Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20160326 : vima

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20160326

Disturbance several times. Child initially taken to john muir hospital but then short time later wheeled out on stretcher and transported to Childrens Hospital oakland. Police tell us its a good sipe he did not need to be airlifted. Melanie is in concord and we have a live report coming up on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7 and of course breaking news update follow us on twitter at this web site. Only on abc 7 news man from marin county pleaded not guilty today to a federal stolen valor charge almost a year after the 7 news ayatollah iteam first exposed. Hes accused of raising thousands of dollars by preten pretending to be a war hero. Dan is at work with the developments today. Charging document say greg allen raised 23,000 dollars by posing as a marine veteran using fake metal with two various valor. He entered a not guilty plea. What does it mean. Are you saying he didnt do it. Not guilty plea is denial that there has been a violation of the offense. Not guilty plea can always be withdrawn and guilty plea can be entered after reviewing the evidence. I first uncovered the evidence last may. Allen claimed he was a vet run of the vietnam war. Recon marine drill instructor and sniper. He c you had that persona to run the house of steel in san rafael that attracted young men who want to join the marine. Are you prosecute end to are you prosecute end to the young men who you lied to on. On my advice my client is may going no statements at this time. Allen had a lieutenant to say when i first approached him last year insisting he was a marine. Im done talking with you. Back up. Back up. You know what, you are done here. Hit piece on this place and on me and on me. I think its. Are you going to admit. Im not going to admit anything to you because its not true. Reporter he didnt note at the time i had already pulled his records. Show just eight months in the navy before Honorable Discharge for bum neechlt i spoke with the fbi special agent who oversaw his stolen valor investigation. This case is important to the fbi for couple reasons. People were defrauded out of the money but secondly mr. Allen action cheapen the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. Reporter several veterans were in court today to see allen finally face the federal charge. Misdemeanor that carries a maximum year in prison and 10 100,000 dollar fine. So flagrant. Just seeing him marching around like a peacock up there. Reporter vietnam veteran Gary Williams tells me he watched allen at several parade in marin with the phoney uniform and medal. I know a lot of people earn a lot of awards and paid a heavy price for them and this guy is just a fraud. Allen set to be back in court in may. Ill keep track of what happens and get back to you. If you have a tip for my next investigation call this number on the screen. For the iteam dan abc 7 news. Reach out dan be glad to hear from you. Santa clara Police Officer is under arrest accused of running a stolen car chop shop. This is a photo of tyson green from the Department Facebook page. 14 year veteran accused of possessing and trying to sell sports car engines an other parts on craigslist while off due. Hes charged with possessing 4 chevy camaro engines and various auto parts receiving stolen property and operating a chop shop for open tlaition take apart stolen vehicle as you probably know and selling the component part. Special multiagency Auto Theft Task force began investigating him when potential customer got suspicious then engine was stolen. Green stortd engine and other parts in a garage in san jose. Investigators say they came from vehicle stolen all over the bay area over the past two years. Santa clara police chief says grown has been placed on paid administrative leave. District Attorney Office says officer tyson green could be facing more than 5 years in prison if convicted open all charges. We have new development in the fatal stabbing of british tourist last month in San Francisco. Police released this security video of the attack today. It shows 44yearold paul tamat street. Thats where tam was stabbed in the head. Machine and woman took off with the bag and wallet. Tam died yesterday t. Critical condition since the attack. San francisco Police Officer association is now offering a pq burglar broke into a San Francisco sheriffs deputy home this morning making off with a gunc and star. Happened on blanket avenue in the visitation valley neighborhood. Burglar took two magazine clip, bullet proof vest radio and deputy duty beltbu. Ywtdei gun ammunition were secured in a lock box of the entire box was stolen. Another star belonging to San Francisco Police Officer was also taken. Gilroy man who posed as baseball and bowling coach has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting children. The Victims Police say are members of his extended family. 7 News Reporter vic lee has the story. Reporter 46yearold garcia. He lived near this apartment with his wife and 6yearold son. Went to church every sunday. Reporter Homeowner Association president was shocked. Horrible. Horrific. He has his own child thats a young one. Just horrific. Investigation began with one victim coming forward and afterward of the investigation spread the additional victims came forward and now totalling 4. Reporter Police Say Two of garcia victims were molested 15 years ago. Garcia ran an embroidery business. Store was locked up. It looked like he had left in a hurry. His neighbor owns an auto repair shop. Winn had no idea. Hes a nice guy. He is friendly. We talk to each other and i see hes a nice guy. Reporter police say all 4 known victims were chernoff garcia sentenced family. Investigators say he spent time as private athletic coach to kid. Hes coached pitching for baseball. Bowling. And involved in some other activities and its through the investigation we determined that thats how access to the known victims occurred. Mr. Essay garcia helped Coach Little League and participated with the son and boy scouts. They learned about the investigation in december. They said we revoked his right to participate. Refuned his money. And reported the suspected behavior to the gilroy police. Garcia was arraigned today on multiple counts of sexually assault ago child. Vic lee, 7 news. Sexually violent predator moved out of the concord mole he was staying in this morning. Concerned citizens now have no idea where he is. Robert bates is out on Conditional Release Program following conviction for multiple six crimes against children. Er thomas has the details. Hes not going to be welcome anywhere. That concord parent is talking about this man. Convicted sex offender robert bates. Police describe him as violent sexual predator who preys on children. Sources tell abc 7 in us that he stay entered this room at the valley motel in concord until late last night or early this morning. Concord police are keeping an eye on him. They are not happy hes here and neither are residents. I have spoken with many citizen who call our front desk today and who voice their kivrnlts among the concern this couple who stayed at the cell motel not knowing that bates was the neighbor. They dont want the faces shown. Make me mad that they continually let him out. They try to say they have the right to go t. Get a job. But the people life they ruine ruined. Children. Messed up. Some local folk trying to do something about itment concord woman calling herseaa]ezz michee w started this on line petition drive to persuade Law Enforcement to move bates somewhere else and shes getting some support. She posted to the site quote we do not want this person in our community or around our children. He needs to stay in prison. Jamie strickland wrote quote i live in North Concord with my family. This man is too close to the place we freak we know and way too close to my home. He needs to go. This parent couldnt agree mor more. She want her identity conceale concealed. Young girls and young kids that walk through the schools. Within a mile of three schools. Concord police say the monitoring bates whereabouts closely. They say he wears an electronic ankle bracelet and chaperone 24 hours a day. But they say thats not enough. Working with the City Attorney to see if theory located somewhere else other than concord. This. Reporter abc 7 news. Well there are finally crab boats loaded and ready to go in San Francisco fisherman wharf. After a month long delay because of a neurotoxin in the crab. Danger appears to have passed now. 7 News Reporter wayne checked out fisherman khavsh today where the crab pots are moving again for the first time in a long time. It is a tale of 2 fishermen wharf. Happy go lucky land for tourist while few yards away we have seen a crab season in ruin. We want to go to work. We havent worked for 5 months. 4 months however long it has been. We need to go to work. Larry and crab Boat Owner Association group of businessmen who make the living on the bubble since California Closed the crime season. Blame this toxin that got into the crab. Even today researchers like dr dr. William cock license dont know all the contributing factors nor do they have the funding to find oychlt we are guessing. We are doing good. Speculative guessing but very few parameter were measured. The only thing measured was temperature. The timing could not have been worse for this fleet even more so for robert and brad from bodega bay. Former deck hand always dreamed of owning their own boat. This seemed like a good year to buy one until it became the worst. Boat payment coming fanned we dont fish this season we are screwed. Formats the establishment of price and the guys still wonder why with standard changing from state to state that didnt happen here months ago. Im 100 percent crab are safe but the scientist they were safe to eat months ago. Reporter at least on this good friday the fishermen of San Francisco wharf finally have hope. In San Francisco, abc 7 news. Hope you got outside. This is a great week tube out doors. Lets go from the Golden Gate Bridge camera as people are heading in and out of the city but easter weekend. Egg hunt and the rest. Sandhya is here with the forecast. Yes. We wouldnt want the easter egg or the bonnet to get wet this coming wean. Let me show you live doppler 7hd and you will see that it is clear other than a little bit of fog that is forming in Half Moon Bay. Heres a look at the all important easter forecast. Planner for you. In the morning expect fog low clouds. Mid 40s to low 50s. In the afternoon its partly cloudy breezy cooler day low 60s to low 70s and we are expecting the cooling to continue into the evening hour hours. Temperatures will be in the low 50s to the upper 50s. Thats the easter. I let you no what he saturday that is tomorrow looking like and the rest of the accuweather 7 day forecast coming right up. Bad weekend for delay big weekend for bart. How they transfer fans to the warriors game and church on sunday. Mission from bay area company. What los gatos base netflix say to customers who complained about the quality of the video. Waiting more than 50 years and finally getting some satisfaction. Rolling stones special concert tonight. Stay with us. 7 news i dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Or wonder whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients whove had no prior treatment. Its the one and only cure thats one pill, once a day for 12 weeks. Certain patients. Can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. With harvoni, theres no interferon and there are no complex regimens. Tell your doctor if you have other liver or kidney problems, hiv, or other medical conditions, and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni may cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni may include tiredness, headache and weakness. I am ready to put hep c behind me. I am ready to be cured. Are you ready . Ask your hep c specialist if harvoni is right for you. This is the last thick bart riders want to hear. There will be another disruption to bart service this weekend. Not along the troubled pit burg bay point line. This time along the fremont line and it has been planned for a long time. 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony has the story. Despite ongoing problems on another part of the system bart plans to go ahead with scheduled maintenance and another Major Service disruption. It involves replacing 2000 feet of rail and 950 ties on the fremont line. Track work is never a convenient time. Disruption to the passengers and not ever convenient but bart must replace 8 mile of track every career to keep our system safe and reliable. That means line between the bay fair station and san leandro shut down starting at 8 00 a. M. Saturday morning. Reopening by 4 a. M. Monday. Free bus bridge set up to accommodate riders during that period. But there will be delays. Of up to an hour. Does that affect you. Absolutely. My family my family is all over the bay area. My Grandma House is in berkele berkeley. Its going to be very difficult to get around. Take part everywhere. We are in the city to see friends. Basically i take it everywhere. Cathedral light in downtown oakland is warning its parishioners who might be relying on bart to get to sunday easter services. So are the warriors. Who have a home game set for sun at 5 00 at oracle arena. So the buses will be the way to go starting at 8 00 oclock tomorrow morning. The closure willow occur about every other weekend until mid june. The exact schedule on our web site abc 7 news. Com. In san leandro 7 news. Light rail riders also facing delay. No Train Service between the civic center and st. James light rail station through sunday. Workers repairing track along north first street near the clayton avenue intersection. Construction is happening round the clock and right now express trains that operate during weekday commute hours not running. San Francisco Mayor ed lee today banned virtually all publicly funded travel to North Carolina. Its all in protest of new law there that opponent say discriminates against lgbt citizens. In a statement the mayor says quote we are standing united as San Francisco to condemn North Carolina new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all americans. The law essentially targets provision allowing transgender femur use bathroom that aline with their identity. Apple google and facebook among the High Tech Companies in the bay area speaking out against the North Carolina decision. Apple operates Major Data Center in North Carolina. Issued a statement saying we need to focus on inclusion and prosperity not discrimination and division. Supervisor scott weiner added his voice to the chorus of condemnation. Take the entire Lgbt Community and turns us into second class citizens by saying the law can not protect you. That you are outside the law. Tech workers we spoke with believe its important for High Profile Company to speak out for equality. But they also recognize North Carolina may not be as progressive as california. Today governor jerry brown issued 59 pardon to criminals in california. Pardon only granted to former convict who show major changes in the lives since conviction. Brown pardoned more than 700 people since he took office in 2011. Netflix admits it has been streaming low quality video to members mobile device maybe you notice this. Netflix says the research showed people were more concerned about going over the data limit than the quality of the video. Well, starting in may users have an option to choose what quality they wish to watch. All right well we want high quality weekend for the holida holiday. You ask and i deliver. All right. How wonderful is that . All right keep it dry so no rain to dampen the Easter Egg Hunt then we change things up a little bit. Show you live doppler 7hd the changes in the form of cooler weather for the Easter Sunday by right now no indications of any rain on our radar here as we look at the temperatures they are in the 50s and 60s. The breeze kept some of the numbers up. Still pretty mild in Santa Rosa Brentwood concord heres a live look from the sutro tower cam are and San Francisco is looking beautiful tonight. Mostly clear overnight tonight. Mild tomorrow. Cooler on easter and the cooling trend continues on monday so take a look at the temperature trend here for a livermore and you will see what im referring to. Up and down so average high around this time of year is in the mid 60s. Expecting the temperatures to remain above normal upcoming weekend but then it will cool down monday dropping below average tuesday close to it before we see a slow recovery in those temperatures. First thing tomorrow morning if you do have early plans do expect mainly clear conditions. Few patches of fog not out of the question along the coast line. Upper 40s to low 50s then as we head towards the afternoon houvs hours its another mild day. A lot like to

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