Nbc bay areas rick boon is live outside the hall of justice in san jose with what they want. Rick. Reporter hey, janelle. What they want, they want this guy to spend the rest of his life in jail. This shocker today comes almost exactly a year to the date that Robert Farmer was picked up, arrested for all these crimes. In court today, he admitted to everything. He says even though he admits he did it, theyre not letting him off the hook. 25yearold Robert Farmer and his attorneys made a lastminute decision in court just before new evidence was set to be added in the cases against him. Farmer admitted to 21 counts of felony animal cruelty in which he assaulted and murdered more than 20 cats. We never found the body. Reporter her 17yearold cat, go, go, was one of Farmers First victims. Surveillance video captured farmer in the act as he chased and picked up the cat from the neighborhood. Just took our sense of safety. Because he took it from us. Reporter the 25yearold was finally found and
Now from abc7, live, breaking news. Dan the breaking muse is in vallejo where neighbors are told to shelter in place right now as a strong, unknown odor floats overhead. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Ama daetz is off. Lets go straight to lisa amin gulezian. She is live in vallejo with breaking details on this. Lisa, what do you have . Reporter the city of vallejo has activated a partial Emergency Operation center here at the Fire Department on louisiana street. It is to handle all of the phone calls they have been getting. Since early this evening they got about 800 calls for help and several people complained about getting sick because of the odor and they were taken to the hospital. The vallejo Fire Department said they are concentrated in the southern part of the city in the neighborhoods surrounding Beverly Hills park and glen cove park. Hazmat is working with firefighters and pg e and Public Safety officers to determine the cause. Portable gas monitors are showing normal readings.
Firefighters and pg e and Public Safety officers to determine the cause. Portable gas monitors are showing normal readings. So no sign of any gas. Residents meantime have been told to shelter in place. The Fire Department tweeted tonight, if you smell gas outside, shelter in your home, close windows, turn off air units. Back now live, the coast guard is investigating an oil sheen discovered in the san pablo bay. It is unclear if the sheen is connected to the odor. Lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. Dan thank you very much of the we first told you about the shelter in place with a push alert from the abc7 news app. Download it for free so you can get breaking fuse updates as they happen. Dan Oakland Police is investigating a terrible accident that killed a 2yearold boy. He was playing off 35th avenue when he was struck by an ac transit bus. Cornell bernard is in oakland. Reporter a scene of unimaginable grief where a little boy was struck and killed by an ac transit bus around a 2 00 p. M.
Breeze is getting ready, and the warmer temperature with the cloud cover, and once that clears with a few showers, ushering in that system from the north and it will feel fall like. 60s along the coast and bay, 70s inland. May be a few showers, but not a big deal. Right now we do not have a big deal in the traffic, and lets start off with the commute for those driving in from far away. The super commute, you can see the traffic on the Altamont Pass is already slow on 205 and 580, and that looks okay. No problem over to Castro Valley. I want to mention that if youre driving to San Francisco south of market, it is extra crowded due to the oracle open world, and Howard Street will remain closed through the week at third and fourth. 60,000 people attending this conference, so crowded bart trains, and that is a lot of people extra in the market area. Lets take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic backed up for little bit in some of these lanes, before the most part not a big backup.
Mission south for just a couple minutes. It looks like they may have had more crews arrive on scene. Ill let you know if they have any lanes blocked. Out of the Altamont Pass, web 580, might get wet coming into livermore off 205. Back to you. North bay hospital got a rush of people coming through the emergency room doors having a hard time breathing and feeling nauseous, reporting their eyes were burning. They dont know whats making them sick, only it seemed to start at the same time that a mystery odor wafted over their neighborhoods. Bob, we stild dont know what the smell is. Vallejo activated its Emergency Command Center . Reporter partially activated and also recommended to shelter in place. Good morning, chris and sam. The latest from the Vallejo Fire Department, they had gas monitors in place in the southern part of the city where this odor was emanating from. Those monitors continue to report safe readings. The city is working with pg e to see if there was pass some sort of natu