Paper mache is the comet. Comets can travel up to 300 miles per second so everything is really hauling here. This is such amazing stuff we are even seeing celebrity tweets. William shatner saying simply hooray. He posted this youtube video. Good luck, rosetta and philaes going to land on, i am so excited. A lot of people are excited. This remarkable achievement is the latest step in a mission that actually began a decade ago and culminated with cheers and hugs in a control room in germany. This celebration went on for a few minutes but the crew quickly got to work Monitoring Communications from the robotic probe. Philae was launched by rosetta which has been circling the comets for week. Researchers believe the comet holds clues about the dawn of our solar system, maybe even life on earth. A time capsule telling us what were conditions like when the earth itself was just forming. Thats huge. Officials say the aircraft may have bounced once before coming to rest. Scientists hope to learn more about the composition of comets and exactly how they interact with the solar wind. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield was on hand as people in the bay area were watching this historic landing at the space and Science Center in oakland. Reporter space enthusiasts cheered as space history was made this morning. This crowd started gathering at the space and Science Center at 6 00 a. M. To watch as the space craft landed on a comet for the first time. Its absolutely thrilling we just used robots to land on a comet. It was exciting. Im a picture junkie. I love pictures of other planets and moons. This will be the first time we have ever actually seen a photograph from the surface of a comet. Reporter the actual moment was a little anticlimactic. The audience is watching a feed from europe, waiting for the jubilant moment but it never came. Instead, a worker made the announcement. We just got a confirmation four minutes ago, we got confirmation the probe has landed. Hooray reporter something went wrong with the live feed out of europe and pictures from the comet werent available yet. Still, this crowd says it was worth it. They were successful and we are going to get a chance to see the images soon so thats fun. When you have a historic occasion, people want to be with other people. Reporter astronomers were on hand to explain what was happening and answer questions. They described how revolutionary this is and how getting to explore a comet is like opening a time capsule, that it will help shed light on how the sun and the planets were created. Comets are perfect treasure trove of preserved information. They have not changed since the beginning of the formation of our solar system. Reporter there were some moments where people had their fingers crossed. There was word that the probe lost its thrusters so that just made the successful landing even sweeter. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. The whole thing is really quite unbelievable. Remarkable. Now, near weather for earthlings, we have rain on the way. That is good. Spencer christian is here with an accuweather update. Glad i qualify as an earthling. Lets take a look at whats happening on live doppler 7 hd. We have some rain approaching. It may not be much rain but we are hoping it gets organized. Heres live doppler 7 hd showing clouds beginning to thicken, especially offshore right now. Notice to well to our west and northwest offshore, we have this cold front approaching and you see little specks of green developing there so there is some moisture content in the clouds, obviously, but we dont see any indication yet of any significant rain coming our way from this system, but we are hoping it will get a little more energetic as it gets closer to us. Meanwhile, speaking of significant weather, check out the polar plunge, as some are calling it, of cold arctic air into the nations midsection. It is currently minus one in great falls, montana. One above zero in denver. Six in rapid city. Notice how much colder it will get overnight. In the Early Morning hours, about 4 00 a. M. Our time, it will be down to minus ten at rapid city and great falls, minus two in denver. 17 degrees in fargo and omaha. This plunge of very frigid air is going to continue pushing southward into the deep south of the u. S. By the end of the week. I will be back with a closer look at the rain approaching the bay area in a few minutes. Thank you, spencer. Alameda county sheriffs deputies may now have the car that hit and killed a 14yearold boy during a chase last night but they are still looking for the driver. Investigators today impounded what they describe as a vehicle of interest in last nights tragedy. Witnesses say 14yearold ivan cruz was riding his scooter in the crosswalk at east 14th and ashland avenue outside of san leandro when he was struck. Family and friends have been leaving tributes to cruz at that scene all day long. I loved him. He is my everything. Its not fair. He was my life. My world. He was everything for me. The sheriff says the deputy first tried to stop the driver for reckless driving but ended the pursuit before cruz was hit, then another deputy picked up the chase after the tragedy but some witnesses say deputies were still chasing the suspect when he hit cruz. The family of a San Francisco man who has been missing since halloween says they are convinced now of the worst outcome. Hes dead. But the medical examiner has not yet identified a body discovered in the bay as that of dan ha. Vic lee is in the newsroom with late developments. The medical examiner was supposed to receive the dental records sometime today. Once he gets them, he should be able to see if the body found in the bay is, in fact, ha. Yesterday morning, a badly decomposed body of a man was found in the waters near alcatraz. Today, the family of dan ha sadly had to face reality. While the face and body were indistinguishable, the clothes, wallet contents and phone matched dans personal belongings. At this time, we as a family believe the body is dans. Reporter 28yearold dan ha had been missing since october 31st, halloween night. He was last seen leaving his apartment. His parents and two brothers flew into town to join a massive search launched by his friends and coworkers. They printed thousands of flyers, posting them in neighborhoods where he lived and frequented. But he was nowhere to be found. His family does not believe he took his own life. Dan did not leave a note. He had scheduled a doctors appointment the morning of his disappearance and was scheduled to attend a work event the very next day. Reporter his boss said he did go home sick from bad headaches the day before he went missing. But the young man had no history of mental illness. His brother joseph told reporters he wished police would have been more proactive in searching for his brother. But police say they responded immediately the day after the family filed the missing persons report. That was november 5th, six days after ha vanished. The investigator has come in on his weekends off and on evenings working late on this case. Reporter his friends say ha was a Brilliant Software developer who loved life and had a huge heart. I cannot imagine such a sparkling personality being gone from my life. Reporter his parents thanked all those who worked and prayed for his safe return. Thank you very much. Pray for us in the time of sorrow and shock. Reporter sad case. If as expected the medical Examiners Office identifies the body as that of dan ha, there is really only one question left. How did he die. Was it a suicide, an accident or murder . One footnote to this story. San Francisco Police say they receive on average 300 missing persons reports a month. Almost all are eventually solved. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Thank you, vic. We are learning more today about a man who was shot and killed by menlo park police. He has been identified as jeremy or Jerry Matheny from riverside county. Sky 7 hd shows the scene on willow place where he was shot yesterday afternoon. Police say he was wanted for several burglaries in san mateo and santa clara counties. Officers say he ran from them after they caught him yesterday burglarizing a business. They say they shot him after he waved a gun at Police Officers. Turning to politics, there is finally a winner in the alameda mayoral race. Results posted today show challenger Trish Spencer has unseated the incumbent marie gilmore, winning by 129 votes. Gilmore had refused to concede until today even though spencer led throughout the vote count. Spencer won the election despite spending only 9,000. An overturned big rig full of frozen turkeys caused a huge mess for morning commuters in san ramon. The el costa boulevard offramp along 680 was closed for several hours as crews unloaded at least 25,000 pounds of frozen turkeys. The chp says the driver was going too fast. Those turkeys will help the hungry through two bay area food banks. Abc 7 News Reporter chris winn was at the Alameda County food bank in oakland when the delivery truck arrived. Reporter some called it a turkey catastrophe. At least 25,000 pounds shaken up in a big rig rollover accident. It happened just after 2 00 early this morning. The driver, who is now okay, was on i680 hoping to take the transition to i580. The chp says he got confused, took the el costa boulevard exit by mistake and was going way too fast. It was dark, he wasnt familiar with the ramp. As he was coming around the curve, the trailer began to slide. Reporter the turkeys were supposed to go to a wholesale distributor not far from the scene of the crash. Once cleanup was complete, the delivery was rerouted to an oakland food bank. This afternoon, abc 7 news was at the Alameda County Community Food bank as the turkeys arrived. Todays experience, while it was really terrible for that driver, is really great for the food banks in the east bay. Reporter a representative from the Alameda County Public Health department was on scene to inspect the turkeys and said they were fine. The food bank able to work out a deal with butterball to hand out the turkeys to local families this Holiday Season. Chris winn, abc 7 news. Abc 7 news wants you to give where you live in our annual thanksgiving food drive. To make a 10 donation text the word feed to 80077. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00, a window washing platform breaks loose on the new World Trade Center, leaving two men hanging on for dear life. Their dramatic rescue is next. Also, the future of a controversial guardrail system in california. Dangers first exposed by the abc 7 news iteam. So is it an invasion of privacy or a worthwhile Crime Fighting tool . Now at 4 30, san jose residents sound off on their Police Departments plan to use drones. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is taking your questions on twitter and facebook. He will answer them here live a little bit later. You can contact him on facebook and twitter. At 4 12, a live look at the afternoon commute. This is the san mateo bridge, oncoming traffic little bit heavier. It is going back to the east bay toward hayward. On the right side, smooth sailing for folks going toward the peninsula. Television announcer mattress discounters 197 mattress sale 197 mattress sale is on now. Bulldog mattress discounters 197 mattress Sale Television announcer right now, you can get a serta mattress, any size, for just 197 each piece when you buy the complete set. 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We are told jacks drugstore was closed for an hour but is now open. Water Officials Say they arent sure yet why this water main broke but they have cut off the water. The street was initially closed as well but police tell us they have just reopened it. Cal trans announced today that crews will stop installing a controversial guardrail system, one that the iteam first exposed possible safety issues with last year. Trinity industries faces accusations of making changes that led to its guardrails not absorbing impact. Cal trans says it wont install any more until the federal government wraps up new crash testing early next year. Just last week, the iteam first reported the bay area football star died in a crash involving that type of guardrail. His family spoke to dan noyes in an interview coming up at 6 00. A dramatic and scary rescue today at the tallest building in the u. S. , at the World Trade Center in new york city. Two window washers stuck in scaffolding hung dangerously on the outside of the building several hundred feet up in the air. We showed you the rescue live on abc 7 news at midday. The new York Fire Department tweeted out this picture showing what it looked like inside the building. Much better to be inside than outside as the rescue was going on. Abc News Reporter Marcy Gonzalez with more from the scene in new york. Reporter 68 floors up, dangling along the side of the countrys tallest building, two window washers getting the scare of their lives when a cable on their scaffolding suddenly gave way along new york citys one World Trade Center. The cables are supposed to come down at the same speed and slack developed in the cables that were on the west side, and the scaffold, of course, went from a horizontal position which is the safe position to what you see up there, the vertical position. Reporter for nearly an hour and a half, they waited, staying tethered to the scaffolding so they wouldnt fall as rescue teams rushed to the scene, clearing the plaza below, making sure people who were there paying respects at the 9 11 memorial were safe. Finally, the dramatic rescue. Firefighters inside the iconic tower which just opened last week using diamond saws to cut through three thick layers of this glass. They cut about a 3 8 inch layer of the outer glass and again, were able to safely move that into the building. Reporter pulling one worker, then the other through the window to safety. Both men taken to a hospital to be treated for minor hypothermia. Despite the dramatic day, we are told they are otherwise okay. They were fine. They really didnt say much. Reporter you can see that scaffolding they were rescued from still hanging there this evening. This is something that rescue teams here practice and prep for. Their most recent drill for a situation like this was just ten days ago. Marcy gonzalez, abc news, new york. Very scary. Must seem like a long 90 minutes. Absolutely. Time to check on the weather. Spencer christian. Not that high up, only a couple of stories. And silent for the moment. I see his microphone. This is going to work out. Hold on. There we go. We got you. Youre good. Hold on. You got me . Okay. Okay. Good. I was just looking to see if the mic was on my lapel. Apparently it is. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd. Lets take a look at the approaching frontal system which may have more promise than punch. We see clouds thickening offshore right now and we do expect rain to develop tonight. Before that, let me tell you about this beach hazard statement, still in effect through tomorrow afternoon for our west and northwest facing beaches. Theres an increased risk of sneaker waves and rip current so Hazardous Conditions along the coastline. Heres a view of dramatic looking western sky from the east bay hills camera. Pretty sunset sky with clouds thickening, producing lots of color. 62 degrees in San Francisco. Oakland, 63. 64 in san jose. Morgan hill, 66. 69 in half moon bay. Check out the view of the golden gate where we see no low clouds but obviously high clouds at the moment. Its 63 right now at santa rosa, napa and novato. Livermore, 67. Heres a nice view of part of the skyline of San Francisco. These are the forecast features. Rain will develop overnight, it will be a wet commute tomorrow morning and we expect sunny days for the weekend. Here comes the frontal system i have been telling you about. Its still well offshore and its another weak frontal system. We may not get a lot of rain out of this but we do expect some wet weather. Lets start the forecast animation at 7 00 this evening. Notice that by 11 00, we will see rain beginning to push onshore, mainly north of the golden gate. Then during the overnight hours, we will see more widespread rain pushing inland but beginning to break up into pockets of rain and showers by 5 00 a. M. , the beginning of the morning commute. But there will be wet spots for the morning commute. It could be a slow commute as a result. Later in the morning, we will see the showers become more widely scattered and they will pretty much end by the afternoon. So by 7 00 tomorrow evening, we expect rainfall totals to be no greater than about one tenth to four tenths of an inch but perhaps as much as an inch of rain in the bay area mountains. In the sierra, light snow, i mean light snow, maybe just a few inches will fall above 8,000 feet. Back to the bay area, overnight, with showers and rain, low temperatures mainly in the mid 50s. Tomorrow afternoon, we will see mainly cloudy skies, maybe a few scattered showers, highs in the mid to upper 60s. The accuweather sevenday forecast shows mostly sunny conditions friday, saturday, sunday and monday, but clouds will increase next tuesday and theres a slight chance of rain again next wednesday. We keep getting these slight chances of light rain but maybe it will all add up to something significant later in the season. Larry and ama . Thank you, spencer. Up next a former bay area mayor gets the highest honor from france. New after 4 30, pictures of a pregnant woman and a boy begging for money. How a moment of sympathy has now turned into outrage. With sleep number, now theres an adjustment for that. Give the gift of amazing sleep, only at a sleep number store. Where youll find our lowest price ever on the c4 queen mattressjust 1499. 98. Ends sunday. Know better sleep with sleep number. And youre eligible for san medicare, area Anthem Blue Cross can help you get a great plan at a great rate our new Medicare Advantage plans pay for many of the costs original medicare doesnt. 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The bowl game has had several names since it initially debuted at what was then pacbell park in 2002. It started out as the diamond walnut bowl, the emerald bowl in 2004. In 2010, it switched to the kraft fight hunger bowl. Then just the fight hunger bowl in 2013. Today a bay area man was awarded frances highest recognition. 96yearold Nathan Landis received the legion of honor from the french consul general in San Francisco. Hes a world war ii veteran who arrived in france a few weeks after dday. He took part in the battle of normandy, the battle of the bulge and helped liberate a concentration camp. He is jewish and says the medal should go to all the men who fought for the liberation of france. Truly, its remembering all of the great deeds of so many tens of thousands of men who gave their life, gave their bodies, for the benefit of saving france and freedom itself. After the war, landis started a Construction Company in the bay area. He also served as the mayor of woodside for six years. Just ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, san jose cops poised to make their case for using drones. How is that idea flying among City Residents . Also, the attack on u. S. Sailors in turkey and the amazing poise one showed during an extremely frightening situation. Plus the drastic and rather expensive steps being taken today to rid a San Francisco lake of some unwanted fish. The Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the wellcrafted allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. 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Nasa tweeted this image here saying headed toward history, a view from philae as it approached the comet landing. More soon. San jose police are holding a Public Meeting this evening to sell the idea of adding drones to its tool kit. The idea is controversial and comes only after the department acquired a drone without public knowledge. Abc 7 News Reporter david louie is live at city hall where the meeting will be held. David . Reporter well, the controversy is over how San Jose Police acquired that drone before a Public Meeting to discuss how it would be used and what policies would govern its use. Anyone can walk out of a store with a drone for as little as a few hundred dollars. For many it has become a hobby or tool for video graphers. How many drones are in Silicon Valley . A conservative estimate, beyond 5,000. Reporter if police have their way, there will be one more. A century neo 660 like this one. Officers want to use it to check out suspected explosive devices or assess hostage situations. Professional drone pilot steve hall says it will be faster and less intrusive than a helicopter. It might take a few minutes to get a helicopter launched from the airport where a drone, open up your trunk and in three minutes you can be in the sky seeing whats going on. Reporter he launched one of his drones in downtown san jose to demonstrate how it can be easily maneuvered to check out an equipment box on the ground. Of course, it can also be used to peer through windows which creates privacy concerns. Hall looked into the fifth floor windows at our san jose bureau. Inevitably the sight and sound of a drone draws attention. People stare at it. So we asked people staring at this one if they thought it would be a good tool for police or an invasion of privacy. With everything going on with kidnappings and people being crazy, sure, that would be a great use. For the police department. Maybe some regulation around registration, some kind of tracking, technology is going to be necessary. Reporter police are running into criticism in acquiring its drone before gauging public input or explaining its use. Some think its time to tap on the brakes. This is one of those times where we need to take our time, sort through the issues, then make a decision. Reporter the california aclu takes an even tougher stand. Community members and policy makers know that its time to turn things around and make sure local communities are the ones that decide when and why Surveillance Systems are going to be used. Reporter david louie, abc 7 news. International news. The u. S. Embassy in turkey is condemning todays attack on three u. S. Sailors in istanbul. This incident was caught on video showing members of the turkish neonationalist Group Pushing one of the sailors and throwing objects at him while shouting yankee go home. As you can see, the sailor remained amazingly calm, even as a plastic bag is put over his head. The sailor managed to break away and make a run for it. He and two other americans made it safely back to their ship. The Turkish Youth Union is a leftleaning group based in turkeys universities and has expressed opposition to u. S. Imperialism. The hospital that treated the only ebola patient to die in the u. S. Has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to his family. That as the white house is now asking congress for 6 billion in emergency aid to fight ebola. Reporter one month after thomas eric duncans death, a settlement has been reached between the Duncan Family and the hospital where he died. I believe this facility is an outstanding facility and we as humans, we are not perfect. We make errors. Reporter Dallas Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital mistakenly sent duncan home in september after he told the staff he had traveled to africa. Days later, duncan returned sick by ambulance and died from the disease. We made a mistake and we lost one. But we can save a thousand. Reporter with more than 5100 ebola deaths in west africa and 14,000 becoming sick, the white house is now asking congress for 6 billion to fight ebola overseas and in the u. S. It will be about the purchase of ppe, that personal protective equipment, training thousands of health care workers. Reporter thousands of nurses are hitting the picket lines this week demanding better protection when treating ebola. The latest patient just released ebolafree this week in new york. Today i am healthy and no longer infectious. Reporter so far, duncan is the only patient to die from the disease in the u. S. Texas Health Presbyterian hospital saying in a statement we are grateful to reach this point of reconciliation and healing for all involved. The amount of the Duncan Family settlement is not being disclosed but by state law, cannot exceed 250,000. The hospital is helping with the memorial found in duncans name to help victims of ebola. Abc news, los angeles. President obama is now in myanmar but not before leaving china with a Historic Deal on climate change. The agreement between the president and the chinese president aims to curb Greenhouse Gas emissions over the next few decades. Under the deal, the u. S. Would reduce emissions by 28 before 2025. For its part, china will peak its Carbon Emissions by 2030 and aim to get 20 of its energy from zero Carbon Emissions sources by the same year. As the worlds two largest economies, Energy Consumers and emitters of Greenhouse Gases, we have a special responsibility to lead the global effort against climate change. The president arrived in myanmar where it is now early thursday morning with a goal of getting its leaders to fulfill pledges to confront the countrys struggles to enact economic and political reforms. It was those commitments that helped the long isolated nation wins sanction release from the u. S. More than two years ago. Black friday, still more than two weeks ago but believe it or not, bargain hunters are already camping out in some places. More stores are opening on thanksgiving and offering those incredible deals to try to get people through the door. These two women set up outside the best buy store in the Southern California town of beaumont last wednesday. They take turns going home to shower and sleep. Vicki torres and Juanita Alvarez came prepared with snacks and coffee. Her husband is on standby in case they both need to leave. Everybody is on a fixed income and we dont have that kind of money to splurge. At the top of their Shopping List is a 50 inch hd tv for 199. They admit people think theyre crazy but they are determined to get a good deal. 50 inch tv, 199. Lets get our tents. Coming up on abc 7 news, we will show you the baby drummer in his own heavy metal band. Lessons learned from the Worlds Largest corn maze in Northern California that turned into a 911 emergency. Im Michael Finney. Todays 7 on your side q a is just ahead. Im still taking your questions on twitter and facebook. You can contact me and i will answer your questions live a little later. Spencer christian. A colorful sunset developing thanks to increasing clouds. The clouds may also bring us some rain tonight. I will have the accuweather forecast in just a moment. Taking a live look at the skyway at 4 36 on your wednesday, it is at a crawl but a slightly better crawl on the righthand side. Traffic heading south toward the peninsula. On the lefthand side, thats traffic approaching lower deck of the bay bridge and over to the east bay. Stay with us. [ screaming ] that is intense. Dont make them angry. You wont like them when theyre angry. These are two women showing off a chinese martial art in a championship in toronto, canada. It can be practiced as full contact as a sport or exhibition. Either way, it takes a lot of precision and intensity. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Im in love. Thats wyatt rocking out on the drums. Hes getting a little help from his parents, just a little bit. Wyatt is part of a heavy metal band his parents call vulgar display of cuteness. His baby sized drum set is made out of cans and pencils. Oh, my goodness. You would really love to live next to wyatt as a teenager. The owners of the Worlds Largest corn maze in Northern California say they have learned a lesson this year. Yes. There is such a thing as too big. They will probably scale back next year. The 60acre cool patch pumpkins maze turned out to be so difficult, people were getting stuck in this thing for hours and ended up calling 911 for help. Police say they were able to handle all these situations over the phone with the maze owners and say they never actually had to send an officer out there. Listen to one woman who asks if she should just wait where she is. You could either do that or try to make it to the edge. Its whatever you feel more comfortable doing. I dont know what to do anymore. Weve been here four hours. We are stuck and they close at 10 00. We cant find the way out. What time did you guys go in there . We went in around 8 00. Geez. The owners plowed down the maze a few days ago after getting the evidence they needed to apply for the honor of Worlds Largest corn maze. They admit next year they will probably build a smaller one. Have you ever been stuck in one of those things . I havent been stuck. I have always been able to make it out but one that big, i dont know that i would be able to do it. We had a Little Family competition a few years ago at the dole cannery maze. Right. I have been in that one. I did not fare well. Oh, no. I think i made it through that one. We had a family competition and we know who was good and who cried out for help. All right. Lets get to Spencer Christian for a look at our weather on this wednesday. Pardon my chuckles. Now i know how anchor people have fun. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 hd. We have clouds moving into the bay area ahead of some overnight and Early Morning rainfall, much needed, of course. We welcome it. Meanwhile, what may be unwelcome is this southward surge of bitterly cold air through the nations midsection. Tomorrows high temperatures will reach only ten degrees in great falls, montana, 19 in fargo, north dakota. 16 in denver. 25 in minneapolis. Its all continuing to push southward and eastward so it will be a cold end of the week for much of the central and eastern u. S. Meanwhile, back here in california, tomorrow we will see scattered showers in the northern half of the state and over into the sierra, maybe some light snow in the higher elevations. Mainly dry down south and here in the bay area, we will see rain developing overnight, giving way to showers in the morning hours, probably ending by Late Afternoon or early evening tomorrow. High temperatures will range only from low to mid 60s at the coast to mid and upper 70s mid and upper 60s, i beg your pardon, inland. Larry and ama . Thank you, spencer. Still ahead, the quick thinking of two men helped save a life. How they pulled another person out of the water. Plus a pregnant woman and her young son panhandling on the street. Doesnt seem like a big problem. What witnesses say happened next that has so many people upset. Im 7 on your sides Michael Finney. How long does it take for a new iphone 6 to be delivered . Ill have the questio bulldog bulldog oooh mattress discounters 197 mattress Sale Television announcer get a serta mattress, any size, for just 197 each piece when you buy the complete set. The 197 mattress sale. Bulldog oh boy Television Announcer . Is on now. 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Dallas city workers are being hailed as heroes for rescuing a colleague whose truck plunged into a creek trapping him inside. The workers say they just happened to be driving by when they spotted the truck with brake lights flashing. They jumped into action, cut the mans seat belt and pulled him to safety with a rope. Reports say the truck driver lost control of the vehicle after suffering some sort of medical problem. Sympathy has turned into outrage in san diego after witnesses saw a pregnant woman who was begging for money in a Shopping Center parking lot. The problem, she left in a newer model mercedesbenz. Our affiliate in san diego has the story. Right there on the corner. Reporter Melissa Smith says she saw this pregnant panhandler and her son at this east lake plaza every weekend. I felt bad. Theres a pregnant lady with a little boy and down on her luck. The dad comes out on the weekends and stands with them. Reporter she held a cardboard sign. Please help. Reporter plenty of people did. Lots of people gave them money. Reporter smith says she was getting gas when she saw the couple at the usual spot. They were leaving and i noticed they went into a mercedesbenz. I thought wow, a mercedesbenz . Reporter she shook her head, got in her car and drove away. Lo and behold, they were in front of us. Here they are counting money, laughing, their little boy is not in a car seat or seat belt, hes all the way in the front seat with them. Reporter smith watched them drive to another plaza. She sat there with the sign, he goes, parks the mercedes and they put up the sign and not less than five minutes, here she is getting money from all these people. Reporter she took pictures of the woman and little boy. She said the woman saw her. Next thing i know she picks up this big boulder about this big, goes over her head so i dont know if pregnant people can do that, but it was pretty big over her head and coming at me with this rock. Reporter another witness saw the whole thing and called 911. She grabs her little boy and takes off through the middle of the parking lot. Reporter smith said she wants people to know about this couple before they find a new place to panhandle with their son in tow. I feel bad. Dont give these people money. They dont need it. They are driving a benz. She traced the womans license plate to an apartment complex where units rent for more than 2400 a month. San diego police are also investigating the alleged threat made against that witness. Consumer news now. 7 on your sides Michael Finney answering questions sent in by facebook, twitter and email. A twitter user writes i ordered an iphone 6 plus back in october from my phone carrier and im still waiting for it. How long does it take to receive this phone . It appears to be area by area, even down to store by store. This is the reports im getting. As a matter of fact, one of our producers in 7 on your side got tired of waiting for her phone so she went to a different store and just picked it up. She canceled her order. You can check around at the various apple stores or anybody who sells them, see if they have one and cancel your order. People are still waiting a very long time. And can i use my cell phone as a gps while driving . This is great. If you talk with Law Enforcement agencies they will tell you you cannot do it but that may not be the case. In fresno, the state court of appeals said a guy was allowed to hold his phone because it had a gps map on it. Basically the court said the gps map or paper map is exact same thing. So they said you can do it. However, heres the key. Are you distracted. If a Police Officer says youre distracted, you get the ticket whether or not, doesnt matter what was on it. Doesnt matter what else was going on. If you are playing with your radio or distracted, youre distracted. I would be very careful with this at this point. Angela emails how do i know if im on a legitimate government website . Thats pretty easy. They end with dotgov. The scamsters havent figured out a way around this yet so a lot of times they will say click on this and it will say ripoff. Gov and when you click on it, all of a sudden its ripoff. Com or. Net or something. It is still a very good protection at this point. Just clarify it one more time. If its dotgov youre okay . Right. I dont know of any breaches on this anywhere. You are on an official government website. Thank you, michael. Up next, restoring a San Francisco lake. The drastic steps taken today to get rid of unwanted fish. Im Cheryl Jennings in the abc 7 newsroom. Coming up new at 5 00, doggy air lift. How some bay area pups are getting a Second Chance at life. A cold case computer bug. Finally solved after affecting millions of operating systems. Thats next on abc 7 news at 5 00 which means its time thfor the volkswagens here, signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the wellcrafted allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. Tonight on abc 7, the middle airs at 8 00 followed by the goldbergs, modern family and blackish. After that, it is nashville at 10 00 and then join dan ashley and me for abc 7 news at 11 00. We will have a special report on a wrinkle laser that actually works from the inside out. You will see how this reverse treatment might just help revolutionize skin smoothing. Sign me up. Tonight on abc 7 news at 11 00. Workers dumped 47 gallons of poison in Mountain Lake today under the supervision of the Presidio Trust. That lake located in the Inner Richmond district of San Francisco had been invaded by nonnative fish like carp and the spotted bass. Both of those are predatory fish. This is part of a multimillion dollar effort to restore the lake. Abc 7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez is live at Mountain Lake park with the details. Reporter well, you know, this fence went up to make sure the public stayed far away from the lake. This lake has undergone a major restoration, all this for a tiny lake four acres, 15 feet deep. Wrestling with the hardfighting carp takes a great deal of effort. Some of these hefty fish were swimming to the top of Mountain Lake after being poisoned with a pesticide that suffocates gill breathers. The Presidio Trust supervised todays project. 47 gallons of this poison poured into the four acre lake. Its diluted but they have to put it throughout the whole lake because they dont exactly know where the fish are. Reporter the poison doesnt harm other species, only fish. Today it killed close to 150 spotted bass and carp which are not native to california. For the past three years, the trust has tried unsuccessfully to remove them by catching the fish. John mctosker of the California Academy of Sciences Says the predatory fish were doing a lot of harm to the lake. They suction the bottom and try to get organic material out of it, plants, anything. They will eat anything. In so doing, it just causes turmoil in the bottom sediment in the water just remains brown. Reporter researchers say that sediment depletes the lake of much needed oxygen. They will now wait six months before they introduce native species. We are going to put in our native fish and we are going to put in native fresh water mussel that will keep the lake clean naturally. Its native from San Francisco, the california floater. Then we are going to add the pond turtle. Reporter the nonnative fish got here because for years people have dumped pet gold fish and others into the lake. The academy of sciences will now study their dna to see where exactly they came from. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Thank you so much for joining us for abc 7 news at 4 00. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. Abc 7 news at 5 00 begins right now with cheryl and dan. A family mourns the loss of a teenaged boy run down in a crosswalk. Tonight there is a break in the case. And too close to call until today. One bay area city finally has a new mayor eight days after the election. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade. How an unusual highway crash turned into a windfall for bay area needy. Im abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. A wet morning commute is ahead. I will let you know how long to hang on to the rain gear. I loved him. He was he is my everything. He will be its not fair. It is not. Tonight a grieving family comes together searching for answers after the death of a teenager. That young man was hit and killed by a driver running from the cops. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im Cheryl Jennings. Thanks for joining us. Right now, friends and family are getting ready for a vigil that starts in just about an hour to honor 14yearold ivan cruz. The gathering is at the intersection where a hit and run driver struck and killed the teenager. Laura anthony joins us from the scene at 14th street and ashland avenue. Police may have a break in the case, the vehicle that hit the boy . Reporter they believe they have found what they are calling a vehicle of interest, cheryl. They have not found a suspect in this case. In the meantime, the area where this happened last night has become a Gathering Place for friends and family of ivan cruz. According to a sheriffs spokesman, their pursuit last night was canceled as soon as that car crossed over into oncoming traffic on east 14th as it approached this intersection. Unfortunately the car was still traveling at a high rate of speed and hit cruz in the crosswalk. He was everything. He was my life, my world. Reporter the heartbroken mother of ivan cruz says the loss of her son is more than she can bear. My son was so caring with me. He was sweet, protective, helpful. Reporter whats especially difficult for ivans family, the way he died, hit tuesday night by a driver that was being chased at high speeds by Alameda County sheriffs deputies. He was just crossing the crosswalk, you know. He wasnt jaywalking or doing any, you know its just, its not fair. Reporter investigators say they have found a maroon saturn that matches the description of the one that hit ivan but so far, no suspect. A freshman at san lorenzo high school, the 14yearold was hit while riding his scooter in a crosswalk on east 14th at ashland. It was just after 6 00 p. M. Tuesday night. Then i hear the sirens coming and stuff. Reporter Mercedes Chavez was standing on the corner when she saw the car speeding toward the intersection on the wrong side of east 14th. The car comes from the other side over there and he just hit
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