Gate bridge. Wayne freedman is live. Wayne . Good evening. This is a fivefold increase over the same period last year, but increase in reported accidents. That may be the key word. Last year at this time there were rubber barriers in there. And now, theyre made of metal. Since january, they telled us travels have been safer but numbers may indicate an issue in toll lanes. I was going 3, 4 Miles Per Hour and all of a sudden, crunch. Its the 29th vehicle since january 12th to report damage after hitting these new crash intin intintors. Explaining theyre no wider than the old waterfilled ones but more expensive to maintain the district spent 187,000 repairing them, and purchased spare parts over the year. There are other ones that are less compliant. Both the bridge district and patrol cite speed as a factor. John wilson was in a narrower inside lane. Was it clear to you . The way its marked . I thought it was. Also these signs direct wider loads. Who do you blame . Myself. I wasnt paying attention. Its a matter of metal on metal in the name of safety. In a higher impact cost to everyone concerned. Crews have been busy today cleaning up fallen trees. This one came crashing down on haight street. An arborist was called in to gate. A tree falling on the restaurant hillstone. Hillstones stayed open with the tree leaning on the roof. And you can see a little rain this weekend perhaps. Mainly clear skies and more clouds moving into the area right now. We dont have these thunderstorms associated with us now. But here is a look at some of our peak wind gusts this afternoon. 49 Miles Per Hour in San Francisco. 44 Miles Per Hour gusts at altemont and sfo. 35 Miles Per Hour gusts at sfo. Well take a look at the showers coming our way in a few minutes. A suspected murderer answered charges in the shooting death of a security guard. Police believe this man and another suspect killed many zuniga february 14th. That is when he was shot to death. Both remain in jail returning to court next month. An attack on a uc santa cruz student being investigated as a hate crime has students being demanded diversity training. It happened on campus they suggested we do a story. David louie is live now with more on the call for change. David . Well, if college is a place for learning students believe there should be gender diversity training to prevent the vicious attack. Uc santa cruz is a tollerant community, however, there could be clashes. A student was attacked in what police are investigating as a hate crime. I live only meters from where that attack happened. The attack led to a competition on change. Org, demanding uc santa cruz make changes to foster better understanding for people that are lesbian gay, or transgender. If you dont understand transpeople youre not going to try to accept fuss you dont understand who you are. Students are demanding allgender multi stallstall rest rooms were not taught to be sensitive to other genders so these people are learning to drink safely, but not learned how to articulate themselves within a social situation. Uc Santa Cruz Administration will consider demands. Police sent four instructors to get trained on selfdefense courses. Well be offering selfdefense courses for students beginning next quarter. It could affect other demands. Three men accused of raping a woman in santa rosa had a Court Appearance today. Theyre accused of holding the woman captive for weeks. The victim tells police she escaped from a santa rosa compound. A lot of anger and a fair amount of fear tonight because of one man. This man. Charles christman moved to the area next week but neighbors are just finding out now, but theyre stunned and furious. Laura . Im at the driveway from where im standing. The da plans to move ahead at getting him to move. Is this a bunch of people saying not in my backyard . Yes. It is. These are resident united in their concern about a new neighbor. A sexually violent predator, charles christman. Its way too convenient for someone with a proven history of preying on kids. The 71yearold is now living on this property. Its a quiet neighborhood full of families with young children. There is school eight tenths of a mile away. Ive encouraged them to walk home, play outside, and have a normal life now they cant. In the late 80s and early 1990s he was convicted of a series of swaurlts on children under age 14. He was released conditionally and placed in this cottage in bay point but later ordered to move when a court determined he was too close to a school. Within a quarter mile. Our concern is the safety of the community. The da told us she didnt learn he moved to the street until this morning. In terms of a legal requirement it meets that requirement but given concerns by a number of neighbors were going to look to see whether we can have mr. Christman moved. Anthony ash owns the bay point cottage where christman lived for two hes done everything society asked of him and i dont believe she creates a threat any longer. Please allow him to live out his days. If hes going to live here hes going to live here. And otherwise, hes going to have serious issues. He wears a gps afrng quell bracelet and according to his former landlord, uses a walker. Now, an abc7 news viewer alerted us to this story. We appreciate the leads you send us well run them down. Or on twitter on facebook, and you can always call it. We do appreciate hearing from you. Students rallied to save their schools Football Program today the support followed a decision to drop the decadesold program this month. Trustees say costs have tripled over five years they blame that on rising travel premiums. Players say they were blind sided by this decision. If youre going to cutoff a Football Program the least you can do is tell us before you release it out to the school. That is a poor decision. Some players transferred to other schools and 1700 people signed a petition to save the football team. Still ahead, a project helps secure water reaching a major milestone today. Plus. Chilling details of a deadly attack in kabul, afghanistan that affected the nonprofit roots of peace. And some best young minds will go head to head to be maimed the nations brightest young scientists. A look at the projects that include dna mapping and using a whats that thing . I moved our old Security System out here to see if it could monitor the front yard. Why dont you switch to xfinity home . I get live video monitoring and 24 7 professional monitoring that i can arm and disarm from anywhere. Hear ye the awkward teenage one has arrived dont be old fashioned. Xfinity customers add xfinity home for 29. 95 a month for 12 months. Plus for a limited time, get a Free Security camera call 1800 xfinity or visit comcast. Com xfinityhome. Bulldog g oooh mattress discounters 197 mattress Sale Television announcer get a serta mattress any size for just 197 each piece when you buy the complete set. The 197 mattress sale. Bulldog oh boy Television Announcer . Is on now. Mattress discounters its been called the nobel prize of High School Science three come from a school in san jose. One has been there before. Theyre just ordinary teenagers doing extraordinary research. I discovered one gene called walk gene that could have a link to colorectal cancer. My father was diagnosed with colon cancer. I wanted to find out the basis of the disease. Wang is doing what his school taught him. They seek out mentors and are supported. It may be why the school has three finalists in what may be the most prestigious contest in High School Science theyre lovers of science. From the small age, ive been interested in evolution. Andrew got the idea using Artificial Intelligence approaches to train computers to think like scientists. Hes figuring out how people evolved to resist certain infections. And his class mate studies fatty liver disease. Hes present finals in washington, d. C. Making science glamorous, it gets so many High Schoolers thinking about science the trip to washington, d. C. Is just the beginning. They have their futures ahead of them and this is a good head start. In 2006, harker student ye sun won second place he went to harvard finish that had degree. I spent a year in cambridge and decided to do a phd in math. I felt like the best part was meeting other finalists. Im still in touch with many of them to this day. All winners in their own right. Theyre not just doing this to get a prize, but trying to contribute to the field. Unbelievable. Yes. Cant wait to see what they do next. Oakland Unified School District going solar. The system is courtesy of sunpower. Officials say panels will reduce the districts annual costs. Sunpower will be offering a Solar Science Academy this summer. Today water for millions of people is flowing through a massive new pipeline. An abc7 news, we got a look at the checks. Workers hanging over this hole. The engineering feet delivering water to two and a half Million People in the bay area. The project is part of a massive plan. This tunnel replaces a pipeline completed in 1930s. There is concern there could be disruption. Not anymore. Voter as proved a ballot measure to repair and replace the hetch hetchy system. And engineering marvel at the time, the system of pipes, dams and reservoirs carries water 167 miles from yosemite and into the south bay. This is where there is a lot of technical challenges. Workers tore through the debris to complete this tunnel. This video shows the moment when the miners met another crew. We had ground water doing the work. And hard work. And everything in between. Its dangerous, but critical to securing a water system in the bay area. San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is turning its attention to completing its next new project. Prep work is already well underway. Good news now for skiers it is snowing in tahoe. Four inches are expecteded. If youre heading that way, chains are required right now. Spencer . Clear skies, clouds gathering and over into sierra, it is snowing and chains are now required off highways 80 88 and 4. There is snow in the central sierra. Mid50s across the region and in oakland. Here is a look at San Francisco. Showers focusing in the south bay with a chance of thunderstorms and i mean isolated. It would be sunny again sunday the storm breezes true here. So this evening later tonight, well see showers approaching and beginning to move into the bay area and along the coast initially. And overnight into tomorrow morning will be a south bay event. There is a chance of showers near San Francisco but widely scattered showers by that time, tomorrow evening. And later well get clear skies sunday, again, rainfall totals will be not greater than a few hundredths of an inch in someplaces. And some locations probably no measurable inch at all. And and into sierra, around eight inches. To 15 in kirkwood. So some locations it will be significant. Low temperatures into Early Morning hours dropping into low 40s maybe to 39. But low 40s in our inland valleys and mid to upper 40s around the bay. And tomorrow, again scattered showers. Mainly focused on south bay mountains high temperatures on the cool side. Here is the accuweather forecast. Sunny dry, continuing throughout next week. And were running out of time to get winter rainfall. Yes. Thank you. Coming up next a bay area musicians triumphant story. From the operating room to the high street bridge will be closed weekdays starting monday are for construction. Its part of an earthquake retro fit project. California patrol is hiring officers and wants more women wearing the badge. Chp will hold a recruit fair tomorrow. There are 7,000 officers on the Highway Patrol trailer. Less than 3 of women. Communities that we serving very diverse in nationalities and races and male female. Wed like to represent the communities we serve. There is only a four day window. Anyone interested can find a link to the fair on abc7 news. Com. An amazing story tonight of a bay area woman overcoming a painful childhood condition to become a Grammy Nominated concert floutist. She was build in chile with dislocated hips. Guzman underwent many surgeries and confined to a wheelchair and gurney growing up. She studied the flute at julliard. I am encouraging everyone to embrace gratitude and challenges. Challenges transform you. You learn from them. And they make you stronger and make your life colorful and magical, too. Wonderful guzman will tell her story tomorrow night at uc berkeley. Still to come a federal government shut down looming now, the last minute efforts to keep the department of Homeland Security operational. Video of a bombing shows the danger while bushing for peace he lives long and prospered a look at the life and legacy of leonard lowes presents how to put your foot in your mouth. Man. Wish my yard looked like yours. Hey, the grass is always greener on the other side of the. Sorry now get the black decker® 20volt trimmer for 79 at lowes. Today the white house announced the president of afghanistan was and cheryl is here now to talk about what has been a remarkable series of reports and a great trip. Its been an extraordinary trip the founders are working with the new president of afghanistan on an agricultural program, but theyre targets of the taliban because theyre westerners. Next month marks the oneyear anniversary of a deadly attack on one of the buildings. We have video of the attack. This is a cell phone video of a suicide bomb attack in a building in kabul almost a year ago. Taliban insurgents targeted the westerners inside of the building and tried to kill them. Roots of peace picked itself up and helped farmers but learned lessons from that tragic day. Two bystanders had been killed outside roots of peace had been sharing with a Christian Day care center. I will never forget that moment. Good thing is that nobody was killed. From our office. He was the roots of peace director in afghanistan at that time. But faced Death Threats after he did Television Interviews about the attack so they had to evacuate. Heidi and gary kuhn were home in the bay area and monitored by skype they had to move to secret locations in kabul. It changed the level of personal security in kabul for the kuhn s. Now, they have body armor on. She cannot ride in the same vehicle has her husband because of continuity. You have a family . Four children and a grandson. And not only for one of us to be here for a terrorist attack but protect our business, if one went down as ceo and president , the other has to carry on. The staff had a stunning moment searching through the rubble from the suicide bombing. Almost everything was destroyed except for a hand made heart of roses on the wall. A gift from the staff in kabul. The staff had that heart delivered to the kuhns and now, it serves as a reminder they will not surrender to terrorism. Most of the walls and bathrooms were destroyed but that is how it survived. He says the staff is not intimidated by the attacks. If we look at that from another perspective, that means like, their hearts are still alive. We can continue whether or not it happened. That attack in 2014 did not stop the kuhns from meeting with afghanistans new president in january at the president ial palace. They talked about increasing the pace of agricultural development. Without a functioning Agricultural Department in this country we cannot have stability. Roots of peace has been working in afghanistan for more than a decade. My good friend heidi kuhn has her heart in the right place all over the world. The president of San Jose State University is a trusted advisor and trend of president gani. Perception we have is those horrible accidents that do in the see the resilience of the people the creativity and how they want to be connected to the world the connection begins with a stable economy. Sense of creating order, a sense of routine predicability, that you can plan your future and get ahead in life is not going to be cut short. I hope that is decent. Its so human. That anyone can relate to and support. Its a wonderful goal. President ganis trusted advisor wants to hold a round table so log on to our website for more information. Just incredible. I have a Photo Gallery for people that want to follow up on this. Wonderful. Thank you. Department of Homeland Security could face a partial shut down tonight. Lawmakers are facing a midnight deadline the Senate Passed a stopgap measure to keep funding the dhs but still needs approval by the house the Obama Administration released a 46page plan and employees would be furloughed the man behind one of the 20th centuries most iconic tv characters has passed. Leonord nimoy has died. The president of the Hollywood Chamber of commerce placing flowers at Leonard Nimoys star. The vulcans will live long and prosper. We are glad you lived long and prospered you will be missed. Fans stopped by to pay respects. Greg donovan placed his own flowers in a star trek photo on the star. I had to, i was just, i wanted people to respect the walk on the star, everybody knows, senor spock. Fans spoke about the impact his character had on the Science Fiction world. You look at scientists and explorers and people around the Scientific Community definitely up hold his tenants as things that got them into the actual world of science. While he left an indelible mark on hollywood, the science world is going to miss him. Huge distributors to the Griffith Observatory where the Leonard Nimoy theater continues to inspire. Everybody knows this story. Someone, somewhere has an anecdote to tell about how it moved them forward. He died this morning in his home, his family members saying he was suffering from a chronic pull pullmonary disease. Coming up radio shack filed for bankruptcy. And if youre one of the americans with an unused g in our house, we do just about everything online. And our old internet just wasnt cutting it. So i switched us from uverse to xfinity. They have the fastest, most reliable internet. Which is perfect for me, because i think everything should just work. Works . Works. Works works . Works. Works. Tomorrow, a thousand out of 1400 radio shack stores will close. The company has filed for bankruptcy. What does that mean for customers with the unspent gift cards . That is long and short of it. If you dont get going its not going to be worth the plastic its printed on. A spot check of radio shack stores shows the deals but the stars are open and selling merchandise but not gift cards. I notice theyre not selling them anymore. Its a good sign. That is Shelly Hunter the gift card girlfriend for gift cards. Com. She says time is running out. When a store goes into bankruptcy, many go in immediately. They announced only announcing gift cards through march 6th. This is not the first time seven on your side run into this type of thing. Carol hill complained about her blockbuster gift card. The man said we dont take them anymore. And had a little sign and turned it around so i can read it. Consumers are often held holding useless cards. With 44 million floating around, someone, somewhere doesnt have one. Go to radio shack and buy things you need. There are appliances and cars and toys. I checked the resale site theyre only discounting them 10 or 15 . To see my reports go to abc7 news. Com. Hes won two tickets to my charity concert, don, youll be there. I was talking about a special event created to help bay area children in need. Rock the casa, an evening of music for courtappointed children advocates benefitting friends of camp copper. Legendary rocker eddie money headlined on saturday june 20th. Tickets went on sale today for my nonprofit charity. Concert information on our website. And well help kids that deserve and need it. That is wonderful. And you sound great on the radio. And i have a face for it. I did not say it. Here is a time lapse view this afternoon of clouds over the bay area. With strong winds today mainly clear skies. You can see moisture here in the bay area. A cluster of thunderstorms and snow in other areas in central sierra. This big storm is producing all kinds of wacky weather. Here in the bay area scattered showers continuing through afternoon focused on the south bay. Low 60s inland. Sunday another period of mild dry, sunny days. Yes. We need rain. Id like to see a week of rainfall. It is baseball weather. Yes. Most unusual pitcher in baseball. Is he a le lowes presents how to use the greek gods to update your deck. Wow, i cant believe you did this deck yourself. Well me, lowes and zeus and apollo. Now get 10 off instock composite decking at lowes. Good evening, one night after being blasted by lebron no rest for warriors taking on a raptors team. Warriors are leading the raptors to extinction. They are north of the border. Toronto one of 19 shots and lots of chances here with a lay up. Warriors three of four, downtown, scored 11 points, finishing with 25. And lefty continues. Set up the floor to clay, lobing for harrison for barns with authority. Its 1185 with a minute and a half to go. Switch hitters but how about a switch pitcher . This time brought in pat vinditty . He got ready to pitch and then with a line up to throw left they went back and forth without a pitch being thrown. Patrick vendetti throws left and right handed. Im a national right handier. My dad taught me from the left side. He was home schooled so his dad would work with him on a regular basis, training his brain to focus on both sides is the delivery. Is there a point you said dad . I just want to throw it once . Never, not at all. His glove is custom made so he can wear it on both hands. Two thumbs, six fingers total. And works both ways. He had to be in shape for a lot of things. And you know hes very good from both sides as well. I was joking he gave me vertigo the other day and his number 74 looked 47 the one side and i walked out of here dizzy. But there is a vendetti rule created. A switch hitter waits for me to wait on a runner, once that happens a pitch hasnt been thrown neither of us can switch. He fills two needs with just one roster spot. Wow. I hope it makes it just for the spectacle. Abc7 sports brought to you by bank of the west. Well, stopping ebola in its tracks. Who is about to undergo testing for a new ebola drug. Then a thief is caught breaking into it. Tonight thoughts about really matters. Spock died ago. Years ago he resisted being tied to the character that made his career. His biography was first called im not spock and his second biography i am spock. How can a program with only three seasons be so brave and Ground Breaking . It was among the first to reflect true diversity in people in different roles. 1968 was the first scripted interracial kit ever depicted in a broadcast. He was part of something that endures not because star trek entertains us, but inspires us not to just reach for the stars, but for higher ground. Let me know what you think. Follow me on facebook and twitter. That is beautiful and he will be missed. He will be missed really. Thanks for joining us im dan ashley from Spencer Christian and all of us well see you again at 9 00 and 11 00
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