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KGO ABC7 News 500AM March 27, 2016

Sun come up, that happens at 7 02 under cloudy skies. Low to made a 50s. By 10 00 we will be in the low 60s the rest of the day featuring some breezy winds and temperatures ranging from the 50s at the coast to nearly 760 inland. We will detail the rest your easter and a look ahead coming up. Chris. Thank you. Now to developing news in burlingame where two people were shot outside of a hotel. It happened last night outside the red roof inn on Airport Boulevard around 10 30. There are several hotels in this area which is a few miles south of San Francisco international airport. Two victims, both men in their 20s, he ran into a restaurant and asked for help. Both of them are expected to survive. Concord police are still looking for a man accused in a driveby shooting that injured an 8yearold boy. It happened friday night near the intersection of lasalle and carmel. The young boy is still in the hospital. The boy was not the target. Concord police are looking for this man, 32yearold james jarrard. Hes considered armed and dangerous. He fired a handgun at a group of individuals with children playing in the front yard, which is reckless. So hes highly dangerous. Police say several people witnessed the shooting, including the 8yearold victims young brothers, who were also playing in the front yard. The family did not speak to me on camera, but they did take they know jarrard by his nickname, smiley. They also tell me the intended victim was not the child, but his brother, who was also in the front yard that evening. The bullet passed through the other boys wards leg and hit the 89yearold in the neck. It got so close to to the car the otid artery. Hes doing really good according to the circumstances. The doctors have not yet been able it remove the bullet from the childs neck, but he is doing well. Whether we were there we saw probation officers there arrive to do a probation search but they left without make making an arrest or taking any property. Jarrard is wanted on a 1 milliondollar warrant. Anyone who sees him should call police immediate lid. Many will see their deal go up because of the law massed yesterday to mike the minimum wage to 15. Current minimum wage is ten dollars per hour. Union leaders worked with on the proposal. The minimum wage is to rise to 10. 50 next year, followed by one dollar a year increases until 2022. Theres no good reason why people who are working 40hour weeks full time should be living in poverty. If we are going to talk about respecting work, then also have to reward work. Business groups were not included in the negotiations between labor groups and lawmakers. 5 304, the time u seven San Francisco firefighters were out on a routine mission yesterday when their boat capsized. Four went to the hospital. One remained overnight to get treatment for hypothermia. The boat is the still in the water this morning. Cornell bernard has more. A routine Training Exercise for firefighters quick hi game a rescue mission on the water. This firefighter still wet, standing in his bear feet warnings one of six thrown into the pacific. It happened during the Training Exercise near the cliff house. Seven firefighters aboard a 30foot rescue fire boat when they got into trouble. I understand a big wave came you up, us might call is a rogue wave, and tossed the got. The jet skis were nearby but rescuing everybody wasnt easy. The yet ski came to get one swimmer or person in the water, and the person grabbed on and a set came and he had to leave them and bounced back a couple waves and ultimately came back and pulled a people out. Worried . We thought were, we thought maybe someone was trapped on the rocks or maybe they had gone over. The lands end is where the boat drifted i long with equipment on board. That is now noting on the water. We some some of our most experienced firefighters on that boat. The most important thing is the members are okay. After a very scary day on t water. In San Francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. Take a look at this. You can see where two people suffered serious injuries when their cars slammed into a light pole in danville. It happened in a safe way parking lot at around 8 30 last night. Witness say the driver was burning rubber before the crash. The search continues for a man and woman want ford a title robbery of a tourist in San Francisco. This is Surveillance Video of the attack at franklin and post. Police say the victim refused to let go of his messenger bag and ran into police trying to escape his attacker but the robber caught up and stabbed the victim in the head. Police Officers Association is now offering a 5,000 reward in the case. Victim is 44yearold palatum. He died of are his injuries on thursday, just more than a month a the attack. Police say tam is from manchester, england, and was visiting San Francisco with relatives from irvine. After a bleak week, pope francis is offering is easter message of hope today after a Vigil Service in saint peters basilica. Thousands of people gathered to hear pope francis speak. He focused on casting asaid the hopelessness that can sometimes imprison people inside of themselves. The popes easter message is meant to resurrect faith and hearts burning by sadness. The message comes after last weeks terror attack in brussels. Warrior fans, if you are taking bart north to oracle arena tonight for the game, expect delays. Transit agency that is shut down service this weekend between the san leandro and bay fair stations for repairs to the equipment and tracks abc7 news was in san leandro where riders are taking a bus bridge to get between the two stations. Bart says fans coming from fremont or dublin pleasanton should expect 30 to 60 minute delays. Bart will be shutting down service on flection weekends as part of of the building a better bart program. Tipoff between the warriors and 76ers is at 5 00 p. M. Heads up if you are planning to go to the Golden Gate Bridge today. Bridge authorities closed two parking lots for part of the weekend, hoping to help with traffic flow but it seems to have backfired. Lisa amin gulezian has the story. This is what drivers faced, traffic, as they approached the Golden Gate Bridge. Ronic signs warned drivers that Welcome Center and vista point lots were closed until 5 00 p. M. Otherwise only buss and taxis were allowed. I dont know why they did that. Crazy. The goal was to ease congestion by pushing drivers to avoid the route all together. Unfortunately the opposite happened. Well, the Welcome Center parking lot was offlimits, the overflow parking lot that was used that got filled up fast and caused gridlock all around the toll plaza. If they are going to close this, then they have to have a second option and have tourists be aware of what the option is, instead of having them circle around and thinking they are going to get parking here. Its confusing. Let the same rhythm that everyone is used to continue. They knew the Easter Holiday would draw more visitors than usual to the area but once the lots opened they filled up fast. At vista points drivers faced add different problem. A big bus tour bus crashed into another car while they enter the lot. The bus driver admitted to hitting the honda accord ass he turned to the bridge. He told police he had to use the restroom. A woman did not want to be identified. It was stopped so there was a reason why the tour bus moved like this fast. No one was hurt. The lots will close again sunday from 11 00 to 5 00. Lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. Sky 7hd was over the San Francisco bay that is commercial fishermen were out catching dungeonness crab. The season officially started yesterday after being postponed for more than four months. Thats because the crab showed a high level of a neurotax in. The catch so far is decent. Beautiful. They are twoplus plus pound crabs, full meat. Made my mouth water. Results from this weekends testing of those crabs wont be available until tomorrow. 5 so is the time. Weatherwise we are off to a mild start across the bay. We are, but things are going to change w that mild air we are ahead of a cold front and that will bring breezy winds along the coast and cooler temperatures. From the roof camera, its 50 degrees. Everyone in the 50s except for santa rosa. No rain associated with the cold front but we will detail the temperature drop, the winds and the sierra snow when we come back. Thanks, lisa. A lot of easter excitement in the south bay. The unique celebration with eggs, the easter bunny and an air balloon. 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One with woman now has the others heart. And as chris z reports they met for the first time after the surgery. From biking through france, to riding the rapids, linda carr poured her heart into life. But several years ago the same heart began to fail. It was hard. How are you doing . After years on the waiting list for a donor. Linda turned to a doctor and a Heart Transplant Team at stanford hospital. Their solution was a rare procedure known as a domino transplant. Of the team had identified another patient, tammy driven, who was about to receive a full heart Lung Transplant from a diseased donor. Take out both lungs and the heart as one block and then put in an entire new block. But while doctors need today transplant the donor heart and lungs as a set for surgical reasons, it also created an opportunity with tammys old heart. Her heart could function very nicely in at patient. Using three models, dr. Woo explains what happened next. Before beginning the heartlung procedure, they would shift tammy griffins heart to linda carr. And just weeks after the domino surgery, tam any was in a waiting room at stanford for a chance to meet the woman who now has her old heart. Hi. Okay. First i want to thank you. I promise to take care of my new heart. Even though we were strangers before today, you will always be part of me now. Lets see what you think about this. To my new heart. Doctors say both women are making strong recoveries, linda, who lives in berkeley, is already work out on a treadmill, and tammy is hoping to return home to oregon when her new heart and lungs are strong enough. I feel so much better. I can walk and talk at the same time. Both women say they would like to stay in touch after sharing a rare and moving meeting of the hearts. Christian zee, abc7 news. In a practical sense, linda and tammy were close even before they met. Their surgeries took place in adjoining operating rooms with one surgeon working on linda and the other on tammy. Abc7 news was in San Franciscos Washington Square park yesterday where kids and their families took a springtime stroll with the easter bunny. This, after a pain cake breakfast. Both were in honor of a resident who dressed like the easter bunny every year for 50 years to visit sick kids in the hospital. It started in ricohs outdoor cafe, now the site of naked lunch. The first tame he wore the suit for customers, no one came because it rained. That started 50 years of going to every San Francisco hospital to bring happiness to the kids. A child would raise his head and look at their parents and say, see mommy, see, daddy, i knew he would find me. The family has honored ray the last two years with the new easter brunch and parade tradition. Excited children searched high and low at a house in oakland for the annual great egg hunt. The easter bunny even made an appearance at the historic estate a long with relatives a special event filled a football field in the south bay yesterday. Around 2,000 people rushed the field after the easter bunny dropped the eggs from a hot air balloon. It happened at Oak Grove High School in z santa fe. Thanks for sharing the video with us. It raised money for the Autism Center for he had skaggs. If it happens where you live, please take a photo or video and share it with us using the abc7 news. That looks like a fun event. Yeah, brings back a lot of fun memories. Union city has an egg hunt today and it will be nice weather. Typical of springtime, the i understand with will kick up. And they will be with us through tomorrow. Some changes in terms of a wind shift. Wind gusts around the bay area as a dry, cold front passes through the area today. As wes look at live doppler 7hd, you notice we have some clouds around but we will be looking at most of the activity in the Sierra Nevada. East of the bay area and the gusty winds on the coast. Heres a look at the front. Its bearing down on the pacific northwest. And its going to slide over eastern california. So as a result, we are looking a the a Winter Weather advisory for reno. And around south lake looking at anywhere from three inches. And kiefer is 5 inches of snow. This is through tuesday with a couple inches right around south lake. Today temperatures there will still be mild, but this will be the last day. Dropping a good 20 degrees in the Sierra Nevada today compared to tomorrow. And our temperatures will drop another ten degrees for your monday. 53 right now in San Francisco. Its 54 for you in mountain view, morgan hill and half moon bay. Good morning. 56 in san jose. 54 seems to be the most typical temperature in the mid50s around the peninsula, and the crowds around this morning with upper 40s santa rosa. Winds are calm there but at the airport they are gusting to 22 miles an hour. Low 50s for livermore. We are looking at right now sfo where you can see all the cloud cover. Low clouds this morning. Cooler for easter. Cooling continues into tomorrow. As we take a look at the statewide forecast, you will notice still in the 50s but cloudy skies northern sierra, and 70s in southern california. Tomorrow cooler and breezy. Greens, 50ss at the coast. Very little change into tuesday. And then as we look beyond tuesday temperatures really begin to rebound. So they are bottoming out tomorrow with temperatures this is san jose at average today and coming up slowly. In fact, above average by the end of the work week as High Pressure builds back in. In terms of the high temperatures today, you will notice those upper 50s at the coast. The cold front pushing through little bay area later on today, allowing for the winds to gust to some 20 miles an hour. And with that, another piece of energy tomorrow and the winds could gust upwards of 30 miles an hour. You definitely feel the breeze out there if you are spending anytime at the coast. Numbers near afternoon today, San Francisco 63. 66 oakland, palo alto. And 68 in san jose with a couple 70s outs there. Up towards napa and fairfield. Accuweather sevenday forecast for the egg hunts out there and the rest of the afternoon looking very nice with upper 50s coastside to near 70 inland. The cool down comes tomorrow and it stays with us through tuesday. Upper 60s on wednesday. Thats when we will see the temperatures begin to rebound thursday, friday and saturday warmer averages with plenty of sunshine and 70s inland, 60s at the coast. Sounds good, lisa. Thank you. Coming up, controversy over an antivaccine film to be shown at a major Film Festival run welcome back. If you are tired of telemarketing calls, you are not the alone. Your phone company should do more to help block the disruptions. And why you may be able to block the pro bow calls onces and more all. If you are a smartphone, there are apps designed to stop robocalls. Tom donnelly is with white pages current. We have preloaded into current over 21,000 known or suspicious fraudulent numbers. If you have Internet Phone Service like xfinity, you can use the blocking Service Called no mo romo but theres no Service Available for traditional landline phones. Ms. Turner said shes often interrupted at work by robo calls. I think its a horrible practice, and i think they should stop it. Consumers union ken marvin grease and blames not just the robocallers but also the telephone industry. The fact is that phone companies have a responsibility to make sure that good phone calls are get to go our

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