Withal armstrong pleaded not guilty on his behalf. Not guilty to five felony Sexual Assault charges. The stanford freshman and member of the swimming steam accused of sexually assaulting a woman after they met at a Fraternity Party last moment. The prosecutor told reporters this case is unique. There were two heros that came forward and want i want to say about them if they are listening, thank you. Thank you for doing the right thing. Reporter those hero two grad students ridingby cycles who say they saw the woman lying on the ground with turner on top of her. The two said they chased turner as he ran, tackled him and held him until police came. Turner told investigators he was fondling the woman but never had sex. The Woman Told Police she was drinking heavily blacked out and doesnt a thing. I think its extremely unfortunate for everyone involved. Reporter in this courtroom today was a stanford Junior Computer science student. I just wanted to come by because he was upset over the incident. I dont know exactly how to prevent them from the universitys point of view besides better education better awareness, better more sensible alcohol and party policies. Reporter turner withdraw from stanford after he was charged with a Sexual Assault. Hes moved back to his native ohio but ordered to appear at all the hearings. Next one in march. Vic lee, abc7 news. You might want to think twice about the next time burr to drop off one of your digital devices for a repair a marin county woman took her smartphone in for a fix and later found her personal photos werent so personal anymore. Abc7 News Reporter Wayne Friedman joins us live from the marin county shopping sent we are her problem dan. Wayne . Reporter we are certainly trusting these days, arent we in this era of Technology Take in a computer we bring in a phone, let them work on it, we leave it behind. Have you ever considered what those tech anything abouts might access . The reason the radioshack over my shoulder figures in not one but two pending legal cases. They have become a complication of the digital able, those pictures on your bone. You want to see the bacon . We carry them, share them, in marin county today, mark cooper joked about them, to a point. If you took them without my knowledge, yeah, i would be kind of upset. Thats my bacon. Reporter according to the marin County District attorney, there was a lot more than bacon on the phone that Christine Porter took into this radioshack in Corte Madeira asked the employee to fix the cracked screen and told police later the now former employee had pulled 17 photos of her from the phone and texted them to himself. Your private space your phone. So when somebody takes your private information it is a violation of your privacy. Reporter a felony for which 24yearold Jose Robert Miranda in richmond appeared in court this morning. He did not enter a plea. He is out on bay. In addition to press the criminal case against miranda Christine Porter is now suing him and radioshack for trespassing, concealment negligence appropriation of name and likeness, plus other counts. In response today, radioshack released a statement. The way we prarkts everything is dat arc everything is online, our phones, where we keep information. Reporter ever assume how many of us trust too much . However the case resolves it is a lesson. From Corte Madeira, wayne freedman, abc7 news. San Francisco Police are investigating three separate recent Home Invasion robberies over the weekend. The first one happened friday at 8 a. M. On fair lot street 24 hours later, an elderly couple was robbed in their home on amethyst way. Their car stolen. Sunday morning on buchanan street, two men tied a woman up taped her mouth will shut and ransacked her apartment. Authorities do not believe the three Home Invasions are related. Fortunately, all of the victims are okay. Water remains shut off for several blocks in San Francisco after a water main break this afternoon. Crews are, woulding right now to fix the eightinch maine break at union street and fill more. Rushing water flooded parts of two businesses. Officials say they could turn it back on within an hour. Not yet known what caused the breaks but the pipe was from the 1960s. We have 100 miles of pipe here in the city some dating back to 1903 1900. Of course, we are in process of upgrading and restoring or replacing pipes but base clay, lot of pipe out there that is age and we need to do these upgrades. The Public Utilities commission aims to replace 15 miles of ageing pipe every year. Bay Area Oil Refinery workers have begun their first strike in 35 years. Sky 7 hd shows you the target of that strike, the tesoro refinery in martinez. It comes after contract talks broke down between you united steal workers and tesoro over the weekend. Workers shutting the refinery down slowly. It should be fully offline late they are we can. Union leaders say the Sticking Point is understaffing and that but the reese finery workers at risk. Tesoro said in a statement that its bar gained in good faith and will continue to do so. A Silicon Valley college makes the difficult decision to end its football program. Menlo College Board members say that long travel distances and tripling costs make the Football Team simply unstable much the College President says the decision will allow the school to pour more resources into the schools other 12 athletic programs. All current Football Players can retain their scholarships, some will be offered roster spots on other teams at the school. The bay area was well represented at super bowl 49. First, theres patriots quarterback, tom brady, the bride of san mateo how about the guy he is hugging, you see him right here on the field . Everybody is learning his name today, but for years, he has been a big deal in the San Mateo County town of woodside. Abc7 News Reporter Tiffany Wilson is live at Woodside High School with the story. Tiffany . Reporter well, alma that mans name Julian Edelman better remember it certainly know it here at woodside. When he was a player, his coach called him a heatseeking missile, he always wanted to be a part of the biggest game and the biggest plays in those games. Last night was certainly no exception. The kid makes the cash. Reporter Sports Memorabilia crowds steves deck. Julian edelmans presence everywhere his photo on the wall helmet on the shelf, highlights on tv. He was here and the rest of them were here, you can see there was a difference. Reporter he coached the former woodside standout in 2004. The team received High School Championship rings after the season. Last night, edelman won the real thing. Knowing julian and how hard he works we knew about that good things were gonna come his way. Reporter but it almost didnt happen. The patriots were behind much of the game, until this moment. Played day, caught, touchdown, Julian Edelman reporter current woodside Football Players dream about being in edelmans shoes making a similar gamewinning catch. That would be the best feeling in the world, i would think. Reporter during that play, brady connected with edelman and woodside united with Sera High School in san malt teo. Grade graduated from there in 1995. Tom he having to us a great person, great alum, and brett pretty good quarterback, too. Reporter the school wanted to rename it in his honor. He asked them to rename it for his family instead. A great man, a great family man, he gives back to his community. Reporter in 2004 brady donated his super bowl mvp cadillac to the sarah ravel. It raised more than 130,000. No word on if that could happen again. It would be awesome. We would welcome it. But we are not really counting on it or banking offen that. Reporter what they can bank on is this, a super bowl championship brought to the patriot buys two bay area boys. In woodside, Tiffany Wilson abc7 news. Well, the countdown can now begin for super bowl 50 which will be held at levis stadium, 369 days from today. San Francisco Mayor ed lee says he is excited that San Francisco will be the host city for next years big game. He says he is looking forward to hearing from members of the super bowl 50 Host Committee who spent the past week studying in arizona. We need to manage people. We need to make sure its all safe and fun and im looking forward to kind of listening to ideas that we can demonstrate hopefully some new ones that will be Family Friendly and educational as well as enjoying the game of football. Gonna be a huge deal. Organizers expect super bowl 50 to draw 1 Million People to San Francisco. They say they have raised more than 40 million to help pay for the events and expect to donate some of that money to local nonprofits. Chinatown and carbon dating. Law is the law just follow the rules. Coming up what one of San Franciscos top tourist destinations has to do with a dna and poaching. Visitors temporarily forced out of the bay area park. What state officials are trying to protect. And why this insect is prompting a quarantine in one bay area county. Plus the newest fight over plastic and ten pennies. How amazon. Com is coming to at Kaiser Permanente everything you need is under one roof. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Okay, a little easier. Become a member of Kaiser Permanente. Because together, we thrive. Firefighters are looking into the cause of two fires overnight at a vacant vehicle repossession and tow business in east oakland. The first fire was around 2 in the morning, firefighters doused the flames in half an hour. Four hours later a second fire was reported inside the building on 105th avenue. Unclear if the fire had rekindled from the first or sparked by something else. Damage is estimated at a half million dollars. Donations Keep Streaming in for dozens of people displaced by this fire at 22nd and mission streets in San Francisco last week. The website, go fund me shows more than 100,000 has been raised so far. Thiss up from 60,000 on saturday. The fundraising organizers says the money will be divided among the victims. Well part San Francisco lawmakers debated today whether to throw their weight behind a state measure calling for a total ban on the purchase or sale of ivory. It would strengthen a state law already on the books that is designed to prevent the animals extinction. Abc7 News Reporter Carolyn Tyler reports. Reporter what do people like about ivory . The craftsmanship. The craftsmanship. Reporter this merchant in San Franciscos china town is one of dozens selling i havery. Did he not want us to go inside his shop because of the controversy. Critics say 96 elephants are being slaughtered every day for their ivory tusks. On the, the elephants are the tusks are taken while they are still alive. They are not always dead. Its very barbaric. Reporter california passed a law decades ago banning the import or sale but created an exception for ivory imported before 1977. And that has allowed illegal sales to flourish. San franciscos china town is said to be right behind new york and los angeles in the sales of ivory. A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council found 80 was likely to be illegal but this merchant says he is not one of the bad guys. Leftover. Leftover from the 70s. No new pieces. Reporter now protests like this one last fall, state lawmakers will consider a blanket ban on buying or selling any elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns. Today a committee of San Francisco lawmakers debated whether to support that measure. New york and new jersey already have strict laws. This tourist shopping in chinatown says legal or not she would not buy ivory. Theres lovely lovely jewelry, but there are things that are better that are safer for animals. Reporter under the proposed bill if you already have ivory objects, you can keep them. In San Francisco Carolyn Tyler, abc7 news. Part of Mount Diablo State Park is now off limits to the public through the end of july. Rangers closed the castle rock and pine canyon areas yesterday to allow american per grin falcons to breed. The falcons were once endangered and now fully protected in california. The falcons nesting in the parks since the late 1800s. Signs are posted in the park to educate the public about these predatory birds. A quarantine to solve a dangerous pest that attacks fruit trees in santa clara county. Agricultural officials found them in an area north of an existing Quarantine Zone in san jose. The pets can carry a disease that can cause a tree to produce bitter, misshaped fruit before the tree dies. The new quarantine area adds 61 square miles to the existing quarantine of 150 square miles. Residents with backyard citrus trees are being asked to not transport or send citrus fruit or leaves out of this impacted area. Some state lawmakers think california is going too far to encourage conservation. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is here with that and other consumer headlines. This first one is super interesting, california made history by becoming the first state in the country to ban plastic bags the Grocery Stores that ban begins in july much the two pieces of legislation aimed to repeal the ban. One would repeal the 10 cent fee on paper bags. Another would cancel out the legislation all together. Supporters of the bills argue conservation is good but government should not get involved in how taxpayers should conserve. You go to trader joes do they offer plastic bag, no. Whole foods, they offer a plastic bag, no. Go to cost coe offer a plastic bag, no. My thing is that retailers should be able to make the decision themselves. In at dig to the pills, a referendum effort is under way to repeal the Plastic Bag Ban as well. The bad guys have discovered a fake texting can be as profitable as fishing on email and a whole lot easier to pull off. At t is the latest company to be called out. Privacy experts say the text sent by the Telecom Giant can be easily spoofed and that it is replicated boy the bad guys with email. Graphic have to look legit and grammar perfect to fake out most of us with email with texts there are no logos and the abbreviated speech make it hard to spot bad grammar and therefore fakes. The advice here is dont click on a link from a text ever. The production of College Textbooks is a 10 balance year industry and now there is a major new player. Amazon is striking deals with universities setting up cobranded textbook websites. University of california davis is on the program. Schools of that size can expect to receive around 300,000 a year gore participating in the partnership. Amazon says students could save nearly 400 each per year and in some locations, actually receive their books the very next day after they order. This could start a textbook price war with other textbook sellers, that, of course a wonderful, wonderful thing. Could get more expensive. Amazing. Thank you michael. Federal auditors are coming down hard on an Alameda County Health Center that is an important safety net for thousands of people. Reports obtain pitd abc7 news i team under the freedom of information attack show the problems at west Oakland Health council. The number of patients served is plummeting and there are calls for the councils director, dr. Robert cooper to resign. This is no personal thing dr. Cooper i just think its a time where youre no longer effective. Are we better than we were in the past . Yes. Thats dr. Cooper. They take the complaints to the man in charge and gets the answers that so many patients and employees of the clinic have been waiting to hear that is tonight on abc7 news at 11 00. Hope you can tune in for that report. For now though we have a lot to talk about with our weather. Gorgeous outside. Sandhya patle is here with a look at the forecast. Yeah, we are going to be seeing a big change in the weather to around here. Right now, just some high clouds and haze. We will get rid of all of that we will bring on the rain. Let me show you live doppler 7 hd and we will talk about those big changes that are going to come very soon here. Only clouds right now up to the north. We are tracking some rain around crescent city. We look at the big picture what we are interested in the moisture headed back north of hawaii . We are tracking it for you high moisture content nope as the atmospheric river, headed in our direction, most of the energy aimed at northern california, a branch of this. We will be seeing significant rain across the bay area could add up to half a foot in our wettest location the course of several days of course bhoupt tam cam, right now we have to suffer the air qual tharkts is until we get that rain in. Poor air qual i willity in the north bay, notice the forecast, better air quality thursday and friday and coincides with the rain coming. From our south beach camera just a spectacular shot looking toward San Francisco. Mid60s, oakland 62. 59, half moon bay. Todays high temperatures in the 60s. Oakland 72 unseasonably mild. High snow levels, there is a chance of rain and snow up in the tahoe area between friday and monday. Temperatures, santa rosa, 61 petaluma. A beautiful shot from our sutro tower camera. Get those pictures of the is up society and send them in you are going to get beautiful ones. Take a look at this shot. Like to sit on. This i cant. I have to move it along. Hazy and mild tomorrow. We are looking a at series of storms thursday through sunday, exactly what we need. High pressure for the time being holding on. Keep it dry and mild, the rain staying to the north. All going to change, a series of warm systems headed in our direction, what is going to set up from thursday through sunday, possibly monday. Wednesday night, sprinkles in north bay have to wait until the morning commute, thats when thursday at 5 a. M. The rain reaches the north bay. The rain will stay north bay cant rule it out on thursday, shift buys friday. Long range, the rainfall totals are going to add up. By sunday, two to four inches in the north bay and the south bay, threequarters of an inch to an inch and a half of rain. Tomorrow morning watch out for the fog, temperatures mid40s to the low 50s, it is going to be a murky morning ferry ride if you do take it in or out of San Francisco. 70 degrees tomorrow afternoon in santa rosa, san jose concord, 72 livermore, 67 oakland, 66 San Francisco. High clouds and haze spare the air alert as you look at the accuweather sevenday forecast, but we will switch it over to cool cooler and wet on thursday, continues through the weekend and a slight chance of a few showers monday morning lingering, exactly what we need. Could see up to half a foot of rain when all is said and done. We will have to track it all for you with live doppler 7 hd. Stay with us here. Yes the governments geek squad, who are they and why they are getting a financial boost from the white house. Thats next. New at 6 00, a San Francisco book store is closing for good great rates for great rides. Geico motorcycle see how much you could save. Female announcer save up to 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic. Keep more president s in your wallet. Sleep trains president s day sale is on now your ticket to a better nights sleep Congressional Republicans dont like the tax chances in the president s 4. 5 trillion budget. They want to boost taxes on corporation and republicans say the deal is dead on arrival. The president s budget puts serious money behind government tech, call forced 105 million to create new digital Strike Forces in 25 different agencies. The goal is to manage technology inhouse relying less on independent contractors. The idea is being push pieded by former Google Engineer mikey dickerson, known as the guy who fixed healthcare. Com after its disastrous launch that you may recall. The city of burlingame will consider a proposal to make it more like palo alto lining the broadway corridor. Merchants along the street want the city council to lift a decades old restriction on the number of restaurants on road way. Right now, there can only be 28 of them. Merchants say eaters create foot traffic and helps all businesses along the street. Look at palo alto, university avenues restaurant row, very successful. Food businesses bring people to the street. We can use a bakery, we can use a wine bar. The proposal before the Burlingame City Council would also limit the am of time drivers can park in the area. Well the menu seemed to be the last thing anybody cared about at todays hollywood lunch. It is great to speak up what i really think is youve got to do something. Coming up oscar . E coming up tonight at 6 clock, the look of Bay Area Transportation 30 years from now. Tonight, the trend and choices commuters could be facing. Also from 7 on your sides Michael Finney, the abrupt bankruptcy of a laser Skin Care Company s there any chance of an about face with customers getting their money pack . All coming up in half an hour on abc7 news at 6 00. See you then. Finally here hollywoods biggest stars come together for a luncheon this afternoon in Beverly Hills before this months oscars. An opportunity for the more than 150 nominees to mingle and take a class picture of sorts. Those nominated for their acting spoke their unforgettable experiences. Patricia arquette talking about the process of making the movie boyhood over more than the decade. We are in the movie business and the concept of asking a financer to give you money 13 years before they can get is it is impossible. I just want to do stuff thats good. I think thats everyone every actors hope is just be part of something thats good and that people respond to, whether its a comedy or drama. So, i dont have any pretense about doing drama over comedy. Thatsteve carol 24078 nated for his very serious performance in fox catcher. Watch the oscars live on february 22nd the big show starts at 4 p. M. Now world news tonight with david muir is next. We appreciate your time. See you at 6 00. On this monday night breaking news. The massive storm hitting 23 states. 100 million americans, and the new worries tonight. The dangerous pileup in chicago. Drivers trapped for miles. The explosion in new york. Were also in detroit and boston. Snow for the record books. And whats coming tomorrow. Meantime, the scare in atlanta. Interstates shut down, drivers stuck in their cars. Breaking now. The new and concerning numbers coming in on measles. Late details on Whitney Houstons daughter and what happened in that bathtub. And the super stunner. Was this really the worst play call in super bowl history . Jesse palmer standing by. Will you agree with him . Good evening
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