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KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY February 13, 2013

Tonight president obama talks american manufacturing. How rebounding and how to keep it rebounding and how to keep it live breaking news. Growing economy. Create good middle class jobs. That must be the north star that guides our efforts. President obama takes on the economy and annual state of the union speech tonight. He also tackled controversial topic like gun control and global warming. One of the deposit ty injured. Being treated at loma linda. Unfortunately one of our deputy passed away as result of the injuries. Tragedy after gun ballots in Southern California with man thought to be a fugitive ex cop. Awaiting word right now on whether Christopher Dorner has in fact died in the mountain cabin that you see there in flames. Good evening im dan. There were reports net that a body was found inside the cabin. This past hour authorities can not confirm that. Temperatures are still too hot to go inside after the cabin caught fire. In fact may take days before they know for certain. We are live in los angeles for with us the latest on this. Tv good evening dan. Thats right we have been getting conflicting reports over the last couple hours. This is what we can confirm and do kno know. The fire deadly shoot without police is over. Authorities are now combing through a huge crime scene as we still wait for official confirmation. That the man believed to be christopher dor dorper was killed. This is a relentless fire. Reporter intense stand off turned inferno. Man hunt for accused cop killer dorner has taken another deadly turn. After a week on the run Police Say Suspect matching dorner description was involved in a shot out with deputy. One of the deputy was injured and unfortunately one of our deputy passed away as a result of his injuries. Reporter suspect spotted tuesday afternoon in the San Bernardino mountains. Several miles from where dorner burned out truck was found. Authorities say he first held 2 women hostages in the home including jay hilton wife. He tied broke in tied up and stole the car. They are okay as far as we know they are fine. Reporter one of the hostages untied herself and called 911. But when deputy caught up to the suspect he abandoned the stolen car and fled on foot leading to somewhat out. Tense moments of gun fir were caught on the air during the live report on kcbs. St thats when Authorities Say the suspect barricaded himself inside this cabin. S. W. A. T. Team surrounded the home and released this message. Enough is enough. Time to turn yourself in. Time to stop the blood shed. Time to let this event and let this incident be over. Dorner promised in his alleged on line manifest there would be no negotiating. Gunshots were fired. Then this blaze engulfed a cane. Fire that burned through the night. The. Despite early reports a body has been found lapd and other authorities including the Sheriffs Department up in san certain dino nobody has been removed yet because the cabin is still too hot to search. This is abc 7 news. Couple questions. I know they can not confirm body inside dorner is the person inside but from what i am hearing on the scene they must think the danger has surely passed because most of the cops have pulled out; is that correct . The we are seeing a lot of officers pull back. When the scene first started unfolding this afternoon we saw hundreds an hundreds of officers flock to the region. According to the witnesses the 2 women who claim that they were tied up the, they say the man looked a lot like Christopher Dorner. According to the department of fish and game the agents chasing the suspect who looks like dorner they also said it looked like dorner they would identify him as dorner. Right now everyone is being cautious because until they get a positive i. D. Things they dont want to overreact just in case dorner may still be at large but does appear like everything we have been getting this could be in fact dorner. Seems that way. Ask you about the cabin when it caught fir today and then reports there was a gunshot shortly after that time or at some point before. What do you know about why the fire or how the fire started. Reporter thats what we are trying to find out dan. You are correct. This is what we hear in los angeles watching all the information come in. One shot was fired according to our sources as swat was surrounding the scene and then after that shot was fired we saw this eruption of flames. Fire that burned for hours. Whether that was authorities going in or possibly dorner we dont know. What we do know is everyone was talking about here is you may remember seeing the video tmz obtained buying scuba geevrment he could have possibly had breathing apparatus with him so authorities have been very kawsh because how they have approached the situation just in case. Thanks so much. Reporting from us. Great job all day thank you so much. Well this situation obviously is her telling us to unfold. We stay on top of it obviously. Updates on 7 news as soon as they happen during this newscast. Full report at 11 00 oclock over on channel 7 and of course on our web site and twitter all the platform we coop you up to date on the Major Development today in Southern California. Now the other big story. To the state of the union. President obama turned the focus to the economy. His speech unveiled new Government Initiative aim at creating job jobs. He challenged deeply divided law make investigators find xro nice achieve the goal. President announced plans to withdraw more troops afghanistan. President addressed the nation on the state of the union for the First Time Since being reelected. We are in washington. The president of the united states. Thank you. Reporter president obama touching on topic from education to strengthening the middle class. Its our unfinished task to make sure that this Government Works on behalf of the many. Not just the few. Reporter the president gave of the address a noticeable presence of small ribbon. Worn by the more than 40 invited guests. All victims or related to victims of gun violence. It has been two months since newtown. I know this is not the first time this country has debated out of reduced gun violence. But this time is different. President also announced that half of the troops now serving in afghanistan about 3 34,000 will be home by this time next year. But focus remained pray mayoral on the economy. With several proposal including a plan to raise the minimum wage. Tonight lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works fulltime should have to live in poverty. Reporter republicans shot back. The Party Response given in both spanish. And english by florida senator rubio. Who accused the president of hurting the middle class with deficit spending and tax hike. The idea that more taxes and more Government Spending is the best way to help hard working middle class taxpayers. Thats an old idea that has failed every time it has been tried. Reporter now the president will go on the road to promote the agenda outlined tonight. First stop in North Carolina tomorrow. This is abc news washington. President obama also emphasized technology in his state of the union and he specifically referenced apple. Ceo tim cook attended the speech as the guest of the white house. And the president mentioned in his speech that apple will once again build mack xawt interamerica. They have been building apple product and main manufacturing facility is in china. Middle School Student suffered minor injuries this afternoon after being struck by a car in the east bay. We were over the intersection of el captain drive in danville where the student was hit. The intersection is near Charlotte Wood middle school to give you a frame of reference. Happened at 3 00 oclock in the afternoon just as class were his letting out for the day and kids heading home. Students suffered minor injury and driven to the hospital by a parent. The driver of the vehicle stopped and we are told is cooperating with authoritie authorities. Police say they have few ladies in a somewhating in vallejo last night. 22yearold man killed there. 4 others injured. Police say it happened at home on humboldt street. Neighbors toll us there have been problems with those in the house ever since they moved in. Just moved here like a month ago and whole bunch of ruckus and stuff going on every since. There was a fight out here friday. Then a couple shots out here saturday night so just been progressing. Just matter of time before it happened i guess. Reporter police are not sure what led to the shooting them dont have any 1 in custody at this point. Elementary school in san bruno facing closure again. School district has 1. 4 Million Dollar deficit and superintendent says closing this school could help balance the budget. But it would be another hardship forsome residents of the community hit by the massive gas pipe lane explosion back in 2010. Ask Board Members considered closing the school last year but local out cry kept it open. School Board Meeting to discuss the closure will be held tomorrow at 7 00 p. M. Of course well cover it. Very busy day. More to bring you. San mateo water leak kills hundreds of fish. Coming up hear the dangerous chemical in the water and repairs under way to clean up the mess. Plus. Im in sacramento the oil company believe there are 15 bill barrels of oil underneath california. Fracking may extract it but environmentalist believe there are great risk involved. Im in the accuweather forecast center. We still have more mild weather coming our way but rain developing now. I have the accuweather forecast coming up. Wrestling dropped from the olympic. 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On the peninsula the San Francisco Public Utilities commission is still working on shutting off a water pipe that burst on saturday. Sent thousands of gallons of water into the reservoir. Drinking water safe for people but it has killed a number of fish. More now from 7 News Reporter heather. Water from the ruptured 60 inch pipe still spills down a hillsboro hillside headed for the creek below. It broke saturday afternoon and San Francisco p uc has been working to shut it down completely ever since. The chlorinated drin Drinking Water is now being dechlorinated but that happened only after thousands of gallons flowed into the San Mateo Creek and killed unknown number of trout. These look like rainbow but the threatened steel head species might also have lived here. Steve rodgers lives along the creek and noticed the dead fish sunday morning. At the bottom of the pool all the fish were dead. Laying on the bottom some floating to the top. Some on stream bank. Reporter rodgers more than a passing interest in the trout. Hes on the board of Environmental Group called california trout. Devoted to protecting and restoring native species in the state. Hes upset and worried it could take years to restore the habitat if possible at all. This was steel head stream historically. Its no the good. We dont like to kill fish. We dont want to kill fish. And so we have to find a way to keep these button up. Reporter San Francisco p uc doesnt know yet whether caused the pipe to break but age certainly play add role. It was 75 to 80 years old and scheduled for row placement. Handful of Environmental Agency are investigating for possible penalty against the p uc. Regional Water Quality Board National Fishery Service have all been informed and thats their job is to the determine penalty should be assessed and they will do their job. To clarify the steel head are category as threatened under the endangered species act. Have to be some dna test to go determine exactly which species were killed in the creek because of this spill. Along sky lane boulevard on the peninsula. 7 news. If you take bart you may soon pay more for your commute. Bart propose add 5. 2 indmres fare for 2013 raising the average fare by 18 cents from 3. 44 to 3. 62 for a ride. Bart Officials Say its nose stay on track with inflation. Plan would slight increase fares in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and include increase at busiest bart parking lot. The board will discuss the proposal thursday that takes place in oakland. Tuition at stanford going up next year. Board of trustee voted to raise tuition today. That means undergraduate students will pay 56,000 dollars plus for room board and few asian year start thanksgiving fall. Increase affects undergraduate general graduate students graduate engineering students medical and law students. The board also raised tuition by 3. 9 percent for first year nba students. It offers 130 Million Dollars a year in inif. Be prepared for delay if traveling through San Francisco International Airport this weekend. One of the 2 runway used for arrival at sfo will be closed for safety upgrade that are required to meet federal safety standard. The usual 60 flights per hour expected to be reduced to about 30 cut in half basically. Temporary shut down begins at 10 00 p. M. Friday night and last until 8 00 a. M. Monday morning. So if flying out of sfo this weekend just expect that you may delayed. Often delayed by weather there. This is different reason. Spencer is here. Hes here what looks to be a is in forecast. I foresee no weather delay in the immediate why the forecast. No weather related. Not for the next 5 or 6 days. Heres mount tam camera on to the bay and San Francisco off in the distance. Clear evening around the bay area and rapidly becoming quite a cool one chilly one. Look at live doppler 7 hd that he reveals that we are basically cloud free right now. Some low clouds lurking offshore but not affecting land 80s yet although we could see patchy fog develop over nature. Right now temperature readings generally in the 40s. 40 at nap a. 41 at fairfield 50 at antioch. 51 at oakland and 50 here in San Francisco. Forecast feature are these areas of fog will develop over tonight. See maileder days writ open that the weekend and cooling begins on sunday. After string of very mild spring lake day. Satellite image High Pressure dominant feature with huge ridge of High Pressure as a matter of fact and keep the dry pat nern place right on through the weekend but there is chance of some rain coming our way next week. Forecast animation 11 00 oclock tonight. Notice how overnight some of the fox now near the coast will start to push locally inland but not very wide spread. Few places across the bay and east bay side some fog someplaces up in the north bay. Generally though we have mostly clear skies and chilly conditions with low pressure dropping into the mid 30s in the north bay valley and east bay valley and livermore and concord. Upper 30s to low 40s writ around the basement low of 45 here in San Francisco. Then tomorrow the fog will give way to sunny skies by midmorning and we get in the afternoon hours we see brit sunny conditions mild once again even milder than today. High pressure beginning to inch up just a little bit day by day mid 60s if clover dale Santa Rosa Napa in the east bay. Mid 60s at antioch. Concord down at san jose. High of 64. Right along the bayshore line. 60 in San Francisco. And just monterey bay mainly mid 60s Morgan Hill Gilroy and monterey high of skuchbility heres the 7 day forecast. Thursday of course valentines day and its a sweet heart of a day. Sunny mild High Pressure in the upper 60s. Except the coast in the mid 60s. Friday probably the mailedest day in the forecast period over all. High at 70 degrees around the bayshore line upper 60s inland. Miss 60s on the coast. Remain mild on saturday with couple degrees of cooling on the coast. They will cool down more sharply on sunday and monday which by the way is president s day and tuesday finally have a chance of showers after string of lovely dry mild day. So get ready for some showers. Couple week of dry weather and long stretch of dry weathe weather. Thats the pattern so far thiser 82. Thanks. Sweet heart of a day. Sweet heart of a guy. Okay. Still to come tonight on 7 news at 9. Shopping on twitte twitter. Able to pay for product by sending out a tweet. Stay with us. 7 news [ man ] its big. Supports in times of need. Same with aladdin. The biggest in bail. No one has lower prices, is faster or more professional. Aladdin bail bonds. Bigger because were better. For the first time some folk able to pay former chan dies on twitter. Social network site partner with american express. 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