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KGO ABC7 News 500AM March 20, 2017

Right on the onramp median. Lanes are not blocked right now. They just got it opened up. Traffic is still sluggish as the backup unwinds itself. But this is opening up nicely soon. You should be able to count on this for your morning commute. Youre looking at southbound 242 at concord avenue. This accident happened at 4 00 this morning. Oh, there they go. There goes the last remains of this accident. So this scene is now clear. Theyre going to get the flares picked up here and the officers will be clearing out, and so will we. We want to keep this area safe and get it reopened for the commute. It happened at 4 00 this morning. No injuries reported. Surprisingly and miraculously said the officer. They were surprised. Six cars all banged up but all towed out now. Reporting live in concord, amy hol hollyfield. We appreciate it. Announcer live desk update. South bay Police Investigating a burglary suspect. Officers arrived to Patrick Henry drive in santa clara last night. Police called in a helicopter and canine unit to help for the search for the suspect. He was found inside a building. They arrested the man. Not clear what he was trying to take. 49ers fans are dealing with the news that one of the teams most iconic players, dwight clark, is battling als, lou gehrigs disease. Clark will forever be linkedis moment, known as the catch. This is from january 1982. Joe montana found clark in the end zone to cap a come from beliend wb behind win against the cowboys for a championship win. The catch propelled them to their first championship. He played nine years for San Francisco. He suspects playing football may have led to his disease. He addy scrisaid, quote, i can play golf or walk any distances. Picking up anything over 30 pounds is a chore. The one piece of good news is that the disease seems to be progressing more slowly than in some patients. While im still trying to wrap my head around the challenge, i will face this disease over the coming years. The only thing i know is i am going to fight like hell and live every day to the fullest. Moments after the catch, 7 colleague, shoem mawas the fi congratulate clark. What are your thoughts when you see the play and think about the news today . Well, 35 years ago, matt. It was something that bonded us for the rest of our lives, winning the super bowl. Then to see it today, ive known for a while that dwight has had als. To see it in print, to come from here, it was just devastating. And it was almost crushing to see it in print today, though weve known it for a while. In a statement, joe montana said, jennifer and i are saddened by the diagnosis of dwight. This is a difficult time for dwight, kelly and all of us who love him. Former teammate jerry rice said, we know him for the catch but hes a great individual who cares about people. I love this guy. Read the statement on abc 7 news. Com. We have the statements from the team and als resources on that for you. Developing news out of santa cruz county, where police are gathering clues to an unfathomable tragedy. A man shot and killed his 8yearold daughter and turned the gun on himself. 3 15 yesterday afternoon. An outing at the mall turned deadly. At this point, the family was together in the mall for a period of time. At which point, the father walked outside for a while with the 8yearold daughter. The mom was concerned, as i mentioned, that he was potentially suicidasuicidal. She called for the police. When police arrived, the mom and family members led them to a black kia, where both bodies were found. Authorities are trying to find out what triggered the violence. The clock is ticking for thousands of anxious bay area families. They are waiting to hear if their kids got into the school of their choice. There is a glitch in the San Francisco unified assignments being mailed out. Were waiting. In limbo. Reporter she cant think about anything else but where her 5yearold daughter will start school in the fall. She was hoping to hear by now, but first round School Assignments have been delayed by the San Francisco unified school district. Been a long process, and this is its been really, really hard for us because, you know, touring all the schools, heart wrenching. A lot of time put into it. We just need to know. It makes our family very nervous and a little concerned. Reporter this mother told us via facetime her son wants to play baseball at a Public School but hes been accepted by private schools and deadlines are looming. They have dates coming up just this week that we have to accept or decline. It is very hard to not know yet from the school district, you know, that he has an assignment within the sfusd. Reporter parents choose from 130 schools in the district. There are 14,000 applications. The number is average but staffing emergencies have delayed the process. This notice was posted on the districts website. The assignments would be late. Our Computer System is working fine. It is just taking a little bit longer to go through all of the checks to make sure everything is accurate. Reporter no guarantee families will get their school of choice, even if that school is in your neighborhood. Do you have any other options . Private school or moving out of the city. Reporter the waiting continues. In San Francisco, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. The stage is set for what could be a fiery showdown today on capitol hill. Fbi director james comey will testify before congress and is expected to dispute President Trumps allegations of wiretapping by president obama. Comeys testimony is part of an investigation into how russia interfered with last years president ial election and to address the lingering question of whether anyone on the president s team may have e helped. The Republican Health care plan is headed for a vote later this week. House Speaker Paul Ryan says hell compromise to get more coverage for seniors. Many moderate republicans expressed fear the plan is too harsh on older people. Seniors not eligible for medicare stand to be the biggest losers. Happening today, president Trumps Supreme Court pick will be on capitol hill for the start of his confirmation hearing. Neil gorsuch could be in for intense questioning. The president picked the colorado judge to replace the late justice antonin questioning starts tomorrow, and the senate is expected to vote on his nomination next month. California senator Diane Feinstein is labeling neil gorsuch on an extremist on reproductive rights. Hes consistently sided with corporate interests. Senators office claims his record on cases involving Birth Control show President Trump is keeping his promis to choose a prolife extremist. Announcer accuweather forecast with mike nicco. The weather pattern is changing before our eyes. Low to mid 60s throughout the inland neighborhoods. Dress for temperatures in the id to upper 50s in the bay. San francisco. Hayward, 54. Cool spot with san jose, 53. San carlos, 57. Pacifica, 51. Napa, 53 along with fairfield. Golden gate bridge, quiet this morning. This is one of the first areas it could get wet into the afternoon hours. Activity planner today, walking the dog, dry this morning but wet this afternoon. Exercising, comfy. Breezy and wet p. M. On the bay. Look at the tree pollen, high. Oak, mulberry, pine, cedar, june fer, willow. Anything you can dodge . Grass pollen, as well. Temperatures today. About 60 in santa rosa to fair field, livermore, 68. Tonight, another mild one. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. More green on the map during the overnight hours than the day. Look at the chances of rain the next seven days. Well take a look specifically at monday and tuesday hour by hour. Then the rest of the accuweather sevenday forecast next. Alexis . I want to take you back to concord. Weve got just a lot happening there this morning. I want to take you first to the former sig alert. Thats where we had Amy Hollyfield reporting live. Southbound 242 past concord. Six skrevehicles in the crash a they totally cleared that. Delays if youre heading down on 242 from state route 4. Westbound state route 4 southbound 242, it is clear. It was a stolen vehicle and whoever stole it flipped it. It is no longer a blocking situation but another problem. Jet another one,wetbound 4 before port chicago highway. Three vehicles involved in a crash. Another ssig alert, 101 near first. You see 880. Ill show that next. A Convenient Store owner comes facetoface with a robber, all caught on video. The heartbreaking motivation behind his bravery. Attention, shoppers. The High End Department store targeted by hackers and the information that may be at stake. Only on abc 7, the ability to watch weather and traffic throughout the commercial break. Well be right back. The abc 7 storm impact scale. Todays storm is level one. That means light rain. Keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Safely. Tr this is one gorgeous truck. Special edition. Oh, did i say theres only one special edition . Because, actually theres five. Ooohh aaaahh uh hooooly mackerel. Wow. Nice. Strength and style. Its truck month. Get 0 financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get 5500 on select Chevy Silverado pickups when you finance with gm financial. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. A Colorado Wildfire that forced hundreds out of their homes is 50 contained this morning. It is puburning near Sunshine Canyon in boulder. Firefighters are monitoring the border of the blaze. Right now, no homes have been lost. As far as a cause, investigators have been raable to rule out weatherrelated issues. They believe the fire was caused by people. There is a search underway right now for a former teacher accused of abducting a 15yearold student. Abc as the details in todays gma first look. Reporter in this mornings first look, the frantic search intensifying for a missing tennessee teen and her former teacher, accused of kidnapping her. Authorities now sending out a nationwide alert. Please, please come home. Reporter School Officials confirming the 50yearold, cummings, was 15yearold thomass Health Science teacher. The teacher accused of having an inappropriate relationship with the teen, a claim he denied. Thomas was last seen at 7 30 a. M. March 13th in a restaurant in colombia, tennessee. They planned this for some time before disappearing with elizabeth. Reporter the pair was tracked to alabama before the trail went cold a week ago. Coming up, nancy grace and former fbi special agent weigh in live with your gma first look. Abc news, new york. An internet take it away, reggie. An Internet Data Company Report that data from saks fifth avenue was there for the taking. Ids for tens of thousands of customers were many plain text on the stores server. Anyone could have access to the data. It is normal to encode the information to prevent hackers from stealing it. This is the wrong video. The store took the data down while it works on a solution. Apples mystery wireless device. Last fall, apple applied for an unspecified device. According to a business insider, it appears to be a badge reader that attaches to a door, most likely for retail use. There is a user manual and photos of the device yesterday. The best possibility for the use . Apples knew campus, set to open next month. The Reform Efforts will remain under the microscope of the department of justice. The office of Community Oriented policing services is expending its oversight of the ongoing reforms through june. The cops office started reviewing the Department Early last year before the former chief resigned. Theyve been implementing recommending forms since last fall when the assessment was released. Governor brown is asking for additional help for the storm recovery. Including the oroville dam and other structures. This follows three other petitions asking for federal help. Those were granted for earlier storm damage. The wet weather not done with us yet. Lets get to mike nicco. Hey. Hi, everybody. Lets start with the storm impact scale, just a one for today and tomorrow. Light showers, itll be breezy at times. Not expecting damage or flooding from either of these. Pthere is a chance for thunder n tuesday, spilling into wednesdays forecast. Thats the middle highlight, the chance of lightning and thunder. Gray and cool today as the first day of spring is a transition for us back to wet weather. Heavier rain and wind is possible friday through saturday. A look at the pattern. Remember the area of High Pressure that brought us the warmth last week and held off for the rest of the weekend, with the ina and out of sunshin . The storm will ride to the north. The best chance of showers will be in the north bay into the noon hour. Then well have some slide across the rest of our neighborhoods during the evening commute. From 5 00 to 7 00, it definitely spreads out. During the overnight, yellow rolls in. Tomorrow morning, were going to wake up with another slickness on the roads. Well get a little break after the morning commute. From 9 00 to noon, one system dries out. The other system starts to move in with scattered showers and thunderstorms, best across the north bay. Wet weather, during the evening commute, 0. 2 inch, which could be slick. Overnight, 0. 2 to 0. 5 inch in the south bay and north bay. Not much into wednesday evening. Wednesday evening into thursday, thats when well have the possible showers and thunderstorms. Small hail, lightning there. Slight chance thursday evening but a better chance with a 2, moderate storm, friday, thatll taper to a 1 on saturday. Alexis . We have had three trouble spots in concord this morning. Two sig alerts. Im not sure whats going on up there but we have delays due to this. Newest issue, westbound 4 before port chicago highway, three vehicles involved in a crash. Sounds like no injuries, we have the three right lanes blocked. One vehicle is stuck on top of the other. That could take a while to clean up. No estimate on the lanes reopening. Southbound 242 past concord, that was our first sig alert of the morning. Thats up to 28 miles an hour, almost fully cleared out. We saw that clear up there near the top of the hour with Amy Hollyfield. Northbound 101 at first street, the two right lanes are blocked along with the ramp. A tow truck is on the scene. No bay bridge metering lights yet. Still flowing well. Well head back to concord next. Happening today, the latest form of transportation for bay area ferry customers will be on display in San Francisco. The Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority ordered seven of the 400 passenger vessels. The first on display at pier 9. All of the boats, which are catamaran, will be used for the Ferry Service over the next three years. The seven things to know as you start your day next. So long to sitting in traffic. Well unveil the device of the future that could be the ticket for all of us. New questions about the ghost ship Fire Investigation and who knew what when. Whats happening today that could give answers. Heading to break at 5 20 in the morning, we leave you with the morning, we leave you with abc 7 news now. Heigh ho heigh ho heigh ho heigh ho its off to work we go heres to all of you early risers, whats up man . Gogetters, and shouldbe sleepers. From all of us at delta, because the ones who truly change the world, are the ones who cant wait to get out in it. 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Number three, we have a trade off coming this week. The pollen is just out of control right now. But wet weather is going to take over just about every day this week. With thursday and sunday being our lightest days. Number four, treat boulevard is back open after a woman was found lying in the street unconscious overnight. It is not clear if the victim was hit by a car or suffered another injury. Number five. A man shot and killed his 8yearold daughter and then himself. Police say the man was with his wife and family at the capatola mall yesterday and wandered outside with his daughter. The woman told officers her husband was suicidal. Number six. Big day on capitol hill. James comey expected to set the record straight on the president s wiretapping claims. Neil gorsuch will begin his confirmation hearing today. P number seven. Uber lost two top executives. The Vice President of mapping plans to step down just hours after president jeff jones said that he was leaving the company. Tesla will discontinue the cheapest version of the model s sedan as it ramps up for the less expensive model 3. Customers were told april 16th would be the last day to order the base model s with the 60 kilowatt an hour battery. Most customers are ordering cars with larger batteries. Sick of sit lg ting in traf . In dubai, this photo posted of the driverless dro

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