male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Reporter eight reporter a close call for people walking across bay area train tracks. Tonight a new warning after the startling video. Reporter and the man accused of killing this south bay teen. Speaking out from jail. And youll want to hear what he has to say about what happened. Im pam moore. The news at eight is next. Reporter now at eight. Reporter it was strictly self defense. A homeless man accused of stabbing a campbell teenager to death. Tells kron four about the fatal fight in a public park. Whoosh reporter pedestrians taking chances reporter today, luck ran out for one of them. Reporter also the mother of a gravely injured newborn talks about the father accused of biting off the babys nose reporter whoosh reporter as many as 20 middle schoolers may be implicated in the brentwood sexting scandal. Tonight what parents keed to know about their kids and how they are using their cell phones. I am not surprised middle schoolers are sexting of couse sex is everywhere whoosh people say its the best iphone app they have ever heard of. Reporter an app that actually fights parking tickets for you. This is a full hour of your choice for prime time news. Reporter now at 8 reporter a seriously close call for several people in the south bay. All taking a life or death chance. Particularly one man in the group. Who is nearly hit by a train. And its all caught on video. Pam kron 4s grant lodes is here to show us the dramatic video. Grant . Reporter pam reporter caltrain tweeted out this take your breath away video. Reporter it happened along the trackscheck it out. Reporter this was february 18th. You saw a group of people try to make it across the tracks as an express train is charging towards them. Then the final guy makes a brake for it at the last second. Pam kron fours jeff bush live for us tonight in redwood city. Near where this close call occurred. Reporter in berkeley. A Union Pacific train hit and killed a pedestrian. Reporter train officials say, the victim was walking on the tracks north of gilman street. Just after nine this morning when he was hit. Reporter he was pronounced dead at the scene. Reporter Union Pacific says, the trains horn sounded. And the train tried to stop but was not able to do so in time. Pam a 16 year old san jose boy. Is stabbed to death. In a south bay park. Pam police say, it all started the john d. Morgan park in campbell. And then turned is now behind bars. And he talked with with kron 4s Justine Waldman about what happened. Justine is live at the Santa Clara County jail tonight with the latest. Justine . Took responsibility, last resort to use knife, feels horrible i dont feel good about myself even if it was in selfdefense nobody should have that happen to em reporter todd tharp regrets pulling argument on sunday night in campbell. Reporter the 24 year old transient spoke to kron 4 news while in the Santa Clara County jail. Reporter he remained handcuffed at the waist i was hanging out at the park and i got jumped and i ended up having to do something to keep my head from being spilt open more reporter tharps side of this story goes like this reporter he was at john morgan park on sunday night. Talking with a group of guys by the baseball stands. Reporter he he says were drinking and doing drugs. Reporter he remembers the conversation turned sour. And suddenly he was being hit and kicked in the head. He remembers throwing one punch before falling to the ground. They wouldnt stop i prob got kicked in the head 60 70 times in a matter of 45 seconds reporter tharp says he got 15 staples in his head. And has a large bump on his forehead. Reporter he says in self defense he pulled out the knife, he always carries in his belt. And started swinging i feared for my Life Reporter 16 year old ivan diaz amucaz. Died later from stab wounds. Reporter tharp says he has a 16 year old brother and if he could go back in time he would let them beat him. Instead of taking a teenagers life. Reporter i am sorry to the young mans family. I cannot imagine what you are going through right now. I really am sorry. Reporter tharp tells me. He has never been arrested before, never been to jail. Never even gotten a parking ticket. Now is he charged with murder. Live in san jose Justine Waldman pam the young man accused of nearly biting off his infants nose. Was in court today. Pam 18year old Joshua Cooper was arraigned on a number of felony charges today in fairfield. For allegedly biting off a piece of his infant sons nose last thirsday. Pam police say, it happened when the young father lost his temper when the child would not stop crying pam but his uncle tells kron 4. He believes cooper is innocent. I dont think he did that pam outside the courthouse, the defendants mother, who you see here, did not want to speak to the media. Coopers bail is set at 750 thousanddollars. He is due back in court in a couple of weeks pam tonight the baby remains at oakland childrens hospital. In custody of child protective services. And little tajons mother baby back. Anjelika riggins says the babys father who is accused of abusing the baby confessed to biting their sons nose. When he couldnt get the baby to stop crying. Excuse. I didnt see no anger that morning. I didnt see no stress that morning. He was up playing with the baby i seen no signs or i would have left. Of course. Im not going to put an infant through that. Reporter however Authorities Say there were signs. Nearly two weeks ago, tajon had swelling and bruising to his face. Doctors suspected child abuse and reported it. Pam three parked cars were set on fire. And now police in South San Francisco are searching for a suspect. It happened early sunday morning. The first two cars were near avenues. Crews put those fires out with fire extinguishers. Then, an hour and a half later. Another car was on fire. On oakland avenue. Near el camino real. A suspect was seen. Perhaps leaving in a dark blue or black buick lesabre. Or ford crown victoria. Pam in San Franciscos Mission bay neighborhood. Demolition continued on the mb 360 apartments. The construction site that went up in flames last week. While the fire is gone. The of smoke. And that has some residents who live across the street concerned. For my family. Though initially, suggestions indicated, welding could be to blame for the fire, officials are still trying to pinpoint the exactly cause. Thoughfor now. All they are saying. Is the fire remains under investigation. Pam new tonight at 8 we are learning new details about a plan to add express toll lanes to interstate 680 in contra costa county. Pam kron 4 Charles Clifford is live tonight in danville with an update. Charles. Reporter right now, im standing just in just a couple years drivers could see some big reporter starting in early 2015, work will begin here along interstate 68o between walnut creek and dublin on converting the existing north and southbound hov lanes into what are called high occupancy toll, or hot lanes. Reporter when the work is finished in 2016, busses, carpools and eligible vehicles will be able to use these lanes for free, just as before, but solo drivers will also be allowed in. If they pay a toll. Reporter the fee, which will be collected via fastrak, will vary depending on the level of traffic congestion. The mtc says the changes will make better use of the existing hov lanes, improve travel times for solo drivers and keep over all traffic moving along what is currently a very congested route. Reporter in the south bound, direction the hot lanes will extend from rudgear road in walnut creek to alcosta boulevard in san ramon. Northbound, the new lanes will stretch from alcosta to livorna road. Reporter converting the hov lanes to hot lanes will involve re stripping the lanes, installing signs, video cameras, and fastrak readers. The entire project is expected to cost about 45 Million Dollars. Return to index of stories. Reporter allthe conversion is just one part of a Long Term Plan to create 270 miles of express area. In contra costa county, Charles Clifford kron 4 news. A rally today in san francisco. Calling for changes in the state law pam the Group Disability rights advocates announced its landmark settlement with the federal National Park service today. It includes increased wheelchair access. As well as braille, audio and tactile signs. Three Million Dollars will also be spent on additional accessibility projects. Ahead at eight. More than a week since a people aboard vanished. New developments on the all out search. And later big bang theory. Local scientists think they have made a breakthrough in understanding how our universe began. Pam but next more middle schoolers may be implicated in an east bay sexting scandal. Pam an expert explains what parents keed to know about their kids. And how they are using their cell phones. Jacqueline 413 degrees cooler in pleasanton and 10 degrees cooler and redwood and sunnyvale but it will get on a monthtomonth [ male announcer ] a car that is able to see, to calculate, to think and can respond to what it encounters. Even if that means completely stopping itself. Its the stuff of science fiction. Minus the fiction. The 2014 eclass. See your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedesbenz financial services. See your authorized dealer for exceptional offers hey. Hey. [doorbell rings] whats this . Its uverse live tv. With at t uverse. You can watch live tv from your device. Hey. Hey. Anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. Hey. So you wont miss a minute of march madness. Call now to get a uverse bundle for the same great price for 2 years. Guaranteed. So yso you can happily let the grlife get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. So you can finish the Great American novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. So you can pam new at 8 tonight a number of additional Young Students have now been implicated in the brentwood sexting scandal. At several area middle schools. Pam investigators now believe at least 20 students took an active role. In sexting images of classmates. Kron 4s j. R. Stone is following the story. He spoke with a doctor about the real problem here. Reporter hussein that adults are to blame here and in other 16 cases because there is lack of education of all right and wrong. Officers tell me theyre still searching through cell phones in the case endeavor moodys one instance where it tunable in use the girls in criminal law allows to force a girl to use sex acts on him. This is children going down childlike things and hurting one another in the process. Reporter teams and have the upper hand on adults when it comes to the technology that they are using peer it ok, my child is rob tender bodies and now i need to get on the case about what they are filling. Reporter some Elementary Schools have started giving the students talks about using the phones for proper reasons. J. R. Stone kron 4 news. Pam the search for the missing ha spans two hemispheres and involves 26 countries. It has now been more than a week since the jet and the 239 people aboard disappeared. Kron 4s Catherine Heenan reports. Catherine inbound looking for the missing malaysian plane. You can subtract at least one. A u. S. Defense official says that the navy ship thats been helping is dropping out of the hunt. The reason it was determined longrange naval job. Catherine meantime new questions keep coming. Catherine what happened during a crucial 15minute time period as flight 370 crossedinvestigators know the last transmission from the cockpit happened early in the flight. And they think it might have been the copilot. Catherine a sat picked up a faint signal from the plane more than 7 hours after takeoff. They dont know when the two Communications Systems were shut down. And whet crew or passengers had anything do to with the planes disappearance. Catherine the families of the missing are seemingly getting different stories every day. Catherine they still dont know if the plane landed or crashed. Or whether loved ones are alive. Catherine the girlfriend of american ifs passenger philip wood knows the news could break at any time. Catherine into the northern and southern hemispheres. For example australia is scouring the southern indian ocean. While kazakhstan more than 6thousand miles to the northwest is also now helping. Jacqueline dickens see the system and lincecum down. You can see the sustained winds blowing down. As we look ahead to knight the land cost will be dying down. It will be chilly in certain spots like livermore with 42, 32 and plan to attend and also 43 and sun and dell. As we look ahead for the afternoon it will be warmer than to that. It here is a glance at some temperatures of around the bay area tomorrow. 24 san jose and read what city 724 san jose and redwood city pam a good sized earthquake. Jolts the Los Angeles Area this morning. And now a video of newscasters reacting to the quake is internet. Pam story. The 4. 4 quakie was centered just west of the 405. Near the 101. About 10 miles north of santa monica. It hit just before 6 30 this deep. Reporter sevferal after shocks. Shook the la area. No reports of injuries or significant damage. People said they felt a quick strong jolt. With items in homes and businesses shaking. Reporter that was certainly the case at the ktla studio in hollywood. While the anchors were on the air. The anchors hit the deck, and a local seismologist with the usgs said the anchors did the right thing. Video reporter some people on social media are making fun of them. But experts say you never know how big the quake will be. And they set a perfect of us. Reporter most people dont think of all the lights in places Like Television studios. That could come down. There are safety chains on lights. There are safety chains on lights. Reporter but heres a look at the set up in our studio. Thats the desk at which were sitting now. Few lights above that. Several just a few feet away that light up the weather, traffic and other areas in the studio. Those lights weigh about 10 pounds. Theres a whole lot of Metal Holding them in place. pam still ahead catherine drugs. And texting while driving. Thats what police say may have been factors. In a crash that killed two people in the north bay. And next one woman explains how some carry on perfume. Turned into a travel headache at Airport Security. Pam an arizona woman says, she is out an 83 dollar bottle of designer perfume. All because of an Airport Security check. Record promoter louis lewis was on her way to see clients in denver. And never dreamed she was in trouble. 2 as a frequent flyer, she says she always travels with her perfume in a separate plastic bag. But this time, the tsa stopped her. She says, tsa screeners confiscated her two ounce bottle of perfume, because they thought it was shaped like a weapon. Everyone is staring. There are seven tsa agents on my side. Took all of my information, made a copy of my id, and then started talking about they were going to have to search my person. And thats when i startedi went from humorous to all right lets be real, its perfume. they said if as a passenger you were to get on an airplane and you were to wave this around that people could maybe construe that as you making some sort of a threat. Pam other perfumes such as viktor and rolfs flower bomb. Have been pulled from airport duty free stores, because their shape can replicate that of a grenade. The tsa suggests. That perfume be placed in checked luggage. So there are no problems. Pam ahead at eight. A major discovery for stanford scientists pam what theyve uncovered that gives new insight into how the universe could have began. Pam and later theres an app to help you fight those expensive parking tickets. Our tech reporter gabe slate explains how it works. But next a deadly north bay crash. That may have been caused by drugs. And distracted driving. Pam we talk with one of the survivors. After the break. Female narrator for over 60,000 california foster children female narrator for over 60,000 california a pair of shoes is a small but important gift. My shoes have a hole in them. I can barely fit in these anymore. I hope no one would notice. They hurt my feet. I never had new shoes before. To help, sleep train is collecting new shoes of all sizes. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and theyll be given to a local foster child in need. Not everyone can be a foster parent. But anyone can help a foster child. Pam now at 8 30 pam drugs. And texting while driving. Thats what police say bay have been factors in a deadly crash in the north bay. Pam two people were killed on highway 12. When when a truck slammed into a toyota camry in santa rosa. Kron 4s scott rates is reporter and happened here on highway 12 in santa rosa. J hall effort was driving that car it was absolutely nothing he could do to avoid the crash he says. His son was in the seed and sally his wife and mother both in the back who were killed in the crash. You know it is not stopping. My mother was just fabulous and a beautiful woman very giving. I had a 35 year marriage and a four year courtship and lost my best friend. I do not know what i am going to do. Reporter i did go back but to announce these home i knocked on his door but there was no answer. There was a small amount of marijuana at the crash this and theyre winning for toxicology reports to come back to see if he was intoxicated during the crash. Pam more trouble for general motors. The automaker announced three new recalls today. This time it includes more than one million suvs with defective side airbags. Including the Buick Enclave and gmc acadia. Pam the other two recalls announced today affect cadillac xts sedans and commercial vans including the Chevrolet Express and gmc savana. Pam gm is also facing multiple investigations over its handling of a compact car recall last month. Those cars were found to have defective ignition switches and were linked to the deaths of at least 12 people. Pam states are turning up the heat on smoking urging major pharmacy chains to stop selling tobacco products. Pam a Bipartisan Group of 28 attorney generals sent a letter to some of the countrys biggest retailers with pharmacies in their stores. Reporter the message . Stop selling tobacco products. Reporter those retailers include walgreens, riteaid, walmart, kroeger and safeway. Reporter last month, cv s said it would stop selling tobacco at its stores by october. Reporter saying it was the right thing to do for customers health. Reporter the recent effort did not suggest any kind of legal action. So the retailers will voluntairily institute tobacco bans of their own. Reporter the us is stepping up pressure on russia to end its intervention in ukraine. Reporter today president obama acting in concert with european allies announced the most comprehensive sanctions against russian officials since the cold war. Pam but in defiance of american pressure. Russian president Vladimir Putin officially recognized crimeas vote to rejoin russia. And declared the region an independent state. Pam president obama has said russias actions will only deepen the countrys diplomatic isolation. And draw more severe consequences. Reporter new at eight. Reporter scientists think theyve made a significant breakthrough in understanding how our universe began. Reporter they say they used this telescope at the south pole to analyze light left over from the early universe. Reporter they claim to have found evidence of what are called gravitational waves, seen in this image. Reporter some scientists believe the waves are signs of the big bang theory. Reporter which some experts say occurred almost 14 billion years ago. When the universe expanded in less than a trillionth of a second. Reporter and did you come home to enact giants orgy. Reporter well, he was shocked. A plus zisize orgy posted on social media when renting an b b for the weekend. Jacqueline by the afternoon we are looking at low 70s. Here is to look at the morning temperatures away from the coast line belittle chile. It 44 in redwood city. Doubt in the south bay back to the 70s 74 and los gatos. For the east bay, and that los 70s alto as well. 71 in union city. 63 and ocean beach. 67 and downtown san francisco. Sunny skies and mild temperatures hovering on around the 73 mark. About average for this time of year. male announcer now, heres Stanley Roberts who found some people behaving badly. On the dashboard a gps. Another gps yet another gps in the window. It a costers tree from the look out more valuables in plan bill. All are around the area i to show you there has been a target for october glories. Thisauto bu alt tel auto burglaries. Reporter also define the crowd waiting to happenthey find a crime waiting to happen. Reporter back to the auto break ins one day nine vehicles were broken into. If fought reporter you have your gps in the front window . But is an old the gps. With people take an old crony g p s . Crummy reporter yes they would. Get a job. Instead of trying to do crime. Reporter you are asking too much. Stanley roberts people behaving badly. Pam sports next [doorbell rings] hey. Hey. Whats this . Its uverse live tv. With at t uverse. You can watch live tv from your device. Hey. Hey. Anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. Hey. So you wont miss a minute of march madness. Call now to get a uverse bundle for the same great price for 2 years. Guaranteed. male announcer now, the Orchard Supply sports report with gary radnich. Gary for triceps stiffness struck our 5 hitters in 2 scoreless innings nick punto had a couple of hits and 2 rbi gary setback does not look serious final 62 as gary jim harbaugh the video posted to youtube. Kissed by the sea lion gary and dont forget to join us this sunday for the first of our baseball specials this one focusing on the twotime a. L. West champion as thats at 9pm immediately following our 8pm newscast gary raiders sign james jones gary the raiders signed receiver free agent james jones to a 3year, 11. 3 Million Contract on monday. Jones, who turns 30 later this month, had 59 catches for a careerhigh 817 yards and 3 touchdowns last season with the packers. Gary he is from san jose and played college ball at san jose state. Jones overcame many obstacles on his journey to the nfl, having been in and out of homeless shelters for much of his childhood. Gary the big deal. Virginia they beat everyone. I think they play the way ought to play the game. Gary optimistic view point here at kron we p tell like it is. Gary here is brad in the middle of the broadcast. He was so honest pam we enjoy him every year gary he does things for free to help the youth. Pam hes a great guy. Brad duggan gary there it is. A little less surprising. We just cut out 3,000 of our fans pam after the break, if you have a ticket that you would like to get rid of the states attempt. Stay tuned pam he says he is sorry for killing 16 your 08 charged with murder. Pam corporate bail set at 750,000. Coopers bail set at 750,000 for biting boxofoff his young babys nose. Pam if you think you have received a parking ticket un fairly. It can be an enormous headache to dispute the ticket. New tonight. Kron 4s tech reporter gabe slate shows us a new handy mobile app that will fight parking tickets for real. For you. When you have that admiration of something less when have error in contradiction. Parking regulation is far from black and white this a lot of great area. You photographed the ticket take out our app in the next thing we do is query the database to show you the most common types of error associated with that ticket you choose the error that is more with you. Our paralegals through the evidence. Freak took the test the ticket we only charge you if you when the ticket will charge a 25 of which you would have had to pack so you really have nothing to lose by using the app. We are taking on people one by one. Gabriel slate, 4 news. Pam up a sounds pretty good for it jacqueline weather seven day. Pam stay in touch kron4 ness next newscast 11pm [ male announcer ] get ready tvs and laptops in a uverse home. Were about to compare you to xfinity. When two hd movies are playing in a uverse home their Fastest Internet slows down [ deep voice ]. Two hd movies in an xfinity home, the internet stays fast because, its 2014. Hello [ man on screen ] ugh. So last season. [ male announcer ] exactly. Fast never goes out of fashion. 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