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KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY April 5, 2015

Rainfall in redding the last few hours. Things are going to change tomorrow as this front moves in. If you have easter plans during the morning for services or brunch, have an umbrella handy. Showers likely during the Morning Hours and its going to be pretty cool out there. Upper 50s. In the afternoon showers start to taper off. But well be on the cool side once again and in the evening mainly cloudy. Now, we actually have a stronger system heading our way monday and tuesday. Ill have rain totals for you as well as snow in the sierra coming up. Katie . Thanks francis. Wisconsin versus duke for the National College basketball championship. Lit up in both teams colors tonight. West conference surprised everyone in the upset over kentucky. Mike shu man will have highlights in reports. Group from al shabaab reportedly targeted christian students at the school. Alex markwad has the story. Reporter it was a horror that lasted 15 hours and left 148 people dead. Gunshots shattering the quiet on thursday morning jolting students at the University College out of their beds. Four gunmen from al shabaab stormed the campus. Now survivors of the massacre are revealing what it took to walk out of that school alive. This young man emerging from one building saying he covered himself in his classmates blood an played dead. I am the only man who survived from the boys. Reporter this young woman hid in a wardrobe and covered herself in clothes. I was scared. Reporter she said he heard the gunman ask her fellow students about islam. If they couldnt answer the question, they would be executed. She remained hidden for two days without food or water. I was hungry. Reporter 48 hours later the broken glass and bullet holes still visible. Police say they killed the four gunmen and arrested five other suspects. Now the kenyan government vowing to hunt down mohammed muhammad, the alleged man behind the massacre offering 200,000 bounty. But on saturday, al shabaab released a statement. Saying kenyan cities will run red with blood. President going on tv to the severest way possible and three days of national mourning. Abc news london. Friends and family gathered in the east bay to remember the first reported american victim killed in the violence in yemen. Jamal alabani the father of three and left in february to hope finally bringing his wife and daughter in the u. S. Today as jamal leaving with his nephew he was hit by mortar shelling. People are really sad because he didnt get in peoples business. He was the quiet person that always had a smile on his face. We work together. I mean, just my cousin gone. The only thing im going to pray for for. The violence response in yemen. Friends and family are outraged more isnt being done to help u. S. Citizens to leave. At least six yemeni families from the bay area are still stuck there. An ugly Holiday Weekend surprise. Dozens of tires slashed in the north bay and tonight, theres a search for the people who did it. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard went to novato first story youll only see on abc7. Reporter its the sound nobody with a car wants to hear. A tire going flat after being slashed. On fourth street, car after car has been hit by vandals. Ji zel and lisa cant believe it happened at easter. This is a family event weekend. Its the worst time to have your tires slashed. Reporter Novato Police say scandals overnight. We counted at least 40. People they need their cars for work. Its pretty sad. People are doing that. Unpredictable. Reporter matthew maderos lousy start to the weekend. Its like, one thing you got to deal with on the weekend after working hard all week. Reporter volunteers of habitat for humanity are building ten new family homes on fourth street. They say vandalism sends the wrong message. And this is not the kind of thing thats generally happened. Its a bummer for the neighbors and hopefully an isolated incident. Reporter many neighbors spend the weekend changing tires. My insurance doesnt cover those things. Reporter jose frias lost two tires. No work today. Now you got to pay for two tires here. Thats a lot of money. Yes, also my brothers car is the next. And the family will have to pay for four tires. Reporter police are looking for suspects and Surveillance Video which may have caught the vandals in action. In novato, Cornell Barnard abc7 news. New at 9 00, a fire in the Sierra Nevada 100 contained. It was in sequoia park this afternoon. Updated park showed 20 acres burned. Campers were evacuated for a time this afternoon. You may face delays in bart oakland. Thats because they will not be running between coliseum oakland station. It will shuttle riders between the station while work on what bart calls a vital project. Workers will replace trails and track ties between now and august during the weekends. Californias drought emergency has some Central Valley residents upset that water is being diverted from crop to fish. The u. S. Bureau released a large amount of water from the new milonis lake into the river to help salmon reach the pacific. Farmers in the area are happy saying that water is needed for Northern California crops. Others say if people are allowed to use water for yards water should be allowed to used for fish. I think fish have a higher priority over people watering their lawns. The water is there, i think we know its gone by tend of the summer and nothing to replenish it. If we have another drought and theres no water what happens to all of us including the fish . Theyre considering another large release of water to help the fish. A huge brawl at a racetrack caught on cell phone camera. Next on abc7 news at 9 00, what witnesses say caused tempers to flare. Also ahead big money. No results. Are you getting what your taxes are paying for at the state capital . And later, the search yikes. Chairs flew and glass shattered during a fight caught on cell phone video at a racetrack in queens, new york. Witnesses say tempers flared when people began cutting in long lines at a bar opening at the resorts world casino. Three people were arrested or ticketed on Disorderly Conduct charges and a Police Officer and at least two other people were injured. The racetrack said its enhancing security to ensure theres no repeat. Pope francis led thousands of roman catholics in an Easter Vigil Service at the vatican. In a darkened st. Peterset ersters basilica. He expressed alarm due to rising violence against christians in the middle east. Some after the earliest days of christianity. Getting paid to stay at home. Coming up on abc7 news at 9 00 the costly committee your tax money is paying for that is not producing results. Plus, rain on easter . Up next in your accuweather forecast. Were down to the final two in the ncaa tournament. Duke knocked out an Associated Press review of californias legislative record has found a state assembly hid its true operating costs from taxpayers. For example, the select committee on Community Colleges met just once during its two year existence but provided 14 personal aids to its democratic chair at a cost of 644,000. The 68 special committees set up to study wine ports and Community Development providing lawmakers with 6. 7 million worth of additional staffing. Ap reports more than half of the staff expenses went to panels that had no hearings or convened just once during the 2013 2014 legislative season. To weather now. Frances joining us in for drew. Lovely. Bringing the rain. Yes for easter and live doppler 7 hd showing the increase in clouds that will continue to do so overnight. Weve had trace amounts of rainfall in santa rosa. A few sprinkles there. But most of us will see the wet weather tomorrow morning. As we look down towards San Francisco and bay, temperatures are cooling down in San Francisco. Its currently 51 degrees. Oakland, 53. San jose, 52. And also heres a look from east bay out west towards the bay bridge and San Francisco in the background. So santa rosa is where we saw sprinkles at 52 degrees and already in the upper 40s in napa and petaluma cooling down to 48 degrees. This time we look out towards the transamerica tower. Heres what you need to know. Get ready for the showers on Easter Sunday but this is a preview because we actually have heavier rain coming in monday night through tuesday. Bringing us a slight chance of thunderstorms and small hail. So we keep you posted on that. Heres whats going on upstairs. The radar satellite image over the last 12 hours has shown this cold storm this low pressure system moving south and the cold front will move in tomorrow bringing us the first chance of showers. So tomorrow morning, sunrise at 6 49 looking pretty wet right now. All around the bay and especially for sunrise. Services in San Francisco. Still dry in the south bay. And then kind of spreads south. By noon, we could see pockets of just cloudy conditions around San Francisco. The rain starts to spread south. San jose by evening. Most of us in the clear. Well be dry. But cloudy. And then here is the storm coming back again. The second wave much stronger. So 6 00 monday night. Notice the areas of yellow. Thats the heavier steadier rain north of santa rosa. This will slide. The bunch of rainfall come overnight tuesday and into the morning. Unfortunately, showers linger day on tuesday tapering off by wednesday. Rainfall amounts pretty good actually over the next few days. You can expect anywhere from half an inch up to an inch in the north bay and along the coast around the bay. Look for half an inch to 3 4 of an inch less in the south bay, maybe up t half an inch there and also if you head up to tahoe, probably want to travel early in the morning if you can. Theres a Winter Weather advisory tomorrow 8 00 a. M. Until midnight. 48 inches of snow. Gusts up to 38 miles per hour. Delays and change controls likely on i50 and i80 and highway 50. Over the next few days this will produce quite a bit of snow up to 20 inches in donner by tuesday afternoon and 25 inches in kirkwood. Overnight lows on the cool side mainly in the 40s with low 40s in the valleys. Also, tomorrow, well be coming down a few degrees as well so we will hit the low 60s in the inland areas. 59 in san francis. 61 in san jose. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Easter showers mainly in the morning. Possibly early afternoon. And then dry until monday evening but thats when we see the heavy rain and thunderstorms continue overnight into tuesday. Drier and warmer wednesday through saturday. All right frances. Thank you. Over to schuh now. Is there a bracket buster at the end . Final four. Down to it. Kentucky and wisconsin met last year. Same two met again this year in the final four but it was the badgers advancing to the finals handing kentucky their first and only loss of the season. Wisconsin fans ready to knock off. Here they are 48 seconds into the game on the alleyoop. Frank kaminsky celebrating birthday. Went back and forth. Two minutes left. Misses it but puts it back to tie at 60. Check it out. He didnt get the shot clock expired. Couldnt review a huge break for wisconsin and a setback. Gives the team the lead for good. Wisconsin hands kentucky first los of the year. Head with a 7164 victory. Michigan state battle two coaches, and early four lead. Valentine, 3 of 22. That was dukes largest deficit in the tournament. Didnt last long. He had 18. Blue devils up 11 in the one. Matt jones high off the glass. Spartans, tom izzo. Not so much. Shot just 40 . Grayson allen misses on the one handed flush. Duke moves to the final. 8161 final. With the warriors win tonight in dallas, steve has the first rookie coach in nba history to win 68 games and advance to the playoffs. Not a bad night. Two more games for the warriors. Two of his 8. Curry with 11. Sod mire oh my. Check out that jam. Led the way with 21. Andre provided 8 points and 28 minutes. Gets around the defense for the one handed throwdown. Only 10 minutes. 18 points. How about that before the half, up 8. Meanwhile, four threes in his game. Met here. Warriors 123. First rookie head coach as i mentioned to win 63 games in a season. Hosted by the coyotes. In front of the net. Oliver larson ends up with the second goal of the night. 31 coyotes and then in the third. Mark akabella. Coyotes win 53 of the first regulation win of 20 games. Mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Its time for the regular season. Beat the as in the final preseason matchup at the coliseum. Afterwards the as place pitcher sean dewlittle and the 15 day diel and add to the minor league camp. Got the start. Pitch 5 innings strike out one. Swing and a miss. Able to get two runs off the ace. In the fourth justin maxwell. Line drives the left to lowry. He scored. Won five innings on five hits. In the six, made his return to the coliseum in an as uniform. Didnt allow a hit. Struck out jackson williams. He was reassigned to nashville in the minors. Also pitched one inning of relief struckout two as including eric in the second. Take the preseason finale. 21 the final afterwards. Talked about his future in the minors. I was going to take a year off, i was going to come back. So, you know ive been having a lot of fun with spring. I want to keep doing that. Not to come back here and go all in and sit at home. So, you know, go to a ballpark in nashville and good music town. Wife and kids. Cant complain with the results. Nice little to go into the season. Abc7 news will be live at the coliseum in oakland for as home opener against the rangers on monday and see how youre celebrating the green and gold where you live. You can share your fan photos with us. Post them to social media with the hashtag where you live. Abc7. A lot of people pulling for kentucky to win. That doesnt work though. Thanks, schuh. Easter comes early. Next on abc7 news at 9 00, its no ordinary egg bathroom fixture helping a california woman save ten gallons of water a day. And one of californias s smallest but most loved stages for amateur crooners turning off the mike after this weekend. Thats tonight on abc7 news at 11 00. The easter bunny came hopping into oakland today early to join the Community Enrichment organization ninth annual easter egg hunt. Dozens of families came to Brookdale Park to celebrate the Holiday Weekend and search for eggs. Different groups and in each, a special golden egg for even more prizes. Our son was able to find a golden egg. It was exciting. He got this basket when he turned in the golden egg and its just a fun time. It was fun. I would just like a free event to see the families come out for this easter weekend. The city of oakland promises a bigger and better easter than next year. I was home with my parents this week guaranteed theyd hide eggs from me. Tradition. Thanks lowes presents how to use the greek gods to update your deck. Wow, i cant believe you did this deck yourself. Well me, lowes and zeus and apollo. Now get the porter cable 20volt max combo kit for 149 at lowes. Warningplease do not attempt any of the activities presented in this show. They are dangerous and could cause serious injury. Or you could just do that. [screams] [yells] do it. Ooh. What went down. Today on what went down, professional car jumping. Professional dad diving. [screams] professional guy doing. Plus, dude perfects perfect archery. And later, a game of would you

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