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KGO ABC7 News 600AM March 8, 2014

Careful. In the afternoon, upper 60s to low 70s with clouds around the bay. Inland, mid 60s to near 70. It is above average. We are looking at a pretty dry week ahead except for tomorrow when rain comes our way. Ill time it out for you in a few minutes. Breaking news this morning. A desperate search is on for a boeing 777 that disappeared from air Traffic Control streams over waters between malaysia and vietnam. Now Officials Say Vietnam Air Force planes have spotted two oil slicks in the water. A vietnamese dpoft statement says the slicks were spotted off the southern tip of vietnam stretching between six and nine miles long. Air Traffic Controllers lost contact with the Malaysia Airlines flight over the South China Sea last night leaving the fate of 239 people in doubt. Reporter Malaysia Airlines flight mh 370 with 239 aboard broke radar contact in midair bound from kuala lampur to beijing. The airline says it lost touch with the boeing 777 200 aircraft about two hours after takeoff reportedly over vietnamese airspace. The ceo of Malaysia Airlines made the grim announcement on its Facebook Page saying we deeply regreet we have lost all contact with flight mh 370. The airline said there were 14 nationalities among the 227 passengers. Three americans, including one infant. We are doing everything that we can to ensure that every possible angle in this situation is addressed. Reporter experts say the circumstances are ominous. This is very rare. For an airplane to disappear is not normal. I think we have at this hour every reason to expect that this is not going to be a good outcome. Reporter so many questions swarm around this mystery. The beijing airport initially listed the flight as delayed but it was far worse. Later, anxious relatives gathered at a hotel awaiting news on the plane. Located the jetliner and any possible survivors may be difficult. There is a chance that this aircraft went down in the water which is going to make the rescue or make the Recovery Efforts that much harder. Reporter painful efforts that have only just begun. Abc news, new york. Now heres a look at the passenger list from the flight released by beijing airport. There are four americans onboard. The l. A. Times is reporting the names of three people carrying u. S. Passports. 50yearold philip wood, 3yearold nicole meng and 1yearold leo meng. The pilot joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and has more than 18,000 flying hours. The missing plane is a boeing 777. It is 11 years 10 months old. Malaysia airlines is an Award Winning carrier, it has not had an accident since 1995 when the crash killed 34 out of 53 people onboard a plane. Well continue to follow that for you had this morning. Now to a bay area story Getting National attention. Kathy zimmer was found dead in the back seat of her car 25 years ago and after all that time, two arrests have finally been made in this case. Abc 7 has the story from santa clara jail. Reporter this is a picture of the quilt that investigators say was found along with kathy zimmer. Its sparked new interest in this 25yearold case. We felt that it was time to put it out there to see what kind of response we could get. We did get an overwhelming response of people trying to help. Reporter the 39yearold mother of two had been strangled in 1989. Police discovered her car a chrysler new yorker in a parking structure at San Jose International airport. The quilt was draped over her body in the back seat. We feel at this time that we have the two people responsible for her murder. Her husband at the time, david zimmer, and his brother, robert zimmer, are both now in custody. Reporter david zimmer was arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County jail on murder charges. His proer, brother, robert zimmer, was arrested last week. The prosecutor on this case says zimmers former husband is implicated because of financial gains following her death. Life insurance policies, sale of the home. So yes, we do believe there is a financial motive here, yes. Reporter investigators say dna samples taken from kathy zimmers clothing is what implicated her husbands brother, robert zimmer. A school in oakland went on lockdown yesterday while police searched for a man believed to have sexually assaulted a young girl. Sky 7 hd shows Police Responding to World Academy in east oakland yesterday afternoon. A 7yearold girl told police a stranger on campus touched her inappropriately. Despite the lockdown, police were unable to track down this person. Opd is now offering a 2,500 reward to help find him. Startling new details about a teacher accused of molesting several children. Yesterday 32yearold ronald ginto was charged with 27 felonies. His bail is set at 17 million. Hes pleaded not guilty. Investigators believe he molested six boys, ages 11 to 13, all students at making Waves Academy in richmond. It happened during several camping trips where ginto was the only chaperone. He was fired in november, but then hired at another school this january. Last night the president of that School District told abc 7 news ginto planned to take six more young boys on a secret trip to yosemite next month and he went to Great Lengths to make it happen. 7 he had falsified the principals signature on the list on the form, student study form. Unbeknownst to us, we had no idea this was going on. I know we dodged a bullet. The district has now proposed changing its hiring practices. Administrators did not call making Waves Academy as part of gintos background check. The university of california has announced a new system wide Sexual Assault policy. It is in response to the claims by several female students that their Sexual Assault claims have been ignored. The new policy includes expanded Sexual Assault training and education, increased reporting requirements, and broader protections for victims of Sexual Violence and harassment. Police are asking for the publics help to identify a man who robbed a woman at gunpoint at an atm. This is a picture of the robber, Freemont Police say he confronted a woman outside bank of america on freemont boulevard thursday morning. He flashed a gun at the woman, took the money shed withdrawn and forced her to pull out more cash. The man then took off in a red Toyota Corolla with utah license plates. Four Central European nations are urging the u. S. To boost natural gas exports on the possibility russia could cut off its supply of gas to ukraine. Ukraine is heavily dependent on russian gas. Previous disputes between the two countries have led to gas supply cuts. Meanwhile, tensions remain high in ukraine after prorussian troops advanced on to a military base on crimea yesterday. Several ukrainian troops barricaded themselves inside a barracks. The prorussian troops eventually withdrew. There are new questions this morning about the snipers who contributed to last months bloodbath in kiev. Ukrainian authorities are now focusing on russia using the gun men to create a pretext for a military incursion. A search continues in salano county for a mission woman who suffers from memory problems. Victoria Mueller Palomino was last seen yesterday morning. She is considered at risk because she lost most of her shortterm memory when she suffered a brain aneurism. Police dont know if shes been the victim of a crime or drove off. Dozen of trees were removed from a park it to protect natural gas pipelines. Nearly 70 trees at San Lorenzo Community park, also known as duck pond park, were taken out by pg e in the last month. The Power Company just removed 35 more at the park districts request. Roots can cause damaged pipelines and cause leaks. The tree removal is in response to the 2010 san brew any gas line explosion which killed eight people. The move to build a traffic median on the Golden Gate Bridge takes another step forward. According to the marin independent journal, district officials are taking contract bids for work related to the project. It would include the demolition of four toll booths to make room for the barrier, as well as installation of crash cushions at the toll plaza. Officials say the barriers which could prevent headon collisions could be installed as early as october. 6 09 on your saturday morning. Lisa argen keeping track of the forecast that looks downright nice. The sun officially comes up in about 20 minutes. What a pretty tithe this is. 40s and 50s in the north bay, as well as the rest of the bay area. Well talk about aboveaverage readings and rain all through your weekend coming up. Thank you, lisa. Also next, a health care on Treasure Island. Well show you why a San Francisco Fire Squadron has been forced to move out. And some new examples of Wearable Technology. Why so scover card. Hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. Yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. Good. I hate surprises. Surprise at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card and see your fico® credit score. Hey have you ever tried honey nut cheerios . Love em. Neat now you on the other hand. You need some help. Why . Look atchya. What is that . You mean my honey wand . [ shouting ] [ splat ] come on. Matter of fact. [ rustling ] shirt. Shoes. Shades. Ah wow now that voice. My voice . [ autotuned ] whats wrong with my voice . Yeah man, bee got swag be happy be healthy thats gotta go too. Hey must be the honey [ sparkle ] sweet. A tragic story out of the midwest. A gun inside a sock at a thrift store in chicago went off killing a mother of two. 54yearold Maria Dominguez died yesterday morning after being shot in the chest. She and a male coworker were going through donated clothes when he shook out a sock and e the. 22 caliber handgun fell out and somehow went off. Dominguez had had worked for the company for 25 years. She was married with two children. Police are treating the shooting as an accident. Dinner for a florida family turned into a long and terrible trip because their steaks were laced with lsd. The family of four, including two children, ages 6 and 7, purchased the meat from walmart. Shortly after dinner, they started hallucinating and had to be rushed to the hospital. The mother was nine months pregnant. She had to have her labor induced. The baby though was born healthy and the family is now okay. Police say walmart is cooperating with the investigation. San francisco fire officials have temporarily shut down a firehouse on Treasure Island after finding mold and asbestos in the building. Abc 7 News Reporter jonathan plume has the details. Reporter box after box of personal items and firefighting gear, all of it has to go. The locks are being changed. The beds loaded into trucks. Firestation 48 is closed. We just got the report. Theres mold in a few of the downstairs rooms and they recommend abating it and to abate it we need to get the members out of here. Reporter what once was the one working firestation on the island is which no means a modern building. It was originally built by the navy after San Francisco took control of the island. We inherited that building basically and moved in. Reporter the city also inherited this fire academy on the island which will serve as the firehouse while station 48 is cleaned up. Theyve only moved a couple blocks away. We dont expect any impact on response time. Reporter despite the aging wood frame, firefighters say the buildings been falling apart for years. They even started documenting their efforts to keep out rain water, the primary cause of mold. They shot this cell phone video of a tarp they threw over a leaky window. And a trench they did you go to keep water from getting in through the siding. Now top ranking fire officials are looking into it. Might have a couple of leaky windows that could be causing it and there could be a leaky roof that could be causing it. The exact nature of the cause is not known until they open up these walls and find out whats going on. Reporter but firefighters who have lived here say they complained about the leaky roof years ago. One said he used to wake up in the middle of the night with headaches. Another said he could smell the mold. Administrators say none of those complaints reached them or theyd have acted sooner. Health and safety to us is not worth playing around with. Were not going to keep our members somewhere where theyre going to get sick. Thats crazy. Reporter the mold is not the only cleanup here on Treasure Island. The navy left in 1997. Crews have been working to clean up toxic materials left behind, including more than 500 radioactive fragments that have been found in the last three years. The citys been sued over that. Now one firefighter says the mold could mean another lawsuit is in the works. In San Francisco, jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. So many of you watched shark tank last night on abc. The stanford graduate who accepted a sweet deal talked with us. Kent presented his lights to the tycoons. The lights are mounted on a bicycles wheels to illuminate the bikes path without shining in anyones eyes. Kent accepted an offer for 300,000 and 10 of the company. Well pay ourselves which is a big one so that we can actually grow the team. I mean it is hard to get people that are talented to want to join the team that you cant pay them. Yep. Frankovich and his partner said they survived on ramen noodles while developing their product. Those days certainly are over. Congratulations to them. Happening today, the university of the pacific will dedicate its new San Francisco campus ahead of its summer opening. The renovated building in the south of market neighborhood will house about 100 faculty staff and opportunities. Take a look at this time lapsed video showing the construction of the renovated building located in the south of market neighborhood. Very cool to watch. It will hold classes from the universitys school of dentistry, as well as graduate programs in audiology, Music Therapy and data sciences. Summer classes are set to begin in july. Also happening today, the home of the the San Jose Sharks will be collecting old electronics. The sap center is teaming up with Sims Recycling to encourage the community and sharks fans to recycle their own electronics. Everyone who drops off a recyclable item will get to watch the teams pregame morning skate. Theyll also receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win autographed shark memorabilia and shark merchandise. Event today is from 9 00 to 1 00 p. M. In san jose. Again thats at the sap center in san jose. There is a new wave of privacy concerns over the Wearable Technology thats rolling out of the silicon valley. Censors collecting the data can easily be hacked. Abc 7 News Business and Technology Reporter david louie got a look at some of the newest devices to hit the market. Reporter jesse is an Orthopedic Surgeon and the workout shirt hes wearing has multiple censors embedded in the fabric. They collect data an amateur athlete might find helpful, including heart rate, respiration rate and stress level. The real value in these devices is going to come when we can give that kind of level of insight, taking it really from detection and diagnosis to the point of actually being able to predict something and then prevent it. Reporter a competing startups shirt has 14 censors invisible to the wearer. Censors for the tech. Two right here for the heart right. One on each bicep. Which goes on the inside of the arm here. The censors are that big, that allows us to have constant surface area contact. Wearable technology is aiming at foot pain. Analyzed by a smartphone app. We have multiple points. We have multiple shocks and we have that chassis suspended so that kind of allows you to stay in traction and in control as the train is roughed. It allows you to morph to the ground. Reporter many ideas are emerging as fitness enthusiasts jump onboard. But these devices collect data, personal data, and thats raising new concerns about privacy. Ive been heard stories out of the u. S. What are we doing . Are we sending each other advertisers . To the u. S. . Are you guys sharing with our employer . Do you know about my health . I think in the end it has to be very transparent. David louis, abc 7 news. Important reminder right now Daylight Saving time begins tomorrow at 2 00 a. M. Remember to set your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed tonight. And every time we change the clocks, the Consumer Product Safety Commission encourages us to check the batteries in our household smoke detectors and change them, if needed. Two things im going to make a postit note about. Thats how lowtech i am. 6 19. Lisa argen is up on the roof, forecasting and living in the weather. Living the dream, too. Thanks, katie. It is going to be a very nice da

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