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KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY October 28, 2015

Doppler 7hd. Lets take a look at what we are picking up. There are reports of very light showers from Mountain View to san jose and i take you in a little closer in the north bay we see sprinkle trace amounts around santa rosa, ukiah right now between rohnert park, petaluma, no have the 0few sprinkle reported as i take you down to the peninsula and south bay i am getting reports on twitter of few sprinkle at cupertino and a little more than sprinkles what one person said around the campbell year. So some very light returns. All of this moisture is not actually hitting the ground. Some evaporating before it reach the ground. Late tonight through thursday afternoon we have a beach hz arrested statement going up. Storm system is kicking up the waves. So watch out for the large breakers along the entire coast line. We have already seen flooding in mill valley. Higher than normal tide will continue the next three days just over 6 feet especially around the lunch time hour and shortly after so low lying flooding certainly a possibility. We are just getting started. This is ahead of the storm system t. These sprinkle and light showers that we are seeing. Let you know what is in store for the morning coming up. Thanks. So the morning news time will track the wet weather tomorrow. Mike and traffic reporter will update you on the rain and how its affecting the morning commute. All begins tomorrow morning at 4 30 am. Now keep in mind if you see rain where you live take a photo or video even and share it with us using the hashtag abc 7 now. Well use it on the air or on our web site. Well another bunch of small earthquakes rattleded the trivalley this evening. Maybe you felt them. Pair of 2. 7 quake hit within minute of each other just after 8 00 p. M. Near san ramone. Earlier today at least 3 minor quakes struck within minutes of each other just after 5 00 oclock. At the time biggest measured 3. 2 t. Now this region has experienced hundreds of small quakes in the last if you week. Nearly 400 according to the u. S. Geological survive. Experts say this does not mean necessarily any bigger quake is coming. Just a swarm of quake. Well tonight we hear from First Responders as they arrived on the scene of fatal Domestic Violence incident in fairfield over the weekend. Listen now as they describe a very confusing situation. The. Theres a lot of blood on the ground. Very unusual scene not sure what is going on yet. Teshtion 45yearold man that officers encountered would later die from stab wunth. It was his 10yearold stepson who is accused of killing him. Trying to protect his mother. Now this incident happened sunday morning near overture lane and duet drive. The lee ann is in fairfield. Reporter people in this affluent fairfield neighborhood recall hearing the argument between tim and his wife. Thats why no one was surprised when Police Showed up sunday Early Morning at their house. They were alarmed though to find out 45yearold aldridge had been stabbed by his 10yearold stepson. Definitely a sad situation all the way around. Unfortunately the children who are witnessing Domestic Violence sounds like he was truly afraid for his, hads mom safety at that time. Reporter police decided they would not detain the 10yearold and its likely he will never be charged. His stepfather had a history of Domestic Violence. In december 2013 aldridge was arrested on charges of corporal injury to spouse. Then again in october 2014 for battery against his wife. In both cases the charges were eventually dropped citing insufficient evidence. Not surprising says tony of safe quest slan 0. We know that intervention and services can help but the victim also has to be ready and they have to be educated and know what resources are available. Reporter the Family Violence unit says 20 percent of the Domestic Violence cases reported to Fairfield Police have a child in the home under the age of 12. Whole family suffers. They are all victims. Thats one of the reasons why most of our programs are dedicated to prevention and education. Reporter family may have been under a lot of pressure. Court documents also show that in february the couple filed for bankruptcy. In fairfield, lee ann, abc 7 news. Tom we have new details on the human skull that was found two weeks ago in the hills around los gatos. Today Santa Clara County sheriffs investigators returned to the scene searching for more clue. Volunteers joined the search in the heavily wooded area. Police still not determined whether skull belongs to a man or a woman. Until marin couldnt crew resume their search for one of 3 missing boaters last seen in to mall east bay. Early today the we were over the fishing boat that capsized. There you see it. National Park Service Officials say 3 men were in the boat yesterday morning when distress call went out. They were in the water in trouble. One man died. Hes been identified as him if this man from roseville. Another survived with nonlife threatening injuries. The residents of South San Francisco will go to the polls aweek from today to consider raising the sales tax to 9. 5 percent. City council wrote the language for measure w but there is some real push back from concerned voters. Heres david. Reporter tacking on an extra half crept to then percent sales tax generate 7 Million Dollars. Fund variety of improvements from street repairs to possible replacement for the Police Department headquarters. Which might not survive a major earth quake. That revenue colonels allow south city to issue bonds however opponent measure w worry about the city over 30th year life of the tax. Too long. Too much. And if 5 years well have a new time at city hall. New time in the council. New administration. That we really dont know where this money will be spent. Reporter sentence Oversight Committee has written no measure w to review spending. If it was the clearly appropriated to the right whatever they are going to use it for and there was accountability for that i think it would i could trust them. Reporter vice mayor says resident wont be bearing the tax hike alone. So will visitors who live elsewhere. 50 of the total come from South San Francisco resident. People who visit ourton town and spend money and business to Business Sales tax a significant amount in South San Francisco will complete that 7 Million Dollars a year. Reporter that doesnt sit well with mike witch. You think sense you work here but dont live here do you think you should be helping to pay for city improvements. No. We shouldnt. We dont live here. Reporter city argues nonrest didnt Employee Benefit from Police Fire Services and should help to pay for them n. South San Francisco, abc 7 news. The Northern California Police Department wants to arm officers with a martial arts weapon to help take down suspects. Anderson Police Department in shasta couldnt soon have the option of nuing nunchuka. They are good tool that limit injuries to officers and the people that they detai detain. Police chief calls them more compassionate of option. Officers must pass a 16 hour training program. Bruce lee used them to take down bad guys in his movies. You have perhaps seen them. Moving on. Many shoppers tonight are praising r eachism sdition to shut down all stores on black friday. The day after thanksgiving. Thats bucking the trend so many stores these days open but some are wondering if rei decision could become con team us and prompt other retail investigators dot same they think. Chris has more. Reporter reaction following rei black friday nounlts encouraging. I think item great they tell their employee to stay home an not a part of the whole black friday craziness. Reporter company surprised 12,000 employees telling them they would be paid to take the day after thanksgiving off. We thought about what do we wanted them to be in the place they cared most about. Reporter many other retailers wont be able to give up black friday as easily. Industry watchers say big retailers that sell toys clothes and electronic depend on sales generated during the day. Some shoppers here are bum they miss out. People get used to it. Traditional y. They want to shut at the time doors . I dont think its fair. Reporter one of the biggest locally owned competitor is a sports basement. The he says they will be ready. We are on the cups of el nino winter. Tons of ski and snowboard and gear for the out doors and nebraska looking for that stuff well be open. Well be here to take care of them. Reporter while rei lose out sales in the day Marketing Experts believe they gain much more in goodwill from the the employees and customers. Everybody is doing black friday. They are not s. It them apart i think a positive for them in the long run. People shop on saturday emove comes as black friday sales have been dwindling across the country. National Retail Federation says fewer people shop over thanksgiving weekend last year due to early discounts and more on line shopping. Chris winn abc 7 news. Golden state warriors 7 the nba Championship Ring tonight. Ceremony took place just before tonight regular Season Opener at oracle arena against the new orleans pelican. Afterwards championship banner unveiled. Big excitement there coming off last year victory. Warriors try to followup with another title and all starts tonight. F sports director larry has more on that coming up a little later in sports. Hes been at oracle arena all day and evening. Now, you too can show off your warriors pride. We want to see it. Easy to share your fan photo and your video with us. Just tag them with dub on 7 when you post the picture on social media help us feature them on the air. Stay with us more to bring you here on busy tuesday night. At the last remaining gun store in San Francisco wants to shut down because of my legislation, im all for it. San francisco new crack down on guns. Vote taken today that put buyers in the camera cross hairs. You would think it would be easy to win support for traffic pedestrians safety em proochl in the bay year. But pet find out why one such plan is under fire in San Francisco. And few rain drops are falling around the bay. You are looking live at the east bay hills. 7 news meteorologist sandhya has more on what to expect tomorrow. On what to expect tomorrow. Stay with us. 7 ne San Francisco board of supervisors has unanimously passed a new gun control measure and the believe that it would pass is one reason the city only remaining gun stories closing. Carolyn has the stor story. Reporter few accessory and even fire firearms are all that is left at high bridge avrments the one and only gun store in San Francisco is closing. After more than 6 decades. Bad guy can still get their theirs. Now harder for law abiding sentence to protect them and their family in the stishtion the general manager says a variety of reasons for closing including the owner decision to retire. But in his words the straw that broke the camelback was when they got word of the legislation proposed by San Francisco supervisor mark farrell. First mandate the videotaping of all gun sales here in San Francisco. Second of all mandates the electronic transmission of ammunition sales data directly to our Police Department. Reporter the legislation passed unanimously at city hal hall. I think they need to address more along the lines of the illegal activity being done in the street. To dress violence in general not just with guns. Reporter supervisor farrell says other city already have law with similar requirements for firearms and ammunition sales. Even though this is San Franciscos only store and now going out of business, farrell says the new law will be in place should anyone else try to set up shop. Do i believe the city of San Francisco safer because of it and better off for it. Hundreds of the tshirts sold northwest the end of aner a. Last gun store closes at the end of the week. In San Francisco, Carolyn Tyler abc 7 news. The head of San Francisco arrest so that task force has been removed from his post after publicly complaining about under staffing in the department. Kqed reports that captain john the domain voiced complaints repeatedly. Also said he was overwhelmed by hundreds of incomplete investigations. Fire Department Confirms that testifies reassigned the but declined to comment on why the change was made fechlts told to stop asking about additional staffing he was told. Some San Francisco residents and Business Owners are angry about proposed changes to muni bus liens along this street. It will improvement traffic pedestrians safety but the plan is bad for local businesses say neighbors. Melanie has more. Reporter busy lombard street lined with hotel and business leak this body rock. He had to notify several people with the city to open his Fitness Studio but feels the city has not returned the favo favor. Tell they propose changes to muni lines on lombard street. Changes some Business Owners and rest didnt say they are just now finding out about. Proposal to make it safer for people walking. Reporter part of the safety project include transit bulb and pick up passengers without pulling in and out of traffic. Pedestrians bulb like this one at market and 14th would also be added along lombard. Project would eliminate 47 parking stops. Bus stop would be located and jake says thats the least of his concern. 3 mainly concerns are traffic flow. Parking. And then the look of communication by the s fm ta. Reporter the spokesperson there says the agency sent out emails went to door and posted fliers. No. And no. Reporter body rock client told him about the project. Its now one of several people involved in a Grass Roots Campaign opposed to it. Look at this plan as being a solution for the s fm ta. But not a global solution. We know there are concerns with the project. Thats why we are having so many meetings. Reporter town hall meeting scheduled november 17. Public hearing december 4th and the s fm ta will vote on the proposal in january. In San Francisco, abc 7 news. Lvrment there is rain and raining in parts of the bay area and sandhya is here with the forecast. Nice to see. Reporter absolutely great to see. Even if very little. Enough to water the gardens. Show you this and well talk about what is going on right now. So really it has been trace amounts in the places where the rain has fallen around ukiah, santa rosa, Mountain View, san jose. Right now i take you in from san Mateo Redwood city palo alto we get reports of very light returns street level radar middle field road taking you down to wave street in palo alto and you can see the returns. Now to the north we see few sprinkles but nobody has been measuring so far as far as that is concerned well be seeing some changes as we head towards the morning commute. Highest elevation of the sierra we are watching light snow and thats all we are expecting between 8 to 9 fooe thousand feet going into tomorrow. So right now you notice in the central sierra a little bit of snow showing up. Bit of a breeze from the kgo roof cam are we look along the embarcadero right now ahead of the system. Low mid 60s san a oakland. San jose 63 half moon bay. Exploratorium camera. Visibility is goodc for the financial;b district. Mildg conditions if you step outsidefo tropicalou moisture and south2  nd thats why itri isr so mild sutro tower cam are San Francisco looking good. Light showers st or sprinklemz tonight. Spotty showers tomorrow morning and its dry and mild for halloween. Satellite radar showing you all that moisture that has been uju aqahaomorrow morning but though7n theres a lot of cloud tonight look[z for the clouds. I k showers at 5 00 a. M. Clover dale3. Watch what hamas. ÷ nortt wet and that shower activity difficult men he shall and spreadc across the central6 bay 10 or 11se okay in the morning. Noon time maybec just a few spotty showersbg to the east bay an ch or nothing measurable j but we look atqj just over tenth ofx an inch in the north bayh; though may not bef÷ wet exactly where0 you are. Showers will be good idea toxl just factor in a littlep more time for the morning commute. Afternoon high mid 60s to the mid 70s. See a mix of sun clouds and look at the accuweather 7 day forecast after the spotty showers going sunny windy for your thuvrments milder conditions and warming trend carry over into friday. Mild fall weather for saturday which is halloween. Chance of rain again. Sunday into monday. Dont forget we gain that extra hour of sleep sunday at 2 00 a. M. I know you are waiting for that. Jet lag will actually move our clock back 1 hour. Okay. Sunday at 2 00 a. M. All right sandhya thanks very much. Still to come on 7 news at 9 00. Moment trapped in time. Post office turns earthquake time capsule. 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