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KGO ABC7 News 9 March 19, 2017

Good morning, everyone, im carolyn tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, march 19th. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist, lisa argen. Hi there, carolyn. Lots of clouds behind you and from live doppler 7 we can see a few returns in the north bay. Weve seen a few areas of drizzle and light shower activity from points west around ft. Ross, highway 1 and if we go further to the north, you can see still it is a little bit wet up towards hopland and lakeport. Most of the activity is offshore and wont be reaching the ground. We will see a cloudy day today, but look at all the cloud cover offshore. This will be visiting us throughout the day and bring a slightly cooler afternoon. Right now its mild in oakland, 58. Its 49 in gilroy. From our sutro camera we have low clouds as well. 58 napa, 54 in livermore and a few peeks of sun in emeryville. With 50s and 60s by noon time, well have gray skies and the bulk of the wet weather holds off until the beginning of the workweek until the first day of spring. Well talk about rainfall amounts over an inch before we end the workweek. Thats coming up in my accuweather sevenday forecast in just a few minutes. Vallejo police are looking for a man they say shot and injured three people. It happened last night at 10 00 on westwood street. Police say they found two victims, a 27yearold man and a 26yearold woman. A bullet grazed the mans head, though a woman was shot in the shoulder. Then a third victim realized he had been shot in the thigh. All three taken to the hospital. The suspect is described as a man in his 30s about 510 wearing a white tshirt. A dozen rooms in a San Jose Health care facility are closed this morning after an explosion rattled the building, leaving two people injured. Detectives are looking into whether a lit cigarette ignited an oxygen tank at the Canyon Springs post acute center. Abc 7 News Reporter lonni rivera has the story. Suddenly we heard i think it was glass shattering and then the fire alarm or the alarm started beeping. Reporter san jose fire police and paramedics responded to a call about an explosion and fire at Canyon Springs post acute care facility. Jasmine wong was inside with a Singing Group entertaining patients. It was pretty chaotic. We stood around for a while but then we were told that Everyone Needs to get out so we helped evacuate the residents. Reporter Police Believe someone was smoking a cigarette with a room with an oxygen tank nearby and it caused an explosion, then a fire. The fire appeared to be contents only, not taking the whole room. Reporter Dolores Harris rushed over to check on her mom, who is being treated here. I jumped in my car and probably broke a few laws to get over here to see about her. Reporter more than 170 residents, all different ages, are staying here. Fire crews say employees had to evacuate 125 patients. Harris was concerned about her mom, who has dementia. And i know shes pretty disturbed about it, because 100 years old, im sure shes worried about it. Reporter as San Jose Police investigate the cause, 12 rooms in the back of the facility are closed. Patients from those rooms are being treated in another part of the building. In san jose, lonni rivera, abc 7 news. A south Bay Community is honoring one of its own this weekend. Funeral services are under way right now at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds for frank navarro, a beloved Little League coach. Navarro was fatally stabbed while working security at a bar last month. Last night abc 7 news was at east ridge Little League fields in san jose where family and friends paid their respects at a memorial. Frank touched everyones heart. A sincere, genuine guy. Really affected many people. Someone who put his heart out for the kids and he loved it. He breathed baseball, eat baseball, sleep baseball. People at last nights memorial remember edna vaed nava loving and carriage ming mentor friend. Its been three months since the ghost ship fire and so far no charges filed. 36 people died in the fire. The District Attorneys Office is still waiting for a report from the city of oakland. The report could be available to the d. A. s office as early as today. Abc 7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana has the details. Reporter the ghost ship is in the district represented by city counsel men noel guyo. Im surprised that were here today but its probably the not the first time or the last time. Reporter he said the city and county have long had a contentious relationship. Now there seems to be some friction between District Attorney nancy omalleys office and oakland City Attorney Barbara Parkers office. In emails obtained, one of omalleys deputies sent a letter to one of parkers deputies demanding a draft report under review. If the Oakland Fire Department has submitted a report to your office for review, a copy of the unredacted, unedited report must also be submitted to the prosecuting agency for review. The District Attorneys Office doesnt want a sugar coated, prepackaged version of the facts. The District Attorney is the main investigative criminal arm of this county. They want to know what happened, when it happened, what did you see . Reporter criminal defense Attorney Daniel horowitz reviewed this for us and he says fire investigators have an obligation to turn over all evidence to the prosecutors office. If charges are ever filed, it could affect the case. This game playing by the city of oakland will be used by the Defense Attorneys for the truly culpable people to say to the people there is a conspiracy to shift blame to my client. Reporter in a written statement to abc 7 news, City Attorney chief of staff alex katz says they are fully cooperating. They are not withholding any information from the District Attorneys Office. But he says the report still has not been turned over to the d. A. As requested. Sergio quintana, abc 7 news. Abc 7 news was in richmond as officers arrested a man after a chase on interstate 80 yesterday. It started in martinez. The chp followed the driver until his car crashed at 44th and barrett in richmond. Officers took him into custody. They have not said if anyone else was arrested or how the chase started. The music world and music fans are mourning the death of a legend. John lennon once said if you tried to give rock n roll another name, you might call it chuck berry. Berry died yesterday, but his legacy remains intact. Abc News Reporter Chris Connelly looks back on how berrys seven decades strumming the guitar changed popular music. Reporter from johnny b. Goode and roll over beethoven to sweet little 16 chuck berry was rock n roll, its founding father and warrior hero. The creator of its irresistible musical language, filled with poetic, uniquely american images. He was the primary influence and the musical cornerstone for the beatles and the Rolling Stones. The slickedback do and duck walk made him an in concert main stay through the 1950s, an africanamerican triumphing across a racist landscape. Born in st. Louis in 1926, chuck berry had trained as a hair dresser before 1955 when his first song conquered radio about a car named mabeline. Dozens of hits followed, each one a showcase for his guitar riffs. A jukebox beat and those remarkable lyrics. Notching his only number one single in 1972 with an audience singalong of my dingaling. But berry would continue to perform. Inducted in the firstever class to the rock n roll hall of fame, lauded at the Kennedy Center honors in 2000. The hall of fame remembering the legend writing rock n roll as we know it would not exist without him. Rest in peace, chuck berry. Other music legends are reacting this morning. The beach boys brian wilson called berry a big inspiration and said hell be missed by everyone who loves rock n roll. The Rolling Stones mick jagger said his lyrics shone above others and threw a strange light on the american dream. Chuck, you were amazing and your music is engraved inside us forever. Bruce springsteen saying chuck berry was rocks greatest practitioner, guitarist and the greatest pure rock n roll writer who ever lived. Might be some music happening today if you grab your blanket and enjoy the official end of winter at off the grids presidio picnic in San Francisco. The weekly picnic features food and drinks, lawn games, yoga, arts and crafts and iconic views of the San Francisco bay. Whats new this year, you can skip the long lines. Off the grid is now offering a preorder option so you dont have to wait to get your food. Presidio picnic is every sunday from 11 00 to 4 00 through october on the main parade ground. And its not going to be like last sunday at all. No, we were just drying out, arent we . This is going to be an interesting week. We not only have spring showers, we have a winterlike storm for the end of the week. Right now theres fog, San Francisco and oakland, five to sixmile visibility as well as the san carlos airport. Mid and upper 50s, so its mild. The last day we could see a few 70s and then its colder and it is the last gasp of winter perhaps. Ill explain coming up next with my accuweather sevenday forecast. 7. Thank you, lisa. Also ahead why a local tattoo removal clinic says its seeing a Record Number of clients since november. And if youre planning on traveling abroad any time developing news out of louisiana this morning. A sheriffs deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty while conducting an investigation. That shooting happened last night in east baton rouge around 9 00 our time. Police say the deputy was responding to a domestic situation when he was shot. The suspect was also shot and his being treated at a hospital. His condition is not known at this time. President trump is at his private resort in maralago this weekend. He has not appeared in public, but he has tweeted. The president said he had a great meeting with german chancellor Angela Merkel on friday, but went on to say, nevertheless, the germany owes vast sums of money to nato and the United States must be paid for the powerful and very expensive defense it provides to germany. He did not address his claims that former president Obama Wiretapped trump tower, claims that are still unproven. In an effort to get the focus back on policy, Vice President mike pence is back on the road defending the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Stop any more states from expanding medicaid and adding a burden to future generations. The bill is headed to the house floor this week. If youre planning on traveling abroad, be prepared for a long wait if you need to get a passport. People sat on the floor of the post office in San Franciscos Bayview District waiting for their number to be called. One woman says she waited more than three and a half hours and it was her second time there. Came last week and we came a little bit later, like at 9 30, and it was like packed. And so we left and decided to come earlier today. Across the country, more people are applying for passports. Ten years ago the law changed requiring american citizens to have passports to go to canada and mexico. The state department saw a surge in applications then. Now it says its seeing a spike in renewals. A Record Number of people are getting their tattoos removed because of fears they might be targeted by immigration agents. The people who run the removing Barriers Program in san pablo say since last novembers election they have seen more people coming to their weekly tattoo removal clinic. Its the fear. Nobody wants tor a target, especially with the Political Climate thats been surfacing, its been getting difficult for them. The San Pablo Economic Development corporation started the program to help people find jobs. Laser tattoo removal can cost around 250 for each square inch. This Program Costs just 80 per five minutes of laser removal. Abc 7 is proud to be a major sponsor of the upcoming professional businesswomen of california conference. Its on march 28th in San Francisco. The keynote speaker is former secretary of state and president ial candidate, hillary clinton. Congresswoman jackie spear founded pbwc 29 years ago. Congresswoman spear is one of our guests on this Weekends Program beyond the headlines with Cheryl Jennings where she talks about the challenges women face in the workplace and in college. Spear says we have a long way to go to end discrimination against women and girls. We think the things are good until we actually drill down and find out theyre not that good. And that there still is serious discrimination. And whether its discrimination and title ix in terms of the way cases are handled, Sexual Assault on College Campuses or rape in the military, it is still pretty pervasive. Our special edition of beyond the headlines with Cheryl Jennings airs today at 4 30 here on abc 7. For more information, log on to our website, abc7news. Com. By the way, the pbwc conference is sold out. Good sunday morning, everyone. Live doppler 7 is tracking a few light sprinkles up in sonoma county. Its been damp along the coast, but overall youre waking up to a lot of cloud cover. Heres where we have a few returns. Hillsburg, and santa rosa have reported a few light showers but right now along the coast, perhaps bodega bay and down through point reyes, its the bulk of the activity that will hold off for tomorrow and tuesday. Its all the cloud cover youre noticing today. As a result, youll have less sunshine and temperatures coming down a bit. Check it out, isnt this pretty. All of the low clouds from mt. Tam. You can see them just blocking the hills there. 58 in the city, 59 in oakland. Its 56 in mountain view. San jose 55. We have fog from the peninsula to the east bay. It was pretty dense this morning in parts of the north bay. 50 in gilroy, 54 Half Moon Bay where you have reduced visibility. From sutro, we like to see the city here in between the cloud deck. 56 santa rosa, 58 by the knelta, 57 in concord. Livermore 54. A few peeks of sunshine is about all we can muster and well have a mostly cloudy sky. Spotty light showers not out of the question, mainly in the north bay. What a week well have. Well feature some thunderstorms on tuesday, some light rain tomorrow and then some heavy rain by the end of the week. But today upper 60s for concord, 70 in fremont. Notice the milder locations, the south half of the bay with a little more sun. Its going to be cooler up towards santa rosa where weve had a few showers. Lets review march where weve had five rainy days of march. And then, boy, it really seemed like spring was here, drying out nicely. And now were going to see more green on that for the balance of march bringing rainfall totals to near average by the end of the week or above. As we look at the rest of the day today, its dry. This is 7 00 on monday morning where we have spotty showers. Its the afternoon where the rain picks up. Even along the central coast. Then were looking at more scattered showers monday night. Check out tuesday. This is the colder section of the system where we could see some thunderstorms. So anywhere from a quarter of an inch to threequarters of an inch through wednesday, east bay, south bay. About a half inch to an inch in the mountains and up in the north bay 1 to 2 inches. Our storm impact scale has much of the workweek as a 1, a light system, but by friday here comes the heavy rain, the gusty winds. Were talking upwards of an inch of rain for some of you. And looking at this system, its going to last all day friday. It looks like into early saturday. This is a week away, remember. It looks like were going to dry out. So its a moderate system and tracking the rainfall, check it out. We talked about the first three days. Were upwards of 0. 75 of an inch in oakland and livermore. By the end of the week we could see 2. 5 inches in santa rosa and over an inch in san carlos. Today featuring the only really dry day. Tomorrow spring begins. 1 on our storm impact scale through thursday, but thursday looks to be the quietest day, late thursday into friday, queueing up for that strong system on friday. Parts of winter seemed like spring and now were going into spring and its feeling like winter. Im following you. Thanks, lisa. Just ahead, hundreds of kids in San Francisco battling it out this weekend with their robots. The unique competition that could send local students to a world championship. Students from all over the world are competing in a gearspinning, metalbanging robot competition. St. Ignatius high school in San Francisco is hosting the regionals for the first robotics competition. Student teams were given the rules back in january and had to build custom bots to compete. The contest includes collecting items to shoot at targets and drop into bins. St. Ignatius went to the w

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