St. Marys Basketball Program facing crippling penalty for violating ncaa rules. Why listing a ban on poaching rhino could be the first step to savin [ male announcer ] nows the time to save 5 off every day with your lowes Consumer Credit card. 9 00 coming up next. Good evening. Santa clara county supervisor george is explaining and apologizing tonight for how he spent tax dollars. He faces criminal charges and today he resigned. 7 News Reporter david has more from san jose. Reporter george junior has been elected official for a decade until today. But behind the scenes investigators from the District Attorneys Office say he was cheating taxpayers and Campaign Donor by using their money as his personal pig bank to fuel what he admitted today is a gambling addiction and depression. Hes accused of forging signatures on Bank Accounts and failing to file state mandated disclosure forms and creating a slush fund. The only person allowed to sign checks ordeal with that account was George Sher Ka washington taking in Campaign Money and he used it in casino or for personal purposes. Reporter in investigators say he used county credit card crash creek Thunder Valley and harrah reno casino and went through restaurant sets receipts and found half of 200 dollar tab spent on alcohol even though he signed a county form claiming no hotel charged to taxpayers. Evidence was laid out to his attorney earlier this week. In an agreement reached that he will plead guilty. Pay 50,000 dollars in state penalty and reimburse the county 14,000 dollars. He repaid 7000 so far. But he will also face jail time. District attorney jeff explained why hes not speaking seeking state prison time. What is important to me in this case is that he step down right away. That he plead guilty to the charges. That he pay all the money back and spend some time behind pwavrments whether that is hyped bars in prison or hyped bars in a local jail, is not as significant to me as the fact that he spends time behind bars for these crimes. Reporter supervisor say they are sad for him but happy taxpayers will be made whole. He got him sneevl a trap he couldnt get out of so continued to sort of have the problems with the finances and did not disclose it. George by own acknowledgement has some issues to deal with. Personal issues that are severe. Hes getting treatment. Hes trying to take care of himself and get into recovery. Reporter he was become at santa clare county jail and released on his own recognizance. Dmu court to enter a plea in two weeks. Where is he now . Neighbors say that he apparently went away with his family for the weekend. In san jose, david, abc 7 news. Santa cruz county sheriffs investigators hope someone will recognize a woman who might have known the cop killer goulet. They also emphasize that this woman Teresa Johnson is not link to the murder of the 2 police officers. She has lived in homeless camps in the santa cruz area. Detectives want to ask johnson some questions about goulet background and his behavior. It appears they may have met each other earlier this year. And Santa Cruz Police rolled out on patrol today for the First Time Since the murders as they passed down center street. Officers received a silent salute from the sheriffs deputy who filled in during this period of mourning. You will see them standing there offering silent salute. All pulled out wanted to go together and take our city back and we pulled out and the news crew were there and the sheriffs offices were standing at attention. Felt good. Felt really good. It was the honorary passing of the guard back over. Reporter memorial in front of the Police Station to the fallen officer continue to gro grow. Many people told us they are still in shock that such a tragedy could hit their small town. Memorial for detective Elizabeth Butler and detective Sergeant Baker will be held thursday at noon at the hp pa ville i dont know in san jose. Officials moved the service out of santa cruz because they are expecting such a large crowd. No doubt attendance will be huge. Sonoma county officials have arrested 2 more people now for triple homicide back in february and they say they believe they now have all 3 men involved in custody. The first arrest was this man 46yearold mark cap and investigators say he was involved in the marijuana deal but went bad. They have now also arrested a 65yearold new mexico map and 38yearold son for shooting 3 people in a home in wooded area near forestville. Sheriffs officials announce today that all 6 men were marijuana dealers or buyers. Oakland first Friday Street fair is wrapping up and it has been a calm night we are glad to tell you. This month version of the city popular art celebration had a few changes. City reduced the size to 5 block. Ban open alcohol and put more police on patrol. City made changes after teenager shot at february 1st friday one month ago. No reports of problems at tonight events. Bay area basketball power house st. Marys now on probation for violating double a regulation. School was found guilty of breaking the rules and failing to monitor its program in the ncaa crack down. Laura explains the violations and the penalties. In the proud of it. We are not perfect. While calling them harsh. St. Marys head basketball coach Randy Bennett accepts the sanction to his program handed down by the ncaa. I made some mistake. Along the way here and some things if i could do it over i would do it differently but at this point need to move on and just try to make sure we are not in a situation again. Penalty include putting the probation for 4 years. No Office Campus recruiting for coach ben e. He will be suspended for 5 games next season and the program alludes to a 13 scholarship for 2 seasons. We are ceainly disappointed that the final outcome. Reporter ncaa says bennett had knowledge of an assist at that particular time coach recruiting violation during the 20082009 season. Primarily involved the assist at that particular time effort to lure french basketball player to st. Marys. Abc 7 news has learned the former assistant is keith moss who left saint nears 2009. In 2010 moss was accused by the california enter Scholastic Federation of playing agent at the had High School Star from france. The facts of that case match the current ncaa allegations. Player received tennis shoe and airfare housing and few friction host family while attending high school. Officials insist the major violation have nothing to do with the star player from australia. This major infraction what this is about did not have anything to do with our current former perspective australian student athletes. Reporter some students think the ncaa overreacted. Pretty sad especially being that santa clara is tomorrow. Last game of the year. This the is ated stress for the guy they definitely didnt need to deal w. Sanctions will not prevent the gails from appearing in the ncaa tournament. St. Marys Officials Say they are deciding whether to appeal. This is abc 7 news. Bay area woman is recovering tonight from attempted kidnapping that ended in the Sonoma County town of gurneyville with death of abductor. Woman taken in the green toyota camry late last night in san rafael. She manageed to text a friend who then called police describing the vehicle and her location. Sheriffs deputy spotted the car in santa rosa and started chasing accused kidnapper made it to gateed community in guerneville before he crashed. In the ditch. Trying to get out back on the road crashed another gate. He got stuck in the on the side of the mud and thats where they took him out. Deputy pull the woman to safety. She was not hurt during the kidnapping. Now the suspect was shot as deputy tried to the arrest him. He was killed. Firefighters in Southern California have kept a wildfire from spreading. Fire destroyed a back yard trailer and damaged one home after break out in Riverside County yesterday. Burned a little more than 300 acres so far. People voluntarily left the homes when the fire reached the peak. 2000 people lost power too because of downed lines. Crew plan to keep an eye on hot spots because hot dry santa ana winds could cause the area to reignite. 5 homes remain joel tagged and street where water main broke on wednesday will remain closed until at least earlyco next week. San francisco public works crew wrapped up repair today and back filled the sink hole but the road still needs to be repaved. Until then, 15 avenue from westportal to win will stay closed. The broken main sent a ton of water and debris rushing in a dozen homes and vehicle early on wednesday morning. You can see the necessary created. P uc lost up to two million gallon of water before the pipe was finally shut off. Cuss of the break is still under investigation. All right more to bring enthusiastic friday night on 7 news at 9 00 coming up. How volcano have a positive effect on global warming. Mars rover knocked out with serious computer problem. What may have led to the system error. Also find out how zoo oly gist hope to meet China Growing demand with rhino horn and making sure the species isnt wiped off the face of the eart earth. We have the weather. Thats right. Here in the accuweather forecast center. First clouds then the cool down and rain. I give you a lack at the week ahead in the accuweather forecast coming u up. Thanks very much. Hears a question. Should you have to pay when restaurant gives awe wine worth 8 times the one you actually wanted . Stay with us. 7 so. [ gasps ] these are sandras homemade yummy, scrumptious bars. Hmm . I just wanted you to eat more fiber. Chewy, oatie, gooeyness. And fraudulence. Im in deep, babe. You certainly are. [ male announcer ] fiber one. [ man ] excuse me miss. [ gasps ] this fiber one 90 calorie brownie has all the deliciousness you desire. The brownie of your dreams is now deliciously real. Judge in san jose today erased almost half of the billion dollar verdict apple won in a lawsuit against samsung. Federal court jury handed down the award in augus august. After deciding that samsung had copied several features participanted by apple forth iphone and ipad. But the judge today said the jury calculation were his improper and excessive in more than a dozen of its verdicts she slashed more than 4 50 Million Dollars therefore from the award and ordered new trial on those counts. She let stand more than 6000 Million Dollars in damages but her decision is likely to be appealed to hire court in washington that handles important patent cases of this nature. Nasa mission on mars is on hold at the moment. Curiosity rover has computer problem. Right now it is rebooted to back up computer which nasa calls its safe mode. Means curiosity can not explore and analyze sample such as the poyrd it found from drilling a rock last month. Nasa believes the computer error was caused by High Energy Cosmic ray that struck the computer. Nasa has not said we know curiosity will get back to the search for life on mars. But amaze what they can to from so far away. New research suggest the gas spewed from volcano on earth may help mask the effects of global warming. University of colorado researchers found the sulfur dioxide emitted by volcano create barrier of particle that lean the stratosphere. That helps block sunlight and cools the earth. Researchers warn despite the positive effects volcano emission will not counter balance global warming. Human activist warming the earth at far faster rate than that. Research issues in australia have wild theory about how to save endangered rhino right now there are about 5000 black rhino and 20,000 white rhino left on earth. Thats it. They are currently being poached at such a high rate researchers at the university of aukland believe they could all be wiped out in 20 years. Researchers say if a poaching ban is lifted and an Organization Controls the legal harvest and sale of rhino horn, it may save them. Get rid of the illegal poaching operation. Researchers say setting up a legal trade in crocodile skin saved at species from extinction. Rhino horn popular for chinese medicine. Researchers from the Pacific MarineMammal Center at Huntington Beach guided 2 stranded dolphins back to the Pacific Ocean successfully. They were in Shallow Water across the Pacific Coast highway from the beach. Look what they d. Animal rescuers on surfboard guided disoriented dolphins back to deeper water before herding them that huntington harbor. Away they go. Marin scientist monitoring the dolphins now to make sure they swim to the ocean app not back to the east fewary. Amazing. Pretty cool. Yes. It is cool is that dolphins know they are being helped. Lets turn to the weather forecast. Spencer here. Weekend has arrived. It has indeed. Along come clouds. Mild over the weekend. We have a big cool down coming next week. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd and of actually there it is. We have few clouds offshore. Clear skies overland areas and mostly clear until later tonight when we gets clouds. Live view from the High Definition base camera at emeryville back across the bay. Temperatures today the today high. 76 in santa rose. New record for this date in oak land. 74 degrees also new record for this date in santa cruz. High of 81 degrees. Right now lacking at clear skies along embarcadero from from roof top camera. Current temperature readings 55 degrees if San Francisco. 59 in oakland and san carlos. 61 in san jose. Different view of the bay bridge from High Definition south beach camera downtown San Francisco and more temperature readings that the hour 52 degrees in santa rosa. 51 in napa and 58 in fremont. On we go to the forecast feature so well see few cloud increasing overnight. More than a few actually and it will be mostly cloudy tomorrow with chance of light showers on sunday. That will be early in the day or midday before it starts to clear out late sunda sunday. We have app advisory in effect through saturday evening. We expect potentially dangerous surf so sneaker wave a possibility. Back from the water edge and avoid the out crop and jetty as they can be dangerous. You can be ex potion your is he feel to danger as well. Satellite image over the last 12 hours ridge of High PressureStill Holding on but lots of cloud spewing up from the south west in the bay area sky. Which make for a mainly cloudy day tomorrow but no precipitation expected. Certainly no significant precipitation. Start the forecast animation 7 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Notice the clouds throughout the day. Then during the overnight hours late night hours might see a spot of precipitation out near vacaville then into sunday more clouds and by midday or early afternoon we could see couple areas of sprechbing el. After that all over. We start to clear out late sunday. Now lets move on to the tonight low as the cloud increase. We wont see much of a temperature. Low mainly in the mid upper 40s overnight. Probably just in the low 50s San Francisco and richmond. Then tomorrow under partly to mainly cloudy skies south bay mild. With high in the low 70s. 70 degrees at san jose. On the peninsula look for upper 60s palo alto Mountain View downtown San Francisco high of 64 tomorrow up in the north bay. We see upper 60s. 69 at santa rosa. Sonoma at napa. East bay high 67 and oakland 64 in newark. Inland east bay upper 60s to low 70s. And heres the accuweather 7 day forecast. Start to consolidate down sharply on monday. For most of next week High Pressure will barely reach 60 degrees. Look like the middle of the week tuesday wednesday thursda thursday. Rain sought wet weather is making a return which is a good thing. Very dry last 2 most. So we need the rainfall. Thank you spencer very much. Still to come tonight on 7 news at 9 00. President orders spending cuts because he and congress could not make a deal on the sequester problem. Look what that means. When the waiter brings you an expensive bottle of wine by mistake. Who should pay for that. Thats a question tonight for 7 on your side Michael Finney. 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Com thankyoucards to apply. Ordering wine at restaurant can be kind of daunting especially if it has a long wine list. Cup freely redwood city was selecting from a wine list just full of exotic labels. And they mistakenly wound up drinking a rare vintage that was way over their budget. So they contacted 7 on your side Michael Finney to find out if they had to help pay for it. Redwood city couple is recalling night out with friend at the popular restaurant in palo alto. So we decide to get a bottl bottle. Evening took surprising twist. The wine list has 500 wines. Most from exotic region. Most with foreign labels. My husband looked at the list and was kind of looking at some italian wine that we werent familiar with. Reporter when the waitress came her husband mike just pointed to the wine they wante wanted. It cost 52 dollars. He does not speak italian. So he just pointed. Reporter almost finished dinner when the waitress came back and presented the wine. Mike said thats what they ordered. She opened the bottle and poured it and we drank it and it was only after we got the bill that we realized that there was a problem. Reporter problem indeed. Ininstead of 52 dollars the couple were charged 400 dollars for the bottle of wine. They told the waitress there was a mistake but she said no. They just drank a 400 dollar bottle of wine. We thought she said the wine we order we didnt real realize she served us a totally different bottle of wine ivshtion the manager said sorry they had to pay 400 dollars. After all they accept the wean and drank it. They bring it to the table. We were so busy talking we didnt really Pay Attention to what she was saying. Reporter turns out they had ordered 2009 wine from italy. Waitress brought them a 1996 mir low so who is responsible . There is no question here that the restaurant made a mistake. But the real questions did the diners also ke a mistake . Reporter legal analyst johnson says its not clear cu cut. However he says diners do bear responsibility when they accept a wine. Sue offered to pay just 150 dollars, the original price paid for the wine 17 years ago. The restaurant declined. Next night my husband and i were watching the news and Michael Finney came on. Reporter she contacted 7 on your side. We called the restaurant. The manager did not want to go on camera but did tell us admittedly the wine list was unfamiliar to them but we always show it label present the wane and present the Great Variety specific dhoy prevent a situation like this. This is an unfortunate situation for everyone. The wine is gone. The guests are unhappy. However after that the restaurant did agree to charge only the original 150 dollar prison for the wine. And after all, they did get to taste that very special bolts of wine. They just didnt know it. He opened it. We draching i. It was lovely. But we had in idea what we were drinking. Reporter because of this incident the restaurant has now changed how waiters serve wine. They will now pipe to the naiment on the wine list before pull out the cork. Like to thank the restaurant for refunding that money which by the way this wine is gone up in value. We found it on line for as much as 550 dollars per bottle. Im Michael Finney 7 on your side. Wow president has signed an order to start cutting 85 billion dollars from the federal budget. Coming up. We look what that means for kaichlt also group of bay area students very intensely watching rocket launch today. What they plan to do with about seeds in space. Warrior try to sweep the celtics in boston. You cant move the tv there. Yuhhuh. We have a wireless receiver. Listen. Back in my day, there was no uverse wireless receiver that let you move the tv away from the tv outlet. We can move it to the kitchen, the patio, the closet and almost anywhere. Why would you want a tv in the closet . [ both laugh ] [ fancy voice ] brilliant idea, darling. [ female announcer ] the wireless receiver. Get uverse tv for just 19 a month for 1 year when you bundle tv and internet. Rethink possible. Tonight the president signed the order for an immediate cut in federal spending. Met with leaders of Congress Today but couldnt strike a deal to avoid them. Mark matthews explains what comes next. Just the review. Democrat contract blame republicans for protecting the rich. We are going to protect the wasteful tax give aways to special interests but well stop meals on wheels for seniors. I dont think the Miles Per Hour people will tolerate that. Republicans cans say any new tax hike out of the question. President got the tax hike on january 1st. Discussion about revenue in my view is over. This morning the president called congressional lead investigators the white house but there was no chance of a deal to the avoid the 85 billion in cuts that go into effect at then okay our time. We shouldnt be making a series of dumb arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on. If california defense businesses stand to lose 3. 2 billion over the next seven seven months. The biggest hit of any state in the union. Defense contractors are orderly silent. We asked several bay area firms big and small to talk with us. All of them declined except for Lockheed Martin that issued this noncommital statement that they are working closely with their customers to understand how sequester could impact all the programs. Our political analyst says that kind of statement makes sense when you realize contractors are between a rock and hard spot. Best thing to do when between a rock and hard place is keep your head down. The Defense Industry know that is republicans are the champion in congress. But the president and his Defense Department have a lot to say about which contract go forwar forward. There is simply no percentage in them publicly joining one side or the other. However over time that could change. As the defense cuts take the toll on the Company Bottom line. When that happens then i think the pressure is within the Republican Party will definitely grow and i think it will be very hard for them to meant quantityed froychbilityd he compares to it earthquake false under the ground republicans have staked out in this fight. He says as the pressure increases the united front against tax increases will start to slip. In the newsroom, abc 7 news. Most californians feel they are worse off than a year ago according to now new field pochlt they turned up the fin fineings. 72 percent say the economy is stuck in bad times while 61 percent say unemployment as very serious. Only one third expect the job prospects to improve in 2013. And when asked to the assess the personal finances 44 percent say they are worse off and 30 percent believe they are better off. Field poll survey just more than 800 registered voters. Well the california Republican PartySpring Convention gets under way in sacramento tonight. But it threatens to be overshadowed by a racial slur. Dillon who chairs the San Francisco g. O. P. Was targeted by the president of San BernardinoRepublican Women Group on facebook. Vera wrote that dillon loyalty is to the muslim religion so she will defend muslim beheading. 2 men without any hesitation she is not a republican. Dillon is sikh and immigrated to the u. S. From india when a child. Very sensitive feeling shouldnt be involved in politic in the first place. I have been involved for 25 year years. I have gotten over that type of sensitivity. Facebook post deleted and tonight she says the comments were taken out of context. Golden gate bridge officials showed off a new system for drives to pay the total once the total taker disappear at the end of the month. Thats when the bridge will go to an all electronic system. No more total takers. This Bridge Authority animation shows the Payment Option you will have. Drivers can either pay with fast track or set up an account with their license plate. Cash will no longer be accepted at the toll booth. Thats why drivers are being given a third option to pay at kiosk like this one. Lets drivers make a one time payment. It allows as well a cash payment for fast track account. If anyone that really disnot want to have a credit card on file they want to pay with cash. And it requires their license plate numbers thats the one identifier that is required. 150 of these pay kiosk sets up inside Convenience Stores in marin San Francisco and san mateo continue. Drivers who ignore all 3 Payment Option get in voice in the mail. The urn in a fine if it goes unpaid for 3 weeks. They will track you down. 3 bay area cities have lost a bid to pwlibing the high speed rail project frequent running up and down the peninsula. Judge in sacramento has dismissed lawsuit filed 5 years ago by the city of pen lo park andal at. They cite Environmental Concerns and better to put the high speed rail line on the east side of the bay and bring it into the bay area through the pass. Ruling allows the line built through pacheco pass and then to san oh, sigh and San Francisco. 1 fwaep Catholic Cardinal gather in rome on monday to choose a date for picking the next pope. Cardinal were officially summoned by the vatican today. Once together they decide the actual start of the conclave at the vatican when the next pope will be chosen. Meanwhile benedict the 16th from here on now known as pope or holiness first full difficult of retitle. 85yearold pontiff showed clear signs of exhaustion. Look at him to see how sec he looks. I dont know whether he is but how weak and hes deteriorated even in the last couple of months. The pope apartment sealed until new pope appointed even twitter account cleansed all tweet wiped out for the next pope. All right. Coming up next. Golden state warrior steven curry tries to followup on his if i point night. Steffan i should say and young boy meets the bay area blood donor gave [ male announcer ] nows the time to save 5 off every day with your lowes Consumer Credit card. It took more than 5 people more than 5 years to keep one san ramone boy alive. Dillon lowe was diagnosed with rare genetic disorder that required monthly blood transfusions. Well today he got to meet the anonymous blood donor who helped turn his life around. Lee ann has the story. Reporter 6yearold dillon lowe has a life long connection with this group of people hes never met. Men and women in this room have waited 6 years to see what he looks like. Just very happy to meet this kid. You know. Which i knew as the john muir baby when i first was giving blood for him nishtion 2006 dillon was born with diamond black fan anemia rare genetic disorder that kept his bone marrow from producing adequate supply of red blood cells. Without adequate transfusion support yes certainly they could die. Reporter doctors quickly recruited small group of blood donor to support dill lop transfusion needs. His transfusion required day long trip to john muir medical center. Every 4 weeks we planned it. We colonels tell as it got closer to transfusion time that his lip would say turn color. Pail. Lethargic and irritable. Reporter finally in may of last year he received a bone Marrow Transplant from his brother brody that helped him get rid of his condition. Now he can live a normal life without any more trans fusions. His brother did save his life. Owes him big time. Yes. He will remember that too. Reporter dillon finally met 4 of the nine people who constantly gave him the b positive blood type needed to keep him alive. I know that every time that you would give blood you are saving lives but to know its going to one specific person making such a difference in the life is incredibly row waringd. Reporter none of the people showed as much emotion and gratitude towards this group of donor than dillon 2 grandmothers. Reunion was a first of its kind for the red cross of northern california. In oakland, lee ann, abc 7 new news. Sweet boy dillon. New study indicates that most women feet get bigger after they give birth. University of high washington researcher look at the changes to women feet in the month following pregnancy. They fond that sdoy 70 of women had longer feet and shorter arches most of them just gained maybe a few mm. One in 5 however actually increase add whole shoe size. Researchers believe that hormone proud during pregnancy can loosen joint and ligament and extra weight flatten the feet. Well heres sign nation economy getting back on track. Tooth fairy now handing out more money for teeth. Delta dental survey found the average amount kids 7 from the tooth ferry up 15 percent. Jumped from 2. 10 in 2011 to 2. From a in 2012. Results over the last 15 years show that the rise and fall of tooth fairy giving corresponds now with how the s p 500 is actually performing. Evidently the tooth fairy heavily invested in the market. Coming up next. We join a group of kid watching the project go into space today. Exciting stuff. What they plan to do with seeds at the space to do with seeds at the space station. Thats next youre o meout leo some things wont last 25 years. Ah woof. Some things will. Save up to 20 on an ikea kitchen. Youre o meout leo some things wont last 25 years. Ah woof. Some things will. Save up to 20 on an ikea kitchen. Commercial space flight carrying cargo from the bay area is become on track tonight after less than perfect launch. Privately owned space x rocket lifted off at cape this morning when unmanned capsule drag on separated from it 3 of the 4 thrusters failed to fire. Took hours to regain control and drag on rapid view with the space station delayed by a day. Tonight 7 News Reporter i dont know thon bloom has more about the dragon payload and the bay area students who are watching the mission so closel closely. 2, 1, as the second Space X Mission rumble in orbit the High School Students watching intently because something of theirs on board. This experiment made to test the make row gaffe ty of the space station. Building a little box just lick this one has consumed the past 5 months for the students at Fremont Christian school. This is a lot of effort put in with lunches and after School Weekend and a lot of our lives have been high school lives have been put into this project. In the tinyen closure a measuring device. Students dine to with help of mentor. Verify this gravity on the space station washington we are told it is. 1 millionth what it is on earthism the gravity is the key to other experiments being sent to the space station by nasa. Tiny. In the tot are seeds. This is how plants grow in space without earth gravity. Step toward growing food on long Space Mission and something else. Plants take in carbon and give out oxygen. Therefore they could be useful as part of 73 reidell sayings system for longterm space travel. And these are the space equivalent of petrie dish and test tube using suction to move liquid around instead of pouring. You dont have the gravity to hold things down. Way nasa does medical research. Learning why astronauts lose bone mass could help cure diseases. Osteoporosis. Understanding what happens in micro gravity will provide us leads to what is likely happening again on earth. Each experiment will stay in space a different length of time. This demo will come back on march 25 when it it returns to earth. Seed experiment will stay uthere until space x 3 makes the return plate in the fall. Nasa aims Research Center 7 news. Fascinating watch. President touched off culture war today when he mixed his met for in describing what he would have to do to bring democrat contract and republican together on the budget. Most people agree im presenting a fair deal. The fact that they didnt take it means that issued somehow you know do a jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what is right. Well unfortunately according to the resident star warsdid you rue at lucas film no such thing as jedi mind meld but there is such a thing as jedi battle meld in which those fluent in the force link the mind to common purposes at time of great con nrichblingt we have tried this in the newsroom. Very difficult. What the president may have meant to say is actor leonard name tweeted today spock was that only a vulcan mind meld will help with this conference congress. Thats strar trek not star wars. Spencer. Live long and pros ter pivrment all the twice look alike to me. Lets start with time lapse view from our High Definition east bay hills camera this evening looking at the sunset which officially occurred at 6 04 with beautiful sky. Right now looking at live doppler 7 hd clear sky and clouds thickening overnight and tomorrow state wide we sea lots of clouds but will remain mild over most of the state. Cool up in eureka that usually is the case and maybe a little bit damp up there as well. Bay area tomorrow we see mostly cloudy skies but mild with High Pressure in the upper 60s to low 70s. And heres the accuweather 7 day forecast. Moving at sprinkle or 2 overnight tomorrow night and perhaps sprinkle or 2 on sunday. Start to mostly clear out sunday afternoon. Mild through the weekend but turns sharply cooler on monday. All next week cool raw and mostly raining. Cool raw as opposed to perfect. Exactly right. Thanks spencer very much. Sports director larry is here what do you have on tap tonight. We did the mind meld in the Sports Department is that how did it work. It was low water acknowledg acknowledge. Was the consensus we didnt have a lieutenant to work with back there. We will have more on the st. Marys probation and who is the highest paid player now in nfl history. Winning superbowl certainly has its sweet reward. Joe f [ man ] its big. Fast. Safe. Quickly reconnects families. Same with aladdin. Brings families back together. Aladdin became the biggest in bail by treating people right. No one has lower prices, is faster or more professional than aladdin. Well get you through it. Aladdin bail bonds. Bigger because were better. Good. No, not good. Hes a vegetarian and hes going to be here in 20 minutes [ mom ] dont stress. 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Compete with big boy but the stain of probation as we reported early in the newscast hit with variety of sachx including scholarship reduction and ban on bennett recruiting off campus seems the punishment went well beyond what the alleged crimes were. Then taken they won 2 games the season before you arrive to program that goes to the ncaa under contract for 2021. Today mistake were maichltd it. It will have an effect on the program. I feel in confident that work through it. Not going to be easy but its a whole that we put ourselves in and we have to get ourselves out of it. We are exited to coach bennett. We know the coach is committed to working together. We work together. To continue to improve. That obviously includes the monitoring effort. Compliance. Coming off the 54 point out burst in new york. Curry to boston tonight and considerably cool. Visiting celtics all eye on defender on as well. Felt total hi out of searching with 6 of 22 from the field. From the line. 25 points. Curry beating barns here. Pick and roll. The jam. Dunking machine. He needs to get going offensively. From the rack like that. Escape for barns. Pierce is like christian. Aging like fine wine. 26 and coast to coast. Wicked hot. To the rack. What happened to the warriors defense. It helps if you guard guys. Golden state drop to third in a row 9 9486. Miami heat on the 12 game writtening streak. Facing memphis. Lebron james feeding flash duane wade. Under 30 seconds left. Tight game. Heat by one. Lebron for 3 and ices it james had mere mortal 18 points in the game. But the heat we know the 13 in a row. 9891. Bottle of the bay. Cactus league edition. Giants got 7 runs in the sixth against travis blackly. Bond. 2 run homer. Not a bond a bonnie. Parker made first start of the spring. 18 of his it was pitches were striking. Its good to be the king. Superbowl xlvii mvp joe flacco agreed to new contract make him the highest paid player in nfl history. 6 years