>> in the news this saturday morning, april 14th, a 3-year-old girl is expected to survive after being attacked by a pit bull in martinez. and in a few hours sheriffs and volunteers will resume their search for sierra lamar. good morning. on this week where we had tornados, downpours, light anything strikes, what does today hold? >> good morning. the weather story for today is the wind. a lot quieter compared to what we've seen this week. here's the embarcadero, the ferry building. the wind is blowing. winds from the northwest at 33 miles an hour. it will be breezy this afternoon, as well.

but take a look at live doppler afternoon, as well. still a chance of a shower. the details coming up. terry. >> thanks a lot, francis. night to hear the threat of thunder and lightning is all but gone after thursday's storms delivered 857 lightning strikes. one knocked a half moon bay man right off his feet. here's the story. >> don't barbeque in the rain. >> sound advice from a man who did just that during this nasty thunderstorm. roy blair went out back to get some hot dogs before they burned. that's when bad luck happened. >> lightning hit the tree, hit the fence in the backyard, and i saw it. it came across the lawn, right up across the asphalt, right up into the barbeque and into me. it picked me up and dropped me

like a ton of bricks on to the concrete. >> blair managed to get himself inside. coastside fire protection district, in cooperation with cal fire, respond to the 911 call. >> the lightning is probably in the vicinity ever the area but close enough the peripheral energy affected him. kind of the electricity associated with the lightning doesn't just affect the place it strikes, but the perimeter around it. >> i was kind of confused, a little worried. >> but stable. so first responders took him to the e. r.. >> they took me to the hospital and ran tests and said i was owing. >> this cop grew newspaper the bay area so he knows our storms, and even he was impressed. >> i don't remember a storm growing up that had that much intensity and came through with that much force. >> usually the department only gets two to three calls a night. >> we had about 13 calls within a 24 hour period in the coastside fire district itself, and another 13 or 14 calls in the unincorporated parts of

san mateo county. >> they said this is the perfect time to remind lightning if you see lightning get out of open airs, get inside and stay away from the windows. abc7 news. the national weather service said a tornado touched down north of sacramento yesterday. take a look at the damage caused by the 57 miles an hour winds. blew the roof off a car dealership. the weather service said the twister was on the ground for about one-eighth mile. enough to do a lot of damage. nobody injured, though. a tornado was also reported in stockton on monday. >> the mess left behind in the east bay will take a while to clean up. these are pictures of what the roads looked like last night. the ground became so saturated from all the rain it sent the entire hillside sliding, bringing a big tree down with it. the late-season storms also hit southern california with rain and snow.

big bear in the mountains had warnings. and that storm also brought tragedy. a little girl was killed in the cuff surf in santa cruz. the six-year-old was playing in the surf near pleasure point thursday afternoon when she was hit by a log about 12 feet long. she was pinned to the beach. the child died after being airlifted to stanford hospital. it's not sure if she died from blunt force drama or drowning. her name has not been released. check the news anytime at abc7news.com and check out the video and viewer's photos. a three-year-old is at the hospital this morning where she underwent facial surgery after a pit bull attack yesterday. the girl will survive but the dog will be euthanized. we have the story. >> this is turk. he's a 7-year-old brin dill and

white pit bull. the dog, for some unknown reason, bit a three-year-old in the face. >> the child was on the bed. the dog was not on the bed. so that's pretty much all that we know at this time. >> lieutenant william cain said the girl was visiting her grandmother when the grandmother's dog attacked. a neighbor heard a commotion outside about 11:30:00 in the morning. street was blocked off and then i saw them carrying her out. she was all wrapped up. >> she was brought here in oakland children's hospital for treatment. the contra costa county sheriff's department said she underwent surgery. neither the girl nor the grandmother has been named. turk has received a death sentence for the attack. >> the dog was surrendered and placed under state-mandated quarantine for ten days, after which she will be euthanized. >> he is not a friend to pit bulls. >> i think they should all be put to sleep. especially when they have done this. >> the next door neighbor said

the dog was never aggressive. >> never barked much, actually not at all. doesn't bark and doesn't show any hostilitys. it's a friendly dog. >> neighbors said they never saw the dog because it spent most of the time in the backyard or indoors. a neighbor said the dogs aren't the ones to blame. >> the wrong people get good dogs and it's how they turn the dogs out. >> contra costa is investigating whether turk has had aggressive behavior or biting in his past. if he has, on top of this tragedy the grandmother could also face charges. abc7 news. a few hours from right now the search resumes for sierra lamar. this is the morgan hill teenager that disappeared 29 days ago after she left home and never showed up for school. this morning sheriff's deputys

and volunteers will resume their search. we have the details from the reservoir. >> six divers from the sheriff's office are navigating the murky water in this reservoir. it is to check out 8 items of interested captured by this sonar device. the item on the right turned out to be a car. >> it hay not be one image that tells us what we are looking at. it's often a combination of two or three different image the. >> divers had five items of interest at the reservoir. >> a large rock formation, a great -- a great over an inlet valve. and a tree stump. >> each dive is 40 to 100 feet is required and this cage is dropped in the water and acts as a familiar marker of sorts.

>> we will drop a cage down that we can see with the sonar and then we bring the cage closer and closer to the image we are looking for until the divers have a very short distance. >> the day-long dive operation follows a month of searching, both on land and in water. each outing is an effort to find evidence that will bring home 15-year-old sierra lamar. sergeant brett has been working the case since day one. >> we are here to focus a mission. we focus on the mission at hand and don't get discouraged and keep coming out. >> sheriff deputies will be out this weekend canvassing areas specifically in morgan hill. large community searches are planned for both saturday and sunday. in santa clara county, corina rusk, abc7 news. >> still ahead, the suspect who tried to escape police by dressing as a woman. and they are prepared to resume the world's longest ocean base in a few hours. it's the same race that left two

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square were shut down for hours yesterday as police searched for a man they considered armed and dangerous. when they found him, he tried to pull a fast one. here's abc7 news reporter, mark matthews. >> police believed the suspect was armed and dangerous. they say he was known to carry an assault weapon. but when they finally caught him this afternoon he was armed with nothing more than a disguise. he was dressed as a woman, pretending to be a resident of the hotel. >> he change the into women's clothing. they did try to disguise his appearance to avoid police detection. >> she was on the fourth floor when the kidnapping suspect broke in. >> i her the door closed and i turned around and he was in my room. he was like shhhh.

>> she said he ordered her and her ten-year-old daughter to sit on the bed while he demand the clothes and makeup. >> he was practicing how he was going to act like a girl around the police. >> did he threaten you. >> he never did. >> did he have a weapon. >> no, he never had a weapon. >> was there a woman with him. >> no. he was by himself. he didn't want us to leave the room because he felt he was going to get caught. >> she said she was in the room with him about an hour before he tried to escape. >> he tried to grab me by my hood, and the police were at the end of the exit and when he saw them he was like buy. >> the oakland s.w.a.t. team wasn't fooled. they got him without a struggle. they also got his companion. police don't know if she was also wanted in the alameda assault and kidnapping case. the search shut down businesss in a two block area around the hotel. >> took my business for a loop today. there was no walk-in traffic.

the clines are -- >> they couldn't get in? >> they couldn't get in. >> we should explain while police saw the suspect and woman in the car outside of the inn, when the police stopped and got out of their car the suspect and the woman ran into the hotel and the search was on. oakland police have not identified the man or the woman. they say this is an alameda case. so far all of our calls into alameda for information have gone unanswered. abc7 news. a cupertino company has been identified as the source of a national salmonella outbreak. according to the fda, moon marine usa sold the yellowfin tuna that made many people sick. it was sold to grocery stores and restaurants to make sushi. they have pulled off the affected fish. the world's longest sailing race resumes today just outside the golden gate. they will ship out about ten this morning.

organizers say the race resumes about noon. you might recall two injured crewmembers from the storm-battered yacht geraldine clipper were rescued about two weeks ago. two other injured sailors remained on board. the next leg takes them to panama hopefully on smoother seas. but we aren't doing weather reports for panama but we are doing them locally. are they going to have nicer seas today? it's got to be better than it was. >> yeah, a lot better. we broke two records for rainfall yesterday. i will have the details coming up. here's a live shot outside. it is a bit breezy out there. more sunshine in store for us and warmer temperatures. >> that's what i want today here. francis, thanks very much. also next, near perfection. matt cain works with history. collin refresh has the highlights of

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tornadoes are predicted this weekend, not around here but from texas all the way to minnesota. this is the damage from a twister that touched down yesterday afternoon in norman, oklahoma. no major injuries reported, but 4,000 people lost power. the worst weather is expected late today near oklahoma city. the warning is only the second time the u.s. storm prediction center has issued a 24 hour alert. the last was in 2006 when tornadoes swarmed the southeast. scary pictures there. a far, far calmer morning anyway

here in the bay area. >> yeah, much nicer for us. the biggest trouble we had this week was the lightning. it's a huge disparity. i want to take you outside to show you a live shot, terry, of the ferry building and the flags blowing. breezy conditions expected today. but what you will notice is it is a lot dryer. you can pretty much put those umbrellas away almost for the entire week. i'll tell you what i mean in a minute. here's a look at live doppler 7 hd. the difference is you will notice it's a lot quieter. this is a three-hour loop. you will see some areas of light green with light rain. we did break a record at sfo yesterday. record rainfall, .76 inches. breaking a record of .45 inches set in 2003. we also broke another record at the oakland airport. but today no record rainfall. in fact, it's going to be pretty dry. temperatures right now in the 40ths. pretty cool with partly cloudy

skies. 48 in san francisco. 50 in san jose. it's going to be the breeze that we will notice this afternoon. current winds already gusting up to 32 miles an hour from the northwest at sfo. in san jose, westerly winds of 17 miles an hour. so what you can expect is a cool morning with just a very slight chance of a shower. it looks like the chance of the shower mainly confined to the coast along monterey bay and big sur. this afternoon it will be sunny and breezy. a warmer weekend in store for us. here's a look at the satellite image. the storm system moves south and east and with it it is taking the rain away. so for today we are going to see partly cloudy condition in the morning with the slight chance of a shower i mentioned. but by this afternoon more sunshine and temperatures much warmer. yesterday temperatures were in the upper 50s. so we are a little bit cooler than what you would expect for this time of year. but by tomorrow afternoon, a lot of sunshine. so the trend starts this

afternoon. it will be milder with this area of high pressure building. now there's another storm system. we are going to get the tail end of this. that might bring a chance of rain to the north bay on wednesday. it looks like a very light chance at this point. one of our forecast models showed areas of a little bit of light green, so that's bringing us still that chance of rain, the south bay, monterey bay, until mid-morning. then by this afternoon lots of sunshine in store for us and dry all around the bay area. so look for temperatures to climb into the 60s, 63 in oakland. 60 in san francisco. 62 palo alto. more low 60s in monterey bay, 61 santa cruz and 57 in monterey. we might see some upper 50s along the cove. here's the accuweather seven-day. today it's going to be breezy, tomorrow warmer, lots of sunshine through the week with just that chance of rain in the north bay wednesday. that's the only thing we are keeping an eye on. but it looks a lot warmer and we

are going to hit 70s again starting tomorrow. >> you are saying we are probably done for the week with rain and maybe for the season? >> yeah, i think so. >> you don't do 90-day forecasts but if you did? >> yeah, i'm going to go out on a limb and say we are probably done for this year. >> we will take it. 90-day forecast only on abc7 news. thanks a lot. >> ah-ha. >> thanks a lot. the sharks are back for game two of their playoff series against the blues after thursday night's thrilling double overtime win. yesterday matt cain was nearly perfect in the giants' home opener. collin resch has the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning. post-game matt cain admitted throwing a no-hitter has always been in the back of his mind. he's never thrown one, not only in little league. he came, oh, so close yesterday. 14 members were honored of prior games. there was a no-hitter into the

6th inning. cain would do the same on friday. bring it from the opening inning. a pair of strikeouts. cain scary good on friday, the 13th. buster posey, first at-bat at&t park since his ankle injury last may. a standing ovation, and then he does this. almost hits it out off the top of the wall. melky cabrera slides home. the top of fourth. brandon crawford. bare hand and gone. what a play. i mentioned cain taking a no-no into the sixth. it was also a perfect game broken i am by of all people pirates pitcher james mcdonald. only hit he would allow. giants out of their league. and this bloop single drops. 3-x, giants. cain's dominance yet continued. nasty slider. his is 111th strikeout. aubrey huff, down the right-field line and it is out of here. off a fan. in the mccovey home, two-run

homer. his first of the year. 2-1, giants. cain would go the distance. he grounds out to crawford to end it. one-hit shutout. double-digit case for the eighth time in his career. 5-0 the final. in the post-game press i had to ask him how long he will think of the lone hit you gave up? >> i will think about giving up one hit but it doesn't matter. we won and that's what we wanted to get done. it would have been great to not give up a hit, but that's all right. >> buster, when he was receiving the ball, he was right there at the glove. you know, he's fun to watch. he's one were the elite pitchers in the game. those guys are tough when they are on top of their game. >> he got em! >> this is about as good as you get. you catch a one-hitter and you almost hit one out. >> it was a good game. it was a good win. cain was -- i mean, he was on. he was moving the ball on both sides of the plate and had

command of all four pitches. he was really good. >> a great game. you know what kings eat? big ole drum sticks in seattle. in seattle for the home opener. felix, third start against the a's this season. a's really struggling offensively to start the year. this helped. cliff pennington off the base of the wall in center. jarrod barton scores. 1-0. coco crisp, base hit. he has some issues there. that brings home pennington, 2-0. 7 innings, 3 hits, no runs aloud. you make the call here. to the center. diving. does he make the catch? they say he did. replay, no. he trapped it. weeks hitting 188. raised the average to .206. nothing weak about that home run. into the bullpen. 4-0, the final in seattle. yankees' home opener against the angels. that's alex rodriguez and that

is gone. number 630 in his storied career. ties him with old friend and mariner teammate kendrick junior for fifth on the all-time list. like the giants, yankees win 5-0. to golf, nationwide tour in hayward. leader ben martin, he never even started his second round on friday. that's because most players had to finish their first round. something about rain on thursday. i don't know. he started on nine, approach on 18 to finish his first round. he would knock in the wished deputt but was 1-7 on the turn. he played nine more holes in the second round before be drawing last place at 23 over par. the stanley cup playoffs, game two, penguins and flyers. 16 seconds into the game, 1-0, pittsburgh. second period, 3-2, pence. and claude. one-timer past marc-andre fleury. tied at 3. chris kunitz knocks home

rebound. penguins back on top. five seconds left. sean couture, tied at 4. and jagr, the spin around the goal. it's 6-5. less than two minutes to play. couture with two goals already complete. the hat trick. philly 8, pittsburgh 5, flyers take the 2-0 series league. game two between the sharks and blues later today. a 4:30 start. mike shumann with that. and stanford's game at the stadium. >> coming up next, a dozen secret agents assigned to protect the president are in hot water. allegations oval prostitution. >> this is the last weekend where some tahoe area ski resorts will be open but the latest storm is allowing some to extend th

>> president obama is in columbia this morning for the opening of the summit of the americas. before he arrived last night in, about a dozen of his secret service agents had to be sent home for alleged misconduct. a hotel worker said the agents got drunk by the pool each day for about a week. the secret service is also checking reports that prostitutes may have been involved. in the meantime president obama's weekly address focuses on the need to get the wealthiest americans to pay what he calls their fair share. >> when the most well-off americans were asked to pay a little more in the 1990s, we were weren't that it would kill jobs. instead tens of millions of jobs followed. we've tried this trickle-down experiment before. it doesn't work. >> in columbia, the economic job creation is selling anything obama. posters, shirts, they are all selling like hot cakes this weekend. members ever the tea party plan a rare san francisco rally

this afternoon at 1:00. they plan to gather at justin herman plaza for a tax day eve rally. two years ago they were among several groups outside the hotel where obama was attending a fundraiser. he said there will actually ten groups collaborating into today's protest. the website said they chose san francisco because it represents the cradle of pro grossism in america. faculty members ever all 23usc campuss begin voting monday whether to go on strike. it comes a week after meditation between the university and the california faculty association ended without an agreement. a neutral third party will make the next attempt at reaching an agreement. after that the csu chancellor could impose his final offer. members will be voting through april 27th. the cash-strapped cal state system also says it's withholding financial said for about 20,000 grad students. today san francisco chronicle

reports the csu system could decide to permanently end cash grants. students statewide began receiving financial aid notices this week and were astonished to see the grant that pace tuition for low income students were missing. instead the needy students are being a federal lone at 6.8% interest. csu face as possible loss of $200 million in lost funding next year and that's on top of the $750 million cut from this year's budget. this weekend folks from the sierra are loving all the snow the storm dropped there. nannette miranda has the story. >> the late season storm is bringing skiers and snowboarders up to the sierra by the droves. up to two feet from fresh snow fell in some spots, bringing the total to nearly four feet of new snow for the week. for this person it was a great excuse to cash in her christmas gift. she couldn't last d.c. because

there was no snow up here. >> it was a bumper because i was going to come up during christmas so i get to come now so it's all good. >> and the new powder feels great. >> it's been excellent. yeah, you can fall on it and not get hurt. there's no ice. that's what's nice. >> this winter weather enticed this family from mexico to give us the tropical 85-degree weather near their home to get here. >> the only reason is the snow. >> it doesn't snow near port porta villarta? >> no. are you kidding me. >> they hope to stay open until sometime in may. considering it's been a mild winter overall, the later closings might help recoup some lost business. >> it will never make up for it, i don't think, but everything helps. it's all good. last year we were open until

july 10th. >> other ski reports say the new snow is too little too late and it's time to turn in the towel and close up sunday night. after all, it is spring. >> we are closing with all this new snow, but we know that everybody in the valley starts to think about golfing and boating and everything like that. it's been a good season and we are going to go ahead and close up shop. >> the donner ranch told me they closed july 10th last year. last year was a heavier snow year. so much different than this year. nannette miranda, abc7 news. there's a group happy for the wild week that we had weather-wise. a lot of new snow, skiing still available. >> oh, yeah. they had over a foot of snow yesterday. there's still a chance of a snow shower today. but over 5,000 feet. for us today, though, put those umbrellas away. it's going to be nice and breezy. here's a live shot. partly cloudy condition but we will see more sunshine, warmer temperatures, and i'll have the accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. >> all right.

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>> welcome back. 5:36 on this saturday morning. we are looking at a live picture of the golden gate bridge. what exactly are you going to get the bridge for its 75th birthday? one month away from the 75th birthday of the golden gate bridge. what do you get a bridge that already has everything? good-looking bridge, good-looking shot, good-looking day on the way. francis will tell us about that in a minute. four area middle schoolers have completed the first round of the national scrabble championship in florida. the final round is today. the two teams are competing for a $10,000 prize. jonathan bloom talked with them as we prepared for the competition. >> you go first. >> it's down to the wire.

>> 6-12. >> the very last practice game in this belmont dining room for four middle schoolers about to head to florida for the national school scrabble championship. >> 12. >> oh, good luck. >> this entire year we've been practicing just for this one sort of moment. so i'm very excited for it. >> peninsula sixth graders compete as a team. >> 26. >> high-five. >> oh, come on. >> that's an incredible luck. >> it's not luck, it's skill. >> i knew you were going to say that. >> we both know each other's strengths and weaknesss. >> across the table the other two from sunyvale make up the other half of the bay travel club that has won the state championship four times. >> them the lingo. >> see if you can find a place to dump that. >> he's a stronger player. >> yeah, because i have one extra year of experience. >> experience and practice. tournament scrabble has its own

dictionary that is missing some common words like zen but has other words you never heard of. >> gurp. >> tos. >> and all that learning takes motivation from a good coach. >> i try to enable them to be empowered in their own learning in this game. so they can study word lists as much as they want or as little as they want. >> sometimes i study more than i have to. >> yeah, that's true. >> even more than for school? >> yeah. >> it makes their parents awfully proud. >> he's excited. i see the excitement. >> and not just about scoring high. >> 15 plus 50, 65. >> but about playing the game. >> i watch her gracefully win and lose and deal with the boys. >> being polite and being a good sport. they start to embrace those values, and it becomes important to them. they know it's part of being a good player and a good person. >> in belmont, jonathan bloom. [laughter]

>> abc7 news. >> today volunteers and sponsors will be out cleaning up and restoring state warning lands. it's the 15th annual earth day cleanup. this year pg&e is response organize a cleanup project at candlestick point. the foundation provides up to $15,000 to help clear a backyard of maintenance and restoration projects at state parks. volunteers will remove graffiti, install picnic tables, install trees and things like that. many are facing closer from looming budget cuts. that makes volunteers for earth day even more important than usual. anyone going out for earth day or anything wants to know could we stop the rain for just a few days at least, francis? >> yes, terry. i timed it so we would have a nice weekend. >> see, she can cooperate. >> i'll do my best. here's a live shot. i'll take you outside. partly cloudy conditions out there. definitely a cool morning. i did want to mention we broke a record at the oakland airport,

rainfall record. we had over an inch of rain, breaking a record almost 50 years old. so we had 1.04 inches. the record was .66 inches set in 1963. and i want to take you to live doppler 7 hd. what you will notice is it's very quiet. we are picking up some moisture in the air, but none -- or some of this might not be making it to the ground. although there's still a chance of an isolated shower, monterey coast, big sur coast, that kind of thing. pretty much for us it will be nice all day. temperatures mainly in the 40s. 48 san francisco with the exception of 50 in san jose. but it will be breezy today. in fact, winds are already gusting up to 32 miles an hour from the northwest at sfo and around 20 miles an hour in mountain view. we will see some breezy conditions this afternoon. for this morning it it will be cool. still that chance of a shower i wanted to mention burks very slight chance at that. sunny and breezy this afternoon. a warmer weekend in store for

us. so that's a nice break and the timing plays out pretty nicely as well. here's a look at the satellite radar image. the area of low pressure continues to move south and east. still bringing us a possible shower along the coast. by this afternoon we have high pressure building in. dry and milder condition with temperatures climbing up into the 60s again. so yesterday we were mainly in the 50s, upper 50s. here's the forecast model, which shows that chance of a shower in the south bay and monterey bay but it's looking less and less likely. but by midmorning and into this afternoon we will see sunny skies and warmer temperatures. in fact,we will get up into the 60s. 63 in san jose. look for 60 in san francisco. 64 in napa. 65 in antioch. and also in monterey bay, 60s once again. 63 in gilroy. 61 in santa cruz and 63 in salinas. monterey, some spots right along the coast still could see the upper 50s.

today the story is drier, but breezy. that's the change that you will notice with winds from the northwest in the afternoon, 10 to 20 miles an hour. temperatures are going to be a little bit warmer, in the 60s, and then more sunshine on sunday. we are going to see the 70s again, near normal temperatures all week, and then wednesday we are just keeping an eye on a system that may bring a slight chance of rain to the north bay, but for most everyone else it's dry through the week. so, yes, terry, put the umbrellas away and enjoy it. >> my umbrella got a serious workout this week. you are talking about the record rainfall at san francisco international airport? >> ah-ha. >> i was there yesterday morning. i can verify. >> talking about the lightning hitting the airplane. >> it was coming down to for long time. not surf surprised there was a record. thanks a lot. >> the child abuse prevention

center is rolling out a new campaign in teaching children how to keep themselves safer. it's national child abuse prevention awareness month. >> this first grade class at an elementary school in san francisco is the first in the city to see the new training tools to teach themselves how to protect themselves from abuse. that includes child sexual abuse. miss molly handles it with a lot of humor. >> we all have private body parts. the first next to you, behind you. >> the child safety awareness class includes new dolls wearing bathing suits to make the point. >> do we go swimming naked? >> no. >> do we come to school naked? >> no! >> we have to cover our private body parts up. >> she developed the safety program over 15 years of working with the san francisco child abuse prevention center. it offers a crisis talk line for

stressed-out family members, counseling, classes, temporary daycare, and access to computers. but this child safety program is a front-line effort to arm kids against offenders. the message is simple, say no, get away, and tell someone. >> no one touches your private body parts unless it's to keep you clean or healthy. and if anyone wants to touch your private body parts, or ask you to touch theirs, what do you think you should say? >> no! >> this class teaches kids about their personal safety in a variety of different situations. >> i didn't like the way you were playing patty cake and i popped you on the head. would that be okay? >> no! >> no. we call that an unsafe touch. >> the safety class on save and unsafe touches is getting major support from private donors right now to expand. >> and what we still no i is one in every four young girls and

one in every six young boys. we know there are many, many different cases that never get reported. >> people now realize it is not something that, quote, a child can get over. >> alice is with the columbia foundation in san francisco. it's offering a large grant to expand the child safety awareness classes. >> the more children that these materials in the classroom can be gotten to, the sooner we will be down the road to eliminating this ill. >> columbia foundation and blue ribbon partners are challenging other foundation toss join them. >> we want to support the professionals working in this area. >> patty is a long time volunteer for the prevention center. she founded blue ribbon partners. she shows her support in her business. they designed the heart blue ribbon symbol and created and paid for the new safety training materials for children. >> we want to embauer them to -- empower them to have the

strength to protect themselves and be safe and have a save childhood. >> now help is on the way to give kids the tools they need to be safe. >> what do you think she should say? >> no! get away! tell someone! >> sherrill jennings, abc7 news. >> now to get the training materials for your child's program or for a link to the san francisco child abuse prevention center go to abc7news.com and look under see it on tv. it's annual fundraiser is next week and the keynote speakers are former secretary of state madeline albright and actress ashley judd. don't go away. 7 on your side is next. >> a couple loses $9,000 in an atm machine. i'm michael finney coming up. 7 on your side gets it back.

>> welcome back, everybody. take a look at this shot. gorgeous shot from our roof camera down here near the embarcadero. you see the embarcadero. you see the bay bridge and you see a hint that the sun is moving into position. all of this taking place not all that far from where the san francisco giants will be playing their first evening game. 6:05 start tonight. fireworks to follow. pirates, giants, barry zito on the mound. i only say that because i'm going to be there. a marin county couple said they lost $9,000 when they tried to

make an atm deposit. 7 on your side michael finney helps get it back. >> it breaks my heart. i'm getting too old to get in and out of them. >> climbing in and out of the sports car was getting harder for this 76-year-old of mill valley so he traded the car in for this sedan and received a $9,000 check for his old car. >> stuck the check in, it took it, and then spit it back out at me. >> it was now easier to get into his car, but it was not so easy getting that nine grand into his bank account. john says he tried to deposit the check into a bank of america atm located inside this grocery store. but the check popped back out. >> and i sent it in again and the next thing i see is the check going in like this. i hit every button i could find to try to get it returned, and the check was never returned. >> john says there was no receipt, no deposit, and the check was gone.

he had only this stub to show for it. john and his wife, elizabeth, drove to a nearby b of a branch to get help. >> they said they couldn't do anything about it. they aren't in charge of that. i'll give you a number to call. >> the couple did call. and the bank offered a temporary credit of $9,000 while it researched their case. b of a promised a response within six weeks but john elizabeth wanted to find their $9,000 right now. >> i said why can't you get somebody to come down now and look in the machine and see if it's there? we can't do that. there's a process. >> i said, well will i get it back in a month's time? she said maybe. >> elizabeth contacted 7 on your side and we contacted bank of america. the bank tells us weeks later it still hadn't found the couple's check a private vendor services the atms located in retail stores like this one. b of a said the vendor never

reported finding the check. however, b of a did take action. it contacted the car dealer that issued the check, car-telligent of sausalito. right away the car dealer agreed to cancel the check and write a new one. now john and elizabeth are hugely relieved. >> we appreciate the work that was done. >> $9,000, it was a big deal for us. >> now, it's still a mystery as to what ever happened to that first check. however, john said he deposited the second one, and this time it went through just fine. now i want to thank bank of america and the car dealership for stepping up and taking care of this. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> coming up next, san francisco's innovative lines ballet teams up with the bay area rock icon for a production that is out of this world.3q

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matter, and how they work together or battle with each other to get to the next level. one wants to be dominant. ♪. >> the source for the sound score is 13 billion years old from the big bang. >> they can't travel through space, so it's light waves, radiation. i picked them up using telescopes, changed them into sound and embedded them into the music. >> layers of sound. the added work of christopher hoss and that is recycled cardboard. there's now meaning with the powerful elements. >> it's richer, has more nutrients than just the look. >> it's brake through choreography. mickey heart said don't consider using sounds from the big bang for his score as a science experiment. this is not for everyone.

>> you know, playing with the sounds of deep space. >> mickey hart's legend begins with the grateful dead but now he's during with the new mickey hart band and he has a new cd. >> there's a whole another round of music out there. >> in san francisco, don sanchez. abc7 news. >> ballet opens today. mickey hart's new cd was released earlier this week. available now. you can find a link to both on our website at abc7news.com under "see it on tv." coming up next at six, a half moon bay man tells abc7 news about getting knocked flat by a bolt of lightning during thursday's thunderstorm. also tainted fish. the recall you need to know about. ♪ beth! hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed.

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