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the 72-year-old when the light was yellow. an internet posting from an e mail after the accident implied it was a crowded crosswalk and he plowed through at the least-populated place he could find, but police looked at a security video reportedly taken from twin peaks tavern. and shows him going at a good clip and the crosswalk had few pedestrians at the time. >> there is a lot of evidence in this case that leads to be able to believe not only there was negligence but probably there is negligence in this case reckless. >> the district attorney says he will prosecute. the only question is whether to charge him with a misdemeanor or felony vehicular manslaughter which could carry a 16 month sentence.
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captain dennis o'leary told abc 7 police are recommending filing felony charges. >> we're seeking a warrant for the bicyclist's arrest. >> this is reaction from his niece to the developments. >> i'm sure that he will do whatever he thinks is appropriate. of course, again i'm sad something like this happened to a nice person like my uncle. >> police say there are good witness who's say he ran at least one red light before he got to this intersection. a source tells us he's cooperating and that he gave them a statement. and his lawyer did not return our calls today. >> investigators want to find out what killed a man found in bodega bay. a sheriff's helicopter lowered
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two search and rescue deputies on the bottom of a cliff this morning. and there is high he tides preventing him from being reached until this morning. >> we're learning more about that case of mad cow disease linked to a central valley darey. officials are assuring consumers the food supply is safe and say the cow was never intended for human consumption. two south korean retailers halting sales the majority of the markets are staying open to us us imports. agriculture officials say the animal had an atypical form of the disease meaning it did not come from eating infected feed. abc news says more testing will be done. >> and i imagine they'll be doing testing there and will be looking from other things that this cow was exposed to try to explain this.
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>> the question will be asked and they'll need to answer is testing program and our system in place stringent enough? >> this is the first new case in cattle here since 2006. only the fourth reported in the united states. >> and whale watchers joined a search for a massive gray whale in a fishing net. the whale disappeared during rescue attempts last week and last spotted near big sur.íá,
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then reopening on monday. the bridge has to meet highest standards as what is called a lifeline structure, doyle is a notch below classified as recovery. >> there is a high magnitude earthquake that, you know, there are other ways to get from point a to b. >> and so these are the final days in the lifetime of the old doyle drive. come monday there will not be cars any longer on that old elevated section there that you're looking at. both northbound and southbound traffic will be on this shiny white section of, called a viaduct, it's a bridge that will lead into a new tanl that
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will be part of a three-year detour so it's a lot to get used to. again, doyle drive closes this friday at 8:00, opening again monday at 5:00 in the morning and the fact doyle is considered a recovery facility is what caltrans is counting on golden gate bridge will be open, 19th avenue park way but they do expect to be very trafficky ask advise everyone to stay away if possible or get yourself on a ferry instead. abc 7 news. >> thank you. that is good add vits how do you get around the closure in for traffic information you can check out abc 7 news traffic app to get it go to abc 7 news.com. >> national news now. day three in the trial of former senator and vice presidential candidate john edwards. his former aid andrew young is
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revealing more of what he said was going on privately behind the scenes of a public campaign. abc 7 has the story. >> edwards defense team portrayed andrew young as tunistic and greedy seeking a a cover up with reille hunter. >> they're going to show the jury this person is not believable. >> today, young testified after edwards lost the 2008 presidential nomination he was told hiding hunter was still the most-important job on the campaign because edwards was angling to be vice president or attorney general. young who falsely claimed her child was his took an immunity deal. he and his family were forced to live with hunter saying they had to cater to her every demand. during a meeting the two came close to throwing punches. young claims the late fred baron said i needed to stay
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focused on the job at hand. he told me to take a deep breath to do the best i can. mr. baron wanted to us try to hold on until the democratic national convection. edwards is accused of conspiring to use hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions from two wealthy supporters to cover up the affair. key question might be about his late wife know this affair continued? >> if she knew about the pregnancy there is no reason to cover it up. not for purposes of saving the marriage. >> if edwards used money to fool voter that's could be illegal. using to hide the truth from his wife and family would not. >> and turning to weather, it looked like it wanted to rain today. >> never quite materialized, though. let's check in now with spencer christian. >> that is true. take a look at live doppler 7. there is a spotty area of moisture down in the jant cruz mountains and south bay. there is a little bit of
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better oregon nized showers around salinas valley and close to monterey bay. and there is dry, we have had no measurable rainfall. this evening, we do suspect mostly cloudy skies, temperatures mild into evening hours between upper. >>s and mid-60s, showers starting to move from this approaching frontal system. there is a chance of showers into morning hours and temperatures early morning ranging from 53 to 58. by afternoon, partly sunny skies, high temperatures from upper 50s on the coast to mid to upper 60s inland. i'll have more on the seven-day forecast coming up later. layery and carolyn? >> thank you. >> you of course know botox as a wrinkle remover, there is must proof it could help treat two chronic problem autos and google and facebook duking it out over mobile advertising. emily chang will fill us in on
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detail autos michael finney taking your questions through his facebook and twitter pages and will answer them here live just a little bit later, you can contact michael on twitter or facebook.com. >> at 4:11 our first check of traffic looking at the skyway. 30 seconds ago, the traffic on the right side of the screen heading southbound was clear. just moving easily. it's bottled up and worse if you're head together lower deck of the bay bridge. stay with us, more still to come on the news at 4:00.
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long term risks of eating too much salty foods. researchers asked 2700 adult who's used more salt than the daily recommended amount. they ended up being three times more likely to suffer a stroke or heart tack. the american heart association suggests 1500 milligrams per day. sheer something startling. p 0% of americans who abuse prescription painkillers get them from friends and relatives and often pilfered from medicine cabinets. and says the drug abuse is reponsible for more fatal overdoses than cocaine and heroin combined. >> there is evidence botox can help relieve headaches. new research finds botox can be a slight benefit in preventing chronic headaches and migraines. this after patients who had
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injections in their foreheads reported fewer headaches than usual. waits not found effective in patients with chronic tension headache autos business news, president obama threatening to veto a cyber security bill. but first, apple the dirling again on wall street today. let's go live to emhe yily chang. >> apple jumped almost 9% and investors seem reassured the question is what is next? when will the long-peck speculated tv set come out? how about iphone 5? iphone 4 s is holding on to its crown and china is driving growth more than before, that the ceo says it's mind boggling. the popularity has multiplied five times in china biggest
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wireless carrier in the country doesn't have it yet. on top of that apple cash pile at home and abroad continues to rice. so lots of big numbers coming out of earnings report and the number that you wanted to hear was five. as in the iphone 5. no mention of that, no mention of the highly-anticipated tv set. we'll be waiting for more insight into those products. checking out bruder markets there is a nice boost to the nasdaq getting a jump thanks to those apple earnings at dow and s and p up aup federal reserve says he's preparing to do more to boost the economy. the bloomberg silicon valley index up more than 4%. the pressure is on. and according to analysis a higher mix of international revenue and growth is causing rates to decline. google costs was down 12% last
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year from last year, the number of clicks was up 39%. google launched its mobile playbook to help build their mobile presence. playbook is subtitled busy executive guide to wing mobile. the idea is to teach marketers ways to reach people on smart phones and tab blets instead of desk top computers. and president obama is threatening to veto a new cyber security bill expected to pass this week. administration says the bill would undermine pry vassy and fail to protect infrastructure, but supporters say it could help stop hackers by encouraging companies to share information on cyber threats. at bloomberg studios in san francisco, i'm emily chang, larry back to you. >> thank you very much. 50 there is spencer christian here now. >> rain, rain? >> it did go away. and this didn't really arrive.
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>> and you expected something to be measured. so far, in the immediate san francisco bay area there is a sprinkle here and there. there is a live view looking down onto the bay. look at that sky. there is interesting collection of clouds and different levels but lots of blue skies makes for a beautiful picture, there is no actual rainfall around the bay area there, is a look at dive doppler 7 hd. it's not happening here but south this is it now. there is interstate 5 have wet spots now. there is rainfall well concentrated down there. here there is 24 hour totals zero. just trace amount s and there is mild now, temperatures low to mid-70s, uner 60s to 70s
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around the bay. mild weather with us all day long. tonight cloudy skies maybe a sprinkle or two. chance of showers in the morning then sunny, warmer day as head into next week. there is a trough moving out of the bay area now. this is sprinkle or two we've had today. there is this frontal system moving in that will happen overnight and early in the morning. starting at 7:00 this evening there may be scattered showers and notice overnight almost nothing developing into the way of showers but there is a chance of light showers pushing through north bay hours and falls apart. moving through the area morning to mid day there is a chance of showers. it will be dry. rainfall totals not much out of this. spotty showers producing
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totals less than a tenth of an inch. and low temperatures tonight into the mild side. and lows into mid-50s and highs reaching into low to mid-60s z again, there is a chance of showers. there is sunny, dry friday. beginning to warm up throughout the weekend. we'll see highs around 80 degrees. there is mid-60s on the coast. not very wet tomorrow. >> looks great for the rest of the week. >> it does. >> thank you. >> andrew luck will be the top pick in the nfl draft tomorrow, who is suing him? and why? >> and a bay area woman wins a landmark discrimination ruling in favor of transgender rights. why she believes the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms refused to hire her. >> a summer program for team that's could be now washed up
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angelina jolie didn't win any major awards for directing last year but is receiving an honor from the city the movie is based on. >> angelina jolie's directing debut seen with the war film "in the land of blood and honey" we're learning the country's capitol is declaring her an honorary citizen ask want to recognize her role in recognizing the truth about the war in bosnia. and gladys knight eliminated from "dancing with the stars" last night. >> it's a miracle. those are every day if we know how to recognize them as such and this is a miracle.
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>> patricia heaton hosted a party last night and there is a the advantage of being married to a brit is that i get to have fun things that i have. >> this is a celebration of the british community. >> and for everything go to otrc.com. >> being in the spotlight often makes you a target. such is the case for andrew luck. tomorrow, luck will be the number one pick in the nfl draft. today, he's being sued by a texas company. leaf trading cards says it has the right to images of luck when he was playing all-american ball but an attorney ordered the company to stop selling those cards. so... they sued luck. the company did before he sued them. and luck will be a multi millionaire soon after being selected as the number one over all pick tomorrow but
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indianapolis colt autos nice problem to have there. >> and there is another big battle at the supreme court. coming up justices take on arizona's controversial immigration law and its key provision generating plenty of emotion. >> and an entrepreneur from afghanistan getting a crash course on start ups.
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a high energy scene outside of the supreme court. justices questioned arizona's controversial immigration law. protestors gathered outside of the high court. inside questioning to a key provision requiring police officers to check the status of anyone suspected in this country illegally. the governor says the law is consistent with federal law. >> arizona has a right and i, as governor, felt was somewhat assured i had a right to protect citizens. >> the obama administration claims arizona overstepped authority because the federal government controls policy. opponents say the law encourages racial profiling. >> we need comprehensive immigration reform in this country. not laws that treat the thousands and millions of latinos as suspects. >> there are the chief justice
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made it clear the court is looking at state versus federal power. >> today the fallout from a secret service prostitution scandal reached capitol hill. secretary of homeland security faced tough questions from senators. abc has more now. >> janet napolitano on the hot seat and grilled by senators from both parties. >> they've alleged conduct was unstepable. >> we're going to get to the bottom of this and make sure standards in training are tightened. >> just suggest maybe we look at changing this system a bit so people who are away from home never believe they're away from home. >> last week 12 personnel were accused of heavy drinking and soliciting prostitutes in
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columbia. just days before the president arrived for an international summit. yesterday abc news learned two more personnel resigned and a third targeted for termination two. cleared of serious misconduct. saying a sixth is challenging his dismissal. they're pressed on whether this is common. >> to my cloth there have been no similar type incidents reported to the office of professional responsibility. if sit that would be a surprise to me. >> last night president obama called the secret service incredible. >> a couple knuckleheads shouldn't he detract what what they do. what these girz thinking i don't know. >> there is hearing on secret service culture and whether this exbarrasing incident
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could have been prevented. >> abc news learned newt gingrich will suspend his campaign next tuesday and will likely endorse mitt romney. he was still on the campaign trail today speaking in north carolina. he promised to keep campaigning throughout the week and acknowledged romney's momentum after sweeping contests yesterday. >> there are ways to try to be helpful. it's clear that the governor romney is going to be the nominee. we'll do anything we can to make sure he is elected. >> president obama spent another day in campaign mode courting young and middle class voters at university of iowa calling on congress to keep student loan rates low and says lower rates deree dus debt and help the committee kme. >> a bay area woman won a landmark discrimination case in favor of transgender rights. she applied for a job at
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alcohol tobacco and firearms and revealed she was transitioning to life as a woman. days later atf said it eliminated the position. she learned someone else was hired for the job. the equal employment opportunity commission ruled the former police officer had been discriminated against because of her gender i'd tie this is important because every person from this point forward falls under that protection. >> sex discrimination is based on sex. whether it's treating someone different because they're feem yil yail or because they've changed from male to female. >> and this atm office did not want to comment about this case. >> an ambitious entrepreneur from afghanistan is taking a crash course on start ups. part of the effort to strengthen afghanistan's
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economy. >> he looks and dresses like silicon valley engineer asks takes to the familiar bean bag and is a is a work alcoholic. >> everyone working a lot. 14 hours per day. including weekends. >> he's visiting from afghanistan. he's a 22-year-old with a degree in computer science. his company about to release accounting software for small and mid sized businesses in his homeland. >> there is most businesses using paper and recording daily transactions. they do not know how to use technology. >> he's spending the week in a mountain view company that make as kting software for small and medium business autos one week in a business is like a graduate course times 100. we need to give key information. he can contact us later for a course. >> he is hungry to pick up
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business skills with no capitol to hire experts he has to do it all. he has no trouble interacting with mentors and learned english by watching hollywood movies. his company has 10 employees and four contractors. a key goal creating jobs for afghan women and take away business from accounting programs importing from iran. >> he's running the business while here. he's coming to me with real problem was the team now and i was hashing through how to organize the team he is happy he can extend what he learned to a start up perhaps one of the important lessons he can take back is a great ideas are incubated in office space over restaurants. >> university of california appears to be willing to let occupy pro testors stay on agricultural land for now. the dean of natural resources paid
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a second visit to the lot where pro testors set up their tents. the group planted over 15,000 seedlings on land used for the research. the protestors say the university has not given them an ultimatum to leave. >> this is a goodwill visit. they said we'd like to identify who is appropriate to come to the table. and how we're going to have this discussion. >> there is a spokesperson says cal hopes to reach a peaceful resolution to the prot test. -- protest. >> cal kmail be called a golden state but according to a report it's now home to the home mol yuted cities in the united states. bakersfield holds the distinction of number one on the list of most-polluted cities. hanford number two, follow bid los angeles named worst city for ozone pollution, fanta
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faye, new mexico named cleanest city in the united states. >> coming up, nasa found a piece of the meteor streaking across california and nevada this weekend. next at 4:00 how scientists are helping for -- asking for the public's help to learn more about it and michael finney is taking your questions now and will be answering them here in just a little bit. you can contact michael on twitter and facebook.com. >> i'm spencer christian. looking towards the bridge you can see clouds getting lower, thicker and darker. i'll show you where we may get showers in just a moment. >> checking commute once again this is a view of the san mateo bridge. traffic on the right side of the screen head together south bay moving nicely. sqlor on the left side going towards east bay. but there is a decent day traffic wise around the bay area, stay with us. more still to come on the news at 4:00.
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mount etna in itally erupted for the seventh time this year and it ask not pose an immediate threat to local towns. and that is the most active volume cane yes in europe. >> scientists are investigate wlg small rocks found east of sacramento are remnants of the meteor streaking across the skais -- skies sunday morning.
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the small rocks weigh about two nickels and will be the he first pieces to be found. it was scene from sacramento to las vegas and yernted with a loud boom. scientists estimate it was about the size of a minivan. an expert says it probably released information equivalent to a blast about the third the size of the atopic bomb dropped on hiroshima. nasa is looking for footage of the meteor. >> if you look into skies you won't see rain. >> it doesn't appear that way. >> there is this sky. there is a time lapse view and we had lots of blue skies this afternoon and there are clouds beginning to thicken, tomorrow, we'll be looking at showery conditions across the country ask on the cool side most of
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the nation considering we're in the middle of spring now. state of california up and down showers and there are breaks? r in showers, we do expect a chance of showers early in the morning some partial clearing into afternoon. high temperatures mainly mid-60s. 65 degrees in he virtually every location. low 60s on the peninsula mid to upper 50s on the coast. downtown san francisco there is a high of 60 degrees tomorrow, 5 into sunset district z north bay. highs into low to mid-60s. there is 62, 63 in most locations east bay a little bit higher and near the bay there are highs from 60s in monterey. so once again, a chance of showers developing overnight and early in the morning by
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mid day, we expect at least partial clearing and rain totals should be very light. >> thank you. >> coming up a father tapes a teacher berating his special needs child in school. what the teacher said and what the father wants to do it bit, next. >> ask skyrocketing divorce rate, why couples 60 and over are splitting up. >> what can you do owe if you get charged for something you started to buy online but never finished purchasing? i'll have an answer to that and other questions you've sent me. abc news at 4:00 continues right after this.
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michael fin eye is here now answering questions you've posted to his facebook and twitter accounts. >> and they asked shopping online. i left the web site without purchasing and i got an e mail confirming the pay pal account was charged can they do that? >> no that. is a good thing about using pay pal. when you use pay pal there is a protection plan that says if you didn't charge something they can't take the money from
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you. however, it's up to you to contact pay pal. and the sooner you contact pay pal, the better. >> and olivia says i was placed on chex systems for a debt paid in full them say the only remedy is pay $169 to have my name removed from their list this sounds suspicious. >> do you know why? >> because it is. >> and i thought i was a trick question. >> it's wrong information. here is why she probably has that information wrong. it's because there are some look alike sites that request money back. let me tell you how this works. if you write a bad check gou on this list five years. it's kind of like a credit report. you can get off of the list if the information was wrong, otherwise you're going to stay on the list. you can add a note to it
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saying it's not my deal. but you can't buy off the list. you probably got to the wrong web site and let me show you the right one. we've put it up here. there is the correct site. you cannot buy your way out of the system. you belong in there or not. >> okay. >> a lot of people looking to buy cars and thp gets confusing. do you think lease returns are a good way to save a few dollars? this is tricky f you're buying from a rental car company people don't like to do that. >> there is generally used cars are a good deal, now, one or two year old cars can be more expensive than a new car because of the financing. in terms of a rental car they do take rough treatment sometimes.
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>> thank you. >> face book announced two major steps today to protect users from online viruses tlchl is a new antivirus marketplace allowing to down load free antivirus software and is adding a in protection warning about potentially harmful links and urge you not to open them. >> coming up a team spending a birthday giving back to others after receiving the gift of life. >> one family reunited with the puppy it rescued after witnessing an unthinkable act. >> its coming up at 5:00. now, diane sawyer with a look at what she's working on. >> tonight there there a father deciding to tape his
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checking traffic now on the san francisco skyway. gridlocked in both direction. very slow. they're both trying to make their way east. it's not much better for everyone heading south. >> and moving on divorce rate stabilized but one group is going up. >> one in four people getting a divorce now are age 50 and older that. is more than double than the group just 20 years ago. >> researchers say there are
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several reasons for the rate. there is less social pressure to stay married and definition of marriage evolved since their parents generation. debbie jenkins said she wanted a life long partnership. it just doesn't work out. >> my grandparents married over 50 years, my parents, 55 years. that was, you know a legacy i wanted to follow. >> baby boomers are also living together without getting married now. nearly a third of the people living together in 2010 are over age 50. >> a new jersey man calling for tough new legislation punishing any teacher he secretly recorded a teacher verbally abusing his 10-year-old son. his son wore a digital recorder to school after suspecting something was wrong and his hunch proved right. >> shut up.
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>> and he said he heard the teacher skpan aide calling his son name, yelling at him and having inappropriate conversations in front of the children. >> the school fired one of the aides and moved the teacher to another school. the father wasn't satisfied and plans to push for legislation to fire any teacher who bullies a students regardless of tenure or union restriction autos an oakland teenager celebrated his birthday in a special way today. >> receiving the gift of life through an organ trance plachblt now, he's giving back. >> there is nick smith with the story. >> god gave me a second chance to live. i'm going to take advantage of it. >> that is why today's birthday celebration is not about cake, ice cream and candles. four years ago his liver failed and doctors had two weeks to find an organ donor.
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his mother faced a thought of using a child but his mom kept the faith. >> i always knew michael would make it. i never had a doubt. some people call me crazy. some people say it's my faith. i believe it's my faith in god. i knew michael would make it. >> two days later he had a new liver. the donor was 18-year-old johnny hernandez suffering a fatal brain injury in a motorcycle crash. mikey and his mother carry the picture where w.him everywhere they do. >> after my son received a liver transplant it made me feel different about life in general that. is why we give. >> they give through an organization called mikey's meals feeding less fortunate in their home city of oakland. >> at everyone of the feeds we promote donor awareness, michael received a liver. we never thought he'd need a liver. >> mikey's classmates know the story and don't treat him
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different lism they joke and laugh and treat him to birthday punches. today marks four years since the transplant. >> they are being my friends because i'm me. >> if you ask what woe like for his birthday he said it is for people to remember one thing. >> you have the power to donate. >> have you to be 18 years of age but mikey wanted to remind tow mee to remind anyone to start to pay it forward can begin at any age. >> and there is information on organ donation on our web site. >> thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. >> you can keep track of the latest breaking news on twitter and talk about it on abc 7 news. >> and coming up a bay area
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family witnesses unthinkable happening to a puppy on the freeway. and jumps to the rescue. you'll hear from them next in a live report. >> chance of showers in the forecast followed by a warming trend. i'll have details coming up. >> and spotting of the whale entangled off the big sur coast what. search crews will use to zero in on it. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jengs. a family from pinole saved a dog dragged by a truck. >> that is right. the dog has been named freeway. poor thing badly hurt. and how is he doing? >> and he's doing well, ways shocked to see this dog. he is recuperating here in this hospital from what was a really horrific ordeal. this german sheperd puppy is navigating on just three legs
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after his rear leg was amputated just yesterday. here is what happened. a woman and her son driving on interstate 780 saw the dog dangling from the side of a truck a rope around its neck. >> and i noticed spag smg flapping in the wind. got close skbrer noticed it's a dog. panic mode. we started to scream. i laid on the horn. he was going pretty fast. and he was just being drug and strangled at the same time, flopping around. >> the rope snapped and the dog rolled into a freeway wall and he stopped to help and called 911. the driver of the pick up sped away. it's been touch and go. the dog came into the hospital trembling and in shock. but the vet says he's all looking better now and is going to make it through this. he was reunite wtd woman who saved him and her son.
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