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KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM November 18, 2014

The owner of the horses faces charges in Santa Clara County. Live is david louie in san martin. The suspect is facing two counts of felony cruelty to animals hes in custody in san mateo county. Who ares do not have a voice, people who complained about their mistreatment have been heard. Prity is one of 38 horses seized the 51yearold has been under scrutiny for months. Neighbors complained horses were under fed, had ribs showing and shows signs of broken backs and legs. For a month, he told me he had been feeding and caring for them. Need food i provide food. Two times per day. Investigators had him under watch six months, discovering he had been suspected of animal cruelty in other counties. There are document was our warrant that relate to incidents in Stanislaus County and other counties. The 38 horses are in better shape than 12 others sold to the rescue center. One died because of advanced parasite infestation. I witnessed a number of horses with their hoofs looked like elves hoofs, curled up at the end which is really bad for horses when he did trim them, it was a butcher job. Aribbe is in jail on unrelated charges the county will take applications wednesday to adopt the horses but will not be a simple process. Were looking for organizations or individuals who have experience with horses and will be able to take the time that these horses will need. In san martin, david louie, abc7 news. Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight to San Francisco returned to Dulles Airport today with a plane theyre on blew a tire the flight quickly circled back and landed safely. The passengers were taken off and are awaiting a new flight to the bay area. Co Authorities tonight are asking us to be on alert for a kidnapped teenager. Theyve issued an amber alert for the 14yearold abducted by two men in a white van. He may have been taken to sacramento or possibly contra costa or solano counties. He was last seen wearing a black tee shirt and black snow boots. A man has been arrested in a hit and run death last week. Laura anthony joins us live in deb blin. Laura . Well, sony anderson is in the jail behind me, in and out of prison most of his ability life. And now, hes in jail facing charges that could put him in prison for his life. Sheriffs say they have arrested a man behind the wheel. Anderson has been in custody since wednesday on other charges. We gained information that he was in a home in newark. We found him hiding in the garage of the home. Sheriffs identified him as a driver of a maroon saturn that sped through an intersection tuesday night. We spent an amount of time looking through all of this evidence, all of the reports, and today charged anderson with murder. He has a list of convictions including car theft, theft from an elder, counts of animal cruelty and burglary. In 1999 he was convicted of abusing and slashing to death animals in a hayward petting zoo. Ten years later convicted of severely beating a woman in her home. Thank you to everyone who helped get this person off the streets before he injured another innocent person. Anderson will be arraigned tuesday afternoon f convicted faces life in prison. Laura anthony, abc7 news a san mateo woman faces manslaughter charges for running over an elderly woman at a drug store the 21yearold was in a drive through line. She changed her mind and backed out, running over an 84yearold woman. Officers determined she was under the influence of marijuana and possibly other drugs. You see it every day. Theyre distracted. Not just medication but a phone, whatever. Police say a third of the drivers killed in the crashes state wide tested positive for drugs. Parishioner hz in a church in san jess yeah say theyre amazed a large cross was saved after fire tore through a building. The cruise fix appeared to be untouched by flames. The building is made of wooden timbers, yet the cross survived. Its amazing the cross is intact. That to me is a sign. He wants to be up there, again. Now 49ers have moved candle stick park is coming down. Tonight how the replacement will create a lot of new jobs. When candle stick is demolished an outlet mall is expected to be built. It will have open space adjacent to this beautiful water front. The home builder announced its joining forces to build a outlet mall and has centers around the country and has been looking to get a foot hold in San Francisco. These sketches show the stores. Well, its chicago we have gucci, armani, etc. They will be here, i hope. I can walk down now and shop. Its going to be good for me. Im a shocher. Along with what is underway, the community is being transformed. The outlet mall includes 6,000 new homes, 30 affordable. And promises new jobs. I call this economic engine to drive this community. The mayor says this helps fulfill a promise. People are here not being a victim of it candle stick is scheduled to be demolished and imploded next year. It explains the mall could be completed by the end of 2017. Warriors proposed a Traffic Management plan for a new arena. Its going to hold 18,000 people in the mission bay district. They plan to have special shuttles and bus and Train Service plus a Valet Service for bicycles and a specialized app to help you plan your trip. The planning expert hired to investigate a death of a baby gorilla arrived today. The group calls for saver habitats for the animals. Well, the guy brought in to consult on this, to investigate this case, his name is terry maple. Hes been brought in on prior cases here at the zoo. And now, he was not made available. The zoo set up a small memorial he was hired last week to investigate the death. Before arriving maple had been poring over documents in florida and told us he wants to examine the hydraulic door system and said the design had a major blind spot suggesting two people should be present when closing doors for the animals. There are two operators in the system. The other would say you need to stop. I team obtained log enry is detailing this problem. Another young gorilla named hasani injured her hand on a door. A zoo keeper issued a warning. Aindividual shifting hasani into electric doors which are hard to see gorillas through. Visitors want to see a safer habitat. Its one of those where there are needed improvements in the zoo. The founder of the group called on the zoo to include safety sensors. They want San Francisco to be the model now to create the system. Officials declined to comment on camera today. Still ahead here tonight, a San Francisco supervisors proposal for taking back the trees. Who should pick up the cost . Dry conditions and several chances of rain, coming up. A gifted young artist makes art from steel. Were taking your calls about your questions with the Affordable Care act. Affordable care act. Give us a call right now. First impressions are important. Youve got to make every second count. Banking designed for the way you live your life. So you can welcome your family home. For the first time. Chase. So you can. Or a helping paw ater, Everyone Needs a helping hand, so mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to help train Assistance Dogs for wounded veterans. Veteran i live independently because of what all it provides for me. And its huge theres a lot of wounded, ill, and injured out there just like myself, who just maybe need a little bit of help. Tag you can lend a helping paw too. Give at mattressdiscountersdogs. Com or any mattress discounters. Mattress discounters good deed dogs helping dogs help people. San Francisco May have found solution to its tree maintenance problem residents may be asked to vote open a measure that would create a dedicated fund. The details will come out of city hall. In some parts of the city, branchs broke off. The department of public works needs to replace many of them. Many years ago, they were deep trees now, theyve reached that age. Oof the problem is compounded by the fact there are only ten arborists in the city. For decades, the agency has been slashing its maintenance program. Homeowners are usually responsible for maintaining trees in front of their houses. Its a recipe for inconsistent maintenance of trees. Scott weiner is working to aloe indicate a plan to maintain and plant more trees. Along with picking up the bill to repair sidewalks. With funding on the trees for the city taking responsibility for tree maintenance. That should not be the responsibility of homeowners the group would includes friends of the urban forest and the mayors office. The group would decide where the money would come from. San francisco world war ii memorial was rededicated this afternoon the west coast memorial for the missing stands in the presidio. Trees were cleared out into this vital part of the monument. This is a site many lost their last saw when they proposed to move back into the united states. The monument includes names of those killed in the pacific in world war ii. If you have an Overdue Library book, Santa Clara County Library System as a program, bring a box or can of food and theyll waive your fine the food will go to Second Harvest food bank toward the end of the year. And abc7 invites to you take part in our annual food drive. Spencer is here checking on our weather. We start to approach the holiday. You can call it mainly clear skies. On street level it looks clear we do have high clouds passing over as you can see doppler 7. To the north a frost advisory in effect from 1 00 a. M to 8 00 a. M for virtually all locations up to the northern most part of the state. Now its cool around the bay area. Across the bay, most other locations are in the mid50s now. Down to 49 degrees in fairfield. Chilly inland tonight. High clouds and sunshine. A mix those tomorrow. Chance of rain wednesday through saturday. The next chance of rainfall, so lets start at 5 00 tomorrow morning. High clouds increasing. Then later into the day, light rain moving into the north bay wednesday. Were talking about light rain and showers. Well see rain dropping south. Later in the day can they hit most. And maybe no measurable rain up until only 5 00 in other locations. You can see that taking it wednesday into thursday. And more chances of rain. Looks like light rainfall. And low to mid40s inland locations up to 50s near the coast and bay. Mid 30 ndz santa rosa and napa. Highs from mid60s at the coast to upper 60s and low 70s around the bay. Here is the accuweather forecast. So rain wednesday, thursday, mostly cloudy. Chance of rain saturday. Thank you, spencer. Coming up next, experts taking your questions on signing up for obamacare. Up for obamacare. Michael my whole life, i didnt have because it was too expensive. As a professional dancer, i tend to beat up my body a lot, and having Health Insurance is a priority for me. Its a relief to be able to keep the same doctor. I was born with a back condition that required surgery. Im paying a fraction of what i used to pay. Even with my back issues. Im able to afford Health Insurance. Im in. Im in. For the first time ever. You too can enjoy Quality Health coverage. To enroll, or find free inperson help, go to coveredca. Com the holidays can be an especially difficult time. Everythings different now. Sometimes i feel all alone. Christmas used to be my favorite. I just dont expect anything. What if santa cant find me . To help, sleep train is holding a secret santa toy drive. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and help keep the spirit of the holidays alive. Not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. Obamacare is open for coverage under the Affordable Care act. Yes. Michael is live with his hot line. You can call until 8 00. Open enrollment just began november 18th. This year, you get three months to get it done. Raft year, six months. Here to help us is dana howard. Last year there are issues with people getting providers theyd signed up for. What happened then . Folks had gone on information by the plan. The information wasnt as accurate as what we wanted to be. We dock that down. Now, what consumers are going to do is picking a plan. Now, theyll be able to see the plan that is listed on the web site. This could be no confusion between the two. You can go most likely to your own Insurance Agent and sign up. That is the best way. Go see your certified Insurance Agent or certified enrollment counselor. And networks. Right now, you can give us a call. We take care of it in spanish, tagalog, and vietnamese, and if i didnt say the language, you speak, as a first language give us a call. Well hook you up tonight or a later time. Reporting live, im michael finney. There is more still to come tonight. Including surprise inspection of a 49ers locker room. What the team said about it, today. Charles manson, innocent . So says the woman hes about to marry his 26yearold bride. And well show you technology now being used to protect our coastline. Think of it as a floating 49ers coach rarely seems to enjoy answering questions from reporters but today he was less excited about it. Some questions concerned federal drug agents swooping down on team doctors last night. Abc7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman explains this is focusing on prescription pain medication. Today, from coaches, denials a surprise, he said when agents staged inspections on several teams, including the 49ers before they left new york the agents were looking for evidence of mishandling or abuse of painkillers by team doctors. If there is smoke, could there be fire . I dont know. In nfl playing with pain or masking pain has been part of the culture. This including jeremy knewberry saying it caused addictions and organ damage. Wed never know what were taking at times z i can stand by that. If nothing else, we have what appears to be a change of focus. Now, looking at how doctors treat their patients, the players i think that its trying to point out Players Health is more important than getting them back on the field. That despite pressures to play there is no expectation of that. If suggested and he doesnt take it . What is the response . Its not suggested. As to what they did or did not find yesterday, unknown. Charles manson, the mass murderer in prison 45 year now may be getting married soon. According to ap hes taken out a marriage license in kings county, california where hes serving time for orchestrating the killings of ak tes sharon tate and six others hes 80 years old his bride to be, 26, goes by the name of star burton. She operates a number of web sites declaring his innocence she left her home in the mid west nine years ago and says they plan to get married next month. He is not eligible for parole until 13 years u. S. Marshal service says it plans to auction off a haul of bit coins next month. Silk road was shut down last year and in computer files they found 50,000 bit coins valued at roughly 20 million. To join, youll have to put down at least 100,000. A unique technology here in the bay area could be used soon to keep us safe from threats ranging from terrorism to human trafficking. When catching a glams, researchers were using this to track movement of great white sharks. To create a system that can monitor Different Things gary guyson is ceo of liquid robotics. Joining forcings with boeing. For a sea going security fence. There is a lot of human trafficking. There is Drug Trafficking. Instead of a motor, they employ a rack of wings that harness the motion of the swells. Solar panels Power Equipment and onloord computers saying this amounts to a nearly unthinkable communications platform. So ability to stay out there for long periods of time sets us apart. This is a rudder. He says the new version can power the wave glider and help steer it. The strategy envisions small fleets of oceangoing drones. What this gives us an opportunity to do is augment the force in such a way we get more bang for the buck. Since rechargeable, the company says they could patrol for months at a time, providing an Early Warning for threats from storms to Drug Trafficking to terrorism. What we can do is let them know you may want to go check it out. The companys goal is to deploy a fleet of drones. And have that done in about a a bay area woman is helping families put food on the table. Its a struggle she, and her family know all too well. In a parking lot, irene and her daughters are handing out fresh fruits and vegetables. This is the produce des mobile. Families line up to get something healthy to put on the table. People walked up to me and say youre doing a wonderful thing. What those people may not know is that she and her family have stood in this line. We had to take in my mother to our home weve gone through the same economic hardships that other people have gone through as well. With the bills, she says the food from the food bank sustained her family. Everyone needs to eat. I come out with my girls, and i volunteer. Rising costs are living are making it difficult to help ends meet. Others find fixed income no long buys what it used to. For her daughter its more than that. Helping people build yourself esteem. Its nice to give to others. That everyone vr everyone gets what they need. You can help by taking part in the food drive. Here are the faces to people helping out in the give where you live campaign. To help just text the word feed to the number on the screen. There is still time to call the 7 on your side hot line. Yes. Michael finney is standing by with experts. Ive got to tell you. These people have been working hard. You can give us a call until 8 00. Here here with questions for covered california. I want to talk to susan fiver. You told me youre signing up everybody you can find . We want everyone to have health coverage. That is what this is about. People want to find out what the options are. How did they figure out income to figure out options and when when signing up people, do you have to start at the base and work up . Most are happy with having this available. And people are ha

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