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Countys revenue. Williams called the decision historic. Today why york emphatically rejected president trumps attempt on every single legal ground that we raised. This was a complete and sweeping victory. [cheering and applauding] and the county has promised to defend the decision if the president seeks an appeal. We posted the court ruling on our website at abc7news. Com, and we also issued alerts throughout our news app or through our news app when the story first broke. To get breaking news where you live, download the app and enable those push alerts. To breaking news in oakland, a car went out of control and hit a faculty member at a high school this afternoon. It happened at oakland high on macarthur boulevard near park boulevard in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood. Abc 7 News Reporter Leslie Brinkley is there live with the latest. Leslie . Reporter this is a tragic accident here on school property. A woman who was an aide, an instructional aide, we are told, was standing right here on the sidewalk. A white suv in the faculty parking lot back here suddenly accelerated, crashing through a gate that was across here. That gate smashed onto the woman. The suv ran her over. The gate crushed her. Thats where they ended up across the street. She was very seriously injured. We can show you a shot from above of Oakland High School via sky 7. This happened at 1 40 this afternoon. Students and staff witnessed the accident. Police are here right now taking statements. As i said, the woman suffered major internal injuries. She is in surgery, we are told, right now at high land hospital. As for the driver, the witnesses say it was a woman and may have been another school employee, investigators were looking into what happened. It does appear as though the person who was driving the vehicle was trying to move it, possibly trying to back it up and one of two things happened. Either they hit the gas instead of the brake, or they hit drive instead of reverse. Again, a bizarre accident here on the backside of Oakland High School, just about an hour before school was dismissed today. Police tape was still across here. There are investigators on the scene. They are talking to witnesses. That suv, again, coming out of the faculty parking lot here, running over a woman standing on the sidewalk. She was an instructional aide at the school. She was crushed by the gate and by the suv and is now at high land hospital, reporting live here from Oakland High School, im Leslie Brinkley, abc 7 news. All right, leslie, thank you. Gun fire at a Shopping Mall in san jose, we are getting word of somebody shot near the east ridge mall. The San Jose Fire Fighters Union tweeted out this picture. You can see Fire Fighters treating a victim there, what looks like the mall parking lot. We have no word yet on the persons injuries. East ridge mall is in East San Jose near tully road. Police say potentially toxic heroin is to blame for a spike in the santa rosa area. The Corners Office reports five deaths in the last ten days. Officers warning all health and Treatment Centers about heroin and advises them to take signs of overdoses seriously. In Sonoma County a mother is accused of drunk driving after getting into a crash with her baby in the car. It happened on southbound 101 Near West Side road last night. The womans jeep hit a barrier and veered across the lanes. Another car then crashed into the jeep. Her baby girl was rushed to Childrens Hospital in oakland. Thankfully her injuries are not critical. The mother remains in the Sonoma County jail on 100,000 bond. A damaging report from the state auditor has lawmakers in sacramento demanding moreover site of the university of californias finances. The report found that the office of u. C. President Janet Napolitano kept a secret budget fund and paid higher salaries to top administrators and that is only the beginning of this. Abc 7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez in the newsroom with what kwaul kqualifies as a bomb lyanne. Reporter sacramento is up in arms about this. Their claim is the entire u. C. System is handed a blank check while at the same time the system wants to maintain financial autonomy. In this sixpage letter, u. C. President janet na pal tan owe thanked the state auditor for her recommendations while disputing some of her claims. Earlier this year, the u. C. Regents overwhelmingly approved a moderate tuition hike, but unbeknownst to students, the state auditor was keeping tabs on the u. C. s budget. I wish i could say i was shocked. Reporter he ripped u. C. For keeping 175 million in an undisclosed fund. Those funds were saved because the u. C. S spent less money than anticipated, yet asked the state for budget increases. It also created a secret budget to spend only some of the reserve funds, and included in that secret fund were 32 million from a campuswide annual charge. The audit report says money that should have gone to students. Im surprised they thought they could get away with it. But i guess until the auditors found out. Reporter no one from the office of the president was willing to talk to us. Instead, in a letter dated april fifth, president Janet Napolitano stated the true amount of available and uncommitted reserve is 38 million. The rest are either restricted funds or have been earmarked to academic programs and other campus commitments. Other revelations include salaries within the office of the president were higher than comparable state employee salaries. The office spent nearly 22 million over five years on Employee Benefits which are not typical to the public sector. And Staffing Levels were higher than at other comparable public universities. These are very troubling findings. Freeze the tuition increase immediately and work with the legislature to get to the bottom of this. Reporter the state auditor recommended that significant reforms are necessary to strengthen the Publics Trust in the office of the president. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Lieutenant governor and u. C. Region entitle Gavin Newsome issued a statement expressing his own outrage over the disclosure of these hidden u. C. Funds. In his statement newsome wrote, quote, it is outrageous and unjust to force tuition hikes on students while the u. C. Hides secret funds, and i call for the tuition decision to come back before the board of regents for reconsideration and reversal. In less than two hours, the Albany School board will discuss a racially fueled Instagram Page that targeted minority students at albany high school. One picture showed a student with a noose around her neck. The page was up for two months before School Administrators learned about it. The students responsible were suspended, but some parents say they should be expelled. There will be a chance for Public Comment at tonight apartments meeting. The ballot box to hook them early gaining steam. Thats next. Plus Marissa Meyers golden parachute from owe uh hugh. Thats a big one. Kids tackle a serious subject and get help from one of their favorite ball players. Meteorologist drew tuma, tracking the return of a little bit of wet weather before it is suddenly going to feel like summer around here with our temperatures. The numbers ahead in the accuweather forecast. Plus kids, food and healthy choices. Ment three dont always go together. But weve got pg e crews had to respond following a car crash around 2 30 this afternoon in fremont. Sky 7 was above mission boulevard as those crews worked to repair a damaged power pole you see right there. They shut down the street near Mission Center high school for about one hour and tore down phone and internet lines. A search is on for the driver who left the scene. People in campbell are voting today, a special election on three measures regarding medical marijuana. One would allow dispensaries in the city. One bans them for two years, the third measure levies taxes on any dispensaries established. All of the polling places are open until 8 00 p. M. Studies show young people are less likely to register to vote and actually vote, but others new mobile texting platform to get them involved at an early age. Contra costa county, the first in the country to launch a new program and abc 7 News Reporter lear anthony has our story. Reporter the idea is to get the teens where they live. That is, on their smartphones. Its called to vote. A mobile link to encourage young people to participate in the electoral process by taking the first step. Registering to vote via text. Text in your school name in the field where you would normally be sending a text message and the number field you type a 2 vote e. Reporter Contra Costa County is the first to launch the 2 vote program. Students simply text their school name to 2 vote, 28683. And they get a link to the county registrars website. Do you think youre more likely to register if you can do it on your phone . Most likely. Reporter High School Students in danville told us they like the idea. Have you registered to vote . I have not registered to vote yet. Reporter would you be more likely if you could do it on your phone . If i could do did on my phone it would work out better. Reporter do you plan to register to vote . Yes, because i want to be able to complain. Everyone says if you dont vote you shouldnt have anything to complain about. So, i want to be able to complain. Reporter last novembers president ial election, 16 of 18 to 20year olds in contra coast a county were registered, but only 33 actually voted. In Contra Costa County, laura anthony, abc 7 news. We have just learned the group that was organizing ann coulters appearance at u. C. Berkeley has backed out. The conservative commentator had planned to speak at u. C. Berkeley on thursday. Last week the university offered an alternative date saying a location that was safe and secure would not be available this thursday. Late this afternoon, the Young Americas Foundation announced it is no longer associated with thursdays event but acknowledged coulter may speak on campus this thursday on her own. She may choose to do that. No confirmation of coulters thursday plans at this time. Tesla faces accusations of taking actions against workers trying to form a union at its fremont plant. The United Autoworkers Union is leading efforts to unionize tesla workers. Tesla employees had filed four different charges with the National Labor relations board, and they claim tesla has spied on the workers and changed its employment terms and conditions. Tesla ceo elon musk opposes unionization. Tesla says the allegations are, quote, without merit. Yahoo s ceo will be out after verizon buys the company but she will not be leaving emptyhanded. According to a file she will walk away from yahoo with 186 million. She has a total of 4. 5 million shares of stock in options, when the buy out goes through. She will also get a 3 million severance during her five year tenure she was able to improve yahoo s sluggish advertising or to slow growth within the company. San francisco buying a popular chinatown restaurant, but not really to go into the food business. The city is paying 5 million to the owners of new asia restaurant to convert that site into affordable housing. The city would replace the onestory building on pacific avenue with a 50 unit apartment complex. The board of supervisors is expected to give the okay next month. Do you give up getting your kids to eat healthy when you eat out . Do you . Yeah. Do i have to . Quick to cave. You dont have to, no. Michael finney is here, 7 on your side, ways to keep up Healthy Eating habits even at restaurants. Talk directly to chris. Taking your kids out to eat can present real challenges when it comes to finding healthy choices. The american journal of Preventive Medicine says that in spite of making some changes, restaurants have made little progress in improving the nutritional quality of kids men use. So, Consumer Reports Health Experts have some tips to help your family eat well when eating out. Kathy law takes her Young Children out to eat for fun, but still wants them to eat healthy foods. Some sort of protein, some sort of fruit, sneak a vegetable in there. Reporter but scoping out the best options can be a challenge for parents and kids. Can i get the mac and cheese with a side of sticks . The beverage and dessert has about a thousand calories. And thats actually close to the amount that an 8yearold should have in an entire day. Reporter Consumer Reports food experts have some tips for dining out healthier. First, share something from the regular menu with your child. Portions are generally oversized anyway and youll both eat better as a result. Or a healthy appetizer, or salad might make a full meal for your child. Next, substitute. Its not enough to make a healthy entree choice. The sides, drinks and desserts can pack a lot of calories, fats and sodium. Ask your server to substitute fruit for fries and milk instead of juice. Reporter skip the sauce. Nutriti nutritionists warn anything with cheese or creamy sauce is probably loaded with fat. Finally, many restaurants kid size desserts have as many calories as an entree and double the saturated fat. So, consider ordering just one for everyone to share. Now, if youre at a chain restaurant, look for a little apple logo next to items on the kids menu. Those are from the Kids Live Well Program started by the National Restaurant association. That logo indicates the meal meets healthy nutritional guidelines. Teach nutrition manners at home. When theyre out, let them have fun like you are. Sure. They live to make a decision to moderate. Thanks, mike. Doing Parenting Tips here. Some San Francisco school kids got a lesson on bullying from a guy who has big league credentials. Abc 7 news at lafayette where giants pitcher encouraged kids to intervene if they see somebody being harassed. He said he stepped in to stop bullying in the past. It is very important to stand up for other people and not be a palomi bystander. When you see something wrong, stand up and support somebody getting bullied. And just to drive the message home, the kids acted out different bullying scenarios. They ranged from ridiculing other kids to actually physically hurting them. Announcer now your accuweather forecast withdr dre tuma. The big story were tracking is much warmer air set to arrive here. Take a look at Mountain View for example. A pair of below average days thursday. Friday and into the weekend, we are going into the 80s and we are going to stay in the 80s through much of the accuweather sevenday forecast. The live doppler 7 got a little bit of drizzle to get through once we get that warm weather. Live doppler 7 showing you its a quiet night. But prepare for tomorrow morning to track some pockets of drizzle as you go about your day to work and school mid week. As we go, we need first to get some drizzle. A little bit of cloud cover. Live from the emeryville camera today, sunshine fighting the clouds throughout the day, and tonight the clouds are going to win. Youll wake up to overcast skies on your wednesday. Ahead of the drizzle its not all that bad out there, kind of mild. 63 in oakland were at 60 in San Francisco. 65, that number in san jose and antioch the warm spot at this hour checking the temperature of 69 degrees. Overnight tonight the clouds will thicken after midnight. That is going to slow the cooling process. So, were all going to kind of settle overnight in the low to mid 50s for your starting temperatures on wednesday. Live doppler 7 along with satellite, what we are tracking, a storm system moving into the Pacific Northwest soaking portland and seattle. What is going to happen for us . We are going to get scraped by the outer fringe of this storm system. And thats going to bring about a chance for a little bit of drizzle. So, future weather, tomorrow morning 4 00 in the morning, a lot of cloud cover. By 7 00, 8 00, as were going about the morning commute, some periods of light drizzle. This is not going to be a widespread event. It doesnt get a number on the storm impact scale. Thats how weak the system is. But there could be a couple of minutes you may need the windshield wiper. But for much of the day i think the best chance for any drizzle is going to be the north bay. By the second half of wednesday, this storm system is exiting the clouds are decreasing, and will likely end wednesday with a little bit of sunshine as the sun goes down shortly before 8 00. Highs on wednesday, a bit below average, thanks to the limited sunshine. A lot of cloud cover, some pockets of Early Morning drizzle. 64 in San Francisco, about 66 in oakland. Near 70 in san jose. Well probably hit 70 in napa, same in fairfield and antioch and lake port up to 65 degrees. But in the wake of this storm system, the winds are going to pickup. Future tracker wind gusts shows you by thursday especially right along the coast, those winds likely over 30 miles per hour. Well do it once again on friday as well. Friday evening, those winds will be whipping, but the wind direction is key. On friday these winds are going to be out of the south and thats going to be a nice warm wind that is going to help to bump our numbers up into the week. Take a look at this. Later this week, no cloud cover, tons of sunshine out there, and we are warming up dramatically. These numbers just continue to rise even into saturday. It is feeling like summer out there saturday afternoon. Accuweather sevenday forecast, next seven days, a slight chance of some drizzle tomorrow morning. Good idea, download the abc 7 news app. If you have drizzle you can track where its going and when it will get out of your neighborhood. By thursday and friday it is all about the warmer winds. Sunshine continues into early next week. Beautiful. Thinking about the weekend already. Thank you, drew. Well, people are idle. They are doing nothing. When cars idle, they are doing nothing good. At least for the environment. The local effort to combat the problem next. Then at 5 30 on world news with david muir. Coming up the deadly scene on the highway, fiery collision, two big riggs, several cars, pictures at the scene. Ivanka trumps major trip, a rough reception. Breaking news in the case of the serial shooter, victims and their cars coming up. Plus Cell Phone Companies offering big incentives to get your business. But new at 6 00, 7 on your side shows ridiculous steps one woman had to get what she was promised. Announcer a spectacular avalanche caught on camera in northeastern turkey. Youre looking at thawed ice cascading down a mountain. The muddy waterfall happened close to a hotel. A worker from the hotel actually took these pictures. That area had a run of warm weather that melted the snow down the mountain side. Global warming driving a more extreme weather worldwide. This according to stanford scientists. In a new study they found that Climate Change has increased the likelihood of extreme heat and drought, severe rain storms and melting sea ice. Scientists say they used powerful computer models with Statistical Analysis of climate observation to reach their conclusion. Bay area arrow fishlz are asking all of us to take a pledge to stop idling while we wait. Abc 7 news was there as the contra costa supervisors took that pledge today. It turns out idling engines are one of the biggest sources of air pollution in the bay area. Idling can also cost a lot in terms of gas and money. [ inaudible ]. They really want those who pickup family and friends at b. A. R. T. And at schools to take that pledge. If you want to, we have a lincoln our website, abc7news. Com. Berkeleys top cop was way ahead of his time. A man some called the father of american policing. The subject of a major exhibit. Thats next. But first we want to thank abc 7 news viewer jessica for this picture of elk at point reyes. Gorges. Share your pictures with us on social media using the hashtag abc 7 now. You may see it on air, on our im alma daetz. Coming up on abc 7 news at 6 00, trust betrayed, images of a north bay 6yearold girl end up in a chat room. He is under arrest. Also. Looking for answers after a mobs violent attack on b. A. R. T. Passengers. One exchief said there is one thing that shouldnt be done. And lawmakers reject a bill allowing state workers dont mean yom kippur as a paid holiday. That is coming up at 6 00. Larry, kristen . Look at the turkey on top of a police car after wandering into the garage. It is on their facebook page. Department said that the turkey seemed more interested in joining the canine unit. Not going to happen. The spca was notified to come and take way ward turkey up. Finally now, berkeley celebrating one of the most influential law men in u. S. History. The Berkeley Historical Society is now featuring an exhibit on august vulmer. The citys police chief 1905 to 1937. He was the first to put an entire police force on bicycles. He also hired the countrys First Female Police officer in 1917 and its first africanamerican officer in 1918. The highlight of the exhibit is the gun and original badge which was found by a woman in texas two years ago. His badge showed up in an antique store. A person bought it as i think a lot of other sort of old things and thought at first it was a toy then realized she actually had an authentic piece of history. Did we were amazed to hear it existed and she quite graciously donated the badge back to the department. Check out the exhibit at the Berkeley Historical Society open thursday through saturday 1 00 to 4 tonight, several devel tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. The major turn in the case of fired National Security adviser michael flynn. Tonight, both the democrat and the republican leading the House Committee on whether flynn broke the law. Ivanka trumps rough reception. Her first major foreign trip. How the audience responds when she says her father is a champion of families. The deadly highway inferno. At least two big rigs and several cars collide, going up in flames. Pictures coming in tonight from the scene. Did police go too far . Five young boys coming home from a game detained at gunpoint, one crying in fear. The plane crash. The pilot killed. The son who crawls out. And the new warning tonight about certain products that claim they prevent cancer