Didnt want to seem like he was trying to avoid responsibility for what he had done. Reporter a few Family Members of the victims were escorted through a back door following the out come of todays court proceedings. The Mass Shootings such as this is unprecedented here in our county. And with the conclusion of this case today, we know that mr. Goh will not be in a position to frther harm our community in the way that he did. Reporter one of the survivors texted me to say, i do not wish to speak on behalf of this. Just taking it all in at this point. Thanks for understanding. A University Administrator talked to us offcamera to say the school will never forget that day. Goh was a disgruntled Nursing Student who had dropped out. He was demanding a tuition refund. When the university did not comply, goh went on a shooting rampage, killing seven and injuring three. Sophia long is a shooting survivor. We Pay Attention around the environment in the school area. Reporter goh will be sentenced july 14th. In oakland, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. Meantime closing arguments got underway today in another highprofile court case. The murder trial of Antolin Garcia or iz e. Accused of kidnapping sierra lamar five years ago. Her body ha never been found. Today the prosecution went over some of the evidence again as well as a time line of the date sierra disappeared. The jury is expected to deliberate on friday. If convicted Garcia Torres could get the death penalty. Abc7 News Reporter david louie has been in court all day. Hell have the emotional reaction to spectators in the courtroom. San Francisco Police are looking for a gunman who shot at a car killing a 15yearold boy. It happened yesterday in the citys sunset district. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow joins us live. Mel sni . Reporter John Jacksons aunt says he went by the nickname kuter. Also he lit up any room he was in. San Francisco Police searched for the gunman. His former classmates are mourning his loss. Additional wellness counselors and staff are spending this tuesday talking to grieving students at Jefferson High School in daily city. After 15yearold Ray John Jackson known as kuter was shot and killed jed in the sunset district. His family shared this picture with us. It doesnt make sense. There are no answers for it. Reporter jackson was drive thing white pontiac. At least five bullet holes. Jackson died at a nearby hospital where his family gathered outside the e. R. His 16yearold passenger was not hurt. School administrators zajac son left Jefferson High School in the fall. They also say he has a Family Member still connected to the high school, but could not confirm if his 16yearold passenger was his brother. Its a tragic event for young people trying to understand why this happened. Why it happened to somebody they know, and why it continues to be happening in our communities. Why young people are taking each others lives. Reporter tragic for sunset district neighbors as well. Any time that, you know, a minor is killed or harmed from gun violence, its sad. Reporter san Francisco Police are following up on a lead. There was a vehicle in the area at that time. So at this time were going to be trying to see if there is anything related that we can find. Reporter daily City High School mourns a former classmate. In San Francisco, Melanie Woodrow, abc7 news. A fourcar accident in the east bay that happened just about an hour ago left one victim trapped in the wreckage. Abc7 news was in martinez as rescue crews this iss alhambra avenue. Extensive damage, pretty badly twisted up. Crews had to close the lane and traffic is backed up in that area as you can understand. It is not known yet what caused this crash. A motorcyclist was killed this morning in a headon crash in marin county. It happened just before 10 30 on highway 1 near olima. You can see chp officers marking the road. The chp says the motorcyclist was driving north when the bike crossed over the center line and collided with the truck. The motorcyclist died at the scene. [ inaudible ] the chp believes he was a 26yearold san rafael man. The truck driver was not hurt. No cause yet on a fire in oakland homeless encampment. It is in west oakland under interstate 580. Thousands pass over it every day. A little after 8 00 a fire broke out and at least ten tents were burned. No one was hurt, but the city and Fire Department cannot say how many people were living there and are now displaced. As i turned, something swooped by my face. It was like a wax bomb or Something Like that. And all of a sudden i felt this heat and all of this black smoke and i looked and it caught a fire so fast. That camp is the only city sanctioned tent camp in oakland. The city is working to get help for those People Living there. The city of santa cruz could face fines for not coming up with a plan to manage damage caused by recent storms. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports the city waited for emergencies to happen before making repairs to west cliff drive. The scenic road near the board walk. Emergencies include sink holes, crumbling walls and falling piles of rock. It is getting the city one month to come up with a longterm plan to manage future erosion. They dont, the city could be fined. Well, dont we all wish we were there . Yeah. Thats nice. Absolutely perfect day to be on the beach in santa cruz. Check out this live picture from the board walk and the main beach, just simply stunning and its Geneva Convention to its going to be a beautiful evening to watch the sunset there. A spectacular day in the sierra. This is a live picture at heavenly mountain resort. This is causing some concern about all the snow that is rapidly melting. It is pretty warm up there. The heat is lingering into the evening. Heres a look at hercules from drone view 7. Lovely picture. It reached 91 degrees there today. Thats 18 degrees above normal actually. Abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is here with a look at the hot forecast. Thats right, hot enough to set a record in napa. Take a look. 94 degrees. The previous record was set in 1996 of 93 degrees. It was hot in 0 inland areas, concord, gilroy, san rafael. 90s with santa rosa. San francisco 83, redwood city 91, san jose 89 degrees. Today, now, these are highs so far. These are not the official readings. They will be coming in shortly. From our mount tam cam, you can see the hazy skies, pair the air alert has been issued for tomorrow. Worst of the air quality in the inland east bay for the rest of you, poor air quality. I do have some changes on live doppler 7 and i want to show them to you. You will notice that there is some fog out here. Its on the way. When it will provide [ inaudible ] relief to your area is coming right up in just a few minutes. Kristen . Thanks a lot. A lot of sun right now. The power of the sun may help solve a big problem on the peninsula. A local company is introducing solar powered bikes to help make it easier for people to get around and to ease Traffic Congestion. Abc7 News Reporter jeannine de la vega joins us live from palo alto. Jeannine, why do they think this will catch on there . Reporter well, heres the thing. Not everyone is comfortable riding a traditional bike to work because you have to pedal. Youre going to sweat in your work clothes. But these are electric bikes and theyre powered by solar. And, so, you dont have to work as hard and that along with the fact that they have Smart Technology embedded with it might attract more people to these. Take the bike on the left side. Reporter right outside the front door of park and palo alto is swift mile, a solar powered bike station. Its the first of its kind with builtin Smart Technology connected to the cloud. Riders just need to download the app to reserve an electric bike. Show up, you hit a button, boom, the bike is available. And then you can take it home, you can take it wherever youd like, 40 mile range. Reporter park was looking for a way to ease the commute and parking for employees. So it invested in the ebike stations. Like other companies they have shut lz but the schedules dont work for everyone. Its a win win. A fun alternative way to commute, but also decreases the number of cars that we have in the Traffic Congestion around the area and the number of cars we need parking for onsite here. Reporter swift Mile Incorporated fitness Tracker Technology such as distance and how many calories burned. Its founders feel the bikes will be in demand because research has shown people are more likely to commute to work on a bike if they dont have to sweat. I got up the hill easier. So i dont think id sweat so id be cheelting a little bit. I wouldnt be burning too many calories if i use that system. Makes it nicer. Reporter renting bikes is free to the employees here. Swift mile hopes others will follow parks lead to help ease the bay area congestion. In palo alto, jeannine de la vega abc7 news. Happening now, state lawmakers are grilling the u. C. President over a 175 million fund allegedly hidden from students and regents. Janet napolitano is testifying right now before a joint legislative oversight committee. Lawmakers want to know why the money was not disclosed and if there are any other misleading budget practices. Moments ago napolitano denied any wrongdoing. The 175 million referenced in the report reflects funds that were approved as part of prior years budgets. They were not expended and were carried over for expenditure in 201617. The state auditor also testified the u. C. President s office did not cooperate with the investigation and may have tried to undermine it, in fact. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is in that meeting right now. Shes going to be live from the capital coming up for us at 6 00. Hope you can tune in for that report. Still to come on abc7 news, dramatic turn of events. In the case of the South Carolina cop who shot an unarmed black man. Tragedy again for the oakland as, minor leaguer player suddenly dies. Thats the second one in the last year. And samsung is desperate to put its battery fire debacle behind it. But is its galaxy note 8 smartphone a smart choice . 7 on your side shows you what testing turned a stunning reversal today from a Police Officer killing a black man after running a traffic stop, he changed his plea of not guilty to guilty and a case that put policing in the national spotlight. Abcs ariel has details. Reporter this video sparking outrage. Seen running from then South Carolina officer after a traffic stop. The white cop shooting the 51yearold unarmed black man multiple times from more than a dozen feet away killing him. From nearly two years since he claimed he opened fire in selfdefense. I killed [ inaudible ]. Reporter a jury, unable to reach a verdict in the South Carolina murder and manslaughter case against him leading to a mistrial. But a major reversal from the 35yearold exofficer pleading guilty to willfully using deadly force on walter scott, even though it was objectively unreasonable under the circumstances. My hope is that accountability for Michael Slager is going to mean that fewer officers die, that fewer civilians die and that we move Forward Together as a nation, as a community. Reporter the families of slager and scott weeping in the courtroom. Today is a day of victory for walter. We got justice. Reporter federal prosecutors opting not to speak publicly about this plea deal. He was led away from the hearing in handcuffs. Abc news, new york. A baby was stabbed outside a San Francisco school this morning in an apparent road rage confrontation. It happened as parents dropped off their kids as sherri dan elementary school. The babysitter hit the side of another car, breaking the side mirror. The drivers then started arguing. The woman whose car was hit said she felt threatened so she grabbed the knife from her car. Im behind my car. Theres no way for me to move. When youre that close in proximity to someone and putting your hands up and youre repeatedly telling that other person, please back up, and youre not backing up, you have to defend yourself. The babysitters injuries are not serious. Police did not detain either driver. Well, the as are mourning the loss of another young player. The second to die in a little more than a year. 24yearold minor leaguer casey thomas died unexpectedly in phoenix. The cause of death is unknown at this point as drafted thomas last year. He was the son of as pro scout tom thomas. As executive vicepresident billy bean issued a statement saying, our hearts go out to tom and his family on their loss. Casey was a wonderful young man and teammate, and will be missed by all in the as organization. A year ago last month, Minor League Pitcher sean murphy also died in phoenix from a disease of the heart muscle. U. C. Berkeley has agreed to pay part of the cost of policing the rallies associated with the conservative author ann coulters nonappearance. Berkeley reports the agencies that provided security at last weeks free speech rallies racked up as much as 500,000 in overtime pay. 400 officers from the hayward and Berkeley Police departments as well as from the Alameda County Sheriffs Department joined Berkeley Police to monitor the rallies. The rallies were largely peaceful with only seven arrests ad no reports of property damage. All right. Samsung is back on the Market Selling the next version of its galaxy phone. 7 on your side Michael Finney partnered up to see how well it stacks up against the previous version. Remember the 7 debacle . Nightly news. It really was. There were battery fires. A massive recall. And the airplane ban. Eventually samsung pulled the smartphone from the market. Theyre now trying to get back in the game with the launch of the galaxy s 8. The new smartphone just hit store shelves and Consumer Reports tested it ask theyre taking a look at how it stacks up against the competition. Consumer reports is testing eight of samsungs new galaxy s 8 and s 8 plus smartphones. Its the companys first significant phone launch since the massive recall of the note 7 last summer. Samsung galaxy s line has always done well in our tests. So interested in seeing if the newest one, s 8, can knock its pred sed predecessor out of the top spot. They found the issue in four out of the eight phones they purchased and tested. In a statement to Consumer Reports, samsung did not directly address the red tint issue, but says it will release an update as early as next week whic will provide users with the ability to further adjust the color settings on their s 8. In the meantime if your display looks red and you want to adjust, go to the settings, display, screen mode, color bounds and change the red level. Consumer reports put the Smartphone Camera through rigorous testing found it did well. Samsung toned down the oversharpening and they look realistic and natural. The s 8 passed the Consumer Reports dunk test validating the claim it can withstand 5 feet of water for up to 30 minutes. In Consumer Reports labs they found with the damage resistant gorilla glass 5, they were more scratch resistant than the s 7s. Consumer reports will complete its testing of the galaxy s 8, and update its smartphone ratings in the next several weeks and of course report back with information. Thanks, michael. Sure. All right. Announcer now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. Hi, everyone. It has been a hot day across our inland communities. Walnut creek today got up into the 90s and still 90 he grizzlies right now. Look at how slowly it is going to cool off. 6 00, 88 degrees, temperatures will be dropping by morning. But still going to be pretty mild with low 60s at 6 00 a. M. Right now on live doppler 7 we dont have any fog to speak of. The skies are clear across the bay area. The fog is not far away. It is well off the coast line, but it will come back in as we head towards tomorrow morning. Look at this beautiful view from the Santa Cruz Beach board walk. A good day to be out there. It has been a warm un. San francisco 77 degrees. 87, and a live look from emeryville camera, seeing plenty of sun a few whis from our Golden Gate Bridge camera, you see the flag swaying in the breeze . Enough of a breeze with the exception of santa cruz to keep the coastal areas comfortable today. Hot inland again tomorrow, cooling begins at the coast and we are going to see cooler conditions in all areas thursday and friday. Now, heres a look at the records for wednesday. Tomorrow afternoon a couple of cities like concord will be getting close to a record there. 92 degrees, previous [ inaudible ]. San francisco you will notice a few degrees away. And tomorrow morning do watch ourt for the fog along the coast line. Temperatures low 50s to the mid 60s. Inland areas will be pretty mild. Tomorrow afternoon in the south bay 87 in san jose, a warm day on the peninsula, 86 redwood city. Coastal highs 70 degrees in pacifica downtown San Francisco, 77 degrees. So, not quite as warm as we saw today along the coast thanks to the fog and the sea breeze. In the north bay 91 in santa rosa. Heading into the east bay 80 in oakland, inland spots low 90s. So, one more hot day, 92 degrees there in concord. Its going to be cooking. 91 in livermore. 93 in antioch. A good idea to download the accuweather app. Minute by minute forecast if you want to plan your day. Look whats coming. Friday well see widespread cooling. Not just the coast. Inland areas will drop off as well. And saturday its going to turn windy and even cooler with, yes, there is a possibility, people are asking, possibility of a few showers. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Upper 60s to mid 90s tomorrow. Its going to be cooler at the coast, cooler everywhere on thursday. And those temperatures will drop a good 20 degrees by friday. 74 inland, upper 50s coast side. Down to average by the weekend. We bring in a slight chance of a few showers on saturday night. Temperatures will slowly come back up early next week, but were going to have a little bit of everything. Dan is already sweating. [ laughter ] up next, a name the tune, may finally be getting a name of world war ii veteran in an iconic battle. Thats next. New at 6 00, the difference between price and the true cost. Its a lesson one woman learned thats worth sharing with all of us. And bewill to take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. Apple is sitting on a mountain of cash, but cant spend most of it in the u. S. During apples Earnings Report today, the Company Revealed it has 256 billion in readily available funds. However, most of it is sitting overseas, protected from u. S. Tax law. So, how much is that . Its 17 billion more than the Gross Domestic Product of finland or new zealand, or if split between every person in the u. S. Wed each see about 777. If tax laws are changed, analysts believe apple could bring the money back to the u. S. To spend on new employees and facilities. Are they going to send us the check . Well, there is a new plan to make california even greener. State Senate President pro tem Kevin De Leon announced the proposal today at a u. C. Davis power plant. It calls for 100 of the retail electricity sold in the state to come from Renewable Energy sources by the end of 2045. Democrats say the bill would be good for environment, create jobs and save money. Critics doubt it will save money because California Imports a third of its electricity from other states. A nameless hill just off the bridge, may finally be getting a name. Few people know the memorial depicting marines raising the u. S. Flag on Mount Surabachi sits atop a small hill just south of the bridge. It was put there years ago by crockett resident vince ramos to honor his brother who iwojima. They joined the effort to try to make that happen. Another cell phone carrier is upping the ante. Tmobile announced it plans to provide service in twi2019. It would enable customers to download movies and increase speed and responsiveness. At t earlier said it plans to lunch its 5 G Mobile Service in late 2018. Verizon recently spent more than a billion dollars to build a 5 g network. So, the 5 g race is on. When we come back, celebrating food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. Coming up on abc7 news at 6 00, a exclusive inside the fire festival. It was supposed to be a luks youre ious affair in the bahamas. It was the target of a 100 million lawsuit. They say life is about the journey, but bicyclists now have a new destination to aim for when crossing the bay bridge. Plus years of work payoff as a San Francisco institution receives national recognition. That is all coming up in half an hour on abc7 news at 6 00. Kristen, dan . Thank you, alma. Well see you then. The warriors return to playoff action tonight. Fans will also be celebrating a team from the past. Thats right. The warriors will be honoring the 20062007 we believe warriors. One of the most the squads most storied in franchise history. That team led by guard barron davis came out of nowhere to upset the heavily favored Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs 11 years ago tomorrow. And that was also when the oracle became known as roaracle. Nightly news with david tonight, breaking news. President trump and now his second attempt to repeal and replace obamacare. Will it go down to defeat again . After a key republican bails, the debate over covering americans with preexisting conditions. Also tonight, Hillary Clinton on stage, delivering her own stunning version of why she lost. Saying, if the election had been held on october 27th, she would be president tonight. The rage on a passenger jet, the violent confrontation, the Flight Attendant who tries to stop them, and it all comes amid a new grilling on capitol hill, over the unfriendly skies. The stunning reversal. The white officer who fatally shot a black man. His aboutface in court. Both families weeping. We are just back from the frontlines, in the race to save the children. 20 Million People now at risk of starvation, four countries on the brink of famine
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