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KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM April 12, 2017

Its not the burgers, shakes and fries they object to. Laura anthony is there live for us tonight. Reporter the proposed site for the in n out burger is just across the street there and a local developer already ownsa property, its already zoned for a restaurant. What theyre trying to do is get a conditional use permit for a drive through. But theres already a lot of cars here its not in n out that dan angus and his neighbors object to, its all of the traffic that goes in and out of the popular burger restaurant, and having all that just a few yards from their quiet residential neighborhood. Right now theyre planning on putting a combined in n out plus a starbucks. Reporter that in addition to the fact that there are already five other fast food restaurants within a quartermile radius of the proposed in n out location. Sandra myers, walnut creeks community and Economic Development director. Myers says the public will have several opportunities to voice their concerns. In this case, this will probably go through at least four public hearings. Those hearings will be scheduled after traffic, noise and other impact studies are completed. Reporter what would look good to you over there. We actually thought of a Hardware Store or a Retail Outlet that serves the community. Reporter in walnut creek, laura anthony, abc7 news. We are on storm watch, because of pockets of sprinkles which are turning into light rain, this is a live look in san rafael, the traffic on 101. The storm started in the north bay and its gradually spreading to the south bay. Lets take a look at san jose, thats 10 is youre seeing there. Spencer christian tells us what to expect from todays storms. Were seeing light sprinkles from this system, no steady or heavy downpours yet. You can see areas of green represents pockets of light showers and sprinkles moving through the central part of the day moving across the bay to oakland and other parts of the east bay. This storm ranks one on the storm impact scale, it will be breezy at times and heres our forecast animation, starting at 7 00, at which point well see rain becoming a bit more widespread, there may be a couple of isolated downpours there, but they wont last long, the system will move through rather quickly, giving way to scattered showers overnight and into tomorrow morning. There is a second storm coming our way, its out at sea right now, its a bit stronger than this one and im give you a closer look at that and what we can expect from it in just a few minutes. Now to todays other big story, continued fallout from United Airlines. Were hearing from the name of dr. David dao. The family of dr. Dao wants the world to know that theyre very appreciative of the outpouring of prayers and sup part they have received. Right now they are just focusing on dr. Daos medical care and treatment. Dao was hurt after being dragged off a united flight in chicago, he refused to give up his seat to make room for crewmembers, this after the airline offered incentives to get passengers to leave. San francisco supervisor jeff shehey wants the city to ban pulling passengers off overbooked planes. I dont think pulling passengers off of planes are appropriate and i dont think our Police Department should be cooperating with this. And dr. Dao practices in kentucky with a specialty in pull mpulmonary disease, he got his license back in 2015. Hiss background does not appear to have played a role in this incident. The question now, what is uniteds response and how might this affect their bottom line. United ceo oscar munos will be on Good Morning America tomorrow at 7 00 for an exclus interview. In the meantime, he made a new attempt at damage control today, lets take a look at this, he tweeted a second apology, that takes more important. Oscar munos says, im sorry, we will fix this. Now in the meantime, the boycott united hash tag. A passenger wearing boxing head gear saying always be prepared flying united. Now United Continental shares rebounded ending down 1. 13. Most people are going to focus on something as very quickly, the damage is going to be to the image of the country, but it is not going to have any significant effect, at least i dont think so. United would do well to show extra responsiveness to passengers in the weeks ahead. But will it be enough . Comedian joe wong is one of many citing discrimination about the treatment of this passenger. New at 6 00, police hope you can help identify this motorcyclist who hit a 9yearold boy in a santa cruz crosswalk, it happened on Mission Street and van necessary avenue. The motorcycle stoppe slammed into the boy and then kept going, the boy has significant injuries but is expected to recover. These are two of the four people who were arrested after a man was robbed at gunpoint. The victim was able to direct police to a home in sausalito where officers arrested 21yearold andre andres, and then three suspicious people were looking into empty cars, thats when officers arrested 20yearold Jackson Bowman and two 14yearold suspects, all are from fresno. Police say karen smith had told her family about, quote, odd behavior and threats. But never took them seriously. Yesterday, Cedric Anderson entered her classroom and shot her to death. Two children were also hit. Anderson and smith had been together for four years. Police say there were allegations of infidelity, investigators did not find a suicide note from anderson, but did find a note they believe anderson had written. It talked about some things that needed closure, feeling disrespected, just that type of stuff, but nothing that would be specifically identified as a suicide note. 8yearold Jonathan Martinez was killed in the attack. A gofundme page has raised more than 70,000 for his family. The second child is recovering, police say hes in good spirits. New at 6 00, a San Francisco sheriffs deputy and a convicted felon shes accused of having a relationship with were both indicted on felony charges. April myers is accused of giving her boyfriend a gun. The two were arrested on federal Insurance Fraud charges in february. Today federal prosecutors charged myers with wire fraud and giving a firearm to a convicted felon. Fowler was also charged as a cocon conspirator, investigators say they found myers missing gun in fowlers car. Investigators originally thought Roger Anthony perez died after being shot by officers. He ran from police after being stopped in a traffic stop and then fired at them from the top of a box truck, no one else was hurt in the shooting. The city is keeping an eye out for illegal dirt bikes that are operated on city streets and highways. How Law Enforcement is fighting this growing problem. Kate . Reporter sometimes its actually more safe for the public if officers do not engage in a pursuit, especially when it comes to these dirt bikes and atvs, but the chp says their airplanes that fly high above traffic have been effective way to track down criminals in a stealthy matter. Chp officers arrested a 28yearold San Francisco man allegedly using this stolen dirt bike to illegally ride through San Francisco streets on sunday. Our understanding is there are multiple different groups that are doing this in this area, its almost become, if you will, a culture. Reporter for more than a year dirt bike and atv riders have been terrorizing bay area roadways, this video shows riders popping wheelies on the bridge. Its very hard to stop these highly mobile riders who have no regard for the law and they can get away by riding on the sidewalks and riding into groups of people so absolutely its frustrating. Reporter but the chp has a powerful tool to combat the problem. Several arrests were made possible due to these planes which can safely follow groups ofirt bikers. The aircraft obtained some really clear video of all the individuals, and noticed one rider who was extra reckless, spee speeding, doing a lot of dangerous stuchbts. Reporter in San Francisco, kate larsen, abc7 news. Some students say theyll have to change schools because they simply wont be able to get to campus. Next were live with the battle between ac transit and oakland unified that has students caught in the middle. The latest advance in the game of baseball looks like an ordinary pair of headphones, im Jonathan Bloom with the giants not so secret weapon. A m ac transit and oakland schools have been trying to resolve an ongoing issue regarding transporting students to and from school in oakland hills. While ac transit has promised to provide bus service through the close of the school year, no one knows whats going to happen next year. Reporter tomorrow night there will be a meeting at ac transit headquarters not to decide if service should continue or whos going to pay for it, no, tomorrow the board will vote to decide if it should have a special meeting to allow for community input. For students like alicia carlo getting on an ac transit bus is a necessity. A total of 56 busses are provided exclusively to skyline and two other schools, monster are middle school and Community Day high school, thanks to an agreement between the School District and ac sit, that was until oakland unified said it could no longer pay because of a budget cut from the state. That money is no longer in. Reporter ac transit was surprised to learn the district was bailing out after oakland unified lost 2. 25 million to subsidize student bus fares, still the Transit Agency promised to continue service until the end of the Academic Year while trying to determine if its even financially possible to absorb the cost of transporting these students. That would be for our planners to decide, theres certainly been discussions about what agreements to be reached. Reporter ac transit has operated along traditional routes. Doing some very careful calculations with bus schedules and bell schedules and things like that, they have already been able to save quite a bit of money, the question is how do we close the rest of that gap. Joseph says he might have to transfer to another school. Reporter both sides promised to provide families with updates as needed. Public High School Graduation rates in california have reached an alltime high. 83 of freshman who went into high School Graduated in 2010, thats up 1 percentage point from the year before. The state superintendent of schools credits a number of factors including real world curriculum. A lot of students dont relate to out of the textbook kind of learning, they want to be learning in groups and teams, team work, creative thinking, problem solving and career pathways. The sharpest increase in Graduation Rates are among africanamerican, latino and nonenglish speak students. A biotech merger leads the business watch, superior controls has merged with banks integration group. Banks has about three dozen employees and none will lose their jobs. The companies create automated control systems for their clients, both biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Uc berkeley has struck a new deal with peets. The 10year 8 Million Contract will provide paid internships, jobs, scholarships, grants and even funding for student gardening. The deal does not make peets the only Coffee Company on campus. Its now headquartered in emeryville. And a reminder, taxes are due one week from today. We have sprinkles and light showers around the bay area, showing up on live doppler 7 right now, as you can see with these little patches of green scattered across the screen there, but we dont have any heavy activity at the moment, but this is the picture right through the central part of the area, through marin county across theast bay, current temperatures range from mid 50s at the coast to lower 60s near and inland. Lets take a live look from our east bay hills camera, these are our forecast features, showers continuing through the morning hours, another storm arrives tomorrow night and it will be a little bit more energetic than the current storm, and well see sunny and mild conditions on friday and saturday, tonights storm ranks 1 on the storm impact scale, which means light intensity, we should register up to. 15 inch, and there will be some wet pockets of rain moving through the night. Look for low temperatures in the Early Morning hours, generally in the low to mid 50s, and there will be some wet pavement. Now moving into the afternoon hours tomorrow, much of the bay area will be dry, although cloudy in the mid afternoon, highs will range from the low 60s to in the north bay, it will still be a little wet, with the approaching storm that will be coming in late this afternoon. This storm also ranks 1 on the storm impact scale, and tomorrow evening and thursday morning it will produce brief swrodownpourd wind will gust from 20 to 30 miles an hour. Heres your forecast animation, starting at 2 00 tomorrow afternoon. Overall conditions will be pretty quiet at that hour, but Late Afternoon early evening well see steadier, heavier rain moving in, well see a line of heavier downpours sweeping through the north bay, and by about 9 00 tomorrow night, that line of downpours will cut right through the central part of the bay area, and it will move on down to the bay area and swing out of the bay area by 11 00 tomorrow night, but it will be followed by scattered showers overnight and into thursday morning, finally by thursday afternoon, well becle clearingt and drying out. Rainfall totals from. 33 inch to. 66 inch. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast, both tomorrows and thursday mornings systems rank 1 on the storm impact scale, storms of light intensity. Friday well have sunny and milder conditions, much milder on saturday, with highs in the low 70s, easter we start the day with cloudy skies and dry conditions, but by afternoon and evening, well see some light rain, a system ranking 1 on the impact scale. And another system in the north bay on monday and more rain on tuesday, each of those will rank 1 on the storm impact scale. Its election day o today attorney general Jeff Sessions toured the u. S. Mexico border and unveiled what he described as a new get tough approach to intensify their focus on immigration crime saying more Illegal Immigrants should be prosecuted as criminals. Critics blasted the initiatives as fear mongering and antiimmigrant rhetoric, not rooted in fact. A rift is growing tonight between the u. S. And russia over ending the violence in syria. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson arrived in moscow to meet with russian officials for talks on syria. He issued an ultimatum. Russia has really aligned itself with the assad regime, the iranians and hezbollah. We want to create a future for syria that is stable and secure. And so russia can be a part of that future. Russian president Vladimir Putin is Standing Firm and not condemning the syrian government. He claims last weeks deadly chemical attack came from a militant arsenal that was hit by a syrian air strike. Political observers are watching very closely to an election in a nail biter too, early returns show democrat James Thompson with a slight lead over the republican. The election is the first congressional race since Donald Trumps inauguration, its viewed as a political bell weather of sorts of the midterm races in 2018, particularly for the republican party. Theres a universal issue that a uc berkeley professor has finally figured out. Why do shoelaces come untied all the time. Well, we have the research and the results next. Still hear and hes doing well and hes recovering and its a blessing. Its a blessing. Its a blessing hes alive and its an honor for her recognized today as the dispatcher who helped save the life of an officer who was shot in the head. A new way to save you from spending time on one of lifes mundane chores. Nbc 7 on your side, a mobile gas station. You can track todays storm with the abc7 news app. You can enable push alerts to get weather advisor why are you deleting these photos . Because my teeth are yellow. Why dont you use a whitening toothpaste . Im afraid its bad for my teeth. Try crest 3d white. Crest 3d White Diamond strong toothpaste and rinse. Gently whiten. And fortify weak spots. Use together for 2 times stronger enamel. Crest 3d white. New pantene doesnt just wash i wiyour hair, it fuels it. Gain. Making every strand stronger. So tangles dont stand a chance. Because strong is beautiful. Livestreat the airport. E sport binge dvrd shows while painting your toes. On demand laughs during long bubble baths. Tv everywhere is awesome. The allnew Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity. The future of awesome. They yelled officer down, shots fired. When that call went out, she was the one who answered. Shes a 911 dispatcher for San Francisco and newly named ditch patcher of the year for her actions the night an officer was shot. Really good work. He could have died, but thankfully didnt. Abc7 News Reporter david vickly walks you through exactly what happened that night. There was death someone with a greater power watching me that night. Reporter that night, there was for officer kevin downs. It went all bad, but it started as just a normal routine call. Reporter october 14, downs was shot as he responded to a 911 call at a shopping mall. His assailant, a mentally disturbed man was shot him in the head missing an artery of his brain by one cent meter. Shots fired, officer down, the ambulance is responding, code 3. She was a 20year veteran, but she had never heard the words officer shot, she was scared. 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