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KGO ABC7 News 800AM February 25, 2017

Afternoon. Showers, more of them will move in towards the evening. This is the first system, theres three that will bring amounts anywhere from. 10 to almost. 4 right on through monday. Ill tell you where and when in just a few minutes. Matt . Thank you, lisa. This huge eucalyptus tree came crashing down around 12 15 this morning near taylor boulevard. Chp said the tree is covering about 40 feet of the street and its about 30 feet high. No report on any injuries or when the lanes will open. A family dogged attacked a boy in concord. The boys father said the baby is being treated for bites to his head. The officers said they had no choice but to shoot and kill the dog. Reporter Concord Police shot and killed a family dog that moments earlier attacked a 10monthold boy. The dog was very aggressive. Took an aggressive stance toward our officers, and thats why our officer discharged his firearm. When the officer pulled him out, quite emotional scene. Having to wrap his head. Reporter the boy underwent surgery at oakland Childrens Hospital after suffering bites to the head. Hes expected to be okay. But his 7yearold brother is struggling after witnessing the traumatic attack. The 7yearold started screaming which caught moms attention. Mom was able to pull the child away. And prevent any further attack. And that probably saved his life. Reporter the German Shepherd mass tiff mix named charlie was 80 pounds. The mother stepped out of the room for a moment before the attack happened. Talking to the mom, it sounds like the dog never showed any signs of aggression before in the past. Mom actually raised this from when he was a pup. Contra costa Animal Services is investigating. In the east bay, abc 7 news. We first told you about the story last night with a push alert from the abc 7 news app. Download the app for free to get breaking news updates as it happens. Abc 7 news was at the south bay Mobile Home Park in san jose. More people returned home for the first time following this weeks devastating flooding. As if they people didnt have enough to worry about, now weve learned some of them have become crime victims. Reporter the nood water has receded from the south bay Mobile Home Park, now the focus is getting hot water. I had to buy a hot plate from frys for 20 bucks. Using the microwave and heating up water. Reporter bonnie is the assistant manager. She and her husband have been without gas for four days and three very cold nights. Its been really hard on him without having the heat and stuff. When youre 70something, you need your heat. Reporter now theyre among the lucky ones. Their gas is back on. Park utilities is going door to door relighting pilot lights. The great thing about it is people always smile when you knock on the door and say theyre going to have hot water. Reporter city officials have not completely lifted the evacuation order, but Park Management is encouraging people to return. Weve had three breakins unfortunately. At least check on your home. Reporter in other neighborhoods, people continue to toss out their waterlogged and contaminated belongings. Janet childs had to evacuate her mobile home tuesday, and shes an expert in traumatic stress. Do one task at a time that you can accomplish. Because that puts you from out of control to in control. The other thing that really helps issinging in community. So dont try to go it alone. Reporter the flood ravaged communities have certainly come together. In san jose, katie marzullo, abc 7 news. A multiagency onestop shop for evacuees hoping to get back on their feet. Advocates, insurance providers and emergency experts from the state will all be hand. The center will be open from 9 00 to 4 00 this evening and 8 00 to 6 00 on weekdays. San jose is trying to figure out how much damage there is to get relief funding. Yesterday city workers had dumpsters set up to help people get rid of furniture, piles of clothes and anything else damaged in this weeks flood. Its a god send. Theyre well organized. Its really a god send. The city says it will have dumpsters in all three areas inundated by floodwaters. Our team answered questions about consumer issues related to the flooding. James finney was getting answers from experts. Topics included help with pets and avoiding scammers. Ask your consumer questions on social media anytime using the ask finney. There are many ways to help the flood victims. Just text the word red cross to 90999. Red cross also needs volunteers. Find out how to help and go to our abc 7 news app or abc7news. Com. Neighbors have raised thousands of dollars for a pizza chef attacked near his restaurant. Abc 7 news was at bambinos restaurant last night. The Media Partners reported last sunday night johnny went out to his car from the restaurant to find his car broken into. Three people jumped and robbed him. They fractured bones in his forehead causing him to suffer a seizure. Hes now on medical leave recovering. Everybody pulled together. Everybodys working extra shifts to make up. Nobody cares. Thats what we do. Thats what you do. You help each other out. A neighbor said they just want to help his family with medical expenses. So far theyve raised about 3,500. The woman who claimed in a blog that uber encourages harassment said shes now a target of a smear campaign. She asked her twitter followers not to give out any personal information about her. She left uber in december saying her manager made sexual advances that were not investigated. Uber called that type of behavior wrong. Abc 7 news was at the castro theater in San Francisco last night for the lesbians to tech event. The goal four years ago was to attract more women and lesbians to the tech industry. This years strategy is so champion the fight for womens rights. A woman from los angeles cofounded the black lives matter movement. We believe black lives matter is a movement for every Single Person on the planet. Its a global struggle, wherever there is black people, theres a time to fight back. You all hear that . More than 2,000 people are expected to attend this year. Lesbians to tech continues through tomorrow. The oscars are one day away, and while hollywoods biggest night is all about the awards, its also about the swag. Kristen see hung out in hollywood with the celebrities taking part in all the fun. Reporter so much awaits the alist celebrity in hollywood. One of their favorite events around oscar weekend is the swag party. This party in hollywood is one of many where celebrities can load up on lavish goods. Real housewives of atlanta star is a happy attendee of the style lounge. This is ridiculous. We get them and all we do is show up, and we get things. Thats ridiculous in this world. Reporter companies eager to see their products on celebrities provide thousands of dollars worth of items for free. Some offer unique experiences. What are you giving away here . Were letting celebrities and other people go ahead and come to one of our rocket launches. Were taking them out on the tour, let them hug the rocket. Reporter former American Idol judge is here shopping, but also talking shop. I asked him what he thinks about this years oscar nominations. Very diverse this year. Happy about that. I do think that la la land is going to win a lot of awards. Reporter as the celebrities party, fans are soaking up the oscar experience. And crews are busy putting the finishing touches on the dolby theater to ensure all will be perfect on hollywoods biggest night. Watch the oscars live only on abc 7 tomorrow. Live coverage begins at 2 00 p. M. Jimmy kimmel is hosting the oscars for the first time at 5 30 p. M. It looks like were going to have showers, maybe a good time to stay in and watch the oscars. Exactly. The timing will be good both today and tomorrow. More evening showers. And the day, yeah, were going to have low clouds, high clouds, maybe a passing shower. But temperatures remain cool. Still just in the 30s in san ramon, santa rosa. 41 san jose and mountain view. Well see ab end to the showers and warm up. The big question is, when. Stay with us. Ill have your accuweather sevenday forecast next. So much snow, its piling up in one sierra city and they dont know what it do with it. The ski resort is open until the fourth of july. Surprise delivery in a car in the east bay. The baby girl who just could not wait to you feel every mountain weve ever conquered. In our sports cars, you feel every podium weve ever climbed. And now, theyve come together to create something youve never felt before. Introducing the glc coupe. Part suv. Part sports car. All mercedesbenz. Good morning. A live look in santa cruz. Chance of scattered showers today. Drivethrough bank this is not. Somehow a car ended up in the lobby on East West Bank in San Franciscos sunset district last night. Looks like the driver went right through the front window. No one was hurt. The Alameda County Sheriffs Department has confirmed a body found along Alameda Creek in fremont is that of jenkins. She had been missing for more than a month. Rescue workers searched for days. That search was hampered by storms. Thursday night a man walking his dog found jenkins body 11 miles from where her car crashed. Her family, we have been in touch with them. They were relieved to know that we found jada. They can now begin their closure, begin to start healing. And begin to try to make sense of this tragedy. Sergeant kelly said theres nothing to indicate foul play. Shes just one day old but a baby girl in the east bay has already taken her parents on a wild ride. Elisa harrington tells us the baby was born in the car outside the hospital. Reporter a special and fast delivery for kim gooden and dan stoke of oakland. They surprised everyone when she decided to make her arrival in the back seat of a car. A mellow night at home. A slow kind of normal labor. And then within about a half an hour, it just it was mayhem. Reporter by morning, things took off. They got into the car for the short drive to the hospital, but amara would not wait. The head was already crowning when we got to the hospital. Reporter the family got as far as that driveway. Thats the Valet Parking dropoff in front of the hospital. A nurse who had just arrived for her shift heard screaming, and jumped into action. She called for a code stork, an emergency announcement that lets the hospital know theres a baby being born outside. Surveillance video shows the crowd of hospital staff surrounding the car. That nurse has 32 years experience, but thursday was the first time she delivered a baby on her own. I think i was kind of in denial that it was happening. And that i was just relieved that there were people there, and i felt very safe. Like everyone had it under control. Reporter mom, dad and baby are all doing well. And although it was chaotic, its a story they look forward to sharing with their little girl when shes older. Elissa harrington, abc 7 news. B. A. R. T. s overall ridership is down. Theyre facing a 15 to 250 milli 25 million deficit. The agency said the number of people riding b. A. R. T. Has slumped. Ridership is down 4 during the weekdays and a whopping 9 on weekends. They dont exactly know why. It might be because were doing more track work on the weekends and theres delays. Maybe lyft and uber has something to do with it. I think enough people ride it they could run it even earlier. I dont really understand. B. A. R. T. Says its already putting a hiring freeze in place. Theres talk of raising fares and cutting service. Governor brown said 430 million is needed to fix dams and levees up and down california. In a rare news conference, the governor pointed at the recent issues of the oroville dam as an example. Brown said the money will address just one of many state priorities. Affordable housing, child care, many, many issues. So its just that in a government as big as this, not everything will be taken care of always. Lucky for you, because you wouldnt have a damn thing to do if we didnt have these kind of problems. Most of the 430 million will come from a 7. 5 billion water bond approved by voters in 2014. Theres so much snow around lake tahoe, some communities have nowhere to put it. This picture was posted from Incline Village on instagram. The snow is towering above her. The road supervisor said hes never seen anything like this before. Crews are working 16hour shifts for days on end to clear the main roads and chip it out of the area. Work on the side streets starts next week. Looks like skiers and snowboarders will be able to hit the slopes during the summer. Squaw valley Alpine Meadow plans to stay open until july 4th. More than 47 feet of snow has fallen in the area. Here in the bay area, doctors are already seeing an increase in those who suffer from allergies. Those blossoms are beautiful, but not so much if youre running for the kleenex. One allergist said its not the trees causing the pollen count to rise, its actually juniper and elderberry. He said, quote, we aint seen nothing yet. Now, your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. Good morning, everyone. Saturday morning had to put together a threehour loop to show you, yes, we did have showers this morning. Well have a bit of a break before more arrive tonight. There are multiple systems, about three of them, that will push down from the north right on through monday. And add up our totals, as we do a threeday total in just a few minutes. But it is snowing, truckee, blue canyon, light flakes there, winter advisory goes into Effect Tomorrow morning, lasts through monday morning. 4 to 6 inches over the passes. And the ski resorts could see up to 8 inches. A little more on the way with the gusty winds. A live look outside. You can see some of the cloud cover with temperatures still in the 30s in some of our protected valleys. Gill roi, low 40s. 346 in oakland, half moon bay. The coast is the best chance of showers. No delays at sfo. The peninsula looks nice and sunny with the upper 30s. With the cloud cover overnight were just a bit warmer. Youre wondering, showers, what shower activity . Well, were going to show you a time lapse of what were expecting with the snow levels down to 2,500 feet. Its going to stay cold right on through monday. And with the cold showers, maybe a rain snow mix. Lake county, mount diablo, Mount Hamilton. Then it changes tuesday into the end of the week, and beyond. Highs today scattered light showers at times, in the mid50s. Mostly cloudy, some sunshine. But as we go through the next several days, were keeping it a 1 on our storm impact scale for today, tomorrow and wednesday. The snowy peaks are still a possibility. So throughout the day today, your saturday, weve got clouds, weve got some sun, and then by dinnertime, the rain that has been offshore begins to push onshore. So by about 8 00 tonight, you can see around Mount Hamilton and much of the south bay looking at some scattered showers. It pushes on out. Here comes our next system. Low snow levels, spotty showers, sunday night. And then they just keep on rolling in, right on through monday morning. Amounts anywhere from a couple of hundredths. Some of this a little aggressive. Throughout the three days you can count on about quarter of an inch to a third of an inch in some spots. Pesky shower activity, but with the break tonight, its cold again. Low 30s north bay. 39 palo alto. A few cold showers on and off throughout mainly the Late Afternoon today. The evening tomorrow. The morning on monday. 1s on the storm impact scale. Pr bright and sunny for tuesday. Download our abc 7 news app, and youll get the updates if we and allow the push alerts. Were all waiting for that match weather, i know. I love the look of the doppler on my app and just see nothing. I know. It will be a little active this weekend, though. Thank you, lisa. Just ahead, breaking bread with police. The east bay officer who has a request for her community. In honor of black history month, were using our instagram feed to recognize people who made history where they live. Angela davis is a renowned civil rights figure. Her social activism started in the 1960s, and was cited when she was fired from ucla. Former california governor Ronald Reagan vowed she would never again teach in the university of california system. We have more information on our abc 7 so now im not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of 548 whoo i mean, whoo. Heres a strange piece of video here. This is bumblebees playing soccer. Researchers in london trained bees to roll a ball into a goal by rewarding them with sugar water. Some bees were able to do it without any demonstration. Other bees watched their companions do it and found quicker ways to move the ball. Playing with marbles during recess gave students in San Francisco a jumpstart on physics. Students at Roosevelt Middle School built roller coasters out of foam tubes and tape. Yesterdays event was part of engineering week in which students learn how to use a 3d printer, a drone and flight simulator. A few students were able to roll their marbles through the loops, twists and turns. The Pittsburgh Police department sent out a message yesterday from one of its officers. Really an invitation from sergeant simentell. Thats her eating a sandwich. This is how i eat most of my work meals alone. She said it can get lonely to eat alone. I invite you to pull up a chair and break bread with me own if i dont know you. Still to come on abc 7 mornings quoi mornings, mud and misery in san jose. President trump takes on the fbi. He says the agency is totally unable to stop the National Security leakers. He wants knows how it feels to seees your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. But what if you could turn things around . What if you could love your numbers . Discover oncedaily invokana®. Its the 1 prescribed sglt2 inhibitor that works to lower a1c. Invokana® is a pill used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. 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