Partly cloudy this afternoon. Temperatures near normal. It is a warm up that begins today and continues through the week. Sunset at 5 28. And it starts to cool down this even. I will have the complete accuweather sevenday forecast with that warm up in a few minutes. Exonerated today a man has a clear name after spending 13 years in prison for a crime he didnt commit. He was freed with the help the Northern California Innocence Project. Kate audio marzullo explains. Reporter these are photos of glen payne leaving the hall of justice on friday. He is surrounded by the attorneys and volunteers of the Northern California Innocence Project. This is the first case that in the California State Court has been reversed on the basis of microscopic hair investigation. Reporter his conviction in large part due to expert testimony about two strands of hair. He made a Statistical Analysis as to how important that hair was. Then that number was used to argue that its so unlikely that that could happe
A san jose man has clear name this morning after spending 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was freed with some help from the Northern California Innocence Project. Abc7 News Reporter Katie Marzullo explains. Reporter these are photos of glen payne leaving the hall of justice on friday. He is surrounded by the attorneys and volunteers of the Northern California Innocence Project. This is the first case that in the California State Court has been reversed on the basis of microscopic hair comparison. Reporter payne was convicted of kidnapping and molesting a 2yearold neighbor girl in 1991. His conviction in large part due to expert testimony about two strands of hair. He made a Statistical Analysis as to how important that hair was. Then that number was used to argue that its so unlikely that that could happen that he must have been the perpetrator. Reporter the Innocence Project argued it was bad science. A judge dismissed all charges. It was really an honor to work o
Hayward, the fourth accident involving drunk drivers in the past month. Another officer was pinned under a car after being hit on highway 4 on january 16 and a few days later, another officer was hit in san jose. In three of those crashes, drunk driving is believed to be the cause. This has prompted the chp to further step up dui enforcement. Reporter chp officer drew williams says he didnt remember a time this many local chp officers have been killed or injured so close together. Its been a pretty tough month. 33yearold chp officer andrew camalari was killed when a drunk and possibly high driver was killed on the shoulder of southbound i880. The two officers were on a maximum enforcement patrol looking for drivers under the influence. Four recent crashes, officer williams says three of them have been suspected of being under the influence. It really galvanizes you and makes you have a sense of mission in what youre doing. Three weeks avenue allegedly intoxicated driver crashed into hi
Continuing to climb into the afternoon. Coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. Your drive time forecast. Aaron. Tom thank you. Right now you can expect big delays if youre driving to work on interstate 66. Vdot crews are making repairs. Kristin wright is there. Kristin . Reporter it could be a slowgo for some of you coming from western virginia to d. C. This morning. We want to show you where, it does look like in the past minute or so they have started to open up part of the stretch that was closed. You can see traffics actually moving pretty good where we are. But its behind us between nutley street and the beltway and eastbound lanes of 66 where it is still slow because the x lane is closed. Parts of the x lane between nutley and beltway are closed for some road repairs. Traffic already bad, you know, this time of the morning in this area. So this morning, expect it to be even worse. Until they do completely open up that x lane. It was supposed to be throughout the morning ru
Rainfall amounts from a half inch to inch and a quarter, maybe up to 3 inches in the north bay mountains. Wind gusts of 40 to 50 miles per hour. Let me get you up to date on what has happened this morning. Flash flood issued by the National Weather service for the bush scar areas of the north bay. We could get up to half an inch per hour. That will cause debris flows, mudslides and flash flooding as the debris will clog storm drains and wont awe lllow them drain properly. 1 00 tomorrow through 3 00 a. M. Thursday morning, we could have difficult driving on east west bridges, southerly winds guest up to 50 miles per hour. Theres a small probability we could have power outages. More likely were going to have a lot of beautiful leaves out there now changing colors fall to the ground and make it even slicker outside. Well have an hour by hour look at what to expect with the rain coming un, kristen. Mike, thank you. Following breaking news in tehama county. We want to get to that and r remi