Bridge which connects antioch. Officers spent a couple of hours talking to this man trying to get him to focus on what life is worth living for and grabbed him finally and pulled him to safety. He dangled off the side of the bridge at times while officers from several different agencies looked on and tried to talk to him. They brought in teams from the coast guard, the sheriff and police departments. There were reports the man had a weapon. The officers who took him into custody did not find anything on him. They decided to shut down traffic in both directions so people would not be traveling through the unsafe situation. The man at times crossed over from one side of the bridge to the other. The c. H. P. Says it knows this was an inconvenience and officers hope motorists understood there was a life at stake. A man we spoke with had the same perspective. It is a live. Life comes before traffic. That is the bottom line. Obviously it seemed what he was yelling when i was there you could hear him yelling at the cops and it seemed he was under the influence. It is what it is. Traffic cannot trump a life. That was chris drake. This is cell phone video he took while he was stuck from the bridge, it took an hour to get the cars stuck on the bridge off and back to the road. Crews finally grabbed the man and pulled him to safety before 10 00. They do not know if he was under the influence of anything. He will be laced in a psychiatric hold for evaluation. They have not released his name or information about him just that he was clearly upset he now is safe. We want to look at the scene from ski 7 over the antioch bridge. A valuable connection for people from antioch to sacramento. Moms after the man got on the bridge c. H. P. Started rerouting drivers miles before they reached the bridge rather than letting them back up so it affected a lot of people. Now traffic is hit. It and reopened. As you can see drivers are getting through no problem. The death of a female american hostage kidnapped by the terrorist group known as isis is now confirmed. Kayla muellers heart broken parents received of proof of her death from her captors. We are joins from the newsroom with the latest. Absolutely devastate news for her parent whose have been trying desperately to get their daughter him to arizona. They kept their pain and effort secret for so long. 26yearold Kayla Mueller was captured by isis in august of 2013. She was held captive for 18 months while the family desperately tried to negotiate her release. She is now dead. Her heartbroken parents and where released a statement this morning saying her captors sent them a letter with proof confirmed by the f. B. I. They remember her as compassionate and devoted to helping others. She lived with purpose. We will work every day to on her legacy. Our hearts are breaking for our only daughter but we will continue if peace and dignity and love for her. Condolences have been pouring in. The white house released a same. President obama wrote she has been taken but her legacy endures inspiring all those who fight each in their own way for what is just and decent. 19 pelosi our thoughts and prayers are with kaylas loved ones. We hope it is a comfort that so many more with them during this difficult time. Mueller was a humanitarian aid workers her parents released a letter she wrote while in captivity describe how she has put her trust in god and being healthy and has a lot of fight in her. A memorial stands to her hometown of prescott arizona and College Students at Arizona State University Held a vigil to pray for her safe return one we now know, sadly will not happen. Isis claims she was killed last week in a jordanian airstrike. United states intelligence officials have not confirms the details or her cause of death. White house leaders are now working on a plan to go to war against isis and formally expand the authority of the starting war and the scope of a potential mission. It is not clear if there is a land to have americans senator as ground troops. The u. S. Government has stopped all operations at the embassy in yepen. Officials say they are evacuated american diplomats and marines who provide security there and closing up. This comes as yemen plunges deeper into contribution as sight rebels took control a few months ago unforces conducting Counterterrorism Missions in yemen will not be affected. We have new details on the arrest of the serial stowaway marilyn heart man. The 63yearold is held in florida jail on 55,000 bond. She went before a judge this morning accuses of boarding a plan on sunday from minnesota to jacksonville and choking into a florida resort using another womans name. She has been caught trying to sneak on flights 11 times since march including seven in San Francisco international airport. San mateo District Attorneys Office says she refused to be reformed. Someone out there has a remedy for this, power to themes send it to florida. We did not have any remedy. We tried everything including offering a hand to help her out. She doesnt want a hand. She just wants to fly. Heart man is charged with trespassing, impersonation, swindling and will be back in court next month. Police are out in full force again along the peninsula today catching drivers looking at their devices rather than the road. Specially assigned officers are look out for distracted drivers. Officers have issued 40 tickets. With citations up to 200. They are targeting jaywalkers near the daly city bart station. Last in officers in millbrae ticketed dozens of drivers for distracted driving. We have some good news and some bad news to report about job openings. Home depot is liaring hiring hundreds and hundreds but radio shack is closing more than two dozen stores here. Our reporter joins us from san jose with more. Matt . This is a popular saying when god close as door he opens a window and that is true for the workers at radio shack in san jose. Their store is closing but there is a window of opportunity at another retailer. Spring is just around the corner and the warmer weather heats up the Home Improvement market. Contractors say the busy season is coming soon. We see a lot of renovations during this final, a lot of stuff we go out and give estimates on usually are remodels of kitchens and baths. Home depot is hiring 1,500 in the bay area and 80,000 across the nation. This home depot in san jose is looking to hire 3040 people for mostly part time jobs in different departments. As more people do more work on their home the demand for more help inside home depot increases. We worked a lot overtime but it is all good. Helping people out. More business. More trips to home depot. More trips to home depot. Two miles north on blossom mill road a business that seemed to have better days. Radio shack filed barrier bankruptcy protection and will close 1 pcs 700 Stores Including 15 in california and more than go dozen in the bay area. The handful of workers still here will look for another place of employment. Very hard. Economically. I know the young folks will find another job but the transition. It can be pain will. We set up a link on our website showing the different radio shack stores that are closing and the Job Opportunities at home depot at abc7news. Com. Feeling lucky . The Powerball Jackpot is closing to 500 million. Tomorrow nights drawing now stands at 450 million. That is the 5th largest in the history. No one has won the jackpot in two months so it grew and grew. The odds are only 1 in 175 million. Get in the office pool for this one. Improve the odds. Target slapped with a multimillion dollar fine after pulling a fast one on customers. Sin city implosion hit as snag. Helping you stay healthy with a change at google to avoid the doctor. Stay tuned. A las vegas implosion that did not go as planned. Crews are racing against the clock. The elevator tower is Still Standing after explosives brought down the rest of what was a 12 story casino hotel. A crew is hoping to bring in a crane and a wrecking ball to topple the elevator shaft before sunset. The developer hopes to put a sittingstory hotel without a casino in its place. A retail giant must pay 4 million over allegations they overcharged customers. Target said they unlawfully charged higher than the lowest advertised price. Under the settlement they may no longer make misleading statements about prices. The company will pay more than 3. 9 million to the federal prosecutors. Google is revamping the senators to give us better results and searching for information about our health. The company consulted with doctors to provide users with clearer results on 400 medical conditions so now rather than just getting a list of links searches show up with the illustrations and assessment of the condition and the symptoms and whether they are common. We are helping you to prepare for the Health Care Enrollment on sunday. Today starting at 4 00 p. M. Trained specialists will be here with a Health Care Hotline from 4 00 to 8 00 p. M. Put on by 7 on your side to help you. Meteorologist mike nicco, much more calm today . Absolutely. The breezes are down. The temperatures are coming you. So is the pollen we will tack about record high temperatures and how many days in a row can we do it . That is ahead. You remember the picture that want viral a reunion after the viral sensation and update on the teen would got a boost from target workers before his first ever job interview. Covering benicia san ramon and san mateo. Sky 7 shows where a donation will go to an observatory that is 4,200 above sea level high enough to go snowed on in the winter sometimes. Googles donation differs from other donations because it will pay to keep the facility running rather than buying highend instruments. You have heard a picture is worth a thousand words. One picture from the Hubble Telescope is a spoily face smiley face beaming down from space. Aint sifts say the smile, is created by gravitation that distorts the space between the galaxies. Nasa calls it an einstein string named after the man behind the theory of relativity. Skies are smiling down on us today in the next few day as we go from the wet weather to something dry. Absolutely dry. And warm. If you like warm sunshine although the beaches are still cool. Now put the umbrellas away and do not worry about chains in the sierra, the snow is over. It did help the snow pack. We were at 21 percent of average and now at 27 percent. You think that is good until you compare to last year at this time we were higher at 29 percent and last year was so bad. This is the way it looked at lake tahoe, off in the distance the white caps mountains where the snow fell the last couple of days. At home look at san jose we are clearing out with a few low clouds and fog this morning but now you are under sunshine and high clouds like the rest of us from emeryville back to the west. We will have high clouds all day today but the dry pattern is here and it is going to bring us patchy and wet fog. Not so much as this morning. High clouds tonight and record warmth thursday through saturday. Here we are looking from San Francisco for oakland one of the areas that will be at least six decks warmerthanaverage at 67. Livermore is 67. And napa is 67, five degrees warmerthanaverage. Now our temperatures upper 50s to low 60 and we go great 63 in San Francisco to santa rosa and napa and fairfield and livermore and morgan hill is 67. Headed down to pebble beach . The fun begins today with the 49ers and the giants battling over 100,000 donation to various charities starting at 1 30. The temperatures are lowtomid 60s with a light breeze in the sky and almost blue with the beautiful water. Tonight we are in the upper 30s to the north bay and also inland east bay, our deepest valley, lowtomid 40s and same from the dumbarton bridge to the Santa Clara Valley and around 54 for the rest of us. High pressure while we were sleeping taking control of our weather, and passing this storm to our east or i should say to the west and north and we have a few high clouds and this will drew the record warm temperatures. I will show it to you tomorrow the offshore breeze develops and low 70s but for the coast and mid60s and lowtomid 70s with record high possible on thursday, friday, valentines day, saturday, the sea breeze kicks back on sunday and you can see the cooling take place and it moves inland for president s day, monday, but, still warmer than average. It is wednesday and thursday a slight chance of rain. We think that looks good. And tonight is the new episode in a second week of a new show with a premiere introducing us to a fish out of water story that begins with a chinese American Family with three boys moves to florida to pursue dads dream of owning a western themed restaurant. It is the first tv comedy with an asian family in 20 years. I chatted with the actors would lay mom and dad, randall park and the first thing we talked about was the title. I am chinese american and grow up in the bay area and i remember when someone said fob fresh off the boat, it was derogatory. I think on the show it is based on a memoir of the same title and it is a way of reclaiming a material that one caused him shame and instead raring it as the identity. What you is the reaction from strangers and family and friends . My friends in the asianamerican community there was trepidation and worry before the show came out because they wondering is it going to be stare yes typical, offensive . There was a collective sigh of relife and a great amount of ride in the show when they saw it. Just all across the par it has been great. You can batch two new episodes of fresh off the boat tonight at 8 00 right here on abc7. I have not had a chance to watch it. I was nervous about the title too. I was, but i much ad the two episodes last week funny authentic, the kids are adorable and randall and constance are nice as nice can be. I will tune in tonight. Stay tuned. When i didnt have health insurance, i had to learn how to cope with severe pain. 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Coming up at 4 00, a big brawl at a High School Wrestling match was not the kids who were fighting. It was the parents who duked it out. Do you know what your child is really doing online . A major Silicon Valley tech companys push to teach kids how to be more computer savvy and safe. Awe have an update on a North Carolina teen who became an internet sensation as the perth was viral of the target employees helping hip put on a tie for the job interview. This week he went back to target and meet and thank the team who helped him get ready for the first ever job interview. He went to the target in raleigh looking increase a clip on tie and the store did not carry them but an employee noticing how nervous he was offered to tie a real one. They sold my son a tie but they took the time helped him tie the tie and treated my son with dignity respect. It was a good story because you usually do not she a hot of good thing happen. Did he get the job at chickfila . He went back for a second interview he did so well he is being called for friday in the next step in the interview process. I bet he will invite the target employees over to the restaurant to say thank you. Great story. Well deserved. That is it for us from you will of always at abc, thanks for joining us. Well, i drove grandpa to speed dating this week, so i should probably get the last roll. Dad, but i practiced my bassoon. And i listened. I can do this. Everyone deserves ooey gooey pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Make the weekend pop guess what goes really well with eggs . Pillsbury grands biscuits. Make breakfast even better. Grands biscuits. Make breakfast pop. [dramatic music] yeah hey [laughs] hey. [cheers and applause] welcome to millionaire. Im terry crews, and all this week, we are raising money for shriners hospitals for children [cheers and applause] theyre a Wonderful Charity that provides kids with lifechanging medical care regardless of their familys ability to pay. So heres the deal whenever a contestant gets to round 2 well give 10,000 to shriners hospitals for children. [cheers and applause] yes. Todays returning contestant has just earned 10,000 for the shriners hospitals for children by getting to classic millionaire, not to mention hes got
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