Witnesses say he was easy to spot. Vic lee is live with the story. Vic . Reporter well, dan, the preliminary hearing is expected to last two days, possibly three. It started this morning here at the all of justice. The prosecution is trying to make a case to the judge that Francisco Lopez sanchez ought to be tried for murder. The judge allowed cameras in court from the back. But just like his july Court Appearances sanchez looked thinner than when arraigned on murder charges. Three San FranciscoPolice Sargeants testified today. Maria loreno was staying at the griffin hotel. Her room looked out on pier 14. She heard a gunshot and a man dressed in black walking away from the pier, suspicious because everyone else was running towards the shooting. She took a photo of him and later identified sanchez when Police Arrested him that evening. But the important witness may have been the person, who in the words of another investigator said she heard a loud bang, and turned around, she saw an object land off the pier into the water with a big plunk. She led police to the area. Divers the next day found the gun in the waters. A third testified he interviewed sanchez and told sanchez five witnesses saw him, they had the gun, and gunshot residue but admitted today, i lied to him, it was a bluff. It worked, because sanchez confessed like he did in this interview that weekend. Did you shoot kate steinle . The lady down on pier 14 . Yes. Tomorrow, more testimony and cross examination from sanchezs lawyers. A tourist was shot in San Francisco during a robbery today ablock away from a pop rar spot from tourists. The 30yearold was near the crooked part of lombard street. The two men took off in a car. Police chased them across the bay bridge into oakland. The car crashed on 60th street. Police arrested one man. Another ran off and reportedly tried to grab a 6yearold boy. Here is the boys mother. I was talking to someone earlier. It actually happened. Were leaving tomorrow, thank god. A second suspect was arrested after a threehour, door to door church at San Francisco general hospital. They say the tourist may not need to be admitted. The oakland man accused of killing Hayward PoliceSergeant Scott lunger will be back in court next month. Mark estrada was in the courtroom this morning. Sergeant lunger was shot and killed during a traffic stop. The courtroom was packed with Hayward Police officers as well as lungers family and estradas family. Estradas new attorney spoke after the hearing. By all counts, hes a nice young man. And everyone who knows him, his family just, its a mystery as to how he is in the position hes in now. Estrada is back in court october 9th when he can enter a plea. Three years of Court Battles are over in san jose tonight. The City Council Approved an agreement with the police and fire unions over pay and pension benefits. As abc7 news explains it could help boost the police force by several hundred cops. The city of san jose shelled out 4 million in bills since voters passed measure b three years ago. The cuts led to hundreds of officers quitting or transferring to higher paying jobs in other cities and police, and fire unions fought back. Were looking to do everything we can to save taxpayers from paying those costs. Today, a new agreement was approved by the city council. Giving officers an 8 pay hike for a 5 Retention Bonus for current, and returning officers. For a department from 1400 to 951 officers, the deal couldnt tie experience to come back. Now, youre going to get a competitive retirement package and weve gotten a great start on competitive wages. Its going to be a tremendous shot in the arm. The mayor admits the agreement isnt bulletproof because it was approved by 70 of voters, a taxpayer could challenge the deal. Former mayor chuck reid was the hard liner before pension reform. San jose faced years of deficit budgets. Does he agree with this compromise . We reached him, on vacation, by phone. Most people will see its a pragmatic settlement, a reasonably good solution. It saves the city a lot of money and protects savings, it keeps the city on a sustainable path. The deal is expected to save taxpayers 1. 7 billion over the next 30 years. David louie, abc7 news. San Francisco Police are looking for this man responsible for a large cash grab in the fillmore neighborhood. Security shows the robber grabbing the money at 7 00 at night on august 13th. San Francisco Police ask you to call if you recognize this man on your screen. Police in san ramone announced arrest of three people in what they described as a larmscale Human Trafficking operation. Its a case theyve been investigating for 14 years. With the help of the fbi and d. A. Theyve taken james joseph junior and his common law wife in custody and charged them with trafficking victims, not only in the danville, san ramone area, but cleveland, miami and new york as well. Tonight a part time soft ball coach has been charged with abusing a 12yearold boy. A crime allegedly occurred more than a decade ago. The suspect, ortiz remains in custody. Seven weeks later on 500,000 bail. He has pleaded not guilty to two dozen felony charges involving a victim now 28 years old. He is also accused of molesting an under aged girl a few years ago. Debate over the immigration policies is sparking outrage among latino and asian groups including those in the bay area, anyone born in the country is ought know matticly a citizen even if the parents are undocumented. The term used to describe that birth right many consider derogatory. Reporter the term is anchor babies, and its fuelled the g. O. P. Debate over immigration in recent days. Now, there is an outcry over jeb bush trying to explain his use of the phrase. He may have made more political enemies than friends. Donald trump used the term anchor baby, talking about latino children, born in the u. S. To parents who are here el illegally hoping to gain a foot hold in america. Frankly its more related to asian people. Reporter south bay congressman mike honda is among those condemning him. That is a slur. Do you have a better term . How about naturalborn citizen . U. S. Citizen, you know . That is what they are. Reporter social media is buzzing. A bay area resident tweeted using the hash tag my Asian American story, anchor baby, not. All of a sudden, its become derogatory. That is news to us. Reporter San Francisco immigration consultant and jeb bush supporter believes the term is appropriate to describe so called maternity tourism. This year, three Southern California cities were the site of a federal crack down in connection with a business that flies pregnant Chinese Women to america to give birth. They bring in people, up to 50,000 to have the baby here and leave so they can come back with the child is 21 years of age. Pay all children born here of different ethnic backgrounds, latino, asians, paint them with one brush is not right. Its not president ial. And its not really american. Reporter honda and other political observers think this controversy over immigration policies might awaken the so called sleeping giants, latino, and asian voters. In the newsroom, carolyn tyler, abc7 news. Thank you very much. Hes considered a possible saviour but some oakland sports fans looking for way to keep professional teams where they are. Floyd kephart presented his plans this morning. Abc7s Laura Anthony is hoping. He told us he is admitted to seeing this project through the built over next couple decades. He told us at this pace, its out of his hands. Im going to play this game towards the first of october. Reporter he says hes done his part, its up to government leaders and teams to keep the franchises in oakland. Its 5050 if it stays as it is now. It goes up to 70 or 80 chance of getting it done if there is an grement on what to do with the land between the city, and county. Reporter the plan includes 280,000 square feet of retail and separate facilities for the raiders, as and warriors. Each owned by their respective teams. Do you like what you hear . I like it a lot. Its empowering. Ity, and countys court. Now in two entities must negotiate with each other and the teams, individually, then figure out how to close the funding gap. We have proposed that much of that comes from a conduit bond supported by revenues from the stadium and from the commercial development that would take place within coliseum city. I would like to see a plan to save our sports franchises that does not involve the use of public money. Reporter city council larry reid says he wont see the plan until the next meeting on september 8th. In oakland, Laura Anthony, abc7 news. Still to come here tonight at 6 00, a reprieve for thousands of graduating seniors hoping to get into college this fall. You wont have to take the exit exam. A follow up to our story on the book club that got booted from a wine train. Why theyre not accepting an apology. A thief rides all day on a stolen clipper car. And the victim is told he has to pay. Im michael finney. Coming up on 7 on your side, we uncover a littlekn Governor Brown will give the green light to hand out diplomas to those graduates that could not take the july exit exam. The test was cancelled leaving about 5,000 students in limbo waiting to enter college. Were live with the impact this is going to have on those kids. Reporter knew this was coming after Governor Brown asked the ucs and california state universities not to require the exam for 2015. This at the 11th hour. Eric started at San FranciscoState University this week. He almost didnt. Just weeks ago, the university told him because he had not been given a high school diploma, theyd have to drop him. The only way to earn it was by taking the july exit exam. It was kind of like killing me. Killing my dreams. Reporter it was a snafu made by the California Department of education. During the summer, it ended a contract with the company that took the exams, therefore, those who needed the tests could not take them. The principal of San Francisco international high. Parents and graduates were left in limbo. There were panics from families saying oh, ive been uneven rolled from college. Reporter San Francisco unified protested and began handing out diplomas. The Legislature Took notice and decided no student would be turned away. There was a bill that would cancel the exam for thee years because its not in line with the new curriculum. Were working on Critical Thinking and reading and writing skills, language in content areas and it wasnt a good measure of that. Reporter parents who came from guatemala just three years ago says his family is proud of what he has achieved. Nothing can stop me now. Reporter he is the first in his family to go to college. More than 12,000 people signed an online petition demanding an apology on behalf of the east bay book club that got kicked off an apple wine train. The ceo says the wine train was wrong in the handling of the issue saying we accept full responsible for this regrettable treatment. But the leader of the book club rejected the apology and said no to a free ride for the club and a train car full of friends. The club, made up mostly of African American women was escorted after the train after passengers complain they had were too loud. Were less than two week as way from a shut down of the transbay tube. Today, there was a campaign to warn riders about the closure, the agency showed off thousands of pounds of new rails that would be installed. No trains will travel from friday, september 5th through monday, september 7th. There will be ferry service, more buses and Something Else new. Part of this is a first only bus on ramp from oakland into San Francisco to give buses a competitive advantage with traffic. Over the labor day weekend. We have a list on our website abc7news. Com. Passengers who pay in cash to get on san muni may see an important change. The Transit System is looking to modernize fare box thats would do away with paper transfers that sometimes allow more than the 90minute transfer window. Theyd printout tickets with the time the transfer expires. The Drivers Union would like to eliminate fare boxes and go to a cashless system. Apparently, summer is about to wind down. Its end of august already. I know. Under a month left of the summer season. Tomorrow, we get warm weather into fall. Right. And of course, i do tell the truth. You and george washington. Im more harolded than george washington. He could not lie. I could, but choose not to. Right. Across the bay area, low clouds near the coastline. But havent begun to push forcefully towards land. Here is the view of the sutro camera. Skies are mainly blue. Its 64 degrees here in San Francisco. San jose, 74. Here is the view at santa cruz beach. Its looking lovely there. Nice day, a nice evening for the beach. And blue skies above. We have current readings at 78 in santa rosa. Napa, 746789 fairfield, 86. 87 in concord and livermore. This is a lovely view looking towards embarcadero center. This warm pattern lasts two more days. Inland warmth begins to take off on friday. Partly cloudy, cooler for the weekend. It doesnt look like a chance of precipitation here in the bay area. We can see some subtropical moisture up into Southern California. Then, into southwestern u. S. That is associated with a circulation about a hot air mass centered over the southwest. Cool air mass to our northwest. Were in the comfort zone between the two air masses. Now, as the weekend approaches well see that cooler air mass moving into our direction. It will produce showers in northwestern california saturday morning but then, lifting and take showers with it by mid day saturday. So it does not appear at the moment that any of the showers will reach into the bay area. The Climate Prediction Center issued a 6 to 10 day outlook. And next week looks like cooler than average weather or cooler in general up in the pacific northwest. A warmer than average pattern for the northeast and much of the southeast. And things will be just mild throughout the nations mid section. On we go to low temperatures tonight, under clear skies inland. A little bit of low clouds, low clouds and fog at the coast. Well see low temperatures into upper 50s to around 60 degrees, then, tomorrow, mainly sunny skies and warm. Hot in the south bay. Highs in the mid80s but mid90s in morgan hill and gilroy. Upper 60s to low 70s on the coast. Downtown San Francisco, 72 degrees tomorrow, north bay, mid80s, well see mid70s to low 80s on the east bay. And inland east bay, quite warm, highs into low to mid90s. Here is the accuweather forecast. That warmth will last a couple more days and taper off by friday. Partly cloudy and the cooler pattern will carry us into next week. Coming up next, a heros return. One of the men who stopped a one of the men who stopped a terrorist attack get one of the men who stopped a terrorist attack get the buttery jack was a huge success. People went crazy for a burger with melted garlic herb butter. Now, heres the sequel. With portobello mushrooms. Boom. Hang on, i dont want anyone to trip. Ok. Oh yeah. 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He was the San Francisco archbishop for ten years and became the highest ranking american official in the vit vatican. He issued a Statement Today say. A one of a kind hiring event for military members, veterans and their families were there. The work shop included resume building, networking and interviewing tips. Veterans and those serving are grateful for the opportunity to meet with employers. Its aweso. Ive got a couple people that look like theyll be calling me soon after this is over. Its cool. San Francisco Giants hope to make this an annual event at the ballpark and will honor military members and vets at the game. That is great. Yes. There is more still to come tonight. Just ahead a Major Development plan that infuriated hundreds of people. And more erosion of your retirement funds. Youre going to see what happened to a pilot instrumented happened to a pilot instrumented to aa chance to try somethinglook. Different. 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