still numb to 63 year-old abdi sudden death her boyfriend sohail is the youngest of abbvie s 2 grown sons. she knew abdi for 5 years and considered him a father figure. we spoke with her on the phone earlier. he wanted to help everyone. had such a big very he was so good to his wife and sons. 2 sons he worked for the valley transportation authority for decades serving most recently as a substation maintainer. this after immigrating from iran after the revolution. that s the biggest sacrifice anyone could make for his family. he moved to the u.s. without going to eat less friends here. i mean, just imagine hard it would be to not know anyone. not know any emotion in. you can take. he did not ocuvite a better life for his family. that s the kind of man he in a statement, add these nephew see of osh alike. mundine says, quote. my uncle was a father, a husband and a brother. his family in iran endured all these years of separation with the hope of a better life for hi
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the unhealthy range. the nfl would of postponed that game if it hit 200. i know giana you were affected by the air yesterday just going for a short walk. yeah, i walk up with a scratchy throat. and you went to the game. i did. and i ran to catch the train from san francisco down to the south bay and i can still feel it my lungs are just like that hard to breathe i can actually taste the smoke. wow. yeah. boy if you re feeling it too not a lot of relief when it comes to our air quality. this is current air quality readings and the red dots that is very unhealthy air. the orange dots unhealthy air. we are dealing with it once again with that smoke. a live look at our sales force tower camera. our temperatures are running in the 40s, in the 50s, and even the 30s. livermore 40. 52 san francisco. 43 in san jose and 44 in santa rosa. that blanket of smoke still over the bay area. the pattern changes are possible as we go through at least next week with some rain. we des
it will be around all day on my accuweather forecast. a lot of us in the 40s, low to upper 40s at 7:00. notice not as warm in the afternoon hours as high clouds along with our smoke will dim our sunshine and hold us in the mid-60s at noon. low to upper 50s at 7:00. let s see if we have any good news on the commute. is that possible now that everybody is heading back to work, alexis? yeah, set me you up for failure. i do believe crews are picking up the closures, southbound 880. we had a full closure for the oerpass demolition. that was scheduled to wrap up at 5:00 according to caltrans. looks like they ll be on time. i believe they reiles hour. for an alternate. let s take a look at some video. we had an unfortunate situation overnight in the south bay. budget rental truck driver hit and killed a pedestrian on northbound 280, just north on 101 on 280. investigators say the woman was on the freeway, but they did not say why. the driver did stay at the scene. all lanes were s
domestic violence and an active criminal restraining order. in addition, the suspect had a history of mental illness. reporter: kpix 5 has learned the suspect is this man, mirza tatlic. police say officers outside the home tried to talk him into surrendering but when he appeared at a window and pointed the gun at officers, a police sharpshooter opened fire killing him. the mother was later found dead and the 13-year-old was not physically harmed. again, dealing with someone who is mentally ill, who had choices and he didn t give the family choices, he didn t give my officer a choice. reporter: those police dispatch tapes also detail how the killer was apparently using the cell phone of the 13-year- old brother to call the ex- girlfriend perhaps knowing that she would not pick up if she knew it was him but would pick up the phone if she thought her little brother was calling. allen, you can only imagine the anguish went other side of that phone last night. absolutely.