And the attic. It will take them several hours to go through the evidence they have here. The victim has not been identified. We know she is a 59yearold woman. She was just widowed in april. She has two adult daughters. They lived here more than 30 years, she and her husband had, and this is a close neighborhood. The neighbors had been coming together and helping her for several months with her mourning, over her grieving with the loss of her husband and now this. Truly devastating this community. At this time tonight, sheriffs investigators have not identified any suspects. They have not identified a motive. They said its too soon at this point to know if anything was stolen from the house. They have to go through the scene closer and bring family members to the home to see if anything was taken. Theyre also asking for the publics help at this point. Theyre hoping some Surveillance Video will lead to clues, will lead to a suspect. Specifically if you have any Surveillance Video betwee
Joining us. Im alma dietz. We begin with developing news out of the east bay. An investigation of a house fire is now a homicide investigation. The fire started inside a home on grove way in castro valley. The Sheriffs Office is there now and so is abc 7 reporter katie marzullo. Katie, whats the latest . Reporter they let us know that technicians inside the home will be on the scene for several more hours, if not overnight, sifting through the debris inside the home there. They tell us this is truly a horrific crime scene. Heres what we know right now as we take a look at some video shot earlier today, that a woman was found dead in a burning home. It was around 2 45 this morning. But as we mentioned, we know now that the woman was not killed in the fire. They performed an autopsy around 9 00 this morning calling her death a murder. Sheriffs spokesperson telling me that he can confirm she was not shot but that she suffered brutal and violent injuries consistent with homicide. Her body
The weather. The weather. Big story this morning. Going right to steve. Just take it steve. And a lot of lighting. There is a lot of lighting. I think we have lighting right now. Where is it from . I dont know. There is a picture of walnut creek. Have you that one. Oh. I dont know. Show me something. There we go. Wow. Thats a big one. Thats over downtown oakland. There you go. We have had many reports here. Its moving east. This system, this line and its moving rapidly east. I could do about 50 of the reports i have had. Lighting in walnut creek. Thats very well done. Nice job there. Some of the rain has just been incredibly heavy. There is a back edge to a lot of this. Jazz i will say a lot of tuned near newark. I have had reports of that. National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning. Over to sonoma. Here we go again. Sal, highway 37. Yeah. 37. 116 until 8 45. There is an area where it looks like its calmed down a lot. The mainline is stretching over toward the east bay a
The glue in this deal, Goldman Sachs who would cover it all. But with Goldman Sachs out, so is adelman. And lastly, ronny lott who has been a key investor said we have an additional 100 million due to the nfl incentive to keep the raiders in oakland. Bottom line, if the raiders want to stay in oakland were more than ready to be a partner in making that happen. Do you feel like a jolted lover . We keep coming back. We keep coming back. We love the raiders so much. We keep coming back. Youll take them back . Well take them back, yeah. Reporter now as for the group save oakland sports they will be working in the next couple of weeks to lobby the nfl owners for the upcoming meeting at the end of march. All they have to do is convince nine out of the 32 team owners to vote no on this deal. Live in alameda, kip do. Roger goodell is expected to comment tomorrow about the raiders relocation issue. He will hold a press conference in houston. San francisco becomes the first city to sue President
Live, where you live, this is abc 7 news. A celebration mood at town halls, a day after news that obama care will remain the law of the land after the indefinite postponement of the aca. They didnt have their act together or build their consensus in the congress and they loft. It was not all positive, we are in the newsroom with the story. Eric, while everyone in the room was happy the Affordable Care act, was not repealed, they were not shy about demanding mofrmt more protections and more option options, many wanted single payer healthcare instead. Thats no privilege greater than representing the San Francisco bay area in the congress of the united states. House democratic he leader, nancy pelosi and jackie spear spent three hours with constituents, during a town hall meeting at Balboa High School today. We are pleased to have a victory for the American People yesterday. They are referring to the survival of the Affordable Care act. Speaker of the house, paul ryan pulled the proposal