Those who knew him described a devout family man who lost his sight but never abandoned his faith. He was a humble man and he was blind and he always go worshipping god in the mosque every day, about five times a day, and he minds his business and he has a big family to support. Reporter the 47yearold was killed as he was leaving the oakland mosque he visited every few hours. It happened just after 6 00 p. M. Thursday night as the father of five was walking across Market Street at 62nd. In White Clothing carrying his white cane. Police describe him as being in an unmarked crosswalk. The driver of the suv that hit him did stop and police say she is cooperating. This morning, his many friends and immediate family gathered at the Oakland Islamic Center for a Prayer Service and to prepare his body for burial. I worked with him a long time ago when he had his vision, and he was loved by everyone in the community. Reporter police are asking anyone who witnessed the accident to contact investigators. Laura anthony, abc 7 news. A deputy and two Correctional Officers in San Mateo County are under arrest accused of smuggling illegal contraband into jail for gang members. Juan lopez or juan pablo lopez, George Ismail and michael delcarlo were taken into custody yesterday. Ismail was in court today. The other two are expected to be in court in december. The District Attorney says they sneaked cell phones into maguire correctional facility in redwood city and maguire then sneaked the drug oxycontin into the jail. The items were given to a known gang member who would distribute them to other inmates. Any time you have a breach of security such as bringing in contraband, that taints everything. Its a dangerous situation. Lopez has been with the San Mateo CountySheriffs Office for 26 years. Ismail has worked for the county for 15 years. Delcarlo for 19 years. A former chp officer pleaded not guilty today to charges of stealing nude photos from at least two womens phones. Prosecutors say Sean Harrington secretly searched the phones during separate dui arrests in august, then stole and forwarded those photos. An earlier court appearance, his attorney called the incident a game and said he apologized for it. 16 months after asiana flight 214 struck a seawall and crashed while trying to land at sfo, the south korean government Just Announced it is now imposing a penalty on that airline. It will not be able to fly into San Francisco for 45 days. Abc 7 News Reporter lillian kim joins us live at sfo with the story. Reporter the airline sells 170,000 tickets a year for its flights between seoul and San Francisco so a 45day suspension would have a major impact. Passengers checking in at the counter at sfo seemed to really like the koreabased carrier. They say the airline goes out of its way on the phone, online and in the air. Its one of the best we have ever flown as far as service and being able to take care of us. Reporter but they are now facing a 45day suspension which means during that month and a half, it would be banned from flying into and out of sfo. The south korean government imposed a suspension as punishment for its crash landing at sfo july of last year. Three people died and 180 passengers were injured. This has significant consequences. Reporter henry harteville is a travel industry analyst and says asiana is one of four airlines with daily nonstop flights from the u. S. To seoul. While other airlines can pick up the slack they can only take so much. They would have to divert other planes on the route between San Francisco and seoul or put larger planes on if they have them. But you wont have the same degree of fair competition. Reporter which means possibly higher prices. Despite that prospect, some passengers say a 45day suspension seems fair. Why not . 45 days i think is [ inaudible ]. It seems like there really was neglect going on so theres got to be something to prevent that. Reporter asiana is appealing, suggesting a fine may be more appropriate. A decision is expected within a month. Lillian kim, abc 7 news. A powerful natural gas explosion rocked Vallejo High Schools computer lab this morning. Sky 7 hd was overhead as students evacuated the building. We are also learning the explosion may be related to the napa area earthquake almost three months ago. Abc 7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield has the story. Reporter the explosion happened in a classroom at Vallejo High School around 8 00 this morning but students were nowhere near it. A technician who was turning on the schools heater was hurt in the blast. Hes seriously injured. Hands burnt, things like that. Reporter another employee was taken to the hospital, traumatized but physically okay. Students werent near the blast but they heard it and quickly notified their parents, who rushed to the school. She said there was a big explosion, a bang bang, come get me and im like here waiting. They wont let no one in. Just waiting. Reporter parents were soon reassured that all students were okay. They were nowhere near the explosion. I was scared, you know, and my son, he was running to find out what happened so he could let me know. Reporter Officials Say the gas has been turned off since the august 6. 0 earthquake so they could make repairs. The workers turned the gas on last night without any problems so this morning, they turned on the schools heaters. When he actually ignited it, started it, it blew. Reporter they did not cancel classes. The Fire Department says it is safe to be here. But some parents decided they had been through enough for one day. Im picking up my two. We are going to go home. Reporter students were evacuated to the football field because there wasnt any electricity. It has been turned back on. The Fire Department says its safe to be here so classes did resume. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. San mateo Police Arrested this man today for hanging around San Mateo High School and bothering students there. Investigators spotted gary fong driving around the school this morning. Sky 7 hd was overhead soon after the arrest. He matches the description given by two girls who say a man tried to get them to get into his car this week. Police are still looking for a man who approached a 19yearold woman outside San Mateo Adult School last night and offered her money to leave with him. An Alameda County superior court judge has sentenced 17yearold Richard Thomas to seven years in prison for setting a 19yearolds skirt on fire last november. It happened while fleischmann, who was 18 at the time, was sleeping in the back of an ac transit bus in oakland. Thomas pleaded no contest last month to using a cigarette lighter to ignite the teens skirt. Fleischmanns father says he hopes he can become a force for good. Richard will be able to be the person who can come to the aid of somebody who needs help and i dont know, thats in his hands now. Sasha, who doesnt identify as male or female, suffered second and third degree burns on both legs. San Francisco Police say there are more blessings scammers now active and targeting the chinese community. They just released this reenactment video which is in cantonese and shows how the scam works. It shows people posing as con artists, talking a woman into putting jewelry and money into a bag so they can bless it. Instead they swap it with another bag and steal the womans valuables. Police did make one arrest last month but now say more con artists are working the streets and working this scam specifically. Time to check on the weather as we head into the weekend. Spencer christians here with the accuweather update. Okay, the sky behind me is a great illustration of what is meant by partly cloudy. We have a few wisps of above us and lots of blue in between the two. Take a look at the Golden Gate Bridge right now. You can see we have the same sky conditions, you can see just a few wisps of clouds way up high, some lower clouds beginning to push out over the golden gate right now, and lots of blue in between. Traffic moving freely. Current temperature reading 61 degrees in San Francisco. 63 in oakland. Right across moffett field, 65. San jose, 63. A cooler 59 at half moon bay. Looking out over the bay from the rooftop camera, we see the same sky conditions. 65, napa. Noti novato, 63. Heres the first forecast as we look from the east bay hills camera. Patchy fog developing this evening, sun and low clouds in the Early Morning hours and partly cloudy tomorrow afternoon. 62 on the coast up to about 70 inland. Weekend looking pretty good. More of the forecast a little later. Thank you, spencer. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, there is outrage at cal over the universitys Long Term Plan for a plot of land that is now the site of a community garden. Plus the most important thing to be alive. The window washers who dangled from the 60th floor of the World Trade Center talk about their scary ordeal and if they will be heading back to the job. And later it would be amazing. It would be wait a second, im going to get on a bed today. Quarantine lifted. New at 4 30, a stanford doctor talking facetoface with abc 7 news about treating ebola patients and the battle ahead. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is taking your questions on twitter and facebook. He will answer them here live a little bit later. At 4 11 on friday, there is no getting away if you are stuck on interstate 80 in berkeley. Eastbound traffic is on the right side. Westbound coming back to San Francisco on 580 on the left side. Nobody is going anywhere quickly. 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Really, the last historic farmland in the entire east bay and we believe that that land belongs to the community and as a land grant public university, uc berkeley is obligated to listen and represent the students in the community and their wishes. The activists met with the uc chancellor to discuss an alternative plan for the tract. The project has already been approved by the albany city council. Business news now. Virgin america made a successful takeoff in its public trading debut today. Shares on nasdaq soared 32 over the ipo prices. It opened right around 23 a share, closing at more than 30 a share. The airline is based in burlingame. Analysts say the timing of the ipo could hardly be better. Airline stocks have soared as the carriers reap huge profits because of full planes, rising revenue and falling fuel prices. After years of losing money, Virgin America is now profitable. Twitter stock rebounded today one day after the shares nosedived when standard and poors gave the company a junk level Credit Rating. Today, twitter stock made up a portion of those losses, closing up more than 4 . Its been a rough ride as of late for the San Francisco based Company Since reporting a 175 million loss in the last quarter. S p says it lowered twitters Credit Rating yesterday over concerns of the companys ability to repay its debts. The two World Trade Center window washers left dangling from the worlds highest building spoke did about their drama. Abc News ReporterCarol Costello has more. Reporter they were dangling alongside the countrys tallest building. Now safely on the ground, the window washers are thanking first responders. I say thank you, everybody. Im just happy to be alive. Reporter as people at the 9 11 memorial watched from the ground, the men hung from a broken cable at one World Trade Centers 68th floor, clinging to their nearly vertical scaffolding. In the beginning it was panic. Reporter but panic turned to calm, the men say, when they saw new yorks bravest were on the job. It was just a matter of time. Reporter a rescue team inside the building used diamond blade saws to cut through multiple panes. Firefighters performing a rescue on what for them especially is hallowed ground. We are in the shadows of those guys. The best way we can honor them is to do our job right. Reporter and they did. One put it like this. God bless america. Reporter grateful for the work of these brave men and women, the window washers admit they are rethinking their next job assignment. There are other options than window cleaners. Theres a lot of ground floor jobs we might want to take for the moment. Reporter washing the windows of new york city skyscrapers has long been considered one of the worlds most dangerous jobs. But with modern technology, safety gear and training, its actually now safer than riding in a cab. Abc news, new york. Something on the first floor would be nice. Right now our friends and family and most of the United States dealing with a late fall deep freeze. From idaho down to the deep south, look at these pictures. Lots of snow, temperatures well below normal. Snow and high winds swept across ohio causing whiteout conditions. The cold is breaking records in denver, colorado, for a Third Straight day. And a cat that was left out in the cold had to be rescued. Many areas are colder today than alaska and this is expected to continue for another seven to ten days. So people that are traveling for thanksgiving holidays could be in for it. You cringe just looking at that. Especially when we are in the mid 60s. Just a few clouds in the sky. Spencer christian is here with the accuweather forecast. You know, people always say this is why we live here. This is certainly one of the reasons we live here. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 hd. We have mild and quiet weather conditions right now. A few high clouds, some high scattered low cumulus, lots of blue sky showing as evidenced by this view from the rooftop camera looking back at a little bit of skyline of the financial district of San Francisco. These are the forecast features. Areas of fog developing overnight, dry pattern continues through the weekend and theres a chance of rain again about midweek next week. Heres the forecast animation starting at 7 00 this evening. We will see areas of fog developing again tonight. Fairly widely scattered but be prominent. Overnight lows will range from upper 40s to low 50s generally, although we will see some cooler mid 40s in the north bay valleys. As we resume the animation starting 5 00 tomorrow morning, we will see some morning fog and high clouds and then as we move into sunday, we will see an offshore wind pattern developing indicating fairly mild conditions, and then by sunday afternoon, just high clouds with filtered sunshine and a pleasant day coming our way. Now we will skip ahead to 5 00 tuesday afternoon. As the rain approaches, the chance of rain. Overnight tuesday into wednesday morning and into wednesday afternoon, looks like a chance of some light rain pushing through the bay area. Of course, its a little early to tell just how much rain we will get out of this. At the moment the system looks like a fairly weak one. Tomorrow, we will see mix of sun and clouds in the afternoon with high temperatures generally in the low to mid 60s at the coast, mid to upper 60s around the bay and in the inland areas, might see one or two spots topping out at 70 degrees. Right now we are calling for 69 at santa rosa, napa, fairfield and antioch. Those will probably be the highest temperature readings. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast. Partly cloudy to mainly sunny conditions will continue for the next three days through monday. Then on tuesday, clouds thicken just a bit. Still mild conditions, though, with inland highs in the low 70s monday and tuesday. But we will get thicker clouds and a chance of rain on wednesday. Notice wind, thursday and friday of next week, just a little bit of a cooldown but no significant shift in temperatures one way or the other. Just a few Degrees Higher for a couple days, then a few degrees lower. This is what you call a steady pattern. Thank you, spencer. Up next, she just wouldnt let go. This kittens survival story. New after 4 30, a 3yearold girl spots santa claus in a restaurant and what she did when she saw him is getting her a lot of attention today. That is a 3yearold French Bulldog