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KGO ABC7 News 400PM May 16, 2017

That trigger an alarm that is audible. That camera pops up on the big screen. Where these individuals were, what they were engaged in would not have harmed the bridge so it did not trigger alarm. Reporter they will now change the infrastructure and protocols. What has infuriated them the most is what the teens were doing on the walkway. I was doing the stunt my whole life. It wasnt too hard, you know. I think we were probably the first people to ever do flips up there. If either of these young men had slipped or fallen, there could have been serious harm to motorists below. Reporter and of course they were trespassing, but also climbing this bridge is a misdemeanor. They could face time in jail, up to a year, and also a 10,000 fine. Now, the chp is the lead investigating agency in this case, but also Homeland Security is also involved. Now, i asked peter, the young man that i interviewed, what his mom thought about this and he said, well, she wasnt too happy about it and told me not to do it again. Im live near the Golden Gate Bridge, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. Thank you, lyanne. Im sure mom isnt too happy now that the world knows about it. Scary moments for students at a preschool. In city hall, students huddled in the front area. They had to be evacuated after somebody phoned in a bomb threat this morning. San Francisco Police swept the building on fell street. They didnt find anything threatening, but School Officials closed the campus the rest of the day. It was the target of another bomb threat last week. A richmond man just working in his own garage was robbed and then shot last night. It happened around 10 30 on the 3900 block of gately avenue. Police say the man was shot once in his shoulder. They are now looking for two suspects who were wearing masks. The garage door was open when they approached and robbed him. After giving up the possessions he chased the gun men who turned and fired. Police say you should never do that. There is nothing theyre going to take off you thats worth risking your life. Richmond detectives believe it was a crime of opportunity and they have few leads. They are asking anyone who may have seen something or have a Security Camera in the area to please call them. Pg e has now been named as a defendant in a growing civil lawsuit related to that ghost ship fire. It killed 36 people in oakland last december. These new allegations accuse pg e of negligence. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live at the ghost ship with the story. Laura . Reporter larry, there have been several lawsuits filed by families of the victims in recent months. This new lawsuit seeks to combine those into one master lawsuit. There are new allegations and one new high profile defendant. We have filed against Pacific Gas Electric company, pg e. Reporter pg e is now the latest defendant in a lawsuit filed by 18 families who lost loved ones in the ghost ship fire last december. For their negligence in supplying power to this building, for their failure to make it safe. Reporter pg e is included in the new master lawsuit filed against the owner of the building as well as the ghost ship manager derek among others. Pg e crews installed smart meters inside the building and should have noticed the dangerous conditions, including a maze of extension cords that investigators believe caused the fire. In a written response, a pg e spokesperson told abc7 news, we have reviewed our records and over the last ten plus years we have no reports of electric theft or any other anomalies from this location or the adjacent premises. We are fully cooperating with authorities as they investigate this tragic event. We are all beyond heartbroken. Reporter lisa lost her only child, 22yearold cash in the fire. Kids want to be able to express themselves and play their music and learn and grow and we need those spaces. But people shouldnt have to die for them. Reporter the city of oakland and Alameda County are not named in the lawsuit, but the plaintiffs attorneys plan to add them once the civil claims process runs its course. In oakland, Laura Anthony, abc7 news. And newly released video shows the operator of the ghost ship telling Oakland Police about the building more than two years before it burned. The video is from an officers body cam. It was obtained by our Media Partners at the bay area news group. The officer was investigating a couch fire outside the building in 2014. Derek almina appears to tell the officer he did not live there. And then this is where you work right here, right . Yeah, i work here. A lawyer representing three families of the fire say the video shows how irresponsible and deceptive almina is. A van parked on the side of railroad avenue on third street was torched overnight. No one was hurt, but the van was destroyed. This latest fire comes comes after an arrest this weekend after a string of car fires in the east bay. Authorities havent said if this latest fire is connected. Five people have been hospitalized with a rare form of botch liz many. This happened after they ate food from the valley oak food and fuel gas station at walnut grove in sacramento county. Health officials believe nacho cheese is the likely source of the outbreak. So, anybody who ate food there between april 23rd and may 5th, should contact their doctor immediately if they have any symptoms and those symptoms would include trouble breathing, blurry vision, slurred speech, perhaps droopy eyelids. There are only 161 confirmed cases of botulism. 114 were food borne. Check out the light rain that came down in San Francisco around noon today. Enough for people to bring out their umbrellas to avoid getting too wet. Is there any more rain coming tonight . Heres Spencer Christian. All right, larry and alma, we have spotty sprinkles around the bay area and lots of clouds as you can see here on live doppler 7. Lets get a closer view. Looks like the clouds will be with us awhile. Its been a cool day as well. Notice the 24hour temperature change. Most bay area locations are five to ten degrees cooler right now than they were this time yesterday, although San Francisco and oakland are at exactly the same temperature. This is a view of mostly cloudy skies over the bay from our rooftop camera. Its 56 degrees here in San Francisco right now. Low to mid 60s at oakland, mountain view, san jose and gilroy, and 57 at half moon bay. This is a view of even cloudier conditions atop mount tam. And looking at other temperature readings right now, a relatively mild 69 in santa rosa, but only mid 60s right now at napa, novato, fairfield, concord and livermore. Heres ouvriere forecast animation at 5 00 this afternoon. Clouds will remain with us not only through the evening but overnight as well. And there is still a chance of spotty sprinkles just about any time tonight. And into the early, Early Morning hours, but by the time we get to about 8 00, 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow, well see the clouds move out replaced by sunny skies and ill show you what will follow that in a few minutes. Alma . All right, thank you so much, spencer. Skies 7 over levi stadium for the big u2 concert. Fans will be descending and it could be a traffic mess. Abc7 News Reporter david louie is live at levi stadium to look at how vta and cal train will help move the crowds. David. Reporter well, alma, u2 joshua tree concert will kickoff at 2 00 p. M. Traffic will be heavy and demand for parking will be very high. That makes Public Transit an attractive alternative and special arrangements have been made for Public Transit for Late Night Service after the concert. Its not as though levi stadium hasnt hosted a super bowl. But the u2 concerts is on a wednesday evening with fans making their way here at the same time as the afternoon commute. Just like any other event, Santa Clara Police will have extra traffic patrol officers. But the pressure will be on Public Transit. Vta light rail system and cal train are expected to carry 5 to 6,000 concert goers or 50 of the event. We are asking personnel to work more hours but we were dont usually have 5,000 people wait fogger our service at 10 00 in the evening. Reporter previous u2 concerts in oakland in 2011 and 2015 created traffic jams and caused some fans to arrive late or miss the show entirely. V tshlgs a and cal train will add trains to make sure fans get home after the concert although that wasnt the original plan according to Santa Clara County member theresa oneal. At that time of night theres only like one train an hour and theres one car. So, its not like a weekend concert or for 49er game where vta is able to schedule have many trains waiting. Reporter vta does plan to add eight trains with staff and security, the estimated cost about 65,000. It will seek reimbursement. Cal train is adding one train to make sure no one is left stranded at a cost of 5,000, an expense they will absorb. You can see from sky 7 that the stage and equipment are being set up for the sellout show. One variable remains. What time will u2 show be over . Santa clara has a 10 00 curfew, however, the council has been told to expect the concert to run over, which some residents may not like. In santa clara, david louie, abc7 news. All right. Well, taking on the white house. Ads it is far past time that a special prosecutor be appointed to oversee the fbis investigation into russia. And it isnt just the democrats calling for action today. Hello, im mike shumann live at oracle. Spurs, warriors, game two coming up. One team without a superstar. We have a preview coming up. Thanks, shu. A plan to sell tickets works a little too well. What the team is doing now. And taking a live look at our traffic over the skyway. Not moving well at all today. Jammed up in both directions. Righthand side is your traffic heading down toward the peninsula southbound, lefthand side trying to get to the lower the warriors host the spurs in game two of the western conference finals tonight. Its at 6 00 tip off at oracle arena. San Antonio Kawhi leonard suffered after a controversial ankle injury, the expectation is the warriors have way too much fire power for san antonio if they dont have leonard. San antonio still very dangerous. Abc7s mike shumann joins us court side. Shu . The further you get in the playoff, the more anticipation. One team without their superstar, spurs will not have Kawhi Leonard. Now, the warriors hoping to get off to a better start here. Today after falling behind after 25 in the first half of game one. However, that was coming off an extended break after sweeping the utah jazz in round 2. They got their punch in the mouth in the first half, dubs did much better with kawhi off the floor. Tonight golden state doesnt feel it is be like that. A much different team. Take the mvp off the team, that sucks. But, you know one thing about this club theyre going to come out, theyre going to play hard. No one is going to get outside of what they do, theyre going to use each other. So, i think manu said it makes them less predictable. Obviously when kawhi is on the floor, even though everything is going to run through him, i dont think it can be stopped, but you know its going to run through him. It makes it a lot less predictable, but i think we come out on the edge from the jump playing our game, well be just fine. All right. San antonio played very well without Kawhi Leonard in game six of the last round. I look for them to do the same thing tonight knowing they dont have him on the floor. So, theyre not going to lay down just because hes not here. Should be an interesting match up. Reporting live at oracle, im mike shumann, abc7 news. All right, thank you, shu. Certainly expect the warriors got the wake up call after the first half in game one. Thank you, shu. And dub nation, you go for it later. Dub nation is showing its pride in the warriors on social media. We want to see your photos and your videos. Use the hashtag dubs on 7 when you post them. We may show them on abc7 news, maybe on our website, abc7news. Com. The oakland as, theyve got a new ballpark pass for the month of june, kind of falling victim to its own success. The as are going to have to stop selling the june pass tomorrow because its been so popular the as cant offer many more. The pass, its only 19. 99 a month plus a 5 fee. And if you buy that, it gets into you every as home game in the entire month of june. 2000 have been sold since last thursday and that really took Team Executives by surprise. The excitement and the demand was just off the charts. We were totally surprised and, you know, this is the third year doing it. Really what happened is i think fans are starting to understand the environment around the coliseum and the Fan Experience is really improved since new president dave cav ill came on. You can still get in on the deal. The as will keep selling the passes through tomorrow 5 00 p. M. Passes for july and august will be available at a later date. We have a lincoln our website for all this information at abc7news. Com. All right. Well, a big announcement for fans of the oscars. Jimmy kimmel is coming back as host next year. Abc7 news anchor kristen sze. He won a lot of praise for the mix up at the end. He certainly did, larry and alma. You can argue whether la la land should have won best picture. There is no mistake he kept his cool. Theres a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. But the good news is we got to see some extra speeches. We have some great movies. I knew i would screw this show up. I really did. [ laughter ] today kimmel announced his return as host next year with his trademark humor. If you think we screwed up the ending this year, wait until you see what we have planned for the 90th anniversary show. The academy tweeted, no one can throw a party 90 years in the making like jimmy kimmel and many fans agree. Lynn b. Tweets with all the other news going on, this is the best news. Youre the best. Price Waterhouse Coopers accountants who handed out the envelopes wont be back, but the 90th oscars will be here on abc7 on march 4 next year. Larry and alma . All right, thank you, kristen. The Abc Television network revealed its upcoming Fall Schedule and the lineup includes familiar faces. One might surprise you, rose ann is back, the 90s sitcom hit is returning. Abc7 had been compete ing with netflix for the new installment of her show. Upcoming episodes will include all of the original starz including rose ann, along with john goodman and sara gilbert. Also on abc7s upcoming season, return of American Idol. Singer katie perry will be one of the judges when the competition returns next year. She sent this tweet saying, so thrilled abc network is bringing back American Idol and im bringing back the music. See you at auditions. Not clear who else will be a judge on the share. Idol aired for 15 seasons before it was canceled more than a year ago. And were bringing back Spencer Christian for another look at the weather which is cloudy and cool. Drizzly, too. All of that. But im bringing back the heat at the end of the week. Right now we dont have much heat. We have lots of clouds and spotty drizzle out there, much cooler than average. In fact, considerably cooler than yesterday, way was cooler than average. This is the view at the Golden Gate Bridge right now. Clouds are pretty low and dreary looking. Clouds i conditions persisting overnight with spotty sprinkles in the overnight hours. Sunny and breezy tomorrow afternoon. And a big warm upcoming the end of the week. Were looking at gusty winds up to 23 Miles Per Hour at novato, 29 at fairfield, livermore 25, all around the area, breezy pattern continues. Temperatures now range from mainly upper 50s and low 60s around the bay to mid 60s in our inland areas. And heres what we can expect tonight. Well see the north bay becoming partly clear or partly cloudy and the clouds will continue shifting south ward and eastward overnight. Spotty drizzle into the Early Morning hours and low temperatures in the Early Morning will range from mid to upper 40s inland to low 50s everywhere else. And then on we go to the day planner for tomorrow. Well start the day with a few clouds but mostly sunny skies by about 7 00 in the morning. Then by noon bright and sunny beginning to warm up just a little bit. Well have windy conditions at the coast by mid afternoon, but away from the coast it will still be pretty mild. Well see low 70s around the bay, mid 70s inland and skies will remain bright into the evening hours. Highs, 61 San Francisco tomorrow, 68 at richmond 66 at oakland and san mateo. Look for a high of 71 in san jose 72 at liver mere 71 vallejo 74 up north at santa rosa. 70 san rafael. And we have the warm upcoming our way looksiing ahead, thursd will reach into the mid80s inland, warm up continues on friday, well be hitting up friday with inland highs in the low 90s places like napa, concord and antioch and hotter still on saturday when well see mid 90s in the warm est inland locations. Mid80s a right around the bay and 70s on the coast. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. We have seven days of sunny skies coming our way after of course a few lingering Early Morning clouds tomorrow. Warm up really begins on thursday and full force, but starts to crank up to almost summer like levels friday, saturday and sunday and monday. The inland highs over the weekend will be sizzling, mid 90s. But monday when you see cooling beginning, fog returning to the coast and by tuesday temperatures will return to a more seasonal range. All right. Thanks, spencer. A frightening warning after a tee

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