Area business are under investigation by the state and are demanding to get paid. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im carolyn johnson. The company that sells the popular safeguard tubs has very unhappy customers and tonight it is dealing with disgruntled employees. Alan wang has the latest for us. We are not getting paid. About a hundred employees were told they would not get a paycheck understate scrutiny and 30 have been laid off. I have been here in a little under six months and in the time i was here i had close to a hundred different people tell me i heard about your business and they are horrible. Green works u. S. Sell expins stalls safeguard tubs that are advertised in television commercials. Part of the company is based in Riverside County. I called the Riverside CountyDistrict Attorneys Office which confirmed this companys funds and financial records were seized as evidence in an on going investigation. Last week the contractors state license board had numerous complaints filed against it including false advertising and failure to get permits and overcharging customers. Steve smith admits he helped sell the tubs starting at 22,000. Committing fraud like that and getting over on the elderly and handicapped goes beyond what i believe in. Other employees call green works u. S. A satisfied employee. When we come to the home we believe in what we are doing and we try to help these people. After a confrontational two hours the company paid its employees with cashiers checks. Now many are wondering how long it can stay in business. In retch mopped,al in richmond, alan wang. We are following news after a high speed chase and deadly crash. It started in oakland at 9 30 and ended at 98th avenue and san leandro boulevard. One person was killed and two others injured. Part of the intersection is closed as investigators collect evidence. We are learning more about the san jose firefighter accused of selling drugs and having sex with a minor. The 53yearold was arrested last night and we now know he has ties to a local church. Abc7 news anchor ama dates is live with more on the story. Ama . Dan, he is still in a Santa Clara County jail as word of his arrest spreads to the community where he lived. In fact, we spoke with his expartner today who was actually the one who stepped off firefighters to tipped off firefighters to possible drug use two years ago, but he says he never saw any proof. That. Proof of that. His exsays he is religious and here at his church he was known for his singing. The pair rich in san hoe the parish in san jose is reacting to the fact that mario has been arrested. He is charged with possession and sales of narcotics and sex acts with minors minors and child molestation. He, woulded in the ministry of music. The diocese released a statement saying prior to his employment he submitted fingerprints that cleared the Fbi Department of justice. It adds we have not received any reports of illegal activity on the part of mr. Questas. He sometimes lived with his parents in san lorenzo and they would occasionally be at the house. A lot of times if they went someplace he would stay at their house. They were disappointed to hear what he is accused of. My wife said she saw the sheriff over here about 12 or 12 30 yesterday. Investigators are sorting through the evidence they collected during a raid yesterday that could lead to more charges. Abc7 news. This week is mostly dry, but more rain is on the way. Here is a live look from our exploratorium cam are camera. Sandhya patel is live with a look at live doppler 7hd and when we can expect drops. We will see drops tomorrow night. Right now the embarcadero is packed. People are still celebrating valentines. It has turned out to be a nice looking day. Let me show you live doppler 7hd. The clouds are streaming through and not a lot of fog. Things are changing. The rain has been falling. The rain is not going to make it, but we will see another batch and it will start tomorrow evening in the north bay at 6 00 p. M. Barely getting to San Francisco at this time. I will be back with an exact projection of that rain for the rest of your saturday and i will let you know how much you can expect for the long holiday weekend. Carolyn . Thanks, sandhya of the you can track the rain using live doppler 7hd via our abc7 weather app. It makes it easy to share photos to see how you are dealing with the rain. Download it. For more information go to abc. Com app. The president pledged more than 160 million to help farmers struggling with the worst drought in state history. He says the entire country is dependent on california for products used every day. California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. What happens here matters to every american down to the cost of the food you put on your table. The president held a discussion with farmers and visited a farm a in merced where it will go unplanted. 25 of farmland will not be used because of the drought. San Francisco City leader joined a crowd of hundreds to be a part of the 1 billion rising move meant. The Global Campaign is an effort to end violence against women. Sergio has the story. Reporter hundreds danced in the street at San Francisco city hall lead by the black eyes eyed peas member. They were dancing in cities around the world like serbia, and kenya. People in 200 countries all dancing for one goal. For 15 years we were raising awareness against vie for violence against women and girls. 1 billion rising is the shocking statistic that one in three women will be victims of abuse and rape in their lifetime. Organizers of they of the event say it is for victims. Organizers hope to get legal information directly to victims. They are in tandem with the one billion rising. And legal advice can be important even if Law Enforcement is not able to taste the court. We know it has a tendency to cycle up. They lead a pledge against violence and this is the second year of the one billion rising event outside San Francisco city hall. Abc7 news. The Santa Clara County prosecutors dropped charges against a man who stabbed an off duty bouncer to death. They say the killing outside johnny vs was done in selfdefense. It happened after a confrontation on wednesday morning. Prosecutors reviewed Surveillance Footage and concludey he was also armed with a concluded he was also armed with a knife. And a beef recall linked to a slaughter house. It has expanded to include 80 businesses and food distributors who reed some of the 8 Million Pounds of potentially tainted beef from the rancho feeding corporation. The distributors now include schools, food banks and farmers markets in San Francisco and oakland. Now we have a full list of those distributors on our website, abc7news. Com under see it on tv. We are learning about the biggest shark fin bust since the ban went into effect in july. It happened when the department of fish and wildlife found the illegal fins in San Francisco. A judge will decide the penalty. Fish and wildlife agents tracked the fin after it urn ited up on the menu in emeryville. There is a reward being of on erred to track down the person and killed three sea otters. It happened at the state beach in pacific grove. Two of the otters were shot in the head. The third was through the back. Sea otters are a protected spaes cease and species and the shooter will face jail and fine time if arrested and convicted. Downtown San Francisco was a flurry of feathers and synthetic fillers. Once the clock struck six thousands of pillow toting people were sending feathers into the air. Of course it left behind a huge mess for public works even though they asked people to clean up. This is estimated to cost the city 4300. A good time was had by although. Developing news, the southeast hit by a rare earthquake. Details on that. And on top of that, they are digging out after a powerful storm crippled travel. And Weight Watchers is shrinking. The diet trend that is cutting customers. And a little california boy who on this valentines day has hearts told ya you could do it. dad vo i want her to be safe. So, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. girl piece of cake. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Earthquake jolted South Carolina and georgia tonight. The magnitude 4. 1 quake had an epicenter 22 miles northwest of augusta. It hit at 6 22 our time. People along the South Carolina carolinageorgia state line felt the shaking, but no major damages have been president ared. People dont experience that very often, and what they dont need is an earthquake as they deal on the east coast with a relentless snowfall and ice storm that will not stop. Today another one 1,000 flights were canceled, and it brings it to 14,000 flights scrubbed and new data found this was the worst winter ever for flight cancellations. About 75,000 fleets canceled since december. Tech companies have taken a bite out of Weight Watchers profits. The stock dropped after the Company Released a dismal Earnings Report and plans to resize. They say some customers are opting for free diet apps for their handheld devices instead of paying for weight loss plans. They hope to regain customers by Getting Health Insurance companies to subsidize memberships. Tens of thousands of people, maybe you, are expected to pour into union square for the colorful Chinese New Year parade. Workers have been busy putting the final touches on the floats. There will be more than 100 entries including the float and the marches bands and a 200foot golden dragon. Everyone wonders about the weather. Everything is rain proof. It is hard to build in the rain. The parade will go forward rain or shine and this is the year of the horse which began january 31st. Now here is a look at the parade route and it starts at a 6 00. The streets along that area will be closed to traffic. Union square and chinatown will be packed, obviously and keep in mind the Union Square Garage will be closed. A lot of little kids love trucks, but they have really taken this to a whole other level. The 5yearold who has autism is passionate about garbage trucks. Each week he goes to meet the truck and watching its sounds and movements. This past monday he got quite a surprise thanks to manual sanchez. Daniel, can you look . That she posted the video on its facebook page. It has now gone viral by thousands of people around the world. Thats nice of the truck driver to do that. Lets turn our attention to the weekend forecast. And now a look at live doppler 7hd. I dont see this very often, but it is perfect up here. It is 57 degrees. You know what is missing . The two of you. And you know we dont have the fog looking out toward the bay like we did earlier tonight. I can see the lights all the way out toward the east bay hills. The visibility is unlimited. Earlier in the evening you can see the fog coming in and the high clouds up above from our emeryville camera. And then the figure is over the Golden Gate Bridge. As we look at live doppler 7hd it is more cloud cover in most areas. Most of the fog is lifting except for the Golden Gate Bridge of the we will have to deal with this in spots, patchy fog over the Golden Gate Bridge. 57 in San Francisco and it is 54 in oakland and 56 in san jose. Half moon bay, 48 degrees. Beautiful view from our exploratorium camera. You can see midand high level clouds there. 56 in santa rosa and the temperature is dropping around vacaville and low 50s along with livermore and a lovely view from our camera. You can actually see San Francisco and beyond. Mostly cloudy and patchy fog in the morning. The rain arrives tomorrow night and mostly sunny for your sunday and your monday. We need the rain, but so far the moisture has been aimed well to our north in Northern California and we ended up with assorted cloud layers. Now the system behind it has speckled clouds. Thats colder air. The rain arrives tomorrow night, but this does doesnt have a lot of moisture. Most of the saturday is dry. 5 00 p. M. Saturday night the north bay is getting rain. It starts to shift around 8 00, 9 00 around the heart of the bay area and into the south bay. By sunday morning at 5 00 a. M. , only a few showers left in the south and east bay and it is pretty much done. If you are getting ready to get up on sunday morning and take the dog out for a walk. It is going to be all done and over with by then. The rainfall totals, lets just say these dont impress me. 15 and a 10th to a quarter. At this point we will take any moisture. Tomorrow morning upper 40s to the mid50s. We will see some patchy fog. Comfortable temperatures for your Early Saturday Morning plans. Tomorrow afternoon we are looking at upper 50s to the mid60s. It is a little cooler. Remember you will need the rain gear if you are heading to the Chinese New Year parade. Initially when you get there you may see some clouds. The rain will be developing. You may want to grab a jacket. Nothing is going ruin that parade. Those floats are water proof. Rain tomorrow night and clearing out for your sunday afternoon. President s day is dry. We will bring in another chance of showers on tuesday with cooler weather. Live from the kgotv broadcast center. Im sandhya patel. It does look nice out there, thank you. And abc7 news has a great weather resource for you. Follow live doppler 7hd on twitter for the latest bay area conditions. Stay with us. In sports we are going to pump you up. Larry beil will have that. The honor of a lifetime for a Golden State Warrior and you will remember him. Depending on your perspective either the best or worst trophy presentation ever. Former warrior is going into the Basketball Hall of fame. He was elected by the International Foreign committee in august. Meanwhile, the best in the world in new orleans for allstar weekend. Rising stars challenged Harrison Barnes playing for team hill and had 16 points and five of 12 for shooting. His teammate, 30 points and 25 rebounds and named the mvp. It was 142136. Here is the award ceremony. Mvp trophy to andre drummond. Perfect timing. That was not top 10. Thats okay. We can glue it back together. It will be even better once we are done with it. We will fix this thing. College hoops and number two arizona facing arch rival arizona state. The second overtime and sun devils up one. He gets rejected and he is running out the clock. He dunks leaving. 7 on the clock. This is for the tie and triple overtime . The wild cats lose for the second time this season. Asu wins it 6966. Womens hoops, number 22 cal hosting and a doubledouble. 16 points and 11 boards. Cleaning up after the britney boyd miss. Boyd collides right there. Cal would win it 6549. In a 144page report, the nfl has concluded that Jonathon Martin faced a daily barrage of racial slurs and sexual taunts from several of his Miami Dolphin teammates. He left the Team Last Season unable to cope with the bullying and the harassment. Richie incognito and two other dolphins, john jerry and mike pouncey constantly ridiculed martin, another lineman and an assistant trainer for the team. Jim turner knew it was happening and did nothing. Apparently head coach joe philbin did not know. It is unknown if there will be punishments going forward. Such a shame. Thanks, larry. We were talking about larry and you have to see our last story. First, here is jimmy kimmle. Thanks, the magic waiting for you after the news. Whose voicemails do you have saved . Phone your account is already paid in full. 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And larry beil showed us his push up. Are you going for it . Absolutely. He is a fitness nut. You are up to how many, larry . Well see. Start the goodbye. How much time do we have here . Larry beil doing push ups. We are up to about 13 or 14. Happy valentines day. 25. Are we getting a shot of larry . 25, 30, still going. Impressive. And he was still doing it. I think he got up to like 45 or 50. Not bad, larry. He will be sore tomorrow. And he was doing yoga poses after that. He will be sore and sorry tomorrow. Coming up next on jimmy kimmle, actor zach efron. Thanks for joining us. Our next cast is at 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Have a great weekend, everyone. And this february, the crowd favorite meatball marinara is our featured 5 footlong. Top it with melty mozzarella, green peppers or any of your favorites, on your choice of freshly baked bread. Subway. Eat fresh. Is more fun than ever. Sees better than ever. Charges faster. And will charge. Cool. And heat. From your phone. Charge. 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