Hes facing massive backlash over the profane and racial comments he said at the white house. Today the president is trying to backtrack from what he said. On a day hes under fire for racially explosive comments the president signed a proclamation honoring Martin Luther king jr. Even joined by a member of the king family but couldnt avoid the blunt question, are you a racist. Did you refer to african internationa nations mr. President are a racist. The president attempted damage control over the vulgar insult he used tweeting this but nowhere did the president explicitly deny directing that profane insults at african countries. He said these hate filled things repeatedly. Senator was in that meeting. He said haitians . Do we need more haitians . And he went on to describe the immigration from africa when he used these vial and vulgar comments calling the nations they come from [ bleep ], the exact word used by the president not just once but repeatedly. Later he detailed more of the president s comments. He said put had he down for wanting more europeans to come to this country. Why dont we get more people from norway is exactly what the president said. He said republican senator Lindsey Graham challenged the president on the spot. For him to confront the president as he did literally sitting next to him, took extraordinary political courage and i respect him for it. Today senator graham put out this statement other lawmakers condemned the president s comments as blatantly racist, senator fine stain saying and prominent republicans weighed in. First thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate, unhelpful. A daughter of haitian immigrants said the comments were unkind, divisive, elitist and fly in the face of our nations are values and former chairman Michael Steele was asked if he thinks the president is a racist. Yeah i do. At this point, i mean, the evidence is right there. Its far from the first time the president made racially insensitive comments. Theres what he said about mexico ans on the first day of his president ial campaign. Theyre bringing drugs, bringing crime, theyre rapist and some i assume are good people. His comments following the rally of white supremacyist in charlottesville. You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. But today at the mlk event the president tries to strike entirely different tone. No matter the color of our skin or place of our birth were all created equal by god. Abc 7 news the white house. President trump had his First Physical examine as president at Walter Reed Medical Center in maryland, and physician described 71yearold trump as being in excellent health. Full results of the exam expected to be announced on tuesday. Police need your help who tried to Sexual Harassment a woman in walnut creek on iron horse regional trail, east Bay Region Police says the womane t approached a woman from behind and ran away for no apparent reason, was last seen running north bound on broadway. Suffered some minor scrapes and cuts and bruises, fortunately nothing that required hospitalization. She was released at the scene. But it was a scary event. Suspect was a black male adult, thin build between ages of 30 and 40, approximately 59, wearing black beanie, white tshirt dark jeans, brown shoes with white tips. A car going just 15 miles an hour hit a woman crossing the street in berkeley the impact was enough to kill her. It happened at intersection of channing and fulton. It happened just before 1 30 this afternoon. City berkeley employee was driving a city vehiclend came to a complete stop but driver did not see the woman in the crosswalk and hit her, she was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after that. Officials think theres some city work that may have affected the drivers vision. There was city of berkeley Maintenance Work being done in the intersection and equipment in the intersection that may have contributed to some type of visual obstruction for the driver. The driver is cooperating with investigators. Doesnt appear drugs or alcohol or speed played a factor in this accident of. The victim was resident of berkeley, thoughts guys that victim and her family tonight. San Francisco Police issued 15 million arrest warrant for man suspected of killing a transgender dj and activist. Police are looking for 30yearold nguyen considered armed and dangerous. He shot and killed torres before 3 00 in the morning in the tinder loin in september fast moving fire in san jose destroyed parts of apartment building, broke out at midnight near rancho and monterey road. Huge flames came from one unit and Good Samaritans woke everyone up and made sure everyone got out, including juan and his uncle. Started knocking on peoples windows, getting the fire extinguishers to calm the flames down. Getting the people out saved liv lives. No one was hurt. All 16 residents including 5 kids and pets were accounted for. Pof the families by putting the up in hotels. The death toll from flu has killed 42 californians under the age of 65, compared with 9 same time last year. At least 19 of the flurelated deaths are in the bay area. Meantime concern is growing about a highly contagious canine flu is spreading quickly across the south bay and peninsula but can be contained. Well explain what pet owners need to know. Nothing better than seeing healthy, happy dogs at play, but theres a rush to get them protected from an outbreak of h 2 n 2 cane in outbreak as far north as belmont. Human society launched a campaign to vac in ate 300 shelter dogs and those in temporary foster homes. The facility hasnt had any flu cases and want to stay that way so bars unvaccinated dogs in entering its building. The symptoms can include coughing, sneezing, decreased appetite, and ledthargy. Can be serious. A small percentage can progress to pneumonia and small percentage of those dogs can progress to a lifethreatening illness so its important to contact your veterinarian. The Human Society is tracking its spread. Theres been no reports of transmission to people at all. Its not the same virus that is affecting people. However canine flu has been transmitted to cats in other states. Suggesting owners avoid dog parks until pets are vaccinated. Are you it might spread here. Hopefully not but its a park so you never know. Well deaf finitely take precautions. The vaccination is series of two shots two to four weeks apart and takes another two weeks for the protection to kick in. Abc 7 news. Up next a man who pulled a woman out of the path of a speeding cal train. Also a swimmer shows off bite marks to her leg. What she says about a sea lion that got too close for comfort. 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And get to the heart of what matters. A south bay man who heroically saved a woman on the cal trains track said he knew he had to act fast. He pulled the woman from her prius that became immobilized seconds later the train slammed into the car pushing it 100 feet and flipped if into the air he went into action knowing he didnt have much time to get to the driver. I just snatched her out the car and ran 50 to 60 feet to get to this corner over here. By the time we got to this conner, five or six seconds later, boom the train hit her car. The driver was shaken but unhurt, the woman appeared grateful. She said something about the the stuff in her car. Everybody said youre alive. So she looked at me and said im alive. She didnt speak lot of english but her way of saying thank you. Said he doesnt consider himself a hero. New details on injured san Francisco Police officer who is well enough after three surgeries to move back to a rehab center. The officer was patrolling on a bicycle october 18th when a fleeing driver hits him with a car that driver was arrested. Officer suffer traumatic brain injury and had surgery to replace portion of his skull and two more surgeries to take care of complications and now back to Santa Clara ValleyMedical Center where he is able to move and talk. Done iations on the go fund me page you can find on our link, search for elia. Well, three former employees of north bay motor cars were arrested on charges they em bezels more than 6 million. Federal agents arrested he and two other employees. The three made payments on fraud u lent invoivoices invoices to advertisi advertising. Occurred from 20102016. The latest swimmer to be attacked by sea lion in San Franciscos aquatic park said she will be getting back in the water. She starts same way every day, singing to the creatures she shares the park with. Happy morning to you handy morning to you. But thursday wasnt a happy morning, a sea lion bit chan on her knee. Just whack, i tell all the sea animals im a friend to you but i dont know this one become so mean to me. Chan said shes been swimming in the ocean more than 30 years and her first brush with a sea lion was three months ago when one got under her body. I said this is not a dream what happend. After she was bit thursday she called for help. Fellow swimmer was in. I started swimming with her, said do you want me to pull you, she said now can swim i just cant kick because the sea lion bit had he on my knee. Chans son was er doctor. He said youre very lucky, mom. She plans to continue swimming as early as next week. Abc 7 news. The big wave surf competition at mavericks could still happen on tuesday. The World Surfing League announces it would not be held on monday because of less than ideal conditions but are saying tuesday looks better. Theyll call it tomorrow. 30 elite surfers are standing by including for the First Time Ever six women. The contest was cancelled last year after the former organizers went bankrupt. With more on the weather conditions lets check in with spencer christian. Things are looking good for the weekds. If you like sunny weather we have a good serving of it. Lingering fog around the bay area. Patchy fog overnightle todays fog didnt burn off much of if until the afternoon. Its 54 in San Francisco right now. 50 in oakland. 52 mountain view. 50 at gill roy and half moon bay. A clear view of the bay bridge and much of San Francisco. 42 in santa rosa. Mid 40s in nevado and fairfield. Live clear view of San Francisco. It will be a dry and mild weekend with a wet pattern on monday, Martin Luther king jr. Day. Most of next week will be wet. Heres a look at the forecast animation starting at 10 00. Little bit of fog near the coast and bay moving out to sea. Sense fog will spill through the delta. Some will linger into the mid day but most will be sunny by mid day and most of the fog over the delta will disappear in the afternoon hours. Overnight low temperatures mid to upper 40s. Chilly in the north bay upper 30s in napa and lake port. Tomorrow look for mainly sunny skies by the afternoon. Highs in the low 60s on the coast. Mid 60s at the bay. San jose 64. Mainly low 60s inland east bay one or two places top out at 64. Now lets talk about rain chances, near zero over the weekend. We have substantial chances of rain just about every day next week. Its first wave of rain monday and tuesday ranks one on storm impact scale. Light intensity expected to produce under half inch for the bay area. Up to inch inch locally. Monday morning will be wet by mid day as the rain pushes south and east in the north bay. Will wind down late in the day, seconds wave of rain early Tuesday Morning will continue through perhaps wednesday and then like i to get a break, at least thats how it looks right now. 7 00 next tuesday rain fall of third and inch in most locations perhaps more in parts of the north bay. Heres the accu weather sevenday forecast. Dry weekend. Periods of wet throughout next week. Might be dry on wednesday but chances of rain wednesday seem to be increasing. Expect a wet and soggy week. Okay spencer thank you very much. All of the Major Credit Card Companies have agreed on one thing to the u. S. Supreme court will take on a case that could have us paying a sales tax on everything you buy on the internet. South dakota is asking the justices to over turn 1992 Supreme Court ruling that allow companies to avoid collecting the tax. The state and local governments could have collected up to 13 billion more in sails tax in 2017 if they were allowed to. The court will hear arguments in april with ruling by late june. Wells fargo is going to close about 800 branches because more people are banking online and on their phones. Some analysis believe banks are trying to Curb Services from unauthorized scandals that cost the Bank Billions in Legal Expenses and millions in fees. For wells fargo will still have 5,000 branches in the u. S. More than any other bank. Visa has joined all other Major Credit Card Companies plans to stop requiring customers to stop signing their receipt. With new Technology Like chips in credit cards signatures are less necessary as a safety measure. Visa said fraud dropped 66 two years after chip cards were launched in the u. S. More people in california leaving the coast and moving inland according to the state department of finance population of inland counties is growing faster than coastal areas which have traditionally be coveted for people to lay down roots but suspect lack of Affordable House something changing that. Some of that is explained by the immigrant whos come to california from abroad and then they move else where after they have settled in the bay area. The Fastest Growing county in the state, placer, east of sacramento. The search continues in Southern California tonight for mud slide victims. You hear the stories from around the world where people have been missing eight or nine days and found alive. Hope remains but is dwindling as each hour passes. Also ahead sending a secret into space. Well at the time you much as we know about tonights launch from Vandenberg Air force base. And honoring the legacy of Martin Luther king jr. How stanford is paying tribute. Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. A fire crew searches for survivors in the mudsoaked community of montecito. After the destruction of the tuesday mud flows. The nightmare is far from over from communities in montecito death toll has risen to 18, 6 people remain missing. More than 1,000 firefighters on the ground shoveling dirt, digging through the mud and debris, with six people no stone is unturned. They are going through with search teams and search dogs and peeling away some of the layers and using some of their technologies, listening devices and telescopic cameras. The smell of Natural Gas Utility Companies are working on shutting off the broken water mains and gas lines while First Responders are peeling back the layers of whats left from these homes. Fire Officials Say 450 homes damaged 65 destroyed. Today the death toll rose to 18, the youngest just 3 years old. Just like that i think were numb. And in shock. The red cross set up near by offering help. Were bringing up here water, food, clean up kits, necessities people might not have abces access to. They can come help themselves. Powerful winter storm hitting dangerous snow and ice and wind barrelling across the country more than 70 Million People in the path from mississippi to maine. Tonight both hands on the wheel for millions. This powerful winter storm bringing snow, ice, sleet and rain. In indiana an icy glaze on everything including roads, troopers warning drivers to be careful and prepared. Have a full tank of gas, have some food with you in the car, have a charged cellphone. In carol county interstate 40 a tangled mess of vehicles and auto parts one nearly killed after a Chain Reaction crash, at least 40 cars and semis piled up. We were hit in the back, spun us to the side here, another semi couldnt stop, headon collision, smashed us from the front so we got hit from the back and the front. This pick up is your truck. Thats my truck. Overnight treacherous blizzards from kansas to dakotas to wisconsin this car loosing traction in fresh snow swerving across i29 doing a full 180, wheels spinning to get out of that ditch. In the east thawing conditions along the great lakes in new york. Flooding in pittsburgh ruining this entire lot of brand new cars. Abc 7 news new york. Republican arizona congresswoman martha announced bid to replace senator jake flake Renewable Energy lea. Im tired of politicians and bs excuses im a fighter flighter and talk like one thats why i told they grow pair of ovaries and get the job done. Shes first female combat pilot and ally of the president. First has to get through g. O. P. Primary against two controversy candidates, including former state senator kelly ward. Google Check Point SoftwareTechnology Discovered an outbreak whats being called adult swine. Malware would trick users into launching fake security asches. Hackers targeted many apps mobile devices for younger users not only would they have access to more graphic terrelma. Same thing will be collecting credentia credentials. Suggestion is to check devices and delete affected apps. Amazon ceo is done nating 33 million to Fund Scholarships for undockmented immigrants referred to as dreamers those brought to u. S. Illegally as children. This following Mark Zuckerberg and apple ceo tim cooke in cosigning a letter to Congress Demanding protection for dreamers popular holiday in the bay area could get a higher profile state wide a new bill would recognize Lunar New Year as significance in california. Backed by assembly makers, the bills author of sacramento says the goal is inclusiveness. There are so many people who celebrate this holiday. It talks about the fact that means my community asianpacific Islander Community is being embraced and welcome by the entire state of california and our cultural traditions are being recognized as well. I mural that lights west Oakland Community made its debut today featuring super heroes located at the 580 under pass on west street. Was designed by students at Hoover Elementary School and painted by Community Artists was dedicated to an artist who was shot and killed while working on a mural in that neighborhood two years ago. He was excited, he has tenacity and he had fervor for the power of public art in communities and we bring that spirit into that wall. Rasmmos was helping the Community Group attitude healing and connection bring the mural to life. They work with local students to design and paint works of art. Up next the launch wasnt secret but the rocket was carrying a secret pay load. Man takes care of something nature usually d a rocket carrying a classified u. S. Satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air force base, what the delta rocket is carrying is top secret. Even the broadcast was cut off after the rocket jettison its nose cone to prevent anyone from knowing whether the pay load separated from the rocket. The mission will ensure war fighters across the globe whether have the appropriate intel they need to support operations in marin county bound to put a smile on anyone who loved coho salmon. They return home to spawn in a most unusual way. If youre in the mood for a little fishing you may never have seen it done this way before. You got to be sneaky and quick. Sneaky and quick. And you cant mind getting wet. Brian freely of the california dent fish and wild life never assume all biology experiments take place in a lab. In this case the coho return to nature in what biologists call a hatchery intervention. I dont want salmon to go extinct its a beautiful fish. He helped to design a three year experiment and trial designed to save the endangered coho population in red wood are creek they were pulled out in the summer 2015 whether they were this big. They spent their entire lives in a hatchery. Never been in an ocean. Youre making life easy for them. In a way we are. The 200 feet if we left them in the creek chances are one or two or three would have returned. Today volunteers returned almost 200 coh orko back to the creek one at a time. Get them chance to acclimate to the temperature and surroundings. From here will spawn and suggestion tan call it modern twist today they were returned by truck. Our weather next with the weekend forecast. Heres a hint, do you know where your umbrella is. And the effort to turn fresh yo shes been in showbiz 90 years and mini mouse is finally getting her star on the hollywood walk of fame. Scheduled for january 22nd with pop star katy perry in attendance. Disney is Parent Company of abc 7. After lots of planning resigning of treasure your island is under way and many say is a long time coming. In the mid many of San Francisco bay a new restaurant is taking shape in the unlikeliest of places. It was a big risk but we wanted to do it. I believe if youre going to do something do it right. Meet a comfort casual concept on Treasure Island led by her and her business partner. The name means island oasis and hope thats what they take away with it. Its not just its foot but the putting green and more to keep customers busy as they look at the sky line. It was made out of 13 recycled shipping containers. These dining tables made out of an ole bowling island here on Treasure Island. And partnering with the Homeless Initiative to provide training for low income resident and michael wag one of the first person chosen. I get to get up and come to a job be with great people and just im living again. This all comes as the island is in the midst of a renaissance 5 million plan to add housing and retail over the next 20 years. We want to be deeprooted in the community and be part of it. A chance to give back while pursuing their dream. Theres a lot of naysayers like youre crazy and nothing is at Treasure Island. I said you have to start somewhere. These folks believe they have the right mix of ingredients to succeed. The doors will officially open to the public on monday. Reporting here on Treasure Island abc 7 news. Lets get one final check on the weather i think i can help spencer out with this one, is there rain in the forecast . How did you guess . How did you guess . Heres a look at live doppler 7. Its not raining yet. But wait couple days. Were going into a dry weekend. Low patches of fog. Chilly in the north bay. Lows in the upper 30s. Tomorrow after morning fog mainly sunny afternoon. Low 60s on the coast. Low to mid 60s else where. Looking ahead to monday Martin Luther king jr. We expect some rain every day next week. Each will rank one on the storm impact scale, storms of light intensity. On thursday will be a beefier storm. Windy and rainy on thursday and soggy by then as well given fact periods of rain will occur every single day next week. I remember good old days wednesday should be dry but all of a sudden its gone. All right spencer thank you. Curry not in the lineup d they have the firepower. You bhaewant me to give it a. Lets say it present versus the future they met in milwaukee. The warriors would need a big Fourth Quarter if they were going to pull this game out. That is a sweet move there with authority. Next. Abc 7 sports brought to you by your local toyota dealer. Good evening despite improvement with his ankle steph curry didnt play in milwaukee. Warriors needed big Fourth Quarter, kevin durant battled the greek freak giannis antetokounmpo. Are actually played well 9 points 8 points 24 minutes. You see him cleaning up the miss there. Nick young has been sluggish lately. Swaggy p for swaggy 3, up 35 doves led by one. Now giannis, 23 points for him. Heres what we want, k. D. Turns greek freak into greek yogurt i got your chobani right here. One more time doves up 13. Third quarter. Usual malais set in. Bucs with 33 point Third Quarter and lead by 2. Fourth quarter give it tdurant get out of his way. One legged fade away. Dagger three. Hes unstoppable. Finished with 26. Did not hit a three streak comes to an end at 95 straight games. Warriors win it 10894 theyre in toronto tomorrow. How about lebron and cavs trying to get it right against the paris the pacers. Up 22. What could go wrong. Everything. Darren collison indian you take the lead late in the third. Final seconds. Lebron stepped outofbounds they call him outofbounds so turnover. Last chance. Cavs down two. Its lebron. Fading away. From the win. The iron was on time. 9795 cavs lost three straight in 8 of last 11. Stanford women, 620 all time against Washington State going into tonights game cougs would not break the streak. Smith with 20 points. Doubledouble, nine boards. Cardinal win it 7057. Theyre 630 now against the cougs. The cal women playing washington were up 7 in the second half at last check. The giants, still looking for power hitting corner outfielder maybe center fielder, joe panik raise from 600,000 to 3. 5 million avoiding arbitration in his first year of eligibility. Hit. 288. 10 homers. 53 rbis. Its the double play combo with Brandon Crawford and short because the defense has to impress. P pani chrks a hand in 86 plays last season. Also announcing, going to hold fan fest at jack london january 27th from 10 00 to 2 00. This is cool members of the 50th anniversary squad will be there. Former as third base man josh donald son cashed in with the blue jays, one year deal for 23 million. Donald son three time all star three time mvp, hit. 270 last year, 33 bombs but missed part of the season with calf injury. Raiders made it official today paul gunther will be raiders new defensive coordinator. Olsen offensive coordinator. Olsen was with the raiders during derek carrs rookie season. Hopefully they mesh once again. For the playoffs, patriots 13. 5 point favorite against titans tomorrow in foxboro going to be 35th post season game for tom brady thats a record. Hes 259 with 5 super bowl wins this stuff never gets hold. These are fun games to play in. Everyone worked hard to get to this point. Only 18th play this weekend, doesnt matter if youre young or old its a great feeling to be in this place. I know were excited. Weve had a good week. And we just got to go out and try to play our best. Doesnt look 40 does he. Abc 7 sports brought to you by toyota. Youre right. Except there is a little gray in the beard now. Just a tad. He doesnt throw like hes 40 youre right. Hes so precise with the football. All right thank you sir. Comi up tonight abc 7 news at 11 00 one of the niners star as rested not the first time hes been in trouble. Plus a suspect named in the killing of a transgender dj and activist the arrest warrant at 15 million join us at abc 7 news at 11 00 on january channel 7. Finally Stanford University marked the Martin Luther king jr. Celebration early. An exhibit recently updated and people were able to check it out today for free. A week of events planned. The theme this year is where do we go from here . How do we build what he called the world house. He described this house where we have all inherited this world, different races, different religions, different ethnicities. And we have to learn to live together in this world. This monday would have been dr. Kings 89th birthday. Thanks for joining dark suspenseful music [narrator] today the stories of two murdered cases, one in alpena, michigan, the other in columbus, indiana. In our first case a neighborhood recluse develops a special bond with his young house cleaner