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KGO ABC7 News 600PM February 9, 2018

Reporter two of the suspects, a man and woman, ran into this subdivision off redwood street. A perimeter was set up and s. W. A. T. Officers and k9s scoured the area. S. W. A. T. Teams went door to door but couldnt locate the suspects. So Police Called off their active search just after 2 00 p. M. But there are other leads, like tracing the firearms recovered with the van. Detectives are looking into one potential motive for the original home invasions. One of the homes did have evidence of marijuana growing. So its going to take a little more time to investigate what happened. Reporter in the meantime, the two suspects who are still on the loose are to be considered armed and dangerous, and anyone with information is asked to contact their local police. Heeric thomas, abc 7thomas, abch a driver has been arrested and charged with murder and gross vehicular manslaughter. Chp sent out pictures of the arrest today in livermore. The suspect is lauren davis. Police say davis, another woman and a teenager were in a car that rolled the night before thanksgiving in livermore. Both passengers died. Investigators say davis was intoxicated. New at 6 00, San Mateo Police say tonight that all officers are equipped with body cameras. The Police Department says the cameras will be used to film all interactions with the public to increase transparency and accountability in policing. San mateo police encourage those with questions about the Body Camera Program to ask an officer or stop by the department in person. Parts of san mateo flooded today because of a broken water main. Homes and a school had several feet of water inside. The affected area is just off he will camino real and notre dame avenue. It was underwater modified day. David louie joins us live with an update. Reporter kristen, the Construction Equipment and crew here is in the exact spot were the water main broke, flooding the entire area, even the spot where im standing right now. It forced the closure of classes at st. Matthew and classes will be canceled again tomorrow. The view from sky 7 shows how quickly the area flooded around the water main break. Witnesses say the flow started slowly, then quickly accelerated. The first to get flooded was st. Matthews Catholic Church and school. The carpet in the sank our ectut soaked. Backyards began flooding. And at one house, the water became over five feet deep in the basement within 40 minutes. Everything downstairs from our wine cellar to our office, our kids family room, just everything had finish custom pieces in it, and its not replaceable. Reporter the water main that ruptured was over 60 years old. This main in fact that we had the leak on was installed in 1955, a 12inch castiron pipe main. Reporter do they typically break like this . Not typically, no. Well take a look at leak history on this too. Right now im not aware of anything recent. Reporter drains were clogged with mud and debris. It appears the climbing wall at the gym will have to come down. Other concerns include a badly damaged classroom off the gym and the gyms hardwood floor. All that is being right now. Right now its cleanupfocused. Reporter many students are sad about the gym. Its so pretty. We love it. Its beautiful and so sad because we just redid it. Its super sad. Reporter in san mateo, david louie, abc 7 news. Today a federal Appeals Court judge upheld a San Francisco law that limits rental housing buyouts. The current law allows landlords to publicly offer tenants money to vacate their rent controlled apartments and it also allows tenants to back out of a buyout deal within 45 days. San francisco supervisors in 2014 amid concerns that landlords were buying out tenants so they could hike up rents for new occupants. An oakland city councilmember wants to add a new tax onto Vacant Properties to Fund Projects to help the homeless. Rebecca kaplan says that properties that stay empty for a long time encourage blight. Money raised by the tax could fund new housing or homeless services. The proposal will be heard at a Council Meeting next month. Canadas Prime Minister kicked off his twoday trip to california today by conducting meetings with tech executives from salesforce, amazon and ebay. Justin trudeau is not hiding the fact that he is here to pitch canada as a place where american tech firms can do business. Abc 7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez has the story. The Prime Minister laid his cards out on the table. He was honest about his intentions. He wants Tech Companies here to look to the great white north. He said it was cheaper to live there. People in canada are highly educated. And canada relies on immigrants to prosper economically. Reporter dozens of people in downtown San Francisco stopped to get a glimpse of Prime Minister justin trudeau. He had just met with salesforce Ceo Marc Benioff who highlighted things that make the city strong. Were in the city of the summer of love and gay rights. He appreciates diversity and equality and people in San Francisco love him. Reporter benioff announced he will invest 2 billion in canada over the next five years. The Prime Minister also sat down with amazon ceo jeff bezos. The company is looking to build amazons secretary headquarters. Toronto is the only nonamerican city on the short list. Trudeau came to pitch canada as a friendly and sensitive place for tech firms to do business. The Prime Minister is aware that the heated situation in congress may work in his favor. Im going to continue to make the case that canada is a good place to invest to every Business Leader i meet, including jeff bezos. Reporter in 2013, canada posted these billboards to assure ceos that canada didnt have a visa problem. Now these Bay Area Companies are concerned they wont be able to hire the needed foreign workers. Elliott smith is with the Canadian Studies Program at uc berkeley. Someone for example who speaks english fluently, has good training and background in the tech sector, would be a very attractive immigrant to canada. And i think its quite wise of Prime Minister trudeau to come and sell that. Reporter the Prime Minister also came to assure companies he still very much supports nafta, the 24yearold trade agreement between the u. S. , canada and mexico. Tomorrow he meets with governor jerry brown. I have a feeling the environment will be a topic of discussion between them. In the newsroom, Lyanne Melendez, abc 7 news. Lyanne, thank you. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is fresh offsetting a new capitol hill record, saying she was not focused on making history but on giving a voice to daca recipients. The democratic leader spoke for more than eight straight hours yesterday, the longest continuous speech in the house chambers. Her remarks focused on young undocumented immigrants known as dreamers. So, shall we say, responsible to honor the sacrifices made by their parents to give them the opportunities that they have. Pelosi brushed off questions whether her feet hurt from all the standing or how her voice was holding up. [ bell ringing ] stocks plunged again today with the dow closing down more than 1,000 points. The s p was down more than 3. 5 and the nasdaq closed down nearly 4 . Twitters stock rose today by more than 12 on news that after four years as a public company, it finally had a profitable quarter. The San Franciscobased Company Announced it made 91 million during the Fourth Quarter of 2017. Twitter lost 167 million during the same time frame in 2016. Flaring at richmonds chevron refinery is under investigation. Contra costa officials are monitoring the problem which started at 8 00 a. M. No shelter in place order was issued. Chevron says it was an isolated incident. Air Quality Inspectors say its not yet clear what chemicals were involved in the flaring but they say they will issue insist if violations occurred. Lets check in with meteorologist Spencer Christian about the air quality and the warm weather. It was our eighth consecutive day of record warmth. Live doppler 7 shows clear skies across the bay area. Lets look at those records. High temperatures all across the area, including the records. And they are the ones with the asterisks. 82 degrees in gilroy, setting record highs for this date. Even now, as the sun has set, we have clear skies and temperatures still well into the obvio 60s all around the bay area. Im happy to report we have pretty good air quality, which will get even better over the weekend. Ill give you a closer look at air quality conditions a little later, dan and christian. In antioch, an officerinvolved shooting at a gas station in the last hour near the antioch reservoir, where a man was shot by police. Police tell us officers responded a wanted suspect. When they approached, there was some kind of confrontation. Police say officers shot the man. There is no word if the suspect fired any shots at police. The man has been taken to the hospital with unknown injuries. We are of course on top of this story. Well update you with any new information just as soon as it comes in. Its been almost a year since coyote creek overflowed and flooded san jose. Tonight, hear from those who say this flood was predictable and preventible. And next, only abc 7 news gets to meet mack, the north bay wildfire survivor who is finally back home. Strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. 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Reporter here is the video that so much of Northern California wanted to see. Shelby wallace with her feline family, mack and his sister darcy, reunited. Mack new immediately. It was the first person he ran to. Reporter mack had quite an odyssey, from lost cat to disputed cat when shelby and her family learned another couple had adopted him and declined to give him up despite a dna test. Its been an emotional roller coast e coaster. Reporter the Animal Shelter wasnt able to force a return. How do you split a family up . Are you okay with that at the end of the day . Reporter social media rallied with hundreds of comments. Mack even got his own hashtag, givemackback. In a community ravaged by loss and sorrow, shelbys quest to get mack home became symbolic. America just wants something right to happen. Reporter the family that adopted mack never commented publicly. But yesterday, whether due to legal pressure or public pressure, they gave the cat up. The Animal Shelter says it was an Emotional Experience for them. And as this photo of the moment shows, emotional for shelby too. We just want to say thank you for doing the right thing. At the end of the day they did what was right. And we feel for them. Reporter alls well when it ends. In santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Happening now, an event San Jose City leaders are calling the state of the city celebration, about to get under way. Mayor sam liccardo will speak tonight about the priorities and opportunities for the bay areas largest city. We are approaching the oneyear mark since this, the san jose flooding. Last president s day weekend, an estimated 14,000 people had to evacuate their homes and apartments. Some literally had to be carried to safety. Now more than 100 of those people are suing the city and county, claiming officials warned them to late about the impending disaster. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the story. Reporter those who had to endure the flood are still devastated. Its been a long, hard year. Reporter lawyers representing 150 families filed a lute today against san jose, santa clara county, and santa clara Water District, saying the agencies didnt do enough to warm them of the impending disaster on president s day weekend. We didnt matter to the city. Im a taxpaying citizen. I really feel demographically we were just swept aside, like the flood. Reporter attorney amanda haas believes the flooding was preventible, accusing authorities of not properly maintaining the dam, causing coyote creek to flood. Its hard to replace certain things if you lose them. One of those is your health. The waters were toxic. Nobody should be exposed to it. Reporter san jose hasened there floodrelated claims. County officials shared their disappointment about being included in the litigation, saying they dont have responsibility for evacuation in the city limits. The Water District says theyve taken positive actions to reduce the future risk of flooding, including removing downed trees and invasive vegetation in the creek. The flood caused nearly 73 million in damage. Theyre not taking responsibility for something they caused to happen. Their negligence caused this problem. A lot of people are still displaced. Reporter these residents take a stand for what they say is rightfully theirs. I want to be compensated for everything ive gone through in the last year. Reporter in san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news news. Another Beautiful Day we had. It keeps coming. We need rain. Spencer, until we get it, well bask in this. No sense feeling guilty. Good point. As mr. Rodgers used to say, a Beautiful Day in the neighborhood, all our neighborhoods. Live doppler 7 shows clear skies, mild conditions. Temperature readings range from 59 at Half Moon Bay to mid and upper 60s everywhere else. This is the view from sutro tower over San Francisco. The springlike warmth will be with us again tomorrow. Windy and cooler over the weekend, cooler by just a few degrees. It wont feel like winter, which it still is, by the way. Well have this dry pattern continuing through next week. Lets take a look at air quality. It will be moderate to good tomorrow across the entire region. In fact most locations on saturday will report good air quality, or at least thats what were predicting. East bay, South Central bay, santa clara valley. Good air quality, it will only improve as we have cooler and breezier conditions over the weekend. Weather wellness, weed pollen, grass pollen, and mold spores are low, im happy to report. Tree pollen is moderate, thats okay. Uv index moderate. Conditions pretty good in the atmosphere. Overnight conditions, clear skies. Low temperatures will range mainly from mid to upper 40s. Well see a low of 50 in san mateo and 51 in San Francisco. Tomorrows high, a little bit lower than todays but still much warmer than average. Look for upper 60s to near 70 along the coast. Right around the bay well see upper 60s and low 70s. Inland locations will be mainly in the mid70s, all a little bit higher in some spots. Speaking of higher, were going to have higher wind gusts than weve seen in quite some time over the weekend. Saturday evening, well see gusts ranging from 20 to 40 miles per hour, tapering off early sunday, then becoming strong again sunday evening, especially near the coast. Look for very breezy to gusty weekend. Teperature range, over the next seven days, well use san joses hei highs as an indicator of the High Temperature trend. Dropping down over the weekend down to average on monday. Temperatures bounce right back on tuesday through thursday. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. As you can see, monday is going to be the coolest day in the forecast period with inland highs only in the midobvio60s. 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