Kelly talked with this poor woman in her Highland Hospital bed. She was still bloody from this mornings attack. She needed six stitches in her head. This is the raincoat she was wearing today. This 73 year old works as a stockbroker in San Francisco. She boarded bart at the fremont station. And says she was reading a magazine. When she says she saw an agitated man walk by her. And then she was suddenly and randomly attacked. She didnt remember what happened. Sayi ng she blacked out. But bart police say the victim was kicked by the suspect. Which slammed her into the side of the train. Some bart riders say they are surprised by this incident. Others say more security is needed. Rider thats a horrible thing its not something you expect to happen. Rider on the train clearly and every once in a while there is some Police Activity in oakland or somewhere that delays you from getting into the city but living in fremont i can tell you we could use more security more police everywherei find bart relatively safe grant the suspect. Identified as 23yearold wilbert winchester. Got off the train at the colesium station in oakland. Where he was arrested. Hes been booked on one count of assault. The victim says after 20 years riding bart. She will not be deterred. But from now on shes going to sit in the front car near the driver. Especially on those Early Morning rides to work. pam incidents like the attack this morning. Raising questions again. About rider safety on bart. steve kron 4s Hermela Aregawi is live in lafayette with more on that. What did people tell you . steve a lot of the people i talked to say they do feel generally safe riding the bart. Although they try to keep their traveling during daylight hours. They also did say though. That they regularly notice people getting on the train that are distubred in some way. And at times, that can make them a bit uneasy. Hundreds of thousands of bay area residents take bart every day. And the vast majority do so without any problems of note. But recent high profile incidents are putting the question of rider safety back in the forefront. Bart tells us property crimes are significantly down at stations. But crime against people is up slightly. 20 39 aagfxaa while ridership is down 2. 7 percent from last year. Crimes against people isup 1. 4 but bart tells us overall. Riders are safer. aagfxaa the number of incidents per station have decreased by half from this time last year. Well below the benchmarks bart officials have set. We spoke to people on their commute home from work. They say they generally feel safesot meghan francesconi, im pregnant so i take it less and less. At night i would feel unsafe but during the day im pregnant i get a seat so im relatively okay. Overall i wish there was more space and more cars. Sot kadi thompson, bart ridertheres occassionally someone who gets on who is aggravated or disturbed in some way. But ive never physically felt unsafe. I feel like the train conductors are really responsive. Ive been on one where someone pushed the button and the train conductor got on and then we stopped until the police got on and removed the person that was making the trouble. We also talked to people who say they rarely see bart police on trains. Which is where the todays attack in fremont happened. In a statement, a bart spokesman says. Bart Police Presencethe bulk of our Police Presence is in stations and zone waystations because if our officers were mostly on trains, they wouldnt be able to contact criminal suspects elsewhere. aahermela liveaa bart tells us as far as property crimes. Police have recently arrested a series of robbery suspects which they call a big win because a large portion of crimes are commited by a small number of people. And they hope by taking these criminals off riders will also be safer. Reporting live in lafayette, Hermela Aregawi, kron 4 news. Up 7. 9 steve happening now. Police are in San Franciscos west portal neighborhood investigating an attempted kidnapping. The incident happened at around 5 oclock near the intersection of taraval street and forest side avenue. Police say a young girl was walking. Thats when a white man in his 20s jumped out of his car and grabbed her. Police say he tried pulling her into his car. The girl started screaming. Several witnesses heard and came to her aid. The suspect then took off southbound on forest side. We have a reporter on the scene. Stay with us for updates on this developing story. pam a case of alleged Cyber Bullying is being investigated at an east bay high school. Some students are accused of posting racially offensive pictures on social media. Justine waldman is here now. With what we have learned. justine this happened at albany high school. Where deeply hurtful photos were posted on instagram of African American girls. The School District addressed the issue today. Saying it is investigating this intolerable and unacceptable behavior. And involves just a small number of students. Students at the school alerted the principal about the posts on monday. Here at kron 4 news. We have seen what we believe to be the pictures. But because they are so offensive, we will not be sharing them. Albany police are also investigating. Tonight at 10. We will have reaction from albany high school. About campus. ,. Bang bang bang. I heard gunshots then screams and more gunshots steve new information tonight on that terror attack in the shadow of londons big ben. The British Parliament was the apparent target. Police now say they know the name of the person who drove an s u v into a crowd of people on a bridge over the thames river. steve they say they believe he is an islamic extremist. pam five people are dead, including the attacker and a policeman. Catherine heenan shows us how the attack unfolded. I was walking along in this crowd of people when i heard this enormous bang. We just heard a bang and then we saw three people in the roada horrifying scene as a hyundai s u v mounted the curb and began plowing into the crowd on westminster bridge. Witness there was bodies literally, it must have been 10, 10 bodies. Witness at least 10, 12 bodies the driver then crashed into the fence outside the houses of parliament. He then jumped out with a pair of knives and attacked an armed police officer, stabbing him mutiple times before other officers could respond. Nat three gunshots. The next, of course, was chaos. Nata member of parliament tried to give mouth to mouth resucitation to the mortally wounded officer. Emts from a medivac helicopter were unable to save his life. The attacker died after being taken to a hospital. He has not been identified. Natback on the bridge, a scene of carnage. People rushed to help the injured. Some of them beyond help. Nat. At least 20 people were hurt, some critically. One woman was pulled out of the river with serious injuries. Police and ambulances flooded the scene. Mark rowley acting Deputy Commissioner of the met Police Whilst we currently believe there was only one attacker, im sure the public will understand us taking every precaution in locking down and searching the area as thoroughly and exhaustively as possible. Londons metropolitan Police Closed off several there are reports that a group of hackers. Is threatening to wipe the data from more than two hundred million iphones and ipads. Unless apple pays them. steve kron 4s tech reporter gabe slate is here to tell us what is going on and how your i cloud account could be affected. gabe on camera this is making a lot of people nervous. The news site mother board reported they obtained emails between a hacker group called the turkish crime family and apple that show they are demanding 75,000 dollars to be paid to them by april 7th or they will release 220 million icloud account log in emails and passwords and wipe data from some of those icloud accounts. Cyber Security Experts i talked to said you need to take action on this just in case. pkg sot david baker vp bugcrowd change your icloud passwordcyber security expert david baker says cyber ransoming is growing in popularity. He said this type of hack is possible and even though apple has not confirmed this yet. To be safe you might as well go ahead and change your password. Sot david baker vp bugcrowd there will be much more Ransomware Attacks in the future, over 200 million was paid out over last couple years in attacks. It will get worsedavid is with San Francisco based bugcrowd, they are hired by Tech Companies with a lot of consumer users like pinterest to make sure their software, websites or apps dont have security holes that hackers can take advantage of. They see first hand the security holes that hackers use to exploit he advices using two factor authentication and Strong Passwords with every website and app and there are some alerts you should not ignore. Sot david baker vp bugcrowdicloud will send out an alert to you if you log in on a different machine, Pay Attention to those respond back to these things gabe on camera tag stay tuned. This is still developing we have reached out to apple to confirm this or make some sort of statement about it and we have not heard back yet. steve police are warning iphone users of a new prank that is spreading across social media. And it could hold up emergency lines. Even though they arent calling 911. This is how it works. It involves siri. The online prank is telling people to say, hey siri 108. And then theyll hear a countdown from five seconds and automatically be connected to the 911 dispatch center. This is because 108 is an emergency number in india and your i phone registers the call as an emergency and automatically connects you 911. Police say this can tie up lines and prevent officers from responding to a real emergencies. pam march madness is in full swing and for the first time in years, some of the games are being held here in the bay area. steve thats right, the first games will be played tomorrow at the sap center in san jose. Teams from west virginia, xavier, gonzaga and arizona will all be looking to advance to the final four. Kron 4s Charles Clifford was in the south bay today where Business Owners who are also hoping to walk away with a big win this weekend. Over the next four days, thousands of College Basketball fans are expected to flood into downtown san jose for march madness here at the sap center. Natsdowntown san jose was quiet on wednesday afternoon, but that may not last for long. Sot chad ferry is the owner of deluxe eatery and drinkery on san fernando street. Hes expecting the next four days to be busy. Sothe says theyve also been working the social media angle to try to attract fans. Sot team that comes into town. Taking advantage of the social media outlet. The first two sweet sixteen games at the sap center will be played on thursday. The winners of those matchups will play on saturday. Chad says they dont usually attract a lot of sports fans at deluxe but he will have the games on. Sot whoever winds saturdays game will move on to the final four in phoenix arizona. In san jose ,Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Charles clifford kron 4 news. pam rainfall in the Santa Cruz Mountains is approaching a hundred inches for the season. And now, officials are keeping close track of the numbers in Boulder Creek. The latest downpour added just over an inch of rain to the already impressive totals in the san lorenzo valley. Boulder creek has received just over 89 inches of rain since october first. That is almost twice as much. As this time a year ago. Many people in the area believe it will hit 100 inches before the season is over. Making it the wettest year since 1997 98. When Boulder Creek recorded just over 94 inches. And the unofficial record, going back to killer storms of 1982 and 83 when the region saw 111 inches. pam a live look outside tonight. This is sfo. Rainy weather still in the bay area forecast. steve chief meterologist Brittney Shipp has the forecast scattered showers along with a few thunderstorms can be expected into the early evening hours. The next storm system is projected to impact the region late week. Widespread rainfall and stronger winds return to the northern portion of the region late thursday and will spread southward during the day friday. Dry conditions return for most of saturday with another weak system forecast to push through starting saturday night. Dry weather and warmer temperatures are then likely next week. New ahead at 8. Confronted with danger. A mom fights back. What she did that had a burglar running from her home. And next. Experts warn of a very significant risk at the oroville dam. What they say has to be done. To avert disaster. gary sports tease gary radnichcoming up a little bit later in this broadcast. Barry bonds showed up at spring training for his new job. A couple words from a very happy barry bonds. Thats coming up. Weve got cal losing its top basketball player. Hes going pro. Well tell you who. And also how about a little hit of good news. Durant and the warriors getting closer to being back on the floor. Later in this broadcast a big story were following in the oroville dam crisis. A team of experts is warning of a very significant risk if the main spillway is not up and running again by the next rainy season. It comes from a report written by the federally created investigating team for the oroville dam. The report says. Crews must make sure the spillway is in good enough shape for the next rainy season which begins in november. According to experts. It absolutely critical that water doesnt flow the dams earthen spillway this spring. Which could cause more erosion. They also suggest the longterm repairs could continue for two years. Repair crews have been on the scene almost nonstop since the problems developed. pam students attending california state universities. Get ready to pay more for tuition this fall. The University Board approved the tuition hike for the first time in six years. Tuition is going up 270dollars a year at all 23 campuses. This means. Undergrad tuition for the 201718 school year. Will now cost nearly 55 hundred dollars. The board says, the reason for the hike is because more money is needed to hire professors and classes for the growing enrollment. The money from the hike will also supplement a lack in state funding. steve google is helping people answer the ageold questions. Where are you . Without the nagging. Today the Company Released a feature that allows you to share your location with your contacts. Its called location share and it is part of google maps. Google Officials Say the update gives the option to share your whereabouts and travel routes with select contacts. Most smartphones alread have this feature such as the iphones find friends. Ahead at eight. New information suggest. Possible ties between Donald TrumpsCampaign Associates and russia. What sources say. They were allegedly doing. Plus. The first daughter and top security clearance . Its happening. And its raising some questions. A new twist in the president s wiretapping claims. As a california congressman reveals some of the president s communications. may have been collected. brittney tease pam a stunning new twist out today. In the Ongoing Investigation into surveillance in the 2016 campaign. California congressman devin nunes the House Intelligence Committee chair revealed. Some of Donald TrumpsCampaign Teams personal communications. may have been collected. After the november election. steve the announcement has democrats crying foul and raises new questions about the transparency of the investigation. Justine waldman is here with todays developments. justine today we learned. President trumps personal communications as well as those of his Transition Team may have been picked up through quote incidental collection during legal surveillance conducted after the november election. The intercepted communications dont appear to be related to the ongoingfbi investigation into Trump Associates contacts with russia. Tonight the republican head of the House Intelligence Committee is defending his decision to talk to the white house first instead of his colleagues on the intelligence committee. And while no one is calling it wiretapping. P resident trump did say he felt vindicated. Pres. Donald trump i somewhat do i very much appreciated the fact they found what they found. justine vo because of this revelation. There is concern. Over whether the House Intelligence Committees investigation into russias meddling in the selection and whether members of the Trump Campaign colluded with russia can be conducted fairly. steve the fbi says it has new information indicating President Trumps associates communicated with suspected russian operatives. Us Officials Say it was to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clintons campaign. One Law Enforcement says the information suggested quote people connected to the campaign were in contact. And giving the thumbs up to release information when it was ready. Yet officials caution the information is not conclusive and the investigation is ongoing. pam other new