl over a long period of time. this case dates back to 2008. that is when prosecutors alleged - darrel alan harris - shown here started sexually assaulting a girl - then later when she was older. harris was arrested recently in eureka.. and brought back to town. he is now in jail facing 750 thosuand dollar bail. he did not enter a plea monday - but will be back in court next week. his attorney says everyone is in disbelief about the charges. and no one including his family believes theya re true. (charles clifford)here in the north bay a committee of elected officials from marin, napa, solano and sonoma counties are looking at the idea of charging commuters along highway 37 tolls in order to pay for some of the problems here. including reducing congestion and stopping the flooding here like we saw this past winter. at this point, these are just ideas it will take years to address these issues. also, at this point we don't know how much the tolls would be or how t

. >>> i'm spencer christian. increasing clouds right now, but clouds will get steadier going into the holiday weekend. the forecast coming up. >>> next an especially wet winter now giving way to a potentially dangerous summer on california's rivers. a live report from lake tahoe. >>> and abc 7 is the only place you can see the nba finals, game one of the warriors and cavaliers is thursday. who are these people? the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. >>> new at 6:00, a fireball burst from an suv in marin county. it happened about an hour ago on southbound 101 near sir francis drake. the woman hit a box in the road. the car began trailing flames. then she pulled over and got o

(spencer)in an update to a story from vallejo that you saw only on for, a video of a sixth grader getting beaten up during pe class has been removed by the user from youtube. the victim tells me she's glad because it makes it harder for other students to see it and pass it around. her mother however was frustrated that she couldn't show the link to the school police officer when she filed a report tuesday.the mother tells me administrators said they couldn't take her daughter out of the pe class for the rest of the year, but they are now looking at possibly transferring her to another school.in vallejo, spencer blake, kron four news. (clifford)here in contra costa county, we have learned that state transportation officials have offered the county financial assistance to build a surveillance network along interstate 80 and highway 4 between richmond and antioch. that stretch of roadway has been the sight of multiple shootings over the past two years. 8 people have been killed. the state expected to get a funding request from the county in a few weeks. in contra costa county, charles cliffo

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in san francisco, spencer blake, kron four news. (justine) still ahead... first it was hot.. then cold and now the bay area is going to warm back up again....(jrs) meteorologist lawrence karnow is back with your complete forecast. who are these people? the environmentally aware. the ones with their eyes on the sky and our air. they say our climate's in need of repair. why do they worry? why do they care? the energy conscious people among us say small actions could add up to something... humongous. a little thing here a little thing there starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. limiting showers to only five minutes. turning off lights in a room unless they're in it. air filter changing, solar installing unplugging, dial-turning, thermostat-lowering off-peak-time users all joining forces. to help get our power from renewable sources. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? the celebrated lead-by-example crew. turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. (and yeah, it's him too) don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade californ

spencer worked as a camp counselor and babysitter in apots.ties say the men used their jobs to take pictures and videos of the kids in their care. both men are now facing up to 20-years in prison. ( darya ) a doctor and nurse are accused of sex crimes against children. watsonville police arrested doctor james kohut sunday on suspicion of sexually abusing at least one minor. rashel brandon who was one of kohut's nurses was arrested last week in connection with the case. according to the charges, both victims were under 14 years old. ( darya ) questions continue this morning about what caused an emeryville construction site to go up in flames for the second time in less than a year. this is what it looked like saturday morning when the fire ripped through this emeryville construction site which will include 105 apartments and 25 thousand feet of retail space. fire investigators haven't determined a cause in this weekend's fire. firefighters are still putting out hot spots and crews have been removing a mountain of debris. the developer of the co

in alamo, spencer blake, kron four news.(pam) here are some tips if you or someone you are with ... gets a bitten by rattlesnake. first, do not try to suck out the venom . do not apply a tourniquet/ bandage or ice to the bite. experts say, you should stay calm, clean the bite and elevate the wound above the heart. clouds have greatly diminished over the past few hours although satellite still indicates a few patches across our region. thanks to the ridge of high pressure continuing to move to the east while a longwave trough advances to the coast, temperatures are cooler than yesterday. some locations well inland have seen the biggest drop -- livermore is running 18 under this time on thursday. (steve) our other big story tonight... the emergency situation near the valero refinery in benicia is now over... but -- many residents in the area are still concerned. it all started with a power outage at the refinery this morning... that led to flaring which released massive plumes of thick black smokes into the air... kron 4's ell

kron four's spencer blake explains how it all started, from the scene of the shooting. "this was the scene on tully road sunday morning and into the afternoon as police used cones and tape, blocking people off from their investigation into an officer- involved shootout."(pkg)the first calls about a suspicious man with a handgun came into police just before eight a-m. "as officers arrived on scene and began giving the suspect commands, the suspect pulled out a 45-caliber pistol and fired at the direction of the officers."one of the san jose police officers on scene shot back."i see like only two shots over here - boom boom." then the suspect took off, running towards hometown eastridge mobile home park. police say he jumped a fence and hid.a man who lives there was blocked from getting home while police but he managed to snap this photo of the suspect on his knees with his hands up."no injuries were reported."plenty of passersby stopped on the street to see what was happening while the street was closed."i came out of our apartment - our apartment is just beside big 5 -

marks and spencer and owecado a considering a tieup. marks and spencer could be launching a grocer delivery service. look at ocado. it is soaring on the back of this. up by 8.73%. >>> bp's key earnings measure, replacement cost profit, came in at 1$1.5 billion beating expectations and stronger than last year. the oil major maintained its dividend at 10 cents a share and says it expects organic capex to be 15 to $17 billion. luxottica sales fell in the first quarter hit by a new policy which reduces online discounts. salt sales increased by almost 2% as growth was offset by weak consumer spending in the u.s. >>> bovis has said it will incur a 2.8 million pound hit in relation to the two failed merger proposals from read row and g galliford. they say the company will deliver on its 2017 guidance. aberdeen shares are rising after posting first half results. the british fund manager reported more than a 10% rise in revenues helped by market gains and cost cutting. shares up by a little more than 3%. >>> one of the world's biggest asset mana

reporter andrew spencer has the latest from washington, d.c.per, former director of national intelligence: "the developments of the past week are very bothersome, very disturbing to me."james clapper, the former director of national intelligence under president obama, says he feels, in many ways, u-s institutions are under attack. james clapper, former director of national intelligence: "...both externally -- and that's the big news here is the russian interference in our election system -- and i think, as well, our institutions are under assault internally."voice of jake tapper, host of cnn's 'state of the union': "internally from our president?"clapper: "exactly."clapper says he feels the government's system of checks and balances "is eroding."the criticism follows nearly a week of backlash over the firing of now-former f-b-i director james comey.u-s ambassador nikki haley defended the move on a-b-c's "this week."nikki haley, u.s. ambassador to u.n.: "the president is the ceo of the country. he can hire and fire whoever he wants. that's his r

kron four's spencer blake spoke with witnesses and picks up the story. (pkg)bullet holes and police cars at polk and lombard street aren't usually what tourists see as they walk through the a very san francisco-y neighborhood.at about 9:30 sunday morning, nick major and his girlfriend were at home, on the third floor of a russian hill building."we heard about 20 or so popping noises. didn't think much of it. thought it was maybe firecrackers or what have you."police say there were two cars involved in a shoot-out.an eyewitness says one of the cars was a charcoal- colored sedan."i saw the red bmw reach out again with the gun on the driver's side."but both cars were gone by the time officers arrived."once the commotion started happening, a few police started showing up and then kind of a crowd gathered. so once that happened, we kinda saw something was going on." nobody got hurt, and police don't have any suspects."the only 'victim,' if you want to call it that, may have been this white audi that was parked along polk street."it belongs to major's girlfrie

>> all right, spencer, thank you. the state senate gandhi bait on a ploep sal to restructure one of california's landmark climate change initiatives. the measure would end the state's current cap and trade program and impose a perpetually escalating tax on carbon emissions. under the bill much of the revenue generated wiould offset higher bills for gas and energy. it is being considered to extend the program and prevent it from expiring in 2020. >>> we have breaking news right now in san francisco. sky 7 is over an accident on the golden gate bridge. you're taking a live look. it's affecting southbound lanes. the chp says a gray range rover hit the median. right now only one lane of traffic is getting through. so definitely leave plenty of time if you are trying to get into the city right now from marin. we will stay on top of this and the traffic delays it is causing. be sure to download the abc7 news app and enable push alerts for updates. >> a rash of car fires in the east bay has neighbors concerned and police ala

kron four's spencer blake spoke to eyewitnesses. there's one piece of good news about this inferno on the border or oakland and emeryville - it was burning an unfinished building, and it didn't hurt anybody."this morning this lady was running down the street and she was saying, 'fire! fire!' and it woke us up out of a sound sleep. and we went outside and the same building that was caught on fire in july was the same building that was on fire."darlis manning saw almost the same thing last year.and the deja-vu continues with a crane used in the constructionstill perched high above the site.fire officials worry tens of thousands of pounds of steel ácould come tumbling down"the crane has to be dismantled before we can get any crews in to extinguish any fires that are still remaining inside." some people on the opposite side of the burning building were evacuatedbecause they live within the potential collapse zone of the crane.but manning took action long before that."we just evacuated, actually before they said evacuate because we knew

. >> i'm spencer christian. as you could see on the graphic behind me, it is windy across the bay area. i'll give you a close look at that and the memorial day forecast coming up. >>> and next we're live at lake tahoe and meet the people fighting to keep nature looking natural. >>> we're following breaking news out of stockton. this is a live look from a four-alarm fire near highway 99. now according to stockton police, evacuations are underway for nearby businesses and homes. you could still see the smoke. so far no reports of any injuries but you could see -- we could see a little bit -- there you get a better look at the huge fame -- flames out there. and no reports on a cause just yet. we are going to continue to monitor this breaking news and bring you updates on air and online. you could see the smoke that fire is putting off in stockton. >>> lake tahoe locals are fighting back against those who would desecrate the beautiful landscape and it is a war against graffiti popping up in places known for natural