Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 900AM 20140713 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 900AM 20140713

Good morning, to you. Happy sunday. Im Cornell Barnard in for carolyn tyler. Lets start off with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning. Good morning. We are starting out with plenty of low clouds and fog in the city. But its beginning to peel back. The High Pressure is pushing down on the atmosphere and thats allowed for patchy dense fog this morning. Cooler this morning for some but we will finish up warmer. 60 in san jose and sunshine in our east bay. Next couple of hours we get to reveal more sunshine. It will be brighter here. 80 noontime inland, 07 around the bay. Look at the coast. Its cool and breezy around the bay. Warming up inland plenty of 90s and warmer weather ahead. Cornell. Thank you very much. A small, but vocal group in santa rosa turned their peaceful protest over the shooting death of a teenager into something far more confrontational. [indiscernible chanting] protests began with chanting, but it took an unusual turn. This is streamed video that was posted online. Demonstrators actually shut down parts of the freeway. Andy lopez was killed last year by a sheriffs deputy who was not charged with the crime. Lisa amin gulezian has more. [sirens] reporter cries for justice while hundreds protested the district attorneys decision to clear the officer of any wrongdoing. The officer shot and killed andy lopez after he mistook the teenagers air soft pellet gun for a real assault rifle. [chanting] the protests took a surprising turn as a group of activists split from the majority and marched up the third street offramp of northbound 101. They have blocked traffic until chp officers coached them off the highway. Once on the street. Protesters were met by dozens of officers. The group made another unexpected move by marching straight into macys in santa rosa plaza. Everybody was standing off to the side, letting them pass a lot of cheering. They were very, very passionate. They had the signs and everything. About 50 people packed the main aisle of the lower level of macys. They were in and out in just 30 seconds. These macys employees didnt find the march through macys to be disruptive. I think people need an opportunity to be heard is if you were to squash that or squelch that it could be worse. Meanwhile, supporters vowed to keep up the fight. They want the officer gone. He needs to be charged, tried and hopefully convicted. The deputy has returned to duty. Lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. This morning people have returned to their Ingleside Heights home in San Francisco. They were forced out by San Francisco police and a man with a gun hold up inside his home near Saint Charles avenue and randolph streets. Officers evacuated homes. It was a safety precaution. They say the man was threatening suicide, they say the standoff ended peacefully, just before 11 00 last night. Officers say the man surrendered and is now in police custody. Police in north bay want to question a man in connection with a deadly hitandrun. Chp investigators believe 30yearold man was driving south of santa rosa on petaluma road near hunter lane when he hit and killed a man walking on the street just after 4 00 yesterday morning. His car has been recovered. The victim has been identified as a man from santa rosa. A man who lost 18 years of his life after being wrongly convicted will receive a 3. 5 million payment from the city of San Francisco. Mr. Connelly filed a lawsuit against the city for that amount. According to the San Francisco chronicle the city agreed to pay it. He was convicted in the double murder and sentenced to two life terms, but in december of 2012, a judge found that Police Investigators knew the star witness against connelly lied on the stand about being paid, but did nothing about it. Cleanup crews will be back at union square this morning after a watermain break flooded the basements of some very highend stores. The contractor hit an 8inch watermain yesterday morning. Firefighters say at least 100,000 gallons of water spilled on to sidewalks and basements. Crews shut off power while workers pumped out the water and lugged bags upstairs. Mostly just storeroom, stock room cardboard boxes, some office furniture. Not a highdollar damage at this point. Oh, thats just awful. This is the worst. The worst, most ridiculous inconvenience to us and the clients. The construction crew that hit the watermain was work on the Union Square Station for the central subway project. The father of missing morgan hill teen sierra lamar said its hard hearing about the graphic evidence inside the transcripts. The nearly 2,000 page grand jury transcript lays out a case against antolin garciatorres. Its based on several pieces of dna and forensic he had fibers on the interior on his Volkswagen Jetta and her hair was found on a rope in the trunk. The father said he hasnt read the document. Right now im saying no. Maybe i will get to that point eventually, but i know what i need to know. A team of searchers scoured some rough terrain near morgan hill yesterday. Sierra went missing in march, 2012. Searches for her are conducted weekly. State forestry officials have arrested a man on suspicion of starting a huge Shasta County wildfire. 37yearold Freddy Alexander smoak iii was taken into custody late friday night on what is being called the bully fire. The plays began when the exhaust from smoaks truck ignited dry grass at an illegal marijuana grow site. The bully fire burned just short of 3,000 acres. Flames caused evacuation of 50 homes, but residents are now allowed back in and the fire is 10 contained. A fire in eastern Contra Costa County is fully contained. It appeared the fire started around 10 00 friday night when a car drove into a power pole, knock down several powerlines. Marsh street road between clayton and brentwood were evacuated. The fire charred 80 acres. Firefighters in san jose took defensive action to protect homes from a grass fire yesterday afternoon near winnifer drive behind the high school. Crews had it knocked down in less than an hour. No structures were damaged in that fire. San franciscos Candlestick Park has hosted its last Football Game and by any measures, they were legendary. San francisco fire against the police department. With greats like joe montana and our own sports anchor, former niner mike shumann. We show you all the action. Its the last day at the stick, man. Youve got to be here. Youve got to be here. Youve got do it. We have to see joe and jerry on the field one more time. 49er faithfuls arrived early. [cheers and applause] excited for the last day of football at Candlestick Park. We are really excited to be here to see the oldtimers, joe montana, jerry rice, dwight clark, all those guys. I dont know if they want to be called oldtimers. Oh, sorry. We are oldtimers too. Whatever you want to call jerry rice, sports anchor mike shumann, football hall of famer joe montana or the others, you have to add football legend to the title. Warriors on the field and men who fans say have had a direct hand in shaping so many of their happiest memories. We are absolute fans of those guys. And we went to the hall of fame when jerry went in. It was awesome. Once the game got started, it didnt take long for the guys, well past their official prime, to show the fans in the stands and each other they still had what it takes to put numbers on the board. We have admired them since we were little. So its great to see those heroes out on the field. Its only flag football, but dont think for one minute the stakes arent high. This group of retired players came hard and came with the desire to win. And im happy to report there were no broken bones or injuries beyond a scraped knee or two. After all, this was all for the fans. At the stick, nick smith, abc7 news. In two weeks the San Jose Earthquakes play the last game ever at the stick against madrid. Next month on august 14th Paul Mccartney closes down the stadium with a farewell concert. There will be highlights of the candlestick games, including a very dramatic finish. A sign of the times in the south bay where a freeway offramp signs for levi stadium have gone up. This sign popped up in santa clara. It is alongside highway 101. It directs drivers to levi stadium, the first game will happen next month. Good thing about levi stadium, you dont have to bring a parka like you did when you went to the stick. It will be warmer today. We are starting out cooler, especially in oakland with the low fog and clouds. Temperatures in the upper 50s. A carolina start and warmer finish. And the hottest days still to come. The forecast next. Thank you, lisa. And the story of a survival. A teenager who lived through the unthinkable. Shes the only one to survive a family masser and we will hear from her. 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Chase. So you can. This is abc7 news. Developing news in new jersey where Authorities Say a gunman lay in wait for a Police Officer to respond to a false Armed Robbery call and then killed the first officer who showed up. Authorities say the gunman never intended to rob a walgreens, but told a witness he wanted to kill a policeman so he would be famous. The 23yearold rookie officer was shot in the head while in his patrol car. Other officers who responded to the call shot and killed the gunman who was wanted for a prior homicide. The Security Guard in the store said the suspect struck him and took his gun. Police believe that gun was used to kill the officer. Now that theiheroic sole survivor of the family massacre in texas is now speaking out for the First Time Since that tragedy. We have more. Reporter at her Family Memorial Service just hours after being released from the hospital, 15yearold cassidy, accompanied by the very grandparents shes credited for saving, flashed a brave smile. Her healing just beginning. Im thankful for all of the people who have been praying for me and keeping me and my family in their thoughts. Less than one week ago the houston area teen survived the unthinkable, her entire family killed. I know that my mom, dad, brian and rebecca they are in a much better place and i will be able to see them again one day. 33yearold ron haskell faces capital murder charges, accused of killing her parents four siblings because allegedly they wouldnt tell him where to find his exgirlfriend, her aunt. Officials say cassidy only survived the attack by playing dead and is haled as a hero for quickly alerting police when he was head for her grandparents home. We are very thankful how she was able to save us. Plenty showed up in support of the family and one very strong young girl. I really like harry potter. Happiness can be found even in the darkest of time. If one only remembers to turn on the light. Cassidys stay illuminating the crowd with a powerful message on behalf of her family. Stay strong. Holding up a gesture for love. Abc news, new york. Fans will be back at the San Francisco civil center today to watch the final between germany and argentina. The city is expecting another big crowd like the one that showed up last week n the south bay theres a viewing party at st. James park in san jose. World cup final is just hours away. Germans are the favorites demolishing brazil. Brazil set another tough defeat in a game for third place against the netherlands. Abc News Reporter bob is in rio with more. The brazilians were beaten again by the dutch. And their fans watched in sadness. The most famous american athlete in brazil, lebron james, landed in rio. Last night his first real appearance since his decision to return to the cavaliers. The excitement. The excitement around futball around the world. And the argen tea fans are the argentina fans are everywhere. Today its argentina against germany. The hotels are already filled and the tickets sold out. Thousands live after the street in tents in buses. These guys drove four days from their country just to get here. What team do you expect to win the cup . U. S. [laughter] for brazil, argentina is their harshest rival so they often have trash talk, calling brazilians their children rio is calling in more police, about 26,000 today, in which so many world lead speakers celebrities attending the game. 1500 private Security Guards will be stationed in the stadium itself just in case. This morning you can see the people are already gathering here on the beach. Some of them have been up all night. You hear the helicopters. A lot of them are chanting. This is going to be a very, very big game. Abc news, rio. And you can watch the game between germany and argentina live here on abc7. Our coverage begins at 10 00 a. M. Remember you can catch it on the go on your smartphone or tablet with our app. And today is the Twelfth Annual walk for Breast Cancer. Participants set out yet on the 39mile round trip walk. Our Golden Gate Bridge hasnt seen any walkers returning into the city yet. They are raising money for the ongoing search for a cure for Breast Cancer. The closing ceremonies will take place at fort mason. Also happening today, another sunday streets is on tap in San Francisco. Between fulton and lake street will be closed in the richmond district. Without the traffic people can walk around and enjoy shops and restaurants, not having to dodge any traffic. Sunday streets in the richmond goes from 11 00 this morning to 4 00 this afternoon. Should be some nice weather as soon as the fog clears away, right . Yeah. Its beginning to scour out but it ranks from a couple hundred feet to about 1300 feet. And we are getting the mist and drizzle. In the east bay it has been sunny. We are looking at partly cloudy skies in livermore. The airport is beginning to clear out. We had some delays. Low clouds and to go once again will be right here. Its going pull away temporarily to bring sunny skies to our beaches. View from the east bay hills camera. Looking at mt. Diablo. The temperatures have been fairly cool, in the midand upper 50s. A couple of 60s as we get more sunshine into san jose. 58 gilroy and San Francisco is cool at 56 degrees. You can see things are beginning to brighten up here in the south bay. But still cloudy. Mountain view, the San Carlos Airport reporting overcast conditions, about a 1300foot ceiling there. 56 and sunshine in fairfield and livermore. Going to be sunny in concord at 64 degrees. Heres a look from our sutro camera. You see the deck of low clouds. Thats allowing for some of the mist and poor visibility. And elsewhere we are clearing out. Today a warmer day. We will see the summer spread extend into the early part of the upcoming work week. But we have some changes. We will have some cloud cover in. Its going to be a lot like last week, if you remember that. Building high from the east of us, creating that warmer air mass in our inland valleys and pressing down on the atmosphere. At the same time it will pump up some subtropical moisture. Low clouds and fog coming back into play overnight and into the Early Morning hours. But look what happens. We are looking some of the mid and highlevel clouds visiting us tomorrow. Numbers will crank up a little more into your monday afternoon. Today 82 in san jose. You head down to morgan hill, low 90s there. Peninsula numbers, it will be cool. And the 60s with the clouds. Milbrae 70 degrees. San francisco breezy and sunshine at 78. In the north bay we felt warmer air coming into play. If you are headed up to cloverdale, 93. Sonoma 87. Near east bay, a nice afternoon in oakland at 74. 76 in newark and here is where the numbers continue to climb. 93 in pittsburgh. 89 in pleasanton. And by the delta mid90s today. Heres a look at accuweather sevenday forecast. The warmup today. Either warmer tomorrow with a mix of some higher clouds. Upper 90s inland and lower 80s around the bay. Still kind. Hot inland on tuesday. And then summer spread is still with us on wednesday. The coast steady as she goes with the stratus and we will see a slight cool down the end of the week. Keep track of bay area weather on twitter livedoppler7hd. If you like the hot weather, enjoy and get out the sunscreen. Lisa, thank you so much. Coming up next, prowling the waters up the bay area coast. Why some researchers say the endangered status is no longer new this morning, a new Study Suggests that there are six times the number of great white sharks off the marin county coast than previously thought. Six times. Our media partner, the marin independent journal, reports the study covers the water off Stinson Beach and up to monterey bay and the Farallon Islands. 24

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