247. Picture we will get used to. Good evening. Feds giving the green lot now for the new bay bridge fix which may, may allow it to open on time over the labor day weekend. Heres 7 News Reporter wayne. For years it has been so close we can reach out and touch it. Yet so far away from any of us driving on it. When the bay bridge defective bolt through labor day opening into limbo this massive structure began to look more like a figurative question mark. At least until today. Part is when do you Something Like this and do it on short notice you need to make sure you can pull it off. From randy of the toll Bridge ProgramOversight Committee more than a ray of hope essentially the announcement of future announcement after Public Meeting on thursday. I think most important thing is that it is earlier than december tenth. But not necessarily labor day as originally planned. At the root of this letter from federal Highway Administration saying shim. Temporary fix for the defective bolt will render the new bay bridge safer than the old bay bridge so why not just open it to cars. Temporary shim are in probably good indication of when the bridge will open. Indication its prepared to be open. Remember, opening the bridge business more than the shim. Reporter which still sounds fairly complicateed to future bridge customers whose confidence fleeting of late. I do want to be on the new bridge if safer than the old one. Reporter which bridge would you rather be on in an earthquake . San mateo. Reporter meantime every other part of this project continues on the schedule that would have worked for a labor day opening. Tonight open the bridge they test all the light lights. They turn them on for the first time should be quite a sight n. Oakland, wayne abc 7 news. Organization that revoked the accreditation for city college of San Francisco is getting a taste of its own immediate. Department of education says the commission of junior and Community Colleges is it self out of compliance with federal rules. Among the problems the government says the group has conflict of interest. Group leader is married to man who serves on the team that evaluated city college. Department of education says changes need to be made or the acc j. C. Could be terminated. City college in San Francisco had its accreditation revoked last july. College spokesperson says its not clear yet what impact in any thil with ill have on the school future. Hay word worker was struck by a van today as he protested outside city hall over stalled contract negotiations. The worker was interthe entrance to the city parking garage when hit by the vehicle. Suffered minor injuries and police say the driver was there to get a building permit. It happened hours after hundreds of hayward city workers started a 3 day strike. We are at the bottom. Scraping. So time for to us make a stand and this is the only way to stand. By strikin striking. Reporter union is fighting cuts to health care an retirement benefits. Negotiations have been going on since february. City Officials Say the strike has not impacted city services. Seen minimal if any impact to operation. Able to keep our city facilities open and operating and providing servic services to our communities. This work stoppage involves hayward maintenance Workers Library assist tans tant and administrative staff. Strike continues until thursday. Bay area may significance believes that he was the victim of hate crime and calling for tough prosecution of his attac attacker. Carolyn has the video and an interview you see only on abc 7 news. Champ percent says niece misery. His body and soul are bruised. Nerve are shot. I shake. I still i cant sleep. Last month the 73yearold singer Founding Member of the legendary 60s band chairman ber brothers was doing what he does best. Of performing at the hayward blues festival and watch what happens. This tv video show the woman identified as 43yearold potter crashing the concert and jumping on the stage just after chambers had dedicate add song to the family of florida teenager cray von martin. Started calling me mf. Different slur and screaming at me you started this. You started this. You mf. And she hid me. Reporter why do you think she did that. Hate. She had hate. In her face. Like a demon. Oh, god it was ugly. Reporter Andrew Potter cited for miss demeanor battery and released. Chambers wants her charged with a hate crime but late this afternoon the District Attorney decided instead on felony elder abuse and felony assault. Great big lump over here in my left rib came. Shoulder, under my shoulder. Reporter injury put a halt to come back of sorts. Musician made famous for playing the cow bell and singing classic hit time has come today is releasing the first album in years. But says performing is now painful. Hes hired civil rights attorney to press his case. I do suggest that they see this the way it really is. Honestly it is a hate crime. No other reason for it. Reporter according to the Hayward Police department a warrant will be issued tomorrow for the arrest of dina lynn andrews potter. In the newsroom, abc 7 news. Worker driving piece of heavy Construction Equipment backed over and killed a with him on a College Campus in the south bay today. Accident happened just before 11 00 oclock or just after i should say 11 00 oclock this morning at San Jose City college. Sky 7 hd overhead. Front loader ran over the victim. Pest of equipment you are looking at. Unknown whether woman was a student classes were not in session today. The college is still on summer break. Campus construction project is replacing underground water valve. Company says the driver has 35 years of experience but terrible tragedy today. Another tragedy. Oakland Police Confirm today they found the body of missing oakland investigators we have been following this story so closel closely. The search for sandra coke ended last friday in solana county but her body was not identified until today. As Mark Matthews explains there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Oakland police say very also about the investigation. Coroner office has identified the woman as sandra coke. At this tile the oakland Police Department will not be releasing any Additional Information other than the identification. Coke left her oakland home sunday evening august 4th. She told her 15yearold cause she was going to the drugstore then to talk with someone who had called about information on their missing dog. When she did not return that night family and neighbors put up missing poster. Daughter reportedly used a find my phone application on the internet to look for her mother cell phone. It was cell phone signals that led search teams to this area near Lagoon Valley park in vacaville. They found coke body friday near an interstate 80 on ramp. Police are questioning former boyfriend who dated coke years ago. Randy has a long criminal history including arrest for rape kidnap and murder conviction. Oakland police are being careful however not to call him a suspect. Randy is considered a person of interest only. Coke neighborhood Patricia A Williams carried flowers to coke front door. Too choked up to say more than a few word. Wonderful neighbor. Nice and friendly. And seemed to care a lot for her daughter. Otighbors feel very much the same tonight. Beautiful person. Really beautiful person. Reporter police say they understand there are lots of questions about the mp and his history with coke. And who was it that called the coke home with information about the missing dog. And was that the latter person to see her alive. This is 7 news. Family released Statement Today that says in part the coke family is devastated by the loss of our boulevard sandra. All of us will miss sandra beautiful giving spirit. Emotional testimony today in sacramento from 1 time child actor who recently reveld that she was the victim of sexual abuse. Allison appeared before the Assembly PublicSafety Committee today to publicly speak about the abuse that she suffered as a child. Played olson in the 1970s Television Series little house on the prairie. Trying to get lawmaker to pass a bill to raise maximum penalty of most egregious child pornography offender. She doesnt want child victims to go through what she endured. They live with that not only suffer being sexually abused as a child but they have to spen the rest of their life knowing that its going on again and again and again as people trade these images and watch them over and over. This proposed bill would increase prison time and fains for anyone caught with more than 600 images of chilled pornography. In the mean time some other major hollywood stars are putting some mainly pressure on state lawmakers tonight. Pushing for more restriingts on the tabloid media annette has the story from sacramento. Proposal to put more restriction on the paparrazi is gaining momentum at the state capitol. Actress halle berry pregnant with second child is back this time she brought along celebrity mom Jennifer Garner both putting star power behind the measure to curtail photographer aggressive behavior towards their childre children. I dont want a gapping of shouting, arguing law breaking photographers who camp out everywhere we are all day every day to continue traumatizing my kids. Paparrazi would say things to her like how do you feel now you mate see your father again how do you feel about that. Inappropriate to say this to a child. Reporter state senator bill would increase fines to continue,000 dollars and allow civil lawsuits in case where is children are harassed because of the parents occupation. But several media outlet oppose the bill. While they continue approve of the paparrazi behavior they say this measure is too broad and hinder journalist. Vague language of this bill does not only aplay to the paparrazi it could easily apply to legitimate news gathering and member of the public. Pretty much anybody with a phone camera phone or recording did he advice. Reporter California Newspaper Association points out the legislature has passed at least 4 law in recent years to crack down on the paparrazi and none has work. Still the famous parents want lawmakers to step in. Prison paid for picture of celebrity children is now absurdly high. They have a bounty on their heads every da day. What this bill would do would give us our ritz back so that we can protect our children. In a rare show of bipartisan support Assembly Committee unanimously passed restriction restrictions. Only couple more approval before the bill heads to the governor desk n. Sacramento, abc 7 news. More to bring you here tonight. Designer drug that may have been destined for the outside land Music Festival. Biggest bust in San Francisco history. Plus. Cell phone company diagnose enough to stop the theft of smart phones . Im michael on 7 on your side. Suspected crack in the system exposed by one consumer advocate. And spencer is here with the weather. Here in the accuweather forecast center. High pressure well in the 90s in many locations today. Ill show you how warm it is where you are tomorrow. In my accuweather forecast. Spencer thanks. New legal action against chevron tonight over the richmond refinery fear. Find out why thousands have signed on to this new law suited. On to[ male announcer ]ed. What is performance . 0 to 60 . Or 60 to 0 . [ tires screech ] how a car performs in a quartermile . [ engine revs ] or a quartercentury . Is performance about the joy of driving . Or the importance. Of surviving. To us, performance is not about doing one thing well. It is about doing everything well. Because in the end. Everything matters. The best or nothing. That is what drives us. It was the biggest seizure of club drug in the history of the San FranciscoPolice Department. Officials found huge i mean huge quantity of ecstacy which is abc 7 News Reporter vick lae explained may have been destined for last weekend outside lands Music Festival. That narcotics on the table over here have street value in excess of 1. 5 Million Dollars. This is what officers confiscated. Ecstacy. Also called molly or mdna. 23 kilo of powder. 30,000 pills. 3 30,000 dollars in cash. It happened sunday morning on the last day of the outside lands Music Festival in golden gate park. Tenant of an apartment on mission and 29 street called police at about 9 00 a. M. Saying someone tried to break into the building. Responding officers saw broken window and blood trail. They followed it to another apartment where benjamin lives. Answered the door to the apartment and his hand was bleeding and blood on the clothes. Reporter they went inside to see if someone else was hurt. Thats when they saw steven terrell. Places found something else. In the apartment officers observed duffel bag with suspected narcotic in plain view and froze the apartment. Sometimes we get lucky and in this instance we were lick. Investigators believe the ecstacy may have been headed to the Music Festival. Which drew almost 200,000 people. As it turn out most of the arrest there were only for alcohol. We made a couple arrest. Not many. Outside lands for positive test of whats called dangerous drugs so it certainly fortunate that none of this made it out there. Police later found that terrell was out on half Million Dollar bail for Drug Trafficking charges out of illinois. This is 7 news. Another lawsuit filed against chevron over the richmond fire last year. More than 5000 people signed on to the it. Latest lawsuit blames chevron socalled reckless conduct for the fire that sent clouds of black smoke into the air. Federal investigators have concluded that chevron ignored the warnings of its own inspectors to replace the aging pipeline in the plant. Chevron had no comment today but has paid out 12 Million Dollars in fines claims and reimbursement so far and vowed to fight a similar suit filed by the same Houston Law Firm earlier this year. Move on to the forecast. Summer has returned. Spencer is here. Heating up to real summertime level. We dont see extreme coming our waivlt we have upper 90s today. Thats warm. Look at live doppler 7hd you can see we have clear skies tonight. Just kim also patches of low clouds offshore. Clear sky all around the bay along the coast and inland and how high were some of today high. Well livermore got to 97 degrees 95 fairfield. 94 antioch. Mid upper 90s way up north clear lake to clover dale. 93 at morgan hill. 87 at redwood city and 70 in San Francisco. Warm day. Right now golden gate bridge. Clear sky at the gate. Current temperature readings 62 in oakland mount view and 66 sap jose. 66, 68 at los gatos. Another live view looking at the south side of the bay bridge from our south beach camera. There you go. Other temperature readings rate now 65 in santa rosa. 66 inspect a. 73 in fair field. 76 at concord. 73 in livermore and one more live view of beautiful view of San Francisco looking down from sutro tower and these are our forecast feature. We see maybe a few patchy coastal clouds tonight. Low cloud. Thats about it. Another warm day tomorrow and a little bit cooler towards the end of the week then we get another warmup. This is fairly sustained warm pattern we have receipt now. Water vapor satellite im am shows 2 competing contrasting air mas masses both influencing our weather to some degree. Cool air to our north west. Hot air to the south east. Hot air winning out as of now but cool air help bring temperatures down a little bit on friday. Maybe in saturday then we bounce back up on sunday monday tuesday. Overnight tonight mainly mostly clear sky. Few patches possibly of low clouds. Low pressure mainly in the mid upper 50s and then tomorrow morning start the forecast animation at 5 00 oclock. See there wont be much at all in the way of clouds and few little patches there and whatever we have in the morning disappear quickly giving way to sunny sky. High pressure ranging from mid 60s on the coast to mid 90s inland. More specific go down to the south bay where its soychbility high rappinging from about 86 at san jose. 92 morgan hill. Peninsula 84 at redwood city and mountain on the coast. 64 pacifica. 67 half machine bay. Downtown San Francisco hay of 72 tomorrow. 66 in the sun set district up in the north bay. Bodega bay 62 degrees mild along the coast north bay as well. 94 mostly clear leak. 80 at calistoga. East bay high about 80 at oak land. 81 at 43 mont and castro valley. High of 92 at walnut creek pittsburgh and fairfield. 94 at antioch and livermore and heres the accuweather 7 day forecast. High pressure will taper off few degrees weaned saturday high inland only in the upper 80s but bounce back to mid 90s inland on sunday monday. Low 80s around the bay. Mid 60s on the coast. Just going to be beautiful, warm, pleasant summer weather. Swim suit weather. There you go. Thank you very much. Coming up here. Television condition assumer report says is the best it has ever seen. We have this story and the last laugh for redwood city pl pwu grand prix. Why the very popular Amusement Center is closing down you dont need to camp out you dont need to camp out til labor day to reward your