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KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY March 3, 2017

Donald trumps Election Campaign after questions about his contact with the russians. There are new calls now from California Democrats for sessions to step down because he did not disclose that he had met twice with the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. During the campaign. Tonight, President Trump tweeted Jeff Sessions is an honest man, he did not say anything wrong, he could have stated his response more accurately but it was clearly not intentional. Abc News Reporter e lolona zack in washington. Reporter the latest revelation, the president s own soninlaw, jared kusnyer met with the russian official at trump tower in december. Meanwhi meanwhile. I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. Reporter nonetheless, attorney general Jeff Sessions denies he did anything wrong. I never had meetings with russian operatives or russian entintermediaries about the tru campaign. Reporter but he did meet with the Russian Ambassador twice. Session says his meetings were appropriate as a senator. Democrats calling for his resignation say thats not the issue. There is something very inappropriate to dra malt tickly mislead congress. Im not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. And im unable to comment on it. Reporter President Trump said he did not know about the meeting but is standing by sessions. Mr. President , do you still have confidence in the attorney general . Total. Reporter but democrats protesting outside of the Justice Department are demanding his full resignation as attorney general. They are also asking the fbi to open a criminal investigation. Abc news, washington. Well, there was strong reaction today from california politicians on the latest sessions revelations. Abc 7 news anchor kristen zee. The attorney general is saying that, democrats arent buying it. Nancy pelosi tweets we are far past recusal. Jeff sessions lied under oath. Anything less than resignation or removal from office is unacceptable. Ted lou is calling for two special prosecutors, one for the russian connection and the other to investigate sessions for perjury during his confirmation. You dont really forget about a meeting with the Russian Ambassador and then now has he not clarified, hes changed his story. The fact of the matter is, he did not tell the truth under oath before the Judiciary Committee of the United States senate. Most republicans are quiet but southern cifornia congressman darrell isa tweets news overnight affirm what is ive been saying. We need an independent review and Jeff Sessions should recuse himself. Harris is launching an online petition asking people to join her in calling for Jeff Sessions resignation. A top administrator at a south bay center for homeless teens is arrested for possessing child pornography. Police detained 63yearold David Bruce Lang at his home this morning. In the 70s he volunteered with the boy scout troop. He served as the chief Financial Officer n. A statement the agency says lang has been suspended by bill wilsons center. The center is cooperating with authorities. Arrests have been made in an over night shooting that targeted an Oakland Police officer who is driving on 880. No one was hurt. Its not just police who are the targets. This is happened to dozens of drivers on several different freeways in the east bay. Abc 7 Leslie Brinkley is showing us what is being done to reassure drivers. There are three arrests, two associated with this particular shooting, one unrelated. Im very grateful that our officer is okay. At 11 40 wednesday night an off duty Oakland Police officer was fired at on 880 and 16th avenue. His car was struck but he was not injured. Police tried to make a traffic stop, but the suspect vehicle escaped into an east oakland neighborhood. Here are the tire tracks from where the car was abandoned in this yard. It was just last saturday night that a 28yearold man was gunned down and killed on highway 4 in antioch. Last year there were dozens of freeway shootings throughout the east bay. Chp is investigating at least nine more incidents in 2017. Its difficult for you town vest gate these freeway shootin shootings. Very difficult, yes, because of the size and scope and cars that are out there, the fact that everything is in play as far as cars are moving. Reporter San Pablo Police just activated three new freeway cameras on 880 as a supplement. We had two shootings on the freeway and there was a lack of witnesses and a lack of witnesses able to recall accurately what had happened. Reporter pittsburgh also put up 14 freeway cameras to catch crime in progress. The d. A. s office hopes to add a vast network of cameras along 880 and highway 4. A hot bed of gang violence. The cameras would be triggered by shot spotters to turn in the direction of gunfire. Im Leslie Brinkley, abc 7 news. The funeral for sheriffs Deputy Michael follow foley is scheduled for tomorrow. The 60yearold foley, a 37year Law Enforcement veteran was hit by a prison bus driven by another deputy in the parking lot behind the jail. The driver says he never saw foley in the morning darkness. Michael foleys funeral is scheduled for 11 00 tomorrow morning at the concord pavilion. Nor solomon will stay in jail. This after a judge in florida agreed with the prosecution request to keep solomon in custody. Shell stay there while the judge decides if she should remain in custody until her trial. The nightclub shooting left 49 people dead. Yesterday a judge in oakland said it was debatable whether the government has enough evidence to convict her. A legal battle that began years ago over the publics right to see the private emails and texts of government officials is over and the public won. The dispute was over personal emails and texts that eventually led to the development of san padro square market. San jose refused to release messages sent out prom the personal devices of Public Officials includes those to a former mayor that received city money. Today the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled the public has the right to see any and all such messages. Vice president mike pence used a private email account while governor of indiana. The star reports the account was hacked last summer. Pence used his aol account to discuss sensitive issues. Pence and republicans criticized, of course, Hillary Clinton during the president ial campaign for using private email and a private server herself. Pences Spokesman Says tonight any comparisons are absurd and spence didnt deal with federally classified information. Today amazon is explaining who led to the big internet outage earlier this week. It turned out to be something small. While debugging an issue, a worker hit the wrong key. Unatel of the inputs was put incorre incorrectly. Amazons cloud base and web services went down on the east coast for more than four hours. The system hosts more than half a million websites including netflix, and spot fie. When it goes down or experiences problems, it causes major issues down stream. Well, now to the rescue in San Francisco bay. Two Good Samaritans just out enjoying a Sunny Afternoon saw a man jump in the water and start struggling. So thats when they intervened. Abc 7 News Reporter lisa has that story. Go back where you come from. Reporter this is cell phone video taken moments after a man jumped into the bay. The two others with him both in tshirts are strangers. Passers by who admit at first they werent sure what to think. Hes paddling, trying to keep his weight up and then his energy gave out and that was when it was time to make some moves. Reporter john is a former lifeguard. While jeremy was zimsimply a gu having lunch. He saw the man in the water for a few minutes. He started calling for his dad, and started going underneath and the water going into his mouth and he looked like he would go under and not come up. Reporter once the two got to the man, they say he seemed to relax a bit and let them help him. Restaurant staff put a ladder in the water and the victim managed to climb to safety. Medics rushed him to the hospital where hes recovering. Well, its a beautiful night in the bay area as we take a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge. So many tourists come here every day but there is a problem. Yeah, the acquisitions of price gouging against a rental car company and the question we discover that could save visitors big bucks. Plus, the state employee was paid with your tax money to watch youtube videos and play games. The surprising response from his bosses, also. Im Wayne Friedman where there are reports of wild geese chasing people. 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No. Reporter she said because canada geese enjoy endangered species status the city can only take limited measures to leave. At might provoke one. Geese are in the period getting ready to breed. Reporter he is clearly not their type, in fact, he wont go near one now. Could you give me a description of the geese . Well, yeah, they look just like any geese you would see, you know, about yay high, long neck, full body, grayest brownish whitish, you know. Reporter call it a cautionary tale of man and nature facetoface in a suburban park. Clearly, rules change during mating season. This is a serious matter. They are dangerous and a threat to children and parents should be concerned. Well, uber is changing the tune following state rules involving selfdriving cars. Uber will apply for a state permit to test itself driving cars on public roads. The decision comes weeks after the dmv shut down ubers program because it didnt have the proper permits. The company would not say when the cars might return to San Francisco in selfdriving mode. Without fast track it cost 750 to cross the Golden Gate Bridge 7. 50 to cross the Golden Gate Bridge but some drivers in hertz rental cars paid much more than that. The San Francisco attorney is suing hertz over fees he says cost unsuspecting tourists millions of dollars over the last few years. Melanie woodro has the story. Reporter john and christine began their journey here at sfo with brighter destinations in mind. They keep calling it the golden state bridge but the golden state bridge. Reporter Matthew Goldberg says what rental Car Company Hertz corporation is doing to unsuspecting tourists is no matter. Were targeting their fraud and deceptive toll service, plate pass which believe is defrauding consumers of millions of dollars in fees over the past now years. Reporter play pass is activated for any hertz rental car customer driving over the Golden Gate Bridge who doesnt bay the bridge toll on their own within 48 hours of crossing the bridge. They charge the consumers for every day of the rental, even if they only cross one bridge on one day. I did not know that. Reporter john and christine walked up to the counter armed with new information and walked away with a pamphlet describing options. Its kind of all fine print. Reporter including service fees can run 25. I said if i didnt ask you how would i have known . He said you wouldnt have. Reporter the hertz employee told abc 7 news customers that dont ask up front will find the pamphlet inside their rental car and he explains to them theless expensive option is paying on their own. I always try to help my customers. In our experience and based on our investigation, people are not getting the proper notice. Who will read these things . Its just annoying. Reporter as would be the credit card bill to boston. Brimming with fees delivered after their vacation is over. In San Francisco, melanie woodro, abc 7 news. A state eloyee was paid 22,000 to play online games and watch youtube videos when he was supposed to be working. It happened at Fresno State University and the employee still works there according to the state auditors office. The state spent 40,000 in the second half of last year. Fresno state recommended the employee supervisor give him more work, tell him to limit internet use and super vice him. The university did not recommend firing him. State judicial budget cuts will force a change in Business Hours at the Santa Clara County superior court. The court will be open from 8 30 in the morning until noon on fridays. Its been closing at 3 00 in the afternoon every day. The fire rings at ocean beach have gotten a makeover. The National Park Service Showed off the square pits so people can make fires and stay warm while enjoying the San Francisco sunset. The park service removed the old fire rings, remember those, over the winter and did a deep cleaning of the entire area. They also added four new pits bringing the total to 16. Abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is keeping a close eye on the forecast. Sandhya, rain is coming. It is. Dan and am a, tonight is the night to check out the sunset. I want to show it to you, east bay hills cameras, the sun went down at 6 05 and absolutely stunning. We had a few high clouds, as you notice there in the picture and really made for a colorful sunset. Well continue to see a sunset like this as we head into tomorrow because we will continue to see some high clouds and mild weather and thats exactly what we had today. Look at these temperatures. 70 degrees in santa rosa and up to 72 in santa cruz. Hard to believe it is winter when you see readings like this. Mid to upper 60s from San Francisco to oakland to abontio. Terrific visibility looking toward San Francisco. Oakland upper 50s. Gilroy, youre dropping down to 51. Not as cold as it has been on previous days tomorrow morning because clouds will be increasing our city by the bay from the cam looking lovely and the temperatures in e inland north bay area and the east bay areas are really in the upper 40s. So its starting to get chilly. Livermore, santa rosa and view from the east bay. No fog to speak of but that will change. One more mild day tomorrow and cooler rain and scattered showers for monday. So tomorrow morning, yes, well see some 30s in the inland valleys with high clouds, patchy fog, 40s around the bay and along the coastline. Its sweater weather in the morning but for the afternoon, you can lose the sweater, enjoy the mild weather, its not going to last as dan mentioned. Upper 50s to mid 60s tomorrow. Clouds will be thicker. Not a bright blue day tomorrow afternoon. Average high for San Francisco 62 and the next couple days, well trend lower than average but notice a sharp drop in temperatures sunday. This is when waer ere expectine coldest and the temperatures will bounce back next week middle to end of next week. Saturday through sunday a one on the storm impact scale. Light system that will cover both days. Breezy to guesty gusty, rainfao an inch of rain and the snow level will be down to 2500 feet. This is a cold storm. 5 00 a. M. Saturday hour by hour few showers in the north bay where they store on through noon

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