Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20160525 : comp

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20160525

The brink of elimination. After trailing by 19 at the half. Warriors back in the game with the big third quarwnr. Larry is in with reaction later in the newscast. Now the warriors cap tie the series with a win in game 5 back at oracle thursday. Needless to say that is going to be a critical game. Game 6 saturday in Oklahoma City and game 7 would be monday back in oakland. Lets move on now. Investigators are looking into what happened today when an amtrak train hit and killed an suv driven by a mom who had vanessa and her 3yearold daughter sadie. Happened around 1 30 today and david louie has more. Amtrak train with 39 passengers on board was northbound from san jose to sacramento. When it crashed into the dark suv when the woman and young child inside. The suv was caught on the tracks with no way to escape. It appears that the vehicle that was strucknj today was trapped in traffic. Was stuck there prior to the railroad arms going down and was unable to get off thebn trak safely before it was impacted at high rate of speed by the amtrak train. Thinks all that is left of the suv after both passengers were removed. First responders describe the child as approximately three years old. Mv federal investigators are on scene to check the crossing arms and warning system. The speed of the train hasnt been determined but amtrak says the maximum speed is 79 miles an hour. 244 people were killed last year in rail crossing accident accidents. This is the second amtrak involved virginia fatality in two days here. Yesterday a pedestrians was struck and killed at davis street. This accident pass particularly difficult for first responders. What i get from a lot of them is blank stare and that because of the fact they are fathers. I get that because of the fact people in that vehicle are the able of their family members. Reporter responders will be offered council to go deal with what they encountered. Miss say they will be looking for video from neighboring businesses and homes to see9k if any one recorded the accident. Unclear is how much time there was for the two people to get out before impact. Passengers aboard the amtrak train were transferred to a bus to continue their journey. In san leandro, david louie abc 7 news. The investigation into the shooting death of man in palo alto last year has found no evidence that police did anything wrong. The Santa Clara County District Attorney released video of the incident showing the man charging at officers with a knife. Drop the knife. Reporter we are not showing you the video of the actual shooting because it can of course be disturbing. Heres the audio. You can hear how many shots were fired. Man shot to death was william raft. Da believes he created a fake emergency to commit suicide by attacking the officers. He had attempted suicide twice before the shooting. Palo alto Police Release this statement. We have tremendous sympathy for the raft family and williams friends and loved ones. Also mindful of the lasting effect this incident has had on our personnel and any witnesses. Few answers after the Court Appearance today of three people charged with the murder of a millbrae man. One of the 3 suspects tiffany lee is the daughter of a wealthy family in china and the ex girlfriend of the murder victim. Vic lee has more. Reporter mother and brother of murdered suspect tiffany lee takened the arraignment but left without saying a word. Lee, the 3 suspects appeared in court charged with killing keith green. Lees former boyfriend and father of her two children. Murder charge is enhanced with a special alleges. The allegation that a firearm was used in the commission of the offense by one of the parties involved. Reporter abc 7 news learned earlier that green died from a single bullet wound to the neck. His body was discovered two weeks ago dumped on small road in sonoma county. Green disappeared april 29. The day he went to the pan cake house in millbrae. Reportedly to meet lee to settle child custody issues. Sources who know the family tell abc 7 news tiffany lee is the daughter of a rich and powerful family in china. She lived in this mansion which her mother bought in hillsboro. Early saturday morning a sheriffs s. W. A. T. Team converged on the home. Broke through the steel gates and arrested lee and current boyfriend. She was arrested the day before in burlingame. Green and lee had an acrimonious split when she began an affair. Business records show him as president of american healing collective. Listed on yelp as cannabis clinic. But Office Address in foster city showed no such company. Other address listed was tiffany lees hillsboro home. As to the custody of green and lee two Young Children lee Attorney Says its still up in the air. As to what is going to happen with that, that will go to court and dont know an answer to that. Reporter they no longer have a father. The question now is whether mother will ever come home. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Santa rosa police say a shooting of a 15yearold boy last night appears to be an attempted suicide by cops. Police say an officer shot the boy in the foot when he upon upon theed a handgun at him 1 11 30 last night in coffee par park. Investigators say this was the weapon the teenager was carrying. Its an air soft pellet gun. They believe the teen removed the orange tip so officers would shoot him. They also say he was the one who phone entered a report of man with a gun inside the park. Hes now undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. Investigators are trying to establish the identity of man found dead in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park this morning. They found the body of older man floating face down in the lake at about 7 00 a. M. Miss say this may have been a struggle and they are treating the death as azgau they drained theb lake, searchd forx evidence8 ane neighbors about the identity. Jz the bee that terrorize a the bee that terrorize a and agricultureos found theq wered rupricannkm were thochltok but just europeanxr hy earlier this month the bees9n several people6p along hitchcock roadh in concordbjy most of the bees captureddn or c city of san josefb one step closer to securingh the highly sought aftergg google fiber,a service. S Evening Council members approvew a fiber Line Construction plan that would s bring blazing fasten net speeds toch of the city. Reporter we have all been there before. Anxiously waiting for a down load to finish. It takes forever to÷q load it so i think the fiber would actually speed up the process. Reporter this evening the San Jose City Council Unanimously approved google application to install fiber cable across the city. Service google fiber would allow customers to transfer data at up to 1,000 meg bit peri second meeting meaning a movie could be pun loaded in a minute but some have questioned if theres really a need for it. We want everything pretty much at the snap of our finger. It make sense for down loading this but i feel it can be a little excessive. Reporter others say its absolutely necessary in a tech driven society especially in silicon valley. We dont want other country to go ahead of us we want to be the leader and to be innovatio innovation. We want to be lead intertechnology. Reporter San Francisco will likely be the first California City to have the service but only be available in selective apartment and condo. Assuming all goes as planned san jose would become one of only handful of city across america with city wide google Fiber Service joining places such as provo, austin and kansas city. San jose state professor says google fiber forces company such as comcast and at t to ramp up the game. They have to compete and bring up the data rate. They have to lower the price in order to survive. Reporter google plans to install then fiber hud in san jose this summer each with capacity to serve 40,000 customers a piece. But the city says it could take up to three years to install of the fiber cables n. San jose, abc 7 news. Protestors gather at trump event tonight. Also the Clinton Campaign reaches out to shark tank investor mark cuban. Could he play a role in the campaign. Reservation cancelled and thats exactly what people wanted. How much it would have cost to make sure you had a place to picnic. Sandhya is checking on our weather. Yes. It has been unseasonably cool to the start of this work week. But that is going to being cha. Ill talk about a warmer weather pattern coming up. Still ahead. How brad pitt came to the rescue of young girl being crushed by a crowd of fans. Crushed by a crowd of fans. 7 news i donor wonder whether i theshould seek treatment. C. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients whove had no prior treatment. It transformed treatment as the first cure thats one pill, once a day for 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Harvoni is a simple treatment regimen thats been prescribed to more than a quarter of a million patients. Tell your doctor if youve had a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv, or any other medical conditions, and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni may cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni may include tiredness, headache and weakness. I am ready to put hep c behind me. I am ready to be cured. Are you ready . Ask your hep c specialist if harvoni is right for you. Antitrump protestors cleared away in new mexico. Smoke grenade where he was speaking were fired. Protestors tried to break through Police Barricade and storm the trump event. Officers blocr them sought crowd started burning t shirts and throwing bothers at officers. At least one person was arrested. Hillary clinton won the democratic primary in Washington State tonight. Although it doesnt get her any delegates washington delegates were awarded through the caucus in march. Bernie sanders got 74 and clinton got 27. Clinton was in Southern California tonight giving supporters in riverside a preview of how shes going to go after donald trump. He says we should pull out of nato. We should ban all muslims from come to the u. S. A country founded on freedom of religion. And we should return to tortur torture. Tomorrow clinton will campaign in salinas before holding a fundraiser and will visit san jose on thursday. And tonight there is word that clintons camp reached tout meet Dallas Mavericks owner and star of shark tank mark cuban. He has grown increasingly critical of donald trump. Billionaire has previously said would he consider the vicepresident ial slot on her ticket. Former president clinton spent today in the bay area. We were in fremont when the motorcade arrived at private home for fundraiser. Price to attend started at 1,000 dollars. Mean time uc berkeley professor is long time friend of the clintons and served as labor secretary under pill clinton. But robert rice not supporting Hillary Clinton in the election. Hes becoming Bernie Sanders instead and he explained to us why. Its never an easy decision. I feel very fondly toward Hillary Clinton. I have phone her since she was 19 years old a lot of faith in her. I think she would make the great president for the system we now have but the system we have doesnt function well. I endorse Bernie Sanders because i think hes the best candidate to change the system into the system we need. Reporter today Bernie Sanders rallied followers in Southern California. He told supporters in anaheim that his campaign is about challenging greed. Sanders also held a rally today in riverside and campaigned in san bernardino. Yesterday the phone day to register for the june primary and 200,000 people signed up. Many of the new voters are between 17 and 25 years of age. The california secretary of state says it was the most on line registration activity this year. Your own patch of grass for 30 to 250 dollars just seems like we are a nickel and dim dimeing our city. After big backlash San Francisco Recreation Park Department cancelled a park reservation policy. People worried they would have to pay just for a spot on the grass at popular park. Carolyn tyler has that stor story. Reporter on sunny weekends this is the scene at dolores park in San Francisco mission district. Nearly every inch taken. So when they put autopsy sign telling people to go on line for a permit to pay and reserve a spot, the reaction was fast and furious. I think thats really ridiculous. Reporter in fact just since monday a petition against reservations has gathered more than 13,000 signatures and counting. The supervisor introduced a resolution today demanding the department back off. Reserving your own patch of grass for 30 to 250 dollars . Just seems like we are nickel and dimeing our city. Reporter but the Department Says the policy is only for about 5 percent of dolores par park. Only applies to large gruchlts hold people accountable for the trash and has been in place for decades throughout the city. Group less than 25, please, come an injoy your park for picnic whatever. We are just trying to be able to be mindful of larger group take want to use park also. Reporter because of the backlash and after consult with neighborhood supervisors scott weiner the reservation system has now been suspended. Sometimes you can barely even see the grass and so it doesnt really make sense to to reserve lawn space at the park. Reporter change is only for dolores park. In San Francisco, Carolyn Tyler abc 7 news. Well whether dolores park or any other around the bay area pretty nice time to be outside. Certainly is. Sandhya is here with a look at our forecast hi sandhya. Yes. Its great looking weather to go out and have a picnic especially next couple days. Lets check out live doppler 7hd and foy we have partly to mostly cloudy sky across the bay area. Few showers around lake mendocino counties long gone. Temperatures in the 50s and the 60s. Earlier this afternoon our warmest spots only in the low 70s. Which like you both said is nice weather to be out and about. From our exploratorium camera overcast conditions over the financial district. Spotty drizzle for the morning commute. We look at below average temperatures continuing tomorrow and warmer pattern is setting up for the hotel difficult weekend. Look at our computer animation here. This is a forecast for what is going to happen tonight. 11 00 p. M. Obviously we are seeing the cloud cover. As we head toward the morning commute a little bit of green showing up at 5 00 a. M. Indicating there might be some spotty mist or drizzle around during the commute. Upper 40s to the mostly cloudy 50s so like this morning it starts out on the cool side. Now for the rest of the day heres what you can expect. 8 00 a. M. Still looking at some patchy drizzle around parts of the bay area. Just enough to where you need to turn your wiper on briefly. Heres where its not necessar necessarily brief once again showers and possible thunder firing up in the hills there right above clear lake area and around the Mendocino County area through 5 00 oclock tomorrow evening and then things will settle down. Tomorrow afternoon in the south bay 69 gilroy. San jose 67. Sunnyvale 68. Los gatos clouds still lingering on the peninsula. Upper 60s from redwood city to palo alto. 61 in half moon bay. 60 in pacifica. Sunset district downtown San Francisco 62 degrees. North bay this is going to be the best chance for seeing the showers right around like port. Ukiah. 72 in santa rosa. 70 nap a. 66 san rafael vallejo. In the east bay temperatures still running a little bit behind where they should be but i dont think too many people are complaining. Mid 60s Oakland Hayward 67 fremont inland spots nice and mild. Normally in the 80s and 90s but this is nice change of pace. 71 in concord. 70 degrees in livermore. Now take a look at the temperature trend forth upcoming weekend. On saturday it is going to be warmer. Low 60s at the coast. We get you up in the 80s inland. Really pleasant for your sunday as well. Similar range of temperatures and then by monday which is memorial day the weather looks fantastic. Something for everyone mild coast side warm inland for any of your out door plans. Accuweather 7 day forecast show you that the temperatures will remain below normal for one more day and then i hope you are not too used to the pattern because things do start to change on thursday. Low 60s to upper 70s. Temperatures trending higher. Right on through the Holiday Weekend so we are looking at mid 60s to mid 80s saturday. Sunday is shiite dip in the temperature only to recover near 90 degrees for your memorial day plans inland mid 60s coast. I guess it is unofficial start of summer so appropriate. I guess so. All right thank you sandhya. Still to come. Another piece of the old bay bridge disappeareright in front of our eyes today. And the new policy pay area restaurant put in place to stop people from selling i drive a golf ball. I drive to the hoop. I drive a racecar. I have a driver. Caltrans crews made unexpected discovery before the demolition of the bay bridge. They found 4 cormorant egg. They are trying to discourage the bird from nesting in the old bridge but some are tenacious and they do any way. The bird rescue group is incubating the eggs. They join 9 others from were found a few weeks ago. Very pleased that the bird were not harmed. The eggs particularly were not harmed and protected and the processc was fully engaged. Reporter today crews began removing the third truss of 5 that need to come down. Work on this section is

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