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KGO ABC7 News 600AM April 12, 2015

40 degrees. With High Pressure building in and that on shore push backing off a bit we will see temperatures near 80 around the delta. Upper 70s san jose. Low 70s closer to the east bay shoreline and still some 60s on the coast. Looks like a summer like spread setting up. Ill let you know if it spreads into next week coming up. Carolyn. Thank you lisa. We begin this morning with developing news out of richmond and the search for a driver in a deadly hitandrun. One person is dead, two more in Critical Condition following a late Night Police Chase and crash. It was around 9 30 that police tried to pull over a black corvette that was speeding, but the driver floored it. A chase began, ending when the corvette smashed into a car on 24th street and gainer avenue. A passenger in that car was killed. The driver is in Critical Condition. Police say they also found another person on the sidewalk with critical injuries. They arent sure which car he was in. The driver of the corvette ran from the scene and is the focus of a manhunt this morning. This morning San Francisco police are still looking for a group of robbery suspects whose car hit and killed a woman in the city. 42yearold Bridget Klecker was struck while walking in the financial district friday night. She later died at sf general. The suspects hit another person before hitting two cars and escaping over the bay bridge. We have the story. Could be a mistake. Shes going to come home, but its not. Samuel found out the person struck and killed during the police chase was his roommate and friend. Seems like its not real, that it didnt happen. I cant believe it. San Francisco Police say they attempted to pull over three men suspected of robbing people at gunpoint and the days prior but the men sped away. Around 10 00 witnesses saw the pursuit. I looked up the hill and watched what appeared to be a black fourdoor sedan and literally coming over and hitting every bump while it was airborne. The suspects car hit bridget in the crosswalk at california and kearny. Her friends said she loved her job in the food industry. She loved her job and was passionate about it and worked hard. Some question why police engaged on a friday night with so many at risk. Because there was a violent felony involved and there was also the use of deadly force. Officers were allowed to pursue this vehicle. From there the driver hit another pedestrian, who sustained nonlifethreatening injuries. At a third crash scene, the driver hit a car at 8th and harrison. Nobody was injured. They need to be caught before they kill somebody else. The men ditched the car on Treasure Island and police have not made any arrests. Now the worry turns to the puppy that bridget help raised. Acting weird. When he figures out shes not coming home excuse me hes going to be pretty sad. Abc7 news. Bridget kleckers father spoke to us on the phone from his home in north carolina. She had a great sense of humor, was always fun to be around, the life of the party. Just enjoyed living and enjoyed working for the food service group. He wants his daughter to be remembered for being full of life. Investigators are trying to determine why a bicyclist was killed yesterday by an amtrak train did not move off the tracks as the train approached. Police say the man was on the tracks in oakland near east tenth street and fruitvale avenue just before 1 00 yesterday afternoon. A woman shot and killed by Emeryville Police will be. Remembered with a vigil and march this afternoon. It was back in february that a home depot employee called police to report a shoplifter with a gun. Officers say they opened fire when 38yearold Yvette Henderson turned the gun on them. Since her death, protesters have demanded home depot release video of the incident. And they want to know why the body cams that the officers were wearing werent turned on. Expect more traffic delays along van ness believed today. Its closed in this spot as crews work to build an underground tunnel that will connect California Pacific Medical Centers future hospital and medical office building. We are installing temporarily temporary structural walls. Thats all we are trying to accomplish this weekend. Those walls will be part of the temporary structure that will allow us to continue work all summer long underneath van ness and its a permanent tunnel structure. Lanes will reopen tonight at midnight. Two more closers will take place april 24th through the 26th and labor day weekend. Today is day five of the cleanup of a big cement spill in oakland. Crews will be back out at Glen Echo Creek at 8 00 this morning. Abc7 news was there as they used pick axes and shovels to move the cement that spilled on wednesday. It will continue to week. Theres a tremendous amount of works to do and its picks and shovels and jack hammers. Its hot, dirty work. About 20 of the area still needs to be clean. A subcontractor for east bay mud accidentally allowed the cement to pour out of a pipe into the creek as they were putting the pipe out of commission. San jose Police Arrested a 17yearold suspected of burglarizing a Blossom Valley area home on tuesday. Surveillance video caught the burglar outside the home around 2 00 a. M. The homeowner locked her bedroom door, called police and scared him away by screaming. A san jose teenager was arrested yesterday. Salinas police were able to talk down a man who climbed on to an electrical tower yesterday morning. The 47yearold was nearly three quarters up the tower and witnesses say he was yelling at police to shoot him. It took about 3 1 2 hours to get him down. The man fell the last 15 feet and was taken to the hospital with a possible fractured tailbone. Cal state east bay Officials Say the rumored threat of a possible shooting on its hayward campus yesterday is unfounded but extra list police were on campus. It came as a student overheard a group of students talking about bringing guns to campus. Students, faculty and staff were immediately alerted. 200 Police Officers, California National guard members and firefighters came together in richmond yesterday to learn how to handle a dirty bomb. They learned about decontamination, medical response, security and how to properly dispose of explosives. The goal, get agencies to Work Together if an incident happens. Relations between the u. S. And cuba have been officially reset. It happened during a historic meeting yesterday at the summit of the americas in panama. For the first time in two generations the leaders of the two countries meet met. Abc7 News Reporter has the details. Its the handshake that shook up history. After a cold war wage for half a century the leaders of the United States and cuba breaking the ice. If you keep doing something for 50 years and it doesnt work, you should try something new. President obama sat down facetoface with president raul castro of communist cuba. Its possible for us to turn the page and develop a new relationship between our two countries. Two countries at dagger points since 1959 since the castro brothers overthrew cuba. A history that includes the cuban missile crisis and brought them to the brink of war in 1962. The fond relations is expected to mean the removal of cuba from the state departments list of countries supporting terrorism. The opening of embassies close since 1961, and pressing cuba to allow its citizens basic human rights. The cuban president was conciliatory, but sounded a cautionary note. No one should entertain illusions. Its true we have many differences. Even so havana has already benefited from the warming trend. U. S. Tourism is up 15 so far this year. Air b b lists homes for travelers and the u. S. Is anxious to invest. Im cautiously optimistic. A first step of narrowing the gap between two nations. 90 miles that often seems like a million. Abc news, new york. Hillary clinton is expected to launch her second run for president today with an online video. The democrat has a team of clinton loyalists, plus top players from president obamas two winning campaigns. She was a formidable candidate in 2008. She was an outstanding secretary of state, she is my friend. I think she would be an excellent president. Republicans have vowed to stop hillary with their own online video. Early polls show clinton is well ahead of both her democratic and republican rivals. Republican senators ted cruz and rand paul have formally launched campaigns. Senator marco rubio is expected to announce tomorrow. The official entry by Hillary Clinton into the 2016 race for the white house will dominate the discussion on this week. Political experts and weekly contributors will give their take on the first democrat to announce for the presidency. You can see this week with George Stephanopoulos at 8 00 this morning right here on abc7. This morning is your last chance to get in a round of golf at the pine meadow course in martinez. The owners are closing at 2 00 this morning. They were trying to sell it to Housing Developers but a petition from 3,000 residents stopped that plan. Next year voters will decide whether to turn the property into new housing or open space. It might be a little warm on the course today, lisa. It should be pretty nice out there. The warmest weather in our inland valleys and not too many communities approaching 80. How about this for a scattering morning lights over San Francisco. Numbers in the low to mid50s here. A warmup at the coast and a warmup for everyone. But for how long, ill have the answers when we return. Thank you. Also next, changes coming to bay area parks after weeks of messes like that being left by revelers. Whats happening to force people to clean up after themselves . And take a look at this bizarre accident in southern california. How that car ended up on top of the it took tennis legend serena williams, fencing champion Tim Morehouse and the rockettes years to master their craft. But only moments to master paying bills at chase. Com. Depositing checks at the atm and transferring funds on the mobile app. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master the way you bank. N. A. S. A. Ames Research Center in mofett field will have two space experiments launched into space tomorrow. Its a resupply mission to the International Space station. They will be aboard the space x dragon spacecraft making its sixth commercial cargo flight. There will be microorganisms aboard the space station and the other will examine changes in muscle atrophy and bone density as part of rodent research. The launch is scheduled for 1 30 tomorrow afternoon. N. A. S. A. Ames will host a live launch. Visitors at the airshow of the legendary blue angels in South Carolina this weekend may not be aware they are watching history in process. For the first time in the squads 69yearold history, a woman is in the cockpit. Marine corps captain Katie Higgins said she was inspired to become a pilot when she saw the blue angels perform as a child. Higgins said little girls have told her they never knew ladies could fly an aircraft. Now they know. A strange car crash in hollywood yesterday afternoon is being blamed on road rage. As you can see, one car ended up almost entirely on top of the car behind it. A witness posted this picture. Saying the driver of the top car had a case of road rage. After hitting the car in front of her, she backed into the car behind her, causing what you see there. Remarkably no one was hurt. An effort is underway to make San Francisco park people clean up after themselves. Officials got fed up after seeing messes like this and they are now cracking down. Abc7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana has details. These plastic bags become the latest accessory for this crowd at the park. Volunteers passed them out and patrons used them. Its great. San francisco has a reputation for being a really dirty place and anything we con do to fix that is awesome. I imagine a lot of people are drugged, bring a lot of stuff. He spent his afternoon with the volunteers. Weve had a lot of challenges in the park with people leaving enormous amounts of trash. It takes a village to manage a park. At fort mason park in the marina, National Park rangers used a different approach. If you have glass here, you will be receiving a citation. This will it will be a zero tolerance policy. The chief ranger said his officers issued for 50 citations in a few hours. Glass is not permitted on federal park lands and that was the reason so many people were cited. Last month the National Park service took to social media to blast partyers who trashed the place. Among those blamed were contestants for a charity passion called mr. Marina. People in the park seemed to welcome the increased enforcement. I think the increased enforcement is good to keep people cognizant of keeping it clean. The National Park rangers will keep up the patrols through the spring, or at least until people get the message to clean up after themselves. Abc7 news. The art deco clock is finally returning to the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza. Workers began reinstalling the clock this weekend. It was removed for refurbishment back in august. Its part of a 2 million toll plaza seismology fit. Every year the state teams up with the National Guard to fight fires. So far this year cal fire has responded to more than 600 fires, including more than 150 just last week. The last few years have all been considered very bad fire seasons. We are doing the same thing we have been doing, but its a lot of preparation because we know it can be very bad. No water was wasted, by the way, in yesterdays training. Everything the firefighters took from the lake they say was returned to the lake. Lisa, you have no rain and above average temperatures. This is what you can expect with the fire season. Yeah, but we do have the onshore push the next couple of days. The westerly windscology off the coast and keeping us from getting too, too warm around the bay. But today it will be warm in the inland valleys and tomorrow we will reverse the trend. In fact for the next couple of days beyond today, the beginning of the work week will be cooler. We will get to the details but first things first, live doppler 7hd. We have following along Half Moon Bay and the san mateo coast and livermore and napa this morning. Reducing visibility just temporarily. Pretty soon it will be gone. We have a northern gradient along for better mixing and the clouds clearing out quickly. Where we have a little bit of fog, a little bit of high clouds, they will not last. From our roof camera this morning, temperatures in the low 50s San Francisco. Its 50 in oakland. 49 in san jose. And 45 Half Moon Bay. Everyone about a degree to 6 degrees warmer this morning. From our exploratorium camera we have the low clouds. And livermore one of the warmest locations today, approaching the upper 70s. A cool 39 with your fog in napa. Heres sutro this morning. The sun coming up in about 20 minutes. So very pretty shot over the bay. Warmer conditions for pretty much everyone today. Cooler tomorrow. Breezy winds up to 35 mariners behind this system that exits. It wants to bring in a couple isolated raindrops to marin and sonoma late monday. You can see from the pacific satellite picture the big ridge across the western third of the nation. Its been the story all winter long. As it builds again today, temperatures will respond with that offshore flow and the onshore flow backing up just a little bit. We will still have the sea breeze in San Francisco. 63 point raise, but everywhere else 5 to 10 degrees above average today. So as we look at san jose with about 78 degrees today, you will drop significantly into tomorrow. Then by tuesday still a pretty nice springlike day. Look what happens as High Pressure builds back. Wednesday, thursday, friday of next week you are well into the 80s. We talked about a weak system headed our way tomorrow. You can see as we go through your monday, heres the front t false apart. By 11 00 monday night you can see a few showers offshore. Waking up Tuesday Morning to maybe some mist and drizzle with the clouds. But then those winds kick in quickly behind it. In the south bay 77 78. Santa clara san jose, 73 redwood city. Look for 69 San Francisco. Cherry blossom festival today japan town. North bay mid70s to upper 70s from santa rosa to cloverdale and the east bay. Hayward nice day at 68. Fremont warming to 73. You head inland and 80s from pittsburgh to fairfield today with 79 in walnut creek. The accuweather sevenday forecast cooler tomorrow for everyone and into tuesday. Thats what spring should be. Wednesday we are back where we are today with near 80 inland and thursday friday, saturday its well above normal. You can see whats showing up on live doppler 7hd anytime with the abc7 news weather app. Its free at catch he wills app store or google play. We have more information on our website. Is this the last month we can hope for any kind of rain . No, we get rain. We still could see some. But im not seeing any. [laughter] not on the computers . No, not on the computers right now. Thank you lisa. Up next a Music Festival invades a california desert. What are organizers doing for some music fans at this Music Festival are shock to see so much green grass. Organizers said they did not have time

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