Welcome to the California Department of Motor Vehicles as you always dreamed you would see it. Empty chairs, empty windows. Have you ever seen the dmv this empty . No, no, i knew there was something wrong as soon as i walked in. Something wrong and how. Unfortunately, our systems are down. And have been out of commission at dmv offices across the state including this one on fell street in San Francisco and another in concord. Its been going on since monday. Official lit dmv would not allow any employees working in this office to speak to us on camera. They were speaking to customers, however, a heres what customers told us the dmv told them. What can you tell us that they told you . Just to come pack and make an appointment. They have no estimated time on when the system will be back up. Did they give an explanation . That was it. Did they apologize . Not really no. Reporter say anything to make you feel better . Obviously there lass to be a better system. Reporter registration, forgot. It driesens, sorry. Eye test, practice if you want. Ive got to go to work and town. You driving . No, i just took a stupid cab, took 20. All this the byproduct of when a computer bug gets in the way of real life, real cars and real people. Buggs happen, right . She will be back. In San Francisco, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Were learning tonight one of the seven people hurt in that driveby shooting in east oakland saturday night has died. 35yearold William Chavez passed away last night at the hospital the shooting happened just before midnight on saturday near 77th and bancroft avenues. The shooter also opened fire on police at the crime scene and no officers were hurt. The shooter or shooters are still out there. Were also learning a lot more tonight about the man shot and killed by an awardwinning filmmaker kevin epps who was released from San Francisco county jail after he was arrested monday for murder. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee is live at the jail with a story youll see only on 7. Vic . Well, this shooting victim, a sad and tragic figure in and out of jail controlled by drugs. Marcus polk had an estranged relationship with kevin epps, the man who shot and killed him, this profile from one of his closest friends. Had some hard times going in and out of jail. Reporter well call him bill. He wants to remain anonymous. Bill was the last room meat of marcus polk, the filmmaker kevin ends shot monday at his home. Epps is best known for his 2001 movie straight out of hints point was arrested for the murder and last night the d. A. Released him saying it appeared to be selfdefense, although adding its still an open case. Today no one answered the door at epps home where polk was shot after allegedly forcing his way inside. The home occupied by epps girlfriend, her two children and he sister. The 45yearold victim was a registered sex offender with a long rap sheet. He was wearing an ankle monitor. His convictions included domestic violence, robbery and drugs. Marijuana his main thing. He had a good heart and good spirit, but, you know, the drugs started taking control right before he passed away. He started to get on crystal meth pretty tough. He started smoking it. Reporter bill last saw polk in september when he kicked him out of this unit here at the vista delmonte apartments near the house where he died. The had a stay away order because they got unruly and stuff like that. They had to go. Reporter and then polk was jailed again for parole violation. He was released last week. And since then he didnt have a place to stay and so hes essentially on the streets or going from place to place. Reporter is bill surprised he was killed . He was flirting with danger. He was pushing it. Reporter bill believes the shooting stemmed from ay will Relationship Issue involving polk and the women in the house. Vic lee, abc 7 news. And were learning tonight San Francisco police have arrested two minors with a gun who were planning some sort of retaliation for last weeks shooting at june jordan school. Police tell us the two arrested are not suspects in that school shooting, so they are still looking for two more suspects. The gangrelated shooting last tuesday wounded four students, as we report, including a 15yearold girl. San mateo police are looking for a man and a woman pictured here in the sketches who robbed a store at the hillsdale mall saturday evening. Both suspects forced an employee into the back room of a store at knifepoint. They didnt say which store. They demanded access to the safe, but when the employee told them there was no safe both ran off without taking anything. A witness says the suspects were i their 630s. Deputies tonight in carpalias county have seized more than three tons of pot. The 7,700 pounds is estimated to be worth almost 8 million. Authorities also arrested 23 people in connection with the illegal grow near west point, california. Deputies also discovered significant Environmental Issues at the grow. All right. Now to more rain headed our way. Its a busy week in the weather department. Abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is here with that. Yeah, dan, busy, rather busy than board. Live doppler 7 right now showing you the cloud cover thats increasing. We have several storms coming our way. I do want to show you whats so interesting about this storm. Its a moderate strength storm coming in. There is some subtropical moisture associated with it, and then, sorry about that, when we get the subtropical moisture in association with that, we have more moisture coming in from category 3. The combination of the two will enhance the rainfall hand thats why a Flash Flood Watch has been posted thursday afternoon through friday morning south of monterrey. Heavy downpours and rain of half an inch per hour. The rainfall and drenching could cause debris floes and mud slides. On the impact scale this is a 2, a moderate strength storm for thursday late morning through friday. Half an inch to an inch for most of the bay area with the hills getting 2 to 4 inches and theres even a chance of thunder. Hourby hour forecast. 5 00 youre quite and as we head into 9 00 a. M. , a few showers beginning to approach. 10 00 a. M. They increase, and as we head noonantime the shower activity will not only increase but intensify for the afternoon. Ill show you when the heaviest rain will hit and, remember, you can always download our abc 7 news app any time to help you track live doppler 7 and enable push alerts to get it on your phone or tablet. Sand yeah, thank you. Google has decided to pull the plug on highspeed Fiberoptic Internet Service in the bay area. This after years of back and forth and getting approval, abc 7 News Reporter david louie is live in san jose with what may have driven the decision. Reporter kiss ten, think about how you use your internet these days because of mobile phones and tablets chances are youre connected more often to a Wireless Network than a cable. Google fiber, while very fast, may not be a necessity. Google is set to Start Construction in june installing fiberoptic alongs 2,400 miles of street in sap jose. 40 overhead on overhead utility poles. Googles investment was expected to exceed 1 billion. How we connect to the internet has since changed and many people do their entertainment and shopping and on social media over Wireless Networks. Its doubtful google is going to get back its investment. Fiber, while it may be important to the homes in certain areas, ive got to tell you the future of high speed and what we call Broadband Wireless is going to be much more important to the at t and the characters than it was going to build out fiber networks. In san jose, city leaders remain hopefully that will match everybodys nodes. Whether its at t or comcast or google or others, how can they make the investment to provide service to our entire community and the parts of our community that do not have the full access that we think everyone should have. The goal yconstruction of the Google Fiber Network was scheduled to take three years. It took two years just to work through the adevil process. Some neighbors say bigger is not better. The landfall nobody seems to want and how a new round would prompt a traush talk. Prompt a traush talk. And more on as a important step forward. The time is long overdue. Pharmaceutical industry. Passes the ballot. We need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. Prompt a traush talk. And more on as a my names Scott Strenfel and im a meteorologist at pg e. We make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. So every single day were monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. During storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. Learn how you can be prepared at pge. Com beprepared. Together, were building a better california. It is time for the pharmaceutical industry to stop the entire nation is looking at california. Lets go forward together. Thank you all very much. In the south bay neighbors are battling over trash. Tonight the San Jose Planning Commission is expected to vote on whether to allow the expansion of the newbie island landfill. Chris nguyen is live at city hall with the story. Chris . Reporter dan, that meeting will start at around 6 30 tonight. Hundreds of concerned citizens are expected to attend. Many of them pleading for compassion from the commission. For residents in milipitas and fremont an ongoing problem that they say has become almost unbearable. Its a very pungent smell, and its one of the smells that youll if ruff ever been to a Chemistry Lab youll smell that. Reporter these neighbors point to the landfall at the privately one newby island recovery park. San jose is in charge of the landfill and we are here to suffer from it. Reporter two years ago the city of san jose approved a permit to increase the height of the landfall by nearly 100 feel and to extend the landfills closing date from 2025 to 2041, but the city of milipitas filed an appeal prompted and odor study that took a little more than a year to complete. Tonight the San Jose Planning Commission should decide whether to accept or reject the appeal. The least they can do is not just consider their constituents and not just consider the buses on their land but also consider how its impacting the whole area. According to the Planning Department the study concluded that most of the odor at newby island actually comes from the parks recycling and green waste facility as opposed to the landfill. Reporter the open space will be limited to no more than one acre. Theres rules about the daily cover that goes over the open landfill face and other conditions. Despite the report some neighbors are skeptical. Work across lines to find a solution to find something that works for everybody. Reporter chris nguyen, abc 7 news. City workers will likely be on the move soon. Police and several city agencies have been on mt. Diablo boulevard. The need for more parking became such a sore point that negotiations with the citys landlord broke down. Their new home may be in trailers at a city lot on nearby maraga home. Reporter san joses homeless will be able to go on a shopping spree on friday. Clothes were sorted for a popup clothing store. Being organized by Episcopal Services which runs most shelters. Its going to be a experience where they dont necessarily have to be going through a bag of clothes on the side of the street that are left over and getting an experience to choose something rather than being forced to take something. More than 400 Homeless People are expected to take part in this shopping event. A selfie wasnt big enough for a picture taken this morning near the golden gate bridge. Abc 7 news was there as current and retired San Francisco firefighters posed for the picture, and what do you notice, yeah, they are all women. The picture commemorates the 30th anniversary of Women Joining the department back in august of 1987. There were some long days for most of us that sort of paved the way and people accepted the women in the department in a good way because they were equals and could do the job as capably. Now women make up 15 of the citys firefighters and that includes the fire chief. Compare that to new york where less than 1 of firefighters are women. Yet another automaker is recalling thousands of vehicles. This time subaru identified a problem that could be dangerous. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is here with more on that. We dont hear that many recalls from subaru. Still pretty odd. Subaru is recalling four models of cars to affirmative action a problem that could cause a fire. The recall affects about 100,000 cars and include a legacy and outback vehicles from model years 2007 through 2009. It also covers newer imprezas and foresters. Subaru says an air injection pump may overheat and catch fire. The company has two reports of fires but no injuries. Weve reported on the controversy about skyrocketing costs offen pens and now a competitor may provide the allergy shots at a lower price. Farm suit cal company caleo is promising the lifesaving shots early next year. The Company Still has not set a price but says it will be less than the 300en pen. Earlier this money epipen accede to pay for claims on charges it overcharged medicaid for the charts. Southwest is known for its bags fly free policy and southwest may add different fees to boost revenues. The airline is struggling to meet revenue goals. Today Ceo Gary Kelly says he wont scrap the beloved free pag baggage policy. However, the airline may charge for other Services Like early bird checkin or express boarding and any fees will be introduced right away, but it will be sooner rather than later. I think we can bet on that. Thanks very much. Now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. Hi there, everyone. Lets check out live doppler 7 and ill show you what it looks like from that perspective. Clouds moving in from ukiah and cloverdale and the storm will be here before you know it. Mt. Tam cam, high clouds to give us a colorful sunset and low clouds down below and believe it or not it made it up to 80 degrees in san jose today so it was a warmer day. 67 in San Francisco and oakland and mountaianview and san jose 4 degrees and san fracisco made it to 70. The filtered sun over the pay and upper 60s from santa rosa to napa. Go with short sleeves. One other picture live from our east bay hills camera. Moderate storm moving in tomorrow and periods of heavy rain between late thursday and friday morning with a weaker system coming in this weekend. Heres a look at the storm impact scale. We do have a 2. A moderate strength storm between late thursday morning and half an inch to an inch of rain and over the hills were talk 2 00 to 4 inches and for an entire region we have a slight chance for thunder. Tomorrow morning when you get going at 5 00 a. M. It looks fine but keep in mine the computer models are changing quickly and thats why you need the abc 7 news app to keep you posted on any changes so we head into the late morning hours, 10 00, a few showers begin to develop. Notice the trajectory of this system. It will start out from the south and its not coming in from the north but well see more widespread activity. Wet roadways for the morning rush. 11 00 p. M. Youll be seeing this as well, friday morning, excuse me, the commute is really messing at 4 00 a. M. Look for a drenching, yellows and originals indicating that this continues at 7 00 and could even see a clap of thunder. The red over the Santa Cruz Mountains could be intense rain. When youre taking the kids off to school it will be pretty rough out there. Friday at noon, we still have scattered showers and the showers will take us into friday evening before things start to taper and we will notice that the weekend includes wet weather as well. This is the juiceiest of the storms coming in. As far as rainfall totals, over an east bay and definitely higher totals where we had little higher and grab your jackets and umbrellas because chance are youll fled them duke the. A look at the accuweather forecast, one storm after another panching in. Heaviest rain thursday night into friday morning. We will seener kiss tim, its weak, and this storm will inclues breezy conditions. Hall woot is a twine and another system follows on wednesday and this is what weve about looking for an waiting for for years. Thanks. And which like the kiaming, the little bothers going bare can be a real pain. Thats next. And then at 5 30 o breaking news. Request. Commute esin a boston subway and speak and passengers trying to pride doors open to get out. And a pilot arrested here in caltranz will blow up one of the piers that supported the old eastern span of the bay bridge on saturday. The controlled implosion is scheduled for 11 00 in the morning. This is video from a believes implosion of another pier that was removed. Saturdays project will focus on pier e4 and will take less than four seconds, thats it. Drivers on the bay bridge may face delays as the Highway Patrol stops traffic briefly during the implosion. Were getting a glimpse at a frightening fire at Nasas Jet Propulsion Laboratory in pasadena that was caused by an exploding lithium ion batteries. The batteries that powered one of nassas expensive robots caught fire and a nasa intern from an agist ent lap and climbed through an open window to put it out. They are just nasa only recently released,video. Researchers in san diego have found a detrimental vied effect of space travel suffering brakened spinal cords in orbit and it does not return to the normal strength until months later. Well, you know someone who might experience that is the first napa native in space. Right. She is scheduled to return to earth friday night. Said rubins and her two crew members are expect ed ed to dut town. She also took time to teleconference with his students and watch her 250 mill journey home. Watch for the link on our website. Actor tom hanks wants in. The re. And a big thank you to abc 7 news viewer stacy for the picture of the cloudfilled sky. Use the abc1news. You may see it coming up at 6 00, b. A. R. T. s multibillion bond bid. Tonight why supporters say the money is badly needed and others dont want it it in the hand of the b. A. R. T. Board and hear from friends and neighbors of a man shot by officers in San Francisco. They claim theres more to this story. And when billions arent enough. We examine why investors are concerned about apple and techers perts are now. All of that and a lot more coming up in half han hour. Oakland native tom hanks says hed be raul in for part of the remake of splash, 91914 movie that made him a star. A the remember asked hanks last night of what he thought of the decision to cast Channing Tatum in the hole of merman and hanks ran with there idea. Why not. I figure if they would really be bold i would come back as alan bauer and i would go off with Channing Tatum. That would be bold movie, and i am suggesting it right now. Ron howard directed the original splash and plans to be involved in the remake produced by disney. Howard appeared with hanks at the premiere of their new movie inferno. Tom hanks on a roll, sully out a couple months ago and now this. World news tonight with david muir is coming up next. And im dan ashley. Spore sandhya patel and all of us here, we appreciate your time. See you at 6 00. Byebye. Tonight, breaking news. The scare on the subway. Smoke filling the train during rush hour. Passengers in boston prying open the doors to get out. Climbing through train windows. Already a nation on heightened alert. Tonight, the possible culprit. Also breaking, powerful earthquakes striking italy tonight. The images coming in right now. And reports on the rescues. The flight here in the u. S. The pilot under arrest, accused of being drunk in the cockpit. Donald trump tonight, visiting his new hotel. The second hotel in two days. Tonight, hes oneonone with george. Plus, trumps surrogate Newt Gingrich taking aim at megyn kelly. You are fascinated with sex. Tonight, her response. And the new poll. Trump now leading clinton in florida . The razor thin margin. And the new video tonight after
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