City hall. You saw protestors clashing with police last night. Today, much more peaceful but just as vocal. As we saw, this afternoon, the protestors had support of the supervisors and lawmakers now, the chancellor just issued a statement a short time ago called on the College Community to demonstrate respect for all part of this college. Some had been there since afternoon, participating in a peaceful protest. When a Police Officer tried to stop it. A Spokes Person says another was arrested for supposedly hitting an officer. The school allowed some students to sleep in the lobby. Others camped out in front of the building. Mayor made about a new payment policy before signing up for classes. Something colleges in california already do. We want to make this accessible for the communities the College Maintains that that is not sustainable. At city college there was at one point a 7. 25 million deficit of unpaid tuition. Really . Pepper spray . Who paid for the pepper spray . Most supervisors are behind the proposal to bring back the elected board. Immediately restore the board of trustees. The right to make decisions. The college has been under the direction of a special trustee who makes decisions. From sexting to black mail, accusations tonight at four east bay middle schools. One is accused of coercing a girl into sex acts after getting an explicit photo of her. The students have been disciplined. To what extent, the district isnt saying the boys face serious charges. And i cant believe that that would happen parents were shocked to hear a female student was black mailed into performing sexual acts. A male threatened to use a photo acquired of the female victim if she failed to engage in Sexual Misconduct with him. Investigators say the girl texted the photo to someone else but ended up in the phones of as many as 16 other boys. What is important is that we have to continue to impart to students their Online Interactions have real world consequences. There is potential for distribution of child pornography. Posting or sending of picture thats show again taila. A lot of what the kids this age do shock me i know we have. A lot of them have apps for monitoring phones parents are talking about in hopes of shielding them from harmful affects of sexting. He showed his picture on the mostwanted web site. As the police chief put it he didnt use good judgment at the party but did last week. Firefighters kept flames from a wildfire from reaching any structures crews spent hours attacking the fire near gorman. 200 firefighters are now on the scene. In San Francisco a massive fire is still smoldering now but it appears they may be able to get a look at what is left of the structure as they work to determine a cause. Streets are still closed firefighters dousing hot spots. We can smell smoke in the air. Investigators looking for the cause of the fire and focusing in on this corner of the building. Sunny is back after a fire forced him to evacuate. Its hard to fathom that this took place seems like were living in a dream world. Devastating. Its shocking. That is how the neighbor described the burned out out rubble of what used to be a luxury apartment complex under construction a fire destroyed it on tuesday. Sky 7 hd captured the fire fight. I thought it was crazy. Just going giant. Looked like its just burning up. Firefighters are still putting out hot spots. Abc7 news they are concentrating on 4th and mission rock streets because its daefrng russ to go inside you can see where the fire is from. They might have been able to see what they need to be. They still cant say if that was a factor. The Construction Firm took out this full page ad thanking firefighters and police for the response. A 19th century victorian home that partially collapsed last night is going to have to be taken down. You can see the damage is extreme. The back of the house appears to have collapsed. Whole sections of the roof caved in. Investigators say the home is under renovation. A Police Officer responding to a noise complaint when he was attacked with a home with a brazen weapon. The california patrol opened an administrative investigation into how caltrans handled complaints about the welding on the new bay bridge. The agency says it asked the chp to look into whether it has anything more than a professional disagreement. The old bridge could become a distraction to drivers. Wayne . Iets been fascinating weve watched the new bridge go up. And at times that is a distraction. Now weve had officers space. If you seem the construction project is finished then have you not accessed new eastern span. It leads us to this days announcement. The bike math will be closed up to a week. And will reopen at 6 00 a. M. That is Andrew Gordon explaining the closure that will enable the closure. Its all part of the plan. As is this. Youre hooking at the deconstruction of the once iconic structure. The bike path has a view of a lot of the work what is he doing . I have no idea. Breaking it apart. Breaking it apart methodically and carefully. A reversal of the process. And you can see caltrans plans to keep observers from getting too close. That gate will be locked if winds change direction. Just fy for fans if you want to get a look at the bridge you better hurry. It is hard but dont do it if you can help it. Were coming up on a spectacular weekend may be walking with high temperatures coming up running of the bulls, a controversial event that may be coming to the area this summer. Ill get to the bottom of this coming up on 7 on your side meeting the bay areas most prominent pi guy on a date celebrated by mass geeks everywhere. Strange sight in union square. No cars or people for about an hour today. The bomb squad fated a suspicious package just before 4 00 and the area reopened to traffic around 5 30 uber says the movement is to address passengers who are working. This after a uber driver hit and killed a 6yearold, sophia lu on new years eve. Uber claimed the driver didnt have a passenger in the car at the time. An attorney for the family says the new coverage announced today just isnt enough. Theyre saying the same car on a roadway, a passenger will pay 1 million. No passenger, its 50,000. Its just a sham. Uber trying to deal with the situation they have not provided adequate insurance. Two other companies also announced plans to increase coverage. People are now being ordered to cut back on lawn watering. Schools and parks will get an extra day. East bay mud taking a new approach sending out technicians to search for water leaks at homes of three customers. That is the most common water waster in a home. The yu at this time plans to open a repair site on friday. This is in association with epas national fix a leak week. A Metal Plating company is facing charges of violating Hazardous Waste laws. Officials say it allowed to it build up on to the floors of the plant. One official called it reckless behavior that warrants a tough enforcement response. And in berkeley a spokeswoman says business is good. Pacific steel says it will continue to operate without layoffs but after four generations may be time for someone else to take the reigns we are in store for an incredible weekend, weather wise. I am ready. Pools and beaches will be popular well talk about the weather, clear skies now were in for warm weather as i mentioned. Downtown oakland Beautiful Day to go sailing. Youll be seeing more of the sun, a bright weekend is ahead. Blue skies looking towards mount diabro. Here is what is going to bring us the warm up. Company Building Back in. Warm breezes. Were going to have to worry about sneaker waves. So just be careful to enjoy the weather. So breakers up to 18 feet. Low 40s to low 50s. You will need that extra layer, sunshine saturday. If youre golfing, 70s and 80s. Saturday, upper 70s in the south bay. 80 degrees in los gatos. 67 in pacifica. Downtown San Francisco, 70 degrees. 80 in clover dale feeling like spring early 74 oakland, newark. Livermore 78 degrees. Accuweather forecast, 80s inland. 70s at beaches. The sea breeze kicks back up numbers fall thursday, friday. More cloud cover. No wet weather in the accuweather forecast thank you just ahead on abc7 news at 6 00 thinking an electric car doesnt have enough get up and go for you . When and where to they lived. They lived. They lived. dad we lived. Thanks to our subaru. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Get a 200 best buy gift card female announcer during sleep trains big gift event with purchase of selected mattress sets. Or, get 24months interestfree financing. Female announcer what will you get during the big gift event at sleep train . Your ticket to a better nights sleep Animal Rights groups a are where hundreds of people run alongside a herd of thundering bulls. The local event would with staged. Organizers still classify it by the federal government as a rodeo event. They have scheduled a bull run in Riverside County in june. Everything you ever wanted to know about buying an electric vehicle is available tomorrow richmond. It opened there today. All makes of cars on display from Companies Like ford, honda, toyota and mercedesbenz. The agency wants to bring down the Sticker Price of 0 emission vehicles. Folks consider that to cost of ownership. Its much better for these vehicles. Still head tonight another twist in the search for that missing Malaysia Airlines flight the world abase the outcome of a vote this weekend in ukraine. 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Sky seven is live over the scene where police say a womans body was found inside of this home around 4 00 this afternoon. You can see there is yellow tape around the area here. Well follow this breaking story on abc7 news. Com and on twitter there are more new twists tonight in the search for a Malaysia Airlines flight. Officials say there are strong indications one or more people on the plane deliberately tried to mask the location while flying off course military radar data suggests it followed a common route towards the middle east and europe, something only an experienced pilot would have known about. Officials and Authorities Say they have yet to search the homes of the pilots. Time is running out for a diplomatic solution ahead of sundays region in ukraine. Kerry says he offered several ideas on how to address russias concerns and made it clear the u. S. And International Community will not recognize the outcome of the referendum. We believe the referendum is contrary international law, violation of the law ask we believe its ill legitimate according to kerry he made it clear Vladimir Putin will not make decisions until after the vote. I did say russia and the u. S. Do not share a same vision a mini park designed to improve the neighborhood but had the opposite affect. Youre about to see how. Dan noyes is here with a story youre going to see only on abc7 news. The neighbors south of market want the tiny park ripped out. Sfpd received 23,000 calls for service in that area over three years i took my camera to document the problems i had a close call. One morning i watched a neighbors dog get scared by a regular nicknamed needles then he takes off syringes and starts to use them. He has worn needles before to stay out of the area. You need to go. Go. You need to go. I will tear your head off. No. No. To calm the situation i told him to take off. But needles continued to rage. Now im going to tear you. I saw others openly smoking pot. Here, what appeared to be middle students lit up i found discarded needles and i met with two regulars such as parolee. Meth, crack, whatever it is. Its like a Stomping Ground or whatever. You know . Everything goes neighbors tell me it hasnt always been this way before the park was there, it was a relatively safe area. People didnt hang out there. Ever since they put that parklet in, there has been trouble. The city spent 100,000 to create the plaza by blocking off this part of the street and hiring an artist to stamp and paint a mural on the pavement. The San FranciscoArts Commission put out this video in 2011 celebrating. There is a sweet bird. Everyone involved had good intentions but the plaza neighbors tell me the project soured the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the parklet should have been named the road to hell. One of the art piece robots cut the ribbon to open the plaza his studio is next to it. I asked some neighbors to meet me there when rainy weekend. Ive seen gangs sit there. Ive seen people drug users there. Ive seen people selling drugs. Its a safety issue. Yes. I am afraid going through there. Ill go around. I tell people not to walk down that street. The neighbors tell me the parklet attracts a bad element from 6th street lined with sro hotels porn shops and a needle exchange. The prized parklet strewn with trash, hypodermic needles and people sleeping there day and night. Neighborhood children have stopped using the adjoining playground. The shock thing is i saw an elderly man with his pants down. People have sex in the afternoon or morning or night its out of control. A surveillance camera caught a couple in the act. Its too graphic to show. Neighbors want it to stop. These problems have destroyed potential for us to feel like were in a community because there is so much fear. Very never felt fearful on 6th street. Neighbors tell me their supervisor jane kim has in the been responsive enough. They have been peppering her office with complaints for a year. Tim says she wants to give it another shot. There is so much resources that was poured into making that a nice plaza. Mohammed nuro Heads Department of public works. He told me he wants to try better lighting, surveillance cameras and fencing. Only after those fail would he consider ripping out the parklet. Opening up the streets will not solve the problem at this time we need to give it a chance before we take that step. And if were meeting and that is a consensus, that would be a discussion we should have. More than 150 people have signed petition to remove the parklet. Police say the more people used the plaza, the better it will be the story began with a tip and you can reach me on my facebook page, on twitter or phone. Little park, big problems amazing what you found there. Tonight a Bay Area Company makes its wall street debut. Virgin america announced it will stop serving Mineta San Jose International airport. And quiznos filed for bankruptcy. There are 2100 restaurants but all but seven are privately owned. And neil young says pono can deliver studio quality sound most players cannot. Ill have to check that out. Really. Coming up next, a never ending search for the number pi. Fun tonight in the santa clara math class. A class in san jose received a special gift today. Its march there it is. Free guitars handed out to a mariachi class. The students had just practiced focals. Et is march 14th it marks pi. A Santa Clara University student made a record calculation being celebrated in a sweet way. In this world of hard drives and mother boards march 14th is a day to be celebrated. Owe its a big holiday of the year. Last year, ed carol started a science project. Pi is a cal cue clalayings they have been investigating for decades. On this pi day, the best way to celebrate is with pi. He has distinction of calculating the further number in pi. I think for that, i deserve a piece of pie he souped up a personal computer, wrote a Program Networking these computers to join in. There are some Practical Applications for figuring out lots of digits. Someone discovered a bug in their system software. For this audience, theyre already fun enough. With, or without, pi. That is my kind of pie. Yes. Just ahead at 6 00 a womans home is destroyed by fire and she gets a 750 pg e bill. Incredible. Explaining how that happened and how we sorted it out. Female announcer what will you get with your new sleep train mattress . Man im getting a camera im getting an espresso maker im getting a new smart phone female announcer during sleep trains big gift event get a 200 best buy gift card with purchase of selected beautyrest, posturepedic or tempurpedic mattresses. Or, get 24months interestfree financing. A new tv. A laptop. A game console female announcer what will you get during the big gift event . Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep told ya you could do it. dad vo i want her to be safe. So, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. girl piece of cake. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. A woman lost her home of almost 15 years to a huge fire she had to deal with another shock. The huge pg e bill for a home that was no longer liveable. She asked Michael Finney to step in and help her out this, is crazy. Iet is crazy. One of the mix ups that can be frustrating for a consumer. And as murphys law would have it, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Linda stevens could deal with it less. Linda stevens opens the door to what is left of her home. She says it took three minutes to destroy it. My family was here. My son grew up here. His room is next door. She admits returning is difficult. I cry every time. Records confirm that. Were notified on november 9th of the fire at her residents our representatives did go out that day to remove the electric meter her bill for the month was 758, 60 more than the previous month. What made it worse is that in december, i got a bill for this house, for 533. We wandered how this could happen we leshed the worker forgot one thing. That representative should have let us know the peter had been removed. The billing kept didnt know that. So pg e said stevens bill based on historic usage. Its like if i kept living here, i would. But i cant. Its been hard enough without having without pg e doing this. We contacted pg e. My understanding is that they issued a corrected bill because its going through an old address flowers are beginning to grow life is coming back. Investigators have been unable to determine a cause of the fire lets get another check on the weekend forecast now. Yes. One word, perfect. Set up is clear outside. Here is what were expecting. Great day to head to the beach and for the st. Patricks day parade tomorrow. It works towards civic center. You can see temperatures upper 60s to low 70s. If youre going, here is the accuweather forecast temperatures into mid70s warmer than where you should be. More cloud cover. Still nice. Thank you. Larry beil is here now with sports baseball to talk about. Opening day, two weeks away yes. Its trouble some for the as. Another pitching staff is a concern. Raiders signing two more free agents. Sports is coming up next. Safeway presents real big deals of the week. Or how to find big savings on the things you need. Just make a Straight Line to safeway. Your club card gets you deals you cant find anywhere else. Right now, fresh driscolls strawberries are just 1. 99. Make it an extra scoop. Breyers ice cream is only 2. 88. And arrowhead water is just 3. 29 a case. Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. Good evening, opening day. As got bad news, projected starter jared parker and aj griffin. Parker dealing with soreness hes going seek the opinion of James Andrews parkers had trouble getting loose this spring. Hes seen a doctor in scottsdale. So tommy malone and jesse chavez moving into as rotation. As and got the start looking good, five shutout innings. Across the bay from 49ers brown gets a deal for three and a half Million Dollars played back line up. And had a 2 million workout bonus. Silver and black signed another veteran defensive lineman antonio smith. It rebuilding defensive silver and black, supposedly gets a deal and niners moved to the net with Julian Edleman today. Also can return kicks just under 2000. Hes turned down to return to new england. Steve smith scored against the niners in the playoffs. Smith, 34 years old admits hes no longer a number one receiver in the league. Let me tell you, that man can still play. Its 010, sharks decided to part ways with their long time goalie. Having faced his former team tonight he played ten seasons. Jason demayors tough angle. Makes the shot. Brett burn was the shot. 22 safes and san jose wins it 43. Quarter finals at three. Dwyane evans hits the three. Three seconds left, jordan gathers. With a win. And the best kept secrets here if the bay area, monte vista Girls Soccer Team finished number one in the nation. They completed their perfect season won all 25 games. Monte vista first in the bad 50 national rankings. It a good feeling. A lot of tears and emotion. Well done. Nice. Abc7 sports brought to you by Orchard Supply hardware. My daughter goes to monte vista. If theyre number one in the nation . Good for you. Thank you join me tonight on cable 20. Go goalposts went up last week. Then, on abc7 news at 11 00 following breaking news out of the east bay. Body of a woman found in this home. Well have late details for you at 11 00. Tonight here on abc7 its last man standing and neighbors followed by shark tank and 2020. Its available on your smart phone, tablet or computer. Finally thoughts about what matters this week we broke the story about a new drug hitting streets a dangerous, phone shally deadly combination of lsd and am get mean. A local High School Student overdosed on the drug. He survived. It creates hallucinating affects we know kids make bad choices. Many of us did. Its not always easy to talk with our children about the decisions they can process especially during turbulent years. And harder because they helped me navigate those choppy waters. Hard topics are too easy to avoid but what matters is our children and grandchildren. They pretend not to, they want our gentle guidance when needed and tough love when appropriate. Let me know what you think. Follow me on twitter and facebook. That is our report. Im dan ashley. Our coverage of breaking news continues now on twitter on abc7 news bay area. From all of us here, thanks for the company. See you at 9 00 and 11 00. 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