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KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM July 12, 2014

Watching a google executive die of a heroin overdose exposed a dirty little secret in Silicon Valley. Good evening. An Atlanta Television station is reporting the suspected call girl admitt in santa cruz that she gave heroin to her boyfriend in atlanta last year and he too died as an overdose. It should come as no surprise the sex trade is booming in Silicon Valley. Technology workers are thriving and Bank Accounts are swelling. I spoke with four sex workers between 5 and 30 years of experience each, no one wanted to discuss what happened sh they talked about the surge in the work saying business is good, but hasnt yet turned to prerecession levels unable to find a job, she turned to dancing. I heard from dancers working before the recession is that it was absolutely insane how little money were making because the tech book in the 90s had been great for the sex industry. Today, there is a similar resurgence thanks to new money, and new customers. Around here, were getting influx of people moving to the bay area getting paid lots of money which is great for any industry. Especially direct Service Industries another sex worker tells me she commutes to Silicon Valley because she can charge higher rates. Suzy q is a bay area sex industry entrepreneur. Would be ridiculous if i did not respond to the economic boom here in the Silicon Valley. Shes noted the major shift in clients during the past year. I have gone from having a handful of some of my best friends being in the Tech Industry in some capacity to the majority of my clients being in the Tech Industry. Telling us recent executives death is not as much of a factor as the forum that was closed down. Can you imagine what Small Businesses would do if yelp got shut down . She suspects the industry will come up with alternatives and hopes sex workers will one day operate legally. When work is not criminalized it does not attract criminals. There is no exact count of sex workers in the bay area but those in the industry they say it is about 10,000s sxdz that new york still has higher prices. An amtrak train hit a pedestrian on the tracks this happened around 4 30 here in lafayette street and hogan drive on the capitol tracks trains being held at santa clara stations and passengers are stuck and waiting. This is affecting a south bay commute. Police have not said if a person survives nor an indication when tracks will reopen. Grand jury transcripts have been released in the case of torres. He is accused of murdering sierra lamar. The body has never been found there are nearly 2000 pages of transcript. Theyre crammed ton a pdf file on this cd rom drive we just got about an hour ago. And have as you noi, the body was never found there has been a lot of secrecy surrounding 3r0ed proceedings. And there was an document now lets go to some of the things weve been able to glean from the files. Lots of people participated in searches for her, and in some of the searches there has been evidence found according to some of the testimony in this grand jury, information we have, pieces of evidence like her pants, her backpack, those are key in trying to draw dna samples theyve been able to use in this case. Were able to pour through information from testimony given to a criminologist. She says that based on that evidence, they were able to make matches to 12 people in the states files for possible suspects. Lets go to a quote from the strans script. This is an exchange between the assistant District Attorney and that crime nalgist he asked her you pick up the phone and send information you give them, they give you offender information. When person did they give you . The answer antolin garciatorres now, based on the testimony gone on for quite a while now that we can read through this, we know there was an document handed down now as mentioned lots of stuff to pour through. Well have better information coming up. Reporting live abc7 news thank you very much. A foul odor faced evacuation of a main Police Administration building today officials still cant say when its going to reopen. About 200 people had to clear the building after a Police Lieutenant noticed a gaslike odor did 11 00 in the morning. After teams swept the building it was determined there is no gas leak and the smell came from the air conditioning system. No Emergency Services were disrupted it was sad, then ushgs see everybody saying evacuate. The 911 dispatch center is not located here. Last year, a toilet floode and the building was closed many blame it on old infrastructure. San Francisco Police say a fight near at and t park was not caused by fan rivalry. It happened in front of this restaurant, a popular restaurant a witness told us a man and drunk woman got into a fight with two men and two women. Sources tell us the people may have been making fun of the drunk woman and maybe taking her picture. Most were wearing giants or as gear the victim was hit and knocked unconscious. The suspect hit her in the face. Knocked her out, flat. Just a punch, she was down, out cold, on the sidewalk. The giants provide security for only 45 minutes once the game is over a sunnyvale man has been arrested for soliciting provocative photographs from a teenager. According to authorities, scott angelo posing as a relative convince hadded tore send him swimsuit photos for a modelling job. Investigators linked him to six cases and seized 50 photographs when raiding his home. In brentwood a felony warrant in Adams Middle School in march. One boy allegedly used a picture to coerce a girl into performing sex acts. Hes supposed to turn himself in last month and was not home. A former yahoo employee suing a highlevel executive for Sexual Harassment arcs cueing her of forcing a woman she supervised to have sex with her the two shared a unit together after being transferred from seattle the plaintiff says she was given a bad review after resisting the sexual encounters. Yahoo says it will defend her against accusations San Francisco considering getting rid of hundreds of onstreet parking spots. Dozens spoke up in a hearing. Sfnta wants to reserve 450 spots this year, for car share companies. Why not on private spaces . What is wrong with that model . Why take 450 space as way from Common People in San Francisco . The Pilot Program would increase from 12 to 900. Its part of the program toechl tend services far from downtown San Francisco. San joses Downtown High rise is likely to be home to some tech workers. He is there as south market where they want renters, not buyers. Developers say theyre capitalizing on a trend that Downtown Living appeals to a growing number of Young Workers the cranes arent working on towers but building rental apartment projects for people like jody garr. We have a daughter. We love the fact youve got childrens museum, the library at the university, that has lots of children programs and we love st. Peter. We just walk everywhere. San jose has been encouraging this as it tries to boost the downtown population from 800 to 2500. That is why the mayor and several Council Members were on hand for a topping off celebration at one, south market. A 23story tower that will have 312 units its a life style choice. So people that are buying or renting want to live in the downtown area and that is what theyre going to do throughout their career. Downtown shops and regulars straunts will benefit. Getting to a point where retailers are looking at this as a great opportunity. We have office space and residential in the neighborhood. San jose will seek 4200 new units this year the mayor says more rental units will be meeting demand. Housing prices are skyrocketing. And so were not overbuilding in that sense. Still ahead at 6 00 a Million Dollar cover up taking place. Why it had to be repainted after less than a year in use. This construction snafu stranded dozens of passengers and left them in the dark. Residents are being threatened with arrests and the caller, posing as a sheriffs deputy. Youll never believe where calls are coming from. The story is ahead. Programising a warm up. This weekend will be delivered. This weekend will be delivered. Abc7 newat .  .  cant say thank you enough. This weekend will be delivered. Abc7 newat .  .  you have made my life special by being apart of it. everyone cheers glad you made it buddy. Thanks for inviting me. Thanks again my friends. For everything, for all your help. Through all lifes milestones, our trusted advisors are with you every step of the way. 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Quote, were frustrated with the situation and know many customers are greatly inconvenienceed and feel for them we hope this can be resolved quickly. To faa, should you have known . Weve had several meetings with the faa. At some point, someone should have said you need a flight check it was too foggy the agency will try again tomorrow evening. No word from Alaska Airlines about whether it will send the flight up from los angeles tonight or not. It depends on the weather. Well, we want to tell but a classic vehicle auction like no other. Were talking about tanks. This was used in the tank series. Up for auction, a variable army. He made collecting and restoring his lifes work. I just enjoy working on them and driving them around. We have a tank, one of the most important vehicles. It was d armor to go into the battle. This might be, i dont know. Yes. Nick has competition. And it could sell for 5,000 or more. There is a 200 page glassy catalog. And people with an interest, this is that once in a hive time opportunity. This is raising and lowers for rain. When over, 116 pieces will be sold. It will put 84 on tos play. The guys who served on those is a tribute to them to keep them alive. Just incredible. What a collection. Absolutely. Hi, spencer. Hi, ama. And dan, thank you for memories. Weve got sunny skies, low clouds at the coast pushing locally now. You can see low clouds there building in the background its 65 degrees now. 70s in san jose. Here is a view you can see its obscuring our view. Temperatures ranging from 70 degrees to low 70s. Another view from our east bay hills camera. Low clouds filling in overnight. Farmer inland this weekend and a summer spread of temperatures next week about a 30 degree spread or more from coast to inland low pressure lifting northward now. This system is fuelling thunderstorms. That lifts northward. Warm air mass becoming hotter air mass. And hot conditions inland monday and tuesday. Clouds are pushing inland lows upper 50s and low 60s, tomorrow, well see it go going back to the coastline. 80 degrees in san jose. Upper 70s from redwood city and mountain view. Low to mid 60s in pacifica. Downtown San Francisco, 66 tomorrow. East bay highs 73. And almost hot to about 90 degrees in brentwood. Here is the accuweather forecast. Warming continues monday, tuesday. Hottest days well see 96 degrees inland 94 tuesday. Mid60s on the coast. And up next why a ride service wasnt allowed to open in new york today. A San Francisco business has been banned in the bay area, the Ride Sharing Service lift has been forced to postpone the launch in new york city. Officials claim it operates like a traditional taxi service. In open defiance of licening laws. Former head of cal pers pleaded guilty to a bribery charge, admitting to accepting 200,000 from cash and casino chips the board member pleaded not guilty to fraud. State Supreme Court said you cant get two strikes for one crime under california threestrikes law. This ruling in favor of a woman who appealed her third strike sentence the fires two resulted from a robbery and car jacking conviction. There is excitement building for aids walk San Francisco. There is still time to get involved to make a difference. It raised 82 million, helping fight aids and hiv. This years sponsor is qwest medical laboratories. I realized that hiv is onongoing issue. There are many people at risk. Abc7 is a major sponsor and this years walk is nine day as way, sunday, july 20thth. Well be out there to register go to aids walk. Net or down load aids walk app coming up, abc7 News Eye Team follows up on sensitive follows up on sensitive documents abandoned so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. Heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multicar, paperless. You make a mighty fine missus, mlady. Im not saying marks thrifty. 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Occasionland Unified School District showing work its done to safeguard hundreds of boxes of sensitive documents. That is in response to an eye Team Investigation in which weve uncovered a serious breech of security. That may have resulted in five cases of identity theft. Iets shocking to see records just sitting there. The boxes may be safe, but we dont know how much information is out there. It began when he left the files behind. Oakland unified School Administration abandoned their Head Quarters in january, 2013 after a janitor left this faucet on, flooding the building. Police have played a cat and mouse game with police. I went back at 6 00 monday morning to find someone had broken in again. Have you seen payroll records in there . Do you know of anyone taking those out . Just inside sh i found where the district kept records. Boxes and boxes that are still there. The Legal Department stored records in this area, all still there. I found studentent records, names, addresses and birth dates, even Social Security numbers the district moved out 18 months ago. With break ins, who knows what criminals now have information . That is not right that anyone can do with it whatever they want to. You know . He believes someone got the information from the old admin building. He says two weeks ago, they struck. Someone withdrawn my checking account. Entire account . To the penny. Ouch money . Almost 1500 hodges is among five victims who have had identities stolen they dont know why other types of employees have not been hit. Numerous credit cards in any maim. Paul says someone has taken out seven cards with his information. And opened store lines of credit. He does not want to deal with Something Like this heading into retirement after 24 years with the district. Im worried about my retirement. Why . I dont know if they can get into that account and have Social Security sent into an erroneous address i dont know how good they are. I wanted to speak to the new superintendent. We want to be smarter today than yesterday. Wilson refused to be interviewed for the story. This wasnt handled in the best manner possible. Within hours of that interview, the district hired a Restoration Company to clean up the mess and box up the documents. And tell me they will take care of any employee who has been connected including paying for credit cleansing. Its not just pay rl. There arent reports there. What do you say to parents whose childs information has been exposed like this . I reached out to the governing board. I wanted to talk about the thefts and the other assets left behind i saw rooms and rooms of perfectlygood office furniture, cases of brand new printer cartidge ridges, dozens of computers and monitors just sitting there for 18 months even a baby grand piano. Its your money. There are many angles to this story. If you have something for me to check on call or e mail me through the i team page. That is a long term problem wow. Thank you yes well, speaking of your money if you pay tolls across the bay bridge, some money will go towards cleaning stains off the signature t

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