To be suffering from both dementia and alzheimers, allegedly sexually assaulted, and the complaint filed is now raising serious questions about one of the largest nursing home operators in the state. These are bruises on cheryl doe, a 79 year old former patient at Windsor Health care center of oakland. She and her son, robert , allege the injuries are a result of a Sexual Assault that was swept under the rug. Robert says he admitted her here with hopes to keep her safe as she battles alzheimers and dementia. But he says the real battle happened inside the facility. The first time was a rape assault, and i didnt find out until two days later after it initially happened. This is the voice of cheryls son robert, who was kept anonymous to protect his familys privacy. Robert says his mom was raped by another resident living in the facility in august last year. He says a certified nursing assistant told him not management. She said your moms been getting raped in this facility and they know about it and they chose not to tell you. According to the complaint, a cna and a charge nurse knew about the alleged assault, but nothing was done. The complaint also says the facility denied it, but later acknowledged an employee witnessed it happen. Robert says several days after the first incident, the man was able to get back into her room and attack again. He retaliated against my mom and hurt her again, and she went and told one of the nurses. One of the nurses called me again and said, your moms going back to the hospital. He hit her. He beat her and bruises all over her arm and scrape marks on her knee. Attorney ed dudensing is a former deputy da who is representing cheryl and robert. He says theyre still in the preliminary stages of their investigation. How many people at this facility do you think were aware that this was going on . A lot of them, the complaint specifies two legal documents indicate after cheryl was allegedly raped twice, there was a notation of it made on her medical chart. Days later, the iteam spoke to an employee working at the facility. During that time, one of my colleagues walked in on the assault. She saw the man on top of her. The other employees were trying to sweep it under the rug. I encouraged her to tell robert. For the past several weeks, the iteam has made efforts to get comment from Windsor Healthcare center of oakland, but havent heard back. Its part of a chain of Skilled Nursing facilities operated by brius management company, among other affiliates. They have, you know, a history of failures of care that not only involves resident on resident abuse like this case, but other areas of neglect as well. In 2018, the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services fined the facility for failing to be in compliance with medicare requirements and determined its deficiencies caused actual harm to one of its residents. We know that these nursing home operators, especially the large ones like the one thats involved here, that they respond to their pocketbook. And so we try to hold them accountable in that way. According to the complaint, numerous red flags put the corporate defendants on notice of Serious Problems at their facilities, including Windsor Healthcare. Brius facilities have been the target of multiple civil lawsuits, as well as state regulatory actions arising from resident injuries, Sexual Assaults, felony abuse and resident deaths resulting from their deliberate and habitual understaffing of facilities. An abject failures to ensure Resident Safety often its because of lack of staffing, the complaint also says the defendants new Windsor Health care was troubled, but kept admitting new residents without increasing staffing and hid the problems from prospective families, including cheryls. Shes an elderly woman. She doesnt deserve to be done like that. Cheryl was removed from the facility after her son says he learned of the second alleged assault. He says shes continuing her recovery at home now and says she is doing better. But its been very tough. Yeah absolutely. Okay, stephanie. Thank you. Well, if you have a story for stephanie and the iteam, you can call this number on your screen 1888 40 iteam or go to abc7 news dot com slash iteam. Convicted killer Scott Peterson appeared in San Mateo County court today seeking a new trial, appearing via zoom. Peterson only addressed the court a few times. He was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, laci, in 2002 and dumping her body in San Francisco bay. The los angeles Innocence Project filed a brief on his behalf with numerous exhibits and claims. Evidence was withheld from petersons lawyers. Prosecutors with the Stanislaus CountyDistrict Attorneys Office who tried the original case, raised questions about the filings. The defense was entitled to those at the time of trial. Mr. Peterson has been waiting 20 years to find some of these Police Reports and audio recordings and video recordings that should have been provided. The people have never been provided with an unredacted copy of those reports. We still do not know who these witnesses are. Theyre anonymous to us. Nothing was decided during todays hearing other than the judge setting additional dates. Relive the original Scott Peterson case and follow updates for the current case. You can find it all on abc seven news. Com. All right, well, some of us woke up to rain this morning and it could be the last storm of the winter season. Can you believe it . Abc seven news meteorologist sandyha patel has a look at our weather. Sandy. Yeah, and dan and emma. Spring starts in exactly a week and were going to start to notice. Its going to feel like it right now. Live views from our tower cameras. All views are dry except homewood where youre seeing those snowflakes right now. But that view from Golden Gate Bridge pretty much tells you whats coming. A lot of sunshine. And as we look at live doppler seven, sierra is seeing snow showers right now. The showers that we had last night and into this morning, long gone. But i do want to show you what it left behind. Uh almost a half an inch there in kentfield. Bren loman picking up a half an inch, 3000 800 in San Francisco. A few hundreds. Concord, livermore, san jose, napa 2000 700 in santa rosa, 2000 500 of an inch. Winds are gusting behind that system. 31 at oakland right now, as well as novato, a wind advisory is going up with north northeasterly winds developing. So that starts tomorrow night at 5 00. It runs until 11 a. M. Friday. Gusts 45 to 50 miles an hour. There is potential for a few tree limbs going down and some outages. Heres an hour by hour. Look at those winds ramping up and theyll get even stronger. Ill be back with a full look at those hourly winds coming right up. Dan okay, sandy, thanks a lot. The city of berkeley today took action in the effort to return some land to indigenous people. The City Council Unanimously approved a plan to return to the ohlone people, land that is now a parking lot for thousands of years, the land was burial and ceremonial grounds. One of the ohlone elders reacted to todays news. I thought we were going to be fighting and fighting and fighting. Yeah, but im so happy. So, so happy. I think its a great thing that they did. Yeah and i know that theres people out there that really care. The current owner of the land will receive 27 million in exchange for the property. The majority of the money will come from a trust that works to return land to native peoples. Berkeleys mayor and ohlone tribal leaders have scheduled a News Conference for tomorrow morning to give more details. Action tonight by the Antioch City Council could help build a better bay area. Like many bay area cities, antioch has been trying to stop sideshows on its streets for years. At Tonights City Council meeting, which begins at 7 00, there will be an important vote that takes a big step forward in punishing those who take part. Abc seven News Reporter anser hassan has more. Reporter for years, mayor Lamar Hernandez thorpe has condemned sideshows on antioch streets. Dont come to antioch because well be waiting for you with the full force of the Antioch Police department, our allied agencies, and the appropriate resources to ensure that that does not happen in our community. State law already criminalizes sideshows. Those convicted can face penalties that include up to 90 days in jail, 1,000 fine, or both have their drivers license suspended for six months. The city says theres also Public Safety concerns, citing statistics put forth by the chp over the past five years. There have been 264 collisions statewide linked to street racing and sideshows. 30 people have died, 124 seriously injured. Antiochs proposal goes a step further. It will go after those who organize and advertise illegal sideshows on social media. Its a big time show and who can top the other media. Mark pereira has lived in antioch for 30 years. He can see tread marks in the intersection near his house. He supports the citys proposed ordinance. Where theres a will, theres a way, you know, they can find a way. Theyll do it and it, but it wont be as bad. And if they bite it real quickly, yeah, i think it could be stopped. Some have raised concerns over freedom of speech and expression, but the ordinance states that organizing an illegal sideshow is not legally protected speech. Law enforcement will have this extra tool uh to not just try to dismantle sideshows, but if we dont get to a point where we prevent them, we can then seek criminal charges. If passed, the ordinance will take effect in april in antioch, anser hassan abc seven news. Still to come, how an increase in chp officers is making a difference in the east bay. Its helping to cut crime in oakland. Also ahead. Is the future rolling along the train tracks after years of work, its now just months away from becoming re if at the bay area by allocating half 1 billion to extend caltrain to the salesforce transit center. The underground floors were built to accommodate caltrain, but they are currently empty. CalTrain Service ends at fourth and king streets. It would need to extend one and a half miles to reach the salesforce transit center, and in the meantime, caltrain says newer, improved trains are on track to start serving passengers in just months. Abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes explains what a difference electric trains will make. Reporter faster, more reliable trains have been promised for years now, teasing anxious caltrain passengers out with the old, in with the new. Everyone is ready for new and the new is almost here. Electrified Train Service bringing big improvements to caltrain system. Faster, cleaner, greener. Quieter. More comfortable with some great new amenities. And we really cant wait to get people on board to see for themselves how great its going to be. Those amenities will include wifi, power outlets at every seat, increased storage capacity, and on board displays with digital trip information. Thats what we need out here is the big tech technical world up here in the bay area. And we need this new environment, this new technology here. Caltrain says the trains are well on their way to the eager passengers. Now that a big testing milestone has been reached. We did the first live run test from san jose up to redwood city this weekend. The big, big impact of that means that we are now able to test our trains along that whole corridor. A big deal because caltrain has to test the electric train sets for a mandatory 1000 miles before they can take passengers. Now that it can test the trains within the large testing area between the two cities, caltrain can meet that requirement and launch the new trains this fall. Four of our trains have been at train sets, have finished the 1000 miles necessary before they can enter into passenger service. All 23 will need to go through that. So were going to be running that testing as you know, as we lead up to the fall where the launch is once electrified service is launched. The older diesel trains will only operate south of san jose, covering gilroy service. Everything else between san jose diridon station in San Francisco will run on the new electric trains. Weve got a lot of people really excited about what you know, about what the future of caltrain is going to look like, and once they see these trains for themselves, were pretty sure everyone else is going to be excited, too. In san jose. Zach fuentes, abc seven news. Parts of south San Francisco are going to get a makeover under a new pilot program. State officials unveiled the reconnecting communities project today. South San Francisco is one of three california cities where underutilized highways will be converted to restore community connectivity. The state secretary of transportation says the program is one of a kind. The first of its kind in the entire country where state is saying yes, weve had some harms, weve made some mistakes, and were here to correct some of those mistakes and harms in partnership with the community. The plan in south San Francisco is to reduce access to barriers created by highway 101, El Camino Real and railroad tracks. Well, if youre a little tired of the rain. Good news. Yes, its over for a while. Ive been waiting for this. Sandhya. Yeah, i know a lot of people have been waiting for this. And dan and we are expecting a streak of sunny days and warmer conditions. So let me show you a live picture from our santa cruz camera. You will get a chance to soak up the sun and enjoy. Look at this beautiful view. I mean, there are some clouds left over from the system that came through last night into this morning, but certainly is brighter than it was, and we are expecting plenty of sun over the next couple of days. Heres why. High pressure coming in and it is building. You can clearly see the storm track is now well to our north and its going to stay to our north. But notice wind blowing from high to the low. Were sort of packed in between and so as that Pressure Gradient tightens a bit, were going to get caught in it. And the winds are going to go up right now on live doppler seven, we do have leftover clouds. Heres a look at the winds increasing over the next few days. So lets start you out with tonight. Its going to be breezy like we have been seeing tonight over 30 mile an hour. Winds along the coastline at midnight. Now we head into tomorrow evening and the winds are okay. But then they really ramp up thursday morning, 35 almost 40 miles an hour. The higher terrain will see stronger wind gusts. We go into thursday afternoon. And that wind is a its an offshore flow. So its a northeasterly wind that is going to dry us out. Its going to warm us up. The good news is the fuels have a lot of moisture from the recent rain. So that lessens the fire danger but certainly will be gusty even going into friday morning and 11 a. M. You will notice those winds peaking at around 40 miles an hour at calistoga on friday. And then after that, well drop off those winds. A beautiful view from Golden Gate Bridge camera mid 50s right now in San Francisco, san jose 60, oakland 57 degrees. The temperatures were in the 50s and 60s today, still a few degrees below where they should be. A lovely view from san jose right now where youre seeing the sun there. 62 in santa rosa, 60 in fairfield, the rest of you in the 50s. And from walnut creek. Camera. You can certainly see a nice view there tonight. Breezy. Patchy fog forming tomorrow through friday morning. Gusty offshore winds and the next several days. We are expecting sunny and springlike warmth, so lets go hour by hour, 7 00 tonight. Temperatures in the 50s overnight. You will notice those numbers are dropping, but the fog starts to form. So tomorrow morning when you get going, watch out for some patchy fog, 30s and 40s for most of you around that time. And then in the afternoon it warms up nicely. Ill show you where those temperatures ultimately end up. First, lets talk about your morning numbers in the mid 30s around ukiah, lakeport. The rest of you, upper 30s to the upper 40s. Well call it partly cloudy with the fog and some clouds around tomorrow afternoon. Mainly sunny, occasional high clouds. Most of you will be in the low to upper 60s. Half moon bay, 59 degrees. Heres your accuweather seven day forecast. Its dry with increasing winds. Tomorrow certainly plenty of sun, but the winds get gustier as we go into thursday and friday morning. Springlike warmth coming your way with temperatures soaring into the mid 70s, saturday will hold the warmth by Saint Patricks day. Temperatures back off a bit as a fog rolls in, but ama and dan is still going to be pleasant going into next week. Great, now were talking. Yeah, its about time, right . Thanks. Several bay area counties are fighting to keep landline service. At t is trying to pull the plug, saying its too expensive to maintain for so few customers. Napa countys board of supervisors took up the issue this morning. They plan on sending a letter opposing at t s request. Marin and sonoma counties have also sent in letters. San mateo county supervisors call it Life Saving Technology that the county cant afford to lose. Heres abc seven News Reporter lena howland. Those living in rural areas of San Mateo County are no stranger to Power Outages. A frequent Power Outages means that we have use of our landline, only a lifeline that could