39yearold engineer made the decision to resign from google no later that december 2017 and quit in 2016 with no notice shortly after he signed a term sheet with uber. Let me be very clear, not a single one of these supposedly secret files ever went to uber or any other company or person. Anthony levandowski is innocent of these charges. He never stole or attempted to steal anything. Period. The government has it dead wrong. Reporter levandowski appeared stow nick a dark suit throughout the hearing. However our court artist noted he apare peered emotional towards the end. Prosecutors said he was flight risk because of considerable wealth, asking to next week to set the full conditions t get ea of the wealth. Defense arguing he has ties to the bay area, including young children, chris reyes abc7 news. Waymo said we have always believed competition should be fuelled by innovation. Uber spokesperson said we cooperated with the government throughout the investigation and will continue to do so. And pronto, just founded last year, said the criminal charges filed against anthony relate to lidar and dont in any way volve prontos groundbreaking technology. Of course were fully supportive of anthony and his family. Levandowski has a storied reputation in Silicon Valley. Labeled as serial entrepreneur. Cal grad, went to work for google in 2007, year later, Side Business called anthonys robots. Goal of selfdriving prius. Left google in january of 2016 to start otto, selfdriving kits to retrofit big rigs. Uber acquired them eight months later for nearly 700 million, then levandowski was fired by uber in 2017. Launched pronto ai for semi trucks. Our coverage coinues. 5 00, iteams dan noyes has been digging into the background. And then the problem of corporate theft in Silicon Valley. Protesters from Rideshare Companies uber and lyft protested outside headquarters, get the company not impede plans to unionize. Hundreds caravanned today to raise awareness of the pro union bill under consideration at the state senate. Anser hassan with the latest. Reporter drivers on the 500 mile pilgrimage to the state capital. Started in l. A. , today in bay area, oakland right now. State Assembly Bill 5 reclassifying them from independent contractors to employees. And possibly mean more benefits and more bay. Uber, uber, youre no good. Im picking up seven people for six cents a mile. Reporter 63yearold debra garcia drives fulltime for uber. Working conditions need to change. California law supposed to be paying us minimum wage or 52 cents a mile. Not getting that. Reporter among the drivers and protesters rallying in San Francisco. Supporting state Assembly Bill 5, small change with big impact on the gig economy. Right now classified as independent contractors. Made employees as ab 5 seeks to do, drivers would be given benefits and labor rights. Unemployment insurance, health care, overtime pay and guaranteed minimum hourly wage. Has the support of president ial candidate pete buttigieg, on hand as well. Where i come from, gig is another word for a job. Working a gig, youre a worker, you ought to be protected as worker. Reporter chair of the labor center says its strong case. Platforms set the terms, cost to ride and amount paid to drivers, should be classified as employees. Under any test difficult to argue theyre not employees and shouldnt have access to those rights we give employees. Reporter uber and lyft both declined on camera interviews, both issued statements, saying working with lawmakers and labor groups to get some of the things demand, including representation. Anser hassan. Hank you. Chp activity that shut down part of the freeway. West wnd 580 at intersection with oakland. Leslie is following it. Reporter finally got word of what happened. Mess on westbound 580 for a while. Started when a chp officer in dublin got a bulletin from stockton to be on the lookout for a silver chevy impala driving recklessly. Tried to make a traffic stop on that car, driver took off on westbound 580, two officer unit out of Castro Valley joined the pursuit. Driver tried to pass east bay transit vehicle driving between the bus and concrete wall and got stuck. Chp unit tried to go in front to block him in with push bumpers and the suspect began ramming the occupied chp car and transit bus to escape. One officer fired at least one shot, no one injured. Westbound 580 was closed for four hours and drivers were a bit confused. And they just motioned me saying can i make a uturn here . Reporter chap called in Investigative Service unit and drone was dispatched to investigate the scene. That woman you saw somehow made it across the barricade, all of traffic was supposed to get diverted on to 24 and 980 for four hours, causing serious delays. Reopened 580 at 3 00 after the chevy was finally towed and said in the release that the suspect appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance. Chp is asking for the publics help. If you have any information or witnessed anything about the Police Pursuit or what happened on 580, would love to hear from you. Reporting live, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. Thank you. San jose Police Officer is recovering after a driver bit him, then dragged the officer with his car. You can see on this map where it happened. West alma and stopped what they call suspicious vehicle and drove away and dragged him. Officer has released from the hospital. Another bold crime caught on camera in San Franciscos chinatown, this as many residents and merchants feel theyre vulnerable targets. Story youll see only on abc7. Reporter happened middle of the day at 1 30, busy stockton street in the heart of chinatown, a brazen car burglary. Rental was parked outside the travel agency owned by ed su. Yelled out to stop. They didnt. Took pictures, called the police. Reporter some of the photos, two men in hoodies taking luggage, electronics and passports belonging to four tourists from Southeast Asia who stopped in chinatown for lunch, parked their car, broke two windows, got the loot and left. He saw it all go down. Really fast, 15 to 30 seconds. Thats it. Reporter chinatown merchants and residents still reeling from vicious attack in midjuly on two community leaders, also on stockton street. Since then banded together to monitor crime in the community. 259 merchandise people, be careful, robbery over there. Reporter Police Believe this group committed other burglaries across the city. Double parking care next to the victims seems to mean new m. O. And theyre getting bolder. Vic lee, abc7 news. Someone is in trouble after side swiping the mayors official car and taking off. Parked in japantown, mayor is out of town, supervisor was usg it in role as acting mayor. Tongue in cheek response. Shes not going to let me use it anymore, is she . Back to bicycle for me. Have to wait until comes home. Oy. Drivers side mirror has to be replaced. No word on the driver. Corporate theft, dig deeper in wake of todays criminal charges against a former Google Engineer. Inside chase, back inside the new chase center and hear from the warriors owner. Project runway, work at sfo. Weather is as we told you a few minutes ago, former Google EngineerAnthony Levandowski is facing federal charnels, accused of stealing secrets and taking to new employer uber. Here to talk about that development, its one thing, Corporate Giants battling out over intellectual property. Different deal with feds involved with criminal charges. Absolutely right and also unusual bringing it against a single senior executive. Seen Companies Battle each other, File Lawsuits all the time when one executive moves to another company, especially in tech, trying to get competitive advantage can be slim thing and want to get ahead. But youre right, criminal charges, 33 against a top executive, thats unusual. What message does this send to others in Silicon Valley . People are changing companies constantly. Right. Attorneys for the u. S. Government and fbi said today that people do move, go across companies. But they also need to adhere to the law. This comes at time when theres a lot of uncertainty, little bit of fear even of the tech industry. How important its become to the economy, people a little bit concerned about how some companies do business. Government taking a closer look at tech and scrutiny is to be expected. One of the things i find interesting here is google and uber settled their case, wrapped it all up. Now you have a matter that whats closed thats very hope now with the federal government taking an interest. Youre right. I dont know if a lot of people know what this is all about, but he was a Google Engineer, led their selfdriving car efforts which have turned into waymo, name of the group at google. Left the company, took a group of engineers with him, started another selfdriving truck company, uber bought it for 700 million, then a year later were sued by google over this theft of Corporate Information and it really just shows how high stakes we are in the tech industry. Shows the government taking closer scrutiny of tech, also shows that cavalir attitude about i work here, can go someplace else, you walk out the door with 14,000 files, Company Knows what youre walking out with, might give people pause before they make the jump. Uber and google, u. S. Based companies but corporate espionage is international problem. Do you think were likely to see more prosecutions like this inside the u. S. . What about outside the u. S. . Technology is such an important part of the u. S. And global economy, talking about companies with tremendous power and also have important market might, basically directing our future. I think the level of scrutiny across the board, how they do business, who is doing business with them. Who is working for them, all is going to get higher scrutiny, thats the trend last two years as more governments have got involved regulating and taxing the big tech giants. Youve been following this since steve jobs and palm were trying to come to agreement many years ago. Problem that existed and will continue to exist but this is a new wrinkle for sure. Definitely. And speaks to how high stakes this is. Selfdriving technology is one of the big techs of the future. Its not going away. Fact you have google and uber battling over it, and case settled last year after four days, didnt see full trial, settled pretty quickly. Shows you how important the technologies are. One of many technologies underpinning our future. A lot at stake. As i mentioned. Connie has been covering this a long time. Follow her at cnet for the best reporting in tech. Connie, thank you for your time. Youre welcome. Get over to the weather. Spencer, today could be the worst day of the week because of the mugginess . Not as warm as yesterday, but humidity is elevated. Feels sticky. Live doppler 7. High clouds passing over. Subtropical moisture in the area, low clouds and fog on the coastline, but temperature change, most locations are several degrees cooler than this hour yesterday. Sutro tower camera, looking over San Francisco. High clouds. 69 in the city, 75 in oakland. Redwood city 79. 85 in san jose, 95 in gilroy and 63 at half moon bay. Looking gloomy at golden gate now. North bay, 79 in santa rosa, 97 at fairfield, 94 at concord and livermore. Mt. Tam into the bay, forecast features. Areas of fog continuing to develop overnight, muggy tomorrow morning. Humid into the afternoon tomorrow, warm inland. Cooler and breezier developing thursday and friday. Forecast animation taking through the overnight hours. More fog along the coastline, more clouds lingering mugginess into the afternoon tomorrow, probably start to get more comfortable after that. Overnight lows tonight in the low 60s near the bay, mid60s in and mid to upper 60s in inland locations. Mild and normal and more humid, going to feel muggy. Heres guy. Remnants of Tropical Stormvo flowing up into the area, mugginess will linger into midday tomorrow. High temperatures, mid and upper 60s at coast, to low 80s around the bay shoreline. Tropical atlantic, dorian is moving just west of dominica, headed on a track that will probably take it over puerto rico, weaken because of the higher terrain, still Tropical Storm, reintensify and expected to make landfall sunday morning, easterm coast of florida, Daytona Beach and melbourne. Accuweather sevenday forecast. High temperatures on thursday, upper 80s, cooler and breezier as well. Same pattern holds on friday. Then slightly warmer on saturday by a couple of degrees and more seasonal, wide range of highs will prevail sunday and monday. Mid90s inland, 80s around the bay. Cooldown coming. Humidity go away by end of week. Feel nicer. Love it. Just days away from the opening of the new chase center, i sit but in my mind im still 25. Thats why i take osteo biflex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. It nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. Osteo biflex now in triple strength plus magnesium. We switched our detergent to one thats clean. And if you make the switch youll see what we mean. Tide purclean, because its made with plants. Tide purclean, gets stains out his pants. Tide purclean, it has nothing to hide. Its made with plants and has the cleaning strength of tide. The first plantbased detergent with the cleaning power of tide. New home of the warriors only a few days away from opening. First event at chase center will be friday, september 6th, concert by metallica and the San Francisco symphony. Sat down with owner, seen his distant dream become a reality. Feel amazed, every time i walk into the building, see something new, i think we did it. Want to see what the people say, theyre the ultimate judge, but i think we did it. I feel incredibly proud of it. When you walked in this morning, its not totally, totally finished, chase center, but what was your First Impression . I saw it, thought i have to talk to him . Oh, no, not look the arena is unbelievable. Been here, walked around the business offices. Outside of it, community, anchoring, ilike most excited to walk in and watch the team. Everybody has their own tv in the locker room which is cool. They have manicure and pedicure station for people. Probably craze crest thing i heard of having in the locker room. I want to get hands fixed. Show to the camera. Look good now, in couple of weeks, going to be shiny. I come in here, dont want to leave, find reasons not to go home. Hard to believe its real and wont entirely until the first concert, first basketball game. I think then i will perhaps think wow, this is it. No more bay bridge. There you go. I get that bridge every single day, bud. Makes me feel better youre on that commute. Why had to do it. Like he gives you grief. Bob meyers and i have a strange and wonderful relationship. Hes strange, im wonderful. How do we get the manipedis here . Ill have to take you to the arena. First warriors game, preseason against the lakers october 5th. Looking forward to it. Looks cool. Unbelievable. Jeremy lin is heading overseas to play hoops. Chinese media reports a deal with the beijing ducks. Free agent in the nba after winning title with the toronto raptors. Started with the warriors, few weeks with the knicks when linsanity took over the nba. Now going to china. Ways to tell if drivers are impaired by alcohol but now Bay Area Company says figured out how to tell if impaired by cannabis. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. News to build a build a better bay area, from abc7. Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband were back in the court in the latest twist in the College Admissions scandal. There to settle a dispute over choice of lawyers. Romina is live in newsroom. Could be facing years in jail each. Accused of paying half a Million Dollars in bribes to get daughters into usc. Lori loughlin and massimo appearing before the judge choosing to be represented by same law firm for trial. Asking court to waive right to separate counsel so they cant claim later didnt get fair trial. Two of 50 people involved in Largest College admission scandal in history. Pleaded guilty, including felicity huffman, recommending four months behind bars. Loughlin and gee newely declining the deal. Source says loughlin is obsessing over every detail of the team and in constant communication with the legal team. Says this legal strategy is good. They have to believe both people are lying. Smart strategy. But going to trial also a big risk. Evidence here, emails, things on wire tap, other people that will testify against them. Looking at 20 years in prison each. Loughlin is going in prepared. Share some lawyers but separate lawyers on the individual teams. Abc7 los angeles. More than a dozen women who claimed to be sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein spoke. Judge wanted to give them chance to speak because epstein killed himself awaiting trial. Hearing other victims is, similar stories to what i have endured. Thank the judge for letting us speak, having some closure. Judge berman did not issue a ruling today on prosecutors request to drop the charges. Investigators will continue to investigate possible accessories involved in the alleged sex trafficking investigation. We want to make the bay area better place to live. Since cannabis was legalized, arrests and injuries from Drivers Behind the wheel stoned have increased. Dion lim tells us about one Bay Area Company that can narrow down when somebody is too stoned to drive. Reporter dui checkpoints