A woman climbs on stage and assaults musician Lester Chambers in a blues festival last month. Tonight hes calling for tough criminal prosecution of his attacker. Good evening, im cheryl jennings. Im dan ashley. Lester chambers believes he was the victim of a hate crime. Tonight youll hear video. Carolyn tileler has the stri this afternoon Alameda CountyDistrict Attorney decided prosecutors will file two felony charges against the barstow, california woman chambers but not charges he feels are warrantly and chambers hired a high profile attorney. Lester chambers says hes in mizery. His bod skbreerks soul are bruised. My nefshz are shot. I shake. You know . I cant veep. The 73yearold singer a founder of the chambers brothers was doing what he does best. Performing at the blues festival. Watch what happens. This video shows a woman identified as a 43yearold crashing the concert jumping on the stage, just after chambers dedicated a song to the family of florida teenager trayvon martin. Started calling me mf. Sb, with different slurs. And screaming at me, you started this, you started this you mf. And she hit me. Why do you think she did that . Hate. She had hate. In her face. Like a demon. Oirks god, it was ugly. Andrewspotter was charged and releasing. This afternoon the District Attorney decided on felony elder abuse and felony assault. I got a great big lump here in my left rib cage. Injuries put a halt of a come back of sorts. The musician made famous for playing cow bells and singing hits hit time has come today is releasing his first album in years but says performing is now painful. Hes hired a noted civil rights attorney john buress to press the case. I do suggest that they see in the way it really is. Honestly. Its a hate crime there. Is no other reason for it. According to the Police Department a warrant will be issued tomorrow for the arrest of dina lynn andrewspotter. In the newsroom abc 7 news. Thank you. A worker driving a piece of Construction Equipment backed over and killed a woman on a College Campus in the south bay today. The accident happened just after 11 00 this morning in san jess yeah city college. It happened near the schools Fine Arts Building and not known whether the woman was a student but classes were not in session. The college is still on summer break. Had some students were on campus. A construction project is replacing underground water valve autos nudging is more important than the skpaift well being of our students, staff and visitors to the campus. The company says the driver has 35 years experience. Police ask cal osha are investigating. A body found in vacaville has new been identified as a missing federal investigator from oakland. The 50yearold sandra coke disappeared more than a week ago. Police revealed little else about how she died but do say this man, a 56yearold randy alana who dated coke years ago was seen with her night she disappeared and is considered a person of interest. Alana is a registered sex offender in custody on an unrelated offense. Her neighbors said theyre just saddened by the news. Just a wonderful neighbor. Nice, friendly. Beautiful person. Very beautiful person. Her family released a statement that reads, quote the family is devastate bitd loss of our beloved sandra a loving mother, daughter, aunty g light in our family. Well, the biggest seizure of club drugs in the history of the San FranciscoPolice Department a huge quantity of ecstasy may have been destine forward the outside lands festival. Vic lee joins us now with the latest. Vic, what a story. Yes. It s now, Police Showed us all of the ecstasy they confiscated here and it was a large amount. The police chief says good luck, did good timing and good police work. It happened sunday morning on the last day of the music festival. A tenant of an apartment on mission and 29th street called police at 9 00 a. M. Saying someone tried to break into the building. Responding officers saw a broken wind skbro a blood trail. They followed to it another apartment. He answered the door officers observed his hand bleeding. They went inside to see if someone else was hurt and saw steven terrell. Police found something else. Ecstasy. Also called molly or mdma. 23 killies of powder, 30,000 pills and 30,000s ndz cash. The narcotics on the table over here have a street value in excess of 1. 5 million. Investigators believe mate have been headed to the music festival. It turns out most arrests were only for are alcohol. We made a couple arrests not many for possession of what is called dangerous drugs so you know its fortunate none of this made it out there. We spoke to several people attending the festival. They didnt see a lot of drugs but say exstas gee popular especially among younger concert goers. Its a drug kind of stimulating senses and music. Its popular with young people, people going to be listening to electronic music. Both are in custody terrell had been out on bail on Drug Trafficking charges out of illinois. A plea from the family of a 1yearold boy and his father. The 20yearold Andrew Thomas and his son, drew were in the bedroom of a home when someone fired into the building. They were visiting from fresno attend the funeral of a cousin. Family members called for peace and urged upset friends not to retaliate with violence. A reward in this case is now grown to 30,000. The family asked anyone with information to contact police, immediately. An east bay man appeared in court to face charges in a bizarre Hardware Store murder. The 34yearold accused of stabbing a store employee to death apparently a random attack allegedly spray painting vaims face and later told investigators it was because allah faveors the oakland raiders. He was arrested and now being held on 1 million bail. A hayward worker struck by a van today protesting outside city hall over stalled contract negotiations. He was hit by that vehicle and suffered minor injuries. They are investigating. It happened hours after hundreds of city workers began a three day strike. Were at the bottom, were scraping so its time to make a stand this, is the only way to stand, by striking. The union fighting cuts to health care and retirement benefits. Negotiations have been going on since february. Officials say the strike has not impacted city services. Weve been able to keep our facilities open and operating and services to our community. It involves staff and goes on until thursday. Well, feds have now given blessing and up to caltrans and Bay Area Transportation officials to decide when to open a new eastern span of the bay bridge. Were live in oakland where the decision will be made, hopefully in a couple days. Wayne . You know its been 24 years since the earthquake rattled the bay bridge starting this process. Now, an opening day for the eastern pan span is in sight. Were going have is totowait to find out, however. For ease, its been slos, yet so far from us driving on it. The brai bridges defective bolts this structure began to look like a question mark until today. Part of sit when you do this on short notice you need to make sure you can pull it off. From the Program Oversite committee more than a ray of hope a announcement of a few tour announcement after a Public Meeting on thursday are. I think the important thing is that its going to be earlier than december 10th. But not labor day as originally planned. At the root of this, a letter from federal Highway Administration saying shims, the temporary fix for the bolts will render the new bay bridge safer than the old so why not just open cars . Its indication its prepared to be open. Opening is more than shims. Its still sounds fairly complicated. I do want to be on the new bridge if its safer than the old one. Which would be rather be on in an earthquake . San may dayo. Every either project continues on the schedule that would have worked for a labor day opening theyre going turn lights on for the first time. Should be quite a site. Wayne, thank you. And other half of the bay bridge may be known as willy l brown junior bridge after the mayor this, is a live picture from our explore tore yim camera. He says he does not want the honor but a Committee Approved the name change yesterday. That would be an honor. A a woman had her iphone stolen and blames apple for not getting it back. Michael finney is back. Find out why thousands have signed on to a new lawsuit. And later tonight pension predicament facing california state wide reform with an unexpected price tag in washington. Warming trend is well if youre like me, youve been working youve been working like a dog all year. But you dont need to camp out til labor day to reward yourself mattress discounters labor day sale is on now rest those tired bones on a queen size sealy gel memory Foam Mattress for just 497 get 48 months interestfree financing on the entire tempurpedic cloud collection. But this sale wont last long mattress discounters Consumer Reports says 1. 6 million smart phones were stolen in this country last year and tonight, one frustrated owner is saying apple is part of the problem. Michael finney now is here with the story. Blaming apple. Yes. Its interesting. You know, apple released its find my iphone app in 2010 to great reviews but a Union City Woman says not only did it not work the way she expected but thieves were able to thwart it. Denise gomez remembers her years at n. High school in oakland her friends got together in portland for the wedding of one best friend from high school. Unfortunately, the trip took a sour turn. While out i got pickpocketed someone took my iphone out of my pocket. She acted her alert and posted a message asking anyone who found to it call her, she never received a call but did hear from apple getting this confirmation the phone had been repaired in a store the day after it was stolen. She suspects the thief man wrathed to disable the find my iphone features by taking it to a apple store having the technicians there wiping the phone clean. Including the find my iphone feature. That is a miserable failure on the companys part. The Company Knows how to do this better. That is joe ride jout. He says all manufacturers should do more to thwart the use of stolen phones. George gascone has been pressuring manufacturers to make a stolen phone impossible to use. Now, apple and samsung have come up with a kill switch that could deactivate the phone if lost or stolen. Hopefully, the sits tim will prove effective but too late for denise. We believe a solution is the best answer to this problem. We want to remove the market value of this item. The da says half of the robberies involve smart phones. Thieves are snatching them on streets, buses, if youre holding a smart phone, youre vulnerable. She cant say apple techs wiped the phone clean. The thiefs could have done it but she does know apple worked on her phone after it was stolen. And didnt even verify my identity. Apple declined an opportunity for an interview or issuing a statement to 7 on your side. Michael, thank you. Another lawsuit against chevron over the richmond fire last year, 5,000 people signed on for it. It blames chevron for the fire that sent clouds of black smoke into the air. Chevron paid out 12 million in fines claims and reimbursements and vowing to fight a similar suit earlier this year. A special honor today for a respected local Law Enforcement official. Restaurantxwe johns grill unveiled a picture of susan manhimmer. The restaurant honored local residents and dignitaries. 100 pictures now grace walls. Manhimmer has been san mateos chief, former president of the California PoliceOfficers Association and served 16 years in San FranciscoPolice Department. Good cop. Way to go, chief. Lets talk about the weather forecast. Warming up. It warmed up today, high temperatures mid to upper 90s in locations and still above 90s in a couple spots. Sunny skies from coast to inland. High temperatures today just a sampling. 96 clear lake 95 clover dale. Here in San Francisco a high of 70 degrees, warm around the bay area. Notice ab sechbs blue clouds and fog. 81 in los gatos, another live view looking at the bay bridge under blue skies. Other readings 83 in santa rosa. And one more live view from our camera. Hazy there. We may see patchy low clouds during overnight hours and another warm day tomorrow. And cooler at the weekend. Water vapor shows you two systems competing for control of our weather. Not air mass now is get being a bit of the edge but cool air mass going to take a bite out of the warm skppblg temperatures dropping just a little bit before warming up again. Clear skies just patches of low clouds here and there. Lows into mid up toer 50s. Well have just a few patchy low clouds mainly clear skies and clearer. Sunny skies all day tomorrow, high temperatures from mid to upper 60s at the coast. 70s and 80s ash around the bay. South bay, sunny, warm, highs from 85 in santa clairea. 92 morgan hill. Mid to upper 90s on the coast. 72 degrees downtown tomorrow. North bay highs 87 in santa rosa. 81 fremont. Inland east bay, 92 in walnut creek. Near is the accuweather forecast. Highs remaining in the 90s inland locations over next thursday and friday. So warmth is here for a while. Summer has returned. Yes, it has. Thank you very much. Still ahead a remarkable project to preserve a local you dont need to camp out you dont need to camp out til labor day to reward yourself get the queen size sealy gel memory Foam Mattress for just 497 not to labor the point. But this sale wont last long mattress discounters a key piece of legislation on the sale of weapons that have so called bullet buttons. In. I matter of seconds in the number of assault weapons a magazine could not be changed without disassembling the weapon altogether. The lobby vowed to continue to fight it. One bill didnt make it today is one backed by actor Jason Patrick to allow sperm donors to petition for parental rights. Patrick was denied Paternity Rights by a judge. A panel voted to keep it in committee for further review. Celebrities in support of tougher measures against the actresses testified to include photographing a child without permission of a legal guardian increasing fines and allows civil lawsuits in case autos i dont want a gang of shouting arguing law breaking photographers who camp out everywhere we are all day, every day to continue to traumatize my kids this, bill would give us our rights back to protect our children. That bill moved forward opponents say its too skpraig could apply to legitimate news gathering and private citizen autos we have more still to come at 6 00. Surplus report in the Oakland School district. How a land owner can cash in. Tonight controversial reaction to a law giving transgender students their choice of facilities to use at school autos and a good, Old Fashioned march for immigration reform. Why th [ male announcer ] so you used the wrong flea killer. But then why is he the one in the doghouse . 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School board member leads the special committee which is taking a closer financial look at all of the districts properties including the administrative building on 2nd avenue lng an eye sore because it hasnt been upgraded and now closed because of a flood several months ago. Do you enter into a long term lease . Do you just rebuild there . Do you sell it . Its near lake merit some say its time to do something about it. If they can do something to make it seem like the neighborhood is coming up it would be welcoming. Would be welcoming. Behinb building there is this one, boarded up for years. The only ones living here are transients and theyve been sleeping here at night. London says any decision must involve the community n 2006 after taken over by the state because of mismanagement there was an attempt to sell both buildings and a few adjacent ones but the public objected. Dan was aboard member in 2006. So, i think the planning process has to have a long view rather than a short few. Oakland unified still owes the state 65 million. The district says it would like to get rid that have debt sooner than later. One defender of the samesex marriage ban is coming out against a new law granting rights to transgender stud yechblts yesterday, Governor Brown signed legislation allowing transgender students to choose teams and rest rooms matching their gender identity rather than biological gender. It makes california the first state in the nation to pass a law addressing trance gender children. Randy thompson offered reaction. If someone is deceived in their minds if a girl thinks shes a boy if a boy thinks he is a girl those kids need counseling sexually confused kids. Last year the american skrik association announced being transgender would no longer be considered a disorder. Californias at risk of losing billions of dollars in transportation funds because of state pension reforms. The new law increases government worker contributions and device kreess benefits. 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