Good friends, perfect role models nudge wrong at all. Fosters loss hits the laney Football Team hard. They lost another player nay car zeent when you see young people trying to dot right thing and making sacrifices to go to school every day, theyre no longer with you, its tough. Now, investigators have finished collecting whatever evidence there might be here. The school will reopen tomorrow, investigators told us they do have leads but so far they have made no arrests and again, a vigil for foster about to begin here. Laura anthony, abc 7 news. Thank you. State senatory went public about being the target of a death threat that led to an investigation, an arrest and a search of a house that began late tuesday and continued ever since. Have they wrapped up today . They have wrapped up for today. The tape still surrounds the house, they say they will be back in the morning. There is a case that played nout two locations today in, San Francisco, senatory went public and here at the house chp investigators kept bringing out evidence, they say. In santa clara what began as a simple search warrant is now a long, slow going high stress walk through a cluttered phone shall mine field. Every room is a task. Since tuesday, chp officer as rested a 45yearold on suspicion of writing a threatening e mail to senatory last month. Today, the senator went public and talked about it. The author state that had deal with gun violence hed assassinate me in or around the capitol. The chp served a search warrant on tuesday this, video only hints at the mess inside. It included guns and explosive material autos there is material that is classified explosive. So yes, there are material thats are prohibited and restriblgted. And are criminal to possess. This morning investigators pulled out5yx an accused bank robber was arrested friday after he allegedly tried to rgw up the bank of america in oakland. Abc 7 news is in the newsroom now with the very latest on the stick that brought this man to justice. When arrested we had the case against him outlined. Today, civil rights attorneys and the council on American Islamic relations are pushing back against the government version. This is two years ago. On friday he was arrested again outside of the bank of emergency on haggenberger road as he reportedly tried blow up a car bomb. His attorney came to court today to ask for more time so he can Research Whether or not the client needs a psychiatric evaluation this, afternoon his former defense attorney showed us documents from a 2011 conviction for transporting an assault weapon where a psychiatrist reported he had serious mental problems. The judge orders him to take his medications to be seen by a psychiatrist. Or a therapist. In recent documents the agent described how he helped carry out the plot to blow up the bank providing buckets of fake explosives, an suv, and after he bought cell phones and a battery and an led light the agency assembled the parts into what they were told was a its been a smarts use of fbi resources to spend six months or a year convincing these impaired individuals to try to carry out these acts. The director of the bay area chapter of care, council on American Islamic relation autos how to tell the community that the fbi is not surveillance all of them when finding a needle in a hay stack mentally incompetent people. The fbi under cover agents says the plot was his alone. And in similar cases courts have upheld the position. Private investigator rick smith spent 26 ns years with te fbi. If he zrnt ties, he is the copy cat wants to do something dramatic. And that is a dangerous situation. Now, the current defense attorney nor the prosecutor in this case would talk with abc court, report together judge march 8th. Straight couples lined up to get married, samesex couplesimeg protested asking for equal rights so they can tie the knot. This is an extra special day for couples a day theyll never forget. Jennifer and jason said vous this morning on the rotunda. This is just a special day. Its not like any regu÷c . 5o this is our wedding day. Across the floor, other couples being denied same opportunities them. Chose valentines day to pro fess their love for their partners and also to protest the inability to marry under iz of the law. Tom watson and jeff registered four yearsing ao, among two dozen samesex advocates in a gathering. Were back here on the four Year Anniversary of our engagement to ask, again, for a marriage license. We know we wont be able to get married today. This attempt was futile but they made their skpoint say theyll continue to come back every valentines day until they win. Theyve been together 22 years, we want it legal. Deputies blocked everyone else from entering while there. Not everyone agreed with whats happening. Mario and jessica couldnt get their marriage license until its over i dont think its right. I think god made adam and eve, not adam and steve this, is holding back us for the moment. Also, samesex couples got phil ting. He introduced legislation giving tax relieve to mitigate the tax on health benefits. Who were going do is not collecting that tax. So not accept it as income. Legislation would cover workers as well as employees of private Companies Operating in in the state. World Wide Campaign to raise wareness of violence against women has put the spotlight on San Franciscojok that is mirkarimi dance with female inmates in jail today. Many wondered if he was participate since pleading guilty in a Domestic Violence case. He organized the event in the jail calling it redemption. His wife also took part. The mayor pressured mirkarimi to resign over the charge they, too, participated in the dance today but in a different location. Still head new bionic eye can help restore sight to the blind. Youll meet one researcher who helped develop it. A new pitch to put drones into the air. In sacramento the auditor and how millions of dollars were kept secret and how 70 parks ended up on the close youre list. Follow prog gres live of a disabled cruise liner in the gulf. Now less than an these days weve grown accustomed to ever more to sis ti indicated prosthetic limbs but what about a prosthetic eye . Its local research we brought you in 2009. Abc 7 news is here with todays developments. Haek heather . This is just mind boggelling and will not be for everyone that lost their sight but just for adult whos suffer from a rare disease called retinis pig meantosa. Its the first and only treatment for people with the disease and promises to help in the future. Dean lloyd was implant wtd device working with researchers who had to determine if the system would help him see again without side affects doing more tharm than good. The experience now in a number of patients demonstrated its safe and well tolerated and effective to restoring vision to people. The device is made by the sylmar, California Based Company called second sight this, animation shows how it works. A camera wirelessly sends video information to a processor converting it into electronic signals transmitted to a receiver. The pulses travel along the optic nerve to the brain perceiving patterns of light and character dark. Patients have to go through a learning process. Right now, images are limited to large targets with high contrast. Improves their ability to walk around. They can see outline of a person speaking to them. They can see sometimes, they can see stripes on a crosswalk. In addition to the trials Lawrence Livermore lab is where materials were developed and scientists there are aiming for facial roilgs and possibly colors. The Company Second sight hopes to some day help people with age related macular degeneration. Its valentines day here is asar tradition we love to coverthon day. Yes. Take a look. Some live pictures now its packed for the great San Francisco pillow fight. You can see its become very popular. Hundreds of people are there. It starts at 6 00 and lasts five, maybe 10 minutes youre only allowed to hit other people who have pillows by the way. Its an unconventional way of celebrating valentines day. You can see feathers here. And is not easy to clean up. No. It recommends packing light. The event supposed to end just minutes from now. City cruise are at work already trying to sweep up in another crew double checking the plaza to make sure thata b o more sprucing up there is[sy2n required. I have to to say looking at pictures the fun is feathers flying. Maybe not as hard as your eyes and lungs breathing in feathers. Good weather. Right. Great weather for this event. Here is a live view from our east bay camera looking at western sky. Still aglow from sunset which occurred 45 minutes ago or so. Cloud free sky around the bay area, what about those high warm in spots. Highs up into 76 in clear lake. 72 in fairfield. Highs into low 70s including oakland which had a high of 71. Felt like spring today. At this hour, still mild with highs into 60s in many locations and 70 degrees now in redwood city. These are the forecast features, sunny and mild rain arriving on tuesday. A huge ridge of High Pressure is holding us dry and mild pattern in place for a wi. Will be dry throughout the weekend and you can see well develop an off shore flow which will reinforce mild conditions one more day, perhaps into saturday. Tonight clear skies. 9 o chilly in some locations in the north bay valleys. Lows dropping into upper 30s in santa rosa and nappa. Perhaps over inland east bay in livermore, lows into low to mid40s tonight tomorrow, another mild day, sunny skies with highs of 72 in san jose. And on the coast up to 68 in Half Moon Bay tomorrow, 66 in they n sunset district. Low 70s in the north bay. Low 70s on the east bay. At Oakland Union city and newark. Low 70s in the inland east bay at all loks. And near monterey bay lorks to mid70s. It will remain sunny and dry. More clouds monday which is president s day then tuesday well goin a more seasonal, winter like threatening about to rain pattern. All right. Coming up, lets take a look live at the San Francisco pillow fight which is continuing. Hundreds of people at Justin Herman plaza. We noted just minutes ago when looking at this, people didnt seem to bring their synthetic pillows were not seeing a lot of feathers. Were talking this is usually feathers in the air. People arent left with pillow case autos right. Not as much fund lr without picture autos coming up a man who claims to be the navy seal who killed osama bin laden. The i team tracks the authorities approved new rules for big ships in San Francisco bay. Todays ruling comes five weeks after an oil tanker hit a bridge tower causing an estimated 3 million in damage. Fog was a factor in that crash this rule only applies to ships heading out of the bay. Officials say restrictions on incoming ships could have had negative affects. A former lake tahoe bartender claims to be a war hero. The mostdecorated u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. In u. S. History. This is not just a harmless bragging from a bar stool. He has been able to convince many people hes a navy s. E. A. L. And not just any navy s. E. A. L. He he was the one that shot osama bin laden. Despite the claim he has been able to get hundreds of thousands of dollars from people based on this phony story of being a navy s. E. A. L. I tracked him to layout the case against this imposter. That is tonight on abc 7 news at 11 00. What a tale. There is much more still to come tonight at 6 00. Local sheriff makes new pitch to put drones into the air. What be your right to privacy from these eyes in the skies . A new wrinkle tolgidt the scandal inside of the state parks system. They had millions and had known bit for years. Coming up a new way to protect our children. They have potential to save lives, stop crime and bring home missing people but theyre also one of the most controversial tools in law enforcement. Abc 7 news takes you to Alameda County where small aircraft are a topic of a hot debate. A life size model of a predator drone sits menacingly along these protesters. They wont be flying any time soon but these might. Small unmanned helicopters with cameras. Sheriff ahern wants to spend up to 50,000 on the devices he says could survey scenes of fires but those arent the uses that have civil Rights Groups concerned. Were afraid its going to be used for protesters and dissidents people against police brutality. The sheriff says that would never happen. You dont use these types of devices for surveillance. Or gathering intelligence. American Civil Liberties union wants that in writing. Problem with the policy is that its crafted to look narrow but contains loophole thats render privacy meaningless. Alameda county supervisors prepared to decide how much authority the case that could be watched the world over. We want to get this right. Alameda county would be the first to n. California to use the devices. Some are concerned about what happens. This can be equipped with facial recognition technology. And radar. Have you done a privacy assessment yet . Yes. Those conversations with aclu. The groups arent satisfied. Theyd be more delighted as theyd taken more rec pren men daigs autos it could fly in about a year. Carnival cruise ship stranded in the gulf of mexico is now only half an hour from shore. Tug boats are pulling it towards mobile, alabama right now. A fire disabled triumph four days ago and since then, its been a nightmare, take a look at pictures of the filthyt existence of the trash and debris and other personal property creates a fire hazard. Officials are worried about exposed insulation and wiring. If owners dont fix Code Violations city workers will go in and do it for them. And send owners a bill. A scandal about state park money was back in the news tonight. Were learning about theyney knew about this for more than a decade. They did nothing. A new audit confirms bureaucrats knew about accounting discrepancies in which budget surpluses were unreported for years. An employee brought them up and a different worker did so again in 2011. Managers kept sweeping it under the rug until a scandal exposed it last year. They did tell us theyre told owe to report it the way it had been and out of fear of what impact it might have on their appropriations. Its deeply disturbing. This assemblyman called a hearing for tuesday. There is some concern it could be a broader problem. When the recession again, no one piped up to say hidden money could save them. The audit criticized how parks came up with a closures list in cases the department used 2002 numbers to determine which parks closed in 2012. In other instances, bureaucrats didnt know how much it cost to run a park. State senator carilla had parks in his district on that list. It shows me Decision Making process was probably not the best and shows me the decision make prog gres ses needs improvement. The Parks Department agree was the audit and made improvements so this doesnt happen again. Were committed to improvements. Openness and transparency to put the park system back together. Most employees have been determine nated butn0v the attorney general declined to press skmara bqnwu no park has n closed. In sacramento, abc 7 news. Coming up next protecting your kids from predator autos Michael Finney with the new technology that would be a life safer. Piece of mind in 20 years ago, 12yearold polly klaus was kidnapped from her home and since then, her father dough voted his life to helping other parents of missing children. Now, hes turned to technology to help further this cause. Michael finney is here now with the story. In light of the recent surge for Kevin Collins missing 29 years, i think weve been wondering what can we do to protect our own qinly technology is much different now than it was back in 1984 when kevin disappeared but there is a new app that could just be a life safer. Polly claus foundation introduced a Smart Phone App called pollys guardian angel. It allows parents to activate an alert to frinldz, family and other users. David gonzales has three children and down loaded the app because of a recent abduction. We flif morgan hill, sierra lamar was a big incident in our neighborhood. So, you know, it brings about awareness of, you know, your own children. Parents can down load the app forjxn 4. 99 a droid version will be released within a month. A parent loads Vital Information of the child including pictures and information. Jim develops the app. Any facts youd be able to recall or youre going to be stumbling. Having quick access to photos k them. When an alert is activated other app holders are immediately notified. The app guides you through next step autos prompts you to contact 911 if you havent done so. Then, be on that will put you in contact with Trained Personnel at the polly center. Its become obvious i think to many people that amber alerts are too slow and toonbk come ber some. It can take up to five hours from a Police Report before an amber alert is activated. I think that it does give me more peace of mind. The foundation has endorse aid combination gps device and restricted cell phone that can be locked on to a childs wrist. Hope sthait would act as a deterrent to potential kidnappers. Components of the klaus foundation are partnerships and only a portion of the revenue gets to the foundation itself. Just ahead a program fr low income job seeker autos how important to dress for suck important to dress for suck skpes how to upgradewell, well,. Growing up, we didnt have uverse. We couldnt record four shows at the same time. In my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. And if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, thats all we watched. And we liked it todays kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for 1 year when you bundle tv and internet. Rethink possible. 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Here in the bay area another unusually mild day for this time of the year. Here is the accuweather forecast. We have two dis like that coming our way. Friday and saturday cooling down sunday under dry conditions, monday, president s day cooling and rain likely in on tuesday. A chance of showers wednesday getting back to a more familiar winter like pattern. Thank you. Remember the Academy Awards now just 10 day as way. Now is the time to down load oscars app providing details on nominees and my pix feature. This remember, oscars air sunday february 24th only place you can watch right here on abc 7. Just 10 days away. Pretty exciting. Collin rush is here. Yes. Baseball, shu heading into spring training so going to be there four four days if youve wondered why pitchers and catchers report early bruce bocci provides the abs. There is one pitcher whose spring has been cut short. As far as knee injury goes if youre going to have one this is the one you want. 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Join me tonight at 9 00 that is cable channel 13 coming up then, footage of a jet fighter flight from an aircraft carrier. What might just be the next best thing. Then at 11 00 fake navy s. E. A. L. Who turned outrageous claims into profits. Abc 7 news dan noyes tracked him down. Its an exclusive investigation. That story coming up at 11 00 tonight z then, on Jimmy Kimmel Live now at 11 35, rachel vis as well as single josh groban. After that, night line at 12 35. Rdqn that does it for this edition of abc 7 news but first before we go, Spencer Christian standing by. Yes. We have changes coming to our weather pattern. A cool down and next week rain return autos like its spring. Exactly. Were reminded its still winter. Now that does it for this edition of abc 7. From all of us here, thanks for watching. Well see you at 9 00 and this is the jeopardy tournament of champions here are three former champions a senate staff aide, originally from iowa city, iowa. A medical student from plano, texas. And a history prof from milan, michigan. And now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek thank you, johnny. Hi, everyone. Well, yesterday, we bade a fond farewell to a very bright and personable new teenage champion, leonard cooper. And today, we bid a fond welcome to some familiar faces. All three of these players have been with us before. Stephanie, jason, and paul, good luck as we go to work in the first round in this tournament of champions. Here are the categories. Well give you the first name to help you. Notice the spelling of plane. Alex stephanie, you start. Lets try gingham style for 200. Stephanie. Whats a picnic . Yes. Gingham for 400. Jason. From the greek for 200. T. Jason. Stephanie. Whats hieroglyphics . Good. Gingham for 600. Jason. What is Manchester United . Thats the club. Greek, 400. Jason. What is pharmacy . Thats it. Greek for 600