>> in the news august 22nd, carly fiorina goes on the attack of her democratic opponent at the state convention. more vandalism at golden gate park. roses are destroyed after a suspect got three dozen bushes. >> good morning. we have some fog. it's not quite as extensive. we're going to see a warm-up beginning today. >> thank you, lisa. thank you for joining us this morning. i'm carolyn tyler. the state republican convention continues today in san diego. the gloves are off when if comes to attacking democrats. senate candidate carly fiorina calls the upcoming election barbara boxer's fair well party. and another republican candidate referred to newsom as naughty

newsom. >> carly fiorina spent most of her speech ripping into barbara boxer criticizing the support of the president's economic recovery package and her lack of job creation. >> the only job you are fighting for is your own. >> painting boxer as an extremist whose 28 years in washington must come to an independent, fiorina called for a new way of doing business. term limits for congress, 12 years for both the house and senate and more transparency. >> any bill that is brought to the floor of the u.s. senate must be placed online for at least two weeks for public comments before it is voted on. (applause) >> across the street from the convention, a couple dozen protestors reminded people that fiorina laid off tens of thousands of workers during her time at h. p. >> why would anybody want to

consider a failed ceo, could take on this monstrous job of governing this state. >> republican lieutenant governor able maldanado called gavin newsom naughty newsom referring to his affair with the wife of an aide and good friend. the liberal san francisco values, support for banning bottled water at city hall and mandating composting. the mayor's response was posted, with his anti-environment vote being record, it's hardly surprising he's pandering to his party's extreme drill, baby drill race. terry mcsweeney. >> the chairman of the state republican party says criticizing san francisco values always seems to resonate with conservative and moderate voters. san francisco police evacuated three apartment buildings in the north beach neighborhood after finding a hand grenade. someone was cleaning out a

garage yesterday afternoon and spotted the world war ii era grenade. police were called and just to be safe evacuated residents on the 400 block of vallejo. the bomb squad came out, took the grenade away and police let everyone back in. the anthropologists that helped a woman nine years ago. kellie bennett called police with information that led to the arrest of a young man before the attack could be carried out. now the college is helping her. she is suffering from a rare form of cancer that leaves her with double vision and severe headaches. last night a private fund-raiser was held on campus to collect donations for her medical bills. amy hollyfield reports. >> parking lot bombs were supposed to go off in this building. when kellie bennetts asked officials about hosting a party here for kellie, the answer was immediate. >> when i told them approximate

what was happening, they said to me that this is where kellie needs to be. she saved us, we wanna save her. >> kellie was developing pictures in 2001 when she came across some disturbing images of pipe bombs and guns. she decided to call the police. here she is nine years ago talking about that decision. >> no question in my mind the first picture i knew what i was gonna do, i was gonna call the police. >> police went to the home and found the weapons, along with a plan that included setting off bombs in the campus center during lunchtime and shooting at students from the roof as they ran for safety. kellie made the discovery and the phone calling to the police the night before the attack was scheduled to take place. >> atf and fbi had said they thought she saved 250 lives, at least 1400 injuries. >> but now kellie's life is under attack. she has a rare brain tumor at the base of her skull and needs help financing her treatment.

so her friends and family held a fund-raiser for her at the college. >> it's totally amazing and i'm so thankful because they haven't forgotten her. >> they sold 450 tickets. some in the crowd never met kellie but they're grateful for what they did for their campus. >> what could have almost happened. all felt like kind of just missed something. and, you know, always support her and we're thankful for it. >> kellie was not at the fund-raiser. her mother said it's just too overwhelming for her. guzman was sentenced to 80 years in prison. he committed suicide in 2004. in the news room, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> u.s. park police say they know who viciously stabbed a dog several times at a san francisco park. the injured dog, lenny, was released from an animal hospital

yesterday following several hours of surgery. his owner told police she encountered a man walking a pitbull. when she asked him to restrain his dog, she said he pulled out a knife stabbing her american bulldog four times. police say they've now located the man and an arrest is pending further investigation. well, it's happened again. vandals have attacked a rose garden in golden gate park snipping dozens of flowers. this follows the recent destruction of four dozen trees in the park. lisa amin gulezian has more. >> not much you can do. >> to say charles dowling is upset about the recent vandalism at golden gate park rose garden would be an understatement. >> it hurts us. it hurts us more than just the general public. >> someone destroyed three rose beds, roughly 36 bushes, wednesday night. the stems weren't just trimmed, they were scalped. >> how sad. makes me wanna cry.

i just don't understand how they can get any pleasure out of this kind of destruction. >> for most the rose garden brings a sense of calm but seeing this is doing just the opposite. park regulars are coming here to see for themselves what happened. because for many there's a sense of ownership that comes with living in the area. >> my family comes up to visit, we always come here. my mom is a huge rose gardener. >> actually sending it home to my family. it's unconscionable. >> now park officials suspect the same person who did this is also responsible for this, a wave of vandalism in the east end of the park where the focus until now has been on trees. since may 30 to 40 trees have been cut and destroyed. >> the way we've seen the vandalism cuts made, they appear to be similar. they're very clean cuts. so done with either a very sharp utensil or appropriate tools such as loppers or shears.

>> in other words, professional-grade tools were used. parks and rec say gardeners and staffers have been questioned but they have few leads. >> a sick person around. now we can see there's a really sick person around. >> there will be more patrols coming through here day and night. and park officials tell me they are considering installing surveillance cameras. there is also a $2,000 reward being offered. in san francisco, lisa amin gulezian, abc 7 news. >> redwood city leaders will review that city's red light camera program tomorrow night. a critical grand jury report concludes cameras at major intersections have not significantly reduced traffic accidents in the two years since they were put up. the police chief admits the cameras are revenue generators with the city's take averaging $55,000 a month. but he also believes the cameras are a deterrent since the number of violations has dropped. redwood city's mayor says he was

unaware right turn violators were ticketed by the system until he was caught. that will also be discussed tomorrow night. bay area users of public transit are catching on to the benefits of using the clipper card to pay fares for five transit agencies. the clipper card formerly known as translink is gaining acceptance so fast that the system has at times been overwhelmed. according to today's san francisco chronicle. during the first week of this month, clipper cards were used ford nearly 94,000 transactions, an increase of 11% over the previous week. a 240% increase from a year ago. the metropolitan transit agency says the system has had some agree -- growing pains but they have been solvable. coming up next, iran's president unveils a long-range unmanned bomber one day after technicians began fueling the country's

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this just one day after iran began fueling its first nuclear power station under the supervision of russian technicians. israeli leaders called iran's nuclear program totally unacceptable. iran's president said his country would never be the aggressor but should seek the ability to make preemptive strikes against a perceived threat. in pakistan, the united nations said it needs 40 more helicopters to reach tens of thousands still trapped by floodwaters there. the floodwaters are expected to finally begin receding over the next few days. an estimated 6 million people have lost their homes in the disaster. the total economic cost expected to reach into the billions of dollars. the bay area is responding to that disaster. volunteers in milpitas are organizing relief supplies. you see them filling two large cargo containers for the flood victims. this relief drive began when a

silicon valley executive saw the devastation from the flooding. he went on facebook.com asking for donations of clothing, canned goods and plan kets. within two days there were drop-off locations in half a dozen bay area cities. >> over 50 throughout the united states. 15 plus that we know about in the bay area. and we're collecting all kinds of blankets, winter clothing and tents are especially important. >> if you would like to help the people of pakistan, we have information at abc7news.com. just click on "see it on tv." well, lisa argen is here now to talk about something we haven't seen for a while. >> yeah. that warm weather. in fact, sunshine is going to be with us today much longer although we have a thick blanket of low clouds and fog. that's not gonna last. a wind shift and much warmer air headed our way. i'll tell you about it coming up. >> also coming up, two former

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just moderate and getting underway tomorrow with 70 at our beaches. mid-90s inland. high definition emeryville camera. 6:31 is the sunrise. looking at clear conditions over in concord. but hayward, partly cloudy skies and fog, half mile visibility in santa rosa. so this morning temperatures have dropped due to a little bit later overcast around novato with 48. you've had some holes in the deck of clouds in menlo park, 48 degrees. kind of felt like fall yesterday. then the cloud clearing felt pretty nice in the afternoon. we're looking at more cloud cover for the early part of the morning but it's not gonna last. 52 napa as well as fremont this morning. so with the low deck of low clouds and fog, we will be looking at a gray start. but then by about 9:00, more sunshine. that's going to leave warmer conditions today, near 100 degrees by the beginning of next week. that includes tomorrow and tuesday.

so big, big warm-up underway. we've got some 80s in the new york today. really conforecasted in the sacramento valley. now beginning to push back, retreat westward into our region. even the north bay and south bay los gatos. the clouds will dissipate with that warmer air evaporating quickly. the south bay, you'll be just shy anywhere from 2 degrees below average to more substantial temperatures below average because you're around the bay with the cooling effects of the water. but still an improvement in san francisco with temperatures 3 degrees below the average. and, in fact, temperatures 5 degrees below the average and oakland should be the mid-70s. tomorrow even warmer than that. an upper level trough of low pressure is traversing the state now. it's bringing cooler air to the central region of the state but for us as it exits today, the flow of shifts, more of an

offshore component. so sea breezes will be weakening today and high pressure building, expanding from the desert southwest that will combine with the high in the pacific to bring us warmer weather. so today look for 66 in monterey with 89 los angeles. sacramento in the mid-80s. comfortable there. back home mid to upper 70. 74 for you in redwood city with our coast warming into the 60s. sunshine in golden gate park today, nice afternoon. 60s downtown. 60 bodega bay, 79 sonoma. east bay couple of 60s for you and a little breezy but definitely feeling a bit more mild in oakland at 69. 80s return for concord and brentwood today. 83 danville, 81 dublin. nice afternoon in our east bay valleys with temperatures here along the monterey coast warming with sunshine, 70 salinas.

the accu-weather seven-day forecast today starts the warming trend, 60s at our coast, upper 70s around the bay and we'll see those mid-80s inland with 80s around the bay tomorrow and tuesday. so big, big jump in temperatures tomorrow and we'll keep those 90s through about thursday inland. so just flirting with summer a little bit the end of august. >> but just enough to give people a little break from the dreariness. >> yes, yes. >> thank you, lisa. coming up at 7:00 on "good morning america," emotions continue to rise in new york city and actually all over the nation. we're talking about the plans to build a mosque near ground zero. now a preview from new york. good morning. quite the controversy. >> quite the controversy indeed. good morning, carolyn. actually focusing on two protests happening in lower manhattan over the proposed islamic community center. the question, is a compromise

even possible. new credit card rules go into effect today. we'll tell you what you need to know. plus a new study found a huge difference between how women are paid. turns out women's pay is equal to men's if the women don't have children. what you should do if you're a mom in the workplace. and this kid just gave birth at the ripe old age of 56, quite prt feat considering that chimp years are pretty much equal to human years. apparently the baby's daddy's only 31. >> oh, she's a coyote, not a -- >> a cougar! >> yeah, a cougar, exactly! all right. thanks. (laughter) >> getting my animals all mixed up here. we'll look for you at 7:00. >> have a great day. >> you, too. let's check out sports. this afternoon the 49ers host brett favre and the minnesota vikings at candlestick park in preseason action. last night the giants send tim

lincecum to the mound in st. louis hoping their a's would lead the team to a third straight win. all the highlights in the morning sports. >> good morning. all the jobs are in st. louis and the only thing better than beating a former teammate is making that team wish they would have never traded you. the show-me state. tim cruising along until randy gets ahold of one. a no doubter to the right. in the fifth, another former giant burns him. pat burrell boosts it. it's 2-0. grounds one to the hole in the left side. now 4-1. the g-men had no answer. another r.b.i. knocked out of the bottom of the frame. the game back and the wildcard after 5-1 loss.

fifth straight win hosting the rays. mark ellis comes up with a clutch two-out double off drived price. scores a 2-hit for ellis. next batter, davis. lines a shot to center and falls just in front of b. j. upton. he will -- ellis will beat it home. in the 8th sean rodriguez takes it deep. rays go up 5-4 and the a's will not pick up a game on the rangers but get stung by the ray's 5-4. raiders looking like a team that will not have an eight street 11 loss season. former bo jackson was in the house. the oakland office was sharp on its first drive. worth 89 yards, including this 20 yard strike. 7-0. the defense looking just as

good. cameron wembley takes down jay cutler, the former seminal has four sacks in the first half. run defense. matt forte breaks loose. still looking for his jock strap. bears down. 7. the raiders own the second half. climbs a ladder to pick up dan la fever. the rookie out of michigan returns the 46 yards. a field goal and maybe a spot on the roster. raiders 2-0 the preseason after a 32-17 victory. the earthquakes need to get busy if they're thinking about a postseason. they can gain ground hosting the galaxy. giovanni, a designated player was signed last week. take an advantage. fm chris converts, worth another look. earthquakes go up 1-0. time for a little defense. second half, 74th minute.

galaxy looking to equalize. one of seven saves. shocked the galaxy 1-0 improving to 8, 6 and 5. >> the first-please team, they're a great team. i think we can build on that a lot. keep looking towards the playoffs. we think we can get. >> that's wait the ball bounces. i'm mike shumann. we'll see you tonight at 5:00. >> coming up next. >> nanette miranda in sacramento. a new website reveals dozens of parolees come off tracking anklets any given month with parole agents scrabbleabling to find them. >> grand new plans for market street. can an arts district help

♪ welcome back, everyone. a troubling problem for california prison officials. parolees the state cannot track. that's because they're cutting off the gps devices designed to let prison officials keep tabs on them. our capital correspondent nanette miranda is in sacramento with the story. >> the california department of corrections new website already lists the names and face of 45 parolees who have cut their gps anklets off just in the last two

and a half weeks since the listing started. anyone who signed up to get facebook.com, twitter alerts were notified 45 times in that short span. >> we've never disputed the fact they can be cut off. that's part of the benefit of having the gps, if somebody does cut them off we know exactly the location where they're atta point. >> the question is how fast can they be rearrested. many stay at large while those ordered to wear them are mostly sex offenders, the ones abandoning them are largely gang members. they believe they're cutting them off to avoid arrests in recent statewide sweeps. >> if they cut off the bracelet, that's a violation of the parole terms and they go back to prison. >> the chairman of the management board, he's wearing the gps. the strap is made of rubber that household scissors can easy cut through. that's not comforting to a

public that thinks tracking the most dangerous parolees will make them safer. >> once it's cut, there's nothing to stop the guy from simply walking away. that does pose a real problem. i think the public has certain expectations of this technology. the technology itself can't bear out. >> tough on crime supporters think gps monitoring is worth the millions of dollars california spent on the program. state senator george runner led the fight to require gps for sex offenders under jessica's law. >> there's no solution. anything we do is going to have some kind of a challenge to it because these -- we're dealing with i think evil people. >> the corrections department points out that on any given month, dozens of sex offenders and gang members cut off that gps. so this is nothing new. the department hasn't gotten back to me on how many of them are actually found. in sacramento, nanette miranda, abc 7 news. >> there's a new snapshot of the

local economy. every county in the bay area reported a double digit decline in home sales for the month of july. here are the numbers. sales were down 23% from a year ago making it the worst month of july in 15 years. abc 7's karina rusk reports from san jose. qwan wynne is trying to sell hills custom built home in san jose. after just two weeks, he lowered his asking price to $899,000 to lure a buyer. >> if you put for sale, the house for sale, you want to sell it. but kind of frustrating. >> qwan is not alone. the home sale numbers from dataquick are brutal. in july 6,773 homes sold in the nine county bay area region. that's dramatic 19% drop from the month before. >> real estate agents say some of the pullback can be blamed on the federal tax credit expiring but many say the bigger issue, a

lack of money and confidence. >> it's the economy, the job market. hard to feel hopeful when you're not sure you're gonna have a paycheck. >> not even record low mortgage rates hovers near 4% entice buyers. the ceo of the loan source says that may in fact have temporarily stalled activity. >> i think you've just had a drop in rates. when rates drop, people tend to sit on the fence until they think they've stopped dropping. >> what is fairly stable are home prices. the median bay area home sold for $402,000. that's down 2% from june but up 2% from a year ago. as for home sales, there is a lot of interest in what the next couple of months will bring. >> it looks like a lot of buyers are actually back from vacation. and i actually sense a little more activity. tough to see how they translate in actually closed transactions. >> wynne is hoping to see a little more of that foot traffic in the weeks ahead.

in san jose, abc 7 news. >> if you've ever walked along parts of san francisco's market street, you know there are stretches that can get pretty dicey. in fact, as far back as the 1960s, city officials and others worried about how to transform rough parts of it. now it's mayor newsom's turn. >> san francisco's market street is say tale of two corridors from the embarcadero to the cable car turn-around, there are shops and crowds of tourists ♪ >> the tourists are warned about continuing down market past fifth street. >> interesting. a little bit sad to see so many shops closed ood that stretch known as mid-market or central market is seed decade, even dangerous but the mayor has a revitalization plan. >> i drive by her every day. i see exactly what san franciscans see where they're rolling their eyes. i get it. but understand, this is a new

moment in time. >> this ribbon cutting symbolizes the new plan. arts as the driving force for change. art materials will serve as an anchor hoped to be a thriving arts and entertainment district. >> if you look at art areas around the country, they're always developing areas. that's what artists are all about. >> a grant from the national endowment for the arts has been warded and millions in hud money will flow to entrepreneurs. a new upscale restaurant passion cafe is also taking advantage of the momentum and proving the skeptics wrong. >> well, all very suspicious of our sanity. (laughter) could not perhaps see our vision as we saw it. >> street improvements are slated and the police department will soon open a substation. the head of the market street association has seen revitalization plans come and go over the last 25 years. >> now i think the focus is on.

i think it's gonna happen this time. i hope. i hope! >> now, as part of the push, there's a new arts market at u.n. plaza every thursday. and starting in september, there's going to be dancing and theater at the mint plaza. well, today there is a sunday streets event in san francisco. it's nicknamed penguin to penguins. don't expect to see any real live penguins out there. that nickname references to the route past the academy of sciences and golden gate park where there are penguins and south on the great highway to the boulevard and the san francisco zoo. you know they've got penguins there. that route was also featured in april but april showers wound up cutting things short. the weather should be good today and the streets will close from 10:00 this morning until 3:00 in the afternoon so people can enjoy hula hooping like those kids or walking, bicycling, doing yoga, whatever they want without having to deal with

traffic. the final two sunday streets events of the year are going to be on all new routes in the western edition and in the tenderloin neighborhood. lots of fun out there and the weather should be wonderful. >> yeah. more ice cream, that little guy, one-handed there. today a great day for sunday streets. a lot of sunshine. a little cloudy now but not everywhere. the fog retreats sooner. more sunshine and warmer weather on the way. forecast next. >> a local school district now requiring students to volunteer

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fault. and that adds to the prediction that we are also overdue for a big quake on the hayward fault. abc 7's wayne friedman has the story. it's always running, the pen tracing squiggly lines in the seismology lab at u.c. berkeley and if you thought the big one was overdue before, what if we told you now the big one just became two. >> one of the basic geological principles is if it happened in the past, it can happen again. >> dr. peggy is one of the few people in this world that can point out the plain in southern california. we knew in 1857 the san andreas fault ruptured there and ruptured big. today a new report came out showing that it ruptures regularly and repeatedly. >> the average for this study that was just published is 88 years. >> and it's been how long? >> 150 some. >> and when it strikes, that earthquake will hit southern california at as high as 7.9, a

quake much stronger than the last causing widespread damage, mayhem and probably death. >> the rupture wouldn't actually hit los angeles but we would have a whole lot of shaking. >> brings no reason for northern california to feel more secure. the east bay and hayward fault is well overdue. it could go at any time. the san andreas fault in southern california is much the same as the san andreas fault here in the north. >> remember, we had a very large earthquake in 1838 that brought -- that ruptured only a short segment that later was again in 1906. we see hints of that pattern as well. >> to put it more bluntly, that so-called stable ground beneath our feet is really just an illusion in the broader time frame, it has never stopped moving. from the east bay hills, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> well, i am wondering, lisa,

if by thursday or friday i'm going to be saying it's too hot! >> you? >> probably. (laughter) >> really significant warm-up tomorrow. today just a moderate warm-up. we have clouds out there right now, the low clouds and fog with us from mount tam looking southeast from sutro camera where we do have plenty of fog. but, you know, it's not quite as dense. it's not filtering into concord. we have it down by salinas but we will be looking at changes today. you know, the fog really just recently just formed. so that's why we have some cooler temperatures. it's been clear longer in novato and menlo park. so there it's a cool start, 48. 54 in sunnyvale and 55 concord with no fog in concord and just a little in livermore. looking partly cloudy in hayward. fremont has got some overcast and some fog, half mile visibility in santa rosa. so the coastal clouds with us this morning but moving, retreating to the west quickly today.

we'll look for temperatures to climb. still a little below normal. we'll fix that tomorrow where in fact temperatures climb to the mid and upper 90s. 100 maybe not out of the question. we saw just a couple 80s in the sacramento valley yesterday. had to go far east for that. but now they're trending more westward. they're coming up from the south. and a couple areas of high pressure that will work to warm us up in the days ahead. but more widespread 60s at our beaches today with just a few patches of fog. so for today, look for more mid and upper 60s, san francisco and oakland only about 3 to 5 degrees below the average. by tomorrow we'll be above average in many locales. look for 74 today, redwood city. advertise 81. so still coming in about 7 degrees below the average. san jose at least the upper 70s today and 80s will be in the picture tomorrow as well as santa rosa. so the feature this upper level trough that brought once again the cool air yesterday. now it sits right over the

state. it continues to shift east today and as it does, a ridge of high pressure from the pacific and also down around texas in the four corners region will be merging and that's going to allow for the heat to build tomorrow and it's gonna stay put in southern california all week long. so plenty of heat advisories here. windy conditions still in the sierra with low 70s in the northern sierra. upper 80s in the southern sierra with about 80 los gatos. up to 70s campbell and san jose. peninsula, you'll be in the 70s today. mid-70s. that's a switch. feeling pretty good in redwood city, palo alto and mountain view. less of a sea breeze today. that will really slack off later on today. 79 sonoma, 82 in calistoga. haven't seen that in a while. hercules 73 at about 3:00 with low 70s for newark and out over the hills look for lower 70s danville and pleasanton. beautiful day in pittsburgh and

84. livermore 84 for you and down by the monterey bay holding on to the clouds until about 9:00, 10:00 and then we'll see more sun and 78 in hollister. the accu-weather seven-day forecast, a little warmer today on the order of about 5 degrees. and then notice upper 60s at our beaches. mid-90s inland with 80s around bay. what a treat, right? thursday everybody begins to cool off. been all summer, spring, haven't seen any heat. >> finally. thank you, lisa. high school student in novato have one more requirement to fulfill in order to graduate. it's new. they must volunteer for community service. if they don't, they won't get their diploma. some are not happy bench this. here's education reporter lee an melendez. >> steven is putting in the hours volunteering at his school. his buddy lance mcquinn leads

the project. >> currently redoing the sign here. we're gonna replace this with new redwood planks and shine up the letters and get it all back together. >> from now on high school students in novato will have to volunteer ten hours of community service a year. that's 40 hours over four years. >> i like to experience just the kindness. i like -- just like working with people and schools. >> students who don't will not graduate. the principal of san marin high came up with the proposal and the school board approved it. he said volunteering can help boost a student's chances of getting into college. >> a pretty good way for schools that value that kind of thing to make a determination about a particular student. >> now, some believe that mandatory volunteerism is a contradiction in terms. if you volunteer, it should be of your own free will. and that was one of the main

arguments made by opponents. >> if you're going to volunteer, you have to sort of do it from within. and it shouldn't become mandated on you. >> despite that, the principal of novato high has since changed his mind. he did get the board to agree to allow some students to opt out. >> where you do have circumstances where students are working full-time to help their parents or there's some medical issues. maybe some of our special education students that are not able to work independently and might need some supervision. >> each school will keep track of the hours. in novato, lee ann melendez, abc 7 news. >> don't go away. "7 on your side" is coming um next. >> a pressure washer without enough pressure. i'm michael finney. [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay,

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in this economy, a lot of people are saving money by doing home improvement projects themselves. but that can mean investing in some costly tools. 7 on your side's michael finney says you should make sure they work. this is one of the ways san francisco keeps its plazas clean, powerful pressure washer blasting away oil and dirt. laura brewster of san leandro has the same idea for cleaning moss and dirt off her sidewalk and patio. she bought this husky power washer from home depot which has the same high pressure water. however, here's what happens when she turns it on. >> should come out with force. when you go to the carwash, those pressure guns. >> water starts leaking out the sides. and it isn't blasting out at

2,000 pounds per square inch like it's supposed to. laura shouldn't be able to safely stick her hand in the jet like she's doing here. >> if it was 2,000 psi i wouldn't be able to put my hand in like that. it would hurt pretty bad. >> laura paid $269 for the washer last year. right after she bought it, water rationing was imposed so she couldn't use it until this summer and anyways when she discovered it was leaking. so she went back to home depot. >> i tried to return it. and they said that they couldn't take it back without the receipt. >> laura went online hoping to find a way to get it fixed. instead she found dozens of similar complaints about the same washer. immediately she asked husky for a refund but received no response. >> i contacted "7 on your side." >> and we contacted home depot which owns the husky brand. the store responded right away. and after looking into the case

agreed to refund all of laura's money. home depot said it sells many of the husky washers and most work just fine. the company says we're sorry for the inconvenience ms. brewster experienced with her husky power washer. the vast majority of the machines have performed without issue. but the manufacturer has stood firmly behind their product when problems have occurred. laura says she'll do without a power washer for now. >> home depot called me and told me they would do whatever it takes to make me happy. >> if you have a problem with your power washer, home depot wants to help. the company provided a full number to contact and a website to me so i posted those links on our website at abc7news.com. i'm michael finney, "7 on your side." >> coming up, jennifer aniston decides it's time to have a baby. find out what happens when 

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well, here are the winning numbers from last night's $8 million superlotto plus game, 13, 16, 21, 23, 31 and the meganumber 15. no one picked all six numbers so wednesday night's drawing is expected to be at least $9 million. in theaters this weekend, jennifer aniston is a single woman who wants to have a baby in the switch. her co-star is jason bateman but it's the kid who steals the

scenes. here's abc 7's arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez on the aisle. >> i'm having a baby. >> you pregnant? >> not yet but i'm working on it. >> jennifer aniston at age 40 decides it's time to have a baby. her best friend wally volunteers to be the dad but she's looking for more. >> roland the donor. >> i'm her best friend. >> oh. that's okay. >> patrick wilson's outgoing, athletic, the contrast of bateman's. >> will you not wally this into a situation. >> hang on. did you just use my name as a verb? >> yeah, i did. >> at a party a drunken bateman empties the contribution and replace it is with his own. jennifer moves away, loses contact, never calls. come back seven years later with guess who? >> this is uncle wally. >> hi. >> hi, sebastian. >> i think i have sinus disorder. >> was i not clear?

>> and there are eerie coincidences. >> looks just like you. >> and it dawns on him: the switch! >> i hijacked cassie's pregnancy? >> oh, that's ill-advised. >> somehow she doesn't notice. he's bonding, two of a kind. >> what's that? >> thinking you have diseases you don't really have. >> i have that. >> what is it about all these films about single women that want to become pregnant. a few laughs but doesn't seem to be a lot of chemistry and bateman. more about his manic personality. but the scene steeler is young thomas robinson. the ending is disappointing. i'll have to give the film a half bucket. i'm don sanchez, abc 7 news and we'll see you on the aisle. >> well, here is lisa argen with a final look at our accu-weather forecast. >> pretty gray out there the to start. it's not gonna last long though.

we're in for a warm-up today. 5 degrees warmer in san francisco. 66. 69 across the bay in oakland with low 70s for vallejo. mid-80s return for livermore. 77 san jose. sunny in santa cruz and our warm-up more established tomorrow are highs in upper 90s till tuesday. >> oh, my! that is going to do it for us. thank you for joining us. our next newscast is at 9:00. i'm carolyn

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