Herself and she was innocent. Hanson showed me a photograph of her mother wearing a leopard skin coat, the kind of item she said was part of her collection and which she presumed was legal. Anything done before 1972 was considered vintage. Reporter in court, the judge advised her to get an attorney. She said she would. The arraignment was postponed. He says the law is simple. The section of a body part of an endangered spes scies to selo against the law. Reporter he said it would be okay for her to own them but adds it was for sale. The warden was actually able to try a leopard coat that was offered for sale at 4500. Reporter hansons defense. Totally unaware of that so this is not untins nois not uni reporter shell get a chance to argue her point. Next at 6 00, the family of a woman killed by toxic tea is suing the shop where she bought that tea. 56yearold yu ping xie got sick after drinking a toxic tea blend. City officials are trying to trace the source of the tea leaves that contain
For the defendant sicily hanson more than a year after investigators say they found illegal furs for sale in her store. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee is in the newsroom with the story, vic . Dan, sicily hanson was charged with nine misdemeanor counts of attempt to sell parts of endangered animals. This crime does not rise to the level of a felony but the d. A. Says it is nevertheless is a serious crime. She had a back room operation in the store where she sold illegal items to discreet clients. The store owner sicily hanson came to court hoping charges would be dropped. Im a preservationest, not a mucher. Reporter the raid happened in february of last year after an undercover operation here at the vintage Clothing Store decades of fashion. Federal and state game wardens seized 150 items, which they determined were from eng dangda animals. Leopard, jaguar, endangered toured turtles. Reporter hanson appeared for arraignment and said she had no attorney and planed to defend herself and she
Thank you, drew. We have live doppler 7 opt app and you can get push alert advisories on your phone or tablet. A young woman died after falling from a balcony at cals campus on dwight way and college avenue. 21yearold kimberly from he will being grove likely fell from a third story balcony. She died later at the hospital. Shes a student at in a sorority. Police are investigating. A mechanical problem on a unite the airplane on a flight to hawaii, they had to turn around just after take off from sfo this morning. A issue was to blame. The passengers were booked on another plane which should be landing in hawaii now. San Francisco Police took a teenager into custody after he threatened suicide and attacked two officers trying to subdue him. Officers were called at an apartment at 26th and caps streets after receiving reports of a teenager breaking a window. The teen fought with officers hurting two of them before he was detained. The injured officers will be okay. The teen was taken to t
In some places it kept coming down on all day. It poured on anyone outside this afternoon. A live look now from the abc 7 roof cam, its still soggy out there, but a break in the rain is coming and were calling it a break in the rain. Heres meteorologist trew tuma. Were still tracking showers on doppler 7. Lets get you down the street where the showers are occurring at this hour, around santa rosa, guerneville, along the coast in bodega bay. Even light turn around campbell, south bay, a couple turns inland in livermore. Well be dealing with light showers on and off through the evening. Keeping a 1 on the storm impact scale. It will be less than a tenth of an inch of rain. And it will be breeze i. As one storm exits tonight, a next storm is brewing out in the pacific. Well talk about when that arrives, how much rain to expect, and finally some much brighter and warmer weather coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Eric . Thank you, drew. We have live doppler 7 opt app and you can ge
Visibility, okay. But, you see the wet roads there on the center city streets. Some of the highways, little rough to travel this morning, a loft roads, very little ponding to deal with. Fiftytwo for the current air temperature right now, northwest wind though increasing, right now, the sustained at 17 Miles Per Hour, northwest breeze, that is going to keep our temperatures below average today. There you can see the rain that confined across eastern pennsylvania, new jersey, parts of delaware, but the steady rain starting to move off to the north and east, still couple of showers possible, even late morning. So again the steadiest rain through 8 00 this morning, it will be windy throughout the ten day. Between 8 00 and noon. Scattered shower or two possible, this after none, a clouds braking out through some sunshine, but the sun wont do much for temps. Fortynine in allentown, 52 for philadelphia, and pretty much going to climb maybe only few more degrees this afternoon. Sustained winds