That is why were here. No regrets then, no regrets now a student who shouted down the president is thankful for a government allowing him to travel in and out of the country as an undocumented immigrant. Good evening, everyone. That student is getting to go back home to south korea for the first time in 13 years. Without worrying he wont be allowed back into the united states. A lot of things remain unchanged for the young immigration activist since disrupting the speech last year. He is still in this country without papers and he is still very much of an activist for Immigration Reform but one thing changed. His ability to travel outside of the country, legally the president came to chinatown, invited to stand behind him, a select group of people, then, the unexpected happen. I need your help. The heckler, a couple rows back, interrupted the president s speech he was a 24yearold undocumented korean graduate student. He was disappointed mr. Obama never mentioned the plight of undocumented immigrants. Im raising up voices of students that are in Detention Centers he came with his parents to this country at 11 years old they stayed on as visas expired he became a young activist seeking Immigration Reform and said the day after the heckling the white house called. The white house told me that by the way youre no longer invited to the white house in the future, im like, okay. He never expected Media Attention he got a lot of support. A lot of hate mails as well. A lot of hate mails. A lot of backlash. Today, almost half a year later he says he has no regrets. I will do it again. It was the right thing to do. It was necessary. Hung is in a program that allows certain undocumented students to stay here temporarily he got clearance under a special humanitarian program to visit south korea with assurances hell be able to return here, his grandmother, whom he hasnt seen in 13 years is very sick. Shes turning 90 years old this year. I wanted to slizit her before her condition gets worse he says he realized co have been punish forward just heckling the president in another country. He says that is the beauty of democracy. That is why i feel grateful and i consider this country my home. And am american. But, my hope is that one day the government will recognize our presence in this country. Hopefully, i will regain my dignity and respect m this country. He leaves on wednesday for seoul, where his grandmother and other relativesly. Hell be gone 20 days hes leaving with permission to reenter he says there is always a risk his status could be revoked. A company that sells houses for a developer was indicted on federal Bank Fraud Charges today the 38yearold is president of discovery sales in concord, an arm of the albert dc construction company. Afford according to the document he masterminded a scheme to continue to sell houses at the height of the financial crisis. If convicted he may have to spend 30 years in prison. Today, his attorney called it an old, weak case that will be defended developing news, legal experts say prosecutors in the sierra lamar murder case face a new challenge now that the suspect could face death. The District Attorney decided to seek the penaling Death Penalty in the 2012 disappearance of 15yearold sierra lamar. Police arrested him on dna evidence but have never found the body. The da says it decided after a review by senior prosecutors. Sate move the family supports. Weve talked to the das office and have talked to the family. Yes, its something we decided we wanted emto pursue. Legal analysts say making it a Death Penalty case will mean a delay that could last years we know the identity of a man police found dead at the bottom of a steep cliff in the berkeley hills. Its just east of the campus, an area maybe neighbors say is fraught with danger. Good evening. The area behind me is popular with hikers but this property belongs to the university. That bolder behind smee dangerous, and off limits this is the second time someone scaled the rock, and fallen to their death. The Alameda County coroner confirmed with abc7 news the body of a man found motionless at the base of the rock yesterday afternoon was that of a 22yearold resident. These places are dangerous. Long time east bay resident knows this area well. She says the graffiti and discarded beer, liquor bottles hid his popularity with young people but he says the area he fell is dangerous. On the other side its deep and straight down. There is nothing to catch you. This view helps to give you an idea from the distance. It isnt intended to be used for climbing. Officials tell me people do it anyway. Police tell us a female hiker found him while walking a trail. She realized he was dead and called police they immediately december nated the area as a crime scene. We dont know what happened. This is where a man fell in november, 2012. Police say he was also in his 20s. If someone were to fall off, it would be a trauk injury, or death. There are no witnesses. And theyre calling it an active death investigation. Well, federal judge sentenced a former 49er bubba perris two years probation for failing to file a 2006 tax return. He pled guilt dwree a misdemeanor charge of failing to file a return on 57,000 income. Prosecutors wanted per wris to get maximum one year prison term. Perris played for 49ers from 19831990. Helping the team win three super bowls. He now works as a motivational speaker. A subcontractor being fined for a safety violation at the site of a fire. It is doing work at mission bay where a fire sdoied an apartment complex arcs accused of violation involved improperly containing sparks. A Sonoma County woman faces charges of going too far to defend her daughter from bullying. What shes accused of is extreme. Some parents say they get it. The case is bound to touch a nerve. What i see is upset and distraught mother that went to school to protect her child i dont think that is a crime the defense attorney talking about delia garcia for whom there is no mug shot. Shes charged with going out of the campus of the school, in santa rosa without checking in, and then, grabbing a 12yearold boy by the neck on the playground last friday. The twist, she says she was defending her 10yearold daughter against an older bully. Shes upset and retaining counsel. She denies charges as alleged. Parents had a lot more to read than traditional notices on bill boards. There is a letter from the district. Jenny snyder, superintendent. We plan to share is that it occured and arrest was made over the weekend bullying has been more of a cause one parent of three kids described problems with bullying at the school in the past. There is a wrong aproechlt ive been there. I wanted to say my piece, but i havent. I wanted to talk to other parents she wont give me any information on the parents. My niece is being pulled out of school to be home schooled because of this. The parents of the alleged victim remain unthoen she did not give interviews today her Attorney Says this case runs deeper than a basic charge. If true, he says he admires his client and thinks a jury will, too. The school cant step up to do their job, i dont think parents should be charged with crimes for defending their children. There are kids that are right to defend our children. One om politics in this case the Sheriffs Department is looking into the possibility the child she allegedly attacked may not have had any connection at all with her daughter. She appeared in court on thursday morning free on 30,000 bail. Wayne freedman abc7 news a important tool in San FranciscoEmergency Preparedness plan getting a boost. Crews adding to the firefighting system. Abc7 news join us now live. Carolyn . What you see is part of an effort to add additional sources of water to fight fires in case of a catastrophic drought or any major disaster. This is something special. A critical piece of San Francisco firefighting strategy what. Is being built is a storage tank that holds 75,000 gallons of water. This is a picture of abc7 news photographer heading down low below to check out construction on 30. The use would be under really emergency conditions. Big cost consideration were going to need immediate water from n. Event of a failure. This system of storing water is thought to be unique to San Francisco. And when when you see this, it indicates a sissern below. So far, they have not been used during loma prieta earthquake, fire boats hauled in water from the bay the mission bay inferno fought using High Pressure water hoses the chief says the tanks are critical. People say well, you dont use it on a regular basis. I can tell you when the big one hits, these will be invaluable the giant tanks are part of a 412 million emergency bond passed in 2010. And includes appraised pump stations and pipelines the project should be completed by 2017. With first six in the outer sunset district. In San Francisco, abc7 news still ahead a teachers pet goes in for a 50 grooming and comes out with 7,000 in vet bills do you like watching other people playing riddo games . Tonight taking you behind the scenes of a Popular Streaming Service that is part of a billion dollar a bay area dog owner wants a major pet store chain to pay up she says her 7yearold dog was badly injured in a novato pet co in january she says the company so far has failed to do anything about it. The dog is looking like hes doing better. He is. This is joey. Hes normally a bundle of energy. He couldnt walk after the trip to the groomer in january. His owner noticed something wrong. So did the vet after getting a good look at his x ray. I dont know how a fisty dollar grooming bill becomes almost 7,000 hannah says her 7yearold dog is starting to act like his old self. Nearly four months after his mother took the dog into a pet co for his regular grooming session. Joey wasnt walking. I wont to put him down. He pulled his leg up. Rod heartman says when she went owe pick him up its obvious something was wrong. I just stood there in shock. I said there is something wrong with joey. I came in, he was healthy, happy. They say the manager did call in the groomer describing aring to tug on his right rear leg. It turned out x rays showed a dislocated hip. So when we looked at x ray, socket was here, ball, next to it its obvious it was a dislocated hip. He had to have expensive surgery, still undergoing physical therapy. 7,000s ndz bills later the heartmans have exchanged e mails with pet co. And so far, the company hasnt accepted resonsibility. The least our money back. Not let this happen to any other dogs. In an e mail a spokesperson says were aware of the claim and have been working with her on a resolution we take concerns seriously and are reviewing the records. They told us they sent records to pet co in march. Laura anthony, abc7 news. New rules going into affect friday that could put a damper on beach bonfires in San Francisco. Officials moving the cutoff time to 9 00 p. M. Its 10 00 p. M now the agency plans to install a new set of fire pits Officials Say changes meant to cut down on prob helps inincluding public drunkenness and littering. Progress being made on a project. Crews began digging a trench that will allow trains to pass this, work is impacting traffic. Temporary lane shifts are planned. Extension from fremont warm springs neighborhood is scheduled to open in about three and a half years ahead of schedule its on budget. Bart is ready to hear how much youd be willing to pay to ride air bart. That is a the board scheduled to vote on the fee for 3. 2 mile trip june 12th. Service expected to begin in the fall. Ride . Its nice having to walk everywhere. Cooler now. Its brisk and breezy. Still comfortable. We have clouds increasing in the bay area now. Skies until career. More clouds headed our way. Taking a look at whats happening to our north. A cold low pressure system around cape mendocino. Its kicking up thunderstorms over in sacramento valleys. So its helping increase our gusty winds. Gusts up to 23 miles per hour. 28 in oakland. 33 inland. 32 novato. Its still brisk and breezy. There are blue skies in this vuchlt from our south beach camera. 63 in oakland and san carlos. 65 san jose and morgan hill. This view, showers and snow showers are on the way to lake tahoe. Its 66 in santa rosa. 63 napa, novato. And another live view looking towards golden gate. You can see clouds from the northwest moving out hover the bay. Gusty winds tonight. And isolated showers possible. It will get warmer at mid week point wednesday, thursday, into weekend. That low destabilizing the atmosphere, may contribute to showers in the bay area. We can see a couple isolated showers the possibility is there and they could be wet spots tomorrow may see passing showers. We dont expect anything more significant than that. However nshg the sierra a different picture near lake tahoe. Snow showers above 7,000 feet. Overnight, increasing clouds low temperatures into low to mid50s, tomorrow, paertly cloudy. Highs ranging from upper 60s to low 70s. Downtown San Francisco, 64 north bay highs mid70s mid to upper 60s in the east bay. Here is the accuweather forecast. Warming trend begins. By weekend looking at highs inland highs. That will be warm as well monday. Its memorial day. Upper 80s inland low 80s around the bay. What is behind wildfires . Coming up, the governor says its more than just the drought. Ithe part of us that a littwants to play,on. Wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it out. Find your inner minion only at the despicable me minion mayhem ride at Universal Studios hollywood. Governor brown says the longer fire season is the result of fire change and california must take steps to adapt. Scientists warned a hotter climate will lead to more wildfires throughout the west and have confirmed huge west ant arctic sheet is beginning to collapse and could go sea level as much as 12 feet. That will impa pacts on Water Quality and augustal practices about a dozen environmentalists protested outside urging leaders to end the practice of fracking for oil and gas a fourth great teacher walking into her classroom this morning, she was greeted with news shed won the fishman prize. A National Ward given to top teachers in the country. Students say shes just the best. Shes a great teacher. She makes us want to learn stuff she teaches us. I feel like i am blessed to be in this situation. And so grateful i thank everyone big deal. To celebrate she sang a song with her class and got a group hug. There it is. Shes the first California Teacher to receive the prize by the way. Yes. Congratulations. There is more still to come. Just ahead software infected thousands of Computers Google pays a billion dollars to let other people watch you play video games. And spring time in yosemite how its affecting native inhabitants stay with us. Half a Million Computers have been affected by malware that allows criminals to take over your computer. Fbi released details of the operation cracking down on a software called black shades. 97 people have been arrested for using or distributing black shade the Law Enforcement must be committed to committing cyber crime. That is what we have done, here. It allows to you hijack your web cam. It can lock your files until you pay ransom. Waits used last year against miss teen usa. Speculation that googel is about to pay 1 billion for a company that streams livido of people playing video games. Tonight abc7 goes inside of the offices of twitch to see what this is about. Video games have been social. In 0 s families sitting around and someone someone was watching. Dont move. Hes listening. Players stream games live on a web site called twitch. Im thinking wont you raernl play video games . Than watch someone else . Its become huge. Games speed editor says it accounts for over 1 of the traffic. Theyre going to take control of the video market. Now, they control the prerecorded market with you tube. And the Live Streaming site. Twitch has seen explosive growth, and we took away all of the complexity now, people can broadcast just a push of a button. With a few more clicks can open it up to advertisers. Random kids making 50,000 a year with video of their game play. Its built like house of neon. Its the First Successful example of social tv. Now with a million streams going, twitch is growing. They say its an exciting time to work there. They say they cant comment. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Now, google did buy a company today called divide. It helped businesses many of us use for work. She hopes it will help using android operating system. Proposed merger of at and t is direct tv may hinge on the nfl. If for some reason the nfl decides not to renew the package, at and t can back out of the merger announced yesterday. Internet did well on wall street today the dow went up 20 points and the nasdaq added 25. Netflix rose by 4 of the value. Today revealed it made a billion dollars last year in documents made public for a stock sale says it hopes to profit from videos on its you tube channel. And from editing software. Burger king scrapped its have it your way slogan in favor of the new tag line be your way. Its more hip and they hope it will connect the company with life styles. Yosemite is off to a busy start, with tourists filling the camp grounds. Water falls flowing in Yosemite National park. Marte jones planned his trip six months ago hoping for this moment. Hopefully that is melted. This is the third consecutive dry year for the park. The mountains received 30 of the average snow pack, meant faster melting snow. So now this s. An excellent time to come out and see water falls temperatures have been warm. So water falls are swelling about as fast as theyre going to get for the season. So bears in particular some did hibernate this fall. Their hibernation changes with food availability. The water falls are expected to run until july instead of mid august. The ranger says conditions are a mixed bag. Its kind of good and wad. Good because it opens up our hiking trails but bad because well see drier conditions this year. And ten, at the end of summer well have probably have to install fire restrictions. Still to come find out why we should fill out warranty registra you know Product Warranty cards you get. Do you need to fill them out . Some of them. Michael finney is here with information that can save your life. When there is a huge auto recall we get it on air. Most people hear about those but there are other recalls that we dont hear about. Ght, how to when you need it. Stephanie clark and her kids were cleaning up after dinner they loaded the dish washer turned it on, then, the dish water dish washer started to smoke. In five minutes the smoke started to become a flame. She was able to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher before the Fire Department arrived. If i had gone upstairs or outside it could have, yeah. It would have been a bad fire. After the fire, stephanie checked bosch web siechlt it turns out her dish washer was recalled for a fire risk she says the company did not warn her about a recall. So often when news about a recall goes out, it is like a smoke signal. Depends upon where a consumer is. So warranty cards are an important way to get in touch with consumers he says many dont fill the cards out because they look like a marketing tool. That is because they ask questions about education, shopping preferences and income levels we recommend dont answer all of the other questions only questions that would enable manufacture to communicate with you when there is a recall. In fact she says she never filled out the card for the dish washer, however, bosch replaced the dish washer for free. Ill mail it in now. Yes. Go to Consumer ProductsSafety Commission web site and sign up for their rss feed its easy. All right. Good to know. Pretty strong evidence that childhood iq tests are not always accurate. Coming up next a woman proven everyone is wrong she was told shed never get in college. But she got out as years top grad. The story in just a moment. Hey there. Did you select these things on purpose . Not t a color found nature. 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The top student found out about it years ago my parents were laughing to themselves i asked what is so funny . And they told me. She says her parents fought on, pushing to enroll her in advanced classes. Peters pursued everything in life with intensity. Classes i work hard in i find myself engaged and course thats normally wont come easily to me she earned a 3. 98 gpa. Its given to students whose ideas benefit others. Shes worked in salinas to bring wareness to nitrate contamination problem in the Drinking Water supply. Peters made it her passion to work on water and san daying projects in several countries and also speaks openly about another issue. Her bout with depression. Something you learn how to deal with and make your own and its not easy but i think being able to overcome it has made me stronger. Shell leave berkeley to continue her studies at university of manchester, then, oxford in the uk. What a young woman remarkable. Academy of Art University held a spring show today this, is when students show what theyve been working on all year. Theyre more than just paint lgs too. But this is more than a chance to show off, but an opportunity to meet recruiters to talk about work. Some Companies Come in, we dream of working at. And this is really inspiring for us. 400 students are displaying their best projects the show open monday through saturday until the end of june. Lets check the forecast right now. You can just look at the sky. This is a time lapse view this afternoon. You can see clouds in various levels from low, mid levels to high weve got live doppler seven hd to the north. This is the outlook. Scattered showers throughout the state. Widely scattered, that is. Snow showers over the sierra. The bay area might see isolated showers passing through tonight and tomorrow. And high temperatures on the cool side in spots. Upper 60s around the bay. Low and mid70s inland. Here is the accuweather forecast. Things stabilize wednesday z start to warm up as well by weekend looking at high temperatures upper 80s to near 90. Monday looking nice, warm ask sunny. Appropriate temperatures for this time of the year. Yes. Youre right. Lets talk about soccer. Yes. Larry beil is now here with sports. Yes. National Team Training and getting ready for brazil. Will the earthquake star make the cut . Next in sports. Good evening, California Chrome will try to do something it hasnt been done in 36 years the 3yearold going for triple crown in three weeks. New York Racing Association asked, it is okay for California Chrome to wear that natesal strip in past years theyd not allowed it. He wore the strip in kentucky derby. It assists breathing. No horse won triple crown since 1978. Nasal strip or not, belmont is a mile and a half and toughest to win. Owners know the horse is going to be challenged he does have a target on his back. Hell be tested. So, were just going to have to wait to see how chips fall where they may. Tiger woods made a first public appearance since back surgery. There is no timetable for riz return. He said surgery was necessary. Before surgery i couldnt do much. Im, you know getting out of bed was a task. For get about playing golf. Realization is that there no date. Its just taking on daily basis. And its not glowing to be up to me. But my docs. Hes been impoebl mobile and says hes gotten good at video games. U. S. Mens National Soccer team has begun a Training Camp prepping for world cup this summer. Team usa has a brutal group to deal with. There abc7 mike shumann with more on the task ahead. Team usa has until june 2nd to whittle down the roster. This building a foundation for hopefully a successful world cup. And making this team as strong as possible. You also want to build Team Chemistry we realize that were a team and were one. You know were going to compete. Well be the first one to have each others backs. Team usa in the group of death. That is what this is all about. Ghana will be the first opponent in brazil in this format. Youll play each team in the group. This is the thing you cant experience we give everything we have. Now we remember lebron james infamous, the decision, hourlong special he announced woe take his talents to miami. Today, bears wide receiver made his own national tv announcement. This one went over a little bit better because he did it on the view. He signed his new threeyear, 30 Million Contract extension with the chicago bears. Also donating a Million Dollars to benefit Mental Health care. There is a first. Abc7 sports brought to you by Orchard Supply hardware. Pretty much. Yes. Yes. Its going to be tough. Yes. Good deal. Join me tonight at 9 00 truly mans best friend in the fight against prostate cancer. Ability dogs have to save your life. Then, at 11 00 a group of women want a unique form of Birth Control pulled from markets. The doctors and fda maintain its safe a special report coming up at 11 00. And in prime time tonight we have part one of the dancing with the stars Season Finale at 8 00. You can see the bash lowerett on your computer, smart phone or tab bet. For now that is this edition of abc7 news our kufrnl continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. From all of us here have a great evening. See you at 9 00 and 11 00. Liz, theres someone in the apartment. Someone who thinks youre special in every single way i wrote this song to wish you a happy valentines day and the chorus goes here