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KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY May 27, 2015

After deadly floods hit texas. States of emergency in oklahoma and texas and Authorities Say a third body has been pulled from a river texas bringing the number ofpeople to 13. Phillip has more. Reporter surgeing waters from swollen rivers turning highways into canals, leaveing hundreds of cars trapped and families forced to carry children through waist high wars . We believe there may be as my as 4,000 homes with snificant damage. Damage. In houston, thousands evacuated from their homes in 24 hours they got nearly a quarter of a year rainfall. Cant see. Rescuers responding to nearly 900 emergency calls, more than half water rescues. Repter days of record rainfall in texas have lefthe ground saturated. More tha a dozen people confirm confirmed dead and dozens more missing, including laura and her two children swept away insi this house. Her husband survivedut remains hospitalized. She called me said im in a house, im floating down the river. Tell mom and dad i loveou and pray. The search effo continues with help from Mother Nature and storms moving out of this area and floodwaters continuing to recede. Wimberly, texas. Sandy patel is here on the sere weather its been unrelent unrelenting. It has been. You will see strong thunderstorms pounding texas and oklahoma and severe thunderstorm watches are still going and going to run until the wee hours of tomorrow morning. That report at at the top of our forecast was west of the sticity at 6 32. Numerous reports ofownl cloudsunnel clouds and flash warnings in texas as well. And thunderstorms rolled through that area. Ey will be seeing Severe Weather outbreak tomorrow and potential for tornado and hail and morehis week as well. Thank you. Back in the bay area residents and officials cant figure out why water is seeping into a yard and down a street. Every little bit of water counts. Abc 7 news repter Laura Anthony has more. These are the worst o times when it comes to lack of water. She has to put rubber boots on in herackyard and the source is unknown. Its mystery water. We cant idenfy the source or where its comi from. The water has flowed from he hillside beyond the home. It flows in the front too. Down the street not far from neighbors. If nature is provideing the water, who am i to stop it. If it were neighbors, that would be different. They do have a pumping statio klose by and giant pump pumps. They have detected no leaks so far. We cant determine the leak and it is a mystery. Woe will be the only yard that will be green. I would trade the brown yard for none of these water pblems any time. There are natural springs in the ea. If thats the cause so far no ones been able to find it. In san ramon Laura Anthony. Abc 7 news. Theyre buying up more Emergency Water tonight. They agreed to buy 12,000 acres, and will cost 6 6 million and getting it here another 5 5 million. Looking for any who may have seenhis tan maybe gray chevrolet blazer. A child between 9 and 12 was seen struggling in the console area. The vehicle crossed at 8 37. The kid ws screaming and last seen westbound and no license plates but an operateing permit in the rear area of the window. Chp wants to loce the driver to make sure the child is okay. If you have tips please call. Were learning about the arrest of former 49er ray mcdonald on suspicion of child endangerment endangerment. You hear them transfer the call to Santa Clara Police after a woman reported her daughter had been assaulted. Myhone number. Im all the way away. Im no there and she called me trying to escape fromwith the infant. The man was the fatherschilds father and the man was drunk. They wont release the audio. In 1982, swedish ah pair Elizabeth Martinsson remained unsolved until her remains were found in he hills of fremont. They questioned this man who was driveing her car a was released and now searching for him as a person of interest here we are 30 years later trying to bring closure and stice to the family. Certainly it will a does take a toll on detectives and the family. This is martinssons missing persons flyer from 1982. Sheriffs investigator are consulting with the original detectives now that they have new clues. A family that lost two family members to a drunk drir plan to be in court every step the way. The driver jones is charged with two counts of homicide and could lead to life sennces. Reporter 35yearold Brian Zachary jones is no long ear free man shown here earlier this mon going to court. He has now been charged with two counts o homicide and held without bailn county jail. He is accused of killing 45 45yearold Esperanza Morales and her ughter. Investigators from chp said jones was going 75 to 90 miles an hour just before the corvette jumped the curb and smashed into four people. Now, he dont have his wife and daughter. L he wants is justice. Reporter so do other members of the morales family and their friends. They showed up to a Court Hearing where they hope to hear jones enter a plea. Instead, the plea has been postponed until next month. They learned he was charged with a dui plea in 2003 and now charged with a dui and homide. Challengeing the amount of attention gets and political pressure from the district attorneys office. Reporter the morales family and friends vow to be in court each time jones is scheduled to appear. I hope he gets the time he deserves and pays the victim every penny. Reporter jones is expected to stay in custody as in ail me da county homicide cases do not allow bail. Abc 7 news. On to other matters, warriors are resting tonight before the western conference showdown with the rockets. The team returned to the bay area. There as players got off the charter plane. All eyes on steph curry after this hard fall h his back and head and tough on his shoulder as well. Fans were so relieved after he returned to the game after getting checked out by team doctors. People calling in to talk radio are worried about currys health for tomorrowsgame. He should befine. The weird part about a head inry, you never know until you get a chance to rest and recuperate to e if theres lasting effects. Fans expect curry to play well and put the team in the nba finals with a win. If they can pull it off tomorrow. Curry is on the cover of this weeks Sports Illustrated regional cover for the second week in a row. The headline, my town, my team. Game 5 is tomorrow at oracle arena and if needed game 6 in houston and game 7 at oracle. We have a lot more ahead. Up next, fighti a plan to move the alcatraz dock on the bay. I hate to see it become a huge tourist destination. The quiet sceneic spot that could become its new berth. And the more than a new report out tonight is drawing a big problemo santa clara counte a Homeless Population costing as much as half a billion dollars a year. Reporter Lorene Chandler is survivor. People shame you for being homeless and really blame you. After aear of that you start blameing yourlf something must be wrong with me. Reporter a21yearold woman who had nowhere to go. With nowhere to call hom i discovered downtown san antonio, what areas sab jose what areas are safe to sleep downtown. Reporter the largest air homeless arein the country. Between 2007 and 2012, nearly 520 520 million were spent each year to provide services for homeless residents. 53 was spent on health care, er visit visits, Psychiatric Services and 43 43 on social justice servic. What we suspected we can use this data to go after resources and strategyies we need. Reporter it was commissioned by destation home a Public Private partnership to reduce homelessness ad building more permanent supportive houseing much like the assistance andler was lucky to receive. Given these keys i had somewhere safe and sound and permanent, not just were going to give you houseing for a little bit and hope you get it tother. It takes longer than that. Reporter while critics say houseing wot necessaryilyy lyily solve all the problems, advocates believe its a step forward. Abc 7 news. Theres an addendum here the city ofan francisco spends nearly 176 176 millionn care and services for the homeless annually. Thats according to the latest numbers available from the city. Keep in mind that figure does not include the cost of hospital care or incarceration. There are about 1100 more Homeless People in islamicsanta clara county than San Francisco. 1. 5 Million People make the trip from alcatraz every year. And there is concern over where they board the ferry. Some wantt moves and others dont. Alcatraz has be open for toursince 1972. Over the past nine years sitors boarded the ferryhere. The lease is about to expire and the National Park service is now examining its options for a 50 year leas please dont do it. Reporter sherry and her husband object to it tha will bring traffic and other disruptions to a tranquil seclud part of the marina strict. It will change it and ruin it. Reporter the park service is exploring moving it back to home basef pier 41 and would replace the commuter ferryies or might just stay put. The negotiations involve finance financing and investment in the infrastructure. Infrastructure. Theinancial picture we understand what that is. Thats a National Park service site. In order to have a range of alrnative alternatives, we wanted to look at all potentily viable alternative alternatives. Port officials are fighting to keep thener ferryies from floating off their proper but says the National Park serves are asking for Unusual Services to stay. It would put their si and repair above others. Reporter they pulled a bad offer off the table. Both sides are optimistic a deal can be reached for pier 31 1 . In San Francisco colyn tyler abc 7 news. We are getting an up close look to the damage to a bridge in napa county 4. 1 magnitude earthquake. In addition to the cracks a portion of the oakville crossroad bridge sank 24 inches and pulled apart existing crack on the nearly 100yearold bridge. The bridge was already scheduled for replacement this summer. Only bikes ad pedestrians allowed. Christopher johns says he will leave the companyiality they ality thet the end of the year and was in charge duringhis companys explosion. And pleaded guilty to 28 federal Violations Including Pipeline Safety and pipeline obstruction obstructions. He said pipeline improvedwhile he led the company. A little misty in spots today and a chance that may continue. Thats ight. Our meteorologist has whats in store for us. Were goinghave a little more drizzle coming our way. It wont solve the drought but it helps. We count every drop. Tomorrow mning dont be surprised if you run into slick spots. The marine layer here and how extensive the cloud cover is ail me da, youre socked in and just a matter of time before it gets to the inland valleys. The wind is still going at fairfield, gusting to 32 out of the southwest andushing the clouds out of the valley. A look at the pictures across the bay you can see gray skyies and had measurable drizzle this morning and probably had to use the umbrella. San francisco,. 200 of an inch and going into the morning with more drizzle. Overcast skyies over the bay. Cloudy for the morning, touchy drizzle. Warmer the next few days and cooler pattern beginning sunday. Heres aook why its unseason unseasonably cool. People are asking about this. Where is the heat . Where is summer . We had one trough after another comethrough. These are slowlyoving out and allows a weak ridge to build in. Not a large rid so dont expect hot weather but will allow with warming, especially around the bay and inland. 77s the average high. The next couple of days you will be close to average coming to the low 80s, saturdays a little above normal and dropping sunday. We are expecting numbers to come up a few more degrees. Heading to theweekend the trough approaches Northern California sunday and the afternoon and monday morning next week. Tomorrow morning, uer 40s to mid50s. You will see some drizzly ots. Watch out for that. 74 in south bay in san jose, straight straight, gilroy. 78 gilroy. Clouds along the coastline. The peninsula, low 70s, redwood city paololo alto coming up to 63 degrees and 58 with the lingering cloud cover and in the north bay in the 50s and cool in the coast withhe clouds. Hang onto the sweater or jacket if youre at the coast. 75 in santa rosa. 74 napa. East bay santa rosa you will need sunscreen. 79 in fairfield 78 in limp livermore. Mid80s and low 60 coast. Sunday, things turcooler breeze breezier, maybe drizzle in the forecast as well. That couldchange. Ill let you know if it turns into showers. We always welcome the showers. A new honor for steve woznia where you can visit him. And recognizeing significant events where you live the Jenny Lin Foundation was establisheafter the senseless murderof her, and her parts wanted to honor h life with music and fans will soon able to see Steve Wozniac at the wharf. It will be in wax. Voteing the cofoundernd will be taking more than 250 measurements of the woz. It will have a permanent position along steve jobs and mark zuckerberg. Perfect spot. Abc 7ews was there as graduate graduates showed off their ability in arts. The Commencement Speaker and opera singer, neuroscientist talked about how budding artists cane successful. We want to impart its really important not just to talk but to listen. Theres lot you can learn from listen listening, you dont know what that is until you actually listen. City School Officials are deciding whether to restrict enrollment to san francio only. Well have more over on channel on that story. For now, another 30 minutes of abc 7 news at 9 00 is coming up next. Cong up passenger planes reatened and fighter jets scrambled. A warning from the fbi. A very frightening moment after a passenger jet loses power in both engines at 39,000 feet. What the airline is saying about what happened. Ax information stoll. Thieves for over 60,000 california foster children, its a challenge to repce clothes that are too small or worn out. I grew 3 inches last year. I dont need anything fancy. I never had much to begin with. When i look nice on the outside i feel better on the inside. To help, sleeprain is collecting new clothes for kids big and small. Bring your gift to any sleep train and he make a Foster Childs day a little brighter. Not everyone can be a foer parent, but anyone can help a foster child. X engines revving. Listen up. Ready. Ready. Steady. Sfx engines revving. Go its more than a movie. Its now a ride. Fast and furioussupercharged. Ride it at Universal Studios hollywood. Good evening. Once again well start in Southern California this half hour. The lapd bomb squad responded to lax this afternoon. The flight landed safely and taken to the airport. They were able to exit the plane safely. All threats were taken seriously regardos angeles regardless of the credibity of the caller. This comes after threats on monday. The fbi is looking for an anonymous suspect responsible for this. Shut down at your discretion. You may be there for a while. Reporter an air france yet surrounded at jfk. As it approached the u. S. Fighter jets scramblednd watch watched from a distance ashe jed liner landed just 1 in about 10 flights an unidentified caller made a threat to authorities about a chemical aboard, all fakes. The fbi has to take every one of these seriously . They almost dont have any choice particularly if th plane is in the air. What will you do . You will search it. Tonight the fbi will try to trace ck the phone call was it in the u. S. Or overseas. Is that call made from an organization or individual. You want to charge this person. This costs hundreds of thousands of dollars andhey have to send a signal out. If you do this, they can lock you up. Abc news, washington. A singapore flight from shanghai lost power in both engines at 39,000 feethis weekend. It happened just south of hong kong and caused the airbus to descend 13,00 feet before the crew was able to restart the engine. The jeff landed safely and hour and a half later. The plane was only two months old and despite a series of tes tests, the cause of the loss of power couldnt be determined. Irs says thieves stole information from 100,000 taxpayers. They used an online servic to get taxpayers information. The irs said they cleared a security screen that requires knowledge about that person cluding Social Security number, date of birth and street address. The system was hit from february to midmay and temporarily shut down. Another demrat eyeing the pridential race, vermt Bernie Sanders announce dd dd his candidacy. This type of rged economy is not what america is supposed to be about. This has got to change. As your president together, we are going to change it. Sanders also promised to run a Clean Campaign with no personal attack ss. Meantime, secrary of stateitte hkt Hillary Clintons campaign is running unconventional pducts with this pantsuit up. They can wear it for 30 30. Clinton is known for wearing pantsuit pantsuits. Part of their campaigns sre glasses made from 100 shattered glass ceiling. Get it . For the very young voters onesy with Clintons Campaign on it. A teran voter refusing to let the order take effect on deportation if allowed to take affect it could affect millions of legal immigrants. And the president s executive order was blocked. Temperates in parts of the country yesterday were as high as 122 degrees. Forecast forecasters expect high teeratures for another couple of days before anyrelief. Another heat wave could be on the way after that. In the countrys capitol,ew delhi, the heat was so intense it melted the crosswalk lines on major road. Genetically engineered and harmless form of her piec

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