Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY 20140522 : c

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY 20140522

For the past ten years, good evening. This story is developing in southern california. The victim taken from her home in 2004 finally worked up the nerve to report her abduction on facebook. The man accused. 41yearold Isidro Garcia who has been charged with kidnapping and rape and false imprisonment. Abc News Reporter sid garcia is on the story. Oh, my gosh. Reporter the neighbors are stunned by the news that their neighbor is accused of kidnapping his wife ten years ago when she was a young teeb teen. Neighbors knew Isidro Garcia as thomas medrano, they say the couple lived here for ten years. Neighbors say they never suspected anything was wrong. He treated her like a queen. Yeah. And this is isidro. You recognize him . Yeah, we know him. And now when you know what he is accused of. That is weird. We never i would never imagine that. Reporter Maria Sanchez says she helped garcias wife organize their baby shower, and other gettogethers with garcias family and friends. Sanchez says she never suspected garcias wife was in any trouble. Sanchez describes him as a loving husband. The couple seemed happy, other neighbors say. The neighbor said she cant believe Something Like that can happen so close to home. Well, it happens, you just never think of you know, in your own neighborhood. You know this close. Especially we live by the police department. Reporter that is si dr garcia reporting. Police say the suspect had warned the victim her family had given up looking for her and if she tried to go back to them they would be deported so she was scared. 49ers linebacker aldon smith facing weapons charges. Yes your honor. It was not expected and late this afternoon inside a san jose courtroom that was his plea and it could clear the way for the niners or maybe the nfl to suspend smith for the upcoming season. The judge scheduled smiths sentencing for july 25th. He faces a wide range of possible sentences from probation to up to four years in jail. He faces illegal weapons charges related to a party in his home in 2012 as well as dwi charges after a car crash in san jose last september. An embarrassing incident for former assemblywoman mary hayashi, who pled no contest to shoplifting several years ago. Now as she runs for senate, the video has been made public. Reporter in her defense, the 2011 shoplifting charges, mary hayashi says she was distracted by her cell phone and didnt realize she walked out of Neiman Marcus with clothing she had not paid for. At a 2012 court hearing, she was said to have had a brain tumor that impaired her judgment. W it what happened. For most of the hourlong Surveillance Video she looks like several other shoppers carrying bags and thumbing through the racks. When she leaves the store and two Security Officers stop her things dont look quite right. She was not distracted. Reporter it was a wikowski supporter and blogger who obtained the video. I think it is important for voters to know that this incident happened. She is still on probation, and if she were elected to the state senate she would be on probation. Reporter but hayashis camp sees a big problem with the video. Two and a half years after the incident and three weeks before the june primary. Hayashi was not available for comment but her spokesperson said the attacks are the kind that come from a serial bully who will say and do anything to stay in power no matter what. I think we have to trust the voters whether to decide if this is an important issue that speaks to her trustworthiness, or if this is something that is best put in the past. Reporter hayashi pled no contest to grand theft in 2012 and is serving three years probation. In castro valley, laura anthony, abc 7 news. All right, we have dramatic and really frightening of a robbery in progress in san jose. Watch. Open the register right now, now this happened about two ws ago at a convenience store, a man with a shotgun strikes the customer in the face and orders employees to lie down in the floor. Then he takes an undisclosed amount of cash and is described as a white perhaps hispanic male, 58, 160 to 190 pounds. The getaway car was a silver toyota with a paper license plate. A woman faces charges tonight for a knife attack on the uc berkeley campus. Police say that flood attacked a man who was moving through a pile of items she left at a campus building. She is accused of punching the man and then taking a knife from his pocket and slashing his hands. Neither person has any connection to the school. Well, if you use ebay an important warning tonight. Youre being urged by the company to change your password after a massive hike of the site. Ebay compromised a data base containing customer names, passwords, email, addresses, home addresses, phone numbers even birthdays. Ebay says the hackers did not get financial data, however. As we understand it, apparently the hackers used ebay employees codes to get in somehow. They hacked into that. Ebay says it has not seen any increased fraudulent account activity. The website is now working with police and Security Experts to deal with this. Well, happening now a large dead whale has washed up on the rocks in san mateo county. Here is a picture were talking about, it is believed to be a hump back, it is starting to swell. No word on how long it was there but pictures showed up on social media. Well have more at 11 over on channel 7. And a south bay woman was honored today in san jose for her heroic actions in texas. Idia womack was driving in south texas to her mothers funeral when she saw an suv crash, three people were thrown from the car, one person was severely injured and pregnant. Well, idia could see the baby coming through the mothers stomach. She was able to deliver the baby but sadly the mother died at the hospital. A texas lawman says if it were not for what she did both would have been lost. There was no one else on the road but us so we stopped and assisted the people. Both lives would have been lost. So today on behalf of the Texas Department of public safety, we want to recognize ms. Womack with the directors award. Fantastic. She has four kids and she says her maternal instinct kicked in. It happened on the way to her mothers funeral and she was still able to save lives. And tonight, we chronicle a journey sent by a note. And a person who found it later. Also, one of the oldest buildings in San Francisco revitalized. And well have quite a warmup coming our way. Well have the forecast in just a moment. And what is the one thing you would invent in order to make the world a better place . Tonight, 50 female narrator through monday, get 36 months through monday, get 36 months interestfree financing and save up to 400 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on Serta Icomfort and tempurpedic, but this special financing offer ends memorial day at sleep train. Tomorrow morning get the weather where you live. We have some low clouds for the Morning Hours but sunshine breaks up in the afternoon. And at 6 00. Dont miss michael finney, watch abc 7 news tomorrow morning. You know, part of the romance seems to have disappeared from taking a cruise. The cruise lines now frown on passengers tossing messages overboard in bottles. But some folks keep trying, and as abc of News Reporter Wayne Freedman finds out, they often end up in unlikely hands. Reporter here is to the mystery of romance, fate delivered in a message in a bottle. This is going to sound crazy. Reporter he claims that he loved finding messages in ocean trash, he blogs about them and produces videos about how to open them. Yes, people do get distracted like this. And one bottle he found in the British West Indies concerned him. It said may, 2007, please return this note to john, and it gives his last name as well as address. Reporter that would be john buckle of cupertino who has thrown more than his fair share of bottles. There is a rumor that you have been littering the ocean. Im afraid so. Reporter two strangers now linked by the cruise near the azores. It was a veranda kabin right here. Like a balcony, off the balcony. Reporter he wants to know when and where a bottle came to shore. Clint is obsessed with making connections. I had a dream to meet everybody in the world. As i got older i realized it wouldnt be possible. This revived that feeling. Reporter now, john is on his list. I want to ask him about mainly why he does it. If he does it as a hobby, why . I have to do it pretty wide so it doesnt slam back into the ship. Two men brought together by tides and junk mail from the sea. In fact, i saw a billboard today advertising 79 flights each way to san jose which is right there. So like, huh. Maybe i should just head on out. Or not. In couple continue oh, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 tue. Californias state parks chief is stepping down after just 18 months on the job, Anthony Jackson took over in 2012 after it was revealed the department had hidden millions of dollars at the same time the state was planning to close parks. The former marine general was given the job of restoring confidence in the parks department. Jacksons last day is june 30th. No word on who will replace him. One of San Franciscos oldest buildings getting a makeover, including an exhibit hall at one of the countrys top restaurants, the citys club has been under restoration, the bar was transformed into classrooms to teach school kids about california history and the walls made of mud, bricks were reinforced to protect against earthquakes. It took quite an effort but the 230yearold building was restored to its original splendor. You just add it on. What we really did was try to peel off some of the layers that were more modern to reveal what was really historic. A Mexican Restaurant is still under construction on the first floor. The chef is tracy desjardins, who has been named best chef by several publications. And San Francisco airport experiencing significant delays from denver and here is why. A powerful thunderstorm moved through colorado this afternoon. At least four tornadoes touched downni including one that force Denver International to ground flights. Passengers were also ordered to evacuate gates and find shelter. The same storm also pounded the region with marble sized hail and heavy rain. Drivers stopped their cars under overpasses in order to stop the deluge and pounding on interstate 70. There are reports of flooding and winds up to 60 miles an hour as well. And springtime in that part of the country hand produces that kind of weather as we know. Well, Spencer Christian is here. We are so happy and fortunate that things are much calmer. Those hail stones can be very harmful. Theyre heavy they will tear across your car, causing all kinds of paint damage. We have calm conditions here in the bay area right now with mainly clear skies. Were getting a few more clouds, especially near the coast and out over the bay at the moment. Lets take a look live from our roof top camera here across the embarcadero, with cloudy skies, 55 degrees in San Francisco, upper 50s in oakland, san carlos, mid50s at morgan and half moon bay. And a live view across the bay you can see the outline of some clouds there in the sky. It is not a very cloudy sky. 57, santa rosa, lowtomid 60s in fairfield and concord and exactly 60 degrees at livermore. And at the skyline, San Francisco with clouds in the background there. These are the forecast features here, low clouds, fog, near the coast and bay tonight. Warmer days lie ahead through sunday. Cooling down slightly through memorial day, monday, a nice warm day. Here is our satellite radar composite. The upper level low bringing us unsettled weather with. Turning south, moving east, diving southward but it is moving away from the bay area. It will lose its influence here as it moves out. For the inland areas the warming trend will continue. For the week ahead in livermore. Look for high temperatures, midtoupper 80s, topping out at 91 on sunday, as it will in many of our other inland locations and temperatures will start to drop a little bit on monday and tuesday. So on we go to overnight conditions here in the bay area, increasing fog along the coast, low temperatures in the lowtomid 50s. 81 tomorrow at san jose, 84 in morgan hill. 78 in redwood city, low 60s on the coast, partly foggy tomorrow. Downtown San Francisco, a high of 67 tomorrow, north bay, highs of 80 degrees at santa rosa, 79 at novato, 72 at castro valley, and 75 at fremont, 80s, 85, livermore. 87 at antioch, here is the accuweather sevenday forecast as i struggle to hold onto my voice. Temperatures will rise through the weekend. Sunday the warmer day with inland highs in the low 90s. Mid80s around the bay. Upper 60s on the coast. A little bit of cooling monday, tuesday, wednesday, monday, memorial day will be a spectacular day with east coast. Nice and warm, no extremes. Mild at the coast, warm inland. Beautiful, wonderful. Yeah, allergies this time of night. Well, still to come on abc 7 news at 9 00. A dream come true for a star wars fan. A big announcement that could take you to a galaxy far, far away. And the mystery of a broken gn gnome buzzing around the area. And may is Asian Pacific month, and were using our themes to honor the areas in the bay community. And today we recognize patel, the chief engineer of hewlettpackard labs in palo alto. Currently the holder of 100 patents. Way to go. We have more information heat shields are compromised. We have multiple failures. Are those thrusters burning . Thats a negative. Whats that alarm . Fuel cell two is down. Im going to have to guide her in manually. This is very exciting. But im at my stop. Come again . Im watching this on the train. Its so hard to leave. Good luck with everything. With the uverse tv app, the uverse revolves around you the uverse revolves around you safeway gets that staying on budget can be a real bear. Thats why theyve got lots of ways to save. Real big club card deals, the safeway app and gas rewards. 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Well, nobody knew until tonight it was hiding a secret. The owner calls it pete and dedicated a Facebook Page to it. The inside figure appears to be linked to the gnomes inside, some think it was an angel, but accidentally fell into it in the factory, either way, everybody is talking about it. And stay here with me if you can. Coming up, passengers fighting back. They say the airlines are hiding the true cost of tickets. You might think crazy what im about to say. Iran cracks down on happiness. The arrests today and how the countrys president is responding. And the local citizen scientists who are taking over anaa nasa space dog get four years get four years interestfree financing on the entire tempurpedic cloud collection, even a queen size sealy gel memory Foam Mattress for just 497. Mattress discounters Memorial Day Sale ends monday. Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Good evening, once again well start the half hour with traveling. And now to a call to expand the passengers bill of rights. The government wants to shed new light on the confusing fees so you know exactly how much your ticket costs before you buy the thing. Everything from baggage fees to seat charges and taxes. Abc News Reporter Lindsey Janis on this new crackdown. So youre excited about your vacation . The family travels a lot. And tonight the government wants to make sure they dont get any nasty surprises at the airport. All of those extra airline fees, weve all been there, lured by Advertising Fees only to be shocked at the total bill. The department of transportation is proposing new rules that would require airl e airlines and travel agents to be more transparent, disclosing all the charges up front, not in small print. That would include extra fees for checked bags, carryones and advanced seat assignments. The fortes are planning their summer vacation. Here is what they will pay to fly to hilton head, south carolina, 494 per ticket. But look, sitting together could cost them an extra 15 each. One checked bag, 25. A second . 35. Some Airlines Even charging up to 50 for carryones. The final ticket price could be 619 each. That is 500 in extra fees for a family of four. The faa wants that spelled out clearly. But tonight, the Airline Industry is fighting back. Saying we believe this proposal overreaches and limits how free markets work. The new rules could go into effect as early as next year. Just in time for the fortes next big trip. Lindsey janis, abc news, new york. And San Francisco b b says it will hand over information about its users to the attorney general. New york is trying to find People L

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