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KGO ABC7 News 600PM December 3, 2013

Near the overpass to a 92 after 6 00 a. M. Police believe the man was jaywalking when two cars struck him. The second car didnt stop. Officers eventually located the car and driver after the accident. Both drivers are cooperating with authorities. The accident closed the street as well as ramps to highway 92 for a couple of hours during the morning commute. The victims identity has not yet been released. What a terrible tragedy for a bay area father. The father of a young man who police say was killed over a video game console tells nbc 7 news his son was home from college for thanksgiving break like so many young people. He was shot as he sat in his car in san Franciscos Bayview district sunday afternoon. He sold his playstation 4 on line and went to get money from the buyer. Instead, police say the buyer refused to pay, got into an argument, and shot him. The student attended Santa Monica City college and of the youngest among his two siblings. Thats my baby child. I cant begin to tell you how much i love him. Everyone is friendly with him. Hes friendly with everybody. Now, the accused killer, 21yearold ronny collins, was arrested today on charges of murder and attempted robbery. Natural gas is flowing one again through the pipeline in san carlos. Its been at the center of controversy. Pg e restarted line 14 today which runs along a fourmile stretch underneath burton avenue. The question is how much is this going to cost the utility. Abc 7 has more live from San Francisco tonight. Heather . Reporter carolyn, one cpuc commissioner thinks that pg es new post san bruno Management Team deliberately misled the commission. Ceo tony early, while his Mission Today was to convince them otherwise, either way pg e will pay millions. The question is, will it be fixed or 17 . The cpuc want to know why it took pg e ten months to report a significant records discrepancy on a natural gas pipeline in san carlos. Pg e discovered by chance that line 147, running under brittlon avenue, dated from the 1920s and had seam welds, different from what their records showed. Im working to understand the decisionmaking process to see if my presumption of deliberate and calculated dishonesty is correct. Reporter faulty records was cited as a contributing factor to the 2011 san bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people. The company prom ied an overhaul of its records system and prompt and proper records compliance after this with a new ceo, tony early, at the helm. He testified before the comMission Today. I think from a safety standpoint theres not an issue. But when i assessed how we interacted with the commission on the issue of communications, i am clearly disappointed. Reporter early said the utility is undertaking an unprecedented overhaul on all levels of safety and made a personal promise to see it through. Our mantra today is find it and fix it. I want to underscore that. Thats exactly what we did with line 147. When a leak was discovered, we fixed it. When a discrepancy in the records was identified, we investigated and corrected it. Reporter residents dont feel safe and dont trust the utility. I think that there should be some oversight. Someone needs to inspect what theyve done. Reporter the commission will decide between the proposed 6 million fine and the alternate 17 million on december 19th. Abc 7 news. As you may have heard, cold temperatures are heading our way. Thats making officials in the south bay take action tonight to open three emergency warming shelters to help provide for those in need. Shelters like this at the former National Guard armory in sunnyvale opened minutes ago. The other are in san jose and gilroy. Together they provide 275 additional beds for Homeless People to spend the night, away from the cold. This shelter primarily provides what we call two hots in a cot. A meal at dinner and a at breakfast and a place to sleep. But we also have partners that come and provide medical services. The beds are available on a first come, first served basis. The number of people sleeping on the street in Santa Clara County jumped 18 this year according to the most recent homeless survey. Keep in mind, thats as the economy improves, theres still so many people out there suffering. It is going to be cold. Lets get the latest for u. Spencer christian is tracking it. Spencer . Yes, the cold snap will make us quickly forget about the mild spell we just had. Live doppler 7 h. D. Up north, a shrinking area of light rain. It was a much wider area earlier moving south of eureka toward mend cito county and the bay area. Not the possibility of showers were concerned about but thea, rival of very cold air. A freeze watch is in effect for tuesday night, tomorrow into wednesday morning for the north bay, the strait and delta. Subfreezing temperatures will be spread all across this area. Possible damage to sensitive plant and exposed pipes. Now the following morning or night, wednesday into thursday morning, the freeze watch expands to virtually all of the bay area with the exception of San Francisco. It will be even colder with still freezing temperatures spreading southward. Theres an increased risk of hypothermia. As we look live from the east bay hills camera, heres the projected morning low temperatures for the next three morning. Chilly tomorrow morning with lows dropping interest the 30s inland. Look at the inland numbers for wednesday and thursday morning. Dropping into the low to mid 20s and low to mid 30s around the bay. Mid 30s on the coast. It is going to be really, really cold. All right. Thank you. A special School Board Meeting gets underway in a few minutes in west Contra Costa County to figure out how to protect students from bullying. Comes after a brutal fight last month on the campus of Hercules High School that involved a transgender student. We have more live from richmond on the changes being discussed. Laura . Reporter the changes will be discussed here behind me in a few minutes. There were no injuries from that fight, and all the students after discipline have returned to classes. But district Officials Say that altercation has presented this district with a teachable moment. [ screams ] reporter its a fight that was caught on cell phone video. A hairpulling battle between a transgender student at Hercules High School and three girls. That ignited the issue reporter for district officials, it was a clear sign that their Antibullying Campaign needed beefing up. We felt like wed better step in now as a board and give direction as policymakers to our superintendents so they know were serious about that. We cant have a bunch of lawyers coming and suing every day all day around our failure to make schools safe. Reporter the brutal gang rape at richmond high four years ago. Since then, security cameras have been installed at schools across the district like here at ford elementary where 57 cameras provide both live and recorded images to administrators and police. As for bullying its really about educating. Its about having kids talk and learn about how to become more empathetic to recognize and realize the differences and the unique not that each individual brings. Hey reporter fifth grade teacher teresa berrera says its a message she reinforces every day in her classroom. I think that this is when students are starting it mold and development their moral compass. And i think its really important for students to get into that habit of mind, of reflection. Again, of what was my behavior and what is that consequence for other people. Reporter west contra costa schools have seen a sizable drop in the number of serious bullying incidents over the last three years. Administrators still think more can be done. In richmond, laura anthony, abc 7 news. In the meantime, a teenager whose skirt was set on fire returned to school today. Police say 18yearold Sasha Fleishman of oakland of the victim of a hate crime. While recovering from severe burns, sasha talked about wanting to do wanting nothing more than to return to school and get back to normal. Abc 7 has the story. Reporter four weeks after being attacked on a bus, 18yearold sasha flash man returned to school. There were no celebrations today, just a lowkey welcome. Last thursday, sasha talked about being away from school. Im in school and just im going to class, i miss being with my friends every day. Reporter sashas mother was excited about this moment. Im great im thrilled. Im happy that theyre back. And i hope that theyll be able to get back interest the swing of studying. Reporter a month ago, sasha was on board an a. C. Transit bus and had fallen asleep when police say a 16yearold boy set sashs skirt on fire. He was arrested and charged as an adult. Sasha will have to wear leg bandage for some time. I cant walk as fast, and i need to be more careful just physically. Reporter what happened to sasha has helped shed light on what it manes to be an agender person. A big responsibility to be representative of the whole nonbinary gender community. Reporter the director of Maybeck High School says its a fitting role for sasha. I think were all interested in educating the greater community, you know, worldwide that tolerance is extremely important. Reporter sasha left school today accompanied by friends who have supported the teenager throughout these difficult moment. In berkeley, abc 7 news. Still to come on abc 7 news at 6 00 tonight, was this a manic monday for january line retailers . Well have a online retailers . Well have an update. Plus, niners kwrks, but Colin Kaepernick muscles his way into the hearts of kids at the Ronald Mcdonald house. Well have the story. Save big bucks on your prescription drugs. Im michael finney. Coming up on 7 on your side, and why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The importan and i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Tonight many of us will be searching on lane for holiday sales, taking advantage on line for holiday sales, taking advantage of the deals. You may have Mother Nature time than you think to take advantage of the discounts. We have more live with a look at what kind of deals people are getting without ever leaving their homes. David . Reporter well, cyber monday used to mean 24 hours of frantic shopping. Some sites now have extended their Cyber Monday Deals until wednesday. And on amazon, new deals are being added as frequently as every ten minutes. The discounts alone catch your eye, especially ones as high as 50 . The cyber monday countdown clock is sure to get your adrenaline pumpi ining as the deals come t end. Are you motivated by the daels on lane . Absolutely. Savings is saving, you know . Reporter some retailers are extending cyber monday through wednesday. Maybe you wont notice the fine print if youre shopping on a smaller screen. Theres a big shift since thanksgiving to mobile devices. We saw mobile traffic for online sales hit over 40 for the first time driving 23 of online sales with that traffic, representative of how consumers are shopping. Its become part of their day to day. Reporter online sales so far this cyber monday are up almost 19 compared to a year ago. Mobile use up 62 compared to last year. And Online Shopper are discovering they dont have to go to the mall to get black friday specials. Theyre also offered on line. Adam just bought his wife a watch this cyber monday. What kind of discount did you get . About 40 . So yeah. Reporter youre happy with that . Yeah, yeah. A good deal. Reporter there are good deals on line . Absolutely. Reporter once the orders are placed, the race is on to ship the orders. Palo altobased ship wire is a global Order Fulfillment operation with seven warehouses around the world. This is video provided by shipwire of its los angeles facility. More than 1,000 people handle online sales for ebay, amazon, and other web retailers. Our Software Network delivers the orders logically to the warehouses. And then theyre picked, packed, and shipped from the warehouse, delivered to the end buyer so they get it in one to two days. Reporter over 2 billion in sales are expected to occur on cyber monday. One of the big losers could be the state of california which estimates it loses about 1 billion in use taxes from online sales. That could pay for 11,000 teachers or 7,000 police officers. In palo alto, david louie, abc 7 news. And sales from the black friday weekend were not what retailers were hoping to see. The national reation federation says people spent a total of 57 went 4 billion between thursday and sunday 57. 4 billion between thursday and sunday but down 3 from last year. Broken down by individual shoppers. Each consumer spent about 407 this holiday weekend, down from 423 last year. One retail analyst says aggressive promotions before thanksgiving may have taken some sales away from the black friday weekend. Sort of stole the thunder perhaps. Weve had incredible weather there then through now. We have. If youre going shopping, get yourself a heavy coat. To say things are changing is quite an understatement. Weve been talking about how unusually mild the weather has been. This week will be remembered for how unusually cold its going to be. Heres live doppler 7 h. D. , moisture up to the north. Shrieking area of it. We had a much more swath in our area earlier. This is moving our direction. Not likely to pose much threat for the bay area. In the sierra, we have a Winter Weather advisory from midnight to 4 00 tomorrow afternoon. Behalf 6,000 feet we expect three to six inches of snow with the frontal system thats moving our direction, bringing us cold air and bringing snow to the e sierra. Heres the embarcadero center. Right now, we have temperature in the mid 50s at San Francisco, oakland, redwood city, half moon bay. Another view from the highdefinition sfo camera showing a few cloud, temperatures in the mid to upper 50s to novato, concord, and livermore. From our shaking camera blowing in the breeze i should say the wind looking dunn on it the bay, heres the forecast. Feature a slight chance of some isolated showers tonight. Colder pattern settles in for the week. A freeze watch begins tuesday special wednesday morning. Heres the pacific satellite image showing the advancing frontal system thats bringing us this dramatic change cha in our weather pattern. Ahead of that, shower activity. Behind the front, cold air. A slight chance of showers overnight. Its this pool of cold air thats going to be the big weather changer for us overnight, one or two showers may pass through the area. Behind that, clearing tomorrow and cool their, cooler daytime weather and colder overnight weather. Speaking of overnight, heres a look at the projected lows for the week ahead in santa rosa which will be one of our coldest spots when the cold weather arrives. Wednesday morning, low in santa rosa of 29 degrees, down to about 24. Thursday morning, back up to about 30. On friday morning, then hovering around freezing for the next three mornings. This is indicative of the kind of temperature, low temperature range we can expect in our inland valleys the next several days. Overnight tonight, generally across the bay area, low temperatures in the low to mid 40s. A few upper fourth around the bay. And then tomorrow, after passing clouds in the morning, mainly sunny in the afternoon. It will be much cooler than the afternoon whether weve had the last couple of weeks. Highs reaching only into the mid 50s in the mildest locations. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast, its going to be very cold inland on wednesday morning and even colder on thursday morning. The freeze covers mainly the north bay for wednesday but will cover the inland into thursday morning. For the weekend, an yrs of clouds with a chance of insures at the end of the week and into next week. Thanks, spencer. Judge just ahead, well look at the california nursing shortage. And the one problem that will keep the p a new report from the Cal State University system faculty shortages are compounding the states need for more nurses. Csu administrators say there are simply not enough faculty members to train all the students who want to enter nursing programs. They expect that problem to get worse in the next few years to come. Not better. There were only 82 open spots it fall. The federal bureau of Health Professions ranks california 46th in the nation when it comes to nurses per capita, at 743 registered nurses per 100,000 people. Tids ttis the season for sharing. Abc 7 news has more. Reporter he was dressed in red and brought a big gift. But it wasnt st. Nick, it was cap nipe kaepernick. I think theres Something Special about kids. You see how purehearted they. Reporter Colin Kaepernick paid a surprise visit to the Ronald Mcdonald house and gave them an xbox 1. The house is a home away from home for families whose children are receiving treatment at the nearby ucff hospital. Ronald bulltler, his wife, and o kids are staying here free of charge while 15monthold flynn undergoes surgery. Its been wonderful. Having our kids here, we couldnt have done it without these people. We couldnt. Reporter more than 4,000 families have live ted Ronald Mcdonald house. Lived at the Ronald Mcdonald house. Because we come from far away, from maui, we dont have many family here to help us out. The Ronald Mcdonald is the best family for us. Reporter now Colin Kaepernick is part of that family. Hes behind the mcdonalds xbox 1 promotion and used it

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