Socalled gypsy hill murder from his 1976. These 6 young women were murdered between january and april of that year. 5 victims lived on the peninsula. 18yearold veronica castillo, 14yearold tanya blackwell, 17yearold paula baxter, 26yearold carol booth, and 19yearold denise lamp. Now nearly 4 decades later the fbi has new evidence suggesting the killer killed a reno nursing student, too. The reno murder occurred in between the time frim of our 5 murders and recent evidence that has been uncovered lead to us believe the reno murder linked to several of our murder. But in reno in 1979 this woman katie wood confessed to mitchell murder convicted and serving a life sentence. Law enforcement sores tells us dna evidence led to the conviction but believe she had a male accomplice who may have committed other murder. Detectives who worked one of the local murder are glad the cases are being reexamine inked. Love it. Its going to be if anything is going to solve it, this will. Gypsy task force consist of federal agents and police from san mateo oshtion daly city, South San Francisco and knocking on doors to jog people memory and get new information that could lead them to the killer. Which would be terrific. After all these years. Thanks very much. Happening right now, 2 pedestrians accidents in San Francisco under investigation. The first happened around 9 tonight at folsom and 5th street this car windshield shows the force of the impact. Officer at the scene told us that the pedestrians suffered serious but nonlife threatening injuries. And then just minutes later yet another pedestrians was hit by a car while walking on van ness at turk in the city. That person was transported to the hospita hospital. No word yet on the condition. Just today the city announced would it spend 17 Million Dollars to improve pedestrians safety. Tensions continue to go boil over in ukraine. Today president obama spoke by phone with russian president putin for an hour saying there is still a way to resolve this dispute over ukraine and it came as fighter jets to the region to monitor any russian violation of airspace and lawmakers in crimea declare they want to join russia but ukraine leaders say a vote set for later this month would have no legal authority. Police have released video of dramatic chase and capture of 2 Armed Robbery suspects we cap share with you. I have one body still westbound through the back yar yard. Just went over the back yard fence turning northbound. Reporter Police Caught up with the man last friday after police say they held up 2 markets in san jose. This is security video of one of last month robbery. You cap see one of the men fire gun into the air. Police say the 2 men are wanted for 20 Armed Robbery since december. Thankfully no one has been hurt. Now the suspect, 25yearold Jesus Escobar and 22yearold Rodriguez Lee on booked into the Santa Clara County jail. Where you probably do a lot of Grocery Shopping business to change. Safeway is being absorbed by albertson in a 9 billion dollar merger deal. Allen is live at the safeway in berkeley to explain what this could mean for customers as well as employees. Allen . Reporter well, dan the people here want to know two things. The employees want to know what this means for their jobs. And customers want to know how this affects prices. 35 dollars right there. Reporter it got bob one bag of grocery. Now hes wondering if the 9. 2 billion dollar sale of safeway to the company that owns albertson will lead to lower prices today. Safeway ceo edwards answered that question. After the 2 Companies Combine our customers will benefit from significant cost saving synergy and stronger management team. Reporter safeway headquartered in pleasanton has 1300 locations combined with just over 1100 Albertson Stores it will become the largest Retail Grocery chain in the u. S. Santa Clara University director of Retail Management says combining 2 grocery giants will phase out more middle men. I think that efficiency will drive the prices down. And i hope that shoppers will then benefit from the lowered price prices. Whenever you have cost cutting or cost saving measure it never really seems to make it to the shelf. All about employees. Both stores will be owned by new york base Capitol Management firm and it concerns union workers. They purchased albertsons in 2006 and it was not a very good story. They basically sold everything that wasnt nailed down and some stuff that was nailed doyrngs layoffs too. He says stream lining is inevitable but how it takes place will decide the fate of this new Grocery Store giant. In the east bay, allen wong abc 7 news. Now todays announcement came just as prosecutors announce a legal settlement with safeway. Company was accused of charging higher than advertised prices, misrepresenting the weight of safeway branded product, implying that foreign i dont know produce was locally grown and failing to honor coupons. Chain agreed to pay more than two Million Dollars in fines. Santa clara bingo hall taking steps to stop run of out remain us robbery. A Security Guard was hired and last month a 78yearold woman hit on the head several times with a gun by man who took her purse. Aqua made bingo decided to take action. Securing the premises. Making sure everyone is safe. Reporter 4 night a week bingo game raise money for aqua made synchronize swimmers. Mayor kwan of oakland focus on the positive tonight in her state of the city speech. She spoke about how policing has improved and about the boom in housing. Young people l say you are being housing thats not good. Actually we are not San Francisco. When we build something we dont have to push people out. We have lots more land in San Francisco when we build new housing, we can add density and well go up. Reporter kwan also says the city has an 18 Million Dollar surplus and expanding tax base and the first new Shopping Center in east oakland in 20 years. The bay bridge lights arts installation on for another year. The bay lights celebrated 1 Year Anniversary by turning out the lights. All 25,000 led bulb on the bridge shut off for 10 minutes. This is a live look at the bridge right now where you can see the lights are back on looking spectacular. They will stay on at least through next march. The organization hopes to raise enough money to keep the lights on until 20 26. Thats why the event tonight was designed to raise money and awareness. Coming up next on 7 news. Hes heard countless confessions. Now he has one of his own. What pope francis revealed today that has everyone talking. Led bulb are more Energy Efficient but also the target of more recalls. Im michael finy ahead 7 on your side how safe are they . And the road side rescue of this infant may end up saving the childs life again. Ill explain. Im live up here on the roof of the kgo Broadcast Center expecting some fog for the morning commute. So give yourself plenty of time ill let you know when you might new Energy Standard implemented the first of this year mean the complete phase out of the old late bulb the goal to save energy and the new hot seller is the led bulb but with nine recent recalls, how safe are these things . Heres michael. Reporter 11yearold blake of walnut creek remembers november 25 of last year quite well. It was the day sparks flew above his head instead of from his video game. Spark an explosion of spark but like a little explosion of sparks and then we saw it and then we are like oh, this is good. Reporter turns out the sparks were come from the led light bulb on the ceiling. Flames about an inch long shot out. Until his dad quickly put out the fire. Up there is where it happened. That also light. Could you see like black mark from the sparks in the fire. Reporter john is with the Underwriter Laboratory and independent third party that test product for safety. Many led bulb have power supply and the power supply consist of many different kinds of components and if something goes wrong with the component you could have a fire. Reporter since 2012 there have been 9 voluntary recall of led lights that compares to no recalls during the same period for incandescent bulb and none related to fluorescent light. Both Consumer Product Safety Commission and ul believe led lights are safe. Led fires are rather rare. The fact is led light bulb are really very low energy and they dont get as hot as incandescent lamp. At the home depot sales in the bay area of led lights have surpassed both fluorescent and incandescent lights. Led are more expensive but with the 18 year life span save in energy cost. That will save you 138 dollars in Energy Savings for the life time of this light bulb. Reporter because they are so new no statistics are available for led related fire fires. From 2000 7 through 2011 there were an average of 4 deaths and 24 injuries annually relateed to fires from incandescent light fixtures nationwide. During the same time period there were 4 death and 20 injuries annually blamed on fires from fluorescent bulb bulbs. Janet olson of saratoga was on her stair master two years ago when she recalls seeing sparks inside the glass bowl on her led lights. You can see from these pictures we obtained from the Consumer Product Safety Commission how charred the small fire left the socket. Jane worries about her children and switched back to fluorescent flight have had their own problem. In that room i think we have out right now. They dont last as long. My recommendation would be to go with the led more option have come out. Reporter that seems to be the general consensus among energy experts. This family purchased its bulb from lowe that said it looked into the fire and concluded it was an isolated incident. The olson family couldnt recall where it went to buy their led bulb. This is 7 on your side. Well pope francis is admit to go violating one of the commandment. Thousand shall not staechlt pontiff revealed that he once stole the rosary from the hands of a fellow priest who had died and was lying in a casket. The priest was old friend who had heard confession from his many fellow priests including pope john pall the second. Now pope francis says he carries that rosary with him every day as touch stone giving him comfort when he struggle was unworthy thoughts. Well we are learning tonight that the cpr that saved the life of 5 month old baby in miami saved him again. These are some of the dramatic pictures from two weeks ago of an aunt performing cpr on sebastian la cruz. Sebastian had stopped breathing and because did he emergency doctors performed invasive tes test. Well in so doing they fond and removed 3 signature from the throat that were making it hard for sebastian to breathe. We understand he is doing just fine. And we are learning more today about bat kids near appearance on the oscars on sunday. Miles scott was supposed to appear on sunday Academy Award show with actor Andrew Garfield who plays spiderman. Abc 7 obtained these exclusive photos of miles and family at the note hollywood. Instead the appearance was cancelled the day of the show. Today the Academy Issued a statement saying that due to the nature of a live show, hard decisions sometimes must be made which require the academy to cut segments do to logistic of production. Andrew garfield understood that his segment had to be omitted and drove to disneyland on monday to spend time with 5yearold miles scott and his family. But he did not need spidermanwith him to get recognized. This picture was sdaent who says her kids spotted miles and took pictures with him at disneylan disneyland. Bat kid reigns. Lets go up to the roof. Sky deck as we like to call it at the Broadcast Center here. Sandhya is there with the forecast. Sandhya. Yes on sky deck 7up here visibility terrific. Looking out towards the bay. I mean if this is any indication we have some good looking weather ahead but tomorrow morning you are going to want to watch out for the fog. This end of the bay not seeing the fog yet. Lets check out live doppler 7hd and ill show you where it is sitting along the san m teo coast tonight so our live doppler 7hd watching the visibility is down to about 3 miles half man bay. Napa visibility just dropped to over 1 mile so watch out for the fog not just near the coast but in in the valleys as well. From our emeryville camera visibility looking fine just now from that angle. 55 San Francisco. 56 oakland. Its 54 in san jose one of the cool spots. Los gatos at 49 degrees. Sfo camera yes showing you some low ceilings there due to the low cloud cover but the fog hasnt settled in there yet. Tomorrow morning could see some delay there if flying out for the weekend. Upper 40s in santa rosa, napa, 51 in fairfield. 49 degree ins livermore from our exploring camera we are looking at beautiful view of the Ferry Building downtown San Francisco. 80s of fog the morning commute. Sunny warm the next 2 days and looking at chance of rain sunday. Late afternoon evening going into your monday. Sought first half of the weekend is just fine. How could you forget the thunderstorms. Thats the cold front that brought the thunderstormsless night. Some rain as well. Its long gone. High pressure is rebuilding and as the ridge rebuilds the temperatures come up for your friday and saturday. Tonight we do have some 80s of going out there at 11 00 p. M. We will see that first th the morning so if you take the ferry across the bay, might be a little bit of a murky ride for you. If you are driving, just keep that in mind. A little bit warmer for your friday afternoon. Going into saturday still nice. Sunday for your out door grabs especially latter a part of the day do carry the umbrella in the evening going that monday. Next chance of rain. Expecting about a tenth to quarter inch most areas. Maybe half inch. Tomorrow morning the thing to look out for is the fog. Temperatures will be in the 40s primarily across the entire bay area. Definitely cooler start. Sow need a jacket or sweater then by the afternoon the fog quickly consist patriots. Looking at temperatures in the low 60s to low 70s. Sunny skies expected and it only gets warmer as you look at the accuweather 7 day forecast. Low 60s to mid 70 70s. Dont forget we have to spring forward sunday at 2 00 a. M. Thats when we good today light saving time so before did you to bed saturday night change your clock forward an hour. Chance of rain sunday afternoon evening going into monday and then we bring you sunshine and warmer weather tuesday through thursday of next week. So we have a little bit of everything for everyone. Dan. All right sandhya thanks investment we appreciate it. Well sports director larry just stepped up to the bar here today you said it just a great game. We have a little bit of everything for everybody. Nhl goalie stop the shot 100 times out of 100. Well, maybe 99 out of 100. Joe thornton knuckle puck. Human for the sharks when i was living without insurance, it was very scary. Charles not having coverage stressed me out. Knowing that i have an insurance card in my pocket gives me a sense of reassurance. Im in because nobody deserves to be without health insurance. Im in because my coverage cant be denied. Im in so i can protect my family and my future. Im in because she wouldnt take no for an answer. Im in. [ both ] were in. Im in. [ female announcer ] everyone deserves health insurance. Are you in . Go to coveredca. Com before the march 31st deadline. Wild third period in the tank tonight as sharks came back from a 2 nothing deficit against the best team in the east. Penguins. One crazy fluttering knuckle shot made all the difference. Sharks came back lethargic and the team got energy. In the third sharks shorthanded. Patrick sweet move around him and makes it a two2 game then the goal keeper 21 seconds later the second goal of the night. 32 penguin and minute 13 after that. Joe to brett for the 1 timer and the tank is rocking 33 then the thornton knuckle to the net and it goes in somehow. Fooled by the nuter. Goalie never miss. That almost never. Empty goal make the final 53 sharks. Amazing. West coast conference tournament tonight. Round 1 santa clara and rocking the sweet haircut there. More aerodynamic hit the 3 from way out strong to the glass. Lay it in plus the foul. Had he 1 17. Freshman brown ridge hes a really good player. Led with 20. 9th seated broncos win over pacific and play top seed gonzaga on saturday night. We come back fans on the court. One good. One not so good. Come on Santa Barbara. You are is. Ter than so far this spring madison pitched 5 scoreless innings for the giants and tim has done the same. Zero allowed. Giants reds today in scottsdale 5th inning. The power right there. Pablo deep to right and that is the first homer of the spring. 1 nothing giants and hudson making the second Cactus League appearance goes 3 scor scoreless frames and fans 3 and giants victorious 3two here it comes. And there it goes. Moss 2 run jack against former a cahill who got lit up. Sam went deep for oakland. Shelled in this game. It ends in 88 time. Cute scene at the end of soccer game south africa and brazil. Also boy was to be escorted out but the brazilian star picked him up turned pictures into it and turned it into. Look at that smile. Fantastic moment. This is a scene they will all remember forever. So cute. In contrast with the knuckle head who ran out on to the court in the hawaii Santa Barbara game tonight. Gets in the face of the coach before shoved away. You want a piece of me come get me. Yes. Then he is running off into the stands. Just another night in my Daughter School right there we are told he was arrested and might be ex pechltd hes still, im right here. Abc 7 sports brought to you. Fun conversation. Mom, a little problem tonight at the basketball game. Dont watch the sports on tv tonight. Thanks very much. Well be right back with first heres jimmy kimmel what we are up to tonight
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