The attorney about the route the driver was taking. He stopped the car, kicked everyone out but not before grabbing a hammer and hitting one of the passengers in the head. That person was sent to the hospital with critical injuries. He was arraigned today on battery and several other charges. He has no criminal background but gascon very upset about this. He sent a letter requesting information primarily about how they do their background checks on their drivers. They have until monday to respond to that. We will be hearing a lot more about this coming up tonight at 6 00 and 11 00 p. M. On abc 7 news. Cornell bernard, abc 7 news. Well, now to a day long hassle for commuters. Golden gate ferry captains walk off the job for the first time ever, surprising and stranding passengers trying to get to work. Thought i would treat myself and take the ferry this morning. I came here and the boats are shut down. I got to get on my bike and ride to work. Now all these folks are headed home, many o
Im michelle griego. The lucky winner of yesterdays 228 million Powerball Jack put has come forward to claim his prize. Kpix 5s mark sayre live in san mateo where the Winning Ticket was purchased at a store behind you. Reporter we know the name of the man who won the 228 million Powerball Jackpot and where it was bought. But this man is not going to come forward publicly. California lottery officials identify the winner as vinh nguyen, the lottery did not provide a hometown for mr. Nguyen. He works as a nail technician and was a loyal lottery player. Now, there is a salon just a few doors down from the market. But employees there claim not to know the winner. Employees of the key market where the Winning Ticket was sold say selling a multi Million Dollar Lottery Ticket has employees and customers talking. We are the lucky ones now. Maybe this is it for us. Spirits are up. Theres a buzz about the store and the neighborhood. Its really neat. Reporter mr. Nguyen randomly picked the winning
Sameshipping center say he worked across the street at nails resort. It is only a few blocks or a few doors down. It is closed today although the sign says it is supposed to on at 9 00 a. M. Lottery officials confirm that he does work as a nail technician and claimed the prize last night at District Office in hayward. He told workers he did not believe he when even after he read the numbers. He has been playing the lottery for five years and wednesday united he bought 15 powerball tickets and picked his own numbers. A store clerk i talked to said he did not recognize the name but was probably recognize the face. It is great. Great for the neighbor. It is a blue collar neighborhood and people around here work really hard. It is good to see it hit so close to home. He will get the full 228. 4 million jackpot paid out over 30erias. The store gets 1 million and the managers plan to put some of the money back into their business and milk some improvements to the building. Nguyen says he doe
Least check, but you can take a look at the board here where theres a mixture of cancelled and on time and just a few delays. Travelers we spoke with taking everything in stride. We have a toddler, two cats in tow, we have one in the oven, and a dog on another airline. Reporter they are moving today from dublin to virginia with a stop at chicagos ohare airport, but their journey may have to overcome one more hurdle, more than 1,300 flights cancelled at ohare and midway airports after a report of a fire in a basement of a chicago area air Traffic Control center. The fire was put out, but police found a 50yearold man with whats called a nongun related self inflicted wound. The fire appears to be ignited by that contract employee, a local issue, not a terrorist threat. The scene is being worked, trying to gather all the evidence, interview all the people, collect all the information so we know whats going on. Reporter the impact to bay area airports could be seen early on with cancellatio
During the same time rain and thunder moved through sebastopol and other spots. Kron 4s dan rubin is tracking the weather. Dan what can we expect this weekend . We will see partly cloudy skies cooler temperatures, but not a whole lot of rain. Knapp reporting just over one half in inch of rain close to threequarters. A lot of heavy rain and the north bay, with lightning and hail. Theyre very unsafe roadways in driving conditions. One viewer snapped a photograph of a double rainbow and lightning in the sky. In the hours of the evening. Continuing our Team Coverage on the wild weather. Lightning also struck a chimney of a napa house. The residents inside are bit shaken tonight, but are okay. Kron 4s jeff bush shows us some people captured today. The storm was literally hair raising. It had every kind of weather you could imagine. I was planning game of chess with my girlfriend and all the sudden i heard a huge noise. What was it like . I saw sparks flying and with the shaking of my house