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KGO ABC7 News 600PM November 7, 2013

He ran the name and discovered there is a warrant for arrest for the child abduction. Well, now, the big question of course is how american Border Patrol officers or agents missed him. What with the amber alert and all of the Media Exposure on the story. Border patrol agents have to check to find out there was a warrant for arrest. Im sure questions will have to be addressed in coming days. Thank you very much. Its touted as largest investment fraud case in california history. Today, the case against walter ng and his son kelly ended with. Today, the latest on this, the investors just devastated 2000 lost over 700 million in the bonds they doubted theyd get money back but wanted ngs to face criminal charges. Do you have feelings about what happened . Do you apologize . Reporter in the plea deal, walter ng and his son pleaded guilty to keeping cash withdrawal drauls under 10,000 to avoid attention. Walter ng serves five years probation, no prison time. 57yearold kelly will serve time in prison. At least two and a half years but will be determined in march. This seems like pulling Bernie Madoff over for jaywalking. As opposed to what happened. There have been suicides about it. At least one. Its shocking and sad. This should be a real punishment here, people go to prison for very minor cases compared to this. Theyre sort of getting off scotfree. I dont think its right. Reporter this after a massive investigation two years, hundreds of interviews. Prosecutors apparently left the statute of limitations run out on a serious charge of securities fraud. There are blatant actions that would cohave been brought to light and never where. Unfortunately at this point, its too late. Reporter investors filed a Class Action Lawsuit against wells fargo for its part. Walter ng going through a bankruptcy. The process continues until the end of the year. Are there words for investors . Well talk after sentencing. Reporter many lost their homes and more. We invested money in a wrongful death suit against when our son died and we used that money to fund a program at childrens hospital. That money vanished. After the Bernie Madoff scandal there is a new irs rule that lets investors write off losses but the investors may not kwaul fichlt one irs told me there will be angry investors. Yes. Understandably. Yes. Its a shame. It s in Oakland Police looking for whep a more with a horrifying case. An activist seft on fire on an ac transit bus and badly burned. Laura anthony is live with the latest. Reporter the 16yearold suspect may not only be charged with a hate crime but as an adult. That will be up to the d. A. Police want very much to talk to two other passengers on the bus. Police say they could have well saved the victims life. I wish people would wake up and realize life is too short. Reporter a neighbor took this video on his cell phone moments after reporting a passenger had been burned monday evening on the 57 line near the intersection of mcarthur and ardly. The 18yearold luke fleeshman was asleep on the bus. When police say a High School Student let his clothing on fire. Fellow students know him as sasha. Luke is an excellent student. At this point were respecting the privacy of the family. Reporter the mother told our media partner fleeshman did not identify as a man or woman, but as binary gender and feels comfortable wearing a skirt. A 16yearold oakland High School Student has been arrested for seth fleeshman on fire and could be charged with a hate crime. They tried to stomp out the flames. Police putting out a plea for two other passengers seen to come forward. You can see that the citizens had a difficult time extinguishing flames we want to reach out to them. Our investigators would like to talk to them. Reporter roger lives next door to the family. My neighbors is one of the best hearted person in the i mean, as a neighbor and i know him for a long time. And his kid is very polite. Fleeshman is being treated in a burn center. The suspect being held in juvenile Detention Center n oakland, abc7 news. Tonight relatives of a missing vallejo woman told abc7 news she has been found dead the family of the 29yearold filed a Police Report after she disappeared on sunday a spokesperson tells us Police Called and told the family the body had been found on a beach. No other details have been released. A San Francisco sheriff Ross Mirkarimi reveals more details about hospital patient lynn spalding, found dead in a stairwell in the hospital october 8th. Were live where mirkarimi released new details. Wayne . Reporter we can report at this point this case remains amiss in the foernl the family but Sheriffs Department and San Francisco General Hospital. If youre a personal injury attorney, however this, case represents a field day. Reporter in your opinion what did the sheriff accomplish today . Not particularly much. Reporter one lawyers opinion but he represents the family of lynn spalding, he listened as sheriff Ross Mirkarimi read from a careful script describing how the 57yearold patient disappear from theed bed, only to be found dead in the hospital stairwell october 8th. That was directed to search stairwells. Only about half were searched. Reporter the report details how the staff described miss spalding as african american, then, asian. More perplexing a report from an engineer on october 4th. Someone told the staff person that they, there was someone laying on the landing in the third or fourth floor of the stairwell eight. The Communications Center staff responded, well take care of it. There is no indication that anyone was dispatched to that stairwell. Reporter but why . Who . The sheriff says his staff would attempt to answer questions but did not stick around long. Or varied from the script. Reporter sheriff mirkarimi did not touch upon where the family has yet to receive an autopsy report. I think its just the kind of rhetoric that you expect to hear, were sorry. Were looking into it. Were going to do all we can so it doesnt happen again. It doesnt help two kids left without a mother. Reporter this afternoon, San Francisco General Hospital weighed in on the story. Theyre launching an independent review. Theyre retraining the sheriffs deputies who work there and may increase the private security they use. They also had this to say, quote, it must be difficult for lynn spaldings family and friends to heart news we owe it to them and current and future patients to strengthen our security services. Live outside San Francisco city hall, Wayne Freedman abc7 news. Wayne, thank you. Google finally broken silence on the mysterious barge its working on in San Francisco bay. Its a fourstory structure moored at treasure island. There is now a second barge. The two have similar markings. A third barge has been spotted near portland, maine. A statement from google today addresses the speculation, rampant speculation of floating data center, wild party boat, a barge housing last remaining dinosaur. Sadly, none of the above, it says. Things may change theyre exploring using the space as a place where people can use interactive technology. That could include google glass and self driving cars. This program in particularly the google barge project was driven or at least directed by googles cofounder. And google what theyre known for is self driving cars and google glass. Google has been able to conceal the true purpose by constructing on barges instead of on land where permits would be required. You can take a look at them, perhaps. Yes. Still ahead tonight here on abc7 news wall street is atwitter about twitter ipo. Where will the money go once the Company Goes Public . A 300 million freeway project now in jeopardy s caltrans building a road to nowhere . Later tonight a Million Dollar question. Can Silicon Valley Technology Help prevent the next nz to thosuffered in silence. Hoped. And lived in a state of fear. Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com or call 8006752607. Tomorrow will be an interesting day on waut street. Twitter hopes to generate nearly 2 billion. Who gets that money . How will it be used . David louie has answers david . Well, dan, twitter has a lot of high profile users including president obama and the pope. But its not profitable. How, ipo could do good for start ups and under funded schools. Its pay back time for those investing in twitter when no one knew power of messages limited to 140 characters. Some of the 2 billion raised will go into other start ups. Early investors putting money to twitter, many will achieve liquid ti and much of the profit will be able to be invested into new start ups many local, through other venture capitol firms. Ipo will give a stash of cash that will give it freedom to make deals or offer new services or they can just sit on it the way apple does. Kind of money gives them options they may not have anything to spend it on today, but something may come available tomorrow. Twitter moved into San Franciscos mid market area. A crew cleaned windows today, the twitter presence starting to clean up Market Street from 6th street to vanness the owner of sams diner says there is more foot traffic. When the twitter is other businesses coming into the area. Its generated more foot traffic in the area. Ipo expected to mint millionaires, too among twitter employees the city gave twitter a tax break for locating in mid market. The mayor intends to talk to them to support housing needs. People will benefit from that ipo sale. Theyre going to probably look for investments and i want to make sure that i got my fill throppic arms out. This is a good year for social media stocks. Linkedn is up 92 . Some are concerned about how much faster twitter can grow, and how soon it will turn a profit. That is fascinating to watch. Thank you. And in anticipation of the debut tomorrow, stocks return to record highs today. The dow jones average rose 129 points, now up more 20 since the first of the year. S p 500 closed up, but tesla is down after disappointing earnings report, yesterday. A San Francisco building getting a new lease on life. United nations Plaza Building dedicated after a sixyear renovation. Most of the original arc tech youre was preserved. It allows people to feel connected to the outside. It just makes people happier. Here is Something Else that will brighten spirits. Part of the voof now a garden with native plants helping maintain temperatures signed of the building. Becoming a refuge for bees, butterflies and birds. Very nice. A nice night out for birds, butterflies, bees and people. Nice and mild looks like remaining that way for a while before getting a change of the pattern. We have clear skies now in the bay area, high clouds moving through but they havent kept it from getting mild into afternoon. Its mild at this hour, after sunset here is a live view from our roof top camera here looking along embark daro temperatures into mid 60s, low 60s at los gatos. 54, half moon bay. Another live view looking west across the bay, temperatures in 60s at santa rosa, napa. 60 degrees in fairfield. 63 concord. And one more live view, beautiful view out over San Francisco. For sutro cam now. Forecast features, clouds increasing overnight. Mild pattern staying with it into the weekend. There is a chance of rain. Not much. Of a chance. I shouldnt say much, not much rain with this chance coming up next week. Here is our radar composite showing this big ridge of High Pressure still dominant feature, keeping us into this mild, dry pattern throughout the weekend. Now, lets take a look at very different weather, powerful and potentially super typhoon towards central philippines packing winds of 175 Miles Per Hour this, is super typhoon category 5 storm. Gusts over 200 Miles Per Hour. Moving at about 18 Miles Per Hour. And if it stays on this track, passing across central philippines tomorrow, friday, in this time zone. And will be down graded slightly to a category 4 but this is potentially dangerous storm. So keep theyre eyes on that. Here on sunday, well see a cold front approaching late sunday and by monday, late monday into tuesday, there is a chance of showers from this system. Its a weak system falling apart once moving inland. Not expected to make it out to seera. Then, behind that front, after falling on tuesday, we get clearing. But may get a light rain from that late monday into early tuesday. Tonight a few clouds continuing to pass through the bay area skies will he temperatures mainly mid40s. Tomorrow, high temperatures south bay into low 70s up to 70s on the peninsula. Mid60s on the coast. Low 70s in the north bay. Upper 60s to around 70s on the east bay. Here is the accuweather forecast. Mild weather, again remaining with us through saturday cooling down sunday. Further cooling monday, veterans day. We have a chance of rain late monday into early tuesday. Clearing out partially early tuesday. Late tuesday is what i mean, after early tuesday rain. Mainly sunny, getting milder wednesday. So were not having dramatic changes just shifts here and there. Thank you, spencer. Coming up, frightening information about that meteor that hit russia. 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Each, seeing this thing from just a little different perspective. A member of the team from uc davis says if humanity doesnt want to go the way of dinosaurs we need to study this event in, detail. Well, tonights Money Matters final curtain falling on blockbuster. Dvd rental chain says it will close 300 stores left and end its rent by mail service. 2800 people will lose jobs blockbuster has been just run out of business by Online Services like net flix. Amazon making an offer to independent bookstores sell the kindel e reader and get a 10 cut of the digital books that are down loaded by your customers. Walmart had trouble with its web site because of a technical error, thread mills listed for 33, computer monitors nine walmart did not say whether it would honor the prices. There is more still to come here at 6 00. Only on abc7 news a troubled Northern California freeway project. How caltrans underestimated the project. And its hurting the economy. Its making Health Insurance less affordable. On the hot seat, again. How the Obama Administration is now to those whoworried. Poked and prodded. Taken risks. And lived in a state of what if . Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com or call 18007526631. Only on abc7 news a controversial north coast freeway project hits a snag. Army corps of engineers is threatening to suspend or revoke the caltrans Construction Permit the freeway being built to bypass the town of willett. Tonight it appears caltrans is coming up short whit comes to protecting the environment. For nine months caltrans crews have been working to turn this federal wetlands into this. First phase of a fourlane freeway project, six miles long, estimated cost of 300 million if its ever finished at this point theyre not in compliance with permit conditions. Reporter that permit is supposed to protect the environment. Caltrans needs it to keep building. Were trying to give them every opportunity before suspending the permit but its approaching that point. Now. Reporter caltrans is filling 60 acres of wetlands. There is serious impact to streams, 100 year old trees endangered plants and fish. Impact so severe, caltrans required to compensate by restoring or improving 2000 acres of wetlands and creeks damaged by past human activity there is solid progress on freeway construction, caltrans missed deadline after deadline on the environmental plans they bully, delay and they drag their feet. They basically dont do what the agencies are asking them to do. Reporter caltrans spokesman disputes that. Were going to follow requirements by our permitting agencies. He showed us stream beds where caltrans is working to improve fish habitat but this is a tiny fraction of what is required. Its a complex project. Reporter expensive. Caltrans spent 16 million to buy land for environmental improvements now they need a contractor to do the work. T

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