Cam video shows officers used excess i Excessive Force and his pregnant grermd. B. A. R. T. Police just received this report. I was just raped. Reporter man who called 911 had been cursing at them and telling them they smelled. Neither smith nor appleton was sglarmd do you believe your officers used Excessive Force. No. It was a perfect response. They shared these pictures and in the knit he dnch. She believes an officer who placed a knee on her back caused her to miscary. When i first found out i lost my baby, i was stressful and hurt and lost. The jury acquitted smith on three battery counts and was hung on four others including resisting arrest. There were three of us that were pretty adamant that it was Excessive Force and he had every right to defend himself. The d. A. Is deciding whether to retry the case. And in an email statement the spokesperson says the video the public defender showed was edited, quote, in exclusioning the evidence the judge cited editorial choices that were made such as altering the audio levels and omitting segments where the defendant is alleged to have bit, kick and spit on b. A. R. T. Police officers. All he had to do was supply. The officers involved are still on patrol while an internal Affairs Investigation is under way. The results of that investigation will not be made public. In San Francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 1 news. Tonight San Franciscos Police Commission is set to debate changes in the departments use of norse policies this. Comes one day after the departments new chief was announced. Today the incoming chief bill scott visited the mission statement. Scott is in favor of tasers and other nonlethal weapons. The Police Officers unions may leave Police Officers no chase but to use deadly force. Police want to know if there are any potential victims out there. The Campbell Police department announced the rest of Julio Sanchez late this afternoon. One of his reported victims says she was drunk and woke up inside sanchezs home while being sexually assaulted. Campbell police say sanchez is known to frequent downtown areas throughout the south bay and police ren couraging anyone else who may be a victim to please come forward immediately. The test of wills between uber and the dmv continues tonight. Both sides plan to meet today about the companys selfdriving cars out on the roads right now without a permit. Abc 7 News ReporterSergio Quintana is live where uber stores those Autonomous Vehicles. Sergio . Dan, weve been hoping to see one or more of those cars live or actually come back no this warehouse this evening. So far we havent seen any of them and unfortunately we also havent heard much of about meeting between uber, the dmv and attorney generals office. When uber announced it was launching a selfdriving car service christopher was immediately skeptical. No, i wouldnt get a selfdriving car at this point. I think the technology is too new and i think they are really bushing it rushing it to market reporter about a month ago he saw a selfdriving uber car run through a red light and again this uber was threegame through the interception. During the course of our trip to the city of. As uber meets with state regulators over its Autonomous Vehicle project, one thing is clear. Authorities dont know how many dangerous situations its cars may have have experienced. Thats because uber is still operating without a permit from the dmv which would require reports on these glitches. Ubers robot cars have been on city streets for months but the state jumped in after picking up customers. Before last week uber told the dmv those vehicles were only mapping, not driving autonomously. Mayor ed lee says hes personally talked about uber cofounder travis kalanick. Im certainly not allowing anything to be, and im very concerned about that. Thats why, and the dmv has the jurisdiction to do more than we could do locally. The mayor is not sure if the uber cars can be impounded even in operating without a permit. A man died after being stabbed at an east bay park. Sky 7 was over at the scene at Mosswood Park across the street from kaiser hospital. You see police tape there around the scene. Police found the victim just after 7 00 this morning. A 10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the killer. Vallejo police have identified a paup shop owner killed in an Armed Robbery yesterday afternoon. He was 49yearold timothy polt and was shot by a man at pawn advantage. A man suffered serious injuries and was taken to the hospital. A dog was also shot and killed. A fiery crash just orf midnight left person burned and a possible investigation into a possible dui is under way. It happened on peabody road which runs between fairfield and vacaville. A lincoln sedan and suv collided head on. A Good Samaritan helped save the driver who survived. One of San Franciscos most dangerous intersections has now gotten a makeover. Abc 7 news was in the south of the market area as officials showed off these changes. They include raised concrete islands around walkways and bike lanes and barriers to force wide turns. The idea is to slow cars down as they turned right from division to ninth street. Instead of the bikes and the cars merge when they get to the intersection, they remain separated so that they can see each other. The protected intersection is the first of its kind in San Francisco and its real needed. During the boyak. This is at hopkins and alameda and to turn right cars have to shely navigate around floating items that you see here which brings pikes and pediatricians more in line of the sight of vision. Today is the last day they can sell assault zeile weapons. In our wondering why the new newry, this is the last day you can buy the firearm on pick it up on dekes 31st. By this afternoon there were just a hand until of ar15 rifles and one ak47 at city arms in pleasant hill. This the past week they have been selling like hot cakes. It has been insane. Its been nonstop pretty much from the time we open until we close. Heres just one days worth of applications for people registering to buy up. Guns before the deadline. We got an audience in knife that most manufacturers will stop producing ar15s and ak47 type rifles. Thats because these will be illegal hand in the past officials restricted the number of bullets they could use in their ten to. Starting january 1st bullet buttons will be illegal and removing the magazine will require taking the rifle apart, but what that means is still not clear. So they are playing it safe. This afternoon city arms workers started taking down the few remaining rifles to send back to distributor, a law they dont agree with but must obey. They are making it so that people are good people cant get the guns that they want. Doe expect the law to be on the hunt for had a man honl the ruined. Coming up and what he did afterwards has police noding your help. Whats wrong with the picture . A Surveillance Video carryinging a warning. And is your lipstick dangerous . What the fbi says you should know. And what do you do with all the shipping boxes when youre done with lieian melendez has more from the concord Police Department with this story. Lyanne. Reporter well, the whole thing is very sneaky. Now police here say that the man in the Surveillance Video is from the area meaning from the east bay, but they still have not found him. Once everyone was gone from this Sears Department store in concord last friday night, this man caught on Surveillance Video went to work. He had been hiding inside the sto store. Today customers expressed their curiosity. Is he crouched in the bathroom, no one knows im here. Im going to steal some stuff. We think he might have been in the storage locker or storage room in the back of sears. Reporter police told us the man looked around the store until he decided to steal what was inside one of the jewelry cases. Nearly 130 expensive rings. Merchandise in excess of 200,000 stolen. Reporter robbery wasnt discovered until saturday morning once the store opened. The man may have left through one of the exit doors that has Quick Release bars. It makes me really sad to think that people want gifts so bad on christmas that they forget what the holiday spirit is so they want to get something for their significant other and they just like steal things. Reporter others found entire story amusing. I cant believe someone would stay behind in the store and take something, anything. You dont shop here, i take it . I take the fifth. Im usually in the Tool Department so i would suspect thats where i would be. Id be carrying out the tools after everybody left. Reporter police are hoping the public will help identify him since he made no effort to hide his face. Wearing a baseball cap back to front. Criminals are not very bright. In concord, lieian melendez abc 7 news. A man posing as a pest control worker is wanted for trying to steal from a San Francisco building and see how he got in the building. Police provided this Surveillance Video. The man is fully covered in a white hazmat suit and then signed in at a security desk. It happened at a business in hayes valley. The Security Officer caught the man trying to steal computers. This card chased him, as you see, out of the building. Yahooowned tumblr was down for three hours hand may have been the target of a distributed denial of Service Attack. If it was, thats a serious event. Distributed denial of Service Attack is when a hearing floods the sight with so much incoming traffic the site has to shut down. Users can now access the set. Tumblr went down 12 30 our time in the u. S. And europe. Hackers from the group our mine took over net. Icss twitter account this morning claiming to be testing security. Netflix kept delieutenant the tweets and told customers the company was working on the problem. They are also claiming responsibility for hacking twitter accounts for Marvel Studios upcoming films. Disney is the Parent Company of both marvel and abc 7. Government asks for account data from facebook grew by nearly 13,000 for the first part of the year. Thats from the transparency report. Also the majority of government requests came with a nondisclosure clause that prevented facebook from notifying the usener question. The company reiterated while it complies with legal requests it refuses to offer the government direct access to iris information. Well, obviously few people would deliberately put lead into their bodies. Today the food and Drug Administration proposed guidelines to limit amount of lead in cosmetics and its already being criticized as not doing enough. Michael finney is here with that story. Im kind of surprised at the level they put it at, the conversation anyway. The food and Drug Administration issued proposed goitd lines today that would limit amount of lead in lip city, eye shadow and lotion to ten parts per million. Lead is listed as a cancercausing agent. Research conducted has found led levels in levels as high at nine parts per million. A restriction of ten parts per million is doable. The fda believes the lead content in cosmetics right now is generally safe and just last month the Natural ResourcesDefense Council found for the elimination of all lead in cosmetic products. One chicagoarea man is not loving one of the mcdonalds extra value meals. James gurney claims the cheeseburger extra value meal isnt a value at all. Bundling two cheeseburgers and medium fries at a drink is 41 cents more than when purchased separately. Hes suing mcdonalds and seeking class action status. He says the suit is not about the 41 cents but the principal. If you do a lot of online organized you just might have a lot of empty boxes around the house and now theres a way to utilize those boxes while doing good for others. The post office will pick up old amazon boxes or any empty box filled with items you would like to donate to goodwill. All you have to do is print out a label from getbackbox. Com and the post office will deliver it to the nearest goodwill. If you register youll receive a receipt for your tuxible donation in the mail. Winwin. Now to a story thats a christmas miracle for hundreds living in palo altos only mobile home park. Santa claras Housing Authority has voted unanimously to pie Buena Vista Mobile Home Park to keep the parks owners from shutting it down and displacing nearly 400 mostly lowincome latino residents. Today a judge in Santa Clara County removed another hurdle. The superior court judge reversed a Council Decision allowing the owners to close down the only home park. B. A. R. T. Is announcing another price increase, but its not for fares. Its for park fines. On its twitter account b. A. R. T. Says on january 1st the cost of parking illegally will rise from 35 to 535 and permit violations will from from 40 to 75. B. A. R. T. Bumps up parking fees every six months. A slowdown in muney service this past number was caused by an unprecedented number of workers calling in six. 74 workers called in sick and since there arent enough backup drivers some buses never hit the streets at all. Muney ended up having to cancel several routes. The agency hopes to fill in the ranks early next year as 770 up in drivers graduate from its training program. Hi there, everyone. Its the first day of winter and it felt more like spring. Many parts of the bay area in the 60s, low to upper 60s and a good five to ten degrees above normal. Live doppler 7 showing a few clouds beginning to skirt the coast. They are seeing showers and if youre traveling down south keep that in mind. That rain wont make it here just yet. Looking at another system that will bring us stormy conditions. A lovely few if youre expecting a while christmas. Here you go. You will see some snow. This upcoming friday. Thursday is cloudy and today is the best day for travel. Friday is going to be dicy and saturday youre still looking at snow showers and slippery conditions heading to the mountains. The west slope of the sierra under a winter storm warning friday at 10 00 a. M. Until saturday at 4 00 p. M. High left elevations looking at one to three feet of snow. It is gusty so expect whileiot conditions and chain controls and delays and not a good idea to travel that time and if you have to pack your patience. Youll see it 15 inches South Lake Tahoe hand 17 inches at kirkwood and a lovely look from our abc 7 news exploratorium camera as we look back out to the bay and the bay lights. A look at your temperatures upper 50s. Half moon bay 57 degrees and afterglow of this sun set from the emoryville camera. Its there and thats why theres a spare the alert up now. Low 50s napa, livermore and beach hazard statement and up until 6 00 tonight and a little bit longer. Rip current risk and big waves will continue so watch out. From our mt. Tam cam, its breezing out there. Sunny afternoon. A spare the air alert up again tomorrow. Next storm arrives friday and theres a slight chance of rain christmas night. Hour by hour planner, chilly start tomorrow morning and mid30s to mid40s. Clouds begin to increase and it does get a little bit chilly. The air quality does suffer in the north bay. Poor tomorrow and moderate elsewhere. I know it is going to be chilly and it is legal to burn wood. Maybe an extra blank the or perhaps turning up the she or oe of your pets keep you warm. Tomorrow afternoon youre looking at sunshine and mid50s to the low 60s so slightly lower temperatures. Intensity of our storm friday is a 2 and its moderate. Basketwee downpours and were expecting wet conditions for both the morning and afternoon commute and gusts 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour and rain still to the in the on friday. As we head into 4 00 a. M. North bay is getting wet and by 5 00 a. M. Covering most of the bay area. The morning commute will include downpours and the yellows indicating the heavier rain and 8 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. And the orange is indicating the brief downpours. As we get noonan widely scatter and light to moderate in intensity and if youre getting away on friday youll notice scattered showers in the afternoon hours so we will see the shower intensity go down as we head into the evening and then it all tapers as we head into early saturday morning. Rainfall potential. We are looking at about half an inch to an inch and the Higher Elevations could pick up an niche and a half especially in the north bay as well. The accuweather sevenday forecast. Chilly morning and Early Morning showers saturday and its going to be fine. A cold christmas morning. Santa wont have any problems christmas night into monday. A slight chance of showers. This storm is going to skirt the coast and thats sunday night into mondays storm and then stay off the coast heading into southern california. Dan and ama, download the abc 7 news app to help you keep track of the storms. The fake leaf that could each astronauts healthy on mars. Thats next. And then at 5 30 on world news with david muir. Breaking developments, the bulletin just issued. Concern about times square at new years eve and as there are new warnings sthins california forests may have a hard time recovering from fires. Fires are killing so many mature seedproducing trees that the forests cant reseed themselves. The situation is exacerbated by increasingly warm temperatures. Burned areas are quickly overgrown by shrubs which can prevent trees from taking root. This should help Forest Managers to decide how to use fund when replanting forests. If youre concerned about the amounts of pest sides on fruits and vegetables you can provide reassurance. The vast majority of produce sold in california meets stringent pesticide safety standards. More than 93 of the tested fruits and vegetables had little or no pesticide res due. All 3,600 samples of produce was grown in california. Researchers have figured out how to make drugs using a sunpowered artificial leaf. They were inside by how real plants turn sunlight into food from photosynthesis. They used a new material called luminescent solar concentrators. This material is used to boost the performance of solar cells, pump liquids and expose it to sunlight and create a mini power grid. Researchers say mobile grid could mean one day they could make medicine on mars or make malaria drugs in the jungle. Youre looking at what might be the oldest garden ever discovered. The plant has a texture like potatoes but taests like sweet chestnuts. The site was found in British Columbia and has its own rock wall and was created 3,800 years ago. The warriors fan who dances in her seat usually, well, not this time. She was front and center court. That story just ahead. First, we want to thank abc 7 news viewer kevin for this picture of the sun setting over the santa cruz mountains. Hes only 17 and so very talented. Share your pictures with us on social media using the well, coming up at 6 00, only abc 7 news follows up with both the state and the landlord to find out why a San Jose Community hasnt had Safe Drinking Water for weeks. Plus, 7 on your sides Michael Finney explains why credit cards are the best option for your holiday shops. And new at 6 00, the story behind this group of carollers and their special audience. All right. Finally here tonight, great stuff. Shes back. Oh, yes. Santa is giving us an early Christmas Present with the return of robin schreiber, the dancing mom who went viral last month. Check her out. The weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful. Boy, she is good. The redwood city woman first caught our attention after first break out sweet dance moves in the stands. As you can see the team invited her back to get down with the Warriors Dance Team last night. Oh, look at that. Get down she did, man. Shes got moves. I love it. And the sweater, too. Just cracks me up how good she is. Shes real skilled. I know. Thanks for joining us. World news with david muir is next. Im ama daetz in for kristen sze. And im tonight, breaking news. The new federal bulletin involving new yorks times square. After the christmas terror overseas, this evening, the federal security bulletin concerned about times square and new years eve. Were live in manhattan tonight. And breaking developments overseas. What we have now learned about one of the suspects in the terror attack, after that truck was hijacked, the driver killed. That suspect now on the loose, considered armed and dangerous. The massive explosion, the death toll growing. More than 30 People Killed in that market. Some of the young victims now being flown to the u. S. The Dangers Police face in this country. The body cam just released. Two officers gunned down, responding to a domestic dispute. One wounded officer trying to save his longtime friend. The deadly crash