wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> teammates of a cal rugby player paralyzed in game promised to be there him for recovery. he had to be taken off the field on a stretcher. doctors performed emergency surgery and paralyzed from the waste down with limited motion in arms. team won the game but it's bitter sweet. >> tough for all of us, casts a shadow on the victory. it's not right. >> there will be a prayer service on campus thursday night. >>> a man who helped define the fight for lgbt rights will now always have a home in san francisco. gilbert baker created iconic gay flag in 1978. died this past march at home in new york at age of 65. today supervisor jeff xi hi posted this photo saying he spread his ashes into the bay. calls baker a hero. >>> good evening everyone. get ready for big changes ahead. live doppler 7 is previewing what is coming. already starting to see the fog starting to close in along the coastline, san mateo and santa kruse coast. ocean temperatures right now, the buoys in the upper 40s, when the wind switches direction tomorrow it's out of the west southwest. and brin

wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> teammates of a cal rugby player paralyzed in game promised to be thereecovery. he had to be taken off the field on a stretcher. doctors performed emergency surgery and paralyzed from the waste down with limited motion in arms. team won the game but it's bitter sweet. >> tough for all of us, casts a shadow on the victory. it's not right. >> there will be a prayer service on campus thursday night. >>> a man who helped define the fight for lgbt rights will now always have a home in san francisco. gilbert baker created iconic gay flag in 1978. died this past march at home in new york at age of 65. today supervisor jeff xi hi posted this photo saying he spread his ashes into the bay. calls baker a hero. >>> good evening everyone. get ready for big changes ahead. live doppler 7 is previewing what is coming. already starting to see the fog starting to close in along the coastline, san mateo and santa kruse coast. ocean temperatures right now, the buoys in the upper 40s, when the wind switches direction tomorrow it's out of the west southwest. and bring the cool

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abc7 news reporter wayne freedman is live with the details. wayne?: well, budget cuts always have a sense of being political, especially when we're talking about city government or county government. that's the case in sonoma county where the board of supervisors is asking every department for a cut of between 3 and 6% as you said. that includes the sheriffs department, and this is where things get interesting. it began with an item on the board of supervisors agenda which they didn't expect or maybe did expect a possible budget cuts of $6.5 million by reducing supervisors and some substations, cutting back on graffiti removal, perhaps also cutting back on detective investigations or dispatch. there are some 19 cuts in all at least proposed. the department does not want to cut service, but the president of the police union is worried about that as well. >> we're at bare minimums now. any time somebody calls in sick, we have to call other people in from work or home, other locations, have them work extra hours. they're working 12 hour shifts already a

live in healdsburg, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> wayne, thank you. a bomb shell in contra costa county, a civil grand jury is recommending the county's top law enforcement officer be removed from office. grand jury findings out tonight accused district attorney mark peterson, a willful or construct misconduct in office. in december peterson admitted having spent more than $66,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. the superior court judge will now decide whether to hand the matter over to the d.a.'s or appoint a prosecutor. >>> two san francisco men, one of them a ucsf psychiatrist are charged with up loading child pornography. they were arrested on tuesday after allegedly finding more than 1200 files of child pornography on various devices inside their home on gwen a vista terrace. investigators say dr. lock heart seen here in a photo from ucsf website was using the university's wi-fi, internet to up load graphic images of children. ucsf says it placed dr. lock hot on leave and is fully cooperating with the investigation. >> a legal battle betw

from the mission district, wayne freedman, "abc 7 news." >>> now that is finding some real treasure inids. that is a great idea. anything to motivate them, get them fired up about learning. >> we're getting fired up about the weather, or heating up anyway. >> wind seems to be calming down a little bit meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> that's right. the winds are easing. look at live doppler 7. we have clouds beginning to gather as the winds stopped blowing so strong. you will notice they're gusting still at sfo out of the southwest to 26. same thing with fairfield but earlier we had over 40 mile an hour wind gusts will temperatures right now in the 50s exempt los gatos, 44 degrees. here is a picture from ore emeryville camera. clouds will increase overnight, a few showers possible tomorrow and heating up by the end of the week. tomorrow morning when you get going make sure to grab that jacket. it is going to start out breezy and cool. mid 40s to the low 50s. clouds will be gathering so it does start out pretty cloudy in the morning, and as you take a look at the

from the mission district, wayne freedman, "abc 7 news." >>> now that is finding some real treasure inids. that is a great idea. anything to motivate them, get them fired up about learning. >> we're getting fired up about the weather, or heating up anyway. >> wind seems to be calming down a little bit meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> that's right. the winds are easing. look at live doppler 7. we have clouds beginning to gather as the winds stopped blowing so strong. you will notice they're gusting still at sfo out of the southwest to 26. same thing with fairfield but earlier we had over 40 mile an hour wind gusts will temperatures right now in the 50s exempt los gatos, 44 degrees. here is a picture from ore emeryville camera. clouds will increase overnight, a few showers possible tomorrow and heating up by the end of the week. tomorrow morning when you get going make sure to grab that jacket. it is going to start out breezy and cool. mid 40s to the low 50s. clouds will be gathering so it does start out pretty cloudy in the morning, and as you take a look at the

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman is live in petaluma to explain. wayne?reporter: budget cuts have a tendency to be political especially when dealing with a government entity. in this case the sheriff's agency sheriff's department. some people think this discussion has begun prematurely. business as usual inside the sonoma county sheriffs department today, at least on the surface, but there's tension in the air. >> well, everybody year it costs more to do business. >> reporter: and now it's looking at a budget cut. the county is asking everybody department to describe what measures it would take to cut between 3 and 6% next year. it asked the sheriff's department for $6.5 million and somehow some way the department's early projections appeared on yesterday's board agenda. >> i don't know. i don't know how it got into the agenda. i assume that they wanted it to be public. >> reporter: the department's proposals include cutting back on staffing and outlying areas and reducing community services. they do not want to cut back on emergency calls. >> every cut h

abc7 news's wayne freedman joins us live from the brand-new but very old alamo square park. wayne? >> reporter: they're going to have new bathrooms. they have new grass, new irrigation, they have new trees. what they really have that's back is that view over my head and the ability to lie down on the grass and take it all in. there are ribbon cuttings. >> 3, 2, 1, yea. >> reporter: we'll call this more of a re-ribbon cutting for san francisco's 164-year-old icon. after one year and $6 million, the city's alamo square park reopened. >> it went from the most water wasting park in our system to the most water efficient park in our system. >> reporter: the longer the process certainly had a draining effect on the local economy. >> we had less visitors, it's stressful. >> reporter: at the alamo square deli, the views that attracted hungry customers pretty much kept them away with the park closed and no one able to visit. here is a shot before they pulled the fences down. after today, though, no regrets. >> i'm pretty grateful for all they did with the landscaping. i think they did a gre

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains. >>. >> reporter: at the age of 18, he's sofa think he has a degree in pharmacology. >> i got pneumonia. >> reporter: his mother has had lyme disease for years and so has he. >> reporter: lyme comes from ticks. the spring grass is full of them. even in california where most of us recognize the telltale bites with the target around them but not the more subversive symptoms. that's where wendy adams comes in. >> we want to make lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure. >> reporter: her bay area lyme foundation is creating a biobank of different strains from california. >> only 20% of researchers have the patient samples they need to do research into lyme disease. >> reporter: if you have a tick bite, the foundation may ask you to volunteer a few more vilesalf blood when being diagnosed. kathleen picked up lyme while gardening, nine years later she still suffers chronic symptoms. >> i never saw a tick on myself. never did. >> reporter: louis had it twice. the first time from a tick on his dog, the second while camping. the disease has sl

. >> abc7 news reporter wayne freedman live at the sheriff's office in santa rosa. wayne? >> reporter: well, we appear to have a solution to a case that made national news at the time and why not? a young couple very much in love sleeping on the beach seemingly alone. all of a sudden they're murdered. no one knew why or where or how. today deputy sheriff here at sonoma county thinks they did get their man. along the river road in forestville today, yellow tape as sheriff's investigators search for clues in a murder mystery. this is the booking vote oel of 38-year-old shawn gallon. today sonoma county steve freitas linked him to the murder of jason allen and 22-year-old lyndsay cut shaul on fish head beach. >> he had information about the killings that no other person could have known and we have located evidence that corroborates his statement. >> reporter: in quiet picturesque jenner where the russian refr meets the sea, the murders had been and remain disturbing. >> it was shocking, unusual, and then no one had any idea who it was. >> reporter: they had been christian co

nabs reporter wayne freedman explains this whole thing came from good intentions. >> reporter: safe to say that at jones and eddy in san francisco, the old hotel harold and its inhabitants have seen better days. especially after the scare that its 85 mostly disabled and non-english speaking residents endured early this afternoon. >> it was very difficult. >> reporter: that is tony who with the san francisco police and fire departments evacuated some seven floors worth of people all because of two artillery shells similar to this that the caretaker of an elderly veteran found at a nearby apartment. he put them in his car and drove them to the police station. >> he left them in his vehicle and came into the station, told us that he had these two rounds in his car seat in front. >> reporter: police responded by following protocol. they blocked the street, began evacuating buildings. residents had no time to grab anything, nor did they know why. >> well, it's across the street from a police station so anything is likely. >> reporter: slowly, patiently, police and firemen helped their elder

. >> abc7 news reporter wayne freedman is live at the station. wayne, you said this all began with good intentions? >> reporter: it did start out with good intentions. a caretaker in an apartment is going through a closet, he finds two artillery shells. he says, i wonder if they're live. so, he brings them to the police station and that is how it all began. >> it was about 2 feet long, about maybe 4 inches in diameter. >> reporter: in fact, there were two artillery shells that looked very much like this. what had been a normal day in the tenderloin police station at jones and eddy changed quickly when the man who officers describe as a caretaker for an elderly man brought the shells downtown after finding them in an apartment. >> we left them in his vehicle and came into the station, told us that he had these two rounds in his car seat in front. >> police responded by following protocol. they blocked the street and began evacuating four elderly hotels, including the hotel harold home for some 85 mostly non-english speaking people. they went door t

wayne freedman with a story that's new at 11:00. >> reporter: hard core fans living and dying with every play as if life-long dreams hang in the balance. for lonny, it's true. >> need them to win. >> for many reasons. >> reporter: moved back into mother's house, tranormed a back room into studio and creating signed prints of the warriors starters. novel idea. >> defying odds here. >> turned back on ten years in corporate america to make it happen. >> whenever there's a fork in the road in my life, comes back to my art. >> reporter: began with crayons and continues today with a few detours in the way. drives for uber and uses every square inch of the car for advertising space. guess who climbs into this back seat? >> klay thompson. >> reporter: who he is now drawing. >> told him you're next. >> reporter: got him into warriors practice. >> how many could you make if you had to right now? >> as many as they want. >> reporter: you understand with the nba playoffs he hangs on every basket. you would too if invested everything. >> i'm hoping. >> reporter: so does your mother. >> that's right.

wayne freedman has the story from vallejo. >> don't let the crowd mislead you, when the friends and family of pearl pinson gathered, it was hard and painful. >> i thought we would find her by then. >> reporter: the family did as well. but as a sign on this walkway reads, where is she? is she dead or alive. >> how do you deal with not knowing? >> it is [ inaudible ]. i don't know. >> reporter: one year ago today 15-year-old pearl was walking to school on this overpass when witnesses saw 19-year-old fernando rojas drag her away and he died in a shoot without with police and they never found more than traces of her blood on the car and no sign of a body. >> we don't know why he he even took her and the question is why. where is she at. >> we want to bring [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: one year later this overpass remains a memorial. it is impossible to miss when walking through, hard to ignore when driving beneath, and for family members, let's just hope that the rest of us never know such pain. >> i'll always have hope and i'll always [ inaudible ]. >> if she is watching this, anything to say

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wayne freedman has the story from vallejo. >> don't let the crowd mislead you, when the friends and family of pearl pinson gathered, it was hard and painful. >> i thought we would find her by then. >> reporter: the family did as well. but as a sign on this walkway reads, where is she? is she dead or alive. >> how do you deal with not knowing? >> it is [ inaudible ]. i don't know. >> reporter: one year ago today 15-year-old pearl was walking to school on this overpass when witnesses saw 19-year-old fernando rojas drag her away and he died in a shoot without with police and they never found more than traces of her blood on the car and no sign of a body. >> we don't know why he he even took her and the question is why. where is she at. >> we want to bring [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: one year later this overpass remains a memorial. it is impossible to miss when walking through, hard to ignore when driving beneath, and for family members, let's just hope that the rest of us never know such pain. >> i'll always have hope and i'll always [ inaudible ]. >> if she is watching this, anything to say

wayne freedman with a story that's new at 11:00. >> reporter: hard core fans living and dying with everylay as if life-long dreams hang in the balance. for lonny, it's true. >> need them to win. >> for many reasons. >> reporter: moved back into mother's house, transformed a back room into studio and creating signed prints of the warriors starters. novel idea. >> defying odds here. >> turned back on ten years in corporate america to make it happen. >> whenever there's a fork in the road in my life, comes back to my art. >> reporter: began with crayons and continues today with a few detours in the way. drives for uber and uses every square inch of the car for advertising space. guess who climbs into this back seat? >> klay thompson. >> reporter: who he is now drawing. >> told him you're next. >> reporter: got him into warriors practice. >> how many could you make if you had to right now? >> as many as they want. >> reporter: you understand with the nba playoffs he hangs on every basket. you would too if invested everything. >> i'm hoping. >> reporter: so does your mother. >> that's right.

live in napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> all right, wayne, thank you. spirit airlines is expanding its operations out of oakland international airport. the discount carrier is adding two new destinations. a nonstop flight from oakland to baltimore/washington international airport. spirit offers seven nonstop destinations from oakland with 11 daily flights including chicago, dallas fort worth, houston and los angeles. >> keep your mind if sight-seeing, two parking lots at either end of the golden gate bridge closed for most of this long holiday weekend. the lots will be closed from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through memorial day to prevent traffic from backing up onto the bridge. you can still reach the parking lots and viewpoints by bus, taxi, ride sharing service, biking or walking. and there will be closures on bart this weekend as well. oakland's lake merritt station will be shut down through the holiday weekend as part of ongoing maintenance work. this is video from bart of the project. buses will run instead of trains from fruitvale to west oakland an

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please come home. >> we haven't stopped looking for you. >> reporter: in vallejo, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> san francisco police have launched a homicide investigation after a discovery in bernl heights. a jogger found the body of a stabbing victim around 5:30 in bernl heights park. the portion of the park where the body was found is closed as officers look for evidence. the entire park reopened just before 11:00. no arrests have been made. >>> sky 7 was over the may fair bart station at san leandro. police investigated the discovery of a body inside a pedestrian tunnel. a bart spokesperson tell us the person was most likely a transient. foul play is not suspected. >> homelessness in the east bay is skyrocketing. new numbers from the streetless head count defy some of the stereo types and increase the urgency to do something. >> abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley reports from oakland, the city most plagued by the homeless crisis. leslie. >> reporter: that's right. the homelessness counts confirmed what oaklanders already know, homelessness is expanding exponentially, is visible eve

here's abc7 news reporter wayne freedman. >> reporter: at the age of 18 louis is so familiar with thethink he has a degree in pharmacology. he knows them for all the wrong reasons. >> i got mono, walking pneumonia, bronchitis twice, stomach flu, a bunch of colds. >> reporter: such are a few of the die boll cli deceptive symptoms of lyme disease. his mother had it, too after going undiagnosed for years. >> you sound like a hypocondrak or need a specialist for those things. >> reporter: in kfrl where most of us recognize those tell tale bites with the target around them, but not the more subversi subversive symptoms. that's where wendy adams comes in. >> we want to make it easy to cure. >> reporter: partnering with medical groups around the region to kree a a biobank for strains. >> only 23% of doctors have the strain they need to do a test. >> reporter: you might be asked to volunteer a few more vials of blood. >> we're getting the same amount of fending as leprosy. >> reporter: she picked up lime while gardening. >> i never saw a tick on myself. >> reporter: louis had it twice. first

in napa, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> all right.while protesting the national anthem is heading to the smithsonian. they arranged to donate the jersey to the national museum of african-american history and culture. edwards believes his stance against police brutality continued a conversation that historically made americans uncomfortable. cap is a free agent and said he will not continue this type of protest if he plays next season. of the seattle sea hawks is interested in him as a back up quarterback. >> that will do it for abc7 news at 4:00. i'm alma daetz. >> i'm larry beil. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> we found out disturbing information regarding the father -- >> breaking news about a missing one-year-old. this image just released. we are live with the amber alert for the entire bay area. >> a bitter sweet day for contra costa county family. this afternoon the sentencing of a young man in the murder of a 9-year-old. >> today marks another milestone of more healing for my family. >> san jose family safely escapes from

argh, here's abc7 news reporter wayne freedman. >> reporter: it is one of the strangest stores? address and also the name of an establishment with buried treasure that serves as a purveyor for pirates, creative pirates, anyway. so, if i want this -- >> you have to give me a story, a song, a joke, a dance or a drawing. >> reporter: this is what happens when a nonprofit wants to open on an street zoned for retail. they invented the pirate motif as a hook in front while the real work happens in back when neighborhood kids show up every week day afternoon. >> i want to be a doctor. >> i want to be an author. >> reporter: just marjanovimagi nonprofit making homework, math, writing so much fun these kids want to be here. >> our goal is to transform relationship with writing really to help them build confidence in themselves as learners and as creative people and as owners and tellers of their own story. >> reporter: it's an environment with no computers or laptops, just paper, pencil and books and one on one tutors from kristen cosby who reads allowed wioud t >> week. >> i get the sat

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman live with more. wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. less than one minute ago. until that point it was balkd up for an estimated three quarters of a mile north from here. all those cars just sitting still. but this point, the california highway patrol is trying to figure out what happened several hours ago, what happened and why. the chp tells us they received a report of the shooting approaching west side road on highway 101 just after 12:00 p.m., an unidentified vehicle pulled up alongside two victims, fired an unknown number of shots into the car. the chp says they're trying to figure out a motive at this time. they don't know whether this was targeted or whether it was random. shootings in sonoma county, especially on free ways, are not common which makes this even more unusual. >> yeah, you don't see that in sonoma county. so, it is disconcerting. we want the public to know we are doing our best to find out the reason behind it and the people that are suspected of doing it. so, yeah, it is worrying. we don't see that type of thing

from the mission district, wayne freedman, abc 7. >>> the signs are up and you are being warned. expect traffic in san francisco to be a bit of a mess for beta breakers. the race celebrates its 50th anniversary. runners will start at 8:00 a.m., they'll run seven miles west across the city finishing on the great highway by ocean beach. organizers expect 40,000 runners and 200,000 spectators on sunday. >> we were into that story very half empty. this is one of the best events in san francisco and we're like "traffic is going to be a mess." it's an awesome event so let's go with that. hi, mike. >> good thing for those who don't always follow the dress code. it will be warmer by the time we get to sunday look how fast those clouds are moving. today we'll have light showers that will keep us cooler than average, it's a different breeze, a warmy breeze and a drier breeze and the heat is on inland friday, saturday, and sunday. here's today's temperatures, mid to upper 50s from half moon by a into san francisco. 60 to 63 for the bay and about 64 to 67 inland. temperatures at least 10 deg

wayne freedman ask live from the san marin point station in novato. >> reporter: it's been a bizarreks like a ghost station, nobody on the platform, trains arriving, trains leaving, nobody on the train, and apparently everything going according to schedule. in novato, amy and those who work in her office have grown used to claking, from the computer, but when the claking began outside of window, call it growing pains. >> it's almost like white nice for us. >> reporter: that clacking came after a simulated schedule it hopes to begin for paying passengers next month. the train ran 34 trips between sonoma and marin today. this is not just a matter of getting their schedule right, but that their schedule coordinates with other public transit agencies. >> we all have to coordinate our schedules so that when somebody arrives at our station, they have a bus to take them where they need to go. >> reporter: both novato and san rafael have began horns. >> it's loud, it's as if we're standing on the tracks. >> reporter: which would seem to be the point of those horns. >> it's the jurisdictions

abc sandwich news reporter, wayne freedman is there live. >> reporter: botulism is formed from a toxin found in bacterial spores. we have a patient, a 37-year-old man from sacramento. his name is -- sorry, martin valendo, from the sacramento area and by all accounts battling a most severe case of a rare disease. roughly 110 cases a year in the united states, just 110 and we're having an outbreak in northern california. it is not an isolated case and they all appear to have come from here, the valley oak food and fuel gas station at walnut grove. as of this morning they had confirmed five cases with three other pobls and one suspected, a total of nine thus far all from tainted nachos cheese sauce served inside from april 22nd and may 5th. >> i've never seen my sister not have function of her body or be able to communicate. >> reporter: that's teresa kelly describing her 33-year-old sister who has spent three weeks in a sacramento intensive care ward. her symptoms began with slurred peach. >> basically she's saying, sister i need you here now. >> reporter: botulism can show up in many fo

wayne freedman ask live from the san marin point station in novato. >> reporter: it's been a bizarre day, it looks like a ghost station, nobody on the platform, trains arriving, trains leaving, nobody on the train, and apparently everything going according to schedule. in novato, amy and those who work in her office have grown used to claking, from the computer, but when the claking began outside of window, call it growing pains. >> it's almost like white nice for us. >> reporter: that clacking came after a simulated schedule it hopes to begin for paying passengers next month. the train ran 34 trips between sonoma and marin today. this is not just a matter of getting their schedule right, but that their schedule coordinates with other public transit agencies. >> we all have to coordinate our schedules so that when somebody arrives at our station, they have a bus to take them where they need to go. >> reporter: both novato and san rafael have began banned warnin horns. >> it's loud, it's as if we're standing on the tracks. >> reporter: which would seem to be the point of those horns.

abc sandwich news reporter, wayne freedman is there live. >> reporter: botulism is formed from a toxin found in bacterial spores. we have a patient, a 37-year-old man from sacramento. his name is -- sorry, martin valendo, from the sacramento area and by all accounts battling a most severe case of a rare disease. roughly 110 cases a year in the united states, just 110 and we're having an outbreak in northern california. it is not an isolated case and they all appear to have come from here, the valley oak food and fuel gas station at walnut grove. as of this morning they had confirmed five cases with three other pobls and one suspected, a total of nine thus far all from tainted nachos cheese sauce served inside from april 22nd and may 5th. >> i've never seen my sister not have function of her body or be able to communicate. >> reporter: that's teresa kelly describing her 33-year-old sister who has spent three weeks in a sacramento intensive care ward. her symptoms began with slurred peach. >> basically she's saying, sister i need you here now. >> reporter: botulism can show up in many fo

wayne freedman. >> reporter: at the age of 18, louis is so familiar with these modern medications you has a degree in pharmacology. he knows them for all the wrong reasons. >> i got mono, walking pneumonia, stomach flu, a bunch of colds. >> reporter: a few of the i do bottically deceptive symptoms of lyme's disease, his mother has it, too and undiagnosed for years. >> you either sound like a hypochondriac or -- >> reporter: lyme is the bug we recognize with the telltale tail after them. >> we want to make it's easier to diagnose and simple to cure. >> reporter: creating a biobank of different strains in california. >> only 20% of researchers have the patient samples they need to search into lyme disease. >> reporter: if you have a tick bite they may ask you to give a few more violence of blood. >> we're getting the same amount of funding as leopracy. >> reporter: the picked it up gardening and nine years later suffers symptoms. >> i never saw a tick on myself. >> reporter: louis got it from his dog and then camping. the disease has sloane him so much high school has taken five years i

live near healdsburg, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> thank you, wayne. we told you 101 opened literally minutes ago. traffic is really slow. want to take a look at our drive time traffic map. you can see the area in red. that's the heavy traffic. hopefully that will dissipate as we get into the afternoon hours. that road has just reopened. >> governor brown's budget is out and it calls for more spending on schools and child care. the plans for the budget year july 1st shows moderaely improved fiscal outlook since his initial proposal in january. the revised package calls for $124 billion in spending, 1.5 billion more than last year. most will go to k-12 edge kaeks. he is backing away for child support for low income families. it is now up to the legislature to come up with the final plans. >>> wells fargo is having budget issues of its own in the wake of the account scandal. they announced an additional $2 billion in cuts. they had already announced an initial 2 billion in cuts by the end of next year. it will come from closing 450 branches. the addition

wayne freedman has this story. >> reporter: at napa's memorial football stadium, there is a lock on the that's normal t. symbolism did not escape family and football players from napa high school who gathered here. >> my initial reaction, i felt there is no way this could actually be happening. >> reporter: the school board announced it will can sell the upcoming season if it cannot hire a coach by june 15th. it is the latest repercussion from a scandal that has playinged the program since last fall. >> there was a hazing incident. >> i can't talk about it. >> reporter: it's been a distrustful mess ever since. the board expelled students, the district attorney got involved. the entire coaching staff resigned in protest. we spoke with one of those under condition of anonymity the coach told us for them to pick a handsful of guys as fall guys is not right. we will fought go along with what is not morally right. parents told me much is at stake. >> if we don't have football, plain and simple. >> reporter: with a 4.opga, there could be a lost scholarship if he doesn't play. >> they need to

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman has the story. >> reporter: at napa's memorial football stadium, thereon the gate. that's normal t. symbolism did not escape families and football players who gathered here. >> my initial reaction. i felt there is no way this could actually be happening. >> the napa school board announcing it will can secancel the upcoming season if they cannot hire them by the 15th. it's the latest scandal that plagued the program since last fall. >> the latest hazing incident is serious. we can't talk about it. >> reporter: it's been a distrustful mess ever since the board expelled students the district attorney got involved. then the entire coaching staff resigned in protest. we spoke with one of those protesters under condition of anonymity. he told us, quote, for them to pick a handsful of guys as fall guys is not right. we will not go along with what is not morally right. much is at stake. >> reporter: for this boy with a 4.ogpa there could be a lost scholarship if he doesn't play next year. >> it's incredible they can make this decision for us and kind of end all

. >> abc7 news reporter wayne freedman live at the sheriff's office in santa rosa. wayne?ll, we appear to have a solution to a case that made national news at the time and why not? a young couple very much in love sleeping on the beach seemingly alone. all of a sudden they're murdered. no one knew why or where or how. today deputy sheriff here at sonoma county thinks they did get their man. along the river road in forestville today,

with that away went guillermo for another scoop at oracle a rin arena, wayne freedman abc7 news. >> i'm sure he learned something about journalism. the game starts tomorrow at 5:30 on abc7 right before game one. join me and mike shumann for the #dubson7 pregame show brought to you by jeep. we'll be live at oracle tomorrow at 5:00 as the three pete finals again. >>> the lead singer of the bay area band train will take the court tomorrow at oracle. he will perform the national anthem before the tip-off. save me san francisco and hey soul sister. >> steph curry gearing up for game one of the nba finals tomorrow, but he took some time to speak exclusively to abc7 news. he shared the biggest challenge of being in the spotlight. >> it's obviously about our fans. on a daily basis that's the hardest thing, go to the grocery store and pickup some stuff and not run into anybody, have to talk about basketball, something like that. >> curry said he had a discussion about the struggles of losing your anonymity with the former president obama. you can catch it right here on abc7 tomorrow beginning at

here is abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman. >> those who work with her in her office have grown accustomedng, computer clacking anyway, when clacking began from the smart trains outside her window call it growing panes. >> it's almost like white noise for us. >> reporter: it came with a smart and final testing phase simulating the real service schedule that helps to gin for paying passengers next month t. railroad ran 34 trips between sonoma and marin. >> on time. >> reporter: it's a matter of getting tear schedule right. maybe through their schedule, coordination and other public transit agencies. >> we all have to coordinate our schedules so our passengers that there is a bus to take them wherever is the way to go, if they need to go to the ferry. all of this is coordinated. >> they have banned warning noise from trains approaching intersection zbs actually the horns were louder than i thought they needed to be. >> it was loud. it's as if we were standing on the tracks. >> reporter: which would change the point of those horns,. bart has no say in the matter. >> it's up to the jurisdictio

here's abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman with the story. >> reporter: at napa's memorial football stadiume is a lock on the gate. that's normal. it did not keep the players that are here. >> i thought there is no way this can be happening. >> they announced they will can sell the upcoming season if it cannot hire a coach by june 15th. players may want to make other plans. it's the latest scandal that has plagued the program since last fall. >> the latest hazing incident, it was serious. i can't talk about it. >> reporter: it's been a distrustful mess ever since. the board expelled students, the district attorney got involved. then the spire coaching staff resigned in protest. we spoke with one of those coaches under condition of anonymity. he told us, quote, for them to pick a handful of guys as fall guys is not right. we will not get along with what is not morally right. parents told me much at stake. >> we can't support it if we don't have football plain and simple. >> reporter: there could be a lost colleg scholarship if he doesn't play next year. >> it's just incredible that they can

. >> abc7 news reporter wayne freedman spoke with the family of one of the victims. medical center. wayne. >> reporter: one of the patients is here at california pacific medical center. there are battles of life going on upstairs above me. this one is particularly rare. there are only roughly 110 cases of botulism in the united states every year, but we've had an outbreak in northern california. martin galindo is not an isolated case and they all appear to have come from here, the gas station in walnut grove. as of this morning, the salk sa sacramento county health department confirmed five cases three possibles and one suspected, a total of 9 so far, all from tainted nacho cheese sauce served inside from april 22 and may 5. >> i had never seen my sister not have function of her body or be able to communicate. and i've never seen my sister on tubes or anything like that. >> reporter: that's theresa kelly describing her 33-year-old sister lavinia who has spent three weeks in a sacramento intensive care ward. her symptoms began with slurred speech. >> is she saying -- b

wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> b.a.r.t. had a party today to mark the completion of union city station. there is a new entrance on the east side of the station that eventually will connect to a brand-new development that includes apartments, a playground and sthopz. union city officials hope to turn adjacent areas into office space. a quarter of the units plan for the space have been designated as affordable housing. >>> if your travels include taking b.a.r.t. tomorrow, expect delays if you're traveling through oakland, ongoing track work will happen between lake merrick and fruitvale stations. tllt be no train service. a bus bridge will be set up for shuttle riders for the affected stations. they will run sunday to accommodate warriors fans. >> speaking of which warriors back at practice, a lot more focus among the players because they know they'll be facing san antonio in the next round of the playoffs. no surprise, the two teams were expected all along to meet in western conference finals. showing a lot of respect for th

from foster city, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> sad. >> yeah. >> thank you so much for joining us fort 4:00. i'm alma daetz. >> i'm larry beil. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> we pray and we hope for justice for sierra. >> sierra lamar's father speaks at his daughter's murder trial ask finally over. the four-letter word challenged by the defense. >> san jose's police chief calls it a tragic incident perpetrated by evil. >> we know the identity of the man shot and killed by san francisco police. his family and friends are still in disbelief. >> plus the north bay city where a major business shut its doors and another gets completely bought out. >> announcer: live where you live, this is abc7 news. >> good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. we begin with the trial of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. >> finally a jury is deciding the fate of torres. deliberations are underway at the santa clara county courthouse. >> that's where abc7 news reporter david louie joins us live. david? >> reporter: kristen and dan, the jury has been deliberati