charged with violating probation. for that, the judge ordered no bail. anderson justifies his crimes saying it's really a parking lot operator's faults. >> you know what? i've told owners of the lots if you just wanted to stop that, just give them a $10. >> the da says parking operateors need to sharex0a responsibilities. >> either put attendents or a gate and camera. come up with other solutions you're posting signs is not enough. >> anderson told me sometimes he feels sorry for victims, returning their money. as strange as it seems here is his logic. >> if i give you money back, the guy behind me is going to be next victim there. is always someone vulnerable he told me he has had trouble with substance abuse and has been in and out of jobs and he wants legitimate work. the d.a.says anderson will face serious jail time this, time, because of his parole violation coupled with priors. now, parking lot operateors say more security won't do the job. and that the real problem is ineffective prosecution. vic lee, abc 7 use nus. >> thank you very much. a strange twist noont a pittsburgh burglary ending with a man being stabbed to death. plea say its part of a cheating wife hatched by her boyfriend. >> it's a truly bizarre story tonight. nick? >> police tell me it's part of a plot to scare the husband into moving. but a resident tells me the banging against the wall skb loud noises sounded like horse play. >> the commotion started just before 11:00 a.m. yesterday in this apartment, only feet from where he live autos someone getting into a fight or something. you know? bouncing off the walls and stuff. >> what sounded out as rough housing turned out to be more. >> i i was about to call 911. >> according to police what he heard was a homeowner confronting a man who had broken into the apartment. the fight didn't end until investigators say this man, a 54-year-old was dead. stab ntd back of the neck with a knife. >> they prepared this and talked about it. she gave our suspect keys to the residence. >> police arrested this woman. sharl yain -- sharm yain tehran. zpraun her boyfriend, one of his brothers and two friends conspired to break into the home of tehran's husband after she gave the accomplices keys. police say tehran's husband learned she'd been having an affair with matt parker. the couple decided to separate, and the husband had agreed to leave. police tell us tehran didn't believe her husband was making an effort to leave the apartment. >> this angered his wife to the point where she plotted a burglary with her current boyfriend. and in an effort to scare him. and persuade him, into actually leaving the residents -- residence. >> the apartment behind me now sits empty. four suspects are in jail, each being held on a $1 million bail. eachifftu, neither tehran's husd nor two children ages five or eight were injured in this incident. >> thank you. >> tonight police are investigating the city's second homicide of the new year. it happened this afternoon an 55th street in north oakland. witnesses say cars drove by and fired at the victim. he was pronounced dead at the scene. >> pell are gathering for a vigil organized because of a horrific case over the weekend. star lamar suffered burns on sunday after she was doused with lighter fluid and set on fire. police have arrested her boyfriend for the crime. abc 7 news is live with more on this for us. >> here at this vigil, they plan to light candles, they're inside now. they plan to say prayers and to sing. negro spirituals they say they hope will bring comfort. we saw members of the family going inside to attend the vigil tonight. let me show you some of the horrible crime scene which is this past sunday. when lamar, a 25-year-old mother of three was burned almost beyond recognition she was arguing with her boyfriend at a laundromat near her home. and police say that boyfriend got gasoline, came back, poured it over his girlfriend, then set her on fire. i talked with the mother today. she says the family has beentj?z crying and praig ever since. >> i just miss my daughter. i do. because last thing she said to me was mama, can you help me? can you hold me? he did this to me. i just -- i'm just glad she is alive. but... she got a long ways to go. >> let me share details now about the 22-year-old in custody facing charges of a attempted murder and arson.>ó)t he's being held in medical skrik unit scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow. a law enforcement source tells abc 7 news he has an arrest record did iting back to 2008. he's been on probation since october, 2011 for what authorities call a domestic related incident saying he violated probation but was in compliance when he allegedly attacked his girlfriend. here is her mother's reaction to that information. >> his other background, if i nurks i won't -- none of this would have been happening. he won't have been in my house. >> these tragedies happen. we have to bring attention to them. and haveã,ñ to get into healing around it. >> that is one of the xmñ of tonight's vigil. she went to the hospital last night with others from to take cards to star lamar. she's hoping this latest case will raise awareness about the level she says of the domestic violence in this community. live in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> just horrifying. thank you. tonight a hate-filled letter targeting people of philippino decent is being investigated. the letter directed at people in american canyon claims to be from a state args. abc 7 us? live with a story you'll see only on abc 7 news. >> city leaders joined here just a short time ago to march with the philippino community here this, march was from city hall here across highway 29 to a philippino owned business. is it comes in the wake of hateful letters. they're heading and sentences purport to be from the board of kos met tolling. the second part amounts to a rant. terms like filthy and unwanted were used. one family sthefd letter and called police. >> he said did you see this letter? i thought it's probably another junk mail. he said no. look and i said oh, my god. how -- i said this is just filth. >> because there is not going to be a prosecution if if it doesn't rise to level of a crime doesn't mean it is not a matter of public interest to our community that is making sure that we're we're unified, appreciate neighbors and value every person in this community. a spokesman says the letter absolutely did not come from them. and told us it's disgusting. none of the information in the letter is accurate making it nothing more than a repulsive work of fiction. police are trying to trace the source of the letters. if he or she is in the!zap locl community, the envelope has a return address of concerned neighbors of american canyon and a zip code, only. investigators like to talk to this person. they say contents of the letter do not amount to a hate crime because there are no specific threats. >> thank you. >> we've got windshield wiper weather in the bay area. >> yes. we do have showers, scattered around the bay area as you can see. so wet weather tonight z a lot of cold weather to follow. i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> first a shutout, bay area sports writers reaching barry bonds should have been voted in. >> in sacramento, more and more paroled sex offenders and gang members cutting off gps bracelets and no one knows wh a resounding statement today on steroids and major league baseball. two other players linked to performance-enhacing drugs have been denied entry into the hall of fame. bonds, roger clemens and sammy sosa all eligible this time for the first time and they needed votes of 75% of the baseball writers who chose to be inductees. bonldz received about 36%, roger clemens, 38% and sammy sosa, only 13% today from riders. wayne freedman is live. you smoke spoek with rider who's voted on this. >> i did and they have mixed feelings. a controversy among riders just owe to vote you need to be a member of the baseball writers baseball association of america and need to have written for them orks with them 10 years. after that, you're allowed to vote this, is senior of the senior baseball writers. >> this is one whait means to be elected from the hall of fame. so consider irony when baseball traditionally honors its best, this time, reopened an old wound exposing the worst. >> i think baseball never figured out how to process steroid era. it's awkward for the game and fans. this is more awkwardness. >> lance will gyms not a baseball writer but on a day they elect nod one its safe so-to-say they influence them, writers like mark purdy when abstained. >> i did not vote for ware barry bonds, roger clemens, sammy sosa, mike piazza. >> all are great player who's otherwise have been shoo ins without steroid autos people asked them to vote in this election. one of the guidelines is supposed to consider sportsman ship. all right? to me, if you cheated that is addressing those issues. i still don't have information about what the whole landscape looked like. to some, the hall of fame is about performance, art did vote for bonds. >> barry bonds deserves to be in the hall of fame. a man who wins seven cy yungz deserves to be now.. >> so many great names, so many questions still unanswered. clearly, baseball has a quandry. >> i suppose we had ins. they figure out a way to conceptualize these players if they admitted it, they can say they were ripe in the game that is one thing this, year we're being asked to put in two guy who's say they never touched the stuff there, is evidence that that is not true. >> so this is a fine line between elections or a very fine line. he was elected, pete rose knows bit. he was not elected. now, we have barry bonds. thank you. >> turning to larry beil. larry spent time with the man providing a lot of the performance-enhacing drugs to some ofy/u&ñ the athletes. >> well, victor conti. you can guess how he feels. the baseball writer was a loud, clear statement saying any player linked to steroids is not going to the hall of fame. barry bonds, roger clemens, best hit yes, best pitcher both well below 50% of the vote. there are no players or managers involved in the hall of fame ballotting. bonds was rude, and condescending a lot of the time. these writers bonds treated like trash. they were not going to show him much simp path yes today, as for victor conti, running balco here is conti on bonds. >> i do believe he deserves to be in the hall of fame. he was held to a different standard as everybody else. so other players may have been doing similar things weren't decided. so that is the part i don't like about it. the selective prosecution. you know? in the case of roger clemens. look. he went up against a criminal court. and higher standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. i would imagines4ókn that given that what people consider to be the biggest hitter and pitcher of our generation, i expect to see them suing everybody, left and right now. they clearly have been impacted and affected in a significant way by the slander out there. m r".q is a lote involved on the first ballot. it's going to be interesting to see if voters were making a one time statement and perhaps decide to vote for them in years still to come. also, mentioned baseball writers association of america in order to cast a vote you have to be a beat writer covering a team 10 years and you have to be imersed in the sport in order to vote. >> right. right. >> thank you very much. >> let's gelt a check on the forecast. >> rain is returning. >> yes. showers scattered aboutjkjykyk much of the bay area is dry in the north bay. some of it is shifting into the east+u we'll see showers, scattered showers continuing overnight and through much of the day tomorrow, snow level down to 1500 to 2000 feet. there may not be enough moisture around. we can see snow and we have freezing nights into the weekend. satellite shows this big mass of cold air that is producing skploudz showers at the moment. light showers, cold showers. we'll start at 7:00 this evening, during the later evening hours, showers becoming better organized mainly near coast and around the bay continuing overnight and into tomorrow, about 5:00 in the morning, we'll probably not see much shower activity around. there could be bet spots on the highways and cold air settling in around mount hamilton. could be mixed precipitation there. later in the day, showers give waig to partly sunny skies. rainfall totals won't be that sig kanlt. up to maybe 15/100ths of an inch. over in sierra, winter weather advisory in effect until 4:00. five to seven inches of new snow. now king tides and swells contributing to this. we'll have high tides just above seven feet. back to low temperatures overnight will be chilly in spots. especially inland valleys. and speaking of cold weather werk have a freeze warning in affect this, is for friday morning from 2:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. we have a frost advisory in effect for bay shore line. we're going to have cold mornings coming our way3éñ. here is the accu-weather forecast. two frizing, frosty mornings coming our way. temperatures moderating a little bit sunday and monday. going to feel like winter. >> well just ahead here tonight continuing, the sandbags that are now shorg up a levy on the peninsula. >> just in case >> the city of east palo alto says it cannot afford to fix a plumbing problem now, so it plans to use sandbags to keep the water back. december 23 water flowed into streets and cost nearly $3 million to fix this problem. neighbors say it's worth it with you the city says kit not afford to pay that now. >> such a great fix. it should be fixed. >> it's a rainy season wruning probably until april then, we can look at the permanent fixes and permanent solutions. >> the stiff looking at designs for the solutions now, it asked the state to help pay for one. >> police looking for a burglar who stole a rare artifact from a museum in california. police say there are striking similarities between this burglary and on monday, someone took off with a gold box dating back to california's cold rush. the mayor says both are a crime against the city of oakland. >> the history and the price list of the artifacts are realçy part of the history and culture of all californians. >> it's described as a seven by nine inch quarts box that weighs about three pounds. >> there more still to come tonight. first, the commuter ferry accident under investigation in new york harbor. injury toll there continues to mount. >> increase in number of paroles who tamper with i moved to new york to work in fashion. i came here with just a suitcase, maybe two. and luckily i found an apartment just three blocks away from t.j.maxx, which was perfect because i needed everything and i still needed to make rent. t.j.maxx is such a great place cause i know when i go in there i'm gonna score. they've got such great deals on all my favorite brands. fashion direct from designers. savings direct to you. this maxxinista can make it anywhere. t.j.maxx. let us make a maxxinista out of you. >> investigators now on the scene of a high speed ferry accident in new york city that injured 85 people. one person was critically hurt and slamming into a pier while docking. it's not immediately clear and all of a sudden there was a big bang, just my face was in the seat in front of me. it happened so fast. >> records indicate the same ferry has been involved in crashes in the past. police say the crew passed alcohol breath tests. >> we have a better idea of how much damage a tafrker caused when it struck a tower in the bay bridge. new imageses were released today. mtc now says repairs likely costing between $2 to $3 million. there was no structural damage to the bridge. the bumper requires specialized equipment on barges. the investigation is now underway to determine why the tanker hit that to youer on monday. >> homicide investigators looking for help in their search for a suspect m in the murder of a san francisco woman. police released images showing the victim entering an apartment building on eddy veet with a man sunday, october 21. cruise later found stabbed to death inside of the apartment. >> this person is still out there. we want to prevent this from occurring again. >> the person police are lking for is described as mixed race male between 26 and 35 years old, and he had a long part down the middle and in several braids or pony tails. if you can identify this man, take a look, all the san francisco police department. >> those gps ankle bracelets monitoring some paroles are not as effective as they could be. that is because some convicted offenders and gng members are actually cutting them off and getting away witness. nannette miranda reports on efforts to put an end to that. >> authorities say the 48-year-old repeat sex offender cutoff his gps ankle bracelet in november and days later charged with sexual battery of a fresno state student. >> what i care about is that we get these criminals back behind bars.çç[rñ because i don't want someone elts's gaugtder to be molested in a library km a n.a university. >> the bracelets are required on paroled sex offenders and hard core gang members. corrections have a high tech system in place that alerts parole agents when monitors are cutoff. but duete9÷ to overcrowding ana mandit to reduce the population, disabling no longer sends offenders back to prison but lands them in county jail. if they can be found at all. >> sex owe grerndz by law need to be monitored. when cutoff their bracelets they're violating a law, preventing the state from monitoring them. they have high rates and we couldn't want them going after children. >> word has gotten around the street. the year before the policy change, october, 2010 to september, 2011, 173 cut their straps. the year after, nearly 300 did. a 60% jump. both senator l skpu. assemblyman patterson introduced bills to make it a felony again with more time in state prison. governor brown made it clear california needs to reign in costs. >> everybody wants to send people to prison. nobody wants to pay for it. there is only so much money. >> i don't accept the7'7ó premi. did he we don't have the will or leadership. >> corrections department ;z population of 7500 the jump of the number of people is only 1.5%. some argue that is not enough to justify more prison spending. >> a new space mission underway tonight. >> a new kind of rover to scientists say it could help unlock secrets of the universe, but we have to get there first. >> that is right. it's a story you'll see only on abc 7 news. some engineers who are hard at work on a new kind of rover. >> you'll see a hopping and tumbling motion. >> this is an early simulation of a robot that could look like this, a soccer ball covered in spikes. sanford professor calls it's a hedgehog koi. explore mars biggest moon that is about the size of san francisco bay, and >> this is thousands of times less. >> mars vofrz wheels, wheels might not work. >> if you're to try to do a wheel system in low gravity, you can flip it over. you can just lose control it instead of rolling they are making hedgehog tumble, and hop. anda18v have started with a modl of how it will work. this is slowly drifting back down. >> next prototype will be in three dimension, researchers using what is a small model of the giant shipping cranes to simulate micro graph ti on a model. >> applying little force, i can move this system. >> their partners are working on a model. >> to study hopping on different surfaces so looked at doing that on concrete surfaces. >> it can help scientists learn where they came from, whetherxy;ñ humans could land there. >> it could be key in proving or disproving how the universe began. >> understanding where we're coming from. >> that is wild. >> coming up next, two things you can do to stop the flu epidemic from coming to california. california. >> t,yvxkjr. sir i'm gonna have to ask you to power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24/7. sounds a little too good to be true sir. i'll believe that when pigs fly. ok, did she seriously just say that? geico. just click away with our free mobile app. the rest of the nation suffers from one of the worst flu seasons in years, infections in the bay area have been mild actually but that is expected to change, soon. doctors urging people to get vac sin yaitd, soon. target has begun offering free vaccinations to kids four to 18 years of age. flu season in northern california is worse in january and february. >> it usually takes a couple weeks for your immune system to be responding to that vaccination and building up antibody levels in the way that is enough to protect against flu. so the sooner, the better. >> doctors say washing hands and covering a cough or a sneeze can also help the flu bug from spreading. >> new technology offering hope for a condition that affects 23 million people that can take a toll on everything from vision to quality of live. >> on a bad day, even driving can be a challenge. >> it adds a glare of blurryness. >> the normal vision is fine, blurryness comes from dry eye n this kairks it's so severe, she's forced to treat witness drops and compresses throughout the day. >> when you get up in the mosh morning they're swollen, and red. there is a burning sensation you have a low area here. this is caused by a lack of oil, which allows eye moisture to evaporate. today he's going treat the root cause of the problem. >> first a scan to measure the quality of the oil as well as natural pattern of blinking. he places cups on to helen's iz designed to reach oil glands it warms eye to about jack usey temperatures. melts oil, then using a program, it applies pressure and expresses the normal it takes about 12 minutes and heat is z not cause discomfort. once cleared eyes begin pro dugs oil and moisture. >> i would say within four days or so, i could tell that my eyes did in the seem as dry. >> dr. mandel says it could take eight to 10 weeks but it often lasted several year autos whole technology is revolutionary. >> it offers hope ofxz making it through the day without concentrating on taking care of her eyes. >> for now i would just be happy with having good days. >> average treatment costs 1800s skpdz not kbifrd insure yachblts the doctor points out improvement can reduce expenses from eye drops to regular apltments. >> rain is returning meaning snow in the sierra. we just lost the picture but it's knowing good in tahoe near squaw. >> that is true. it's snowing and winter weather advisory in effect there. so here in the bay area, we can see we have an area of some light scattered showers and pockets of showers looking better organized than what's happening over land. areas of the south bay there, we have light shower activity reaching from palo alto southwest and towards san jose area, just a little bit of moisture, tomorrow, looking at mixed conditions near coastline. drier over the sierra. we'll see scattered showers in the morning hours, partly sunny in the afternoon. check this out. conditions saturday, evening for big game between 49ers will be cold and dry. temperatures about 48 degrees and here is the accu-weather forecast. freezing mornings ahead friday and saturday temperatures moderating next week. >> yes. >> we vit. >> abc 7 jimmy kimmel live. according to the at midnight. the show with guest jennifer aniston placed a strong number two. by the way, jimmy kimmel airs week nights after abc 7 news at 11:00 and night line. >> good for him. >> larry is here now with sports. >> i would hardly endorse that plan. some baseball writers voted for barry bonds today. most did not. the president of the association writes for the good evening, barry bonds, roger clemens as we reported earlier, both linked to steroids snubd by voters today kind of an odd year, nobody was deemed worthy of induction into cooperstown. bonds hit 762 home runs one could make the argument he had a hall of fame career long before he was suspect r suspected of juicing. look at numbers, craig viggio with 68% followed by jack morris, and bonds and clemens in the next glup both below 40%, bonds receiving less than half of the required 75%. he's got a long way to go fit happens. abc 7 own mike shumann spoke with chronicle writer who happens to be the president of the baseball writers association of america. >> did you vote for barry bonds, sammy sosa or roger clemens? i did in the. i'm one of those thinking character and sportsmanship aspect of the instructions on the hall of fame ballot are thing that's we should consider carefully. and with both clemens and bonds that, evidence was strong there was steroid use. and i'm in the at the point where i'm ready to vote for any of the steroid users. >> curt schilling receiving almost 39% in hall of fame vogt today, schilling now works for espn. sheer his take on voters snubbing everybody. >> you either are suspected user or you did, you're someone who didn't do anything to stop it. you're one or another f you're a player in this generation, i fall into being one player that didn't do anything to stop it. now this, is part of the price we're paying so see what happens next year, first anaheim, then virginia beach. now, it aprilors the kings could be moving to seattle. yahoo sports chris hanson teamed up with microsoft steve balmer reportedly offered king owners up to $500 million to move kings to seattle. the new group would build a new arena and could relocate. however, mayor johnson says he's fighting to keep the kings in sacramento. >> we've been whirt comes to anaheim. we've been here before when it comes to÷&7túinia beach. we heard rumors z now, they're going to seattle. just said all along we should northbound control of our destiny this, gives us an opportunity to do that. >> i don't have inside information. but if it's true, ain't it cool? >> they're excited in seattle. aaron rothers grew up wanting to be the next joe montana saturday night. he faces red and gold in the divisional pray playoffs. former cal bear ak ras yes are i nightmare for opposing defense autos it's hard to get pressure out of him. you know? there are times that you can have a free rusher before you can get across the line you've got the ball out. >> aaron rothers scares me. i think i speak for many niners. >> yes. >> thank you. >> join me tonight at 9:00czzrw coming up then, do you know what this says? at 9:00 good handwriting, if you're the treasury secretary of the united states. >> then at 11:00 a fuel leak. >> tomorrow at 5:30, live coverage of the oscar nominations. that is this edition of abc 7 news at 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