We begin with what could be the worst case of child molestation in Santa Cruz County history. The youngest just three years old. We are getting a look at the suspects now. Who were arrested in arizona. Our reporter has new details about evidence in the case and where they children are. Please say this doctor and two nurses committed horrific acts against you seven Young Children all sexual in nature. Video was showning several adults engaging in lewd acts with children young as three years old. This one of three suspects charged with lewd acts with child under 14 and other acts with child under 10. Shes a nurse from arizona and doctor from santa cruz are also charged in the case. Investigators have seized evidence at multiple locations including a video. Just in watching the videos i can just tell you it was very disturbing. I have not necessarily seen a case like this in my career. Police tell us the victims range from 3 to 13 years old. The two worked at Dominican Hospital in santa cruz. On her Facebook Page wrote im a mom and nurse, love my friends and family. Her neighbors are now horrified. Cant even speak about it. You know its so heart breaking. So many lives are ruined as a result of this. Police are still working with the fbi saying the crimes crossed state lines. Detectives are asking anyone who may be a victim or witness to please come forward abc 7 news. Now to washington where the president is preparing to leave on his first foreign trip since taking office. First stop saudi arabia. At the same time the Jordan Eberle at the same time special counsel is running the investigation into russian meddling. The president says it hurts our country terribly and he denies telling fired fbi director james comey to back off his Russian Investigation. Tonight asked for the first time about the appointment of a special counsel to investigate russian meddling into the campaign President Trump insisted the whole investigation is a which hunt. Would like to get your eaction to Deputy Attorney general decision to appoint special counsel to investigate the russian interference in te campaign. Was this the right move or part of the witch hunt. Well i respect the move but the entire thing is a witch hunt and theres no collusion between certainly myself and the russians, zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. I can tell you we want to bring our great country of ours together. Behind closed doors the president went further when david muir asked about his upcoming foreign trip saying World Leaders would ask if he supports the idea of a special counsel. The president response, i believe it hurts us terribly also happened to be a fur excuse for the democrats to have won a election they should are won. Hopefully this will go quickly. He also asked whether he tried to get james comey to back off in his investigation into fired National Security visor Michael Flynn did you at any time urge james comey to back down on the investigation into Michael Flynn sfl. No. No. Next question. That answer now sets up a showdown with comey who reportedly took detailed notes with the president. Abc 7 news the white house. Meantime President Trump says hes close to picking a new fbi director indicatoring former senator Joe Lieberman who was algorithma al gores running mate in preside president i a l election. He San Francisco police are searching for five men who attacked another man at dolores park at 5 30 yesterday evening. Police say a man was stabbed and hit with a golf club. He is now out of the hospital. Police are grateful the witness witnesses who reported the crime and encourage more to do so they should feel they are safe and can call the police at any time for any reason. Please dont believe the attack was random. It was a difficult day in court for the parents for sierra l a la m a r. Penalty phase is under way. Abc 7 News Reporters was in court as spectators and even jurorors cried. They knew as they arrived at the courthouse this would be an emotional day. It was 20time for sierras pares to talk on the stand, mother talked about her as a caring person who loved to dance. The hardest part was seeing her sing and dance. It was the first time i seen her speak live on video. Ive been avoiding that because its been painful to look at videos of her but ive been doing it a lot in the last month. Father also fought back tears describing sierra as goofy and playful with an infectious laugh. Hard. Still hard. For a long time. Probably only have been able to watch videos of sierra in the last year or so. And it still is hard. I still cry. Tears fill the eyes of several jurors while convicted avoided eye contact and didnt look at slides and video. The jury looked sad the part of the case now is about impact on this jury and what is their moral decision. No question the fact they were emotionally effected by this testimony will likely have an impack the on their decision. The penalty phase resumes on monday. Abc 7 news. One person is in Critical Condition at a local hospital after a fire at shoreline amphitheater when workers tried to light a deep fryer inch at stage right cafe. This picture was tweeted. The Fire Suppression in the kitchen put the flames out. I just turned around and there was a loud explosion and immediately saw smoke and seen people running out and i got everybody out of there i just wanted to make sure everyone got away, i heard a few were injured but pretty sure everyones going to be okay. The property is being leased by google for its annual Io Developers conference. The facility was not open to the public when that explosion happened. Three people on a ferris wheel fell to the ground one victim just six years old. Also new meaning to spring snow. Were here with the forecast. Winter there and summer like heat in the bay area. The hour by hour look coming up. Somewhere, inside each of us, theres a pro. Its not always easy to summon your pro. But once youve found it, youll find you can do anything. Three people are in the hospital after falling off a ferris wheel in an outdoor festival they tumbled 15 feet to the metal base, the 70yearold woman is in a trauma center. One of the other victims is a sixyearold boy. The ride is shut down as investigators try to figure out what went wrong. Botch ulism have left patients paralleled or fighting for their life patient penalties paralyzed fighting for their lives. Not an isolate case all appear to come from the valley oak fooded gas station. And als of this morning confirmland five cases with three other possibles and one suspect suspected. Total of nine thus far all from tainted nacho cheese sauce served inside between april 22 a a. Ive never seen my sister not be able to move. Shes spent three weeks in intensive care ward, beginning with slurred speech. She was saying sister i need you here now. I need you here now. A botchulism can present in many forms none of them pleasant. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and then symptoms start typically in the face, difficulty swallowing, speaking, maybe one eye lid is lagging. These a mother of three, had been preparing for a wedding. Her family tells us while shes aware her motor skills are so far gone she cant even open her eyes but the family still has hope. Thank god we know she can recover in the worse cases patience become so faye paralyzed they have trouble breathing and need a ventilator. Doctors say Early Detection is key. Abc 7 news. State auditor levied sharp criticism today. Abc 7 news was at the regents meeting as auditor saying she faced push back as she investigated a secret trust fund that focused on 175 million surplus that was kept secret by napa tr napalit a nos office. Certainly was left out how the funds would be used. The auditor has given administrators 36 recommendations for reform and uc regions monitor that implementation. Fraternity faces charges for cutting down trees in a national forest. They are accused of downing 32 trees during a pledge initiation in april in the forest 300 mile its north of San Francisco. The fraternity faces charge of possessing firearm, josi has denied the charges. Its about to get more competitive to get into the university of california system from out of state. Today the first ever limit on out of state and International Student enrollment addressing a long term complaint from california students who say theyre being squeezed out by novrnresidents who nonresidents who pay higher tuition. Out of state will be at 18 . Uc berkeley will have leeway with the cap. Spring stop drops snow across the Rocky Mountain park. Some could receive 36 inches by tomorrow night. National park shared this footage from trail ridge road highest paved road in north american with elevation at 12,000 feet. Imagine that this time of year. It it made for treacherous driving but great to bounce in the powder and have some fun. Thats an amazing scene. Yeah. Snow is there and searing heat here. Yeah, were going to be feeling the heat around here. But that snow that storm was the same system that brought drizzle and much cooler weather just few days ago. Go figure. Heres what were going to deal with, napas average high is 77 degrees. Notice the temperatures over the next several days will see temporariy temperatures in the upper 80s low 90s well above average will wait until next week until they drop back down to the 70s. Were in the clear right now. No rain on the radar. Not going to see any any time soon. From the abc 7 news skplo, you looking at a beautiful view from the em barbarcadero. East hill bay camera, mid 60s. Still warm in concord. 74 degrees. Emeryville visibility is good. Temperatures continue to rise. Summer like heat. Starting off pretty clear tomorrow morning when you get going mid 40s to low 50s so even though we got warmer today we had 80s inland. Going to be a nice cool off heading to tomorrow morning. Highs like this in the south bay. Low to upper 80s. 85 in san jose. Sunshine on the peninsula. You dont like it too warm go to daily city. 66 degrees. Downtown San Francisco in the north bay upper 80s around napa, certainly sun screen waernl weather in the east bay. On saturday temperatures will come up. Well see warm to hot conditions inland but enough of a breeze blowing near the coast its not going to get too hot. This is the summer time pattern. 60s coast on sunday. Low to mid 90s inland. Very similar sunday. Monday as well temperatures near the coast will be in the 60s. For beta breakers it could not be better. Look at this. 55 degrees. Sheltered from the heat. 8 00 nothing but sunshine low to mid 60s. Good idea to download the accuweather app. Just go to the app store. Forecast mid 60s. Low 90s tomorrow. Early next week low to mid 90 sds midland. Patches of fog saturday and sunday and a lot more fog tuesday through thursday which will help to drive those temperatures down closer to average inland than what were about to see which is well above normal. Well probably want that by then. Celebrating the life of harvey milk sometimes is as easy as taking a walk around the neighborhood. And in honor of asianamerican heritage month, celebrating at the cultural center. Story of one familys search for millions of baby boomers theres a serious virus out there thats been almost forgotten. Its hepatitis c. One in 30 boomers has hep c, yet most dont even know it. Because it can hide in your body for years without symptoms, and its not tested for in routine blood work. The cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. If you have hep c, it can be cured. For us its time to get tested. Ask your Healthcare Provider for the simple blood test. Its the only way to know for sure. Tonight meet two men with an Incredible Connection. They jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived. Both said the movement they left they felt instant regret. I vaulted over feet first, i just vaulted over, and i realized at that moment this is the stupidest thing ive ever done. As i fell i wanted to do is reach back to the rail but it was gone. A story of mistakes, survival and Second Chances tonight on abc 7 news at 11 00 on channel 7. Tonight is five Year Anniversary of facebooks ipo. As you recall didnt go as planned, first minutes of stray trading led to dozens of law suits it took a year to bounce back to its price of 38 shared closed today at more than 147 a share. Might notice something difference if you go window shopping in San Francisco castro district. This is one of the displays dedicated to harvey milk who led gay rights activities and was assassinated at city hall. A dozen store fronts created special window tributes. Because of the spirit of our times it seems a lot of people were drawn to harvey activism so a lot of the displays speak to the on going struggle for equality for all people. A special celebration is planned on sunday with merchants handing out maps with locations of all the displays. Windows for marharvey will stay through the end of the month. Coming up we learn of a man who drove a car through window. And hearing chris corn somewhere, inside each of us, theres a pro. Its not always easy to summon your pro. But once youve found it, youll find you can do anything. Good evening once again. An 18yearold woman is dead and 22 them are recovering after a man produced h plowed man plowed his car into a crowd of people. He was high on synthetic marijuana and has a long criminal history. Dramatic video capturing the moment the driver crashed his car into a crowd of people. Popolice say 26yearold richar roj a s was behind the wheel of ape ho a honda accord that went through crowd of tourists, hitting 23 people before crashing into a beara kade. He tried to run even punching a officer but other pedestrians stepped in to help subdue him. We did get Quick Response from Police Officers on the scene, fire units, people were treated and transported as quickly as possible. 18yearold visiting from michigan both hit. Alyssa did not survive. Roj a s has a criminal record. He told police he thought the end of the world was coming saying he smoked something before the crash. Now one of the busiest areas in the world sit empty. Theres no indicators of terrorism but stim horrified by what happened. Even though you know its in the back of your head you always think that will never happen. We have the best security. We have all these people an things we dont know about to keep us safe. Rojas is in custody being questioned. Police believe he smoked synthetic marijuana before the crash. President trump said the appointment of special counsel to investigate russian possible interference in last years election hurts the country terribly this coming hours after he called it the biggest witch hunt in american history. Tonight the man who appointed the special counsel to lead the Russian Investigation smiling for cameras as he arrived on capitol hill. Behind closed doors Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein briefing all 100 senators why he decided special counsel was necessary. To ensure department of justice was protected to make certain the american would handle this justly. President said the special counsel hurts our country terribly. Hes entitled to his opinion i would suggest to the president when it is appointed honor that decision and cooperate where appropriate. Today it was hard to find a single republican who backs the president s assessment. I think its a serious investigation. Is this a witch hunt. I dont think i will characterize what it is. Rosenstein was invited to discuss the firing of former fbi director james comey. The white house acted on rosensteins recommendation which he outlined in a memo but trump admitted tremrecommendatir not he was going to fire the director. The president vented about recent testimony before concongress. It makes me mildly nauseous we may have had an impact on the election. That was a poor, poor performance. So poor in fact, i believe, i dont like to speak for others, but i believe thats why the Deputy Attorney general wrote his very, very strong letter. Abc 7 news washington. Meantime the congressman heading up the house investigation will reside at the end of next month. Utah republican released a letter saying he wants to spend time with his family. Last month he said he wouldnt seek reelection in 2016 and was considering leaving office early. Chris cornells death is officially ruled a suicide. This is video from last night. Soundgarden concert in detroit. Cornells body was found in a hotel room following the concert. Cornell burst into the rock scene in the early 90s for the grung movement phenomenon he was known for his incredible vocal range and fronted temple of the do dog and audioslave. Hundreds gathered to pay tribute, the space needle went dark. Chris cornell was 52. Tonight reflecting on the complicated legacy of former fox news ceo roger ailes dies today. He had a big impact news and created a working culture. Tonight new details in sudden death of media tight an Samantha Amos roger ailes slipped in his mansion and while in coma died from internal bleeding. News of his death taking employees by surprise. This is a fox news alert, roger ailes one of the founders of Fox News Channel has died. The architect of fox news he was as bombastic as controversial. Question came up with we report you decide. Fair and balance. But last year roger ailes was the headline after accusations of sexual misconduct. His former colleagues paid hopper on air. Was a presence and he will be missed. Roger ailes was 77 years old. Abc 7 news new york. Frankie a v a lon is singing the praises of a new San Francisco hot spot. Star bucss is now o