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KGO ABC7 News 400PM February 7, 2018

School tutoring, so any child whos been in contact is a potential victim. And we learned that hes also volunteered at other organizations. Reporter the school declined our request for an interview, a top administrator telling us it was on edadvice of their lawyer. Investigators are still trying to figure out all of the names of the programs he participated. They say liu contacted children through a chat app. A man who today the Santa Clara County board of supervisors voted to approv putting the med suhu measure in. Reporter cheers of victory among this group of women who have been fighting to remove judge aaron persky from the bench. 9,500 women have six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious women in 2015, the sentence made National Headlines and sparked outrage saying the sentence was too lenient. Today the county of board of supervisors held a hearing to remove persky. The board voted to put the measure on the ballot. The retired judge said this will influence judges in regard to what sentences they impose. If it success, women are not going to be willing to exercise their discretion to be lenient for fear of being recalled. Reporter she says she would have given the same sentence. Something most judges would do. Thats a lawful sentence and absolutely appropriate given the facts of this campaign. But the recall campaign has made it all about me too and it is not at all. Reporter the recall will take place on june 5, the county estimates it could cost between 500,000 to 1. 1 million depending on how many measures are on the ballot. Perskys attorney has a case pending in the 6th circuit of appeals saying that the board of supervisors should not handle the matter. Now to san jose where police are investigating the deaths of three people in two separate incidents. It all started last night with a double shooting at a dennys restaurant at first and alma and then another s mile away at keyes between eighth and ninth. Reporter according to Police Someone did die there after being shot afternoon 2 20 a. M. A man who didnt want to be identified was in the area at the time of the shooting. I said did somebody get hurt, and they said yes, and i said are they okay . And they said no. So you kind of know it was a fatality. Reporter police will only say the victim is a man. Detectives and crime scene investigators were interested in this car about a block away from the scene on humbolt street. Investigators will not say if this is connect with the the homicide. I got kids, daughters, and they go to school and they go through there. Reporter San Jose Police were already busy when they got the call on keyes street. A murdersuicide about a mile away. Police say a man shot and killed a woman and then shot himself. Both died at the scene. We believe it is going to be like a Domestic Violence related homicide. Reporter the two homicides are the fourth and fifth of the year here in san jose. In san jose, matt keller, abc7 news. A powerful 6. 4 earthquake hit the island of taiwan today, it toppled buildings it killed two and injured at least 200. The epicenter was about ut ut miles from taipei. I want to play you a video from abc news of one of the collapsed buildings. Listen. Were trying to play this, however it seems to be stuck, as it does sometimes, thats a shame because they were yelling to people on the upper floors to try to be safe and dont be afraid, were going to come get you. And that is the very same building where this happened. Take a look. That is the leaning building, dramatically 45 degrees there, the first two floors completely crushed. This is one of five structures that collapsed as panicked residents ran to safety. Rescuers with flashlights climbed ladders to find those who may still be trapped. Trappp mostly over 100 guests have been accounted for and thats an amazing fact considering this happened near midnight as guests schlep. This is the Marshall Hotel before. One of the most elegant really in the city. Now look at it today. Thats the aftermath of the quake and you can see people climbing out of ladders to try to get to safety. One american who was in taipei also felt the shaking. And we were home in our apartments on the 12th floor. We felt its a modern apartment building, we felt more of a swaying than a jolt. The quake also damaged roadways. Look at this, many bridges are buckled and roads are cracked. Taipei does get earthquakes and we covered the 7. 6 1999. Theres there several aftershocks and several buildings risk total collapse. Really scary seeing that building over on its side like that. Scary. Turning to the weather now, a little bit more sunny of a february day, lets take a live look or a video look from drone 7, this is Treasure Island looking forward San Francisco. It looks like paradise out there. It is paradise if youre outside. Spencer christian, inside with us. What are you saying . It is kind of warm, this is becoming routine, just another day of record warmth. Beautiful conditions outside, and we have more records for this date, san jose, 77, tied its record high for this date. Napa tied its record to this day. All these records were set in 2011, so apparently this was a hot date in 2011. I was a hot date in 2011. Lets take a look at our current temperatures. 80 degrees in santa rosa right now, all across the bay, it is still mild to warm. Let talk about weather wellness, tree pollen and uv index is moderate and weed pollen is low, we have no issues with mold pollen. Thats good news. Tonight well have clear skies, the temperatures will drop to cool, but not chilly. Ill tell you when well see an end to these record high temperatures in just a minute. A power outage has knocked the Public Works Commission of power for the day. The oakland fire and Police Communication center is not affected by this. Oakland officials expect the power to be restored by 6 00. Thats when the center actually closes. Low income residents lined up at the Chinese Chamber of commerce today. They were there to pick up vouchers that can be spent just like cash at nearly 3 dozen places in the neighborhood. Organizers say recent Construction Projects have disrupted parking and foot traffic leaving these businesses struggling to survive. We want to make sure that the construction doesnt put them out of business. The rose Pak Community fundraised more than 150,000 to pay for the vouchers. A new study has confirm what we all know, bay area traffic is bad. Today were finding out how bad. Here are our top five or worse five traffic corridors. Number one is highway 24 in the mccar thursday maze through the caldecott tunnel. Number two is third street in San Francisco from 16th to market street. Number 3 is interstate 80 from emeryville up to pinole, and number four, sixth street to market street. And highway 280 through the city to the golden gate bridge. San francisco traffic overall third worst in the country behind l. A. And new york city. And according to the study, drivers spent 79 ours last year just sitting in the congest chun. Up, up and away for the worlds most powerful rocket. The launch that brought out the stars today. And back to school for some bay area teachers. The field trip that will help them with their students. And a bizarre find in San Francisco. Those police and fire call boxes covered with a towel. Your heart doesnt only belong to you. Bye grandpa. And if you have Heart Failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine that helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital compared to a leading Heart Failure medicine. Dont take entresto if pregnant. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. And help make more tomorrows possible. A huge success for spacex on the first test flight of its big new rocket, the falcon heavy. It blasted off just a few hours ago from the same floor at a launch pad used by nasa nearly 50 years ago to send men to the moon. On board, a tesla roadster that will reach all the way to mars. Reporter with a thunderous roar and thunderous applause from employees, Spacexs Falcon heavy lifted off from cape k canaver canaverals space complex on tuesday. The launch was the first test flight of the falcon heavy which the company says is the most powerful rocket since nasas saturn five, which was used for the Apollo Program and retired in 1973. Its on the path to enabling that kind of exploration. Reporter the falcon consists of a beefed up falcon 9 rocket and thats 27 engines that spacex says are capable of producing 33 Million Pounds of thrust. The two boosters separated without incident, landing back at earth. The company was able to lift off before a 2 1 2 hour launch window closed, now the rockets only payload. We put something very special inside. Reporter the tesla roadster is now on its way to an orbit around the sun. Cool. Were told that actor Harrison Ford was present to see the launch. Well, in San Francisco federal court, the former ceo of uber took the stand in a trial that could impact what Company Leads the selfdriving transportation race. The witness on the stand said he talked to andrew healevandowski uber then bought auto. He is back on the stand tomorrow. 31 teachers on the east bay went on kind of a field day today, looking for potential future jobs for their students. Leslie brinkley was there for a glimpse into what could be a successful career program. Reporter it was the best day at mt. Diablo school district. High School Teachers visitsed laboratories, medical clinics and a dozen other businesses to see how these industries are changing. What do they want from their prospective employees. It gives us a way of going back to the classes and touching on items that might not have been touched upon. The students are going to learn more current information than if the teacher would have never left the classroom. Reporter some got a look at this commercial printing business, some visited clarion, and they stopped at the new jet suite x operations. What will they tell their students when they get back in class tomorrow . I am going to tell them, it is inspiring to live and be here, there are tremendous job opportunities. Some of the people we have met today and the different places we have seen are all opportunities for our students. Reporter last year these career field trips for teachers this year the goal is high school internships, to benefit both College Bound and career bound students. In concord, im leslie brinkley, abc7 news. Employers also emphasize the classic job skills like having a good attitude and being punctual. Today the Team Announced that its retiring barrys uniform number 25. Bonds becomes just the 11th jichb giant to have his member retired, and that includes his godfather willie mays. Cast your voes rigte right now,a realtime poll. Thumbs up if you agree with the giants decision to retire barry bonds retirement. I think we know how this is going to go, in the bay area, nationally it might be a different story. Bonds played for the giants from 1993 to 1997, he retired as baseballs home run record. Hes inching his way up, but he still has four years left of eligibility. Getting to the weather, our warmth continues. Oh, my gosh, at least for a couple more days. Report warmth at that, not just warmer than average, but a lot warmer than average. We have sunny skies all across the bay area right now, we have had no fewer than three record highs today, there may be more official ones right now even as we speak. Right now, looking out over the bay, from mt. Tam, it is as of 4 4 01 p. M. , it was 72 degrees in oakland, san jose, 77, 69 at gilroy and 64 at half moon bay. It is 80 degrees at santa rosa, 79 at napa and novato. 73 at fairfield. Looking at blue skies over the bay and these are our forecast features, well see more winter warmth. Coastal cooling will beginning begin by end the of the week. Speaking of cooler, lets take a look at the sierra where its not so cool and snow is desperately needed. State wide the snow pack is 24 of average and in the sierra, up in the north, only 22 of average, down in the south, 21 of average, so snowfall is desperately needed in the sierra. We dont see any coming our way for a while as we dont see any rain coming toward the bay area for a while. Clear skies, low temperatures mainly in the mid to upper 40s, tomorrow will be another sunny day. Our rainfall potential through february 17 is near zero in the bay area. Although some locations not far from the bay area will receive some light rain here in the nec week or so, but much of california is going to remain dry for a while. Heres our 12hour planner, taking us through the day tomorrow, 7 00 tomorrow morning, clear skies and moderately cool and warming up quickly in the afternoon hours. More specifically well be looking at highs tomorrow of 79 in santa rosa, 75 at san mateo and freemont. Another day of potentially record setting warmth. These are the forecast highs for tomorrow, in this first column for the specific locations, as you can see, we expect record highs tomorrow in san rafael, tn oakland and santa fe and close to a tie in napa and livermore. Look for sunny skies and much warmer than average conditions through friday, well get breezy and Cool Conditions across the board on saturday and then sunday and monday and tuesday, temperatures start to moderate a little bit across the entire region. However, well still see highs above, slightly above average, even as the cooling settles in on sunday and monday. Cooling. All right, thanks, spencer. 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Ask your doctor about victoza®. We are less than a month away from the oscars and if youre a fan of movie costumes democracies now now is the time to check out the designers work. The annual collects the previous years major movie costumes, putting them on free public display, celebrating the work of costume designers. They sit in the quiet background and let their work do the speaking. But really, they create characters to help tell the story, they create magic. Reporter phantom thread is among the five nominees for costume designer. I didnt feel the pressure. My pressure is about like can i do service to the piece, once again, for paul and his beautiful script. Reporter filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson used some of the movies real seamstresses on camera and daniel daylewis learned how to sew. They really learned what they were doing and it makes it feel very real. Reporter for the shape of water, the designer designed humbler looking clothes but with just as much detail. We put more detail than the viewer may never, ever notice, but it adds to the actors feel for the character. Reporter Jacqueline Duran is nominated for beauty and the beast transforming animation into live action. And shes also nominated for her world war ii costumes in darkest hour. The costumes add so much to the movie yet the Academy Award for costume design wasnt given for 20 years after the oscars started. Now 70 years later, costume design has taken its part in movie magic. Very neat. We do want to remind you, abc7 is your home for the oscars. You can watch the show live right here sunday march 4, jimmy kimmel is hosting once again. Want to see some shoes that can walk by themselves . Check these out, a hotel in japan, they drive, theyre using selfdriving slippers. What . Apparently this is a big deal. Hightech, hands free hospitality. The hotel is located in the northeast of the country. Who needs autonomous cars. These slippers meet their guests at the entrance. They use simplified Nissan Technology sensors and they use tiny wheels to move around. The hotel also uses autonomous floor cushations inside the room. How do you not slip because there are wheels . I dont know. So many questions. Just ahead, another

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