Travers has latest. I think the strong condemnation from countries around the world indicates the greater wish of russia is on the wrong side of history on this. Russian forces are now settling in. Armored vehicles line streets. Russian navy ships brought in support. This is potential to been a war in the heart of europe. So far, russian president putin has not blinked. It seems unlikely any of the threats from the International Community will deter him. Today he was seen in western russia observing military exercises the new Ukrainian Government indicated it has no military options on the table. We would like to keep good neighboring relations with others in russia. The Obama Administration is working all possible angles. Secretary of state john kerry leaves tonight for kiev. Vice President Biden called the russian Prime Minister today, urging russia to start with the white house called a meaningful dia loss with the Ukrainian Government. Uncertain tim pacted the global final markets. The russian occurrency plummeted to an alltime low the state Department Says sanctions against russia are likely and be ieshgs sishg sishg juggler victor key left today started the help ukraine project, hoping to support the fight for democrat and i freedom in yu crane. I think this has to be taken very seriously right now, before its too late. Not waiting a long he plans to juggle at various stops during the next two weeks and is also raising money for ukrainian observe fans. As just mentioned the crisis is prompting a big selloff. The dow finished down 153 points. The nasdaq dropped 30, and scht s and p fell 13. A former truck driver is in jail tonight after a lowspeed chase across the bay snarling traffic for hours during the morning commute. Were live to explain what happened. Its not every day chp officers find themselves chasing a 26,000 pound truck with speeds at 20 Miles Per Hour but that is what happened today. It ended over there on highway one owe 01 with a dramatic arrest. Sky seven hd followed the truck that began with a 911 call. The owner of the rig behind me reported this vehicle stolen and saw the former employee was in possession of the vehicle. That former employee was hector fuentes. Working for castle trucking four years ago. He applied to get a job back in november but was turned down. Around 5 00 a. M a driver came to find the truck missing from the parking lot and called police, who spotted it. It was parked at the time. We approached the party tried to flee. In the vehicle . In the vehicle. Not the best get away trek. By 8 30 police say fuentes was going the speed limit but refusing to stop. He slowed down, so did the morning commute. Officers did Traffic Control on the bridge, stopping traffic. There was a report the party was armed. Were concerned for the safety of the public. Rolling into San Francisco on shreded tires, the truck dipped below 20 Miles Per Hour and stopped on southbound 101. He tried to flee on foot. Officers apprehended him quickly. After a chase, chp got the cuffs on fuentes. They lad to drag it to a parking lot for a new set of wheels. Now, its somewhat remarkable nobody was hurt. Chp officers credit a piece of technology, spike trips to force the air out of the tires and force the truck to slow down. Coming up tonight at 5 00 how those spike strips work and how to do it safely. Were live in San Francisco, abc7 news. Grief counselors being called in to console classmates of a 14yearold girl who died in a train tragedy over the weekend jenna was an 8th grader at martinez junior high. There is almost a sense of numbness. Its hard to believe. Inside of martinez junior high school, counselors are helping students and staff come to grips with the tragic death. She always had a smile. You canxd see her laughing at t lunch table. Popular girl. Jenna was a pretty, athletic 8th grader bound for alhambra high school. She say she was hit and killed by a burling ton Northern Freight train last night about 5 00 p. M. Police are investigating but they say jenna and her boyfriend were sitting on the tracks they heard the train coming and jumped out of the way. Jenna went back to retrieve a cell phone shed dropped. This is a tragedy of unspeakable pro portions for us weve never had anything like this before. The driver of a black corvette is not expected to be charged in the death of an elderly pedestrian seasoned responders were affected by the fatality this is a really horrific incident the body was badly injured. And pronounced dead on the scene, immediately. Ive lived here 28 years and crossed the streetment times and almost ghoit, too. A 73yearold woman was hit and killed in the same crosswalk. Washington boulevard reopened around noon. Less than a mile away another serious accident left a 4yearold girl fighting for her live. Police say both drivers had been drinking. It happened when a 33yearold fremont woman was driving home on osgood road the 4yearold girl was not secured in her seat and now in critical condition. Investigators looking into a deadly single engine plane crash that happened about six miles southeast of the truckee tahoe airport. Investigators say a man and woman were on board. One did survive. They wont say which one the plane was a piper p. A. 46 malibu sim tloor this one. Investigators say heading from santa ana to truckee when it crashed. Well keep an eye on the weather bringing us the pattern weve needed for a long time, rain. That is right. And lets look west towards marin county. Clouds are out there and beginning to move through. Lets get to spencer. There is another one for us snow in the sierra. Conditions are better than they were just weeks back. Spencer, take it away my friend. Its raining lightly. Steady and you do need an umbrella. Especially if youre a weather wimp like me. Across embarcadero, you can see how dreary and cloudy it is right now. Rain spreading across the areas. Lets go live to live doppler seven hd. You can see moisture beginning to blanket the north bay. Its moving along the coastline, sliding up from the southwest. Were going to get a decent dose of rainfall in just a few minutes. Rainfall totals last 24 hours really light. Most locations have received, those that have received rain only a trace amount. A part of the inch in mount st. Helena. Looking live from emeryville, you can see low clouds and rain on the way. 61 degrees in San Francisco. Oakland, redwood city. San jose, los gatos. 55 in half moon bay. Mount tam, its wet and rainy now. Temperatures ranging from mid to upper 50s in santa rosa and fairfield. 64 in concord and livermore. Looking at dry conditions at sfo, you can expect periods of rain during evening hours, lingering rain and drizzle overnig overnight and morning hours. Well take a look further into the forecast future where there may be more wran . Just a few minutes. Drivers are detouring in concord because of a broken water main. Crews expect it is going to take several hours before they can reopen san miguel road the 36inch pipe broke this afternoon. The Water District officials tell us no homes were out water and the leak has not damaged any buildings. San francisco supervisors putting together legislation to deal with the ecigarette boom. Yes. It would treat ecigarettes like regular tobacco cigarettes. A woman spoke about her recent experience on bart with ecigarettes. The youth was walking through the car, smoking ecigarettes. Actually stopped in front of the camera and smoked in front of the camera with attitude saying i dont care. This is an ecigarette. That is, you know, that is a message saying its normalized to smoke where you want with an ecigarette. Fda does not regulate ecigarettes featuring a heating element that can contain nicotine. Still ahead on abc news at 4 00 twitters reaction to the oscar selfie that brown down San Franciscos social networking site. Local young people joining the battle against the controversial key stone pipeline project. Its your chance to win 1 billion the role yahoo will play in warren buffets ncaa bracket challenge. Michael finney is taking your question asks will answer them here live a little bit later. Outside we go, taking a look at San Francisco skyway. Cars coming towards you, trying to get onto the bay bridge. Not so bad going into the other direction. Stay with us. Ama and i were getting a look at what is going on behind the scenes here in the bay area, twitter was crashing last night. Ellen deagaines had a picture taken of several a listers then tweeted it. It became the most retweeted photo, ever. This one word summed it up, gulp. This is a photo of some oncall engineers trying to get the site up and running. Twitter congratulated ellen on breaking the record. The giant oscar statues are headed back to storage today following last nights 86th annual kad my awards. Workers broke down bleachers and peeled away posters lining hollywood boulevard. Kelly ripa took over the dolby theater welcoming Lupita Nyango and spoke about the favorite moments. And they all revealed what the after parties are like. You get a chance to see someone, as kelly likes to say out in natural element. Stars in their natural environment. Stars in the wild. Its just fun to be able to talk and catch up. I know im star struck. To be in the room to see everybody its such an awe moment. Kelly says her favorite moment was seeing Steve Mcqueen jumping for joy. There he goes he accepted the oscar for best picture. For all winners and highlights go to our web site. Plus go to our Facebook Page to share how you think ellen did hosting the show. And we want to thank you for taking part in our oscar give away. We awarded tickets to seven lucky people that liked us. Todays winner is kevin c from San Francisco. Congratulations to kevin and other winners. They get to go free. Yes. Absolutely. Weve got rain. Yes. Spencer christian is up on the roof and has the umbrella out. All right, matthew mcconaughey, all right, all right. Its go to live doppler 7 verga is not hitting the ground but hanging on in spots in the north bay. Especially around santa rosa and off shore there, just off the golden gate. You can see a betterorganized mass of moisture just about to mick land fall. And well see light rain and drizzle tomorrow morning for the commute. Well get a break tuesday afternoon and wednesday. Here is a trail of moisture moving into our direction now, once again, we dont see areas of heavy down pours but some wet weather headed our way. Well start at 7 00 this evening, well see rain at this point having read spraed across the north bay, then beyond golden gate and lifting northward again, well start drying out despite lingering clouds over the bay area. And heavier totals into higher elevations. Central bay a tenth to three tenths. Lows will be mild, and showers and periods of light rain overnight. Then, tomorrow, rain tapering off and heading northward upper 60s around the bay and inland. It will be mild here is the accuWeather Forecast. Friday, saturday, sunny skies and mild high temperatures low 70s inland two days mid60s on the coast. And spring forward with your clocks. Dae light savings arrives sunday morning at 2 00. Looks like a cloudy day, but mild weather just ahead witness to rock and roll energy. The iconic work of a rock and roll photographer the secret behind a legendary shot. Old time practice some people are turning to in the battle against the california drought. That and more as the news at 4 00 c 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 . Visit coveredca. Com and get covered today. The fortunate among us find our bliss and turn it into a job. One man found his bliss in history and performances of rock and roll. In the world of concert rock and roll, nothing trumps ak sexes if you have it, you dont buy dinner. You eat with the band. Trust is a part of the whole thing. Ask him about access feeling energy from the stage with these musicians is a he is on a first name basis with the band what do you play . I play camera. Does he ever. Chances are you dont know his name but his work, iconic. This is visual an thro thropologie. Wonderful photos. Until this moment, warren had not seen the pictures in the book called jam. A look at rock and roll concerts as performance art. Im capturing energy and music. Pictures like these do not happen by accident. He may toot shoot 2,000 frames then may keep 100. Often, youll glimpse on stage in the middle of it all. Yes, musicians do give him that much access. Jay began doing this at 16 years old at a grateful dead concert who made friends with the band and years later, earned trust to shoot this famous portrait of jerry garcia. I shot these in 1991. They gave me 90 seconds. No picture happens easily. Jay had a special one for the fox theater that night. Im going to shoot ten pictures if can, if theyll sit that long. That guitarist is robe keyinger of the doors. If only jay could get all of them together in one room for a shot. Youre going sit there. 90 seconds this, man making an art of blending into back grounds took control. Okay. Should i hold this or not . Come closer. And wayne, come out of there now. You got it. Weve got it. He got it. That photograph is pop culture history. That is what access buys. One more small, significant moment from the archive. Just iconic stuff. Yes. Great job. Ahead a bit of relief from our drought. After the rain well get an update on Water Supplies find out how much more wet weather we need. White out. A snow storm pounds parts of the northeast. Then, a corvette rescue. What happened to seven mintcondition sports car thats ended trapped underground. A rain storm bearing down on the rain theyre making a difference. You can see advancing storm, cloudy skies and rain on the lens there Wayne Freedman is live with an updated look. Speaking of Mount Tamalpais were on the side of it. This is bon tempe reservoir. Nice and full. Do you remember that phrase the miracle of march . There is another one. Fabulous february. Theyre saying that is what weve had last year. Look at this, its a rare sight. Overflow water coming out of the reservoir. Yes. Its great. Great when compared with what had been a terrible start to the rainy season. This was the view as late as last month. Look at phoenix lake in marin county today. This thanks to twice the normal amount of rainfall. 20 inches. I didnt think it would go so fast. Dmot misunderstand the water storage is only 74 for the time of the year but rationing which seemed inevitable is now avoidable. We still have 24 voluntary rationing in play. S and the board may consider a different percentage. Another big storm dumped at least half a foot of fresh snow on parts of the northeast. The storm caused white out conditions the federal government ordered many employees to stay home. Cruise worked to remove the snow as quickly as it fell. Have you seen enough . I think were done for the year. Snow on the ground has added up to plenty of delays 2400 flights have been cancelled today. Forecasters expect subzero temperatures to follow this latest round of snow. Well have the latest on the storm coming up in weather. President obama met with israeli Prime Minister today, urging to reach a diplomatic agreement sooner rather than later. Warning that the United States would have a difficult time to protect israel from an international fallout. Next week he will visit for an hightech opportunity in israel. Jury selection underway in the federal trial accusing osama bin ladens soninlaw of conspireing to kill americans hes being tried just blocks from the site of the attacks on the world trade center. Authorities say jurors will see propaganda videos in which he sits with bin laden. On friday, the judge refused to delay the trial amid lawyer claims that some of the government evidence involves a Guantanamo Bay detainee with a similar name. South african runner Oscar Pistorious pleaded not guilty. A neighbor testified she heard a woman screaming from the sound of four gunshots on the night he killed his girlfriend, authorities say. Her testimony contradicts his version of events, he never described a woman screaming. The trk star says he accidentally killed her thinking she was someone who broke into his home. Prosecutors believe pistorios shot and killed during a fight on valentines day last year local young people are fighting against the controversial key stone pipeline project. A group of students held a rally today m San Francisco. The pipeline, if built will carry crude oil from canada to gulf coast. Supporters trying to get president obama to reject this project, they say could contaminate land and water. Well, still to come here at 4 00 the winner of an unlikely tangle between a crocodile and a python as tourists look on. Todays seven on your side q and a just ahead im still taking your questions. You can contact me at facebook. Com Michael Finney abc7 and on twitter. Ill answer your questions here live in just a moment. We see clouds in the sky and rain drops on the lens ill have the Weather Forecast coming up. Were looking at our walnut creek camera there. On the righted side, tail end of the cars heading south on 680 towards san jose. Theyre going better than traffic on the lefthand side going north. Well be back right after the break. I tried depend last weekend. It really made the difference nd the house n a morning around the house and getting a little exercise. Unlike the bargain brand, depend gives you new fitflex®, our best protection. Its a smooth and comfortable fit with more lycra strands. Get your free sample at depend. Com. 20 days after a sink hole swallowed corvettes last month a sink hole opened taking car was it. Workers hope to recover a ruby red 40th anniversary corvette by tonight the rest will have to wait three weeks hard to watch. If you cant fight snow, fight with it. Winter weary folks gathered today for a flash mob snow ball fight figuring if you cant beat old man winter why not have fun with it . This in hopes to beat winter blues start with a tiny ball of snow. That hurts nice, big ones. Time to check on the weather. Spenceer laughing on the roof. That is right. Weve got rainfall here. Its steady. Going to live doppler 7 hd, you can see its more wide spread. A lot of it is not hitting the ground you can see a batch of moisture moving into San Francisco and golden gate. This looks impressive here. Some of this can could be locally moderate to heavy. Its going to be a quiet day, cold in the northeast. From chicago. High elevation of snow showers still it. That is it tomorrow, some of the quiet day now, mild conditions, temperatures 60s to 70. There will be pockets overnight. Cloudy skies mild conditions. More rain coming later in the week. Warmer weather as well which ill show you in the accuWeather Forecast at 5 00 thank you very much you might think snake bit off mer than it could chew trying to devour a crocodile in australia. This python wrestling with the crocodile. Who won . The snake. It coiled around the crocodile and squeezed the life out of it. Witnesses say it took four hours before the snake actually swallowed the crocodile whole. Still ahead a familiar face topping the face of americas richest people the rest of the list has a different look. A warning to parents used to help babies get to sleep. Im Michael Finney. Is this city allowed to come into your house and look for smoke detectors . Kind of an odd answer, coming up. That is coming up. Coming up on world news were there 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. Im in because my coverage cant be denied. Im in so i can protect my family and my future. Im in because she wouldnt take no for an answer. Im in. [ both ] were in. Im in. [ female announcer ] everyone deserves health insurance. Are you in . Go to coveredca. Com before the march 31st deadline. There is legislation called respect after death act for transgender people. If a transgender person changed gender on their license original birth certificate the bill requires their death certificate to match that gender identity. It can be painful to see someone not reflected as their authentic self when theyve passed on. Inspired by christopher lee, born a woman, became a transgender mail. His death certificate did not reflect he was male. This afternoon, many parents use noise machines to help babies sleep but a study finds it could be too loud, increasing a risk for hearing loss, find something machines exceed safe noise levels for adults. The authors suggest placing machines as far as possible from the infant. There may be hope in the fight against type two diabetes a study found a rare mutation that could protect against the disease. It reduces the risk by two thirds and may lower the risk in overweight people. The time reports pfizer and amgen are working on a drug to mimic the mutation. Authors admit more research is needed. Forbes is out with a list of richest people on the planet. This year, there are more women. As for wealthiest person in the world, well, that hon honor goes to microsoft cofounder bill gates. There are 42 new female billionaires. Lillian bettencourt is number two, with 34. 5 billion. Three is another Walton Family member, alice walton. Quicken loan as announced its partnering with yahoo and warren buffet for billion dollar bracket challenge buffet promised to give a billion dollars to anyone filling out a perfect ncaa tournament bracket. Experts say there are nine quintilily. On form youllations. It costs nudging from entering. Odds are so poor you dont have to have any knowledge. Right. Michael finney is here answering questions sent to him by facebook book, twitter and e mail. Vicky says im getting a vied sliding glass door installed and ive been told theyll check for smoke detectors. Can they snoop in bedrooms . Yes. They can. As a matter of fact they have tochlt there is a flaw california saying once you do a thousand dollars worth of work on your home, where you need permitting then when the guy comes out to look they have to make sure they have required smoke theyre going to check out the house. Lauren c says my friend rented her condo the tenant left with marks on the walls and spots. Can money be detected from Security Deposit . Depends on how long they were there, really. The law says youre allowed to live in the house there are going to be bump asks scratches if someone is there ten years they can probably have a lot of bumps and scratches that would be considered normal use. If they live just a month 2004 the place is going to look like how theyve moved in. That is the balancing act. How fair are you being . If youre fair, it will hold up. Michael d wants to know does anyone win 5,000 on the surveys . They have to. Or theyre supposed to. If you check small print it gives you a date. They have to tell what you chances of winning every prize is that, is why you can see one in a billion. And and you can find out who won. Have you a right to know. You can ask. Yes. There is an address. Interesting yes. They can do a survey. There you go. Yes so who do you think takes the most selfies . Men or the project found women take more selfies than men. Once they hit 40 the trend reverses. People 40 and up its men who take more selfies. Researchers say the median age is 23. 7 years old. Come on now. There we go. Were taking a selfie we dont have a camera. But were going to take it and crash twitter for leastamount of retweets. Coming up next, desperate times call for desperate measures. Farmers turning to a Long Distance practice to find water. Coming up how the chp blew tires out in an unusual truck chase. How the devices worked the way theyre supposed to. When duty calls at hem. Joerlds standing together to support one of their oevenlt his 6yearold son faces surgery. Dan and i will join you at 5 00. One of the best things about covered california is that millions of people will qualify for Financial Assistance. For example, if youre a Single Person making less than 46,000 a year, or a family of four, earning up to 94,200, you may be eligible for premium assistance. The lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Get answers, and get covered. Find out if youre eligible and enroll now. At coveredca. Com. Tonights prime time line up here on abc7 that is available on your smart phone or tablet with watch abc app. An Elementary School tradition is back after a 20 year absence. Student crossing guards took their positions the program is back in place thanks to triple a and the support of former crossing guards like sf supervisor norman yee and police chief. I remember growing up, we didnt get a sign. Sometimes, you had to use your arm. But it worked we used to take pride in a school when there are no traffic collisions for the year. The crossing guards serve two purposes to get classmates to school and promote pedestrian safety. Two more schools will ghin a few weeks. As drought continues some farmers turning to an old way to find water. However, abc7 news talked with a water wizard who says his phone has been ringing off the hook. Which direction does water flow . For someone not in arming they probably think hes crayedy. He helped mark lindavi locate a spot to drill a well. Hes triing to find water, talking to his rods. Okay. Its strange. He was a skeptic. But he trusts his friends water. Its gotten busy. He is best known as a wine maker. With reservoirs at lows prorlt owners trying to tap other sources. I got a letter for a property said youre getting half that you normally get. So. There is other districts are saying youre getting no water. Mark and his copper rods have been busy. He says he found plenty of water sources in properties throughout the area. Find water, he says is easy. But drilling is another problem. People are wanting to drill wells now. Its, weve got a back up of three months. Before we can get a well driller in. If the drought continues he figures hes going to stay bugsy. Water will be the next oil . California. And thanks for joining us. Im ama daetz. The news at 5 00 continues right now with dan and cheryl. An unusual chp pursuit shuts down the bay bridge, ending with police tackling the drive on a busy San Francisco freeway. Im Spencer Christian on the roof. Its raining and its spreading to other areas ill show were you in joechlt and why a major water main broke in concord, what crews are doing to restore water as quickly as they can. Good evening, im dan ashley. Im cheryl jennings. Rain moved back, bringing us another day of wet weather. Yes. Here is a live look now. You can see sheets of rain just coming down. Spencer christian is in and joins us live from the abc7 broadcast center. You can see wide spread of moisture moving into the bay area. In this location over San Francisco, and points south ward down to the peninsula and eastward. You can see pulling back there are more batches of moisture off shore into the central part of the bay area. Only 100th and only trace amounts are 0. Its going to change overnight. Ill have a look at the accuWeather Forecast for you in just a moment. Thank you. You can track the rain on our abc7 news weather app. You can down load on our web site. A water main break shut down san miguel road. This is going to take a while. These are the crews working on this big hole left behind by the ruptured water main. This is what it looked like after the pipe burst. Im told it was attached to the pipe that failed. Which led to a leak and a geyser. Its a main line with water running through it. Its like a freeway. So theyre able to shut off