in the news, june 18. thousands of passengers at s.f.o. are hoping to get in the air after a nationwide computer problem shut down united airlines last night. and concord police arrest a man they believe poisoned his neighbor's dogs. >> good morning. low clouds and fog with us to start the day. sunny afternoon. and a little bit warmer today. >> good morning. this morning, united airlines is working to clear a backlog of passengers whose flights were delayed or canceled last night by a nationwide computer glitch. the airline issued waivers if for travelers. the problem prevented the airline from checking baggage and that grounded flights system wide for five hours. abc7's lisa amin gulezian reports on the hundreds of frustrated travelers at s.f.o. >> not happy. trying to get home. >> a sentiment shared by thousands of stranded and united continental airline

passengers. system-wide computer outage interrupted flight departures, airport processing and the reservation system causing this. >> i only got the flight because i could get it on miles. i don't know if i'd fly with them again. i'm bummed. my dad is pissed. >> because you were going back for father's day? >> exactly. it happened at 5:15 p.m. pfk time, impacts flights at airports across the country. screens went dark or had words "united" written across it. frustration and confusion among passengers built, especially after some flights started moving out. united express planes started flying but only because they're smaller and on a different computer system. those with printed boarding passes could check their bags and go through security and then wait. >> we're guessing. do we give them our lugm and run the risk of being without our stuff for some period of time?

keep luggage and haul it around to find a place to stand or sit? it's just, kind of caught between a rock and hard place. >> many arrived at the airport with no idea what was happening. united only first acknowledged the problem through a tweet. >> i'm not on twitter. so i didn't get the tweet. >> the good news is that flights in and out of san francisco for both united and continental are flying again. at s.f.o., lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. concord police arrested a man they believe is responsible for poisoning neighborhood dogs with tainted meatballs. signs have gone up notifying people someone was poisoning jobs. that wasn't the only warning that some people received. abc7's tomas roman has more from concord. >> jacob lives across the street from the tovar home with the two small dogs were poiseped this month. >> i don't think, animals should pay for his, i don't know, perm problems or

whatever happens. whoever is doing is it not right in the head. >> tovarss could fwhot reached for comment and distributed this note this week and warned that someone was possibly putting poiseped meatball in yards of neighbor with dogs. and that is to blame for death of two of the family dogs. one of them with 2-year-old d.j. the tovars told police the suspect had been sending them letters threatening their dogs for a year. >> we have had cases like this. but not to this degree to where letters have been sent. >> police served a search warrant wednesday on this house and found enough evidence to arrest 72-year-old earl aneley who is suspected in the poisebing death of another neighbor's dog eight years ago. they're now keeping a close eye on the animals. katie now watches what her dog eats. >> we just try to make sure that the dogs are not eating anything. >> matt who lives behind ansley showed us where he believes the suspect got access to the dog's yard.

>> came over the fence. >> they're especially mourning d.j. who was named after the family 18-year-old daughter who died in a car accident in 2009. intentionally killing someone's spet a felony according to contra costa county animal control and carries a penalty of up to five years. so far, ansley has not been charged in the case. tomas roman, abc7 news. oakland police are investigating murder of a teenager after 11:30 last night. 911 call sent police to seminary and bancroft avenues. where they found a 17-year-old boy shot to death inside a parked minivan. investigators are hoping that witnesses will come forward with tips on what happened. so far, the name of the victim has not been released. there is tough talk from the chief of the east palo alto police department about gangs. yesterday, chief ronald davis outlined a plan on the letter to the community how they will dismantle the gangs. it follows shooting death of 3-month-old isaac jimenez garcia on june 5. police arrested a

17-year-old gang member in that case. they claim he mistake the baby family for rival gang members. several agencies will target gangs of east palo alto. >> we're at a point in the community we have been able to make dramatic changes. very positive changes and the community is not going backwards. we are not going to have a gang war in the middle of the streets, not going to have 3-month-old baby shot and killed. >> this month, davis says police will try to negotiate a truce between the gangs. a 17-year-old swimmer who disappeared before a swim meet yesterday morning has been found safe. carissa metcalfe has been reported missing by her mother after she didn't report to her coach in the first race for grand prix that is the time qualifier before next month world championship and features olympic swimmers like michael phelps. she was found at park near santa clara at 7:00 last night. police say she was slightly disoriented but okay. she did not give police an

explanation for the disappearance. the family of missing nursing student michele le issing can for volunteers -- michele le is asking for volunteers to help ceremony for her today. sky7-hd was overhead yesterday as dozens of volunteers fanned out to search an area previously searched by police. they're checking areas based on her cell phone signal after disappeared on may 27. they're being asked to check in at 25350 cypress avenue. the search will go on same hours tomorrow. convicted sexual predator carey verse will be released from state mental hospital in the next few days and no longer be under supervision. a judge decided that verse should go three after two state appointed psychologists determined he was no longer violent. verse spent most of his adult life in custody. he's now 40. has be chemically cast rated. verse was released from

custody in 2004 and lived in bay point until being sent to the hospital on a parole violation. he has a history of sexually assaulting men. coming up next, bay area homeowners in desperate need of help with the house payments. thousands of families seek rescue from foreclosure this weekend. also, in a town called phil campbell, a small army of people named phil campbell will lend a hand to save a namesake.

>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. hard times that left financially pinched homeowners desperate to avoid foreclosure. thousands are getting information from non-profit group with a history of getting banks to modify loans. david louie has details. >> there is no mistaking the

desperation on their faces. they want to keep their homes but the recession impacted their jobs or income. the lenders keep saying no to a loan modification. jeff ruben of novato can count the rejections. >> three times over the last, like i said, about three years or so. always a turn-down. always a turn-down. always they lose the paperwork. always it just never works out. >> naca, neighborhood aanalysis tance cooperation of -- assistance corporation of america is here to break the pattern. the troubled homeowners can sit down across from the banker. >> they have always been denied. we're having a hard time communicating with them. >> naca has negotiated deals with lenders to curb the rate of foreclosures. a non-profit that offers the service for free. thanks to government grants and fees charmed to the banks -- charged to the bank. naca ceo says the banks can be good guys while tax

supported agencies can be hard-nosed. >> if you have a chase, bank of america or wells fargo you can get a principal reduction. but if you are owned by the government, fannie, freddie, f.h.a. they refuse to do principal reduction. >> half leave with modified loan. 80% get relieve in 30 days. kevin mclaughlip got help to save his home from foreclosure. he lost his job as a pilot and his wife was furloughed from a state job. >> lower the interest rate to 2% for the length of the line, and in that process we lowered the payment $800 a month, which meant it was affordable for my wife's income only to keep our house. >> those are fairly typical results. naca is operating the loan modification event all weekend long and through next wednesday here at the san jose convention center. for details about what kind of paperwork to bring with you, go to the website abc7news.com. click on see it on tv.

in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. this morning, microsoft is warning about a new scam that targets p.c. users and could bilk them from hundreds of dollars. it starts with a phone call from someone claiming to be a computer security expert. the victim is warned he's victim of security threat and told to download software code that they use to access the credit card information. if you are sending mail to canada do it before post offices closed today. canadian post office workers locked out of their jobs on tuesday after nationwide led to walk-out. u.s. postal service says after today it won't accept mail bound for canada until the situation is resolved. arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords is back in her hometown for the first time since she nearly lost her life five months ago. the staff said she had a brief private visit with her family in tuson, where she was wounded in january in a shooting rampage that killed

six people and wounded 13. giffords won't be making any public appearances. she was released from a home in houston on wednesday. the typeny alabama town -- tiny alabama town phil campbell levelled by the april killer tornadoes but is being put together again by a small army of people with the name phil campbell. they have come from around the country from as far away as england to help rebuild that community. >> phil campbell. >> hey, phil campbell. >> nice to meet you. i'm phil. >> the people are so good to us when we come. you just want to come help do something if you can. >> they've helped a lot. more than they'll probably know. >> to be where everybody knows your name. phil campbell named after a 19th century railroad man who kept a promise to local merchant and built railroad depot where the town of phil campbell now stands. lisa is here to talk about weather, maybe phil campbell, too, but weather

certainly. >> why not? we have typical weather this morning. but we're going to start out with the excessive low clouds and fog. looking at the santa cruz. it's gray. low 50s. we see highs in the 60s with a warming trend on the way. maybe not beach weather today. but in the days ahead. yeah, feeling like summer, too. we'll talk about that. which starts on tuesday coming up. >> also next, the a's and giants in the battle of the bay. lincecum facing a guy manging his second start in the majors. no way timmy could lose, right? larry beil has highlights coming up. ♪ the rich aroma gets you up

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several days where we will see the numbers not only around average tomorrow, but above average toward the middle of the week. hot inland at s.f.o. sunshine. low clouds and fog extensive, toward salinas and north and sonoma county. spreading inland. as a result the temperatures are uniform. low to mid-50s. upper 40s in san rafael, santa rosa, los gatos. overall with the low clouds and fog. we are looking at the calm winds. the changes come later today with the temperatures warming up. we will look for a trough to exit. that is going to allow for the warming trend to begin tomorrow. by today, we're still looking at this afternoon, some sunshine after the low clouds part. a couple of patches of fog left at the coast. i do think we will see sunshine even down around the san mateo coast. and then tomorrow, coming up as much as five degrees. today, still a little cool.

that sea breeze intact. will afford temperatures to stay in mid-to-upper 50s from pacifica, to half moon bay. but elsewhere, we'll see the clouds clear from bodega bay and stinson beach with the widespread 60s around the bay. 70s returning from sonoma to santa clara. upper 70s heading out toward the inland east bay. and low 80s. we had a system that enhanced the marine layer and allowed for strong sea breeze. once again today, if you spend time at the coast or the city. the temperatures will be held down and we'll see some sunshine. then by the evening hours the fog is back. tomorrow, with high pressure building on it. the trend is for less of a sea breeze, more of a northerly flow. that's going to cut off the cool ocean breeze. we will see the numbers warm up a bit. 90 in fresno. warm in the san joaquin valley. 80 in the southern sierra with 69 in big sur. 90 in chico.

upper 60s in the south land. look for temperatures in the south bay from the low to mid-70s today. 76 in campbell. and calistoga. mountain view, 72. about five degrees shy of your average. 58 in half moon bay. 68 in san mateo. san francisco, 62. south city. some sunshine with 63 in the north bay. the numbers are 57 bodega bay, 73 in napa. 83 in clear lake. a nice afternoon, cool. on the mild side if you head to union city with the low 70s. out over the hills we'll see the upper 70s. some low 80s for pittsburgh. livermore. about 80 today. with mid-70s returning in gilroy. 59 in carmel. the accuweather seven-day forecast -- rays from the upper 50s, 70 around the bay. low to mid-80s inland. then we warm up a little bit tomorrow. father's day. summer begins tuesday morning. that should be the warmest day of the week. the numbers trail off by the end of the week. looking all right.

>> look to the second week in a row, we have the heat during the weekdays and cooling for the weekend. heat again. >> you are noticing that, yes. >> a trend. all right. lisa, thanks a lot. well, dan harris joins us live from new york to tell us what is going on this morning on "good morning america." good morning, dan. >> good morning. coming up on the "g.m.a." the latest details on the lone wolf behind the terror scare in pentagon that brought washington to a standstill friday morning. new information about jihaddy hit list. we have expert opinion about al-qaeda new targets. coming up, hundreds of people evacuated as the wildfires are roar over state lines from arizona to florida. high temperatures and dry ground have thousands of acres in flames. we have more on the fires with both coasts ablaze saturday morning. plus, casey anthony trial continues. the biggest battle. check the pictures out. the biggest battle is taking place outside the courtroom. we tell you about a new plan to keep the rowdy crowd of spectators in front of the courthouse in line after

brawls broke out earlier in week. and very keen on this story. there is a little story out there that may give hope to anybody fighting father time. new research says going gray, even baldness nay be a thing of the past. we'll get to the root of it all coming up on "g.m.a.." sorry for the bad pun, terry. back to you. >> i got to tell you. i have a lot of friends interested in the cure for baldness. >> count me as one of your friends on that one. i'm very interested personally. >> keep me posted on the going gray thing, though. >> i certainly will. >> all right, dan. thanks a lot. well, coming up in sports, tonight, the giants and a's play the second game of the bay bridge series at the oakland coliseum. last night, tim lincecum took the hill hoping to rebound from a disastrous start from last weekend. larry beil has sports. >> good morning. giants and the a's began round two of bay bridge series in oakland. two-time cy young winner tim lincecum starting if the

giants against graeme godfried in his second start. you know who is going to win, right? maybe not. bottom of the first, a's doing something they didn't do against timmy in may. score a run. connor jackson, two-out sing to right. crisp, 1-nothing a's. cody ross with a rocket off of godfried. that is out of here! we're tied at 1. bottom three. josh willingham, chopper down the line. past third base. tejada can't knock it down. the ball is stuck in the corner there. masui scores. 2-1 a's. following the frame. 3-1. godfried's pitch gets away. suzuki makes a play. out of the play to end the inning. top of the sixth, huff, routine grounder. ole. through the wickets. the a's leading the lead in errors with 55. 3-2 game. but godfried, vying for his first major league win. pitching well and striking out chris stewart. he goes seven and beats

timmy. the a's are victorious. 5-2. nicholaus never did it, neither did hogan or palmer or tiger. rory mcilroy is 11 under after two rounds of the u.s. open. the lowest score in history of the event. he shot # under 65 in the opening round. on fire yesterday. here is his second shot on par four 8. he lands it high above the hole. it has a little back spin and working its way closer and closer and closer. this is going in for eagle. dropping him to ten under. then on 17, mcilroy, birdie putt. 13 under. the lowest anybody has ever been at any open. double bogeys 18 and finishes minus 11 with a 66. who is chasing him? everybody. ye yang is the closest followers. 69 for yang. five under. the putt of the day belongs to ryan palmer on 17. this is taking the scenic

route along the fringe. perfect line, perfect speed, perfect results. birdie. palmer at one under through 17. when play was suspended. a look at the leaderboard. mcilroy with a six-stroke lead. off cluster of five -- off cluster of five tied at two under. this open is mcilroy's to lose. >> it's been two very good days of golf. i put nyst a great position going into the weekend. i know more than anyone else, you know, what can happen. so you know, i have to stay focussed. and try to finish this thing off. >> see if he can this weekend. >> the nba draft is thursday. the warriors have the 11th pick and working out the prospects. new head coach mark jackson was at the practice facility yesterday. the warriors are desperate for size. markeith morris, one half of the morris twins out of kansas. a candidate. they're also looking for a big guard, clay thompson, a 6'6" shooting guard from washington state.

he can't wait to hear his name called. >> the n.b.a. is a dream. i have thought, i was one of the best guards in the country to come out this year. a right opportunity for me. i have a clean slate because i'm a rookie and i have to prove myself again. adjust to speed of the game. 24-second shot clock, more possession this a game. >> that's a rap on morning sports. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. next at 6:30, new video of the altercation between a man and flight crew that kicked him off the plane for his saggy pants. get his side of the story. president obama and house speaker john boehner meet this morning for golf summit following weeks of tense negotiation on capitol hill on raising the debt ceiling. can 18 holes of golf produce a compromise?

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>> yeah. >> i'm okay. this is all unnecessary, sir. >> marman was ultimately taken off that flight. yesterday he talked exclusively with abc7's vic lee. >> i really want to apologize to the passengers of flight 488. you know, i never had any intentions of interrupting the flight. >> deshon marman believes the crew on his flight overreacted to his comfortable traveling attire. >> windbreaker and pajama bottoms. the gate agent told him to pull up his pants as she took his boarding pass. the airline told abc7 his pants were below his knees. exposing his underwear. >> my pants were actually not even below my kneeing. below my buttocks. you know, they were slightly below my waist. as i took my seat. i pulled on my pajama bottoms and i felt everything was fine. >> it didn't end there. marman says a flight attendant told him to leave his seat. the captain wanted his

boarding pass. marman says he refused to deplane, saying he was a paying passenger. >> i said i'm just like everybody else on this plane. i'm human. the pilot said no, you're not. you're not like everybody else. >> what do you think he meant when he said that? >> i don't know what he meant. you know, only the man who said it knows what he meant. >> the captain made a citizens arrest and told police marman was trespassing on his plane. >> i don't see how they book me on trespassing when i'm a paying customer. >> marman was arrested and taken to the redwood city jail. his mother bailed him out. marman told me he felt like he was attacked and harassed without reason. >> i feel like if it was a rapper or a superstar, walking on the airplane, hanging, sagging his pants, they would want his autograph. they wouldn't tell him, hey can you pull up your plants, please? >> marman said he never had problems with u.s. airways before. >> would you ever fly them again? >> i doubt it.

i don't think they want me to fly. >> u.s. airways says marman "ignored repeated request to follow flight crew instructions." he told me he will fly back to university of new mexico for summer football camp. the school issued a written statement saying we plan to support deshon and plan to help him move forward. marman is attending school there on a full football scholarship. vic lee, abc7 news. president obama's weekly address is a message for father's day. mr. obama was two years old when his father left the home. he says he has learned being a father that the children need three things most from their parents. quality time, structure and unconditional love. >> that's why my administration offered men who want to be good fathers a little extra support. we boosted community and faith-based groups focussed on fatherhood. partnered with businesses to offer opportunities for fathers to spend time with their kids at a bowling alley or ballpark. and worked with the military

chaplain to help deploy dads connect with their children. >> president says parents should teach kids right from wrong and lead by example. he wants parents to encourage their children to turn off the video game and pick up a book. president obama and vice president biden get together for a round of golf today with house speaker john boehner and ohio governor john kasich. aides say don't expect them to hash out deal to raise debt ceiling on the back nine. just a social event. abc karen traverse reports on a long-running tradition. >> the world's top golfers are hitting the link in washington this weekend. but on a different course in the nation's capital, that's where you will find the real power players. >> playing with the president and vice president ought to be a wonderful day, because -- i'm dead serious. it's golf. >> expectations for this golf summit are running high. weeks of tense negotiations on capitol hill yielded little progress on the

deficit. could 18 holes of golf away from the media glare and partisan bickering produce a compromise? >> i think i can say with great confidence they will not wrap up the 18th hole and come out and say we have a deal. >> only three presidents since the turn of the 20th century didn't play golf. >> it will be a heck of a day. >> they use the links to forge deals with member of the other party. president obama opted to golf with close friends and staffers. >> one chance to wind down and slow down. >> president and speaker boehner established a functioning working relationship. but nobody would call them buddies. unlike say bill clinton who is notorious for fudging his scorecard, president obama is up upfront about his golf skills and admitted he could use help with the swing. and says he never seems to hit the ball straight. speaker boehner is an avid golfer and boasts impressive 8 handicap. biden is around a six. the president?

>> that is classified. >> white house aides say there has been no trash talk from the notoriously competitive president obama. perhaps that is a good strategy. we hear his handicap is about a 17. karen traverse, abc news, washington. all right. check the local weather. lisa, what is going on? >> we have father's day. golf tomorrow, maybe. >> golf would be great tomorrow. crowded, though. >> absolutely. the weather will cooperate later. today, look at the low clouds. >> gorgeous. >> about a 2,000-foot marine layer deck. we'll see it clear. still, a good sea breeze and warming trend. i'll explain next. >> also ahead, america cup experience. find out how you, yes, you can take a tour on a full-size replica of the first yacht to win the oldest trophy in international sporororororororor

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today. hundreds of thousands of people expected to welcome back the boston bruins and welcome the stanley cup to boston. they had not won a stanley cup since 1972. until they did it earlier in week. a big bruins party in boston today. two major ground breaking opportunities for solar opportunities and they both use the sun but experts disagree on which one represents the future. dan ashley has details. >> reporter: not all solar projects are created equal. >> go. >> this ground-breaking is at the santa clara sheriff office. the county is installing solar cells on the roof here and at three other government buildings in the first part of regional effort to get public agencies in the silicon valley working together on the renewable energy. >> it's hard to do. you have to do it in partnership with the private sector and work out complicated multi-user

agrees. santa clara county is the first to pull it off. >> it will be paid for with energy bots. if i sicks professor richard -- physics professor muller believes this is great. >> the price of solar cell is dropping every year and doing going down by 7% every year. >> but muller author of "physics for future presidents" is skeptical about another that broke grown today. it's expected to be the largest solar facility in the world. >> only the beginning. >> this is a solar thermal project. instead of photovoltaic cells it uses mirrors to reflect sunlight, heat oil and create steam. >> it's expennive way to go. solar thermal costs about 19 cents per kilowatt hour. natural gas in contrast is 6 cents per kilowatt hour. >> government subsidies are

fuelling solar plants like the one built here but when the sub sidty costs he -- subsidy costs he says it won't pay for it. >> we have to exercise fiscal discipline and invest in job aft solar future. >> that was dan ashley reporting. the governor says when it's done it will double the capacity for solar electric and use california sun not texas oil. thus the name solar. what is going on solar wise today? >> we have sunshine right now. the golden gate bridge. you can see the deck of low clouds. we are looking at some sunshine in part of the bay. everyone will see the sun today. even at the coast.

we have 40s in some spot. elsewhere, we have the sunshine. mid-50s. the winds is not much of a factor now. we'll see the low clouds. we'll see sunshine and then warming trend for father's day. we will get to ample today. the winds are not as gusty. but it's coming in off the ocean with the temperatures held down in the 50s today. these clouds will disburse and clear out. the numbers are cool. 60s around the bay. 70s for santa clara. but upper 70s as you head down to los gatos and sonoma getting warm while inland valleys will touch 80 degrees today. we have the pressure gradient with the low

pressure heading out of the great basin. and california. and as it happens, the high pressure will build in. that sea breeze definitely a factor today. so, we're looking at the west winds. breezy along the coast. but the warming trend is getting underway tomorrow. that will bring us up to average temperature for father's day. then beyond that, numbers coming up. warmest day of the week, tuesdays wednesday. today, we are talking numbers pretty warm. east in the san joaquin valley. 90 there. chico is 90. 100 in palm springs. with 80 in yosemite. a lot of water fall and snow melt happening in the southern sierra. 72 for the northern sierra. back home, we'll see mid-70s for campbell today. 75 in san jose. peninsula numbers, upper 50s half moon bay. menlo park coming in at 71 today. about the same for palo alto. and some sunshine from the airport southward through daly city.

starting out with cloudy conditions and upper 50s. a breeze, staying cool today. low to mid-70s from novato to sonoma. vallejo is 71 degrees. comfortable day with 60s widespread from berkeley to oakland. upper 60s in hayward. valley ten degrees warmer than the bay. 78 in walnut creek. 80 in livermore. 81 in fairfield. down by the monterey bay, not bad. 62 there. low 70s for hollister and gilroy. the accuweather seven-day forecast -- the numbers below average. today is mild. tomorrow we warm up five degrees. then 90s return monday, tuesday, wednesday, inland with 80s around the bay. boy, it was cool yesterday. >> yeah. >> very cool. >> summer is here for real this week. >> yeah. tuesday. >> thanks a lot. a full-size replica of the first yacht to win the america's cup is docked in the san francisco bay. it's named appropriately enough "america." is it here to help celebrate

and publicize the next americas cup race in 2013. in mark matthews' report you can do more than just get a good look. >> reporter: in the rain, history sailed in san francisco bay. tied up alongside the golden gate yacht club, the yacht "america." not an 1850 original but reproduction of a yacht to win the america cup. >> it's true to its original size. it's an exact one-to-one replyca. of how the boat would have sailed in 1851. >> the owner troy sears showed me around. >> all wood. the boat is entirely a wooden boat. just like it was in 1851. the original "america" was scrapped after damaged in the 1940s. sears bought this remake six year ago and brought it to the site of the next america cup, figuring people would be willing to pay to go for a sail. >> there is something special about getting on a boat and sailing on the

bridge and having a historical tie watching the mod earn technology and being on what was state-of-the-art 150 years ago that started the whole america cup. >> 150 years ago, the original america was state-of-the-art. though now it seems incredibly opulent for a race boat. >> today, a modern racing boat would try to remove every ounce it could to maximize the performance. >> in 19th century, the race boat came with salons, gally of producing a banquet and panty to hold month room of meals. state rooms with private bath or showers. >> we have six showers on the boat. >> not the mod earn race boat -- mod earn race boat. in the day, it was no less a techno l technological marvel. it was opposite from the norm. the royal british yacht squadron was blunt-nosed boats. >> they felt that the boat was backwards.

everyone felt if that boat is right, then we're all wrong. >> the british were all wrong. even 20 years later the brits couldn't beat america. >> this summer, as modern day america cup team practiced on the bay in high-speed catamaran. sears hopes that boatload of spectators will want to be on his replica watching the action. >> we're not a tour operator. not a bay cruise. we are experience -- we want to connect people with the experience of the america's cup. >> it means hoisted sails to top of the hundred-foot mass, griping wenches and hauling the line. >> if they want to help clean afterwards, we'll be happy to let them do it. >> $57 for two or three -- $75 for two or three-hour sail. he's planning to be open for business this month. >> as long as there is local depand for me to be here, i'll be here. >> he will be here for america cup in 2013. sears says he hasn't missed one of those in a quarter century. mark matthews, abc7 news. don't go away.

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there is a housing boom in marin county to benefit a place that offers services to homeless people. they're not ordinary homes. they're designed by artists. tonight they will be auctioned off at a fundraiser. abc7's arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez shows us their work. >> reporter: a house reminiscent of the fall kirk mansion in san rafael. artist's vision of what every home should include. view out the window to a bucolic west mar rin. the art houses of marin are meant to channel passion of the artists to help the vulnerable neighbors and raises money for ritter center program that assist homeless and increasing number of low-income families. >> our hope is to be really around change care, around giving people a new lease on life. that involves providing wrap-around services, healthcare, mental health support. support for addiction recovery. >> they also offer food and clothing. these art homes are a way to meet their goal to get people in housing. it doesn't seem possible anytime soon.

1200 people are homeless in marin. >> 120 a month coming to ritter center new. we served over 4,000 people just last year. depen, the clinic -- again, clinic services are desperately needed. >> that's be the artists come in. given 7-by-4 aluminum house to unleash creativity. each tells a story related to homelessness. this is called our house is your house. this work has fire on one side, water on the other. about a he issor ration of -- restoration of life interpreting ritter center's mission. there are six houses this year down from the 25 wooden one last year. you can see them at the community center where they are set up for the benefit. they believe everyone should have a place to live. these art houses of marin will be auctioned off saturday night to support the ritter center program to help the homeless. of course, the long-term goal is eliminate homelessness in marin county. in mill valley, don sanchez, abc7 news. we have a surprising ranking for the city by the bay. travel and leisure magazine

listed san francisco as the 12th dirtiest city in the country. in its annual survey of american cities. the magazine asked visitors to gauge a city dirtiness on litter, air pollution, and taste of local tap water. san francisco ranked worst than dallas, boston and washington, d.c. the dirtiest city in the country according to the survey is new orleans. well, however clean or dirty we are, what is the weather today? >> nice. brightening up out there already. outside we are looking at sunshine. we'll see a strong sea breeze at the coast. the temperatures there in the 50s. elsewhere, we will be looking at numbers to warm up. just a little bit. so we're talking upper 70s to low 80s inland valley. that's concord and livermore. 75 in san jose. still on average, below normal. after today, we're going to go in the other direction. temperatures around normal. 5 degree warm-up tomorrow for father's day. monday, tuesday, wednesday, return to le to mid-90s inland. tuesday begin sums.

feel like it. 70 at beaches. slow cool off by the end of the workweek. so, yeah, we go up and down like the low clouds and fog. you know, back and forth. >> yeah. >> all right. thank you. thank you for joining us on the abc7 news saturday morning news. the next newscast is 8:00 a.m. stay connected 24/7 at abc7news.com. have a great day!