Putting the recall measure on the ballot. Janine de la vega was there. Reporter cheers of victory among these group of women. Nearly 95,000 voters signed the petition and clear that the voters of this county have lost confidence in his ability to fair. Reporter the sentence made National Headlines and sparked outrage. Many women urged the Santa Clara County of board of supervisors. You are darn right, i am angry. Reporter the board voted to put the recall on the bal retired judge says this will influence judges in regard to what sentences they impose. Judges are not going to be willing to exercise their discretion to be lenient for fear of being recalled. This is terrible on so many levels. Reporter saying she would have imposed the same six months sentence. That is a lawful sentence absolutely appropriate given the facts of the case. The recall campaign has distorted that and made it all about me too and it is not at all. Reporter the recall election will take place on june 5th. The county estimates it could cost up to 1. 1 million depending on how many measures are on the ballot. After School Volunteer at a Chinese Language School in mountain view. Abc7 News Reporter vic lee has the story. Reporter renting classroom space from the seventh day ventist church. Doing it under the he worked here as a volunteer tutor for two years. Also became a member of the school board of director. Last friday police receiving a call saying his child was molested by lu. It appears that he began the beginning of the school year in august, sept Reporter Police say there could be more. He has been involved with the school for a couple of years and any child he has been in contact is a potential victim. He has also volunteered at other organizations and we are still trying to figure out other names of those organizations. Reporter the school declining our request for interviews. Vic lee abc7 news. A 6. 4 magnitude earthquake proved deadly in taiwan. Kristen sze shows us the damage. This is one of five buildings that collapsed. Looking at this Apartment Building leaning dramatically. The first two floors completely crush. Rescuers with flashlights climb ladders to try to find those who may be trapped. The Marshal Hotel with two employees dead. Amazing given the fact that the quake happened close to midnight. We were home in our apartment on the 12th floor. We felt it is a modern Apartment Building, we felt more of a swaying than a jolt. Reporter the quake damaged roadways and many roads cracked. We cover the aftermath of a 7. 6 shaker that killed people. Several aftershocks measuring above 5. 0 and with each shake already damaged buildings risk total collapse. Kristen sze abc7. Now abc7 news, our updated app pushed out an alert shortly after this mornings earthquake. It was a roller coaster day on wall street with a good end. The dow added 567 points erasing about half of yesterdays losses to close just under 25,000. Nasdaq added 148 points and s p gains 46. Strategist warning for weeks that the rising stocks were due for a correction. Lets keep this in perspective now. Reporter just the last year, stocks are still over the full year up about 20 . Now the best advice experts say remember investing in the stock market is a longterm investment. Today a federal Appeals Court judge in San Francisco upheld an agreement requiring President Trump to pay 25 million over a lawsuit of trump university. The university is no longer operating. One student wanted to opt out of the deal and pursue her own lawsuit which would have derailed the groups settlement. Todays decision stopped that from happening. Joining city leaders to announce legislation to eliminate criminal justice fees. Abc7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow has this story a critical moment in your life where you want to dance both sides because this is what you know before. Reporter criminal justice fees made it especially difficult. Today San Francisco board of supervisors president saying eliminating criminal justice fees. Counter productive, problematic sources of revenues born on the backs of our most vulnerable population of San Francisco. This is important legislation here to cut fees and fines and let people grow. Reporter the legislation has wide spread support. It was a love fest. Paem h people had a strong desire to want this. It is good policy to do all that we can to aid offenders in their successful reentry into San Francisco. Reporter the legislation also has the support of the public defenders office. The Justice System should not be for sale. Reporter as well as district attorneys office. This policy makes a lot of sense. Reporter legislation is expected to be heard at committee next month. In San Francisco, melony woodrow abc7 news. Cameras on mt. Tam San Francisco and santa cruz. Here is a look at live doppler 7 mild conditions and today, check outlook at our high temperatures. We had three records today. Sfo San Francisco and gilroy. All setting records for this date. 79 degrees was the high at concord and napa. 81 at cloverdale. Sixhour planner, skies will be clear during the evening and overnight hours. Notice even at mid knight, temperatures will still be in the midto upper 50s very mild coming our way. I will show you what we can expect tomorrow and when the record setting pace may end. Thank you. The risks were high, but so is the reward. Next, what is at stake with the local space launch. 2,000 is missing from the couples bank account. But it wasnt stolen. 7 on your side, why a bank can just take your money. I am Jonathan Bloom and how there are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. Afive, look at the ground shake there. Lifting off from Cape Canaveral florida. Can pave the way to travel to mars and beyond. Pet project from elon musk who put one of his cars on the rocket. David louie looking at the flawless launch. Reporter in the world of aero naughtics. The most powerful lever was ushering in what many hoped to be a break through moment. To the sound of cheers, the rocket lifted off with three boosters to provide extra thrust. It was an awesome sight as the launch went perfectly and a signal that the future of space is no longer the exclusive domain of federally agencies. It means we dont have to depend on the government to get us into space anymore. Reporter the large main booster and two smaller ones separated. An observer describing the precision of the landing to a movement of synchronized swimmers. Stanford professor and former nasa aims Research DirectorScott Hubbard called this a major engineering and economic feat. Where we get the cost of Space Exploration down to where more and more people, more science, more commerce can take place. Reporter spacex happy. It sounds like fun footage. So if the cameras didnt get ploen blown up as well, then we will put that out. Reporter musk is also having a bit of fun after putting his red tesla roadster on the rocket. It serves as a symbol of future aspiration to commercialized space opening up tourism. And perhaps creating human colonies on mars. Inspiring a whole separation. Willingness it take a high risk to make the next step. Reporter david louie abc7 news. Spectacular to watch. If you paid for price to buy an iphone battery. Customers as you can imagine were furious and the Justice Department launched an investigation to see if laws were broken. In response apple dropped the price of Battery Replacement from 79 to 29. A new battery is supposed to prevent older iphones from slowing down. From santa rosa a story of animal rescue. Here is Wayne Freedman with the latest over a custody battle over a cat. Reporter watch her with threeyearold darrcy. Devastating. Reporter both cats disappeared. Darcy, she found. And mack too. They named him phoenix. Reporter after the fire mack turned up at the animal shelter. When shelby saw those pictures the family claimed him only to learn that the shelter found mack a new home. The shelter did a dna case. It did confirm that the cat is the exact cat as mack. Reporter santa rosa if a family loses a pet and someone else adopts that pet, the family that lost it in the first place has the right to file a claim to get that pet back. What makes this case different is the family that adopted mack doesnt want to give him up. Is there precedent for Something Like this . None. Reporter mack remains in limbo. How do you split a family up and are you okay with that at the end of the day. Reporter family lost two homes and mourns the absence of this fellow the most. Heartless. Reporter in santa rosa Wayne Freedman, abc7 news. Turning the attention to this warm weather continuing in the bay area. A lot of people want to know for how long. I might have the answer to that. Going to go on for a while but we do into the record warmth in sight. High temperatures record setting day. Here is a look from our abc7 news camera. Looking at the embarcadero. 66 in oakland. 69 in mountain view. San jose 72. Gilroy 65. Emeryville lots of jammed up traffic but skies are clear. 60 in napa. And the view at the golden gate where traffic is flowing nicely. These are forecast features. We will see mostly clear skies overnight. Record highs likely tomorrow. May be the last day. Breezy and cooler over the weekend. Thursday and friday, our transitional days. Overnight clear skies. Tomorrow look for highs of 76 in San Francisco and 74 in oakland. Pretty much mid70s. Records likely once again tomorrow. These are the forecast highs for tomorrow. San francisco 76. San jose 76. So if these numbers pan out, we will reach or exceed several records tomorrow. This dry weather is causing snow pack to shrink in the sierra. Pitiful there in the area. This is our potential rainfall. Going to remain dry over most of california and the particular in the bay area and that means dry in the sierra as well. Here we are looking at the accuweather sevenday forecast. Still warm on thursday with upper severi upper 70s. And we will see cooler weather and breezy conditions for all of the bay area and finally by monday, high temperatures will be at least near average for this time of the year. So you do have the answers. I do have the answers just wanted to keep you in suspense. Looking live at one of the worst traffic spots well, we hope to show you that in a moment. There we go. The next sea of your commute that also made the list. Always brutal this time of day. Active poll happening right now on abc7 vote. How do you feel about the giants decision retiring barry bond bonds number. You can see the votes happening real time. A little more of a split now. 56 of you ive seen wonders all around the world but what i see here never ceases to amaze me change. 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Today we are buying out how bad courtesy of inrex. Here are five worse corridors that we have. Highway 24 mac cardsur mac cardr number three emeryville. And number five, highway 1, through the city through 280 through the golden bridge. Third worst in the country behind l. A and new york city. Drivers spent 79 hours last year sitting in congestion. You can feel the frustration building. Ever see something and wonder what it is . That is what happened to abc7 News ReporterLyanne Melendez. She wanted to fient out what was going on. The answer is next. Also ahead. You can use it for any sort of recipe. Announcer live, where you live. This is abc7 news. Some of you may have noticed towels wrapped around several fire call boxes. There are more than 2,000 of these boxes that are supposed to be completely operational but many are not. Some are in need of repair. So why are the Lyanne Melendez joins us. Reporter a cheap solved the mystery then told San Francisco supervisor and 30 minutes later at the thursday board of supervisor meeting he was calling for hearing. You cant help but notice something is not right when you see a towel wrapped around a fire call box held by electrical tape. I dont know. Reporter drive around San Francisco and you will find several of these boxes with the same towel in just about every neighborhood. Maybe it is a new display of the spirit of peace and love or not. You heard of it. As soon as you guys leave, i am going to pull it off and sell it online for 15,000. Reporter no, the real reason is that city workers were supposed to cover a few of the broken call boxes with bags like this one. But they ran out of them. Here is what we were told. In the abundance of caution to keep residents from trying to use out of service boxes, the only equipment the technicians had available were towels and tapes. The department of technology maintains them. They didnt want to go on camera. Neither did the San Francisco fire department. But the Firefighters Union did. I dont know why they are not talking about this issue because this is a city that prides itself on redundancy in the case of emergency and the street boxes are part of that. If the cell phone goes down or power goes out, this is a way to call for help. Reporter calling for a hearing. And the fact that they are not working is disturbing. I put calls into the department that is in charge of them and we are going to get to the bottom of it. Reporter that cabling system is more than 100years old and the city is considering a Pilot Program that would have solar power fire boxes and in the meantime the department of technology didnt know how many of the 2,000 boxes are not working but we will find out in that up coming hearing. Live in the news room, Lyanne Melendez, abc7. Appreciate your hard work on this one. Want to get you an update on the breaking news we brought you at the top of the hour. Gas main break and evacuations near San Francisco alamo square. Here is cricket. A fire official tweeted out the picture of the pet. Those evacuations lifted a couple of hours ago. A construction hit the 4inch pipe at scott and street. Legalization of weed in california, has taken it to the new level. Home cooks are sharing their recipes online. In tonights california cannabis report, Natasha Zouves gets the dish on cooking with pot. Reporter chef was worked in some of the top restaurants in San Francisco. This is onion and potato, and adding cannabis into it to infuse it. Reporter opening the kitchen door for cooks. Cooking with cannabis isnt as easy as tossing weed into your dish, it takes math, science and patience. I used rosin. That is when you take cannabis whether it is flowers, trim, whole plant and you press it in between two pieces of metal that are heated. Ror that rosin, he measures out a dosage based on his diners experience based on cannabis. I will know how much to put down through experimenting it on my own. Reporter when he is done you wont necessarily taste the cannabis but you will feel the effects of it. Already hosting dinners for medical marijuana users. Reporter anyone who makes money on the sale of pot must have a license. As of right now there arent any specific regulations on how to deal with kitchen businesses. Many operating in a gray area. At the apoth carium in the marina district, connoisseurs say you dont even taste the pot. You can turn it into garlic bread for your pasta dish. You can turn it into butter, make gummies. Reporter retailers saying a lot of people are looking for ways to use it. If you have cannabis infused into an oil, you can use it for any sort of recipe. Reporter behind there is no aroma from it, it is sealed in the bag. Reporter they say cooking cannabis is the way to get the most out of your bud. People think of stale brown joo is or things like that, baked goods. Reporter from salad to smoothies, they say you can get high or mellow out. Just know your dose. If you are a beginner, start low and wait about an hour to get the full effects. Reporter lots of new ways to have your pot legally and eat it too. Reporter Natasha Zouves abc7 news. Come a long way. Chef parties are from there are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. The future is for the unafraid. Strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. Upbeat music travel through this natural wonder and get