One of the members of the jury got sick and another one was about to leave the county. So the District Attorneys Office worked with capoot family and they decided to go ahead and accept the sentence that was handed down today. This sentencing hearing has been a long time in coming. Next week will be the fouryear anniversary of officer jim capoots murder. His family and fellow Police Officers came together for a moment of silence moments before heading into the courthouse. Im thankful that all of you guys are here for jennifer and her three daughters. Reporter video cameras were not allowed in the courtroom, but in this series of pictures, you can see henry entering. He remained stoic during the reading of an angry statement from the family. It is disgusting that he lost his life. Henry smith was sentenced to three life terms in prison for capoots murder and the bank robbery he just committed. The deputy d. A. Said smith went to Great Lengths to plan the robbery that ended with the jet
Well bring you updates throughout this newscast and twitter. Stay tuned and plugged in with us online. Good afternoon. Im dan ashley. Thunderstorms and a much needed soaking for the bay area. Even in rain gear people were running for cover trying to avoid the downpours. But take a look at this live picture. A very different scene there right now. Residents in marin heard the roar of thunder this morning. Abc 7 news viewer ron miller captured this view from the back of his home in san rafael. And a sea of umbrellas this morning. The wet weather turned the commute really into a very soggy one. In concord very dark skies kept things in the east bay. This is after some of the heaviest rain moved through. Live Team Coverage beginning with meteorologist sandhya patel. Great to see. Yeah, it is great to see. As we take a look at live doppler hd, a nice wakeup call with the thunderstorms and heavy downpours. Right now ill take you in closer on live doppler 7 hd. Cell thats really heading towar
Presently we have light three showers will be isolated. If you look at the satellite image youll see were dealing with all the rage or the receipt is moving out to the east for the ride to the late paul area. That will give us about that 20 percent chance. A lot of its up to the coast and south bay. The next few days will be clear. It will be in the 60s. There is a chance of rain showers ill explain that later. Catherine new at 11. Its a photo. Thats almost impossible to capture. Lightning. Striking the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge this morning. With hundreds of lightning stikes lighting up the bay area. During this mornings downpour. One photographer was able to capture the fascinating moment. Catherine in san mateo, a woman escaped injury when a hundredfoot tall redwood tree exploded around her after being hit by lightning. It happened early this morning. There were hundreds of splinters and chunks of the tree scattered across simone nguyens backyard here on brandywine road,
He did shoot there is a concern of of where people will be saved. There are certain roadblocks. We will continue with developing details of this corporate we will continue to update and a host of days of facebook and twitter, as well as within www. Kron4. Com within catherine thought catherine heavy rain sweeps through the bay area. It made for an ugly commute along some freeways this morning. Catherine this was the scene earlier today in San Francisco. Kron 4s diane tuazon has been tracking the forecast. Catherine diane. Will we see more rain . Diane it was a nice change. And no, it is not over with. With the answer that a lot of hours we will start clearing the thunderstorms. But we do have chilly weather and over that weather. However, it will be dried tomato. It will be dried tomato puree benthamtomorrow diane pushing its way into approaching and the north bay region. Here is what we are looking at. Los showers. Isolated through out the rest of the morning. Storm trecker for showin