Right now crews are mopping up a dangerous grass fire that threatened east bay power plant. Trying to make sure this doesnt flare up again. Fire was right in the middle of a marsh makes it awfully tough to put out. Firefighters wade through water just to get close to fight the flames. Good evening. Im carolyn johnson. Fires burning off willow pass road and thats where allen is with the latest for us. Allen . Reporter this battle is all but won tonight and there is a crew out here making sure it stays down, but when you see how fast this fire consumed 40 acres, you will understand why they are still keeping an eye on it. As the sun went down on pittsburgh, firefighters gain control of what they called an unusual fire. Burning on top of water fire on water. Reporter 8 to continue feet high burned over a bogy marsh filled with 3 to four feet of fire. Firefighters rely on cat walk for the flames but when those caught fire they slog through the marsh. This is nonoperational this plant so there was no threat of power outage but threat from transmission lines above. Pg e transmission lines contain high voltage and in some cases smoke matter burning from fires cause arcing between the lines or down to the ground. That was a concern. Reporter woyl pass road was closed for about 2 hours preventing people from getting to work and home. Last summer we had the other side of the road catch on fire and we had pretty much the same situation when stuck out here. Around the fourth of jishltion but that was july when vegetation is expected to be dry. We are all surprised at aggressive fire behavior 3 alarm fire in the toolie in march. We are concerned about the fire behavior this summer. Reporter this consumed a lot of green grass and by july it will all be dead so another fire like this could spread a lot faster and jump the roads. Tonight investigators are still trying to figure out the cause of this fire. In pittsburgh, abc 7 news. And new at 11 00. Fire destroyed home for mentally disabled in santa rosa. It began just after 4 at the group home on middle rincon road. Firefighters say they saw flames from the first and second floors of the home when they got there. It took about an hour to put out. Red cross is helping 10 residents find temporary housing. There were no injuries. Developing News San Francisco Police writ now are looking for a gun man after a shooting near city college. Officers evacuated the Whole Foods Market on ocean avenue after they chased the gunman toward the store. They also searched parking lots at city college. The victim was shot in the ankle on brighton avenue. Mess forth evening commute during a police stand off near martinez. Police close down eastbound highway 4 while they arrested a man involved in a road remain incident. You can see him on the gurney there argue with officers. Witness say he was waving a gun and driving erratically. Police say the man led them open a brief chase before finally pulled over and taken into custody. We have new details tonight exploratorium police say this white Dodge Durango hit and killed a woman in visitation valley. Surveillance camera captured this image after the driver left the scene this morning. Witness say the woman was in the crosswalk and had the green light when the durango hit her at bayshore boulevard and visitation avenu avenue. The victim died at the scene. The troubled San Jose Police department has more trouble tonight. Already short staffed, they may see the rank thin even more in the months and years ahead. 7 news anchor is live at San Jose Police headquarters in it to explain y. Amma . Reporter fewer officers is the last thing residents wanted to hear about wha when they met at the Community Center tonight to hear about the future of Public Safety in their city. The city though is disputing the projected numbers saying they are making changes to increase the ranks. San jose residents worried about their safety even more so now that police are predict ago sharp decrease in officers on the streets over the next couple years. We are going to go from 9 04 today to 809 by june of 2016. Reporter thats alarming reality for neighbor steve klein. In threemonth period of time our very small street had 50 of our house were his burglarize. Reporter he doesnt think the city can afford any further reduction. Mayor reid isnt buying those numbers. His goal is to have more officers on the streets by 20 sixteen. He says the city is aggressively recruiting officers and working to keep them here. We are giving then 10 pay increase. 4 percent this year and again another raise next year. We are on april 8 going to improve the benefits for officers who get hurt on the job so we are taking some steps to improve the retention. Reporter but he admits there are challenges like dealing with sky rocketing retirement cost. This is 7 news. Search planes returned to the southern indian ocean looking for traces of what might be wreckage from Malaysian Airlines flight 370. It takes aircraft several hours just to reach the search zone about 1400 miles off Australia Western coast. Writ now crew from his australia, new zealand and the u. S. Are hoping that high tech tools will locate 2 large objects spotted boy both australian and british stichlt Poor Visibility and rain hampered search efforts thus far. China has Just Announced it will send 3 war ships to join the search. About twothirds of the 2 39 people aboard that flight are chinese citizens. Maybe this the has happened to you. Many people just given up when it comes to calling in to get help and in Health Insurance through cover california. State figure show nearly half of the callers hung up because they could not get through during february and march. And the hangups could i hope crease too as more people try to beat the march 31 deadline to getto bama Care Coverage under the Affordable Care act. Cover california says it hired more Call Center Work investigators deal with the expected on slot of calls. San jose state student filed a 5 Million Dollar claim against the school saying he endured months of racist abuse from his roommates. Donald williams junior black student says his 4 white roommates physically and emotionally attacked him for months. Williams says the University President and his resident advisor ignored all the sipes of trouble even after he reported in writing how his roommates forced a bike lock around his neck. We argue that they created an environment that certainly should have put trained University Staff on notice of a greater ill. The claim alleges breach of contract, negligence and violations of the equal housing act. The University Says it has not yet seen the claim. Phoney military service. Phoney business. The i Team Investigates another local man claiming to be a navy seal but this time the low goes even further. Dan has the story for us no now. Reporter i tracked down the fake shoulder swindling people out of tens of thousands of dollars. And when i confronted him he called the police. Never guess what happened next. No he didnt. The joke Governor Brown made about a Certain Group of drivers and why some voters are not laughing. This is sandhya, we have some changes coming for the weekend. Low clouds gathering rate now. Its a cooler day to. Ill be back with a complete look at wake up weather when 7 news continues but first heres jimmy kimmel. Heres some of the magic waiting for you after the news. This book sold 16 million copies. I didnt know that Many Americans could read. Honestl charles not having coverage stressed me out. Knowing that i have an insurance card in my pocket gives me a sense of reassurance. Im in because nobody deserves to be without Health Insurance. 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Now Law Enforcement is investigating. 53yearold chuck lyman really didnt want to answer my questions when i caught up to him outside his Sonoma County grocery store. Get out of here i have the police on the phone. Reporter thats all right its a public place. Have the police come. He did call the police. But an officer told him i had a rate to take his picture in public. And that he couldnt drive his suv because of a suspended license. Chuck i need to talk to you. Instead of answering my questions lyman ignored the officer order and drove away. What could be so bad that he couldnt discuss i it . He was going to give me 1 18,000 dollars back. Reporter chuck lyman has small claims case pending against him in marin county. Felden says lyman convinced him he had a deal to buy caper from the port of oakland, refurbish and sell to the army to help bring american troops home from afghanistan. That story worked for several who gave lyman money to invest. He insists on cash. 6000. 17,000. 30,000. Reporter lyman was able to draw them in because of his tall tale of military service. He said he work in the service and he was currently employed by the coast guard. When i first met him he brought up navy seals and special forces. I thought it was the army corps of engineers he was annex the navy seal. Lyman record i obtained under the freedom of information act show all of that is not true. St he spent 6 years with the Army National guard reserves as a mechanic. No active duty. Slap in the face to me and all other veteran. Not only the other veteran but the active duty folk time. Ed is a district commander for the American Legion on. He tells me exaggerating stories of military service and then sca scaming people out of money is an insult to the memory of those who fought and died. Its hard for us all because we dont want vet run to be represented that way. Reporter you claim you are a navy seal. Tu lyman own check show he claimed another navy seal and 3 special forces buddies also investing in the container deal 18 used his own family voice mail he left. In effect if they were investing the deal must be good. My brother they are going to add more container to the order if my brother can do it so if you are inentered getting a few more let me know. Reporter chuck i need to talk to you. Several people tell me you scammed them out of money. Bunch a lies. Reporter by pretending to be a navy seal working for the Coast Guard Army corps of engineers. Jealous. Reporter of what i broke one my girlfriend and they are like this. Reporter darlene stone dated him for several years and lived with him at this apartment complex thats where lyman found several victims. Some darlene friends. I feel betrayed. I just feel like reporter as the scheme began to unravel, darlene demanded lyman give her and her friends money back. He told me that he knew people. That could take me ou out, if i, if i continued this. And. Reporter he is a said that. Luckily my girlfriend was on my home phone and heard what he said. Reporter darlene got restraining order that keeps lyman 100 yards away from her until august 2016. I tracked layman to his mothers house and approached him in the parking lot. Any plan about the containers buying containers from the military. They got money they want more from me. Reporter got their money. Thats right. Reporter susan got her 2500 back after taking lyman to court. Others are Still Holding out hope. Even if he wins small claims case against lyman, felden tells me he doesnt expect to see any money but hopes the story can serve a greater purpose. What i am hoping partly for the spwer have you if anybody else out there who is engaged with this man in any way shape or form be very, very careful. Reporter marin county prosecutors tell me they looked that the lyman case and decided insufficient evidence to purchase site but only considered one of the victims. After i pointed out the other people with complaint and paper trail they have, the da is taking a fresh lack at the case. Ill let you know what happens. Thanks. Governor brown took a jab at older drivers while promoting california high speed rail project. Theres a lot of old people who shouldnt be driving. They should be sitting in a nice, a nice train car working on their ipad. Having a martini. Reporter that comment was met with laughter. Governor office says it was a joke. But not everyone thought it was funny. The irony is that Governor Brown who turns 76 next month would be one of the older drivers he talked about. Thats if he drove. He is chauffeur by a chp officer. Thats right. Lets turn to the weather forecast. Weekend is almost here. First day of spring. Sandhya has the forecast. Yes. It turned out to be a beautiful day. We had some warmth in our inland areas. We got up close to 80 agree ins some spots but the coast cooled off as you look at live doppler 7hd one of the things we are noticing is low clouds and fog along the coast line right now. You know tomorrow temperatures will be changing. Interstate 80 writ now. Visibility is good. No restriction right now. 51 San Francisco. Mid 50s oakland. Redwood city san jose currently 47 degree ins half man bay with fog, visibility down to 4 miles. From the exploratorium camera bay bridge its nice 47. 48 in nap a. Cooling off. Temperatures in the mid 50s around concord and livermore. S fvl o camera some low clouds have already moved in around here tomorrow morning. Could see some delay due to low ceilings. Mostly cloudy tonight breezy cool weather tomorrow and a little bit warmer this weekend. You will see more sunshine this weekend so heres the deal. Satellite radar system went through didnt really have whole lot of impact on us. Looking at cooler weather tomorrow so the Coastal Cooling today will spread into some of our inland valley tomorrow so computer animation showing you exactly where the gray is right now. Pretty good there. Its going to be a pretty cloudy day along the coast tomorrow. Cooling sea breeze impact our inland area. Look how much temperatures will fall santa rosa from 75 to 72. 3 degree drop exploratorium you have already pretty much bottom out. Oakland 6 degrees cooler. You go from the 70s to the upper 60s. You will notice that. San jose 74 today dropping to 68 tomorrow. 9 degrees cooler in livermore. Only 69 high of 78 today so definitely will need the long sleeves especially if near the kotas you look at our computer animation next week we watch a cold front. Could see a little bit of rain around the middle of next week. So when i say little i mean few hundredths of an inch. Tomorrow morning bundle up with the gray skies around could be a little misty. Low 40s to low 50s. Its cool out there. You need the sweater or jacket for the afternoon as well along the coast. 59 in half man bay. 63 San Francisco tomorrow afternoon. Warmest spot you will notice only in the low 70s santa rosa, nap aconcord, out towards antioch, 68 san jose, 67 oakland, 62 in santa cruz. Also see high clouds around tomorrow. Temperatures will come rate back up for the weekend. Low 60s to mid 70s brighter. Sunnier for all your plans and then we continue the warming on monday before more cloud cover moves in. Temperatures cool down. And on wednesday we lack at the possibility of spring showers. Lets hope thanks. March madness begun already. Exciting games. Good games upsets larry. Thinks craziness. 4 over time games on day one of the tournament. 4 huge upset with the defending champ louisville. Hit the exit on d he. Good evening. Upset galore in the ncaa tournament. 12 seed harvard takes down cincinnati. North dakota state over oklahoma. Certainly upset alert the jasper head coach manhattan, once played for rick at ken tuchblingt under 3 and a half to go louisville down 3. Smith says now we are tied. 18 for smith. Backtoback 3 by hancock in the final minute and a half. That really puts the game awhich as louisville avoid a major upset. 7164. How about the 10 seed Arizona State from the pack 12. 4 seconds left in the tie game. Long horn hall missed so badly that cameron was there look what i found. Rae bound and he beats the buzzer. That was the reaction from the Arizona State kid they couldnt believe it. Ridly 17 points 12 board. Texas 8785. Face michigan next. 12 seed north today he have is he coat state down with oklahoma. Rise and fire and to over time. Then alexander. Floating it in for 2 of the 28. The bison from north dakota t. Upset. 8075. Moving on to face San Diego State next. 4 seed Michigan State facing no. 13 delaware as mr. T once said, dan, my prediction pain. What a tonight for senior adrian pain. Career high. 41 points. 10 of 15 shaingt. 4 of 5 on 3. 17 of 17 at the line. First 40 point game in the ncaa tournament since curry. In 08. Spartans win 9378. Warriors upset alert themselves. Couldntless to the worst team in the nba, could they . In the nba, could they . Thats go [ male announcer ] its chaos out there. But the mclass sees in your blind spot. Pulls you back into your lane. Even brakes all by itself. Its almost like it couldnt crash. Even if it tried. The 2014 mclass. See your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedesbenz financial services. So i was basically uninsurable. Now that ive got coverage, my doctor is a phone call or an email away. Im in. [ female announcer ] everyone deserves Health Insurance. Are you in . Find free, confidential, local help at coveredca. Com. Are you in . 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Abc 7 news continues now on line on twitter face back and all the local devises with our 7 news apd next newscast begins at 4 30 tomorrow morning. Tune in for that. But march madness continues tomorrow. Stanford playing new mexico. Game at 10 40 pacific time. Good one to watch. Right now on Jimmy Kimmel Live, actor don kheelts. Live, actor don kheelts. Have a good night dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight don cheadle. From scandal, tony goldwyn this week in unnecessary censorship. And music from enrique iglesias. With cleto and the cletones. And now cheer up, heres jimmy kimmel hi, everyone
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