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KGO ABC7 News 800AM July 12, 2014

Evening hours and the warmup gets even warmer, more significant come sunday and monday. The warmest day of the week. Ill have it for you in a few minutes. Developing news, all southbound lanes of highway 101 at blossom hill road in san jose has reopened following a deadly crash. It happened just before 2 00 a. M. The chp says at least four cars were involved. We now know one person was killed, and at least two other people were injured. Their conditions are not known. It took officers about two and a half hours to clear the highway. The cause of the accident is under investigation. The man accused of killing morgan hill teenager, sierra lamar is a sexual predator with a history of Sexual Violence against women. According to a newly released transcript of the indictment against antlynn garcia gomez. According to the evidence presented to the grand jury, Antolin Gomez was identified as a suspect, he was interviewed by police twice after sierra lamar disappeared in 2012. It was in those interviews that garciatorres implicated himself. He started to volunteer answers to questions that werent asked. And the most damaging of which is regarding how his bodily fluids could be contained at the sierra lamar crime scene. According to the transcript, his dna was found on a pair of her pants recovered in a field near her home in morgan hill. Her clothes also had fibers from his red volkswagen jetta. When it was confiscated by police, they found her dna on an arm rest inside the car and her hair was found on a rope discovered inside the trunk. Clark says thats a key piece of evidence. The defense is going to have a big fight as to how theres an explanation for that huge piece of evidence for the prosecution. Lamars body has not been found. So detectives and prosecutors have assembled this case mostly based on dna. But theyve linked garciatorres to a series of attempted carjackings in 2009. Those were Violent Attacks on women in the safeway parking lot in morgan hill. His fingerprints were found on a stun gun used in one. Attacks. Detectives placed him at the scenes by tracking the safeway card he used. Theyre putting the three other attacks that garciatorres is responsible for as part of a bigger picture. Hes a sexual predator, he preys on women. Tntolin garciatorres was indicted by the Santa Clara County grand jury in february. His attorneys tried to keep the transcript sealed, saying details could unfairly bias potential members of a jury in his trial. Abc7 news. Our media partner, the San Jose Mercury news won a court battle to make the secret grand jury testimony public. Now this is case thats been going on for more than two years. Sierra lamar disappeared on march 16th, 200126789 on march 28th, investigators began watching garciatorres around the clock. Nearly two months later, Sheriff Deputies arrested him at the morgan hill safeway that was on may 21st. On february 17th of this year, garciatorres pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and murder charges. Happening today, another rally to protest this weeks decision to not prosecute a Sonoma County sheriffs deputy in the death of a 13yearold boy. Deputy Eric Gillhouse shot and killed andy lopez last october in santa rosa. He thought the teenager was aiming a rifle at him. The weapon turned out to be a toy. Sonoma County District attorney jill ravitch said gillhouse acted reasonably. Because he felt his life was in danger. Many in the Santa Rosa Community are saying they can no longer trust law enforcement. Todays rally at 1 00 in old Courthouse Square in santa rosa. Developing news out of the east bay, evacuations have been lifted in Contra Costa County as firefighters gain more control of a brush fire. The now 120acre fire broke out last night following a car crash on marsh creek road between clayton and brentwood. The crash called power lines to fall which sparked a fire. 20 people were forced from their homes along bragdon way. Fire Officials Say the flames are 60 contained. The portion of marsh creek road near the fire will be closed until at least 10 00 a. M. Abc7 news spoke with a man considered to be a hero for helping rescue his neighbors from their burning home. This happened around 1 00 yesterday morning at a san leandro apartment building. Neighbors heard breaking glass, saw smoke and ran to help. Say they saw their neighbor outside, badly burned and disoriented. Saying his wife was still inside. We heard the wife, busted out the windows, i asked her if she heard my voice. If you hear my voice, come to booboo boo. And she grabbed my hand and we got her out of there. Alameda county firefighters arrived minutes later. The man suffered severe burns, his wife, smoke inhalation. Firefighters rescued and revived the couples cat and dog, both suffered smoke inhalation. Investigators believe cooking started the fire. New details this morning, San Francisco police have announced a second arrest in a fight near at t park that left a woman unconscious. It happened thursday in front of momos restaurant two hours after the giants as game. The victim was trying to break up a fight between two groups of people when she was hit in the face and knocked out. 31yearold Francisco Lopez was arrested thursday night. 42yearold Anthony Rucker taken into custody last night. Facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon. The big guy, the suspect just hit her right in the face. Knocked her out flat. Just one single punch and she was down, out cold on the sidewalk. Police say the fight was not caused by fan rivalry. The longawaited Police Report on the accident involving oakland mayor gene kwan has been released. But investigators were not able to determine who caused the crash. The other driver said kwan ran a red light and was on her phone before the collision at 26th and Market Street june 8th. Kwan denies that claim. And phone records show neither driver was on their phone. Last night, kwan released a statement reading in part, as the investigation found, and as substantiated by my cell phone records, i was not using my cell phone while driving and it was not a factor in the traffic accident. I stand by my original statement that i do not believe i ran the red light. In San Francisco, a car crashed into the steps of the hall of justice. An officer said he saw it happen. Police are investigating if the driver had been drinking. This happened last night, just before 9 00. Police say the driver was going the wrong way up bryant street and turned on to the steps in the front of the building. Luckily, nobody was hurt. New details about the accused prostitute police now believe gave two men fatal doses of heroin. An atlanta tv station is reporting alex tickleman told Santa Cruz Police she gave heroin to her boyfriend last year in georgia before he overdosed. Ticklemans exboyfriend, 53yearold dean riotel died last year at home. Tickleman told 911 operatesors, the overdose was accidental. But one of riotels friends is suspicious. Dean would never do that. Put two and two together, you get four. I think absolutely she had something to do with it like i said, dean would never go down that road. Two weeks before riotels death, tickleman was arrested for biting him during an argument. Tickleman has not been charged with riotels death, but is facing a felony manslaughter charge, after police say she injected google executive forest hayes with heroin and left him to die on his yacht last year in santa cruz. The case has shed light on the booming sex trade in Silicon Valley. Sex trade workers say theyve benefitted from an influx of tech clientele who have a lot of money to burn. Tiffany wilson has the story. Unable to find a job in 2009 joe lien parton turned to dancing at the lusty lady. What i heard from the dancers working before the recession it was insane how little money we were making because the tech boom in the late 90s and early 2,000s, had been great for the sex industry. Today parton see as similar resurgence, thanks to new money, new customers. Around here were getting an influx of people moving to the bay area and getting paid lots of money. Which is great for any industry. Especially direct service industries. Another sex worker who is based out of sacramento told me she commute to Silicon Valley because she can charge higher rates to customer who is have more money than social opportunities. Suzy q is a bay area sex industry entrepreneur. It would be ridiculous if i did not you know respond to the economic boom here in the Silicon Valley. Shes noticed major shift in her clients during the past year. I have gone from having maybe a handful of some of you know maybe my best clients being in the Tech Industry in some capacity. To the majority of my clients being in the Tech Industry. The sex workers told me recent publicity surrounding a google execs death and a call girls arrest have not heard the industry as much as the closier of myredbook. Com. It offered free advertising for sex workers, as well as a forum where they could communicate about safe practices and blacklisted clients. Can you imagine what Small Businesses here in the bay area would do if yelp got shut down . She expects the industry will come up with alternatives and hopes sex workers will operate legally out in the open. When the work is not criminalized, it does not attract criminals. Theres never been an exact count of sex workers in the industry. But those in the industry believe its around 10,000 and even though they say business is booming, they can still charge higher prices in new york city. Tiffany wilson, abc7 news. Authorities are warning residents after another Mountain Lion sighting in san mateo county. Yesterdays sighting happened around 7 30 in the morning in the open space behind lexington avenue in the san mateo highlands. It is the third Mountain Lion sighting in san mateo this month. Its unknown if its the same cat or if maybe theres more than one out there. 8 11 on your saturday morning. We know the avon Breast Cancer walkers are out and about on the street. Yes. And some of the light jackets needed this morning. Temperatures in the low 60s. Heres a look from our exploratorium camera. Todays high is 66. This is a common scene even in our east bay valleys. With the gray start thats typical for this time of year. Well enter high clouds and a warmer weekend. Well talk all about that, when we return. Also next, he could light up your day with a single gaze, a beloved member of our community tragically killed. And it was like a scene out of the show lost, the terrifying ordeal for so we made our own commercial to tell you why. First, chex makes lots of gluten free flavors. Which is a huge thing for us. And theres seven to choose from. Like cinnamon, honey nut, and chocolate. I tell them you guys are gonna turn into chocolate chex i like cinnamon, greg is a honey nut nut. When you find something this good, you want to spread the word. [ all ] were the pearsons, and we love chex developing news, firefighters are trying to get a handle on a large wildfire in Shasta County this morning. Its being called the bully fire, flames broke out yesterday and have charred 2800 acres, about 45 minutes from reading. Mandatory vaugss have taken place along bland road, fortina road is closed between raymond lake road and highway 36. So far, the fire just 10 contained. This is a difficult time for a lot of people in a Bay Area Community after an unexpected loss. They say barnaby lactoin made the world a better place by being a friend to everyone. Abc7 News Reporter allen wong explains. Youre witnessing what one man with an unchallenged heart can do for a community. He made a friend within three seconds. You dont know him, within three seconds, youll be his friend. Barnaby lakt or in was a friend on this road and he remembered the names of every person he met here even though mentally challenged. Each day the 57yearold man made his rounds with a replica wrestling belt in hand, waving at people and smiling. One day he lost his belt and our guys gave him a new one. Last sunday, his friends at fire station 51 responded to a man fatally struck by a car on el camino real. It was barnaby. If i went to every single place where barnaby touched somebody, we would have been walking at least 50 miles today. I think we all need to learn to be able to say hi to each other. Every day. From now on. Because thats what he would have wanted. Barnabys sister and caretaker was overwhelmed by the countless stories of joyful encounters of barnaby. This is what he came up with. Oh, my god. Oh, god. Thank you so much. She knew he was making friends, but she had no idea barnaby was uniting a community. In san bruno, allen wong, abc7 news. After comedian tracy morgan is suing wal mart over last months car crash. Morgan was a passenger in a van hit by a walmart driver, ken roper on the new jersey turnpike. The comedian says walmart was negligent in allowing roper to drive after being up for more than 24 hours. In the lawsuit morgan alleges that roper fell asleep just before the crash because he was so tired. Roper has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him, including death by auto. Well this is bad day for a valet, surveillance cameras capture a expensive fenderbender at a fivestar hotel in india. A parking attendant lost control of a lamborghini outside of a hotel in new delhi, the driver had borrowed the car from a friend. The lamborghinis owner claims his sports car is worth half a Million Dollars and the damages total 330,000. Passengers say they felt like they were in a scene from the show lost. United flight 201 from honolulu to guam had to make a middleofthenight Emergency Landing on Midway Island after reports of a burning smell and mechanical problems. Passengers actually say the flight was delayed in hawaii three hours thursday night because of a smell on the boeing 777 and about five hours into the flight, that smell grew stronger. I had overheard some of the stewards talking and they were talking about the smell getting stronger. And they were kind of whispering that we were going back to hawaii. And then another stewardess came up and kind of shushed them. The pilots said they lost radar and had other electrical problems in the cockpit. Passengers had to spend the night in an abandoned gym on the military base on the island. Then they were flown back to hawaii and then to guam. Happening now, thousands of people in the bay area are participating in the 12th annual avon walk for Breast Cancer. We have a live look for you right now. Of the Golden Gate Bridge of course where we expect the walkers to be at some point this morning. Not there just yet. But boy, thats going to be quite the scene with that sea of pink going across the bridge. Walkers are going to do 39. 3 miles. So not a simple task. It goes all the way from San Francisco to marin county and back, participants began at fort mason this morning. Theyll cross the golden gate and end up on highway 101 in cordo madiera. We have details in a map on our website, abc7news. Com. So good luck to all the walkers, theyre doing an incredible thing and theyre going to need some incredible stamina to pull this off. But the weather is mild. So that helps. It definitely comfortable walking weather with a lot of clouds until midday and even when the sun is revealed, it will still be comfortable out there we are looking for temperatures to be a little bit warmer today. Weve been below average and temperatures barely in the 80s in our east bay valleys. All good news for fire danger. The relative humidity will be decreasing over the next couple of days, as the warmth is coming back to the bay area. Heres a live look now. From our san jose camera where it is cloudy. Its been about 60, dropped a degree at 59. San carlos in the upper 50s, 62 in oakland. Fairly uniform with the low clouds and fog spreading all the way up the coast. Filling into the bay. It is a gray start in santa cruz, boy, a Beautiful Day on the way with 70s and sunshine here. 60 in concord, livermore at 61. Good morning, napa, 60 degrees for you and outside our window were looking at some very light winds out of the west. And it will pick up today. Thats the big change, instead of the south wind were going to have an onshore push that will bring some breezy winds from time to time. So low clouds and fog this morning. Warmer inland this weekend. But i think even around the bay well bring up temperatures a few degrees, the fog stays at the coast and it will be cooler there over the weekend. But the summer spread does continue into early next week. Heres a look at the fog. Youll notice it continues to cling to the coast from stinson, bodega bay down to san mateo coast and into monterey, San Luis Obispo and santa cruz will get the sunshine. Our water vapor imagery shows the nemesis for bringing the coolerthanaverage temperatures, an area of low pressure parked offshore. As this continues to lift to the north, the winds will come back to onshore component and that will allow for some warming around the bay. So we will be looking at temperatures to really come up just a few degrees today. So that will allow for a nicelooking afternoon. With high temperatures really warming up more significantly tomorrow. So as we look at monday and tuesday, the warmest days of the week, were going to be pushing perhaps near 100 degrees in our inland valleys, 86 in morgan hill. Look for about 80 today, los alto, 78. And now yesterday it was 70, half moon bay, so with the westerly wind youre going to cool off in the north bay. 84, in calistoga, near east bay, 71 in berkeley. Fremont, 76 today and well see low to 80s for the most part

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