Reporter this is a case, he was barely visible and after the hearing his mother did speak with us she said her son is very remorseful, that he didnt realize someone could be hurt so badly. The d. A. Has a very different take on it. Im sorry for what happened. As they left the courtroom, the family of Richard Thomas says thomas is not a hateful person despite what charges against him might indicate. Reporter what kind of boy is he . Hes a good kid very good kid. He was joking around. Reporter a junior in high school, he is charged with felony assault and mayhem. Police say he lit the passenger on fire, while fleeshman was asleep on the bus monday afternoon. Fleeshman wearing a skirt the victims parents say the 18yearold doesnt identify as male or feel yale. The District Attorney released a statement quote, Richard Thomas violence and senseless conduct resulted in severe trauk injuries to a young, innocent victim. In the criminal complaint the officer said, quote, during the suspect interview the suspect stated he did it because he was homophobic. Fleeshman under goes fleement a burn center thomas will be back in court to enter a plea next week. Sources tell abc7 news authorities are investigating the rape of a student at Deanza College in cupertino as a possible hate crime as wemwell. The victim may have been targeted because of her gender orientation. Vic lee is live at the college with more. Reporter the Sheriff Department is investigating this case the building behind me is where it happened. The Media Learning Center the sheriff and police are not commenting on what our sources are telling us. Our sources are reliable, the victim may have been attacked because she identifies as a pan sexual person, a person may be attracted to people of all gender representations and sexual orientations. She has been sexual assaulted this past monday, november 4th student Andrea Jiminez read the e mail sent to students and staff. Jiminez uses the rest room where the sexual assaults happened. Now the rape happened i just dont know where to use rest room. You know . Reporter the rape happened here on the first floor of the Media Learning Center. The victim reported at tack yesterday. Stewudents couldnt believe this happen on a school day. Hundreds of students running in and out every day. Reporter abc7 news spoke with a friend of the victim who says the 19yearold believes she was tacked because of her gender orientation as a pansexual person. Saying the victim knows her assailant and the Investigation Continues many say theyre always vigilant. Yes. This is a rape when is yes. I make sure my female friends have them. Reporter some students were getting free rape whistles today. Others showed us their pepper spray. Ive been carrying i it for a whiechlt just being a girl. Just as a precaution. Reporter police are still looking for the assailant, they say is also a student at the college. A sunnyvale mother is on the way to arizona to be reunited with her baby boy, the subject of a multi state amber alert. Two workers from Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorneys office escorted her to the airport this morning so she can bring home the two week old henry the babys father was captured with the baby in mexico yesterday just across the border from lukeville, arizona the family says he was upset the mother wanted to move out of california with the child, guller is awaiting extradition back to california. Strong public stock debut for twitter. Because of early trading it opened today at 45. 10 went to as high as 50 before closing on this first day of trading. Twitter now valued at more than 31 billion. Analysts say its too early to tell if it will be a success. In terms of the Actual Service theyre providing i think its revolutionary. In the way other things have been revolution yary. Whether talking amazon, or google. Other company thats have brought something of value to market but there is a truism in investing says Good Companies make bad stocks. Todays ipo wasnt without controversy. Demonstrators were outside of the headquarters today, saying the city caters too much to twitter and other companies which push rents higher and drive out affordable housing. Using its own language, hash tag, twitter made its debut with special twitter users, one is a 9yearold vivienne har, starting a lemonade start to help end child slafr richl she uses twitter to reach out to phone shall customers how she used twitter to share details about her trip to new york. Developing news from overseas the strongest typhoon of the year made land fall in the philippines bringing with it 195 Miles Per Hour sustained winds the senter calling the typhoon the strongest of the year. And experts predict the storm will cause catastrophic damage to several remote areas. The storm is not expected to directly strike the capitol, man yila. Spencer christian is tracking this on the map. Its massive. Its massive, powerful and dangerous, larry. Here is the movement of the storm moving westward. Into east central philippines. This is a category 5 storm, which ranges a tropical typhoons and hurricanes. Winds at 195 Miles Per Hour with, gusts to 235 Miles Per Hour. Its expect the track will take it through the central philippines and western edge by 10 00 tonight. Still as a category 5 storm, then out to sea in the morning as a category 4, then expected to move on by saturday. Into vietnam, as a category 3 storm continuing inland as a ranked tropical system of category 1 by sunday this, is a very powerful and potentially dangerous storm. And of course, continuing to report on progress for you. Spence yes, thank you. They had to cut dozenens of classes because of budget problems San Jose State University says all core sections planned for spring 2014 will be restored taking the funds from other projects to redirect them to academic units. Yesterday officials said the school was 3. 8 million over budget. Today, they say it remains balanced tonight the cook and janitor of a nursing home will be stay honored for staying home to care for the residents them will be honored at the hayward Veterans Memorial building at 7 00. They worked for free to take care of 14 seniors at Valley Springs manor after the staff left. The state revoked the homes license last month. They are heros. Stanford hosting oregon noont a pack 12 showdown. Its the game of the year for cardinals. That explains your wardrobe choice as a stanford alum. Sellout crowds tonight and Wayne Freedman drew a difficult assignment of hanging out in the parking lot. How is it going, wayne . Reporter she should have given to this assignment to carolyn, poor Carolyn Johnson sitting behind the desk. We know youd prefer to be here on the farm in the center of the football universe, at least tonight. There are only two games tonight. This has National Implications calling it unofficial championship of the pacific 12. Here comes crowd. Fire up the grills. Indoctrinate the babies. Ducks have arrived its stanford v oregon. Some call unofficial pack 12 championship game. One of only two games for a thursday night for a national tv audience. For die hards, good luck finding a ticket. This game was sold out in august. You know . Before we knew standings. You snow season tickets were gone. Relatively early so most available inventory was gone before such implications were known. Stanfords director says if you dont have a ticket by now, forget it. Single tickets going for 250 bill of sacramento has gold in his hands what do you think you can get for this . I know theyre going for 90 for standing room only. But hes not selling. Nobody is selling. But someone is making money tonight. Did you see anything . We didnt see anything there. Anything elicit going on. Here is a number for you. 51,145. They know what attendance will be tonight. Because they sold absolutely every ticket and every standing room only opportunity. 51,145. We may have also tell you that with assuredness not anyone going into the game will be hungry or thirsty. I got another number for you. Ten. Stanford is a 10point under dog. Yes. I like blocking out oregon green where are you . He is in the ducks fan club. I know. I should have sat him up with people he should have seen. Maybe later. Yes. Wayne cant be helped. Could it be the end of your favorite food . The government wants to eliminate one ingredient. Te the sla has another fiery problem. What caused this car fire . One of the best nfl running backs learns he has a brain disease. 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Fda has just begun a 60 day comment period, one of several steps before it could take affect. Tesla shares dropped today after yet another car caught on fire the front end was engulfed in flames there. Its the third car to catch fire in five weeks. On heels of the latest fire shares drped to the third day closing just shy of 140 the Company Announced a Third Quarter report with disappointments this week, since then, stock dropped almost 21 . As weve been reporting twitter the big news on wall street today the company had a very strong ipo debut. Cory johnson is live outside twitter Head Quarters in San Francisco. Cory, we fers heard about the ipo its priced around 17 to 20, then, we heard 26. Today, opening at 45. Some wonder if its already overvalued . Its able to acquire a 32 billion evaluation. This is the most Expensive Technology stock, period, in all of the u. S. Markets. On a price of sales ratio. So its very expensive. Why so expensive . Its because people expect great things from this. They expect twitter has just begun to figure out how to get revenue from advertising. The market betting today theyre going to turn that beginning of a visit, a trickle maybe into a stream, maybe a fire hose. That is the hope from investors that are betting twitter has a certain path of that success. That is a big bet, indeed. Cory, thank you very much. I think its going to be interesting to see how they integrate advertising. Who wants to see a thing full of ads . Right. Its going to be challenging. This 9yearold Vivienne Harr of fairfax used a Lemonade Stand to raise 100,000ses today help eliminate child slavery. Its being bottled and sold online. Today, she posted this photo of herself meeting twitter cofounder. Shes wearing a blue bird dress in honor of the ipo. Perfect. Here she is with her fellow bell ringers. Patrick stur wart and a spokesperson who help keep public informed after Boston Marathon bombings. Spencer christian is here now, big twitter user. I tweet every day. Todays weather something to tweet b its so mild. Its going on and on. And here is a look at live doppler seven. Weve got sunny skies, mild today with high temperatures once again rising into 70s in many locations here is a live view looking out over San Francisco. Under blue skies, 61 in San Francisco now. 66 across the bay in oakland. 71 redwood city. Another live view from our east bay hills camera looking towards mount diablo. Its 73 now in santa rosa. 70 novato. And one more live view from mount tam where coast is clear. Partly cloudy skies overnight. Dry, mild, into the weekend. Perhaps throughout the weekend. With a slight chance of rain early tuesday, but may not amount to much. Here is a satellite radar image showing High Pressure keeping this mild dry pattern with us into the weekend well start at 7 00 this evening, a few clouds passing along the coastline tonight. Sunny skies tomorrow. Sunny skies again, saturday. So we have two more sunny, mild days coming our way. Perhaps sunday as well, lets take a look at the animation here starting on sunday a cold front is approaching and clouds thicken the front going to fall apart. So our rain chances are diminishing. If we do get rain drops it will be monday night into early tuesday, then, sunny skies again. So looks like this pattern with us now will be with us for a while. Overnight, mainly clear skies. Low temperatures generally upper 40s to low 50s and afternoon, high temperatures, sunny skies into milled range again. Mid60s on the coast. Upper 60s to 70 around the bay. Low to mid70s inland. Looking ahead at the accuweather forecast, now, so weve told you going to be a nice, mild weekend. There it s monday, you get cooler, cloudier monday is veterans day. Looks like a nice, dry day f we do get rain out of that frontal system will be early tuesday but then expecting clearing later in the day. Mild weather for the day tuesday. And wednesday, and into thursday wow just no change in patterns coming our way yet. Hard to complain about it. Thank you. Up next an instant friendship during an unexpected play date at the zoo. Why a cafeteria tossed out a stewed yaents breakfast. Then join us tonight at 11 00. A serious problem at uc berkeley. Binge drinking. How many drunk students are going to the hospital and impact far from the cal campus well have the story tonight tod ewelcome to covered california. Now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. Take a look at this little boy making friends with that little guy. Yes. Yes. This is his 2yearold playing with a 6monthold tiger cub in washington. Tiger on the other side there. Is that playful . The kid having fun, the tiger thinking lunch yes. Thank goodness glass is there. Yes. Rubber duck and the ancient game of chess reached a pinnacle of toy stardom. Yes. These are the inductees into the toy hall of fame. The toys face harsh criteria. Had they reached icon status . Do they have longevity . A National Committee made up of experts vote on the winners. Youre looking at top finalists. Chess. Yes. Made it i would have thought that would have been on the list. Okay. Just eeking out my little pony. Okay . Still ahead bart managers getting grilled but nothing to do with last months battle. Why lawmakers are daying taking on transit leaders. Also. Getting worse every day. So sad. Tony dorsett testing positive for a brain disease. The symptoms he says he now suffers. Later, lululemon today in San Francisco a hearing called by legislatures they want to know what is being done to prevent another accident like one that killed two men in october and why something wasnt done to prevent it. Were live at the state building in San Francisco. Heather . This hearing was scheduled for before the double fatal accident, postponed twice for difficult bart labor negotiations when it did happen today, legislatures wanted a lot more details about the fatal accident but they, like rest of us, will have to wait for the ntsb investigation to wrap up in about three weeks. Immediately after the october 19th accident that killed christopher shepherd and lawrence daniels, bart suspended use of a practice called simple approval, leaving track side safety up to workers today Assembly Labor and Employment Committee asked why that practice was in use when osha said it contributed to two prior bart deaths in 2001 and 2008. Its a gut wrenching kwechlt you ask you did it now. Why you didnt do it then . Bart assistant manager of operations says lessons were learnd and changes made. After this last accident, you know, one answer would be that we realize we cant have anymore lessoned learned. The unions complained they were never formally notified, and they slammed bart for what they call a cavalier Safety Culture where on time performance trumps safety concerns were pushd and driven. You know . Scheduling to keep that schedule. Sometimes, we take and run on the edge. You know . That is what simple approval aloud. Us to get work done while running on time. Its now up to the assemblyman to decide if anything today requires a legislative fix. Abc7 news. Keep an eye out for blue cars if youre a muni ride yes, theyll be handed out as part of a campaign to cut down on crime city Officials Say crime is down in San Francisco. But one exception, cell phone thefts. Advice keep eyes up and phones down f youve been shopping for holidays. Dont overload yourself carrying packages while looking at cell phone z make yourself almost a cometical target. Police will be deploying more officers that does cut down on robberies, dropping from 51 in september to just nine in october. Thefts fell from 80 to 26 in one month. You are not anthony, tony dorsett. Youre not him anymore. Who are you . Who are you becoming . A bomb shell from one of the greatest running backs of all time. Doctors told legend tony dorsett has brain tested positive for a degenerative condition known as cte. A brain disease caused by head trauma. Seeing tony dorsett walk off the field. The 59yearold told espn he doesnt know how many concussions he suffered but worst one, he says was this violent hit i