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KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM February 2, 2016

Killing a woman, just after 3 00 p. M. Police have not released any details about the victim. We have information about this crash that left seven people injured. Crews responding to the scene just before 4 00 this afternoon. On the port chicago highway off ramp to highway 4. Chp says expects in the nissan ultrama fired on the highway and the altima crashed. The car targeted by the shooters wasnt involved in the crash and hasnt been found. New information about the crash involving three buses carrying denver bronco players. The chp says a driver made an unsafe lane change and a motorcycle officer was injured when being hit by one of those buses. The players were returned to their hotel from stanford. The chp officer had only minor inju injuries good evening. Were live on top of our broadcast center. Its a great vantage point. Were going to be here all week, and there are many events and activities. Yes. Our Live Team Coverage extends from san jose to San Francisco. And lets begin with Sergio Quintana live from super bowl city. This is day three of super bowl city. And so far, its mostly been San Francisco and bay area residents circulating through. Events are continuing and there is a concert that just started up. Today, the mayors of bay area cities held a News Conference welcoming everyone coming here from across the country and world. If youve ever been interested in dancing and posing in front of a motion sensing video screen with strangers watching or snapping a picture with a headless torso, then, super bowl city is the place for you. And if youre a local, you may want to get here quick. Sunday, monday is going to be locals and the rest of the week it will be packed with tourists. Reporter this guy and his family him here from australia. Were fans from back home. We watch back home. Reporter if San Francisco is where you live, or work, sure, traffic is a nightmare and you may have to go through security to get to your park stop. And parking spots will be off limits for a week. During the welcome News Conference with other mayors, san jose mayor locardo says mentioned the o word, the olympics. Whether its sponsoring the super bowl, hosting it or perhaps olympics there is nobody talking about putting a bid committee together today, but its important to know we can go through the drill. The london olympics atactsed 2 Million People in the first three days. About 1 Million People expected to circulate through events in the next week. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Super bowl City Activities in San Francisco is centered in two locations. Super bowl city is free, filled with sponsors and exhibits and located outside of the ferry building. The nfl experience described as a theme park is located at mosconi center. The actual game will be played at levis stadium, but the sap center is hosting media night, broadcasting the event in prime time. And fans snatched up tickets quickly to watch players meet the media. Abc7 News Reporter david louie live in san jose. Hi, david. Reporter there is no question about the high level of enthusiasm among fans. And thousands of them lined up this afternoon in order to go inside and listen to media pepper players with questions. They wanted to show their support. There is mistaking which scenes fans are packing. They are converging where they can sit and watch the panthers and broncos take question from the national and international media. Karen arrived here in a jacket. I like cam newton, i liked him in auburn. I cant, in all goodness as a raider fan, been a raider fan for 100 years, you cannot move to denver. Chelsea karen, you can tell where her loyalty lies. I love newton. And there are a lot of great people that will be hopefully be here. Hopefully, there is a week. But the passion is just as strong, fred birch has high hopes. The Denver Broncos won this super bowl on my 10th birthday. The greatest birthday of my life, never to be repeated except if we win this year, it could be a day just as good. But the niners faithful showed up, too. They brought along a foam were number 11989 super bowl to give away to a fan. She chose jim simmons. Its a memory of a great game, a super bowl. Ill put it with other stuff of the giants and 49ers. Our coverage continues throughout this newscast, in ten minutes well have updates from Wayne Freedman on the international attention, and later, Michael Finney will share inside tips from autograph collectors and well show the Virtual Technology nfl quarterbacks use to train, and well have Live Team Coverage from abc7 sports anchors from Opening Night. Stay tuned for that. Hundreds of uber drivers are threatening to go on strike unless wages improve. They held a protest drive, you can hear them honking along the way. The drivers say sometimes they work for less than four an hour and claim theyll be, there will be a work stoppage on super bowl sunday if uber does not negotiate with them. The bomb squad responded to the menlo park station, it ended up being luggage left on a train. Cal train says it took all necessary recautions. The u. S. Justice department will investigate the San Francisco Police Department after the Police Shooting of mario woods. Abc7 News Reporter vic lee is live at the Federal Building with that story tonight. Vic . Reporter well, ama, the u. S. Attorney held a briefing for reporters here at the Federal Building this afternoon. It was attended by the mayor and the police chief. Now, this federal review will take time, and involve town Hall Meetings with the community as well as extensive interviews with Police Officials and rank and file officers, all of that culminating in recommendations to the Police Department. Recommendations that are voluntary, not mandatory. The Justice Department says its Community Oriented policing arm will review San Francisco Police Training and practices. The review will examine whether racial and ethnic disparities exist with respect to actions taken and not taken by the San Francisco Police Department. Mayor ed lee had asked for a federal investigation following the death of knifing suspect mario woods who died in a borage of gunfire in december. All of it caught on camera. The shooting ignited a fire storm of anger and protests. Former East Palo Alto police chief davis heads the cops program. This is about Building Trust in the community. The mayor promised cooperation and training. Well allow ourselves to be exposed by way of practices that we have and practices we should end and those that we should adopt. Police chief greg suhr echoed the sentiments. Its a work in progress weve undertaken the initial start to this. We look forward to this review. Attorney general, john burress represents mario woods family. It means there is an opportunity for the mayor and police chief to step to the plate and show good faith activities if they want to improve the positive Police Department. The review will likely take more than a year. If final recommendations are not accepted by San Francisco police, the department can launch a separate probe, which would result in court mandated changes. Vic lee, abc7 news. New details about how three escaped inmates spent their time in the bay area. They spent part of five days here doing little to keep out of sight. Investigators say they arrived in the Alameda Hotel tuesday evening, ate lunch in a Sandwich Shop the next day, with them was a taxi driver they kidnapped in Southern California. Turns out the fate of that man may have been what fractured the fugitives alliance. Inmate nayeri and inmate duong had a fight about whether or not to kill the taxi cab driver. Duong fled back to Southern California with the driver on thursday when the other two went to get the windows on their stolen van tinted. Duong surrendered on friday. Two others were captured on saturday. New at 6 00, beauty students will have to find a new place to learn their trade. The order affects these locations of marinella schools of beauty. Napa, San Francisco and santa clara. Marinella must shut down by end of business on thursday, officials claim theyre closing because of financial problems. Heavy snow in the high sierra over the weekend will have hundreds of children attending a camp stranded in the Central California mountains. About 750 children from the bay area, Central California and other parts of the state were supposed to come home yesterday. But nearly two feet of fresh snow made the main highway between hume lake and fresno unpassable. There are 15 charter s thats could not make the trip so officials decided to extend the stay for those kids. We just extended camp and kept going for 24 hours. So opened up diven activities and everything. You know they did have fun. The buses should be on their way back down from the sierra now and the children from the bay area are expected back home by midnight tonight. And their parents will be awfully happy to have them back. Yes. Well, a multi Million Dollar home in San Francisco had to be demolished before i fell on a neighbors. The investigation into what caused this hillside to start sliding and what is being done to save other homes. Im spencer christian. When we can expect rain in the bay area in just a moment. If youre having sex behind your parents back, why not be safe about it . Why San Francisco schools are going to give free condoms to middle School Students. And throughout the newscast, were keeping a close eye on the Iowa Caucuses which represent the first voting of the 2016 president ial election. Well share live results as w twitter had one of the best trading days of year, gaining more than 6 in value. There are reports investor mark andressan could buy twitter. The company is undergoing a major restructuring. Stock prices dropped 70 . Twitter closed at 1791, the dow lost 17, finishing at 16449. Nasdaq is up a bit at 4620. Lets turn your attention back to the spectacle taking place in San Francisco. You can say the world is watching when it comes to the global interest in super bowl 50. Journalists have arrived for sundays big game. Abc7 news found some members of the international media. Hes live now from the nfl experience. Hi, wayne. Were going to have people broadcasting this game in 25 languages. Nfl experience, this is the number one attraction, that is the lombardi trophy. Everyone in the world is coming to see who gets it. Hello world, welcome to this country, parking tickets were only 67 but the tow costing you 300. Here is someone who called the weather warm today. It was minus 10 degrees for the week. Martin rogers just one of one credentialed media who will come from 170 countries and territories. That doesnt count north carolina. And those folks are doing fine. Logistics are tough. And likely to remain so. No parking signs and rapidly expanding teams. How about this . That means were here. Those words from annie on twitter this morning. Shes from nippontv in japan. And if they forget. Im rooting for both. Before joining japanese tv, she worked side lines for the new york jets and was nice enough to sent these photos as proof. Her producer is happy to have the experience behind them. We asked what theyre having for dinner. Good luck, all week. That is fun. Well, once again, were live on top of the abc7 broadcast center. Its a little cool. Spencer talking about a warm up coming our way which fans might be excited to hear about. I think youll be happy with the way the weather plays out. Right now, clouds developing in the bay area. There is a storm moving into our direction. And going to bring us rainfall. Temperatures around the bay area in the low 50s for the most part. Some locations inland dropping into 40s. Down to 44 in fairfield. And taking a look at the forecast features showers and a chance of rain wednesday afternoon. It will be dry and milder. Impact scale, and there is an approaching storm here and showers likely tomorrow morning and expect less than a quarter inching of rainfall and light winds. Lets get right to the forecast animation. Cloudy and then well see rain approaching as the morning commute begins. Well see rain beginning to push into the north bay and some working off shore. And close to the morning and sunny and locally heavy down pours are possible, and rain continues into mid day hours starts to break up into afternoon. By 4 00, just about over so well project rainfall totals by 4 00 tomorrow afternoon. Most locations will probably not seen two tenths of an inch of rain. We do expect a quarter inch or more. On we go, super bowl city cool, and maybe a few clouds around, mid day temperatures from time to time into the 40s so will be cooler then. Warming up, 33 sunday afternoon, levis stadium, sunny and 70 degrees for the beginning of super bowl 50. To low temperatures low to mid40s around the bay and upper 30s in our cooler inland valleys. Tomorrow, cloudy, and chilly and morning showers, low to mid50s tomorrow and here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. Both ranking one on the storm tomorrow. And milder later in the week and over the weekend. Almost spring like with a high of 72 around the bay by monday. Earlier today, i was at emmerson Elementary School in berkeley. Had a great time with the class there, talking about weather and listening to them talk about weather. If there are any smarter kids anywhere in the world im afraid to meet them. These kids were great and i had a wonder full time. So thank you. And now back to our second graders upstairs. The only class on the roof tonight. Thank you, well, coming up next free condoms for kids in San Francisco middle schools. Youre going to hear what else comes with it when abc7 members of the committee believe their situation meets the conditions for a Public Health emergency of international concern. I have accepted this advice. That announcement from the leader of the World Health Organization about the rapidly spreading zika virus. The organization declared an International Emergency because of the explosive spread of zika. The who estimates there be up to 4 million cases of the virus within the next year. Its expected of causing birth defects. A revolutionary treatment is giving a baby a new chance at life. Liam silva was diagnosed with a heart defect while in the womb. Doctors gave him a 10 chance of survival, then, they began oxygen therapy. His mom was given the therapy. Wed lay there in bed with oxygen and talk to him and tell him, liam, when you come out, i need you to breathe, i need you to fight. The oxygen treatment worked and liam was born but his chances of survival are now 5050. His parents are thrilled and just relieved to have him home. San francisco unified will take up the issue of giving condoms to middle School Students. Its been offered in San Francisco high schools 25 years. Students can get condoms from a nurse after sex education. The district says its decreased Sexual Activity and pregnancies. Parents will be notified they received the condom. I think it comes down to the parents. Yes. Its the parent that should be on top of this. If theyre having sex behind their parents back, why not be safe about it . A sur very found 5 of middle School Students in San Francisco have had sex. Sexual activity among students is lower than the national average. Homes on the San Francisco hillside are in danger of sliding away. 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