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KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY October 4, 2013

34yearold from stanford, connecticut led police on high speed chase before shot and killed. Dramatic high speed chase from the white house to the u. S. Capitol. Ended with Law Enforcement officials shot and killed a if he mail suspec suspect. 34yearold from connecticut with a history of mental illness. Chase began at 2 18 tm at the south east corner of the white house compound. Rammed into a barricade. Took off. Driver takes off right up pennsylvania avenue taking secret service and Capitol Police officers on a wild chas chase. For mile and a half around dc iconic monument. 2 40 p. M. The driver stopped at the Botanical Garden surrounded by bliss guns drawn. Patrol car tries to block her. But she puts it in reverse and speeds away. The first shots are fired. I heard the 51 shots and car tore out of the area back towards the direction. She finally stopped near the Senate Office building at 2 45 block from the supreme court. Lawmakers at the capitol heard another round of gun fir and capitol complex on lock down. Lawmakers shelter in place. Heard pops. 3 to 5 pops probably. Reporter authorities trying to piece together a motive. No weapon was found in the suspect vehicle. But inside was a toddler who was unharmed. Because of the government shut down the u. S. Capitol police that were involved in today pursuit are not getting paid. They are considered essential but they wont see paycheck until the shut down ends. Live from capitol hill, abc news. Now back to you. All right karen thanks very much. There are some dramatic pictures of the shooting from the first people on the scene and you can see all of them on our web site. Slid show right right therep 0our home page first thing you will see. Other big story tonight extreme fire conditions in the bay area. Win is up. Weather anchor spencer is here with look at live doppler 7hd. Heres live doppler 7hd. Clear skies and breezy to gusty conditions across the bay area right now. We dont have a heat wave but still high fire danger. Flow of dry gusty winds continue over the next couple days. Red flag warning for high fire danger and wind advisory in effect in effect until saturday morning at 6 00 oclock. Now the hills above this area are including the bay area east bay hills rather and north bay mountains diablo range and santa cruz mountains. Wednesday gust 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour with stronger gust above 2500 feet. Also wind advisory along with red flag warning high fire danger in effect over Sacramento Valley carquinez straits and delta in effect until 11 00 oclock tomorrow night. Right now we look at the winds near the coast and gusts strong inland 35 Miles Per Hour in livermore and 43 in fairfield. Another look in a few minutes. Thanks very much. Cal fire fully staffed ready to go. Most of the state still in fire season obviously but if the sudden government shut down goes on for too long it could jeopardize response to major pwild fire. Big concern at this point. Wayne has more from cal fire based in santa rosa with 4 separate calls today. They knew it was coming. On red flag fire day it wasnt a matter of if but when. That is what the men women of cal fire sonoma airport telling us just moments before. About things can change in a minute. No different than firemen and fire station. Wait to go slade down the pole. We just dont have one. Red flag day the gust they take notice. These are the pilots who flew the planes to drop the retardant on california wildfires. They have had a busy, busy summer. And since the impasse in washington they have been going it on their own without help from the California National guard. Which helps service firefightersing plane putting the large dc 10 tanker out of Major Air Force base intersack to. For us to be stay in open rigs and support the fleet and have those aircraft ready to go at moment notice its critical. Lieutenant colonel tom took the rare stand of voicing his frustration half of the staff has gone home on furlough at the start of california most dangerous firefightersing mont month. Logistical support, Aircraft Maintenance support and the back bone of our Operational Support will be missing. Leaving cal fire on their own. Red flag day like this they always keep planes at the ready no more than 20 minutes flying time from any point in the state. Bill buckley has been flying for decades. As to his personal record. 6 hour period i drop 29 times. Especially now in a 10 hour shift scramble first ask questions later. What does this say about the kind of flying you do . We bounce a round a lot. And often. From sonoma county, wayne, abc 7 news. Man who saw his brother stab to death after giants game last week is telling the story from the victim perspective for the first time and only to abc 7 news. Last week man arrested for the stabbing death of 24yearold Jonathan Denver. But he was relessed when San Francisco da said there wasnt enough evidence. Denver lived worked in forth pwring in mendocino county. Laura spoke with his brother and another witness to what happened. The kid that took my brother from me so soon should be behind pwaivrments he says he sdaided to tell his story new because he wants justice for his younger brother january thon denver. The dodger fan who was stabbed to death last week after a giants game. We are walking up the stree street. Thats when group of guy came up from behind us. He says and john and Family Friends went to the gym to celebrate their father 49th birthday. Not everyone in the group was a donor fan. If fact some wore giants gear. After the game after stop at local bar priest john and friend joe were walking near third and harrison when larger group of men came up behind them. That group included young man he identifies as montgomery. 21yearold who was arrested for stabbing denver and later released. Why would you carry a knife if you werent p. M. Into if what would happen or about if you guy wrepts going to do, looking for trouble. We were walking down the street to our car. Reporter joe didnt want his face shown says reports their group had encountered montgomery and his friends early in the night untrue. Pandemonium broke out in the fighting. The we were 3 guys. They were 8. Reporter his father monty said his stop stabbed denver but nonl selfdefense after Jonathan Denver hit montgomery with a chair. I was just protecting my brother. Reporter Robert Priest says he not john swung a chair at montgomery. What kind of chair are we talking about. Just aluminum beach chair. It was a gift that my dad gave me from cominger stadium. Reporter Bill Montgomery released. The Police Continue to investigate his claim that he stabbed denver in selfdefense. If. From the Police Department stand point you cant end a fight with a knife and you certainly cant kill somebody. Took my brother too soon f. Way too soon. The wasnt worth it. Reporter San Francisco da says he wont charge montgomery until Police Provide independent witnesses or evidence that could lead to conviction. L in fort bragg, abc 7 news. Happening now south bound interstate 5 is open once again at stockton tonight where firefighters continue to battle flames at recycling plant. Old railroad tie feeding the flame flames. Fir caused propane cylinder to explode and spark started 18 small grass fire quickly extinguished. 43 way lanes closed. Fire crew expected to be there all night long. We get live update on the fire tonight on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7. Fire heavily damaged 12 unit Apartment Building in sunnyvale this afternoon. Fire officials now say the building is no longer safe to occupy. City of fire break out on second floor already heavily involved when firefighters arrived on the scene. Cause is being investigated. 3 High School Students san jose taken to the hospital this afternoon after the school bus collided with a truck. We were there shortly after the accident happened on the corner of east julianne and north 28 street. The bus carrying students hate white pick up that turned in front of it then hit an suv. 3 students who complained of neck pain were taken off the bus wearing neck neck braces put on to stretcher and then taken to the hospital. The driver of the suv was also hospitalized. None of the other 47 students or bus driver was injured. Felony charges have now been filed against east bay man and his son in what could turn out to be the largest security fraud case in california history. At stake more than 700 Million Dollars from about 2800 investors. Many of them in the bay area. 7 news i Team Reporter dan noyes update on story he first broke more than two years ago. Over the past 35 years walter and his son kelly ran series of limited partnership. Among them re loan. Bar k ink. Before 4 partner made loan to real estate developer. The charging document, if says they in effect looted the funds by micking repeated cash withdrawal. They are charged with structuring transactions inform the purpose of before evading reporting requirement. 20 counts for kelly and carries possible 10 years in prison and 500,000 dollar fine. Heck of a long delay. Reporter unionyearold doctor is typical of the invest tovrments he met them through friend and lost more than 400,000 dollars. Hes had to delay his retirement. Hes relieved they have faipally been charged. I felt happy at last ill be happier when they are sitting in jail and happier yet if they are able to extract anything pl but i think we may have lost everything. Reporter they also face civil case from the sec accusing them of lying to investor about the health of the fund and secretly using the assets of new Real Estate Fund to rescue an older rapidly collapsing fund. Attorney Richard Brown leading class action lawsuit. He thinks they and others involved in the funds may faced a national charges. Will find that during this period when they were skimming the money that the people were supposed to be watching over them, the accountant, lawyers and bankers were not doing their job. Reporter they are set for arraignment in one month and ill be there to cover it t. Their attorney declined to comment today and kelly attorney didnt call me back. Now that they have been charged irs l from the madoff case comes into mraichlt investors may deduct up to 95 percent of the losses. For the i team, dan noyes abc 7 news. Free mont police lack for the bandit who robbed credit union. Female suspect walked that the credit union here yesterday afternoon. She robbed teller of undisclosed amount of cash. Theres the picture. Police need your help to identify her. Shes 5 fat 8. 170 pounds with dark brown hair pulled back and wearing red and white shoes. Now she left the bank on foot in unknown direction. No one was hurt in the robbery but they got pretty good picture of the person they are looking for. A lot more to come this thursday night. Coming up nex next. Twitter i p o. A what we learn about the company this could be worth as much as 1 billion dollars. Also exploratorium police got earful today from the bicycle riderser during hearing at city hall. And fortunate and myself fortunate. Bit coin. Internet currency linked to on line marketplace for illegal drugs. [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. 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It had a net loss of 79 Million Dollars despite revenue that nearly tripled to 317 million. Many twitter is most anticipated stock sale of the year. It proof twitter that many people miss in the early day as useless proving that people take it serious. Dont dismiss it. Its proving that it is a Global Internet media power house. Twitter will sell share upped twtr and expected to go public next month to much fan fare. San Francisco Police got earful today from bicycle bicycle ridersers during hearing in city hall. One person after another accused the department of being biased against bicyclist. They say officers often blame victims when car hit the bike error pedestrian. Sentiment came to flash point between 24yearold person was hit and killed by a truck and officer publicly blamed the bicyclist. There seams to be overwhelming blame the victim attitude among some officers within the Police Department. Who assume that people biking and walking for some reason more likely at fault. What we want is simple fair equal treatment and thorough investigations. Deputy police chef says instead of the hearing all traffic officers undergo accident training investigation and bike advocate say Training Needs to be more focused on bicyclist and pedestrians rights. Weshltion its that time of year again. Time to get flu shot and Health Officials in the east bay were out making sure that seniors are covered. Registered nurses from sutter here at home gave flu shot at the San Leandro Community center. First of 2 flu clinic. Next thursday october tenth from 9 30 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon. Shots given on first come first serve basis. It costs 5 dollars per person but if covered by Medicare Part b guess what, it is free. Pvl consider to protect yourself entering flu season and well see not too long from now. Meantime nice. Very summer like. Except for strong winds. Which of course are pleasant they feel Pleasant Walk out. But increasing fire danger around the bay area. Strong gusty wind. Clear sky right now look at live doppler 7hd. No heat wave but warming up over the next few days. High fair danger. Live view from the roof top camera over embarcadero on clear sky. Temperatures are 63 degrees exploratorium and san jose. 68 over in san carlos and 60 at los gatos 64 at half man bay. High definition east bay hills camera. Notice how shakey the picture look camera up high in the strong gusty winds but we can look out on clear sky and other location right now 66 santa rosa. 69 napa. Novato, antioch concord and Golden Gate Bridge view take a look at the forecast feature. Feature gusty wind during overnight Early Morning hours. High fire danger in the hells. Red flag warning in effect until saturday morning for bay area hills. Warmer day ahead tomorrow saturday. Not heat wave but rather summer like. Heres satellite radar composite image showing use we have the strong gusty winds. Tight Pressure Gradient with low pressure inland and High Pressure offshore. This alignment generally produces strong gusty wind thats what we have writ now. Wind animation at which point we have strong gust along the coasts and especially inland out in the fairfield area. During overnight hours into the Early Morning we see strongest gust chipping out to Delta Fairfield tomorrow morning 44 to 45 Miles Per Hour and strong gust on the coast as well. During the daytime hours tomorrow in the afternoon we see the coastal gust and those around the bay beginning to weaken and still pretty breezy windy across much of the north bay out into the delta and carquinez straits. Windy conditions at times. And slightly Cool Conditions with low generally in the low mid 50s and tomorrow sunny sky and turning warmer summer like south bay high in the low mid 80s up to 82 san jose. Low mid 80s on the peninsula as well and low 70s on the coast. 72 rather at pacifica and 71 half moon bay. Downtown San Francisco see high of 75 to 76 degrees and south San Francisco up to downtown. Up in the north bay we see low mid 80s from santa rosa to sonoma to napa over in the east bay lack for high right around 80 degrees in most locations up to 81 at oakland and fremont and inland east bay high of yes and walnut creek livermore 80 antioch and fairfield. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. Sunday warmest day in the forecast period within land high in the upper 80s. See mid 80s around the bay and low 70s on the coast. Start cooling down on monday and tuesday partly cloudy and chance of some rain. We talk about late rain here. Not downpour. Heavy downpour. We get cholesterol to the rainy season. No gully washer. Not yet but sprinkling. Still to come at 9 00. Bank customers who woke up to find trillions in their bank account. Plus Bay Area Company that nice car. Sure is. Make a deal with me, kid, and you can have the car and everything that goes along with it. [ thunder crashes, tires squeal ] so, what do you say . Thanks. But i think i got this. 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