Investigators had at the time. Tonight the department is not issuing an apology. The Vallejo Police department is standing by statements made in march calling a kidnapping a hoax. Were they too a hoax . I dont think so based on some of the evidence we had at the time. Id be revealing details of the investigation if i elaborated on that. Reporter suspect Matthew Muller arrested. Vindication for Denise Huskins and her boyfriend. We were all surprised that transpired. In march, huskins and 89 said they were drugged, tied up. When huskins appeared at her parents home vallejo pd doubted their story. They arrested muller erer months later for a double Home Invasion. No apology from vallejo pd. I think its important that we wait before we look at ourselves and figure out exactly what the final outcome is. Today Matthew Mullers attorney visited him in jail. Hes in a difficult place. Well be looking at mr. Mullers entire life in his defense. One which includes mental ililness. The city will wait for the investigations conclusion before reviewing the Police Department. You can depend on abc 7 news to provide continuing coverage of the kidnapping case on air and online. Our coverage continues on twitter abc7 news bay area. Rescue teams began searching for a person believed to have drowned. Witnesses saw someone jump in the water this morning and never surfaced. Theyve been looking from boats and the shore but so far no signs of that presumed victim. Three people went to the hospital following a chainreaction accident that ended with a car backing into a fire engine. That car hit another truck and house in the richmond district. Two people in the car were seriously jrtd lyly injured. They installed braces to support the house. Turning to our weather now. Spencer christian is here with an accuweather update. A beautiful day. Breezy, blue skies. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd. I wanted to show you some time lapse animation of video of waves of drizzle at sfo. The drizzle has now ended. There we go. Our drizzle on the camera lens. Thats how it was in several areas. A little damp. Right now its dry. Clouds hovering over sfo. Oakland, 69. Mid70s. 81 in morgan hill. Heres the view looking toward golden gate. Currently 86 in santa rosa. Mid70s in napa novato. Skies are blue over the golden gate. Partly cloudy and mild conditions this evening. Spotty drizzle early tomorrow morning. Its going to sizzle inland. Warm conditions. High temperatures inland reaching into the mid90s. Ill show you what will follow that in a little bit. The ntsb voted today to start treating your tour buses more like airplanes when it comes to safety measures. Ten people died when a fedex truck hit the tour bus head on in glen county. Most of the passengers were High School Students on a college tour. Many struggled to escape. They want to improve emergency exits and use more flame retardant materials in buses. It also called for safety briefings like used on airlines. They are trying to pass new strict guidelines for the inspection of balconyies. It comes after the deadly collapse at an apartment building. Some dont think the new guidelines go far enough. Laura anthony is live in berkeley. Hi. These proposals are emergency measures which means theyd go into effect immediately but some say with the urgency should come more action. In the wake of this senseless tragedy weve learned there are clear deficiencies in our building code. Reporter the deaths of six young people in last months balcony collapse must lead to serious change in the way his city regulates structures like it. But he doesnt think current proposals go far enough. It becomes clear that we do need more regulations to ensure balcony safety. While the proposals work toward that goal, there are more fundamental steps we can take. The current ordinances would require mandatory ventilation on all new balconies and inspections every five years. Beyond that he wants notice that blgd that dont use steel in their structures n wants inspections done more often. Every three years. But the family of one collapse victim wants to go further. Attorneys for ashley donohoes family wrote, if the city of berkeley truly wants to prevent another strategy these required inspections should be done at minimum, every year. Whatever the final form if they approve it tonight it would go into effect immediately requiring initial inspections within six months. In Berkeley Laura anthony abc 7 news. Tough questions on capitol hill for Homeland Security about the waterfront shooting death of a woman in San Francisco. Republican lawmakers blame the Obama Administration saying his immigration policy fails. Francisco sanchez is charged with killing kate steinle. They wanted to know why sanchez an undocumented immigrant, was transferred to the San Francisco jail where the sheriff later released him. Why was somebody in federal prison with a federal detainer on him released to a sanctuary city . Youd have to ask the bureau of prisons. Have you asked the bureau of prisons . Now to an historic day for irans relationship with the west. A deal has been reached limiting Irans Nuclear capabilities. Mary bruce with more on why not everyone is pleased. Reporter its been less than 24 hours and already the deal is being ripped apart by some lawmakers and other World Leaders who feel it doesnt do enough to prevent a nuclear iran. Negotiators in vienna emerging after 17 days of tense talks finally with a deal. Today because america negotiated from a position of strength and principle, we have stopped the spread of Nuclear Weapons in this region. Reporter its a diplomatic transfer triumph for president obama. It sharply limits Irans Nuclear ability. In a compromise on a major sticking point, a long standing arms embargo on iran will also be lifted over time. Iran calling it a winwin. But not everyone agrees. Israel blasting the agreement. The world is a much more dangerous place today than it was yesterday. Reporter in washington, lawmakers who now have 60 days to review the deal already threatening to derail it. Its going to hand a dangerous regime billions in sanctions relief while paving the way for a nuclear iran. But the president who says its built on verification has already vowed to veto any attempts to stand in the way. This is about definitive steps iran has to take to dismantle its equipment, let in inspectors and set up a system so we can watch them 24 7. Here in washington the president has been working the phones trying to sell this deal even making a phone call to the israeli Prime Minister to try to smooth things over. Mary bruce, abc 7 news. Still ahead the search for el chapo. The frank admission the Mexican Government is making in the hunt for the mexican drug lord. An historic day. What were expecting to see from the space probe exploring pluto. Keeping the streets of san jose from violence. We are checking your san jose drive. 101 southbound on the righthand side is that big backup. Northbound moving smoothly as usual. 880 going up over covering daley city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area this is abc 7 news. The Mexican Government is stepping up its effort to wind Joaquin El Chapo guzman. They are acknowledging for the first time the wanted kingpin must have had help from authorities to complete his elaborate underground escape. Brandy hix has this story. Reporter this is what the most powerful drug lord on the run looks like today as the manhunt intensifies for Joaquin El Chapo guzman. He escaped from this maximum security prison. The fugitive must have had help from personnel or officials from the prison said mexicos interior minister announcing the firing of three top prison officials. El chapos sophisticated escape plan was at least six months in the making. This milelong and ventilated tunnel from his prison cell to newly constructed home. Six or seven months that house was built. Reporter hes responsible for tens ever thousands of deaths by drug overdoses and murders with his empire spanning the globe and infiltrating Many American cities. Offer the full support of the American Government to the Mexican Government to try to recapture mr. Guzman. Reporter the last time he escaped from prison he was able to hide for 13 years. They obtained inteel last year that he may have been planning another escape. Opponents of the safe new law to vaccinate School Children can begin Gathering Signatures to appeal the law. It requires all schoolchildren in california to be vaccinated unless a doctor gives them a medical exemption. It goes into fect next year but opponents hope to get enough signatures to put the issue before voters. Also reports of a buyout. The stock rose after someone planted a story saying twitter received a 31 billion buyout offer. It appeared on a website made to look like a Bloomberg News page. The story was bogus. Twitter closed up at 36. 72. A long wait is over for harper lees followup to to kill a mocking burdbirdmockingbird. Abc 7 news dropped by the san jose barnes noble and found plenty of copies available. Customers who preordered the book were directed to the parking lot to pick their copies. Residents in harper lees hometown celebrated with a midnight party. Readers came to pick up their copies. I came out here just to get this book. I cant wait to get home. I ordered 14 copies before this and theyre ordering 4 more. Monroe is a town of about 6,000 and theyve already taken 7,000 ordered. The reclusive author is thrilled to sighee her book in print. 3 2, 1 scientists celebrated at the Johns Hopkins applied physics lab. The probe sent back a surface image this morning. Scientists expect to get even better image in two hours. 6 00 west coast time it will torn earth send us a ping and say, i made it through. That tells us that the gold is on board and now we need it back. It left earth nine years ago. It will be mostly finished with data collecting tomorrow and then will begin sending back a trove of information. Spencer christian has been checking our forecast and is outside with the latest. Blue skies after a partly to fairly cloudy start this morning. Live doppler 7 hd. The clouds are pushing up against portions of the coastline. Lets take a look at wind gusts. Sfo 31 miles an hour. San carlos 21. And breezy in other locations even where its not gusty. And its cooler by several degrees than it was at this hour yesterday in most locations. 3 degrees cooler. 7 degrees cooler at palo alto. Clouds lingered before giving way to bluer skies. Now over the bay. These are our forecast pictures. Spotty drizzle overnight. Hot inland. Cooler and cloudier conditions this weekend. Right now satellite radar showing that weak trough that has now pushed out of the bay area. Slow to move through which is one reason clouds lingered. Now High Pressure will rebuild behind that and warmer conditions inland tomorrow and thursday. Meanwhile in the tropical specific, were watching two systems. Tropical storm enrique moving harmlessly now out to sea. Were keeping our eye on hurricane delores which is a category 1 hurricane. By late tomorrow its expected to intensify into a category 3. Delores will continuing moving toward the northwest away from mexico and baja california, and then weaken to a tropical storm. Its not moisture from that. Its from this low pressure system that will drop down on sunday and bring us a slight chance of showers in the bay area sunday night and early monday and then move on out of here. Look for clouds thickening. Spotty drizzle. Low temperatures around 60 degrees. Tomorrow highs in mid to upper act 80s. 60s around San Francisco. High of 71 in the city. Upper 80s in the north bay. Upper 70s. And mainly low to mid90s. The forecast shows hot weather inland with cooler pattern developing for the weekend ahead of the showers overnight sunday into monday. Ama and matt . This years aids walk San Francisco will be held in five days. Its sunday in golden gate park. Call to register or visit sf. Aids walk. Net. Up in creepy or cute . It has the sports world talking today. Jeb bush calls out donald trump. The accusations the former Florida Governor is making against his gop president ial rival. Were checking your traffic through san rafael. This is 101 on the righthand side. Your southbound traffic. Northbound is moving about as well as your southbound its a party in paris. In fact throughout the nation. Proud french women boys and girls are celebrating bastille day. To entertain crowds they marched in the citys parade file while fighter jets rocketed in the air. Bastille celebrations are taking place here tonight in the bay area. French pride is on full display. Bastille day commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of france by the storming of the bass steel whichbastille on this day. Nothing will get in the way of taylor swift and her fans. Not even a technical issue. Up here. Im sure thousands would catch her. She was trapped on an extendible stage in washington, d. C. She chatted with fans and sang an improstmptu song. Espn is shedding some light on giving Caitlyn Jenner the arthur ashe courage award. Critics called it an exploitation play. Producerers said the arthur ashe is given to someone who has done something that transcends sports and thats what they believe jenner has done. You can see jenner accept her award tomorrow right here on abc 7. Our coverage starts at 4 00. Stay tuned for the espys at 8 00. Still time to vote for your favorite including five categories where warriors are nominated. Selfies are popular but someone took a selfie that can be seen as creepy. Billy bonds showed this picture. Bonds says im so proud to have the best godfather in the world. I love you and everything that youve done for my family. If willy mays was my godfather, id be taking pictures of him sleeping, too. The evening commute on the bay bridge turns into a danger one after flames erupt. A man learns if hell remain behind bars while awaiting a retrial. What san ride away by roy orbison begins to play i ride the highway. Im going my way. I leave a story untold. He just keeps sending more pictures. If youre a freerange chicken you roam free. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Two wheels a turnin. Live from the kgo tv Broadcast Center this is abc 7 news. Here are the headlines where you live today. The attorney for Matthew Muller the suspect in the bizarre kidnapping of huskins is speaking today. He says muller suffers from a mental disease and jail is difficult for him. Vic lee spoke to the San FranciscoChronicle Reporter who received a series of emails after the kidnapping was a hoax. Vic will have a live report at 5 00. Nonprofit bay area organizations are benefiting from a huge donation. An anonymous donor gives 34 million to oakland. It was the San Francisco foundation. Wayne will have details coming upat 5 00. The san jose Police Department wants to get rid of gang violence. They desing ignated five areas as gang zones. Chris wynn joins us. Reporter this comes after a recent spike in gangrelated violence. Downtown san jose is one of those zones with police wanting to be sure their presence is known summertime in san jose brings a spike in violence. Theyve launched a gang suppression staffing model. Police tell us theyll be implementing selective enforcement efforts throughout the city including downtown and east san jose. Some officers normally assigned to s. W. A. T. Or metro will be assisting with patrols. Any time you can saturate their area with Law Enforcement officers to proactively go after these gang members, its obviously going to have a positive impact on the community. Reporter its also about being flexible. Theyll utilize this throughout the summer and then increase or decrease the number of officers depending on the success of the program. An investigation into a Fatal Shooting in san jose. A man was shot around 9 30 off monterey road just south of the pg e substation. Take a look at where that shooting took place. The man suffered at least one gunshot wound. He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. The intern charged with killing chandra levy will remain in jail. He was charged nine years after levy disappeared jogging in the nations capital. The case attracted National Attention after levy, a San Francisco state student from modesto was linked to california congressman gary condit. He was ruled out a suspect in her death. They asked for a retrial because a key witness gave false or misleading testimony. The family of a man who died in a chokehold by Police Officers is reaching out. The family does not see the settlement as a victory. They want the u. S. Justice department to prosecute the officer even though a grand jury opted not to. They treated my husband like an animal and i think they give animals more respect than they give humans. A Justice Department investigation is ongoing. The new York Police Commissioner refused to comment on the settlement or the familys prosecution demand. Another homegrown terror suspect appeared in court today. In this case, it hits very close to home for a Police Commander who responded to the Boston Marathon bombing. Marci gonzalez explains from new york. Reporter in court today, a former peace activist investigators say was plotting a vicious isisinspired attack. Alexander chicolo planned to set uf Pressure Cooker bombs in the cafeteria of a Major College campus and nearby gay bar and execute nonmuslim students live via the internet. He was moetstivated in part by the Boston Marathon bombing where his father was among the First Responders racing to the scene. He reported his own son to the fbi saying he had gone off the deep end and become a jihadist. Other than some radio, that was definitely middle eastern that you could hear every now and then, he was generally very quiet. Police closed in on him after he bought four highpowered weapons from an undercover operative and was arrested july 4th at his apartment. Agents found a Pressure Cooker bought just the day before along with other bombmauckking materials. His family is saying while we are sad and disappointed to learn of our sons intentions we are glad authorities were able to prevent any loss of life or harm to others. He is 1 of at least 11 suspects believed to have ties to isis arrested in just the past six weeks. Marsci gonzalez abc news, new york. Today some harsh words from Donald Trumps republican rival. Mr. Trump has a right to have every belief he has. I dont want to be associated with all these giving out these days. That was jeb bush making reference to trumps comments on mexican immigrants. He said the Republican Party needs to be big and bold, not divisive. His comments had an impact on the Miss Universe pageant. Just 925,000 watched Olivia Jordan of oklahoma win it on the reelz channel. On abc 7 news at 4 00 continues, christmas in july. The Online Shopping bonanza between two of the Nations Online retailers and the big savings for customers. The road sign mistake is leading to this fastmoving fire in southern california. Were looking at mainly clear skies. Low clouds approaching the coastline. They may bring us some drizzle overnight. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up. We are checking your golden gate traffic. A little slow heading over the bridge toward marin. On the lefthand side, coming. A rabbit. A rabbit genetically modified and bred with a panther. With turbines attached. On ice. Shaved. With a. What the . with the fastest speeds to the most homes, the company that keeps making fast faster is doing it again. Introducing multigig speeds from xfinity. The future of awesome. Caltrans squares over the cause of a brush fire yesterday. The crews were mowing brush on an access road which started a fire and burned 180 acres. It struck something hard and caused sparks along highway 241 and 15 people had to be evacuated. Theres nothing here now but youre looking at the former site of a snow pile that refused to melt in boston. They dumped the snow at this location although it didnt melt even as temperatures rose. All thats left now is puddles and mounds of garbage. Time to check on our weather outside with spencer. Nothing frozen outside now. We have a big warmup coming our way. Its quite breezy out here. Heres a time lapse view from our sfo camera showing a collection of rain drops on the camera lens. Waves of drizzle passed over the bay area. Clouds lingered into the midday area and inland areas which kept us from warming up to the expected level. Still partly cloudy skies over sfo and near the coast line. Sunny inland. Sunny over the bay and clear at golden gate. Atlantic coast or just off the coast, scattered thunderstorms. Also thunderstorms from the dakotas down through parts of colorado to new mexico. Most of the remainder of the nation under sunny and warm conditions. Look for sunny skies and High Temperatures in the 90s. Mid90s at yosemite. In the bay area sunny skies. Mid to upper 60s at the coast. As we look ahead, well use livermore as our sevenday High Temperature indicator. Temperatures rising to the mid90s. Peaking at 96 on thursday. Dropping off into right around 90 over the weekend and bouncing into the mid to low 90s on monday. Thats what all of our inland locations will see. Rise in temperatures. Drop over the weekend and warming up again on monday. Thank you, spencer. Still ahead, highway rescue. The emergency efforts to save a truck driver dangling over an interstate. Researchers attach electrode electrodes to preschoolers. Its being called the summer black friday. The big music forever young version they wont stay Young Forever. Forever young but for 60 years theres been a place where we can stay forever young together. Dont miss the Disneyland Resort diamond celebration. Forever young with an allnew electrical parade, fireworks spectacular and more. May you stay come see it all dazzle like never before. Come feel forever Young Forever young this is abc 7 news. Incredible video of a rescue today after a crash left a semi truck dangling over an overpass in detroit. Crews had to use a cherry picker to get him out safely. There was also a fuel spill so it took longer to clean up. No word on the drivers condition. A Scottsdale Fire Department says they were with a man working on a vacant building when a swarm of bees attacked them. Another worker was treated for several stings. The 16yearold girl who survived a plane crash in Washington State could be released this evening. She tells authorities she survived two days after the crash. Heres the 911 call she made after being picked up by a motorist. I was riding from montana to washington and about well, i dont know where, but we crashed, and i was the only one that made it out. Autumn is doing well. Her father and friends released these photos after arriving at the hospital. The Mountain View tech giant is trying to be more efficient due to slowing growth and profit margins. Only certain groups in the company are allowed to add staff right now. They are still a long way from cutting jobs but its a change for a company known for its freespending ways. Amazon versus walmart. A fight between the worlds biggest seller and the website of the biggest retailer takes place tomorrow. Reporter amazon and walmart going headtohead in an Online Shopping bonanza some are calling christmas in july. Amazon celebrating with prime day july 15th. A super sale beginning at midnight for members of the 99 per year prime service claiming theyll be offering better deals than on black friday. And walmart announcing its deal to rival amazon. More than 2,000 special atomic deals on Online Purchases also starting wednesday. Walmart doesnt like to lose. Amazon is killing them in ecommerce. Walmart is trying to get people to save their money. Not shop on amazons sale and shop on walmarts sale. Walmart wrote the idea of asking customers to pay extra in order to save money just doesnt add up fors. Amazons response the idea of charging your instore customers more than your Online Customers doesnt add up for us. Online shopping is the new frontier. Amazon walmart a lot of other retailers want to get a leg up because they think most people will be doing most of their shopping online. Fewer americans hit the nations shopping malls in june. Retail sales fell 0. 3 last month after rising in may. Sales fell for cars, furniture Building Materials and clothing. This may be a sign the u. S. Economy is hitting a soft spot. The nuclear deal between iran and world powers is likely to drive gas prices way down. Analysts say prices could drop to 2 a gallon in some places if the deal is ratified. Iran hasnt been able to sell oil to the u. S. Since 1995. Iran could add 500,000 barrels of oil a day to World Markets by the end of this year. The relief at the pump wont come quick enough in california. They are paying the highest in the nation. Prices have spiked an average of 22 cents a gallon since friday. The Energy Commission is investigating the reasons behind the spuk. Ike. The national highway traffic and safety board says air bags have saved 40 thous lives since 1987 while eight have been lost in the last seven years. Its important to know air bags save lives. People saying should i disconnect them . Ngo. If you disconnect it you have zero protection. Takata is recalling 33. 8 millionaire bags in the u. S. They can explode firing shrapnel at drivers or passengers. Scientists say it may be possible to predict which preschoolers will struggle to read in the classroom. They attached electrodes to the scalps of Young Children to see how their brain cells respond to speech. Theres a link between how the world recognizes consonant sounds. How accurate is webmd. And male furnneral directors may be putting themselves in trouble. Men who work with balming fluid may be susceptible to lou gehrig gehrigs disease. A Funeral DirectorsAssociation Says theyre aware of it and urge members to maximize exposure with ventilation. People who selfdiagnose online are accurate about half the time. Users of medical websites should be aware their performance is not perfect. The medical sites were used more than 100 million times last year. Moms who want to encourage their daughters to be active should practice what they preach. Young sgirls whose moms were physically active were more likely to exercise themselves and the more time the moms spent sedentary, the more time the girls spent in front of the screen. What seniors wanted to measure biometric data easily and sport bands more comfortable. The way aging skins change, the fitness bands were uncomfortable to wear. Still ahead flames erupt in the middle of the bay bridge. And at 5 00, an anonymous multimilliondollar gift to oakland. Who gets to unwrap their future. New concerns over chemicals in vinyl flooring. 7 on your side takes a look coming up. Tonight in primetime, we have fresh off the boat at 8 00 followed by blackish at 8 30 and two hours of extreme weight loss at 9 00. Join us for abc 7 news at 11 00. Traffic is flowing smoothly through the southbound tunnel on the new doyle drive. They painted the lines that caused some confusion for drivers. As you can see, drivers arent having any issues with the newer, straighter lanes. Doyle drive closed on friday and reopened sunday night. New details about an area of the bay bridge that caught fire during last nights evening commute. They know what burned. The flameses erupting from the roadway is enough to make any driver want to stay home. That is scary. I have no idea what id do. Reporter this is what drivers had to face on in eastbound side of the bridge just after the tunnel. This morning caltrans officials are scratching their head over how this happened. We did not have workers working at the thymeime. It was about 10 15 when the fire started. Todd johnson of the San FranciscoBusiness Times tweeted this picture. A joint seal is what caught fire. They wonder if someone tossed a cigarette out the window. That can cause that kind of fire. Reporter you can see a black spot where the fire started but the bridge is fine. They couldnt imagine encountering that while driving. Id probably think the bridge was falling apart. Id probably stop. Im already nervous on bridges. So many bad things happen. I try to get across as soon as humanly possible. To know that happened on the bridge is nerveracking. Reporter the next thought is will this happen again . Did they put it together safely or how can we prevent that . Officials say they cant control what appears to be a random fire. They are putting out a plea to not throw cigarettes out on the bridge or any other roadways. Thank you for joining us at 4 00. Im ama daetz. This is very dangerous suspect that were glad to have in custody. The Kidnapping Police called a hoax. Tonight the man considered the real hero and the bizarre emails at the heart of the case. Condolences for a murder victim. The people worried about being targeted because of the San Francisco shooting. The multimilliondollar mystery donor in oakland. The person already changing lives. What interests you and takes you to a whole other place. Im sandhya patel. Ill have weather details coming up. Live from the kgo tv Broadcast Center this is abc 7 news. The an marxman accused in a bizarre kidnapping. Police respond to calling it a hoax. Good evening. Im matt keller. Im ama daetz. We have new details on that bizarre kidnapping case in vallejo. Malthue muller is accused of drugging and kidnapping Denise Huskins back in march. Police call it a hoax based on the information they have. But they were vindicated once fbi agents reveals information in the case. Vallejo Police Officers are standing by their findings for now. Well figure out exactly what the final outcome it. Mullers attorney visited his client in jail today. Hell be looking at mullers entire life in his defense including his mental illness. The kidnapping was a hoax is what the Vallejo Police department said. Abc 7 news vic lee is in the newsroom. The sheriff says it was remarkable work by my people to get to this end result. He believes the suspect mathsthew muller may be responsible for even more attacks and his investigators are looking at similar unsolved crimes. In 35 years this is bazabout as bizarre an investigation as ive been a part of. Reporter he commended his deputies for cracking the case and proving the Home Invasion and kidnapping was not a hoax. It was their work in solving another Home Invasion that led authorities to Matthew Muller who is charged in the kidnapping of Denise Huskins. They also gave credit to the dublin homeowner who fought muller when he broke into his house. Probably saved them all from being victimized furtherser. This ranks at the top of the strange scale. Reporter henry lee also says ooths its one of the most bizarre stories. He became an unwitting