Spoiler alert its awesome. Broadcast center. This is abc7 news. Out of a job. The 49ers star aldon smith was cut after being arrested for dui and vandalism. His fifth arrest since 2011. And tonight smiths former teammates are talking about his latest run in with the law. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Smith was with San Francisco for four seasons. He spent much of the time suspended. The niners held their regular practice this afternoon. Katie was there and is live from levi stadium with the story. After practice players told me who ever takes overral done smets position will have very big shoes to fill. They are pulling for smith. Anquan boldin and bethea say even though he is not a teammate, he is still a friend. For me it is not about football. It is making sure he is okay as a person. As a team though we have to move forward. At the end of the day, wish the best for him. Players deny reports that there was trouble between smith and Colin Kaepernick off the field. I have to ask about
They are pulling for smith. Anquan boldin and bethea say even though he is not a teammate, he is still a friend. For me it is not about football. It is making sure he is okay as a person. As a team though we have to move forward. At the end of the day, wish the best for him. Players deny reports that there was trouble between smith and Colin Kaepernick off the field. I have to ask about the reports he and kaepernick were fighting over a woman. I dont know about that. I dont know anything about that until you just said it. Kaepernick said it is not his car smith hit. Police arrested the linebacker on thursday night on suspicion of dui, hitandrun and vandalism. They say he hit a parked car at his apartment complex in santa clara. Smith said this on his way out of jail. This wasnt a dui. The situation that happened could have been handled differently and i apologize to everybody i let down, and i apologize for how it played out. As far as everything concerned it will work out how it is su
Terry is in alameda with the details. Reporter until this weekend. This guy was on police radar as a serial prowler. In june he broke into this moelg on webster street. Over theeck would, he is escalated, and sexually assaulted a juvenile. This is a person of interest in yesterday mornings sexual assault, these pictures taken at the roadway in on webster street on june 15th after he allegedly entered one of the occupied rooms through an unlocked windows. He is a hot prowler. That means he goes into the house when the house is occupied. Between midnight and 8 00 sunday morning he cut screen crawled lieu the window and sexually sallied a girl under the age of 18. This neighbor is really safe. Something like that that is happening in our neighbor is scary and we definitely have to look out for each other. Reporter in one case police say he stoler ka. In other cases he took nothing. Police say he confronts residents and police say their description of him match up with this picture. This i
I dont want to give it away too quickly here. Supporters of drones at the top of the list, police are very much anticipating a yes vote, its the third item on the councils agenda, which means it could come up quickly for a vote if approved, it could allow police to fly a single drone for a oneyear pilot program. I apolice eye in the sky. A drone with cameras and the ability to hover over a suspect who may be firing at officers or placed a bomb to go off. Thats what the city council will consider this afternoon. The vote comes after months of public debate. Police should be able to use it as a tool in case theyre chasing someone. Its a lot safer than falling at a high speed. We dont know what theyre going to see. Suspension began when police used part of a Homeland Security grant for a 7,000 purchase of a drone without any public input beforehand. The public demanded meetings and got them. According to san jose mayor, police will use the drone sparingly. The chiefs agreed, were using th
Area. We do have the Flash Flood Watch in effect until 9 00 and we look at the potential of rain falling at the rate of 2 inches per hour, ill have more details on this and what it means for your weekend in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you. Well continue tracking any storms heading our way at 6abc. Com weather, with Storm Tracker 6 radar and a street level map and hourly and sevenday forecasts. Philadelphia police are searching for a predator today and they say that two women have been attacked in the last six weeks on the cobbs creek golf course and they think the same man is behind both assaults. Sara bloomquist is live with more on what police are doing to track this man down. Reporter well, both attacks happened here off cardington road off the golf course, the woman was pulled off the sidewalk and behind that tree there, in the second the victim was pulled beneath the bridge just beyond the trees, both women were sexually assaults and Police Believe that the same man is re