Facing criticism for it tonight. A palo alto couple is returning home after an exhaustive search, leaving after a week of being stranded, forced to drink from puddles and making fruitless attempts to find help. We spoke to the neighbors that were welcoming them home. Reporter we are here at the home where they are getting ready for one heck of a welcome home party. Casey remembers the moment he got word that ian and carol were found alive. Just like that his instincts kicked in. Basically it was time to start planning a portal party. Reporter they would arrive home to a tightknit neighborhood where they had been for decades. Have to do is wait. One of the things i had thought about, carol and ian are gone and i never got a chance to say goodbye. Now i get a chance. Quite a gift for you today. The greatest gift i could ever get. There physically fit and have their love to keep them going. The relationship is really the reason that they get through this together. We realize that these ar
We have a lot of staffing to make sure we have the level of coverage throughout the city. We are also using the online reporting tool ourselves. Reporter there have been 130 reports over the last month, up from last year. Downtime resident, jeff levine has reported many of them. Mike weir prison of her we are prisoners of our own house and i want to make sure the house doesnt burn down. Reporter he is hopeful this year will be different and that there will be more citations but until then we are on guard tonight. Reporter one thing residents did say is they noticed fewer fireworks in the weeks leading up to the fourth. You can find the online reporting tool on the San Jose City website. In san jose, ann rubin, ktvu fox2 news. In oakland, police plan to use Shotspotter Technology to track skyline has lit up with dozens of illegal fireworks displays. This is video from previous years. Already this week, police in oakland have confiscated more than two tons of illegal fireworks. There is
Henry albert smith guilty on all counts. Prosecutors will be asking for the death penalty. In fairfield, Laura Anthony abc7 news. The man accused of killing a Hayward Police officer is now charged with murder and thee charges. This is the new mug shot of mark estrada. Katie is live with the story. Katie . Reporter good evening, his mother coming to his defense, and she was in the courtroom with a lot of Hayward Police officers, many of them look to be fighting back tears. Neither hayward pd nor the da would comment today. Court documents do detail a lot of evidence including that he allegedly told a doctor he was shot in his truck. I know my son. Reporter Raquel Estrada believes her son will be cleared. Im devastated for the officer that passed away and my son. Reporter estrada faces charges of murder of a peace officer, lying in wait and drive by. Hayward chief and many officers packed the courtroom in solidarity of Sargent Scott lunger and their case. Their eyes heavy with emotion. N
The officer was murdered in 2011. The suspect has been found guilty as charged but this isnt the end of the proceedings. Laura anthony is live with the developing story. Laura . Reporter this is a verdict for years in the making. Lots of stops and starts but the jury did find that the defendant, Henry Albert Smith junior guilty on all counts in the murder of the Vallejo Police officer. Shots were fired and when the officers fellow officers reached him, he had been shot three times. He died from his his injuries. The jury in this case say several jurors had been removed. One for expressing antiLaw Enforcement bias and other times, jurors were ill. Now, the jury did find this man, Henry Albert Smith guilty on all counts. Prosecutors will be asking for the death penalty. In fairfield, Laura Anthony abc7 news. The man accused of killing a Hayward Police officer is now charged with murder and thee charges. This is the new mug shot of mark estrada. Katie is live with the story. Katie . Repor
Of our sensors this morning. Northbound 680 approaching sunol an accident is clearing. It had been blocking a middle lane so you see some of the slow sensors northbound out of sunol towards pleasanton. Heres a live look near the dublin interchange. Westbound 580 we got the usual roadwork going on between hacienda and san ramon. They have several right lanes blocked from 3 to 5 00 so again hopefully that is clearing now. In the meantime your drive time still in the green so no big delays so far through the Altamont Pass. The nimitz freeway looks good as you pass the Oakland Coliseum Oakland Airport with a flight to catch. Its 13 or 14 minutes between hayward and foster city. 5 01. On the scene of breaking news down in the south bay. San jose firefighters are at work at delmas avenue and brown street near the interchange of interstate 280, state route 87 there. A prayer shrine that was in the attic started a fire about 3 30 this morning. Four people have been displaced so far but nobody