Public safety radio dispatch. This will give you an idea of the rush to reach those men in the avalanche. Alpine meadows avalanche. Ski patrol requesting two ground ambulances, two confirmed patients, avalanche. Reporter thats the kind of radio call nobody wants to hear. Crews scoured the area and found in other victims. They wrapped up about 90 minutes after the avalanche. The cause is under investigation. A an a level avalanche area. It records the largest number of avalanches of any ski resort in the united states. You may remember in 1982 seven people were killed. Something like 15 inches of new snow. They have received 25 inches in the last 24 hours. The ski resort issued a Statement Today extending sympathies to the families and the friends of their victims. Theres much more going on here. Were going to get to it and well have more for you later. Live at alpine meadows. Thank you very much. In the past 15 minutes we received a statement and photo from cole comstocks wife. She said cole was kind hearted and loved skiing. If there was one thing about his life to take away, remember to always be kind to one another and celebrate each others victories, not because you need something, but because it is the right thing to do. Here is a look at t sno conditions. Spencer christian is here with a look at the snowfall totals and conditions up there tonight. The weather is calm right now, but theres a lot of snow on the ground. Lets look at the totals. These were measured in a 24 hour period. 26 inches at tahoe. Several locations received more than two feet of snow in 24 hours. North star, 22 inches. Tahoe 20 inches of snow. The weather is calm there now. So is ours. Ill show you how long it will remain that way in my forecast later. Thank you so much. A minister has been arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot members of his former church. He spoke to abc 7 news about it. He sent a series of letters warning of an attack this sunday. We spoke to the pastor and were live with the exclusive interview. Reporter what a troubling story. This is the church whose members were threatened with gun violence this sunday in a series of hand written notes that were delivered over a 12day period, the most recent received yesterday. The suspect is a former minister here. He admits to me that he did send those notes, but during the course of an interview he had lapses of memory about what he did and why. Sheriffs deputies were armed to arrest the minister. He is accused of sending letters threateni threatening violence. Did you do that . Yeah. Why did you do that . It was personal. Reporter we interviewed the reverend. The retired pastor is accused of threatening gun violence agains he was seen on Surveillance Footage from the church delivering them and since he was a former member he was identified by members of the chur church. Reporter he said he was upset at the pastor. He wasnt supportive of us when my wife had going through that period of time. Reporter he said his wife of 47 years died about two years ago. They lived here for decades. While the reverend sent the letters, he seemed to have lapses in memory during follow up questions. Did i make threats . Yeah. Reporter what were those threats that you were claiming you would well, reporter do you remember . Do i remember . Reporter what threat you made in those letters . No. Reporter given the nature of his arrest, neighbors didnt want to do interviews. This is a man facing possible felony charges. Neighbors did wonder if he has a medical issue. I heard you had a fall off a ladder. Right. Reporter has that caused any thinking problems . It might. Were just in the were just in the process of now checking that out. Reporter although hes retired, the reverend has been serving as the minister at another church. The bishop told us that theyre shocked and saddened about this arrest. Theyre at a loss to understand why anyone would attempt to do such a disruptive act. Abc 7 news. Okay. Thank you. Tonight a 1yearold girl is back with her family after police say her father kidnapped her this morning. We were live on the air as the child was carried out by her maternal grandmother. This is the video youre watching. Investigators say the suspect kidnapped his daughter from his estranged girlfriend at a nearby hotel about 5 00 this morning. He ran from the scene and ended up at a friends up the road which led to an hours long standoff. Police chief tells us the grandmother played a huge role in helping with the negotiations. This is why you become a police officer, to do these kinds of things where you bring safety to a community and help rescue a child. It worked out perfectly. Our officers did a wonderful job. Family members say the babys mother is at a Trauma Center where she is undergoing surgery for her injuries. The suspect has been taken into custody on charges related to kidnapping and domestic violence. The child is okay. A San FranciscoInternational Airport is one of three airports in the country doing additional passenger screenings in the name of public health. The other two airports in new york and los angeles. The screenings target passengers arriving from a specific location. We are live at sfo to explain. Reporter good evening. About 15,000 to 20,000 passengers arrive on International Flights every day. Only a small number come from the city. I did speak with passengers from beijing. They said they did have temperatures checked before boarding flights, but sfo will start screening passengers tomorrow when the first direct flight comes in. Starting saturday passengers arriving from china may face extra screening, especially those on direct flights from the city. Were applying all the measures that are necessary. Reporter the spokesperson says upon arrival passengers from the city will be sent to a special screening area and interviewed and check by officials. Anyone with symptoms of the virus will be sent to local hospitals. Were talking about a maximum of about 175 people that would be involved in this and theyre really going to be diverted into a separate area from anyone else. Were not expecting this to affect the overall arrival activity at sfo. Reporter it may not impact other travelers, but the outbreak is raising concerns for passengers. Concerned about it, sure. Reporter this man flew in from south ckorea. Hes worried about the virus spreading. China is not that transparent. Theyre not dealing with those kind of things. They try to hide it. Reporter this woman is not concerned. She remembers the outbreak from a few years ago. She says her government is capable of containing the spread. I think our doctor is very great assessing several years ago. Reporter the cdc says they have been in touch with chinese officials to see what precautions theyre taking before letting passengers board flights on the way to the u. S. The cdc says if the situation worsens, they will expand the number of u. S. Airports that are conducting screenings. Reporting live, abc 7 news. Thank you. Following a historic week in washington, d. C. With impeachment proceedings, nancy pelosi is back in the bay area. People say you should have done it sooner and people say why didnt you hold it later . We think we timed it exaly just right. Her thoughts on the impeachment and what she hopes will happen during the trial of the president. A Major Development in a 7 on your side investigation. Ahead, an 11 count felony indictment is filed in a suspected contractor fraud case. A car gets broken into and stuff is stolen. 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A backpack that contained a wallet filled with gift cards, an iphone and most disturbingly to her a folder of papers for refinancing her mortgage. There was just glass everywhere. Because i was shaking. Reporter that same night the uptown downtown benefit found her backpack behind a bush. Whoever probably broke in they grabbed what they want and then they just toss or hide it. If a tragedy strikes, we try and lessen that just by providing the service. Reporter the next day after online detective work the victim was reunited with her backpack and paperwork. He says here you go. And i tried to hand him money. I wanted he said no, no, no. He goes, you know, i cant accept that. So i jumped out of the car. I was just filled with emotion and gratitude a and i held his i said thank you, thank you so much. Reporter the ambassadors do far more than just recover stolen property using social media. They do cleanups. They plant landscaping along an 82 square block area. We have 30 full time ambassadors out there. Yeah, working seven days a week almost 24 hours a day in different shifts. Reporter your organization builds a better oakland. Absolutely. I think theyre underrecognized. I think there are really good people like uptown downtown oakland and we dont speak about them enough. Reporter they are supported by property taxes to fill in the gaps. Abc 7 news. We mentioned this started with a tip from a viewer. Here is how you can do that. Go to abc 7 news. Com and click on one of the stories that you see. Then you can scroll down and youll find a form that makes it easy to send your name, contact information, story idea and pictures. You can contact us through facebook. We have a better bay area group. Oaklands helping fund the Homeless Housing plan. The companies are donating money to create housing and offer Preventative Health care to the growing number of Homeless People in california. A statewide tour to combat the homeless crisis. They have teamed up with Bay Area CommunityServices Group to house more than 500 homeless adults battling Chronic Health conditions. So the weekend is upon us. Theres a big game this weekend. There is a big game on sunday. What will the weather be like . Spencer is tracking that for us. Ive heard about that game, but im happy to say we have a couple of dry days coming our way. At the moment we have dry conditions. A few high clouds around the bay area. This is the view from the 52era. Frcisco right now. San jose getting chilly there. 58 in bay 46. High clouds and bright skies. 48 degrees in santa rosa. Only low to mid 40s in napa, concord and livermore. Inland areas are beginning to cool down. This is our view from the rooftop. It will be chilly in the inland val leys tonight with patchy fo. Remaining dry through the weekend. Rain returns early next week, but not soon enough to mess up the game on sunday. Snow pack statewide is at 80 of average. Thats a good number. Its below average, but its close. 78 of average in the central sierra. Were doing pretty well. Thanks to a large blanket of snow that fell in the last 24 hours. Starting at 7 00 this evening shows high clouds sweeping through. That will be the pattern overnight and tomorrow. The day will begin with bright skies, filtered sunshine and high clouds continuing to pass through. We may have an increase in clouds on sunday, but rain is not expected. Overnight tonight with the Public Safety rad passage of high clouds and fog and low temperatures will drop into the mid 30s in many inland ohecost. Tomollav high to about temperatures and a pretty cool range. Only about 55 degrees in most locations. A little milder up at santa rosa where it will go up to 58 degrees and down south in san jose where the temperature will rise to about 58 degrees. Lets talk about weather conditions for the game at levi stadium sunday afternoon. Game time is 3 40. Well have partly cloudy skies and of about 61 degrees and the temperature wont drop very much during the three hours or more that the game lasts down to about the mid 50s. Comfortable football weather. Here is the seven day forecast. A dry weekend and a dry start to the week, but clouds will increase on monday and a chance of late night rain ahead of a storm coming in for tuesday. That storm ranks one on the storm impact scale, but its going to be a rainy breezy event. On wednesday sunny skies and thursday. Its mild thursday and friday. High temperatures in the low 60s inland out to about 60 degrees on the bay and mid 50s on the coast. We have nice weather coming our way. Great weather for the game on sunday. Good to hear. Four years of college, five years of tuition increases. Uc schools could be stocks closed higher again today ending the week with new record highs. Added more than 50 points. Nasdaq was up 31. Googles Parent Company is the newest member of the trillion dollar club. Became the fourth u. S. Company ever to be worth 1 trillion or more. They join as the only American Companies to hit that mark. The votuniversity of califoa is proposing five years of annual tuition increases. The cost of the increase depends on two plans being considered. One plan will raise the fee for all students by the cost of inflation each year, the second plan would raise tuition for each incoming class, but keep the costs flat for four years. The plan will be considered on wednesday. The democrats running for president are starting to show up in the bay area. Let me be clear. I am running to defeat donald trump. We were with Michael Bloomberg in oakland. What hes telling supporters. The American People deserve the truth. Nancy pelosi appears in s fro forhe First Time Since signing the articles of impeachment. Her thoughts as the s i appreciate what makes each person unique. Thats why i like liberty mutual. They get that no two people are alike and customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Almost done. What do you think . Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Were going to get back to that breaking news, the hit and run in oakland that left a woman dead. What are you hearing . Reporter were hearing that the coroner has just arrived on the scene. You see all the flashing lights out there. Thats about where it happened at 98th avenue and cherry street. This afternoon this victim was struck by a white nissan vehicle. The driver of that vehicle left the scene. What we have seen is some shocked people here in the neighborhood and additional investigators from the Oakland Police department arriving on the scene to try to figure out what happened. They have not identified the victim to us yet. They are trying to figure out what happened to the perpetrator, why they left, where they may be at this point and the circumstances of the accident. As you said, there is one fatality here, an adult female. No connection to the middle school, which is right here right next to the collision scene. These are aerials from a little bit earlier today. We saw all the police activity. Again, there are lots of Police Officers out here. The street is blocked at birch. You have to go around at this point. You see all those lights back there. Were told an ambulance was brought to the scene, but the victim was not able to be saved. So a lot of Police Presence out here. Theyre asking for any help you can give them in identifying w may be responsible for this. You can call Oakland Police. Live abc 7 news. Thank you for that update. Moving on, the District Attorneys Office today announced an arrest warrant for a contractor accused of bilking three residents out of thousands of dollars. We broke this story in july. We have an update. Michael. The contractor state license board called for action to be taken against the contractor of il global back in july. Further investigation by the District Attorney led to the filing this week of an 11 count criminal indictment. He opens the garage door installed more than a year after the scheduled completion date by il global. The family says it was only installed after he paid nearly 20,000. Thats 9,000 more than what was called for in the original contract that also included a roofing job. The contractor faces 11 felony counts, including theft and embezelment and grand theft of personal property and diverting Construction Funds for continue money and my stepdad felt pressure to give him more money. Reporter she says the experience has caused undue stress on her father. He would call every morning and ask him for money and he would promise that he was going to do the work that he promised to do. Reporter he hopes the contractor gets what he deserves. He also kicks himself for paying out all that money. I dont know. I wasnt thinking. That was partly my fault too. Reporter the indictment, which names two other victims, also accused the contractor did wrongfully divert funds to use other than for which the funds were received. The whereabout of the contractor is unknown, but in july he denied any overpayments were made and said he fulfilled the contract. The d. A. Has issued a sarst. He is thankful we put his story on television. It was a great help. It took some pressure off of me and they did a wonderful job. Special thanks to the d. A. s office. Everybody who helped bring justice for our family. Reporter we will continue to follow this story and well update you with any new developments. Thank you. Nancy pelosi is back home in San Francisco and today she spoke in detail about the effort to impeach President Trump. I would hope that the oath that the senators took yesterday to participate in a fair trial would insist that there be eye witnesses and documentation, which is very important. Speaking at a joint e