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good evening. san francisco is launching a new plan to fight crime for less. >> the new civilian police force will help investigate nonviolent crimes, helping ease the burden faced by sworn officers. lilian kim is live in the newsroom to explain how the pilot program will work. >> reporter: 15 people trained to do basic investigative work. the goal is to improve customer service and make the san francisco police department more efficient. joe greenstein knows first hand how long it can take for a san francisco police officer to show up at his door. >> it took four hours. my apartment was broken into and i had to wait half a day tore them to come. >> reporter: the delay is common for nonviolent crimes

since officers respond to violent and more urgent cases first. starting in january san francisco will launch a pilot program designed to improve response time. civilian investigators will be trained to respond to the lower priority cases from conducting interviews to collecting evidence. the police chief game up with the idea and introduced it during his last job in mesa, arizona. to police commissioner jim hammer the idea makes sense. >> it in a petty theft case, there is no reason to have an armed police officer take an hour off the street to investigate that kind of crime. >> reporter: it will include 15 civilian investigateors. they won't be carrying guns and each could cost half of a sworn officer. the former police chief says bringing in civilians has potential drawbacks. >> reporter: it is difficult to get detectives and uniformed officers to cooperate and coordinate and work closely together.

it is a little more difficult to get civilian nonsworn people to work with the sworn officers. >> reporter: the program will last six month. whether it stays or goes after that will in large part depend on feedback from the public. >> i think it is great if they can speed up response time and somebody with specific training just doing this, that is better. >> officers what they do is difficult. they have to have an eye for things and pattern recognition and they have seen something before and they now, how to deal with it later. the civilian can't get that quickly. >> reporter: the program will cost nearly a million dollars. the 15 investigators are set to work in only a couple of the san francisco ten district stations. in the newsroom, lilian kim, abc 7 news. at least 15-wildfires burning in northern california tonight. most in remote areas north of lake tahoe. a number of lightning strikes triggered the fires. the largest is near strayler

lake. 35-mile per hour winds are expected again tomorrow in the same area which includes shasta and phis cue counties. for more on the conditions there let's go to meteorologist leigh glaser. leigh? >> it was crazy there. you can see the lingering strikes that are continuing. take you up towards lasson county and susanville is where they are seeing activity there. this prompted a red flag warning. if you are heading up and didding vacationing near headache tahoe the next couple of days, a red flag warning in effect until 10:00 tomorrow for critical fire weather conditions. thunderstorm letts continue with rain and or dry lightning strikes and also gusty winds. as you said, yes, very active day there. for the bay area, it has been more a matter of low clouds and fog and we will get it our

forecast later. three separate fires broke out overnight in san jose, one killing an 8-year-old girl. the fatal fire started just before 2 am on hamilton avenue. >> reporter: work crews board up the windows at the gutted apartment. now, a place of mourning where a little girl was killed in an overnight fire. just hours earlier it had been a time to celebrate. >> they had a baptism. i went to it. >> reporter: firefighters made it to the scene within six minutes but it was to late. they found the 8-year-old dead in the back bedroom. she was pronounced dead at the hospital. >> they went to the bedroom and found a little girl there. she was by herself in the room on the there are. >> reporter: she lived in north carolina. she was in town for the baptism. neighbors say she was supposed to return home today. nine others who live in the complex also suffered minor injuries during the fire.

>> when you see a little person, a young girl, it should have been me instead of her because i'm already going on 83 years old. it is just very sad. >> reporter: neighbors like ramon peramo tried to save her. >> the whole front was engulfed. no way you could get in. >> reporter: a busy night for san jose firefighters. no one was injured during a two alarm fire that burned two apartments in this building around 2:30 in the morning and just before 4:30, a stove top fire prompted the evacuation of this senior living center. the person whose stove caught fire suffered from smoke inhalation. out of the three locations, two are in neighborhoods where fire stations are slated for closure because of budget cuts. >> we were overtaxed but you can tell by the way everything was handled that the crews rose to the occasion. >> reporter: the firefighters who pulled the little girl out of the burning building work in one of those stations facing cutbacks very soon. in all, 25 people who lived here in this apartment complex

are now without a place to live. the red cross is assisting in helping them find temporary housing and firefighters are still investigating the cause of this fire. reporting from san jose, cecelia vega, abc 7 news. a 7-year-old oakland girl severely injured by a pitbull saturday is out of the hospital and recovering at home tonight. the dog bit the girl's face at a home on 82nd avenue near mac arthur boulevard. police describe the injuries as significant but non-life-threatening. she had surgery last night and the dog was taken away by animal control. the incident comes two days after three pitbulls killed a two-year-old boy in concord. the grandfather was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and possessing a dangerous animal. bp board is expected to oust tony hayward tomorrow. it is a change critics say is too little too late. >> reporter: as the oil spill

nears its 100th day, big changes may be in the works at bp. the company's board will meet monday. on the agenda, the rumored departure of ceo tony hayward. the face of bp's disaster response, hayward's response to congress did not go over well. >> i want my life back. >> word of his possible ouster traveled quickly in plaquemines parish. >> he has gotten so many people upset with his comments and people think he has apologized for it but a lot of people still have bad feelings about him and the whole situation. >> reporter: a flyover of the spill zone revealed proof of progress. less oil. >> we are now on the ninth day where no new oil has been released at the well site. >> reporter: federal officials are optimistic if conditions stay the same relief wells may be drilled and in place in two weeks. a special sunday by the archbishop touched on the only

thing many here say sustained them. faith. >> there are times that you feel alone and helpless and just as you did with katrina, you lean on god. >> the only thing that holds me together, has always held me together is through god. that is where i get my strength from. >> reporter: the damaged well could be plugged in a week. according to the coast guard, operation static kill where they plug the well with mud and cement is on schedule. the new york times and london's guardians newspaper recording one of the biggest leaks of classified documents in u.s. history. the papers dated from 2004 to 2009 reveal how pakistan spy agency guided the insurgency in afghanistan. the files also explain how a secret special forces unit hunts down taliban leaders for kill or capture without a trial and how the taliban acquired surface to air missiles.

the online whistle blower organization provided the information but the source is believed to be a u.s. army analyst arrested in iraq and already charged with leaking is classified information. this sunday in afghanistan the taliban claimed responsibility for killing one u.s. sailor and capturing another during an ambush. u.s. forces come firm two navy personnel went missing friday. there is an offer of a $20,000 for information about their where abouts. >> from what i know right now and again i don't have all the details on this, this is an unusual circumstance. >> despite this admiral mike mullen says he is more optimistic than ever that the u.s. mission in afghanistan can be accomplished but he warns as more u.s. troops arrive there, there will be more instances where troops are in harm's way. the atmosphere off the

korean coast is tense tonight. it is believed that north korean submarine is responsible for sinking a south korean vessel, killing 46 sailors last march. a four day exercise includes 20 ships, 200 aircraft and 8,000 u.s. and south korean sailors. pyongyang is calling this a provokation and is vowing to respond with sacred war and powerful nuclear deterrents. just ahead, a family planning for a funeral just discovered their daughter is alive. the stunning case of mistaken identity. also, a visit to the giant laser buried deep under interstate 280. an unknown runner wins

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>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini after preparing for their daughter's funeral scheduled for tomorrow an arizona family has learnd that she is actually alive. 19-year-old abbey garro was so badly disfigured in a car accident that authorities mixed the identities of two girls involved in that single car accident. the four college friends were returning from a visit to disneyland when their vehicle blew a tire and flipped over. abbey was finally identified yesterday through dental records. >> we are angry at the situation. i mean this is a week that we could have been by her side and telling her to fight and maybe it would have given her more strength. >> abbey remains in critical condition but now the family of 21-year-old marlena cantu is dealing with the realization that their daughter actually died in that wreck. angry residents from the city of bell in southern

california marched to the mayor's house today, calling for his resignation. the protest comes just days after three city officials quit over their salaries. the city manager was making close to $800,000 a year. more than 200 residents also marched to the home of a city council member demanding that he, too, step down. after a decade of construction scientists at slack national accelerator laboratory in menlo park turned on the world's biggest x-ray machine. a laser three miles long beneath 280. richard hart takes us there. >> it was a dream true. >> the entire group is amazed the machine has worked as well as it has. >> reporter: the machine is a laser crossing highway 80 six stories underground. x-rays that enable us to see

processes that were only a dream 20 years ago. >> people have already been working on taking images of viruses and proteins and dna and things of that short. >> reporter: the beam pulse is so fast an image is captured before molecules have time to fly apart. that means the first atomic movies. >> we can take flash hollow grams of molecules. >> the x-ray pulse is so short that at tomorrows don't have time to move very far. in fact, we are getting to the point now where we can see the motion of the electrons whizzing around the at tomorrows. >> it generates an aelectron the size of a grain of rice. imagine stretching the straw to the length of three football fields and keeping it so straight that the grain of rice never touches the sides of the straw. those electrons generate x-rays into small chambers, eventually

six like this one. the light source funded by the u.s. department of energy is just getting started and already has scientists around the world beaming. at stanford's linear accelerator, richard hart, abc 7 news. sailed into sydney harbor today four months after it left saucelido. it is named after the con it is tiki. the crew wants to show how plastic recycled bottles can be put to use rather than ending up in a garbage dump or in the ocean. >> impressive trip. >> leigh glaser with the forecast. >> low clouds already making the way into san francisco tonight. we will bring you mist and drizzle as well. golden gate bridge, south marin county and san francisco and along the coast you have to

deal with a little bit of the drizzle tomorrow morning. looking live, east bay cam, high definition looking live towards the west and you can see glow in the atmosphere. we do have a full moon by the way. east bay you are probably enjoying it. elsewhere around the bay and the peninsula the clouds are with us. 72 degrees in antioch right now. 57 livermore. 59 concord. half moon bay overcast at 55 degrees. the drizzle will be with us overtight tonight, tomorrow morning cooler air mass moves inland so we all will come down a few degrees tomorrow. cloudy at the coast and below normal temperatures with us all week long. you can definitely get a sense of what is sitting just off the coast. just a bank of fog. westerly winds are going to push that in through the bay and out towards the delta area as well, tomorrow morning. all of us will see a little bit of overcast tomorrow morning.

antioch 54 tonight. the mist and drizzle develops by early tomorrow morning. low pressure sitting off the coast. started to move towards the bay area today and that is what is kicking it the kick, giving the low clouds and fog moving it further inland and this is pretty much going to be the trend for at least the next couple of days. the low is going to move over us. as it does so it will bring in a cooler air mass. temperatures will come down and actually be anywhere from five to as much as ten degrees below our normal for this time of year. a look at the highs for monday. remember, we wake up to the overcast. mist and drizzle bay and the peninsula. temperatures come down. 75 san jose. los gatos 77. 56 degrees pacifica. redwood city 69. sunset district near ocean

beach 59 degrees. in the north bay, 74 santa rosa. napa cools off to 72. oakland, overcast to start. maybe a little bit of afternoon clearing. 66 degrees is your high. 72 castro valley. and this is where you are really going to notice the temperatures. over the weekend, brentwood and antioch in the 90s. not so tomorrow. 88 for concord and monterey tomorrow, overcast, 63. inland, gilroy will cool to 79 degrees. here is a look at it. the trend is going be cooler the next few days as we h head into the latter part of our workweek, we will see high pressure building in and that is going to bring temperatures up a few more degrees. mid to upper 80s then. near 80 around the peninsula and maybe even 60s and sunshine at the coast. >> woohoo. >> really. coming up, the a's and giants continue their winning ways. >> and a man who has been part of both organizations

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concussion. giants first four game sweep? arizona in nineer is. buster posey didn't take long to extend his hitting streak to 18 games. rbi double in the first one of his four hits on the day. top five. giants down 2-1. huff rips one up the gut. scores edgar renterria. game tied at two. stays that way until a buster posey double. a giants sweep. they have now won 15 of 18 with the victory today. major league hall of fame welcomed andre dawson as well as former cardinal manager whitey herzog and john miller. the hayward native spoke about one of his first baseball memories visiting candlestick park as a kid and being more in fat waited with the broadcast -- in fa fatuated.

>> the broadcaster says there is a curveball low and outside. ball two. he grabbed a big hand of i thought it was french fries and jammed them into his mouth and while he was chewing the next pitch comes in and says without missing a beat a fastball outside, ball three. then he grabbed a full of whatever and took a big pull on the cup and as a 10-year-old i sat there and said that is the life for me. i just wanted a job where i could eat french fries while i was working and now here i am today. thank you very much. thank you. the a's took a series from the white sox with today's win. they will need them. they head to texas who just picked up cliff lee. the american league west just got tougher. actor philipp seymour hoffman in the house. playing art howe in the upcoming money ball movie. bottom two, a's down 1-0.

a two-run two south single. another two-run hit. two more score. a three rbi day for suzuki. the a's have won four consecutive series for the first since june 2007. 6-4 the final. a quick time out and we will go racing when we return with the men's winner of the san francisco marathon who came out of no where to beat the elite runners. is them.eis no

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the san francisco marathon was held today with more than 24,000 runners taking off at 530 am. the unofficial women's winner emily hart of alabama in a time of 2:51. keith bechtol talked his way up to the elite level starting point and wins with a course record of 2:23:28. begging the question, did the stanford grad student run the entire 26.2 miles?

>> i started with everybody. i mean just a couple of steps behind all the invited athletes and there was a motorcycle and a pace bike the whole way. so, i don't know, i mean i felt very much like just a part of the race like any other runner today. >> it is confirmed. he ran track in college and runs offroad races over 50 miles. he is legit and gave the bouquet of flowers to his wife and kept the medalon. john pablo montoya with a pole position. indianapolis motor speedway, one of the trickier tracks for the nascar drivers no, banks. juan pablo gives up the lead by changing all four tires in a late pitstop and others changed just two. his teammate jamie mcmurray took advantage, becoming the third driver to win both the daytona 500 and brickyard 400

in the same season. the 20th and final stage of the tour de france. largely a ceremonial stage to paris. alberto contador wins his third tour. and lance armstrong's final tour and he takes 23rd. all right, in golf, langer wins the senior british open. karl peterson wins the canadian. and both san francisco marathon winners today qualified for the boston marathon. >> you think this kid is going to have to answer more questions? >> he might have to but i think

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