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KGO ABC7 News 400PM February 13, 2018

In alameda county, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Authorities say they dont expect to release the victim or suspects names before tomorrow. Linebacker reuben fosters future with the 49ers is still up in the area. Multiple reports say foster met today with Team Officials at the niners headquarters in santa clara. Abc 7 news was at the Santa Clara County jail when foster was released on bail last night. Los gatos Police Arrested him on charges related to domestic violence, threats and possession of an assault weapon. According to our media partner, the weapon was a sig sauer 516 shortbarrelled rifle or sbr. It was fosters second runin with the law in the last month. He was arrested for Marijuana Possession in alabama on january 12th. An Early Morning fire is under investigation in oakland after killing a man living in a homeless encampment. It happened just after 5 00 this morning on northgate avenue under the freeway. Laura anthony has our story tonight. Okay, our apologies, it appears that the audio is not with that story. We will try to get that to you as soon as we can. In the meantime, we will move on. Novato police want to know if two people found dead were the victims of a crime. They were found inside an apartment just after 9 00 this morning. Family members had not heard from either of the residents since saturday, so they called police asking for officers to check on them. Nvato police tell us there is no threat to the community at this time. Theyd also like to hear from anyone who has any information on this case. In santa rosa, residents at a burnedout Mobile Home Park are still looking for answers now that they know the owner has no plans to rebuild. Wayne freedman has reported on the plight of journeys end Mobile Home Park before and joins us live now with the very latest. Wayne . All right, thank you for staying with us. Once again lets get back out to that Mobile Home Park in santa rosa. Wayne freedman is there with the story of some folks who are still dealing with red tagged homes. Wayne. Reporter hi, dan, do you hear me now . Yes, sir. Reporter good. Tv is not easy. Sometimes we just make it look easy. Its actually pretty hard. This is the journeys end Mobile Home Park behind me. As i was saying, it is the front yard for these mobile homes over here. These are the 44 that survived the firestorm, but their owners were evacuated. After all this time, they still havent come home and they dont know if they ever will at this point. Welcome to that branch of limbo known as the Sandman Hotel where john spends a lot of time working jigsaw puzzles. Theyre a perfect metaphor in describing whats happened to his 91yearold life. Thats how much i know. A lot of scattered pieces. Reporter for john, limbo came with people saying he was fortunate when his place survived the firestorm at journeys end Mobile Home Park, but four months later he still has a mass if cleanup on his backyard, a red tag on the front door and no prospects of returning home any time soon or permanently now that the owner has announced he will not rebuild. Of the fixed income residents dont have the money to move their homes if they could move their homes. A local nonprofit may buy this land and build up with 60 lowincome housing units. Its important to burbank housing as well as the Property Owners that the property be used for housing and particularly for seniors. Reporter but that will take time and money. The latter has been a source of frustration for james gore of the Sonoma County board of supervisors. Theyre still waiting for 1. 2 billion in federal aid which remains at least two months away. It could help building housing, it could help people rebuild who need second moorar mortgages and also help us focus on how we get more. Reporter and that is your portrait of limbo in the firestorm zone today, four months later. John trillia can tell you all about it as he washes his dishes in a motel bathtub. There are people worse off than i am. Reporter its worth noting, john trillia is a really nice man who trims the roses in his garden here in the Mobile Home Park when he has an opportunity to do so. The other irony here, this is the Largest Group of residents still unable to return to their homes, still evacuated. And its strange because theyre the ones that still have their homes, they just cant get in there. Live in santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Wayne, thanks very much. One year after the oroville dam crisis, regulators who oversee the structure say theyre looking hard at how they overlooked its builtin weaknesses for decades. The federal Energy Regulatory commission is telling owners of the other nationally regulated hydroelectric dams that it expects them to thoroughly investigate their own organizations and aging dams. It was one year ago this week that both spillways at the oroville dam collapsed, prompting the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people. It was very nearly a disaster. Students at st. Matthews Catholic School in san mateo returned for the First Time Since a water main break damaged part of the campus last week. Thursday mornings break flooded the gym, a classroom and part of the church. The gym is still being prepared, so nearby schools have offered up their facilities for the st. Matthews basketball league. The gymnasium will be done in about eight weeks, hopefully a little sooner, and then well really be back to normal. The church was damaged but services were still held over the weekend. Back to that story about that Early Morning fire still under investigation in oakland after killing a man living in a homeless encampment. It happened just after 5 00 this morning under on reporter this is what it looked like just after 5 00 this morning. Cell phone video shot by shop moses who lives in the structure next to the one completely gutted by fire. I just heard a popping and things sploegtd. Thats what woke me up. Reporter oakland firefighters were able to get the fire out quickly but soon discovered a body inside. Theres a lot of combustibles around the homeless shelters and homeless encampments. Any time you have the combustibles during the cold nights, if theyre also using heat sources, we run the potential risk of combustibles catching on fire. Im crushed. I mean honestly ive cried a lot this morning. Reporter nathan moon lives across the street from the encampment. He said the man who died is a longtime resident, someone moon has gotten to know who goes by the street name kilo. Hes a big, muscly guy. Hes strong, healthy, hard working. Kilo always had a fire going. Reporter those who live here tell us dangerous fires are pretty common place in camps like these, but this is the first time in a long time that somebody has died. This encampment under the 980 freeway features a combination of tents and wooden structures made mostly out of particle board. People cant live like this. Particularly the boxes that are being put up right now, those are in my opinion very dangerous. Reporter Oakland Police and fire investigators were on scene most of the day, and so far calling the incident an unexplained death. In oakland, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. Residents and neighbors of the camp plan to hold a memorial for the man who died tonight at 6 00 p. M. On northgate avenue near sycamore street. Two bay area lawmakers are introducing bills aimed at helping some of the most difficult cases of homelessness. State senator scott weiner unveiled it with london breed. The bill would strengthen county laws on conservativeships. The goal would be to help the Homeless People zufrisuffering Mental Illness or drug addiction. Were often paralyzed by what we see on our streets and its easy to become numb, but we cant be numb. These are human beings, these are San Francisco residents. These are people who need help, and we need to help them. Supervisor breed plans to introduce a complementary city version of the bill to help smooth the process in San Francisco. Former president barack obama and Michelle Obamas portraits were unveiled today, joining the National Portrait gallery. Take a look at them. They generated a lot of strong reaction on social media, so we want to know what you think of them. Get your phone and head to abc7news. Com vote and you can give them a thumbs up or thumbs down. 64 of you in realtime saying that you like those portraits. Again, those are in realtime. You can head to abc7news. Com vote and click on your preference as abc 7 News Reporter Carolyn Tyler tells us, one of the paintings was created by an artist who attended school in San Francisco. Thats pretty sharp. Reporter its the official president ial portrait of barack obama, but it looks nothing like others in the collection. The nations first africanamerican president chose the first black artist, kehinde wiley. It doesnt look like history, it looks like now. Reporter Dewey Crumpler calls it brillbrilliant. He taught wiley back in the 90s and remembers him as an extraordinary student. A student that is driven, a student that is always moved through the passion of intellect and ability. Reporter wiley is known for painting contemporary subjects in the old master style. This one at the San Francisco museum of modern art was also at moad, the San Francisco museu tf of the african aspra. Michelle obamas portrait was done by amy sherald. Celebrate the cultural contributions of africanamericans within the arts and our entire society is really significant. Reporter the portraits are receiving mixed reviews on social media, some saying they dont look president ial. But supporters say its evolving art that moves beyond euro centric tradition. The obamas have nothing but praise. Carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. Okay. And once again lets take another look at your votes. You seep them at the very bottom of your screen. Also mixed results from you, not only on social media, just about a 5446 split. Now, it is easy to add your vote. Just head to abc7news. Com vote and click on your answer. All right, news flash, wednesday is valentines day. The clock is ticking. But are you ready . If you havent made any plans, it is not too late, were going to bail you out. Desiree is here with ideas for procrastinators and a lot of people forget this is coming up. Yeah, its a surprise for a lot of people so im going to be cupids assistant and help you save the day. Excellent. What can we do at the last minute . One of the first ideas is head down to Fishermans Wharf and see a free screening of the notebook. Its the romantic movie with ryan gosling and rachel mcadams. Since its in ghirardelli square, you can have hot chocolate, hot fudge sundaes and have a perfect valentines day doing that. So you can score big brownie points there. Chocolate and a romantic movie, you cant go wrong. Just bring a blanket and dress warm because its an outdoor screening. What else can we do at the last minute . Theres an event called speed dating with sicientists that i excited b youre not dating the scientists but it functions like speed dating. The way that that works is a scientist will come in, sit down with your group about ten minutes and talk about the research and projects that theyre working on. And then a bell will ring, a new scientist will come in and talk about a different subject. Really . Yeah. Its going to be a piano fight in the tenderloin. Thats a fun, unique, intellectual way to spend your valentines day. Its a wonderful way. Theres a number of other things. What if you like music . If you like music, then you can go to odc. They have a latin dance groups class. Dont worry if you have two left feet. All levels are welcome. So you can go in, learn some of the basics and then go anywhere in the mission after that and dance at one of the salsa clubs. Oh, thats fun, okay. And we have one more thing you can talk about. If you want to get out and about and see the town and also search for things at the same time. Yeah, theres a Scavenger Hunt in the mission. And its actually run by an app, so all you have to do is go to valentines day hunt. Com, download it and theyre going to give you all kinds of riddles to unlock and secrets and give you challenges along the way. I think, desiree, the Common Thread to all of the things youre talking about are experiences. Yes. Spend your money on experiences, not necessarily things this time. Yeah. Thats kind of a fun idea. And variety is the spice of life, so do something different. Talk about that a little bit. Do you find people really like to find a fun experience for valentines day as opposed to i mean you can still do the box of chocolate and all of that, but this is a unique way to spen time together. Its a unique way to spend time together and its one of those things where you can geek out on that day and be a little bit more effusive. The rest of the days youre still a really great partner but maybe kick it up a notch this time. I like the speed dating with scientists. Thats fun. Desiree, thanks very much. Great ideas. Happy valentines to you. Happy valentines day to you as well. A lot of good ideas. Well done. Speaking of love is in the air and cannabis advocates want to cash in this valentines day. You can forget the flower shop, the candy store, because bay area dispensaries hope youll take advantage of legal weed. Why its the it gift for valentines day. Thats tonight at 11 00. Now to a big announcement today about San Franciscos annual Chinese New Year parade andfest cal. Organizers say actress michelle yo will be the grand marshall. This is a picture from the facebook page. Yo is celebrated for her portrayals of Strong Female characters. This years parade for the year of the dog is on saturday, february 24th. Well, the Lunar New Year migration is on in china. Check out the crowd at the north train station today. Wow, it doesnt even look real. The Chinese Government says millions of individual trips are made each year as people Ventura Cross the country to celebrate festivities with their family. The Lunar New Year is this friday. Lets turn our attention to the forecast as we start another week. A little crisp out there but really nice. What a difference a couple days makes. Youre right, it is a little crisp out there today. In fact 12th of february today, its the first day this month weve had temperatures below average, believe it or not. Heres a look at live doppler 7. Weve got sunny skies, but its feeling a bit more seasonal. Its also still dangerously dry around the bay area. Lets take a look at our rainfall deficit since our rainy season began. Oakland 4. 85 inches below the average rainfall total this time of the year. San francisco more than 6. 6 inches below the average total. Santa rosa, more than 10 inches below the average rainfall total for the season. Mauf it field and san jose also below. Its very dry out there and very mild. So far weve been 11 degrees above the average High Temperature during the first 11 days of the month. Guess what, today as i mentioned we finally have a day of weather that brings us just slightly below the average temperature for this time of the year. So its finally feeling winterlike as winter is beginning to wind down. On we go to a live view from our rooftop camera here at abc 7. A few puffs of clouds in the sky but the sky is mainly blue. Its a beautiful day. 55 degrees in San Francisco, 58 across the bay in oakland, 59 in mountain view. 60 in san jose, gilroy 57 and 54 at half moon bay. Check out this view from emeryville. Again, a mainly blue sky. 62 degrees up north at santa rosa, 56 at napa. Fairfield 60, concord at livermore. A lovely view from sutro tower t well have a dry sunny pattern into next week. No rain in sight into the immediate future. Tonights conditions, clear skies, cold in the north bay valleys where lows drop to 31 at lake port, 30 ukiah, 29 at napa and it will be windy making it feel even colder. Even in the east bay well see temperatures dropping into the mid to upper 30s in many locations overnight. Down at morgan hill, a low of only 30. Around the bay upper 30s to around 40. So cold to chilly just about everywhere. Wind gusts, well, as we get into the late night hours, look for gusts between 25 and 35 miles per hour. Not only on the coast but over around napa, fayfiel the wind will get a little tamer and calmer in the midday hours tomorrow. As we look at our day planner, clear skies in the morning, chilly conditions. Sunny in the afternoon and clear skies tomorrow evening. Highs tomorrow will range from low 60s at the coast, mid60s in the warmest inland locations and now heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Valentines day is looking lovely on wednesday. Temperatures will drop a couple of degrees from tomorrows highs, but it will be a beautiful day. A bit warmer on thursday. Look at the warming trend going into friday and saturday. Highs in the low 70s inland, upper 60s right around the bay. Mid60s at the coast. Finally next monday, temperatures will drop back down to the average seasonal range for this time of the year. We have been on such a roller coaster ride with the temperatures. But as beautiful as the weather is, it is still dangerously dry out there. We could really use some rain here and the sierra really needs snow as well. Hopefully later in the month well see. Spencer, thanks. More trouble for harvey weinstein. The growing fallout from the accusations of sexual misconduct. Th

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