good morning, i'm terry mcsweeney. in the news this saturday morning, of thousands get ready for outside lands concert in golden gate park. bart officials say they shut down cellphone service for security. critics say the move violated free speech rights and threatened public safety. >> good morning. dense fog in the city and at the coast but elsewhere it's getting sunny around the bay. >> three-day outside lands music festival is off to a solid start. today's headlines are muse, black keys and girl talk. yesterday's opening had great music, great food and no significant problems that is until a number of fans returned

to where they parked and discovered their cars were gone. john alston reports from golden gate park. ♪ >> the rock band phish jammed them into golden gate park. one of the highlights on the first acts the outside lands music festival. while the jam packed crowd was dancing to the beat. there was not well orchestrated event outside the venue. tickets were being slapped on windshields, tow trucks were hauling away cars. in just a few minutes, a dozen cars were nailed near 39th avenue a few had out of state license plates. >> veteran officer ticked this suv from nevada that was blocking her driveway on 30th avenue.

>> i've been stranded before. it's really hard. if i got my kid and i can't get into my garage, what am i going to do. >> minutes later the tow truck arrived, the price of the ticket is $88 and tow will run $400 more. 60,000 people enjoyed food and wine tastings and hours of live music. she and her son came from placerville. >> it's great fun, it's something that my son and i share. >> for others, the evening will not end so well. >> it may be a few days before we know how many vehicles were towed. 180,000 people are expected over the three-day event. organizers say there are still a few tickets left. one convenient way to get to the festival and make sure your car doesn't get towed, take bart on the civic center, hop and a

bus. f.b.i. and police are searching for a two-year-old sacramento girl apparently kidnapped by her father. an amber alert was ironed yesterday and freeway signs were lit up statewide as authorities tried to get the word out to as many people as possible. they are looking for 49-year-old man, a u.s. citizen that was born in egypt and speaks fluent spanish. they believe his daughter could be in danger because a court awarded the mother sole custody. had he was last seen a green 4-runner toyota. bart police are under fire for cutting off cell service at the civic center station thursday night so protestors couldn't communicate with each other. some say it was dangerous and some say it was unconstitutional. bart police are making no

apologies. >> they were prepared for a violent protest that was thwarted by an unusual move. >> i believe turning the power off the antennas. >> they say they turned off the cellphone antennas. it was a tactic to prevent the protestors from using their cellphones which they believed would be a violent protest by the shooting of charles hill by bart police. >> i was certain there was going to be conflict and i didn't want people hurt. >> they say it violated rights of the protestors. >> sub safety is a compelling government interest but to impasse and block the speech of thousands on the possibility of a protest that might impact

public safety does not meet rigorous tests under the first amendment. >> what if there was a critical incident inside those tunnels? what about somebody having a heart attack aboard a bart train? >> the reaction from passengers is mixed. >> free speech and opportunity to communicate about when we want to. >> the chief says there were enough police officers and bart personnel on duty to respond to any emergency quickly. he traded free speech for passenger safety. >> if someone got hurt or killed i don't think that is price we're going to pay for free speech. >> the decision wasn't made lightly and it came from top officials. he says it was a smiamful act. >> it's shocking to see these tactics being deployed in the

united states. oakland police are investigating two fatal shootings overnight. about midnight officers responded to a report of shots fired at 98th avenue. they found a shooting victim dead inside a vehicle that had rolled to a stop in someone's front yard. an hour after that one around 1:00 this morning, a second fatal shooting incident happened near harrington avenue. they found a man dead of a gunshot wound to the head and then half a block away they found a second shooting victim. >> detectives are also investigating a police shooting that happened last night in oakland but they are not releasing a whole lot of information. it happened around 7:30. fruitville avenue. police haven't said what happened or why the officer opened fire in the first place. >> friends and family of the man accused of killing a

three-year-old oakland boy say he is innocent. 26-year-old lawrence denard is accused of firing the shot that killed little carlos nava on monday. denard faced a judge but did not enter a plea. the drive-by shooting they say was gang-related and investigators believe denard was targeting to two-other men but his family says he is being set up. >> if it wasn't a kid, it would have been an investigation, but because it was a kid they have to get somebody. i don't think it's right. >> i have three babies and i know what his family is going through but are innocent until you are proven guilty. >> he has prior arrests. he is expected to enter a plea on august 29. >> los angeles dodgers are asking a judge to throw out key parts of a lawsuit filed by bryan stow's family. it accuses the dodgers partially

responsible for the attack. he blames the assault on poor security and inadequate supervision of alcohol consumption. documentsers say the allegations are improper and don't come form with state laws. two men charged in attacking him entered not guilty pleas on wednesday. >> coming up next, a battle for iowa as republican candidates for president gear up for today's straw poll. and a mural with a message. students take their concerns to the president.

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straw poll and a non-candidate that showed up and stole the spotlight. here is more from iowa. >> in the last few hours before the straw poll, they were riding on a strong showing here shook every last hand. presumed iowa front-runner, michele bachmann, tea party favorite. she is originally from iowa. >> from one iowan to another. >> and then former governor tism pawlenty from minnesota who believes he needs a strong showing. >> this can be a make or break event for some candidates. >> we want to show good progress. >> dark horse, ron paul of texas who has a big grassroots following and claims a strong organization here that could deliver a surprise showing.

just ask sarah palin. >> it's a great chance. >> looming large is not show, mitt romney who is sitting it out after beating he took in the iowa caucus in 2008 and sarah palin something of a side show since she said she is not running but popped up in iowa anyway. >> what would you do for the economy? >> i would eliminate the uncertainty in the economy and let or or job creators know, we won't cut taxes. every act that congress would allow i would promote and to get industries working and bring them back here to america. an enormous mural is going up in downtown san francisco and it's actually a message from

high school students to president obama. the after the work will be depict hardships that undocumented families face. they want to show the controversial part of the dream act. they would not grant citizenship to 67% of the people that were brought here illegally. >> a lot of families don't have money to support them and can't get financial aid. >> the project hopes to pressure congress to amend the proposal. they want to include a path to citizenship for students to college. >> the deadline to get in the san francisco's mayor's race was yesterday and there was a last minute entry into the already crowded field. jeff adachi filed papers before

the deadline at the department of elections. >> i really listened to what the candidates were saying during the last debates about pension reform and i became convinced either the candidates don't get it or they don't want to get it. i want to make sure that there is voice talking about the fiscal realities of the city. this year's mayoral race will be the first with rank choice voting and there are 11 candidates officially running. >> in hollywood another schwarzenegger is raising eyebrows around town, patrick schwarzenegger the oldest son has made his debut as a billboard model. there he is. 17-year-old doing a shirtless ad for hudson jeans. in addition to that, he is getting ready to apply for colleges and thinking about two in particular, usc and stanford.

>> in san jose last night a bringing surprise for giant fans when michael blu blades belted out a few tunes. ♪ ♪ >> he is in town to perform at hp pavilion but he graced the stage at the plaza caesar chavez park. more than 100,000 are expected to attend the jazz festival this weekend. featured performers, george duke and arturo sampled oh val. >> hundred thousand people are wondering why what kind of weather am i going to have in this weekend? >> sunny the south bay. >> i didn't tell her i was going ask her. >> right on the ball today. >> and sunshine, 60 in concord

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as clear as it used to be. lake tahoe has reached the second lowest of the clarity. back in 1968 they could see down 200 feet. last year it was down to 65 feet. it will be discussed at the 15th annual tahoe summit. we were saying earlier, both spent time up there this summer, it looks great. >> especially with all the snow packed mountains. >> and snow hanging in august. >> unbelievable. we saw all the water flowing in yosemite. it's been a banner year for that but also a cool year in the summertime where we have seen low clouds and fog starting in santa cruz, 71 later on. the fog is firmly entrenched along the coast. lots of sunshine and roof camera reporting, you can see for

yourself, a few breaks in the cloudiness, full moon around parts of the bay. fog was not quite as extensive as what we usually see this morning. you have the light of the full moon this morning coming into work. already about 1200 foot deck of low clouds, you are beginning to see a sunnier start to your weekend. pat in fremont. 69 in livermore. 55 in san francisco. no delays. it bottomed out in mid 40s earlier this morning. calm winds and a stable atmosphere, stlv we had a chance to cool with those clear conditions in spots through the overnight hours. it remains pretty much unchanged over the weekend with a slower burnoff tomorrow. a slight warmup is slated for early next week. low clouds and fog. it will sit along the coast but

we will peel them back late day to get some sunshine and remain cool there. warm inland and once we see the clouds disperse, temperatures in the mid-60s. still 50s at ocean beach and half moon bay, visibility has been reduced for a time to about 3 miles. we are looking at minor changes in terms of the fog deck, sea breeze today, tomorrow, being sunnier and a little warmer out there. yesterday we saw the higher clouds, notice today the high clouds have pushed east of the bay. tomorrow we will get more of a sea breeze with that trough up to the north and west of us. today with the earlier burnoff we are looking at a sunnier day. it should be nice if you are headed outside. still kind of hot to the east of us. fresno, 99. sacramento still getting a bit of a breeze. 90 there. 107 in palm springs, 73 in

san diego. back home, look for mid upper 70s. sanity sn can 75. san jose 76 for the festival there. 79 in saratoga. once again, low clouds and fog to start. still cloudy in palo alto later on. 74 and san francisco today, 64. look for 59 in the sunset and even sun there, 76 in petaluma. 74 in salinas. cloudy in hayward. 70s later on this afternoon. 72 in union city and we're looking at sunny day today, mild conditions, 84 in pittsburgh and 64 with monterey bay, 64. today and tomorrow slower burn off tomorrow. temperatures remain the same and then after a minor dip on monday we're warming it up very slowly into next week. it's been nice in the afternoon. thanks very much. in sports the generally harbaugh era is officially here. they had their irs pre-season

game in new orleans. good morning. a lot of excitement what jim harbaugh is going to do as the new head coach but the new alex smith looks like the old alex smith. he could not do anything in the pre-season opener. alex, here is the one, no protection in this game. they came out blitzing from the get-go. hammered from behind. smith played five series, the hookup to braylin edwards. early second quarter, joseph morgan returning the punt, spins away, hits the sideline. they are going to tackle him with an arm. not going to happen. new orleans up 10-zip. >> drew brees handing off to mark ingram. 17-0 saints.

28 yards on the scramble setting up a 59-yard field goal attempted by david akers, got it that is was the lone niner highlight in a loss. >> you know the first game, with coach harbaugh and his staff, we need to go back to camp. >> and reeling and trying to get back on track, giants opened a game in florida, still without carlos beltran who received a cortisone shot for his wrist. he may have to go on the disabled list. good started. here it comes. there it goes. pablo sandoval, 14th of year, but 20 straight solo home run, matt cain could not hold the

lead. a score from first and that ties it at one. later, mike stanton would dry one in. giants fall 2-1 and fall two in back of arizona. >> a's and rangers, boo's for wilson. we'll wilson gets revenge, strikes out scott sizemore. this was essentially over in the second inning because rangers erupted for six runs. chavez driving three hits and bottom of the third, rangers had three in the fourth. michael young here, he bobbles and two more score. a's fall and they fall big, 9-1. >> bay area favorites chris mullen and carl vandeveer were inducted into the hall of fame. one of the top women coaches in

history. she spent 25 years at the hell am. mullen overcame alcoholism to become a hall of famer. >> i truly want to thank golden state warriors and the fans for supporting me in a difficult time of my life. >> i coached hard working players. the players are to inspire me every day. >> that is wrap on sports. have a great weekend everybody. i'm larry beil. >> and as larry mentioned a couple locals were indulged into the basketball hall of fame. in addition, long time legendary trainer, jerry holandorfer was inducted into the national thoroughbred racing hall of fame. he is the fourth winningest

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president obama says he will be announcing new proposals in the coming weeks to help american companies hire workers and create jobs. in this morning's address he wants voters to tell congress they are sick of the partisanship that has led to gridlock in washington. >> the idea to make it through the election is more important than making things right, that is what is holding us back. you have a right to be frustrated. i know i am. because you deserve better. i don't think it's too much for you to expect that the people you send to this town start delivering for you. >> president listed several initiatives they wants pass, free trade and improvements in the patent system. wall street wildest week ever ended yesterday with second

consecutive day of gains. they had four 400 point swings in one week. it finished up 125 points but was down 176 for the week. news came on better than expected news on retail sales and rally in european stocks. on thursday, fewer jobless claims than anticipated. one analyst say they may be viewing the economic glass as had half full and not half empty. it was accelerated by new set of software that turbo charges the process. david louie explains how it affects the market. >> it wasn't that many years, that stock transactions were done by people using hand gestures, standing in trading pits. then computers took over. latest development in software that monitors company news and can do trades in microseconds. it's called speed trading or high frequency trading.

it's put put the market on steroids. speed trainer provides the training to individual investors. >> the volume doubled from where it was a week ago before it hit the markets. i would guess that 70% of that is through trading. >> spikes can be caused by not just money or panic by by the faster speed of training. it takes three microseconds to execute a trade and one microsecond to get data from for a stock. a camera flash takes 1,000 microseconds. >> increase in speed, trading firms are locating their servers right at the exchange and they are using software that detect trends much the way google is able to predict your search.

>> it's monitoring whether others are buying or selling. >> people sense the orders out of market they will also back away, as well. is. >> big trading firms and hedge funds are primary users of speed trading. they see why it's spreading. >> it's an opportunity for people to exploit the way things are. volatility makes it easy to make money if you are quick and prepared to do that. >> individual investors may not have the risk tolerance. just as americans are hoping for something to help strengthen the economy, there is word that gas prices are headed down a whopping 60 cents per gallon down over the next month following the big drop in oil prices. a leading analyst says average family would save $70 a month at

the pump that would pump $45 billion into the economy. authorities are awaiting results of a necropsy on a pit bull. the dog was standing over a badly mauled body of a woman when her husband came home on thursday. the dog was shot and killed by police. they hope the necropsy will provide clues as to what provoked the attack this is abnormal behavior. if it could happen, an attack had to be triggered by something. >> the san mateo coroner performed an autopsy on the woman looking for bite marks that be match the dog to the cause of death. pit bulls are responsible and many will say it's not the breed, it's the training and environment but others believe that pit bulls do seem to be involved in larger number of attacks. jonathan bloom spoke with some experts. >> what is normal other dogs can

do jump on somebody, a pit bull can do that and be deemed dangerous. >> she has trained dogs in pacifica for 15 years. >> that is a good boy. >> not just any dog but they can react to tiny changes in the owner's body chemistry and why a dog may behave differently if their owner becomes pregnant. >> what they do with the changes can be on an individual basis. it could be nothing or they can alert us or get upset or frightened. >> for a smaller dog, it might be just nuisance. for a pit bull it could be deadly. but when it comes to laws, requiring them to be neutered she is worried about with the breed's bad reputation. >> it's not the strongest and not the only one. >> here at san francisco animal

shelter, they have seen a 25% drop in the number of pit bulls that wind up in the kennels and require that breed to be spayed or neutered. they have seen a 40% drop in the number that had to be euthanized. >> animal care director says most serious attacks have involved unneutered males. females don't pose as much of a problem but there is a problem people to comply. >> we get calls and complaints pit bulls that have seen in different parts of the city. a menlo park woman whose random act of kindness is heading to hollywood. she is headed for an award. karina rusk has her story and how you can be part of the club. >> she is packing her bags for hollywood.

a journey that begin two years ago at a grocery store. the woman in line in front couldn't find her wallet. >> i said hey, send me a check. >> the grocery was 207. >> a check for an even 300 arrived the next day urging her to get a massage. instead she went online. >> i said what would you do with the money. they said give it to charity. >> harvested food bank quickly became the charity of choice. suddenly friends and even strangers started matching that $93. >> another one did it. another one did it and it rolled. within four hours it was $600 that had been pledged. by next morning it was over a thousand. >> the $93 club has now raised $125,000 for second har very vest which is why it's nominated for the vh-1 do something award.

>> the unusual number sparked the fee donations ranged from 93 cents to $9300. second harvested needs ongoing support because they are serving nearly half a million people every month. >> it's a wonderful thing about what she did is it started two years ago and like a freight train it never stopped. that is really helped us. >> she is excited about the awards show but is most impressed with the people who join her in paying it forward. >> honestly what i feel best about, i had chance to be part of this incredible experience. >> that is how she went from trader joe's in hollywood in two years. >> saturday morning, a lot of people making plans and here is the weather you can get when you make those plans. >> behind us still some fog but most areas, some sunshine. in fact downtown, telegraph hill

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someone once said a picture is worth a thousand words. so what would a moving picture be worth? we're looking at a fantastic pan of the san francisco bay of the bay bridge where they will be

holding the big races in 2013, america's cup and over to the dark, very thick fog area where the golden gate bridge should be showing up. wow. >> you can see it. >> you look around the area. >> you got some great stuff. >> marine layer is shrinking. it's looking prettier. this is the golden gate bridge, it's dense along the shoreline but from vollmer peak, you can see it's poking out of the low clouds here. finally sutro camera looking back at mount tamalpais where we have sunshine this morning in the north bay. boy, do we need it this morning. it was so cold we dropped into the 40s, santa rosa and novato this morning. its clear sky, less fog, more time to cool right before

sunrise. numbers responding to the sun. it's sunny in concord and livermore. still cloudy in fremont and redwood city holding on to the clouds as well as mountain view. 57 there. more cloud cover and we're looking at the stable air mass keeping it mild. sunny san jose, 60. low clouds and fog around the coast with sunshine sooner. that means a slightly warmer day in downtown san francisco. coast will be looking at a little sun. sunday will be the cooler day but still we're hoping to warm up by next week with low clouds and fog deck shrinking. her is a couple visible pictures you can see how much the wind has been helping us through the overnight hours. it has cleared the fog from eureka, point reyes and dense fog along the central coast. another visible picture shows, we do have the fog here and the set up will be once again,'

breeze, cooler air at the coast. warmer air inland and et sets up to be a typical summer type pattern with the deck shrunk this morning, sitting around the atmosphere, stronger today. areas of low pressure, today backed off so we'll look less of a sea breeze throughout the entire bay. 50s there and 60s in san francisco with the return to those 70s in the south bay. notice the higher clouds pushed to the south and east and that trough tomorrow allows for return of low cloud deck. 71 in san mateo with 59 in half moon bay. in san francisco, mid-60s, afternoon sun, 55. 57 in bodega bay, but expecting sunshine and sea breeze. 70 in san leandro, still the fog going to break apart right here. so it won't be long before

things brighten up in fremont. 74 later today. 82 in danville. pleasanton, coming in the low 80s. down around the monterey bay, you have the worst visibility. most fog but still a lot of sunshine coming your way. gilroy at 79. accu-weather seven-day forecast, subtle differences day to day due to the low clouds and fog deck. sea breeze is more generous tomorrow. a little dip on monday as the trough passes to the north then we're going to warm up just a little bit. golden gate park today with more sunshine out there and maybe a weather person. and around the bay area, you can take wounded wild animals but most are not equipped to deal with tiny song birds. but the latest in the north bay, yes, there is. as we'll see, dan ashley shows us it's run by volunteers. >> these orphan birds were

brought into the sonoma county song bird hospital. they would have likely died in the hospital if they were not cared for here. veronica runs the hospital and she leads the team of volunteers that spend hours carrying for the wounded birds that arrive in. this is the only song bird rescue hospital in northern california. >> my story, i found a bird that fell off the eves of our house and they were desperate for volunteers. >> 15 years later. >> we have 8 on the property. >> she has converted much of her two acre home into a hospital for injured birds. >> no water birds but just the song birds. >> these little birds have big appetites. they need to eat every 20 minutes. they'll go through 200,000 meal

worms a week. >> you put the food in. >> song birds come here from a very right of places, some have fallen from trees or lost habitat. others have been hit by cars or maybe run into windows. some are prey for other animals. >> over 50% of the 500 plus birds i take care of were caught by a cat. >> the rest are cared for by her home. >> funding for the hospital comes from the sonoma county wildlife rescue. >> all the song birds, these little birds. >> the rescue relies on the hospital to take care of birds that they can't. >> a lot of animals eat them. so they a quiet, safe place to go. >> it's about to be its own nonprofit. they will allow them to do their

own fund-raising and to develop more programs to save song birds. >> if i can help undue some of the damage that us humans are doing out there in the natural world, i feel really good about that. >> so veronica bo wers and volunteers, we thank them for keeping nature's musicians alive. if you know someone we should salute, go to our website, look for more topics under abc7 salutes. go get your credit cards, you will want to look at them during my upcoming report. i'm michael finney and 7 on your side is coming up.

ecstatic but's they had i can shock, mount tamalpais, some sunshine and got fog and that fog is a thin marine layer. we're going to hear how thin and how soon it's getting out of here from lisa in a couple of minutes. >> new government rules protect you from some of the worst credit card practices but there a loophole that can get you. here is michael finney. >> reporter: when your credit card is swiped the whole slew of relatively new rules go into effect. rate increases are restricted unless your credit card has this word on it -- business. the word business is v there,

then the new rules often no longer apply. >> it's important for people to roil realize that all credit is created equal. >> that is john fox from calpers. they are sending more than before. >> this a dangerous thing for most consumers because a lot of the liability are the same, the protections of the card act don't apply to business credit cards. >> so do those with the cards know what they are carrying. >> did you know there is a difference between a consumer and business credit card? >> no, i didn't. >> aubrey is an artist and says the paperwork goes along with any credit card is overwhelming. >> i just don't look at the small print anymore. they counted on that. they know i'm a perfect victim to this. [ laughter ] >> the business cards do serve a

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here is the winnings numbers from last night's $16 million mega millions drawing. mega number was 13. nobody got all six. tuesday night's jackpot is estimated at $24 million. >> a group of workers in canada that play the lottery every week had a stroke of luck and couldn't have happened at a better time. it was one of their worst days to one of their best. >> the chances of smiling on the same day you lose your job are probably about the same as, well winning the lottery. but for this group of 18 men, the odds were in their favor. >> i was in disbelief for about 20 minutes. >> for five years they pooled their cash for a weekly lottery ticket. but on wednesday, date of the

drawing, a bombshell from their employer, the plant was shutting down and they would be without a job within weeks. >> just as reality was hitting them, their ticket matched every number, a $7 million pay out. each man losing their job but walking away with nearly $400,000 each. not a bad severance package. >> nothing but smiles this morning. >> the obvious, vacations are in their future, but these men are fighting a fresh start in their winnings. >> take this opportunity and actually better myself and do something i would like to do. >> 24 hours ago, for the rest of my life will be something that

i'll never touch again because it's not good enough. highs and lows in life in one little package. >> nice and bright out there, the marine layer is skimpy and it's clearing quickly. it's backed up around the coast. not for long, fog around hayward and fremont. it's beginning to get sunny. 64 later today, 74 in fremont and 76 in san jose. upper 80s inland and tomorrow a little cooler and be a little warmer by the middle of next week. >> all right. thank you for joining us. stay connected at 24/7 at abc7news.com. have a great saturday and a greaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaea

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