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 investigators and volunteers will resume their search for missing teenager sierra lamar. good morning. what a week it was weather-wise. what is it going to be like this weekend? here is francis. >> i think you are league to like the weather forecast today. we get a beautiful live shot. we look at san francisco, the bay bridge. partly cloudy conditions and cool this morning. but there's still a chance of a light shower, mainly in the monterey bay area. this is the live doppler 7 hd look right now. the loop in the last three hours, monterey got a few hundred dreads of inch earlier this morning. here's how it looks in terms of what we have done for rainfall totals.

santa rosa become 23 inches, 68% of normal. i have have complete details with the accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. >> thanks a lot. the threat of hundreder and lightning as we just saw all but gone after thursday night's record storm delivered 750 bay area lightning strikes and one of those strikes knocked a half moon bay man 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 of 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. -- i was okay. >> john can grew up in the bay area so he knows the storms. 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 everyone if you

see lightning get out of open areas, 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 75 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. still managed to do all the democrat you see there. nobody injured. a tornado was also reported in stockton on monday. >> the mess left behind in the east bay will take a while to clean up. this avenue in piedmont will be closed throughout the day. 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 san bernardino mountains was under warnings.

interstate 5 bass shut down because of snow there. there's no estimate when it will reopen. and that storm also brought tragedy. a little girl was killed in the 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 family is from san jose. her name has not been released. you can check the forecast at anytime at abc7news.com and they can out the video and viewer's photos there. 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 bryndle 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. the street was blocked off and then i saw them carrying her out. she was all wrapped up. >> the girl 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. that's the best thing that could

happen to them, 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 hostilities. 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. he owns two pit bulls. >> 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. in oakland, abc7 news. >> about two hours from right now volunteers will be out again searching for sierra lamar. this is a morgan hill teenager who disappeared 29 days ago when she left home and never showed up for school. this morning sheriff's deputies and volunteers will resume their search.

they spent time yesterday diving in area reservoirs look for clues into her disappears. we have the details. >> six divers from the sheriff's office are navigating the murky water in this reservoir. the search of ubes involves checking out 8 items of interest, captured by this sonar device. this radar unrelated to the sierra lamar case but it gives you an idea what they are working with. the item on the left turned out to be a car. >> it may not be one image that tells us what we are looking at. it's often a combination of two or three different images. >> divers had five items of interest at the reservoir. >> a large rock formation, a grate over an inlet valve, a lot of wood and 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 moore 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 sailors prepare to resume the world's longest ocean race

in a few hours from san francisco bay. it's the same race that left two crewmembers injured two weeks

>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> several blocks along the around jack london 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 change his luck with a change ever clothes. here's 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 changed into women's clothing. he did try to disguise his appearance to avoid police detection.

>> this woman was on the fourth floor when the kidnapping suspect broke in. >> i heard the door close 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 demanded 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 just 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, bye. see ya later. he tried to play it off. >> the oakland s.w.a.t. team wasn't fooled. they got him without a struggle. they also got his companion. he was hiding in the hotel.

police don't know if she was also wanted in the alameda assault and kidnapping case. the search shut down businesses in a two block area around the hotel. >> took my business for a loop today. there was no walk-in traffic. the clients 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. reporting from oakland, mark matthews, 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. , 116 sick. 12 had to be hospitalized. 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 have been mohred at jock london square where they will ship out about 10:00 this morning. the race begins at noon. two injured crewmembers rescued by the coast guard nearly two weeks ago and two other injured sailors remained on board 400 miles out to sea. next leg takes them to panama hopefully on smoother seas. francis is in for lisa argen this weekend. we will have smoother seas, right? >> your. it's actually nice to have them while lisa takes a break because we will get a break from the rain as well. here's a beautiful live shot looking east, the unis rice in just about 20 minutes, 6:35. looking dry for most the week. all your temperatures and accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. >> also next, near perfection. matt cain flirts with history. cooler today refresh has the highlights of cain's gem in the

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>> welcome back. francis is in for lisa argen this morning. >> clear visibility. it looks great out there. beautiful sunrise in store for us. i was telling terry about some of the rain totals we had this week. very impressive. in the santa cruz mountains over 4 inches and in a lot of areas around the bay area over two inches this past week a lot fell yesterday where we had over an inch of rain at sfo. and actually oakland airport and then .7 inches yesterday at sfo. here's another beautiful shot for you. enjoy the day today. there's still a possibility of an isolated shower.

>> come on! >> i just wanted to mention it. [laughter] >> because it's possible. >> all right. >> but it's a light shower, isolated. so here's a look at live doppler 7 hd. terry is giving me a hard time for that. i'll show you what we've seen so far. it's much quieter this morning. but monterey did get a few hundreths of an inch. later on this morning we will possibly see the chance of an isolated shower mainly along the monterey coast and big sur. right now it's looking pretty mild. 49 mountain view right now and 49 in san jose as well. it will be breezy this afternoon. winds have died down a little bit this past hour. we were seeing gusts at sfo airport up to 30 miles an hour. right now a westerly breeze at 13 miles an hour. this afternoon it will be up to

20 miles an hour. so a cool morning, just the chance of a shower. sunny and breezy this afternoon and a warmer weekend in store for us. in fact, it's looking dry throughout the week except for one day and i'll tell you when and where. here's a look at the storm moving east and south, bringing us the possible shower, but then by this afternoon there's high pressure building. dry and milder today and into tomorrow. but this, the talent of this system, will kind of move into the bay area, swipe the north bay, giving them a chance of rain wednesday afternoon. a very light chance at that. here's a look at the forecast modal that shows the areas of green which may mean we could see a little bit of moisture there in the south bay and monterey bay, but by this afternoon a lot of sunshine and much warmer temperatures and sunnier conditions. that means temperatures will climb into the 60s. a few degrees warmer than yesterday where we were only in the upper 50s. so 62 in san rafael. 63 oakland, 63 in san jose.

look for low 60s as well around monterey bay, 63 gilroy with the exception of 57 in monterey. if you are traveling around the state, there is a winter storm warning along i-5 heading down to l.a. but that's in effect until nine. los angeles, partly cloudy conditions, 62 degrees. tahoe 45 degrees today and here's a look at your accuweather seven-day forecast. so breezy this afternoon and much warmer sunday with even more sunshine. just a very slight chance of rain wednesday for the north bay. pretty much everybody dry and temperatures near normal. >> all right, francis. thanks a lot. it's great to have a chance to say hello to paula hay in santa rosa who joins us from new york to tell us what is coming up on "good morning america." good morning. >> sounds like you are having a feisty moment in san francisco as usual, right? >> francis brings feistiness with you. >> i always enjoy the ban tore

between the two of you. i always leave the couple notes coming up to this tees. coming up on "good morning america," one tornado has already touched down and the government issued a rare and urgent warning about a vicious outbreak to come, possibly bringing mass destruction. millions of americans are in the danger zone and so is our own storm chaser. she's a brave one. and a secret service scandal? members of the president's security team called back to washington during a trip to columbia over allegations of drinking, prostitution and more. we have the latest on what turned out to be a very embarrassing situation. plus is it a real life haunted house? a couple suing their landlord to get out of their lease, alleging their house is the scene of paranormal activity which they claim to have documented, so will their ghost story holdup in court? a freaky story for you there. and finally, the wedding that

may rock hollywood. brad and angelina are officially engaged. when is the big day? how about the ring? we will have the details coming up. it's supposed to be worth about a quarter million dollars. we will tell you who might be in the wedding. i don't know if you have been invited yet, but i know you are on the edge of your seat with anticipation for all the details, right? >> i'm on the edge of my seat wondering -- i guess the question for me is what took him so long? you have six kids and been together for seven years. you think it would be automatic. but just. >> nope. >> just an observation. >> their kids are put to full-court press. what is holding you back? if you have kids, kids are the boss so they finally acquiesced. thank you. have a good morning. >> you, too. >> in sports the sharks are back in action for game two. their playoff series against the blues after their thrilling double-overtime victory.

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 or even 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. 1-0, giants. the top of fourth. 2-0 game. 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 up by of all people pirates pitcher james

mcdonald. the only hit he would allow. giants out of their league. and this bloop single drops. 3-0 giants. cain's dominance yet continued. nasty slider. his is 11th 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. presley grounds out to crawford to end it. a complete game. 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. >> you know what kings need, big ole drum sticks in seattle. they are in seattle for the home opener. third start against the a's already a season.

that's nasty. a's really struggling offensively to start the year. this helped. cliff pennington off the base of the wall in center. barton scores, two batters later, coco crisp. that brings home pennington, 2-0. and bartolo, third start against seattle. higgins takes a seat. bottom of the seventh. you make the call. diving. does he make the catch? they say he did. replay? no. he dropped it. break for the a's. weekes raise his average to .206. nothing weak about that home run. 4-0, the final in seattle. to golf. 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. wright started on 9. approach on 18 to finish his first round. he would knock in the birdie putt but was plus-7 on the turn.

on one misses the par cut. 16 over 86. played nine holes before withdrawing from the tournament last place at 23 over par. game two between the sharks and blues later today at 4:30. mike shumann with that, plus stanford's cardinal and white scrimmage at the stadium. have a great saturday, everyone. i'm collin resch. >> coming up next, a dozen secret service agents who were assigned to broke the president are in hot water. the accusations of misconduct and they include prostitution. >> i'm nannette anywhere an. this is the last weekend the resorts will be

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>> 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 sat around the pool getting drunk for about a week. the secret service is also checking out 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 warned 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 of 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. they said there will actually ten groups collaborating into today's protest. the website said they chose san francisco because it represents the cradle of progressism in america. faculty members of all 23 csu campuses 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. that's whether to authorize a strike should contract talks fail. 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.

the paper students statewide began said receiving financial aid notices and they were surprised to see the grant that pace tuition for low income students was missing. instead they were being offered a lone at 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 carly donahue, it was a great excuse to cash in her christmas gift. she couldn't last december 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 up the tropical 85-degree weather near porta villarta 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 extend their season for a few more weeks. at the ski ab. managers hope to stay open sometime into 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 resorts 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 ski 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. >> that's the weather i there. here's the weather around here. >> it is going to be nice today. there's still a chance of a very light shower isolated south bay. we are going to go back up to tahoe, terry, where -- >> this is tahoe, folks. this is not our area. >> this is tahoe where there's light snow falling right now. it's currently 25 degrees in truckie. and for us, i think you are going to like what you can expect for the weekend, and i'll have the seven-day forecast coming up, as well. >> all right. also ahead, the national scrabble championships now

underway. meet the four bay area students who are minding their zs

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>> 6:37 on the nose. we are looking at the golden gate bridge. you can see what kind of day we are going to have to a degree. you can see it's going to be mostly clear. kind of tough to tell it's going to be breezy. definitely have the giants evening home opener at 6:00 tonight. francis is going to be along with more, more and more momentarily. 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. abc news reporter jonathan bloom talked with them as they 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. >> no, 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 -- scrabble 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. >> g-u-r-p.

>> t-o-s. >> 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 park 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. >> if yesterday had been today it it would have been a much rougher cleanup but today will be nice. >> today will be a nice day to be outdoors, at the beach. here's a live picture outside. a beautiful sunrise. he we are looking south toward san francisco. we are under partly cloudy conditions. we are picking up some moisture with live doppler 7 hd. but so far we've had no measurable rainfall in the last six hours in the bay area.

we will go to the live doppler radar hd and show you. only a few patches of green here and there but the only measurable rain was in monterey bay earlier this morning. temperatures on the cool side. 48 in san francisco. 49 in okay land and in san jose. 46 in livermore. and look at the breezy conditions later on this afternoon. we did have winds gusting up to 30 americans. right now there is a gust of 30 miles an hour at half moon bay but it has died down a bit at sfo and also in san jose. so it's cool this morning. still a chance of an isolated shower, mainly south bay, monterey bay. sunny and breezy this afternoon. but temperatures will be warming up today and a warmer weekend in store for us. the storm moving south and east, bringing us still the isolated hour but think about afternoon we had high pressure building and the with high pressure we see dryer conditions, milder temperatures as well. we will be climbing into the

60s. also i wanted to show you the forecast model that shows a possible light shower during the morning. but then by midmorning it's all dry, all clear, and we will warm up with some sunnier conditions this afternoon. highs will be in the 60s today. so a few degrees warmer compared to yesterday's highs of upper 50s. 60 in san francisco and in richmond, 64 concord. look for a 62 in fremont. also low 60s around monterey bay with 63 gilroy, 61 in santa cruz. if you are traveling around the state, it's going to be 45 in tahoe. in l.a., los angeles, low 60s for you. 68 in palm springs. but still would be tough heading through i-5 until about 9:00 this morning and then it should be a little bit better. here's a look at rain totals to date. we did do quite -- we made quite a dent, i guess i could say, in some areas where we add add couple inches. santa rosa almost 23 inches so

we are 68% of normal. in san jose, we got up to 6.67 inches and that's only 48% of normal year to date. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. temperatures warmer today, in the 60s. mid-60s inland. breezy conditions this afternoon, even warmer tomorrow. we are going to make it back up to 70. near normal through the week. we are just keeping an eye on a slight chance of rain wednesday in the north bay but pretty much dry for everyone else. >> the child abuse prevention center is rolling out a new campaign aimed at teaching children how to keep themselves safe. the center has time for the pilot project this month because it's national child abuse national prevention awareness month. here's sherrill jennings focus on solutions report. >> they are the first in the city to see the new training

cools how to protect them from abuse. ms. molly handles it with a lot of humor. >> we have private body parts. person behind you, next to 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. >> molly developed this 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 bonked you on the head. would that be okay? >> 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. >> child sexual abuse, what we know 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 foundations to 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 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.

>> those wondering why they call it the golden state -- no, that's not the reason -- but we have a golden sunrise coming up right now. breezy conditions. no big deal. the rain, 99.9% of it, right, francis, is gone. all right. i can say that.

99.9 gone. we will have a nice one today and again tomorrow. a marin county couple says they lost $9,000 when they tried to make an atm deposit. 7 on your side's michael finney helped 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 and 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 whatever 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. hey guys, breakfast!

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>> here are the winning numbers from last night's $42 million megamillions drawing. 9, 14, 17, 36, 42. the meganumber 33. and nobody got them all. are we going to go in the same direction we were two weeks ago? tuesday night's jackpot estimated at $53 million. former grateful dead drummer and hall of famer mickey hart is in a new endeavor. he's joining with alonzo king for a new piece in a ballet that opens today. arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez checks out a rehearsal. >> the physical artistry of alonzo's kings lines ballet. it's about physical space and in finishet space. choreography by alonzo king, score by mickey hart. inspired by the passionate, fluid. >> this man was trying for

something quite different and i thought he called the right guy. >> the idea that man is a -- has a dual nature of spirit and 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 radio 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. >> if there's meaning, it is retcher, has more nutrients than just the look.

>> it is breakthrough choreography. mickey hart 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 other world of music out there. >> in san francisco, don sanchez. >> i mentioned the 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." >> and the word is nice weather. >> temperatures in the 60s odd o. today. 63 san jose. 60 san francisco. degree a jacket if you are headed to at&t park at 6:05

tonight. temperatures in the low 50s. clear conditions, and terry mcsweeney will be there. >> yes. >> and it is looking pretty dry for us most of the week with the seven-day forecast. >> francis, that's what i wanted to hear. thanks a lot and thanks for joining us on the abc7 saturday morning news. next newscast at 1:00 this morning. good morning america coming up next. keep track of the latest breaking news on twitter on abc7 news on twitter and you can talk about it on