Cruelty and abuse all, she says at the hands of people considered men of god. A female worker tells us she was fired from the st. Francis of Assissi Church because she would no longer submit to harassment include spanking. The church contends she was fired for other reasons. This single mother with a 2yearold child worked as an assistant in the church. She says the president of the church board knew she was volumenerable as a young single mother with no particular skills, matthews says he exploited her, to satisfy sexual fantasies including. Paddling with a wooden paddle. Getting spanked in the shrine of st. Francis. Which catholics know is apalling to hear as a catholic. Having sexual intercourse in the shrine of st. Francis. Matthews Attorney Says mclaughlin sent her client dirty e mails and photos. Riviera says matthews was fired after sending an e mail saying she had had enough. She put her foot down and said i want to keep this professional, i want to focus on my job, a few weeks later she was fired. Church officials have a different story saying matthews was fired because of another issue they couldnt discuss because its a personnel matter. Weve seen the complaint filed with the state. Its inflammatory. Its lurid. But those arent the reasons why she was terminated. Abc7 news learned the church filed a Police Report charging her with embezzlement. Riviera denies her client stole from the church. The church is now launched an investigation into the allegations of Sexual Harassment and also fired mclaughlin today the rektor of the church decided these were sufficient to warnant his termination from the board. We tried to contact the man matthews says sexually abused her, he did not respond the spokesman for the church says all of this is regrettable but good work of the church will continue. Vic, thank you. Now to weather and wind storms so many people are still cleaning up from tonight. Here is a picture tweet tweeted of a giant eucalyptus tree. This tree came down behind a bowling alley, crashing through a fence her is a picture on abc7 News Facebook page of a tree that fell a yard in clear lake. Tonight we are live in oakland. This is the eucalyptus tweeted about. This tree is huge, about five times taller than i am. People flocked to lake merit to see the downed eucalyptus for themselves. This is one of 190 downed trees. Such a beautiful tree. It brought tears to my eyes. Its just kind of sad. I got one. Reporter people who come tt lake it was a bit of an obstacle course. Winds so strong, they toppled down light polls. Its unbelievable. There are tree branchs knocked down there and around the lake. Twigs and leaves like a tornado. Crews had been busy all day. Workers chopped down a 100 year old redwood that became unstable. I like that tree. I love this tree. But yeah. Its gone. Now there is no danger from the tree falling. Blocks away on ryo vista, the homeowner says shes been told crews are coming but theyve been busy dealing with emergencies. Its just a long wait time. But im getting frustrated i want it done before anything happens reporter until then, the fate of this home hangs in the balance. The storm hit hard in contra costa county. Take a look at the video. You can see the second when the wind toppeled a large sign at world gas station on clayton road narrowly missing a car n concord high school, the score board collapsed into pieces. Officials say they have no idea how to come up with money to fix it, either. Check out solar panels. The wind got the best of them. About 67,000 pg e customers lost electricity in the wind storms last night. Most of the power has been restored. 4500 homes and businesses are still in the dark tonight. 2400 more in the north bay n a wildfire in Sonoma County put two power plants in the geysers off line. Cal pine evacuated personnel from plants but says its 13 other plants there are operating normally. And take a look. This picture was sent to abc7 news shows how an audience dealt with the outage when lights went out in san ramone. And this crowd lit the stage with cell phones. With sure to get the weather app. A fourth san jose state student accused of bullying his black roommate in a campus hate crime. Prosecutors say the white freshman used racial slurs against the African American student and put a bike lock around his neck. The fourth student charged today was a minor when the alleged bullying occured and will be investigated separately. All four face hate crime and battery charges. Representatives will meet with the naacp monday to disthus and host a campus forum next month to discuss racial tolerance. Former san jess yeah elementary schoolteacher has been sentenced to 75 years to life in prison, Craig Chandler convicted of five counts of lewd acts, accused of blind folding girls then sexual assaulting them the judge said he made a decision because chandler carried out each assault with planning. A lot more to bring you tonight. Were going to show you how a computer upgrade left dozens of bart riders stranded and made a mess of freeways. The death of a teenager triggers a new campaign to make sure toy guns do not look like the real thing. Strong winds blowing in the bay area, where a wind advisory is still in effect and well take a look at weekend forecast coming up. Also here a world renowned investigator looks into Jfk Assassination, concludes it had to be a conspiracy tonights Largest Union is considering legal action against bart management this, after the bart board approved the new contract agreement that ends the strike but without a family leave pro vision they claim was mistakenly included the union call that had move unprecedented. And ill legitimate. We worked with the district now this is just changing their mind. Its not acceptable. Theyre putting stress on the public and work force. Bart management says it was due to an error by a temporary employee. Unions say they will not rush into finding a solution saying there are no plans for another strike. We did get another taste of what happens in the event of bart workers go on strike again. Sky seven shows us this monster jam at the bay bridge this morning after a computer glitch halted trains and forced commuters into their cars. Abc7 news has the story. This system was shut down between midnight and 7 15. Some people were trapped inside of the trains for two hours. Like these people arriving home after 4 00 in the morning. Im serious this, is ridiculous, man. This is just, im done. Im tireed and irritated, too. Bart says witnesses a computer problem from a Software Upgrade that took seven hours to figure out. Information that wasnt happening. And that impacts the Computer System used by the Operation Control Center to monitor trains. The stuck trains could be moved forward but slowly. With a crank. Every time you pass over, someone had to go out to move it to make sure its heading into the right direction. That just takes time. The shut down meant horrible traffic on freeways and long waits for commuters still hoping for a train into work. Other people are here before me. There are different people in the board. I cant say anything about the union. Whoever is running this is off the plans. Bart says there is no deliberate tampering but just one of those technology failures. The abc7 news news app got the word out today, you can down load it for free. In santa rosa, one month marking the day a deputy shot and killed andy lopez. Abc7 news was there this morning when legislature as announced plans to outlaw those guns in california. What began as a crime scene has grown. Like the cause. The intersection now made famous by the shooting death of 13yearold andy lopez. Were all star heart broken by i a month afterwards, you can still feel the pain. The county supervisor just happened to stop by today on his way from this gathering of state and local politicians who say they plan to introduce legislation forcing manufacturers to make replica weapons look like toys. Its not the first attempt. How do you convince nra if this is a good idea . Think trying to convince them of anything is a lost cause, its making sure people with a vote make the right choice when looking at this legislation and assembly in the senate. Reporter in santa rosa today there was another protest march tonight at the memorial. 7 00 p. M another vij yim. All related to an ongoing disconnect between Latino Community and Law Enforcement. I think all of our Law Enforcement needs improvement. Everything. Im hopeful the city is getting it. Theyre more aware this marks the kennedy assassination. If we, as a nation couldnt do something after newtown, one child in Sonoma County . Really . Well, politicians are really trying n santa rosa, Wayne Freedman abc7 news. The wife of a palo alto man detained in north korea made her first comments today. 85yearold Merrill Newman was removed from a plane by a neshg official. His wife doesnt know if he received his medications which were sent to him. In a statement lee newman says, quote, the family feels there has been a dreadful misunderstanding and asks the north korean government to return this 85yearold grandfather to his concerned family. Well, this is a busy day at way area airports. Thanksgiving Holiday Travel season gets underway. Officials expecting as much as a 5 increase in the number of passengers over last year, today, its also expected to be the busiest travel day of the thanksgiving season at sfo with 130 passengers coming through. Some 8th graders have a nice gift coming their way. These students cheered and Facebook Says the Program Supports communities in need of tools to help students further their education. Facebook has given away a thousand lap tops in two years of the program. Very exciting. You saw people in tears. Yes. Winds calmed down. Yes. Winds are calmer, weve got a wind advisory in effect. Its still growing bliss fully. Clear skies and calm winds and breezy conditions. Lets move along and take a look at winds now. Weve got gusts up to 32 Miles Per Hour now in santa rosa. 22 in napa. Look how calm winds are. You can see area where strongest winds are. We have a wind advisory until 10 00 tonight for lake county area until 4 00 in the morning. And winds gusting at 35 to 50 Miles Per Hour. Be on the lookout for downed trees. Here is a calm view of the bay bridge from our south beach camera here. Still mild outside. 61 in oakland. Mid 60s in redwood city. 56 in los gatos. Another live view looking over San Francisco from sutro tower, clear skies, temperatures upper 60s in santa rosa now. And beautiful view of downtown San Francisco from our exploratorium camera. These forecast features, featuring wind gusts that will be gusting in the north bay tonight tonight. And looks rainy for thanksgiving. You can see storms having pushed into Southern California and beyond. This is a system blew through the Bay Area Center of High Pressure to the south. And perfect alignment continued gusty winds. Beginning our forecast at 5 00 wednesday morning of next week. This looks like going to produce rain for us on wednesday. Thanksgiving day, the day after. So there is probably going to be a wet weather picture for us mid and late week next week. Overnight tonight, clear skies. Windy conditions and chilly. Lows from upper 30s to low 40s and tomorrow, mainly sunny skies. Still breezy spots tomorrow mild again with, high temperatures into low to mid60s. And sunny with temperatures into throw mid60s at the beginning of the game. Here is the accuweather forecast. Four more days of sunny weather coming our way. Then rain arriving on wednesday, periods of rain thursday, thanksgiving day z showers lingering on friday. Were still hoping that system may fizzel go someplace else. Thank you because of the wind we told but dancing in the dark minutes ago. Students performing at the light of cell phones. This is one of the most popular stories on facebook. Com. Well be right back. [ female announcer ] welcome one and all to a tastier festive feast. So much to sip and savor, a feeding frenzy to say the least. A turkey from safeway is just what they crave. A hero of the table, so delicious theyll rave. Fresh, natural, frozen. Its the best selection around. Spend 30 and a frozen safeway turkey is just 59 cents a pound. So raise your glass, pull up a chair, grab a plate. This tastier thanksgiving is well worth the wait. Safeway. Ingredients for life. You got to love the weekend. Its like everyone came to, if its good, lets save it for the weekend. So heres to the kfc ten buck weekend bucket. Ten pieces, ten bucks. Any recipe. Just ten bucks every saturday and sunday. Today tastes so good. Serial killer joe nayso committed murders in four counties from late 70s to early 90s and dan noyes has been covering this case from the start. Hes back now with the latest on this wild report. Reporter joe nayso continues to claim he didnt kill anyone. He was concerned about his just two things having pictures taken in a striped jail outfit instead of suit and money hell have to pay to victim families. Before the hearing began, the 79yearold several times flipped off the audience of former jurors, victim family members and reporter whos covered the case from the start. And when the judge gave one last chance to speak before receiving the death sentence nayso only complained about having to pay his victims families, he said he should get restitution for being charged. He has no remorse for what he did. And the judge did an excellent job in summarizing who he is. Reporter the judge called him evil, one of the people when make us worry about our kids walking to school, who make us lock our doors at night. He gave him three death sentences for three of the victims the judge also said murders of two others and one in Nevada County played a role in the decision. Several of the victims children spoke in court. Shane ashby. You said i hope you live to be 110. Why . Well, i kind of like mim hymn to sit interest tl and suffer as long as families suffered without having closure. Reporter the case broke open with a probation search of his home, officers found this bizarre collection of mannequins to which he applied make up and dressed in linker yachlt he called what prosecutors call a rape diary, and a list of ten places where he apparently dumped victims. One victims daughter wanted a penalty. The other asked to give life in prison. The judge of this one, youre nodding. If it makes my sister feel better, go ahead. Very emotional night for you nayso will be transferred within ten days under court order. Victim families have to say what out of pocket expenses they have had to pay because of the murders so bizarre. Yes. It is. Dan is going to be back because you have an investigator convinced Jfk Assassination was part of a conspiracy . Right. Thank you, dan. Abc7 news at 6 00 continues tonight. Coming up the nation pauses to remember a fallen president and a moment that changed everything. Two guys did not just accidentally decide to shoot the president at the same time and place, right . Jfk investigator advances his Conspiracy Theory to the abc7 because we know how much you do to make the holidays just right. From ornaments to ottomans, memories are made with ikea. Mom swaps one of my snacks for a yoplait. I dont mind, i mean its orange creme. And when mom said bobby was too edgy. sup girl. I just swapped him out for tyler. sup girl. Mom never questioned bobby again. Two can play at this game. [ female announcer ] swap one snack a week for a yoplait. And everybody wins. Yoplait. It is so good. Explanation to remember a pause in american history. 50th anniversary of the John F Kennedy assassination with the final paragraph of the speech he was supposed to give that day. In Arlington National cemetery, tourist paused where an eternal flamed burned since he was laid to rest. John F Kennedy University unveiled a bust made for the jfk library in boston. There is much disagreement about what happened that day in dallas. Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone . Or was he part of a conspiracy . One world class investigator claims to have answered one key question. Reporter the author josiah thompsons book comes to a close. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in dallas. Whae whatever he did or did not do on that friday 50 years ago, did he not kill john kennedy. Reporter before you dismiss thompson, consider his background. Served on underwater Demolition Team 21, precursor to the navy s. E. A. L. S. Graduated from yale with pld in philosophy. Taught college. Long career as a private investigator. But important to this story, life magazine hired him in 1966 to examine Jfk Assassination evidence for a cover story. I was 15 feet from the tower in the line of fire. Reporter thompson interviewed key witness sxdz wrote what is considered to be one of the seminal books on the assassination. Six seconds in dallas. Because i worked for life magazine i had access to theyre wonderful copies of the film. An amateur cameraman was standing near the president ial motorcade. He says he got one important fact wrong he thought between frames 312 and 313 the president s head moved forward that meant to me is that what we saw was exit of the bullet. Head moves forward. Well . That is the bullet coming out. Reporter that supported the finding shots came from behind the limo. Now, thompson realized the image smears from frame 312 to 313. Not the head moves forward. Its a jerking camera at sound of gunfire. What we were seeing in 313, what he viewed as exit of the bullet is not that. That is clear. Its impact of the bullet showing it blows impact debris gown wards and rear and upwards. Reporter pieces of the president s skull recovered from street and grass on the fire side of the limo. Thompson is now convinced the fatal shot came perfect a second gunman. Fired from right front from 12 feet west of the corner of the stock yeahed. He makes another compelling argument based on what the House Select Committee concluded. They found last two shots were seven tenths seconds apart. Reporter he bought the same rifle use that had day. A bolt action. I pulled trigger. I work the bolt. Notice, i have to acquire the target in the scope. So i have got to acquire the target then center the cross hairs before firing. Reporter there is is no way anyone could fire two shots westbound a second. Thompson tells me two gunman equals conspiracy. There is no question any longer two. Guy dz not just accidentally decide to shoot the president at the same time and place. Right . If you had two locations. You had some sort of conspiracy in this case. Reporter thompson was a speaker in a Conference Marking the anniversary yesterday. His first book is out of print its fetching up to 300 a copy online. Hes talking tout the s book, which should be out later next year. There are so many Conspiracy Theorys how do you sort through this . Its just going to keep going for years and years. If you look at the new book he goes true everything in that pains taking detail. The problem is that there are a lot of facts that suit different theorys. So you can pick and choose facts that prove your point. Perhaps everyone is wrong, except maybe 1, or 2. Yes. Thank you. Later in this newscast a story about an east bay [ female announcer ] welcome one and all to a tastier festive feast. So much to sip and savor, a feeding frenzy to say the least. A turkey from safeway is just what they crave. A hero of the table, so delicious theyll rave. Fresh, natural, frozen. Its the best selection around. Spend 30 and a frozen safeway turkey is just 59 cents a pound. So raise your glass, pull up a chair, grab a plate. This tastier thanksgiving is well worth the wait. Safeway. Ingredients for life. Ing. Dow jones went up 54 points, nasdaq is 22 points higher. Pixar confirmed reports its laid off part of the staff in emeryville saying less than 60 people were let go. Pixar is owned by disney, Parent Company of abc7. Nearly 40,000 new jobs created in california last month putting the jobless rate at 8. 7 same as september. And San Mateo County has lowest rates, 5. 1 . A Bay Area High School was honored today for an Innovative Program tackling serious head injuries north Gate High School as student trainers roaming side lines to keep an eye on trainers. Those with symptoms are treated and may be pulled out for a week to recover. One suffered several concussion asks says student trainers are critical for preventing serious head injuries. Players dont want to come out of the game them want to be in there no matter what f they cant see or are dizzy. Its good were there. To keep an eye on them. The efforts were recognized by National Athletic trainers association. Congressman miller was there as well. Hes sponsoring a bill setting Safety Standards for concussions. Good work. Still to come at 6 00 a Youth Football Team dream season interrupted by a nightmare 50 interrupted by a nightmare 50 woah, this kitchen is beautiful give him the tour. R. Let me show you softclose drawers, farm sink wheres my room . We had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. Because your kitchen dreams can be big. Ikea has it all. Aa a h woah, this kitchen is beautiful give him the tour. Let me show you softclose drawers, farm sink wheres my room . We had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. Because your kitchen dreams can be big. Ikea has it all. Many of you remember where you were the day president kennedy was assassinated but how about the day he was buried . Here is abc7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman with the story. A sign marking not mileage but accomplishment by the most dominant Football Team of all time. I had so much love for them. I didnt want anyone to hurt them except me. Once he was the coach of the mighty pittsburgh mallards. A group who went 90 in 1964, held every opponent to negative yartdage. Still unequalled. So tough on us, our gains were easy. Running back frank miers can look and read about the wins that led to a trip back east for a Pop Warner National championship game. One play in the shadow of an american moment. It began in dallas with the sound of gunfire. Its all of us will never forget in our lives. President kennedy has been assassinated. The president is dead. Reporter with that death an era of american innocence ended the mallards still had a game back east. Should they go . The more i thought i said hey, this guy was an athlete himself. I think it would be an honor to play a game, win the football and give it to his son. Jim and his mallards boarded a plane to washington, d. C. , they had bought tickets there because theyd planned to tour the sites. President kennedy want toed meet them before the game. Instead they joined mourners along the funeral route. Why would you want kids to see that . To honor a man that actually made our country 100 better than what we were into. Everything about that day when were there for the funeral still is like a still picture in my mind. All you can hear were the sounds of the hoofs of the horses, pulling the carriage by us the sorrow and sobbing. I couldnt hold back. I just natural feeling. Sad. Jackie kennedy passed by 20 feet away. Still amazes me today she made eye contact with me. I seen her. She turned her head to the side and took a will being at me and followed me. What did you see in her eyes . Sorrow. A blank stare. It was emotional. Let the record show after the funeral the mallards went and won their National Championship pop warner game in a run away. They never did give the game ball to john junior. To this day, frank miers struggles to remember the score. But the game at this point was secondary. 50 years later football in pittsburgh remains as big as ever. Much of that come from jim and his player whos now come coach. Another generation. Keep up tradition, history. Reporter its a legacy through five decades tempered on a cold november weekend in 1963. The toughest guy they knew to put football, tragedy and life into perspective. I was the luckiest guy in the world when i hit these young men that played football for me. Reporter you had a lot of sons . Very. Very. He still does. In pittsburgh, Wayne Freedman abc7 news. Remarkable. Spencer is back with a look at the forecast. Windy conditions in the hills and north bay and those winds start to wind down tomorrow. State wide, sunny and dry conditions and clouds down south. In the bay area, well have a sunny day. So breezy in spot. Mild, low to mid 60s and afternoon and into evening, at pier 39 will be doing a Tree Lighting as a matter of fact i had the pleasure of mcing this event. And conditions sunny into afternoon. The sun goes down just before 5 00. So 6 00 p. M dark, cooler. Clear, pleasant. Here is the accuweather forecast. Were going to have sunny, mild conditions through tuesday. Rain wednesday. Periods of rain thursday. Thanksgiving day and showers linger, were going to have a wet, soggy end of the week. However that could change. Well watch movement of the storm. And this will hopefully pull away. Give them the axe, the axe. You know that xhant. Yes. I do. Its strange. Its odd. Who gets the axe tomorrow . That is what im axing you. That is what im axing you. Sports is [ laughter ] he loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me thats right. [ mom ] warm and flaky in 15, everyone loves pillsbury grands [ girl ] make dinner pop this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. I mean, look at it. So indulgent. Did i tell you i am on the. [ both ] Chicken Pot Pie diet me too [ male announcer ] so indulgent, youll never believe theyre light. 100calorie progresso light soups. You got to love the weekend. Its like everyone came to, if its good, lets save it for the weekend. So heres to the kfc ten buck weekend bucket. Ten pieces, ten bucks. Any recipe. Just ten bucks every saturday and sunday. Today tastes so good. Good evening, can david shaw convince cardinals big game is a big deal . Stan sfoerd an overwhelming favorite in this rivalry. Stanford eight2shgs they need to betobeat cal this week. Also hope oregon loses one more time in order to take back control of the pack 12 north and get a shot to play new years day the cardinals won three straight big games facing a team with only one win giving up 44 points per gym this season. Stanford favored by 32. On paper this should be easy but the game isnt just another game. Energy hanginground campus here and in berkeley before the game is pretty unique. Its a great experience. Probably one of the best in the country. And its an honor to represent stanford in that robbery. Cals 1 and 10 still looking for the first victory. The golden bears have lost 13 starters to injury this year in part that explains their record. Their lone win came. That could be a way to end it on a positive note. Stanford has got a great Football Team. Our kids are excited weve got a great week to preparing well weve got to play well. To incredible institutions with great tradition. Great pride. Ive paid attention to this game. Its great about college football. Tomorrow on abc7 at 12 30 oregon taking on arizona at tucson. Well have big game highlights and everything around the country around 8 30 on after the game. Other battles taking place tomorrow pits many pakiou on the left against brandonry. Os. The fight in china. Fighters weighed in today big stakes for packman. A145 pounds. Lost last two bouts including a brutal knock out. Rios, 146. 5 only lost once, looking for a career defining victory. They needed a oneday extension. Raiders sold out sunday against tennessee. Rookie matt mcgloi will be looking a second start at quarterback. He was out a shoulder injury. 37 receptions for 569 yards. In team leading five touchdowns. 49ers rewarded quarterback with a fouryear, 16 Million Contract extension. 7 million is guaranteed. Some terrific cover skills. And its clear niners with this contract, use him as a starter going forward. Today marks oneyear anniversary of one of the most infamous plays known as the butt fumble. It was a new york jets loss on thanksgiving day but the game was highlighted or low lighted by mark sanchez running into his offensive linemans postierer. Thanks larry. Join me tonight at 9 00 a hackathon controversy. Two men walked away with a prize y some say they should have been disqualified. Police ripped this man from his seat but what happens next shocked passengers video tonight on abc7 news at 11 00. Finally here tonight words about what matters. Bart failed us again this morning. A computer glitch shut down service but another glitch could shut down again, this one, preventible. Just when they thought it was safe we wait to see whether there will be another strike. The third one during this process. Baseball three strikes youre out. Now a clause dealing with family leave one side doesnt see and the other didnt either, its a mess making all look bad holding hostage faithful riders. What this if he went on strike and refused to ride . What if . Look. This is a major area where w. A major metropolitan Transit System were playing pro bowl here but this process is being handled bush league. What matters to all of the passengers, both sides served, is that they work this out now, and this time, dot the is. Let me know your thoughts on facebook. That does it for this edition of abc7 news. Our coverage continues right now on twitter. From all of us here, see you at 9 00 and 11 00. Good night. Liz, theres someone in the apartment. Someone who thinks youre special in every single way i wrote this song to wish you a happy valentines day
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