The chp wanted to see if anyone was criminally negligent focusing on the driver and the owner. Saying the chp conclude thered was no evidence to press criminal charges against the men but browns estranged wife told reporters the two argued shortly before the fire. If the driver had been on the phone there would be a basis for phone shall criminal charge autos investigators confirnl that had they cleared brown of wrong doing. Chp and District Attorney investigators determined mr. Brown was not on his phone at the time of the tragedy. The investigation went through six years of the limo maintenance records azp found no irregularities. The right Suspension System was replaced just years ago. The state p. U. C. Says it will find the fine the limo owner 7500 for violating occupancy permit. A general citation will be issued for failure to operate safely and having two more passengers than there were seat belts. Investigators say theyll never know if the two extra passengers contributed to the failure of the Suspension System. Vic lee abc 7 news. Dramatic 911 calls made after that fire showed panic as victims tried to get out of there. Were not going to air parts of the recording. Here are edited portions of three calls from a survivor, a Patrol Officer and a driver that helps paint a picture of what happened that night. Well, the driver is expressing relieve today he will not be facing criminal charges. Brown had to endure months of public scrutiny about action thats night. Investigators made it clear today in exam nation showed brown was not on the phone just before the accident as claimed by his estranged wife. He says he is suffering as a result of the deadly fire and wants victim families to know how badly he feels, too. I am hurting and i feel sorry that this thing happened just a sad situation. Brown and his family plan to sponsor a series of concerts at San Francisco castro theater and donate proceeds to the victims. We have breaking news in San Francisco. Two people have been shot at visitation valley. Sky 7 was at the scene to give you a frame of rever yens. Reference. Officers have not provided any descriptions of the people or people who shot them. The investigation is causing delays on the light rail line. San Francisco Fire Department defending its response to pictures of the Asiana Airlines crash taken by a battalion chief usingly a helmet cam. Photos appear in the San Francisco chronicle showing the aftermath of the crash around the time a survivor was run over. The chief sent a memo reminding firefighters of a 4yearold policy prohibiting the use of recording devices. The Fire Department says its a privacy issue. Youre in a medical crisis. Would you want people coming into your home filming everything . O w t and phone shallly posting it on facebook . The Fire Department says the pictures have been useful and the department will consider making changes to the policy. Funeral Services Held today for the 49yearold woman magda gonzales, killed last week when struck about a tractor at San Jose City college. This cut shorlt a mothers dream of helping others like herself. Hardest thing for her family is to see a life not yet fulfilled. They flew from as far as arizona and texas to remember the 49yearold san jose resident who was killed while struck by a construction tractor. Shed gone there to register for fall class autos she wanted to become a social worker. And try to help teenage pregnant women get back on their feet and go in the right direction. As well as work with alcoholics and drug addict autos she was a straight a student she didnt go to college. Instead she cleaned houses and worked cash registers to support five children as a single parent. As she struggled to raise a daughter and four sons relatives say she was able to laugh. They drib described her as energetic and now she wanted to guide others. After services the family gathered at home to celebrate a life that had meaning. We did come together because of her and come together because of her spirit. Because of her humor. Just the joy for life. The death of a loved one can lead to bitterness, however her brother says the owner of preston pipeline has been in contact offering help and support. ec acciden. That is the way we look at it. No ill feelings. We pray that the operateors is able to pull through this difficult time. They see tragedies every day. And this hit home. Gonzales didnt fulfill her dream perhaps her life will inspire others to follow in a former concord elementary schoolteacher could face more child molestation charges facing 92 counts of sex abuse against 11 former students. Today prosecutors told a judge they are adding 17 more molestation charges against martin involving two additional victims. All former students from martins 5th grade class. Moving on to weather and into the bay area, high fire danger signs up for the east bay. There is a possibility of dry lightning. Firefighters have been sent to battle wildfires in northern, and southern california. Sandhya patel is here now with the latest on what makes this so dangerous. Were talking about dry winter combining with numerous lightning strikes and dry lightning could touch off fires. Youll seat intensity of the storm here. Its off the coastline still, youll see how far away it is from San Francisco. Were still about 65 miles away. Those strikes and as i take you in closer last half an hour 665 lightning strikes. You can see the stuff moving westward around an area of low pressure. And there is still a threat of red flag thunderstorms, east bay hills Santa Cruz Mountains and we have a red flag warning for the north bay mountains and Interior Valley thats will remain in effect until wednesday at 5 00 p. M. Ill be back to let you know what changes you can expect. Cheryl . Thank you. Fire is already taking a toll outside of the bay area. Cal fire lists nine major active fires burning now across the state. Theyre most concerned about one in butte county. The fire burned about 2000 acres since breaking out friday. Flames destroyed a home and he vac orders are still in effect for homes still in the path. The fire only about 45 contained. An endangered fin whale wash add shore this morning second in size tonl its massive cousin, the blue whale. The whale immediately of course attracted attention but just too late to save it. Wayne freedman is live with the story. Not only large whale buzz laif lang time. Average whale lives more than 100 years but not this one, behind us. You can see the whale to the left. There are veterinarians doing a necropsy. To the right a large pile theyve dug a hole intending to bury that whale here. Stintson is a world famous beach not far from what sir Francis Drake supposedly first landed. People are curious bit. They want to take a look at it. A final act of nature. I just saw people and first thing my mom said is there a whale. The whale was clearly in distress. Still alive at 7 00 when i got here and died about quarter to 10 00. Attempts to haul it out of the area failed by then the rescue had become disposal. If you take it back out to the water its just going to wash up to be someone elses problem. Researchers from marin county opened up the whale and looked at everything. If its human related we want to find that money. We want to better understand. Because along Pacific Coast only 3200 fin whales remain, theyre big creatures on a narrow margin. Now there is one fewer than yesterday. Still a mystery on an otherwise perfect summer day at the beach. Were hoping to see a happy sendoff. Instead, this and the waves. New span of the bay bridge supposed to open in a little more than two weeks now reaching another milestone what. Crews did to make it ready for traffic. Its back to school day for a lot of bay area kids. Were going to take a look at new Safety Measures in place to protect those young people. Later on, back to school the support system that will allow the new bay bridge to open is in place. Crews successfully installed a new shim over the weekend. Interest there is a picture of the shims. Theyre steel plates. Engineers say they are what is making everybody confident. The new bay bridge is safe enough to open in just 15 days. Abc 7 News Reporter joins us closer look. Heather. Never before has there been a new bay bridge. The closures have only been for four this, will be a momentous and final closure indeed. The shims are in. The new bridge is ready but are you . Hopefully stays up. Faster commute. Better view. Before that better view, a final five day full bridge closure will likely mean congestion on the alternate route. We normally go over San Francisco bridge now were going to have to go around. Do you have an idea how much time goitsing to add . Another hour to the commute. Choke points over the 2007 and 2009 closures included sir Francis Drake. Either end at 880 and 101, 92 interchanged and 19th avenue clogged with people using golden gate bridge. Here is the expert advice. If youre not already a fast track customer hyvee pick up a fast track. Over the closure, 30,000 tennessee football fans descended on the area, caltrans warned tennessee this year its northwest yempblt planners just called to warn that program today. I am not certain that the northwestern fans will travel in the numbers that tennessee volunteer fans did some years ago. Headaches should be worth it it in the end. Not everyone is sure. Hopefully i wont be one of the first but will be a copy you dont want to be one of the snirs. Not one of the first. Caltrans insists the new bridge is safer. Not too much of a chance. Were just now 15 days from the opening. The closure starts wednesday august 28th lasting up to five days over the long Labor Day Weekend reopening by tuesday, september 3. So talking about the weather. Sandhya patel is in for spencer. It is indeed. When talking about thundershowers and thunderstorms this happen. Luckily its been off the coastline. But cant rule it out. Look at our live doppler 7 you can see the lightning strikes just off the coast this moisture has been moving off shofr, hundreds of strikes off the coastline around the state so far 4700 lightning strikes. Area of low pressure spinning here coming up moisture. Some resulting in rain in Sierra Nevada here in the bay area dry lightning is a concern and could spark fires. Were watching the fog. We do have fog out there along the coast. 62 degrees in San Francisco. From our tgo camera you can see build ups like that earlier starting to collapse a little bit here. 81 in santa rosa now. 86 in novato. Temperatures 104 in livermore only 62 in pacifica. The bridge socked n watch out for fog and possibility of thunderstorms through wednesday. Its going to get cooler, area of low pressure responsible for unstable weather continuing to pull up the moisture and well see waves of instability. The low lifts north and by wednesday evening drier air will spread north. So well stabilize here. Tomorrow morning there will be fog around near the coast f youve got to take your doidz school give yourself plenty of time. It will be a mild start. So tuesday afternoon 8234 san jose in south bay. X 87 loss gat yots, partly cloudy skies on the peninsula. Downtown San Francisco, south city low 70s and north bay youre going to see 78 in santa rosa. 78 san rafael. 70s to low 80s in the east accuweather forecast isolated thunder threat possible then drying out warming it a little bit cooler for the weekend. Thank you. Still ahead why it was a disappointing day for people who came out to watch the americas cup. Weather and mechanical problems plaguing the races. Another americas cup race. The first race continued. Italians started strong but were forced to withdraw after breaking a control arm on the wing of the boat. The second race of the day was supposed to start 30 minutes later however, 22 Miles Per Hour winds exceeded limits for safety, forcing organizers to postpone the race. Summer came to a screeching halt today for thousands of bay area sturd yents as school opened in many kplunts today. Teachers and staff say students will notice a focus on 21 century skills, one young man shared his enthusiasm for learning. Really excited. Going to get new home work. Youre excited about home work, huh . I really like school. Police made sure students arrived safely. Well there is more ahead tonight the unusual trial of an accused serial killer acting as his own attorney. Goits to the jury but not everyone, not before, rather another unexpected detour. Former Vice President visits like tahoe with high praise. Plans he said could be a the jury in a marin county serial killer case began deliberations this afternoon. The defendant joe naso acted as his own attorney. He then had a letter slipped to dan noyes. ,uu explained it was an attempt to draw attention to other suspects. With his life on the line in the Death Penalty case joe naso pushed limits in this Closing Argument trying to introducev0fw new evidence sayg the prosecution cannot prove i am capable of lifting more than 30 pounds due to a bad back. Naso finished by saying i ask you now to find me not guilty on all counts. His rambling closing argue gums that took a day and a half did not seem to sway observer autos they were just repetitive and didnt really say anything. I dont believe he sold his case. There are things he hasnt explained the list hes never explain that had list. And hes not adequately explained dna. During rebuttal the prosecution honed in on that list nound a search of nasos home what investigators labeled a dump list of the bodies. Nasos dna was found on two victims. Naso kept obituaries in a save deposit box. He had a letter hand delivered to the i team discovering other suspects in the death of roxine rogash. Mr. Roachel was known to force prostitutes in the trunk of the car. Jury members are not supposed to view media reports or discuss the case. Closing arguments were delayed because of rogas hchts brother. Im not going to let it drop. Larry parked a car near the courtroom entrance and wrote on it joe naso being charged for murder of my sister. He asked for money to help i him stay in san rafael, raising a concern jurors may have seen the truck. The judge said hed rather you not do this because you may have impact on the jury. Jury ought to be deciding on evidence. Ruling no injuries should be dismissed ruling only one sought truck today but didnt bother to read the writing. For the i team dan noyes abc 7 news. And update on an issue uncovered by our i team. The governor signed a bill into law protecting the rights of people under a conservativeship. You may remember an investigation that uncovered cases where the Santa Clara CountyPublic Guardian was restricting access to conserve tees. You can find a link on abc 7 news. Com. And annual celebration of lake tahoe came with an undercurrent of debate about its future that. Was the scene today as state leaders convened. At issue here an agreement on tahoes oversight. Some environmentalists say is a sellout. Al gore took a receipt tore cal plunge 16 years after he and then president bill clinton held the first of the water side summit autos the shore line would be urbanized. There is a political chill of sorts this year over the lakes future. Lots of pavement and big buildings. That doesnt protect the lake. That is the criticism of the deal struck, a renewal of the tahoe regional governing plan but with changes requiring nick needs be taken into account. Every lawmaker on hand for this summit says its a good compromise. S i÷trying to be perfect means you dont get anything done. Both through a lawsuit and legislation that ratifies the plan still under consideration at the capitol. I think were going to get better than what we have. And so were moving forward. There is less than a month left. The governor believes he can get that bill moving forward. If it does not it could throw a Monkey Wrench into californianevada relationship lake. Nianevada relationship. 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