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KGO ABC7 News 400PM March 1, 2016

Destroyed. Sky 7 hd was overhead after the engine compartment caught fire then erupted in flames. Smoke and flames, at least the smoke could be seen as far as the east bay. Witnesses caught the drama on cell phone cameras when the fire broke out. The van driver was not getting gas at the time we were told but had stopped for a drink. Moments later the fire broke out. A quick thinking gas station attendant cut power to the gas pumps and the fire chief says that was exactly the right thing to do. The owners of the gas station did the right thing. They hit a switch that shuts off the gas pumps which eliminates that from being a hazard for us. So the only has start here was to the property, itself, and s dealt with appropriately. Reporter this is a very busy gas station. Theres a food mart, a coffee place and also a burger king. The manager of the burger king saw the flames. He told his employees and all the customers inside to get out as quickly as they could. And everyone evacuated safely. A fire fighter, we are told, suffered a minor injury when he was injured by part of his own fire apparatus, but as you can see, there is quite a mess here. There is extensive damage to the pumps. Extensive damage to the van which was run by metro transit. A gency in the bay area. We attempted to talk to the driver a few minutes ago. He walked away from us obviously still too shaken up. Live in San Francisco, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. Thank you, cornell. Several images of the fire were sent to us by abc 7 news viewers. Share your pictures by posting them on social media usin using abc7now. We may use it on air orline at abc 7 news. Com. Sty sky 7 hd shows the truck tipped over by the house, happened on winding way this afternoon. The driver was rushed to the hospital with a severe brain injury. One person inside the house was not hurt. That person said a similar innocent happened two years ago. The family just finished remodeling from the last time and now this. Wow. Turning now to our weather, there was a big difference this afternoon. Wasnt there . We had the fog roll in this morning and now some record heat. Spencer christian is here with the accuweather update. All right, dan and ama, that fog rolled out then heated up in the bay area. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd on a day where we had record high temperatures. Several of them. Notice there is rain to our north, well to our north. Its not going to move this way at least not into the bay area. Warmth has moved in. Heres a view of the golden great bridge under mainly blue sky. Those are record highs so far for leap day for february 29th. 71 in San Francisco ties the existing record for this date. 73 oakland. Oakland airport, 70. 80 in salinas. All new record highs for this date. As you look at blue sky up north from sutro tower, heres our forecast, look for mostly clear to partly cloudy skies during the evening hours. Sunny and bright tomorrow morning. A few clouds move in the afternoon tomorrow with highs ranging from mid 60 s at the coast to mid 70s inland and have a couple of rain storms coming our way in the seven days ahead. Ill have forecast in a few minutes. All right, spencer, thank u you. In Richmond Police are searching for a gunman that shot and killed a 14yearold. Terrible. Happened near south 33rd street this morning. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live with the latest on a real tragedy, laura. Reporter it is, dan. This is actually richmonds fourth homicide so far this year and in this case, it was a young man, a boy, just a few months shy of his 15th birthday. Soon after a 14yearold boy was gunned down on the Richmond Greenway, emotional friends and family members arrived at the shooting scene and described the loss they could barely comprehend. Hes a good kid. Never fussed or argued with me or nothing like that. He was okay. He was okay. He never sassed his mama, nothing, his parents, either. When youre on the street, anything may happen, you know, anything may happen. Reporter the victim is xavier, a freshman at kennedy high school. The shooting happened after 9 20 this morning when classes were in session. Happened on a path called the Richmond Greenway that runs next to the b. A. R. T. Tracks and add j adjacent to the middle school. They saw people running from the area, our victim was down suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. I heard five, six gunshots. Reporter this neighbor heard the shots but didnt realize until later it was a young teen who had lost his life. Kind of hard because, you know, i got a sun that age, so, you know, just kind of makes you wonder whats going on in richmond really, because these are kids killing kids. Reporter police combed the b. A. R. T. Tracks and surrounding area looking for evidence. They believe one gunman was involved. A person that got away. In richmond, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. Authorities have identified the man who was shot and killed on interstate 80 in richmond saturday morning. 38yearold Wesley Graham jr. Was driving near the hilltop mall exist when he was shot. He drove off the freeway and crashed into a ravine. The shooter hasnt been caught. This is the seventh such freeway shooting along the stretch of 80 since late last year. The Highway Patrol says shootings between berkeley and pinole have been targeted incidents, not random. The funeral for Stacey Aguilar will begin in a couple hours now. Her father who arrived from mexico says he wants justice for his youngest daughter. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee is live at the funeral home with more. Vic . Reporter ama, Stacey Aguilar will be remembered at Services Starting at 6 00 here at this funeral home in san jose. Now, her father, mahin aguilar, thank goodness, was able to make the trip here in mexico in time. But earlier today, to his frustration, a plea hearing for his daughters accused killer was postponed. 23yearold ezmed padraza shown in court on friday when charged with murder did not appear at todays hearing. Were sad, very sad, her father said afterwards. Aguilar just arrived in the bay area from mexico on a humanitarian visa. He wanted to see his 22yearold daughters accused killer. Translator frustrated, we are feeling weighed down because we do know know what will happen. They keep changing dates on us. I would like the person or persons responsible to be punished. They took our youngest. Reporter aguilars youngest was 22 years old, last seen as a house party in hayward february 13th. Her body was found a week later in a rural area of fremont. Padraza had attended the party his friend perez. When perez was taken into custody last week, he told police padraza told him he shot and killed the young woman the night outside the house. And that the two men then drove her body to fremont where they threw it down the hill. Police also arrested padraza last week but he was already in custody on an immigration hold. Authorities say padraza is in the country illegally and has a criminal history. Stacey aguilars mother could not make the trip here. Mahin spoke on her behalf. Translator she is devastated. Sad. And she does not know what to do. She wanted her remains to arrive tomorrow, but that wont be possible. Reporter aguilars father says when the paperwork is done, his daughters remains will be taken to the familys hometown in mexico. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Sky 7 hd over breaking news in Half Moon Bay. Take a look. Thats where rescue crews are looking for a surfer believed to be missing near roosevelt beach. Thats south of miramar and pillar point harbors. Someone on the beach apparently saw a person get swept out by a big sneaker wave. Cal fire crews were called out to the area at 1 30 this afternoon. Theyve been searching the waters ever since. Well continue to monitor this and bring you more details as we get them. Do follow us on twitter at abc 7 bay area for breaking details. Police closed an Elementary School in los gatos of a man described by family members as mentally ill crashed his car on their property and threatened sheriffs deputies with a large knife and gas can. Authorities tried to negotiate with the man but moved in when he started pouring gasoline around the propane tanks and near his grandfather. The whole ground was really literally lit on fire and there were gas tanks, propane gas tanks right in the middle of it so we really had no choice but to move in quickly and subdue him. Never any activity there ever. In all these years. So its kind of shocking. Deputies used rubber bullets to take the man into custody. Deputies are investigating an unrelated case where the man allegedly made threats with a weapon. There was an important ruling today for apple. A judge says u. S. Justice department cant force apple to provide the fbi with access to locked iphone data. This ruling was related to a brooklyn, new york, drug case. It follows an opposite ruling by a california judge who says apple is required to help the fbi hack the iphone of a shooter in the december 2nd terrorist attack in san bernardino. If you took caltran today you may have noticed the rides cost a bit more. Fares went up yesterday across the board. The average Adult Base Fare cost, jumped 50 cents. Caltrain says they needed to raise fairs because of the increasing cost to operate and maintain the system. Commuters will still get a 15 discount using their clipper cards. Sometimes waiting 20 minutes to pump gas can prove costly. Check out the price at this station in mill valley. The price for regular 1. 89 per gallon. Minutes later it jumped 4 cents higher. Prices are continuing to climb as summer blend pricing kicks in. That station is selling regular unleaded for 2. 09, 10 cents higher from the last time we checked pricing there three weeks ago. You see that right before your eyes. Tearful testing from sportscaster erin andrews as she takes the stand now years after a man was caught spying on her in a hotel room. Plus, oscar buzz. The biggest moments still being talked about today on social media. New at 4 30, back at work. The warriors are gearing up for their next game of a and the oscar goes to spotlight. You saw it here on abc 7, spotlight took home the big prize on hollywoods biggest night. Mad max took home the most with six oscar wince. Leonardo dicaprio finally took home a prize for the leading role in the revenant. Most of todays reaction was chris rocks monologue where he took the issue of diversity head on. We want opportunity, want black actors to get the same opportunities [ applause ] as white actors. Thats it. Now the red carpet may be all rolled up at this point, but some of oscars biggest moments are still making waves on social media. Abc 7 news anchor kristen sze is here with a closer look at who took home the gold in terms of generating buzz. Here are the three most tweeted about moments on twitter, number one, Leonardo Dicaprio winning best actor, 440,000 tweets a mrng s s a min doubles the previous record when ellen tweeted her selfie. The second most tweeted moment, spotlight took third picture and third when mad max won its third oscar of the night. We tracked social media responses. He says Public Opinions seem divided on whether chris rock went too far in his jokes about the oscar so white debate. A lot of the actors that i spoke to really wanted chris rock to deliver this type of performance. I think that hollywood was ready for a flogging, and chris rock was the man to flog away. The most awkward and biggest miss stake, sam smith won for onlial song right after lady gaga brought down the house with her song honoring Sexual Assault survivors. Unbelievable, lady gaga just does this incredibly profound performance, tearjerker, two minutes later she loses to sam smith who sings a song thats not that great, its okay. Ouch. Lady gaga and the survivors who joined her on stage moved so many people to check out the website, its on us, the site actually crashed. Another moment, chris rock helping his daughters girl scouts. He tweeted his video of Vice President joe biden giving him 20 bucks to buy cookies and the girl scouts tweeted this picture of acton Christian Bale with the caption, yes, its true, batman loves girl scout cookies. To see the biggest moments, fashion hits and moments, interviews with winners, go to abc7news. Com. One local Education Program is basking in the glow of the oscars spotlight. San Francisco State University Graduate is an oscar winner for his work on the pixar film inside out. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield has the story. Reporter theres a picture of jonas rivera hanging in the hallway of the Creative Arts building. After seeing the sf alum on the big stage last night winning an oscar, students and faculty here have a reason to brag. I really like that he its cool for us. Its amazing and im really proud of him. Reporter rivera is a Film Producer for pixar and took home the oscar for best animated picture for the film inside out. On this film, every single story board, every single frame, cut, line of dialogue, every single pixel was done by the amazing artists we work with at pixar. They should be up here with us tonight. We love them. Along with our amazing cast, best cast ever. Thats awesome. I think thats so great. Like, my dad would be one of these people, im telling you, go to sf state, they have a great Cinema Program. Thats why i also came here because their Cinema Program is great. Theres crazy awesome. Knowing that, like, you can get, like, a degree from here and do that, i think its motivating. Reporter rivera spoke with abc 7 last week about the film calling it a simple idea about the struggles of growing up and how pleased he is that the film has gotten so much attention. It feels amazing. You dont make these with awards in mind, make then one frame at a time over five years with a big crew. When youre done, people like them. Reporter jonas rivera called going to sf state a big steppingstone in his career. In San Francisco, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. A sixth oscar if a graduate of San Francisco state. Theyve had more than 1 nom 19 nominations in the past 20 years which is impressive. We turn to Spencer Christian with a look at our weather. Weve had record highs in several locations for this date of course. Lets look at live doppler 7 hd. We have mainly sunny skies with a few high clouds around and its still really mild. Check out the 24 hour temperature change. 12 degrees warmer in San Francisco right now than it was at this time yesterday. 12 degrees warmer in palo alto, 10 degrees warmer in antioch and san jose. You get the picture. Its warmer everywhere. 71 in San Francisco and oakland. 72 at concord. 74 in san ramon. 75 at san jose. 79 at los gatos. Beautiful western sky looking westward from emeryville. These are forecast futures. Cooler tomorrow, sprinkles developing up north. Rain likely wednesday night. Stronger weekend storm is possible. So lets take a look at whats coming our way tomorrow starting at 4 00 at 4 00 . 8 00 tomorrow morning. It will be a sunny start to the day but well see a few high clouds move in later in the day. Theres just a chance of sprinkles late tomorrow night. I mean, just a slight chance. Heres our storm impact scale. We are ranking every storm this winter numerically. The next storm approaching us ranks 1, thats the one coming in wednesday night into early thursday. We expect maybe up to half an inch of rain in the north bay, less than a quarter of an inch elsewhere. Forecast animation, beginning wednesday morning at sock, notice clouds thickening and showers or rain moving in. Wednesday afternoon and evening. The rain will move southward and eastward Late Wednesday night into thursday morning. Then it will taper off and by 10 00 thursday morning, we expect rainfall totals to be less than a quarter inch in most locations, but up in the north bay we may see up to half an inch at places like santa rosa,. 4 or more at napa. Low temperatures tonight will be generally in the mid to upper 40s. Well see a few low 50s in places like richmond, oakland and San Francisco. Tomorrow, mainly sunny skies early. A few clouds later. Upper 6 0s at the coast. Low to mid 70s at the bay and inland. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. So that first rainstorm wednesday into thursday. That ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. Gets cooler toward the weekend. Our second storm comes. That looks a bit more vigorous, rainfall, perhaps stronger winds. That ranks 2 on the storm impact scale and will remain cool through the weekend going into early next week. Finally some changes, and finally some very, very muchneeded rainfall. Dan and ama . We need it badly. Thank you, spencer, very much. Up next, taking a big leap for leap year. How people are celebrating february 2th. Lets take you outside for a look at the traffic as the evening commute gets under way in earnest. This is san jose and 101. Headlights coming toward you are going north. Traffic facing away from you going south. As you can see, this time of day it usually is pretty sticky in that direction. Stay with us. Ama and i will continue with more at 4 00. 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