Just before 4 00 this afternoon, you can download the abc7 app and enable push alerts to keep getting more updates on this deloping story. Now to tonights top local story. A proposal to build a New High School just blocks away from a county jail. A parent emailed us about this issue that faces a vote tomorrow from the unified school district. The plan is to use the space to build a New High School. Abc7 News Reporter Wayne Friedman has our story. In dublin today, Gabrielle Blackmon picked up her two daughters at the Elementary School. The Dublin School board may vote to build a high school two long blocks from santa rita jail. Its insanity, its a stupid location for a school, across from a prison. Its got to be a joke, its a bad dream. Reporter but dublin has faced a population explosion in recent years, all the these school kids wont fit into the already existing dublin high. Thus the search for a new campus in this city with not a lot of land left. I dont think we have any location in our field of vision right now thats completely ideal, no. But i think this actually has great possibilities. Michelle mcdonald works for the school board who will hold a vote on this issue tomorrow night. Theyll be getting an ear full. I think this community is angry that their children are not being fairly represented by this board. The Alameda County sheriffs have told us they havent had an issue with a release in 20 years. We have an Elementary School thats. 10 mile away. We have never had an issue in 15 years. It just takes one instance for there to be a problem, one, you want to take that risk with your kid . Now at 6 00, the search for a palo alto bank robbery, this man went into the bank of america on litman avenue this afternoon, and gave the teller a note. The suspect is just under 5. 5 feet tall. If you recognize him, call police. Developing news now, we now now a pleasantton Police Officer shot and killed a man who had a replica gun. Police released a photo of that replica gun. They say the wife of 50yearold shannon steel called saturday. She said he was in the garage where he had guns. Police say an officer shot and killed steel. B. A. R. T. Crews will have to replace some damaged section of track, it will happen overnight so it will not disrupt service. Its still not clear what caused the train to derail. No one was hurt when that train derailed. B. A. R. T. Is accused of collecting personal information on passengers, and even tracking some people. The b. A. R. T. Watch app used to anonymously report crimes monitored user locations without consent. B. A. R. T. Released a statement saying the safety and privacy of our riders are a priority and we want to make clear that we not using elert systems to identifyy passengers. Advocates say its about Harm Reduction but not everybody is on board. Melanie woodrow is live at city hall in San Francisco. Reporter members of the task force that are studying these potential Safe Injection Sites say the ultimate goal is to save lives. But others say that needs to be balanced against overall public safety. In 90 days, this task force plans to issue a report analyzing the potential for whats known as Safe Consumption Services in San Francisco, place where is people could use drugs without being stigmatized. I dont want to make it easy for people to use drugs, but i also would have liked for my sister for example to have a place that could have saved her live. Reporter today advocates and supporters of Safe Injection Sites held signs that said facts are greater than fear. The reason were here is because our friends are dead, our family members are passed on the streets, in bathrooms, in allies. Reporter there are similar sites in country, including canada, here locally park city Law Enforcement service has concerned. If it saves live, were all for that, but again were concerned what happens after these individuals inject drugs after they go back into the neighborhood. Are they going to become more aggressive . Unbalan unbalanced. Reporter while the conversation is far from over, many here today say this is a step in the right direction. This is the San Francisco i have heard about back in the day. Reporter when it comes to Public Health and public policy. In San Francisco, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. A Northern California man has died of botulism after eating gas station cheese. He contracted the rare form of poison from nachos he bought outside of San Francisco. Today his family said he was in a near coma state and died surrounded by loved ones. Workers at the Ferry Building stopped an attempted kidnapping this morning. Police say a woman was walking with her 2yearold son when another woman grabbed the boy andri yanked him away. The mother was in a struggle and this alerted pedestrians and other shoppers that something was wrong, they immediately jumped in and helped the subject. You can tell she was confused and probably not stable. Police have charged the man with attempted kidnapping. The mom and the boy were taken to a local Police Station to recover from the shock. A man was asked to move seats on a plane to china because of his prosthetic leg. Kate larsen spoke to aviation experts about the recent issues caught on camera. Oh, my god. Wow. Reporter tim took this cell phone video of an employee asking him to get out of his seat because of his prosthetic leg. I do feel discriminated against. Reporter seaward said he paid extra for a seat with more leg room, has sat in exit rows many times and can perform the necessary safety duties. They said i wasnt a normal person and they said they were going to kick me off the plane. I think in his case he did the right thing. Reporter a retired Airline Pilot said that seaward was diskram natured against. Asserting your right at the time of an issue with a carrier could result in a delay, could result in a removal. Sea wards story has elicited a strong reaction on social media from a flying public bomb gua barreded with story this is year of passengers being ejected from planes, like dr. David dao being dragged off a united flight. Its easier for people to be held accountable for their actions. In the past when we didnt have video. It would be one persons word against another. Reporter the faa policy allows people with prosthetics to sit in an exit row. At San Francisco international airport, kate larsen, abc7 news. Asiana airlines did reach out to tim about this incident. And did apologize for what happened. Apples new campus is just about finished, well get a sneak peek behind couper teen knows spaceship. And next, were live in san jose, with the hiccups getting in the way of a flood prevention project. Im Spencer Christian, now our heat is ready to retreat, a cooldown in my accuweather forecast. A homeowners compl [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when theyre smoked. [ rat squeaking ] theyre dangerous long after. Cigarette butts are toxic. They release chemicals that poison our water. And harm wildlife. And millions. Are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] we are live right now over breaking news where a train has hit a car. This is in palo alto. The train involved belongs to cal train. The train was scheduled to be in menlo park at 5 00 p. M. The crash happened just a few blocks away from embarcadero road. Were told that no fatalities are involved. In a tweet, cal train describes it as a fender bender. The car is already off the tracks but five trains are affect and currently delayed. After last winters floods, efforts are under way to keep them from happening again. Abc7 News Reporter david lui is live to describe what happened. Reporter if you have ever done a bathroom or kitchen remodel, the last thing you want are surprise expenses. You can see from sky 7 what a big project it is. Hundreds of homes and commercial buildings es lie in aie in aie i zone. If the area is flooded and passengers cant get access to our station, that affects the service. Reporter however the two partners in the project, the army corps of engineers and the valley Water District have now added some new conditions to offset environmental harm. The valley Water District says restoring wet lands or creeks could cost an additional 50 million. The corps of engineers calls the project a dinosaur because it uses stones that arent environmentally friendly. This is a project thats been on the books that were trying to finish up. Reporter the new mitigation measures proposed last month surprised the Water District. There was a statement they would consider in theeee whether compensatory legislation was involved. They said it was not a requirement and would be a consideration. Reporter the Regional Water board says the army corps and valley water have until october 2 to file its mitigation plans. Funding them is still uncertain. A list of the Top Companies leads tonights bay Area Business watch. These are places in america where linkedin says people are most interested ining alphabet, amazon is second, face boork comes in third, salesforce which is close to completing the tallest building in San Francisco. Despite some negative press, uber rounds out the top five. Stocks started the week off on a positive note, the dow gained 90 points closing just under 21,000, the nasdaq went up by 50 points, the s p added 12. Apples new state of the art headquarters in cupertino is in the final stages of completion. But as a few employees quietly begin to work there, we have a new look at the futuristic campus. Reporter it was the brain child of steve jobs, today after the anticipated opening date, the complex is just about finish, sky 7 flew over the site this afternoon. You can see the perfect circle design of the main building. I also want to show you this pretty sun set view. Sky 7 spotted workers installing solar panels on the roof today. Some of the park like features are taking shape. Take a look, some of the 9,000 trees have been planted and this giant found fountain is under construction. Steve jobs theater looks mostly completed. Thats this structure right there. But the actual auditorium is under ground and thats where future apple unveilings will be held. You can also see tunnels that take construction crews inside he ring and employees can go from one end of the campus to the other. There will be a Visitor Center with an a apple store and cafe open to the public. A senate plan to offer health care to everyone in california could cost 400 million. For comparison, the entire state budget last year was 170 billion. The plan would eliminate insurance companies, give all californians coverage. It would eliminate deductibles and copays. It would come with a cost, half of the 400 billion would be covered by current spending, however the other half would require a state payroll tax. It would improve the coverage for millions who are uninsured and whose high deductible and copays limit and prevent them from accessing care. The senate is reviewing the legislation and has not set a date to vote on it. Today is a spare the air and. Air pollution legals are set to reach unhealthy legals. Abc7 nice weather meteorologist Spencer Christian is here with the forecast. Heres a look at the projected High Temperature range in san jose for the next seven days, notice this is a perfectly symmetrical pattern here. Bowing out at 73 degrees, thursday and friday coming right back up to 77, 79 and then back up to 82 degrees at the end of the seven day period. And the High Temperature pattern that most of the bay area will see over the next seven days. Its still sunny and quite warm over some of our inland areas right now. In fact our 24hour temp change is warmer than in fairfield yesterday, but all other temperatures are a few degrees cooler than they were yesterday. We have a few little skinny fingers of fog reaching out over the city right now, its currently 59 in San Francisco, 68 in oakland, 72 in Mountain View and 55 in half moon bay. Heres a look at emeryville, with the fog stacked up at the coastline there. 77 in santa rosa, 76 in napa, thats mild. 94 right now in fairfield, 91 at concord and 89 at livermore. And these are fingers of fog reaching out from mt. Tam. Well see coastal fog expanding overnight, cooling trend will be with us through friday, and well have milder weather for memorial day weekend. Heres our fog pattern overnight and notice it will surge across the bay and locally inland and then during the Early Morning hours, well see a pull back to the coastline, and by mid afternoon or so into early evening, well see fog at the coast, but bright and sunny over our inland areas and over the bay. It will be mainly in the low to mid 50s, but some locations will see lows dropping into the upper 40s. Then highs tomorrow will range from upper 50s at the coast, to mainly mid 70s right around the bay, and well see a few upper 80s in some of the warmer inland locations, in fact antioch will top out at 90 degrees tomorrow. By thursday well see most locations around the bay area, 5 to 15 degrees cooler on thursday than they were today. Heres a look at the accuweather seven day forecast. Looks like well see a little bit of increase in clouds as it gets cooler wednesday, even cloudier thursday, and cooler thursday and friday. Then monday memorial day is looking nice and sunny and mild with temperatures back into the mid 80s inland. A clipper card can get you on to almost all bay area transit agencies. Coming up, find food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. Happening now, a discussion about making it easier to bike and walk around one of the main access poifbt points of the b. A. R. T. Hill station. Theyre making it safer for drivers, walker and cyclists. One day, you could will able to load money on your clipper card through your phone. But not for another five years. Today the metropolitan Transportation Commission discussed what changes could be made for the next generation clipper card. One option is including bay area bike share, also called bay area go bike. Oakland police are asking for your help in finding the vandals who damaged the gardens at lake merit. It seems pretty sensible for somebody to come in here and do damages to such a beautiful and serene place. Workers arrived early this morning to repair the electrical system damaged in the weekend attack. The vandals also ripped the front tires off a Utility Vehicle and damaged some eagle scout equipment. Friends of the gardens of lake merit are asking for donations to help make repairs as well as some voluntary labor. Finding Affordable Housing is one of the hardest parts of living in the bay area, meet one woman who says shes trying to help, but local regulations get in the way. And next a 7 on your side investigation into an update now on that breaking news in Manchester England where police have confirmed 19 people are dead and 50 others are hurt after what they are calling a terrorist incident. Some sort of an explosion is believed to have happened outside an Arianna Grande concert. Listen closely, you should be able to hear a boom. [ explosion ] facebook has activated its safety check for people in the area, and Manchester Police are working on setting up a phone number for concerned loved ones to call. Incredibly generous localers are offering places to stay tonight if they cant get home. You can express your feelings by sharing this image, its on our abc7 News Facebook page. In san jose, a land owner wants to help the city come up with a solution for Affordable Housing. Shes offering to fund the project herself and even has space on lincoln avenue, but the city is pushing back on the idea. Reporter today what were doing is were reading an excerpt. Alana is a teacher at willow glen middle school, every year she questions where to move out of the bay area because of the high cost of living and lack of Affordable Housing. The city will lose good teachers, if you have someone like myself who is a single parent, it is next to impossible. Reporter thats why land owner Sarah Chapman is taking action, she wants to build between 8 to 16 affordable apartments for teachers charging them 2,000. I would only charge them 1,000 a month in rent and then 1,000 would go towards a downpayment, so in three years that can wire a 650,000 condo. Reporter but chapman cant move forward because her land is owned commercial. She needs the city to grant her a permit for mixed use residential so she can go ahead with Affordable Housing. Officials say that san jose doesnt have enough land for housing use. In san jose, only 50 of our land is zoned commercial and industrial. Generating important money into our general funtd, that funds libraries, parks, police and fire, those are really important services. Reporter City Planners want chapman to put more City Services on the land. Chapman is getting a chance to go before the Planning Commission on wednesday night and it will decide what to approve the project. Bail is set at 3 million tonight for the wife of an Alameda County sheriffs deputy in a deadly crash. Shes accused of causing a crash in san ramon last year that killed a 2yearold boy. She was charged with public intoxication after she was found lying on the ground. Today the defense called its first witness in the sentencing phase of the sierra lamar murder trial. The defendants mother was the first to take the stand to try to persuade a jury to spare her son. The state is looking into a complaint from a hayward woman when she paid her Home Warranty company for an upgrade that she didnt even get. Michael finney has been looking into this as well a. Reporter we purchase Home Warranty insurance to protect ourselveses from unexpected expenses and untimely repairs, one woman says her Warranty Company hasnt held up her end of the deal. Charlene does the best she can to maintain her 57yearold mobile home in hayward, right now she lives in the home with lucky the cocatoo. She says shes not able to maintain the home. Im not as young as i used to be. Reporter thats why she purchased this Home Warranty from First American home buyers protecti protection. Wen her heater broke down, she filed a claim. She says First American offered to pay her 500 rather than repairing or replacing the heater. First american has a right to do that under the contract. Charlene is not obligated the accept the offer. I was not happy. Reporter she decided to contact 7 on your side. We contacted First American and they told us it would agree to replace the heater. We would later learn from charle charlene, she was asked to pay 1,075 toward a new heater. I wanted heat. Reporter charlene says First American informed her that the law required mobile homeowners replace their heaters. Heaters would have to be at 90 heat efficiency. Mine was at 80 . Reporter u. S. Department of energy, California Energy commission and a local heating contractor all told us there was no such law. The minimum efficiency for furnaces in california is 80 , so theres no code that requires high efficiency furnaces. We notified first person about our finding, and it said that our Home Warranty contracts has terms, conditions and limitations, as a result there may be out of pocket costs for some items or repairs. First american said it would work with charlene on a resolution, but charlene said no resolution was everybody offered. We showed our contractor the work order from First American. It states right in here, 92 efficient furnace. He said that was not what was installed in charlenes home. Its 80 . It is an 80 . Reporter it was also a different model. The work order paid for a payne heater, that was 96 efficient. Charlene told us a contractor who installed her coleman originally bought a heater that didnt fit. He found another heater to replace it. The contractor said he was following instructions from First American. We reached out to First American again, it stood by its original statement. Im just angry at the Home Warranty company and probably a little bit the installer, because i dont know whats going on. I will stay on top of this and ill let you know what happens. Coming up at 11 00, you have a really interesting story. To show a numeric rating on a scale of 1 to 100. I look for the 90 plus, if im not going to buy something. But is t reporter but is the wine youre buying highly rated . Its not safe to go in the water, and look, youre seeing the reason next. Find out why there are so many more sharks off our california coast than usual. The Energy Conscious whopeople among usle . Say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Today President Trump became the first sitting u. S. President to visit the western wall in israel. Its part of his first foreign trip which is taking him to five countries in nine days. Today the president left saudi arabia and arrived in tel aviv, met with the president of israel and Prime Minister netanyahu. But we are more than friends we are great allies, we have so many opportunities in front of us. But we must seize them together. Meanwhile, back at home, the president s former National Security advisor will not cooperate with a Senate Investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election, Michael Flynn will invoke his fifth amendment right against incrimination. The Trump Administration is standing by its earth to crack down on sanctuary cities despite a court ruling against it. U. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions released a final guidance in a memo that defines a sanctuary jurisd this comes despite a ruling last month that temporarily blocked that effort. San francisco District Attorney Dennis Herrera issued a response to the memo saying quote, this guidance memo is coming from an administration that has a different explanation for things seemingly every time you turn around. This memo is selfserving and we cant trust it or rely on it. How San Francisco is remembering this pioneer of gay rights. [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when theyre smoked. [ rat squeaking ] theyre dangerous long after. Cigarette butts are toxic. They release chemicals that poison our water. And harm wildlife. And millions. Are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] harvey milk was born 87 years ago today. Me grew up, became an entrepreneur and activist and the first openly gay man to hold Public Office before he was assassinated just 11 months into his term. As abc7 News Reporter Jonathan Bloom explains, his ideas live on and theyre being celebrated today on harvey milk day. Reporter its one of 26 displays around the neighborhood. The kids at harvey milk civil rights academy, took part in windows for harvey, honoring harvey milk all over the castro. He stands for so many things like equality for all. This holiday, its about harvey, but its about our community as well. Reporter so the community got free admission to the museum on milks birthday. Its never too early to expose this little one to the history and culture of San Francisco. Reporter a culture that wasnt always so welcoming of differences. This tape is only to be played in the event of my death of assassination. I ask for you to continue to grow. Reporter it all started right here. Milks ideas have echoed across the country. Teresa sparks, the mayors Transgender Affairs director. The laws in our country change, its represented by a main bow flag. A documentary about himming is being played for students and seniors. Harveys message of giving them hope is very important for youth. Reporter its the best Birthday Gift they can imagine. Its about giving young people out there hope. Got to give them hope. Reporter in San Francisco, Jonathan Bloom, abc7 news. Queue the theme music for jaws, several california beaches are closed because of dozens of shark sightings. Two great white sharks were spotted today and 25 were spotted off this same beach yesterday. About two weeks ago some beaches farther north were also closed because of multiple shark sightings. There do seem to be a few more sharks than usual. It is their breeding and mating season. So the ecosystem is very strong. This time of year is also spawning season for grunion which those sharks feed off of. Reporter the beach was closed after helicopters spotted 15 more great white sharks just off the coast. The barrier is a beautiful place, and abc7 news viewers prove it. This picture has the abc7now which helped us find it and feature it on the. Thats a great shot. Heres a look from the roof of our abc7 news studios. Later in the week, well probably see a little bit les of the blue and more of the clouds. Its still going to be beautiful. We have low clouds and fog at the coast, sunny skies inland. Overnight fog will be dense along the bay. Then tomorrow the fog pulls back to the coastline giving us sunny conditions in the bay and inland. And how about old forecast, temperature will be in the low 80s graduation time. Dropping into the low 70s after 6 00 p. M. Partly cloudy, much cooler on wednesday, increasing clouds through thursday. A cooling trend through friday. Milder weather on saturday and sunday and especially monday which is memorial day. Its going to be a lovely memorial day. Theres Still One Team that can sweep their western conference finals, but i forget what their name is. The dubs . The dubs. Coming up on game four, the western conference finals ask under way in san antonio. The warriors t game four of the western conference finals is under way in san antonio. Les take in some of the early highlights. The spurs and Greg Popovich have their back against the wall and they dont like it. Curry stayed on the court for a while, no foul was called. San antonio got off to a slow start, but dany green knocks off this three. And kevin durant pulling up for a threepointer. Rookie Patrick Mccall got the start tonight. He picks up another 3, part of a 130 run. Patrick goes through all five defenders in this basket. Now with eight minutes left in the second quarter, spurs lead san antonio 4039. Boston rallied from a 21point Third Quarter deficit and beat the defending champ at home. One reason for the loss, lebron james who scored three points and none in the Third Quarter. You got to play the whole night and play aggressive. Its the eastern conference finals. Its nothing for him. What he does, what he brings, its not enough, he knows that, we know that, and well just expect him to be better on day four. Having won 7 of their last 9 games, the giants are trying to keep that momentum going in chicago. John lackey got the start, and joe panic takes them deep to left. Its panics eighth home run of the season. Albert lemore jr. Makes the catch, robbing him of extra bases. Its panic with the big hit, this ball goes over the head of jason hi jason hayward. And this ball keeping carrying, it will go for a double. And eduardo she becomes the schools first female Athletic Director since season jose state combined its mens and womens programs in 1987. We must elevate the success of all our teams and create sustainable resources. It is imperative that football lead the way and we are experiencing a new era of spartan football. After going through a drive through yesterday, scott dixon was robbed at gunpoint. The two were making a food run for a group of drivers. Fortunately no one was hurt. Two teenaged boys were later arrested and charged with robbery. Dixons team owner later joked, well, there goes that taco bell sponsorship. Next time they might be going to mcdonalds. We can laugh about it, fortunately no one got hurt. Maybe they go to wendys, mcdonalds. Anywhere but taco bell. Thanks, rick. Join us tonight at 9 00 on kofi tv 20 cable 13 at 11 00. Were staying on top of our breaking news from Manchester England. 19 people are confirmed dead and dozens more hurt in a likely terrorist attack at the Arianna Grande concert. And the bachelorette result, Rachel Lindsay will be on jimmy kimmel live. All right, thats it for this edition of abc7 nudews, look fo breaking news on the abc7 news app and on twitter. Food. Water. Internet we need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. This is jeopardy please welcome todays contestants a cell biologist from frederick, maryland a power engineer from chattanooga, tennessee. And our returning champion, a financial analyst from new york, new york. Whose 3day cash winnings total. And now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. I hope all of you were as impressed as i was with those marvelous teachers we had in competition on our program for the past two weeks. But now back to regular fare. Tanya, justin, welcome. Youre the newcomers. Ragavan, good to see you again. Lets go to work. Here are the categories for the first round of play today. Next. And finally. Ragavan, start. Books for 200. Tanya. Who is christian grey . Yes. Books, 400. Justin. What is the martian . Yes. Beers by state, 200
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