Here is more on what is ahead. Senate shot down a bill that would have changed the way sexualities are prosecuted. A shocking ruling date day. In favour of a man that took upskirt photos. A new report finds american hospitals and doctors have been overprescribing antibiotics. They are often used as shotgun treatments. New voe cab words and a scaled back map section. What you do on s. A. T. Is not what you do in high school. Can you take pictures up a womans skirt. According to mass , you can, and you can text people pictures of your genitals, why . Because the law doesnt prohibility it. Friday, governor patrick illegal. As technology develops, what can we do to keep it outpacing the law. Al jazeera jamie floyd is here in new york. This case in massachusetts is stunning. They basically ruled a guy who was taking pictures up womens illegal. Yes, there were two reasons. The pictures were taken in public, a place you dont have reasonable inspection of privacy, and the women and there are o
Whats ahead. The crisis in ukraine is growing. The prorussian parliament voted to break away from ukraine and become a part of the Russian Federation. We are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn. Crimea was, is and will be an integral part of the ukraine. The senate shot down a bill that would have changed the way the military prosecuted Sexual Assaults. The shocking ruling. In favour of a man who took upshot photos. The sat is getting a makeover. What you do on sat is not what you do in high school. We begin with the ongoing crisis in ukraine. President obama spent an hour on the phone with russian president Vladimir Putin on thursday, urging him to find a diplomatic solution seeing Russian Forces pull back to their bases in crimea, and informational monitors deployed to prevent violence in ukraine. Earlier crimeas prorussian parliament voted to join the Russian Federation as did the Sevastopol City Council. The parliament called for a referendum on march 16th, where crime
Im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. And im john muller. We begin with big changes to obamacare. Thousands of americans will get to keep their plans at least for a bit longer. Tahman bradley has the details and Quick Reaction from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter marci and john, these changes would affect as many as 1. 5 million people. Up the new guidelines those people will get to keep their old plans for two more years even if those plans dont meet the requirements of the new law. The new set of regulations helps insurance customers but it also helps democrats facing a political problem in this falls midterm elections. Thats why republicans quickly criticized the president. A spokesman for john boehner said the president is rewriting laws around the election calendar, but the white house says the decision was not political. Without this change, john and marci, there would have been a wave of cancellations of Health Care Plans before the november election. All right, Tahma
Stay. At this point firefighters still dont know the cause of the fire. Live in heyward, amy holleyfield, abc 7 news. This morning San Francisco police are investigating two more pedestrian accidents. The first happened around 9 00 last night at follow some and fifth street. This shows the force of the impact. An officer tells us the pedestrian suffered serious but nonlife threatening injuries. A few minutes later another pedestrian was hit by a car. That person was taken to the hospital. No word yet on their condition. The accidents came less than 12 hours after city leaders announced San Francisco will spend 17 million on Pedestrian Safety including new sidewalk curbouts which extend into the street and traffic light timing changes at key intersections. Happening this morning, a Silicon Valley area lawmaker will announce a measure to deter Cyber Bullying and Sexual Assault all blamed for a 15yearold sara toga teens suicide. Jim bell is introducing audreys law following the 2012 death
Well take a live look outside. Traffic is flowing nicely. Golden gate fields into the mcarthur maze. Sue, thank you. Breaking news this morning. Two fires in hayward actually. We want to get to abc 7 News Reporter amy holleyfield. A dramatic fire from last night and, amy, another one burning behind you . Reporter huge fire in hayward. Behind the fire we were covering. I can tell that water is getting put on this one. It was a really big fire a few seconds ago. We cant tell whats burning. Right next to homes where we saw lights getting turned on. People woke up and realized there was a fire outside their window. Very dangerous embers shooting into the air. We saw some headed our way so we had to back up. Firefighters were running to get to this when they saw it and they saw how big it was. The tree was cashing on fire. Now let me give you some perspective of how we discovered this. Were up here on an apartment balcony right down there is where there was a fire last night. This crew is h