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>> in the news this sunday morning, may 6th, an oakland police officer is in stable condition after being shot by a suspect during an exchange of gunfire. and san jose police say it was a relatively quiet night downtown for cinco de mayo celebration. good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us. i'm carolyn tyler. let's start with a quick first look at the weather. here's our meteorologist lisa argen. >> hi there carolyn.
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yeah, unstill the influence of the beautiful full moon. nice and clear out there with our warming and dryer air mass continuing to allow for temperatures to be well above normal today. 53 in the city. 41 half moon bay with 64 by the delta. upper elevations looking at some gusty winds right now but that's all due to high pressure that will bring much more warming today, on the order of five to eight degrees. here's why as the high builds on in we will get the down-sloping winds. some of the 70s yesterday translating into 80s. in fact, mid-80s away from the bay, and we will see a couple areas at our beaches into the 70s due to the very weak sea breeze late in the day. we will get warmer tomorrow. i'll tell but that is a look at a minor cool down coming up. carolyn. >> thank you. we begin with breaking news in oakland where a midnight shootout has left a police officer and a suspect injured. oakland police have not yet given us all the details, but it
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happened on birch street here 92nd avenue. police say an unidentified suspect shot first and at least one officer returned fire. both were wounded and rushed to local hospitals. the officer is in stable condition and is expected to survive. so far no information on the condition of the suspect. we will bring you more information this morning as developments unfold. a vallejo police officer killed in the line of duty is among ten california. officers being honored with a candlelight vigil tonight near the state capitol. last night vallejo officer was shot to death while chasing down a suspected bank robber a37-year-old fairfield man was arrested and charged with capital murder. officer kapue had strong ties to vallejo basketball where he coached basketball. tonight's service leads up to formal services tomorrow at the california peace officers memorial.
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san jose police will tell us later this morning how many arrests were made at last night's cinco de mayo celebration. they say the event was generally peaceful with some minor flareups. streets were crowded with cruising cars as latinos from all over the state came to san jose to celebrate. but this year police had some traffic diversions to keep too many from cruzings and clogging the streets. police say the arrests they did make was for public drunkenness and drug possession. curfew was strictly enforced so there were kids who had to be picked up by their parents. police credit a strong show are force for keeping things calm. >> we had the mounted units here, the horses. we have the motorcycle officers we have the helicopter support here the bicycle officers. so it's a number of units. on friday night things were less peaceful. three arrests were made in
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connection with a gang beating. 21 others were arrested on a variety of charges, including three felony weapons charges. san jose police are investigating a shooting that happened just after 8:00 last night on cadillac drive. officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. he was taken to a local hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries. police still don't know if that shooting was connected to the cinco de mayo celebrations. people who may have had too many drinks while celebrating cinco de mayo and got a rude awakening in san francisco last night. a sobriety checkpoint was set up. cars were pulled over at random and a few drivers asked to take a sobriety test. this was one of several check points throughout the bay area. >> we have an update on the fatal fire in san francisco last june. a new report said unusual
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architecture and a tragic breakdown in communications led to the deaths of two firefighters. the report by the national institute of occupational safety points out that when the firefighters entered the split level home on berkeley way, they were unaware it was burning below them. the report also notes commanders failed to maintain contact and assumed the firefighters were okay, even after the flashover killed them and melted their radios. san francisco has been cited with four safety violations in the deaths of ltd. vincent perez and firefighters paramedic anthony valerio. the stay is appealing the citations. some bay area musicians are helping to raise money to find a missing arizona girl. six-year-old isabel disappeared from her tucson home two weeks ago. her parents are speaking out publicly for the first time. abc7 news reporter shows us how the local music industry is responding.
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♪ >> this youtube video has been put together by several area musicians and artists who are friends of the missing girl's family. it's a unique effort to find the six year old little girl of tucson. these been missing since april 20th. her parents panicked when they found her window open and a screen pushed aside. >> i wanted to be sitting in my room and crying and it was hard enough to be with my kids and family, much less come and talk to you guys. >> in order to help the family find isabel, musicians friends in tucson contacting music producers in oakland. >> this video has a rough mix of the lyrics and music from the oakland's pajama's recording studios, and the finished dvd will be used to raise funds to find her. >> i think musicians can help in unusual ways because a lot of people listen to music who don't actually pay attention to newspapers and things like that.
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>> the music and lyrics are hard felt having been written by people close to the family. musicians believe tucson police can use their help. >> it doesn't mean we have abandoned the search, we have just scaled back some personnel. >> the police are now working with the fbi and concentrating on video like this that was taken around the time of the abduction. abcn7 news. the search for missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar teenager resumes this week. disappeared on her way to school a month navarro ago. dive teams will resume their search at reservoirs. investigators are treating sierra's disappearance as an abduction. volunteers are still searching the area around her home. in mill valley police are investigating a carjack after a woman was robbed at gunpoint as she was parking in front of her
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house yesterday afternoon. t happened on dorsett lane around 2:00 in the afternoon. police say a man in his 20s or 30s threatened her with a handgun. it is a silver sporty timothy vehicle," a bmw with the license plate 5yzr758. this morning there are 79 fewer guns in east palo alto. they were turned in yesterday during the city's annual gun k buy back program. the police department gave $100 in cash for every firearm turned in. no questions asked. officers say the point of the buy back isn't just to hand out money. >> this is overall safety. you know, you can look at it from the perspective you may prevent a child from getting a hold of a gun that may harm himself or somebody else, and also someone can get in contact with the gun and get hurt and an innocent bystander or maybe
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another officer. >> most people turned in one or two guns. one man handed over 20. >> protesters took over part of a ten acre property in albany back on april 22. they say they want the land to be used as a sustainable farm. officials were in talks with the occupy the farm group but talks have stalled. coming up next, french voters head to the polls in the country's run-off election with president zarkozy's political future hanging in the balance. and hitting the campaign trail what president obama says about the race and his opponent.
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>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> today's run off election in france could see the challenger defeat incumbent nicholas zarkozy. the outcome will impact efforts to fight french debt crisis and determine how long french troops stay in afghanistan. under sarkozy france pledged to reign in spending and reduce government employment. voters angered by that are showing support for the challenger. and voters in greece are casting ballots in that country's most critical and most uncertain election in decades. they are entirely dependent on billions of dollars in international rescue loans. to keep the money flowing it has to impose strict controls next month.
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there will be 10 million register votes. many voters are still undecided. the obama re-election campaign is officially underway. the president and first lady are hitting the road trying to recapture the magic and enthusiasm of 2008. their first stop was ohio. a huge battleground state. in 25 of the last 27 presidential elections, the candidate who won ohio won the white house. abc7 news reporter david curley has the story. bounding off air force one in ohio the president was so fired up and ready to go, he forgot something. doubling back for one of his strongest weapons, the first lady, with a knowing smile of his misstep. >> president barack obama! [cheers and applause] >> it's the first official campaign rally, but the themes are familiar. >> this is not just another election, this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and we've been through too much to turn back now!
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>> the president has refrained from naming his presumed opponent until today. >> governor romney doesn't seem to get that. >> while trying to frame differences... >> i don't care how you frame it, corporations aren't people people are people. >> mr. obama called romney a rubber stamp of failed republican policy. >> ohio, i'm here to say we were there, we remember, and we are not going back. we are moving this country forward. >> for this kick off the obama campaign picked college campuses, targeting young voters and women. >> another four years, i can't lie. >> i can't imagine if romney would get in he would take us, especially the women, back to the 1930s. >> the president is reaching back for some of that energy four years ago. >> if people ask you what this campaign is about, you tell them it's still about hope. you tell them it's still about change. we will finish what we started.
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we are still fired up. we are still ready to go! >> the man taking shots from the president, mitt romney, is taking the weekend off. but his campaign is still on the move. in columbus, ohio volunteers have turned a romney campaign bus into a mobile call center. it was at ohio state university yesterday pushing his plan for job creation. romney will be attending a fundraiser tomorrow in indiana. lisa argen our meteorologist; here with details on our warming trend. >> it's all due to the wind the lack of fog, the warming atmosphere. this is the view from mount tam here. you can see at about 2600 feet what a gorgeous view this is. later on today you can see the cameras shaking a bit. the moon was there. it's not the moon obviously but it kind of looks-like that. >> it was round. >> it was next to it.
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but still we are looking at a beautiful afternoon. i'll tell you how warm it will get next. >> also next the a's win in dramatic fashion in extra innings. mike shumann has your highlights coming up in sports.
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>> i think the super moon might have made it harder to get to sleep last night. i don't know it it was too much energy or -- >> i think there's something to that. we have the offshore flow going on and some people refer to that as earthquake weather. >> there's no such thing. >> you have that right. we are looking at the warming temperatures throughout the next 48 hours around motor of the bay area but the cool-down is going to come in in another 24 hours at our coast a live look outside. isn't it pretty? the sunrise 6:08, setting at 8:05. with the clear conditions tonight you will get to see the moon again. maybe not quite as bright but we are looking at the warming trend with temperatures as much as ten to fifteen degrees warmer than we should be for this time of year. we are bumping up our numbers today, another five or seven degrees. still the warmest day of the week not here yet, that's tomorrow. a 15-degree spread from match
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moon bay a chili 39 degrees, and 65 in antioch. 64 by the delta. upper elevation winds are gusting. that's allowing for the warmer air to be mixed down to the surface so some areas are mild. upper 50s for napa. still, anyone is from a degree to 13 degrees warmer than yesterday. starting out warmer and we will see plenty of 60s, even 70s by noontime. so with the warmer air today and the breezy east winds over the hills, we are setting up for the offshore flow for the next couple of days. and just minor cooling. really only one day with the temperatures are going to take a hit. then we are back up to a pretty warm week for this first full week of may. so we are looking at things now really beginning to get underway in terms of our high pressure ridge under the influence of those down-sloping winds. so the 70s today at our coast. we saw some 60s yesterday. it was a little bit of a breeze
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out there. but still with that offshore wind coming in today, and the stronger winds overnight, we are looking at this ridge really establishing itself over the bay and much of the west coast. so that's allowing for the storm track to stay well to the north. but when it eventually does begin to shift a little bit further south, we are going to see the fog in response to this trough that will begin to slide to our south. and with that, that returns the sea breeze, the low clouds, the fog, probably by tuesday night. and our cooling gets underway for everyone on wednesday. so enjoy it today if you like the warmer 80s from the central valley. 70s in the southern sierra. a lot of rapid snowmelt going on here. we are looking a the comfortable weather in los angeles, but much warmer here. in fact today five degrees warmer downtown. not much of a breeze. it will be sunny and warm out there. so we will call it mild. bring sun block if you are headed to at&t block. mid-80s today for some of the
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warmer locations in our east bay valleys. just about that from cloverdale to santa rosa. 81 on the peninsula. 61 half moon bay. ocean beach will flirt with 70 today. 77 san mateo. down at the bay we are warming up from the my and up he were 60s to monterey to 78 in santa cruz. tomorrow should be the warmest day at our coast and around the bay. but inland we will still keep the warming going until tuesday. maybe a few 90s out toward livermore valley there and we will look for the cooling trend but then warming back up into mother's day weekend. >> a lot of people have things on tap for that. >> yeah. >> all right. thank you lisa. coming up at 7:00 after our newscast is good morning america. sharon is sitting in for her. good morning. tell us what is on tap. >> we have a busy morning on gma. the mastermind behind the 9/11
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attacks finally in front of an american judge. disruptive in the courtroom refuse to go hear the charges against him, a dramatic moments and families watching in anger. and new news from the missing daughter and mother in tennessee. we will have the latest. plus a high-schooler in trouble of a bringing a stun gun to school. and guess who gave it to him? his mother to fight back against bullies. the big question should he be suspended. and the three-second rule. if your food falls on the floor but you pick it up before three seconds is it okay to eat? scientists put that important question to the test and we will tell you about their findings. where do you fall on this, three seconds or five seconds. >> first of all, it depends on the surface. if it's on the ground never. if it's in my kitchen on the floor, maybe. >> you are much better than me. if it's delicious, i'll pick it up and eat it. >> sharon, that's not healthy is it? >> we will find out.
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it's all coming up on "good morning america." >> all right. we will look for you at 7:00. thank you. let's check out sports. this afternoon the giants send matt cain to the mound hoping to win the rubber game of the series against the brewers. yesterday the giants ended a four-game losing streak. mike shumann has the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning. the giants end a four-game slide at home yesterday, beating the brewers behind bumgarner's arm and bat. good news to start. angel pegan extends his league-leading hitting streak to 19 games. we go to the fifth. bumgarner getting no support so he takes matters into his own hands. how about an rbi double. in comes cabrera, 1-1 ballgame. another big shot in the 6th after a cabrera triple. buster posey drives him in. two on g-men and the hits keep on coming. brett hill hammers one to the gap. part of a three-run inning. but the story was matt bum.
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his fifth straight victory giants get the win, 5-2, the final. and a's an extra inning win. they were in tampa. see ya! his fifth home run of the season. 1-0, a's, but bartolo colon couldn't hold the leads. and the fourth inning he unloads. one of three solo shots given up by colon. we are tied at 3. it stayed that way until the twelfth. and jonny gomes comes through. the pride of petaluma with his fifth home run of the season. bottom of the twelfth. a's up one. bottom of twelve. former ray grant gets matt to ground into a game-ending double play on a 3-0 pitch and the a's will win it, 4-3. let's tee it up in charlotte north carolina where seven different players had a share of the lead in round 3. d.a. point with the shot of the day right off the bat. tim on one and nothing but that for birdie. point with end the day one back of the leader. and 2010 champ rory mcilroy got off to a good start. three straight birdies including this one on 2.
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66. pulls the irishman within two of the lead. web stenson, his approach on the par 3, 17. a beauty. helped him break a five way tie for first. he birdied the hole. simpson is up and round 3 with a 69. the most exciting two minutes in sports, the kentucky derby was just that yesterday in the 138th running. winning horse was bought for just 11 grand. a 15-1 long shot and had a rookie jockey aboard. coach an eye on i'll have another. coming out of the 19th. a tremendous spot in the wide field. the three-year-old creeped through the field. meanwhile bodemeister appeared to be running away from the field. here's the final call. >> it's bodemeister. up the side. and i'll have another has won the kentucky derby! >> what a comeback. i'll have another, the first
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horse to win the derby from the 19th horse position. and the jockey wins his first kentucky derby. and bodemeister was second. dullahan was third. >> and floyd mayweather junior won a unanimous decision for the welterweight title. and the earthquakes lose 2-1 to vancouver ending their seven-game win streak. that's the way the ball bounces. i'm mike shumann. see you again at five. have a great day. >> up next, a new home for a growing san francisco tech company. why air b&b says it needs the bigger digs. >> >> and hollywood tax breaks are helping keep production here in california, but they are about to expire. now the industry wants more. hello. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier? at chase we're pioneering innovations
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the california area. some scenes in the next star wars studio are being filmed in a laboratory. we examine whether movie tax breaks are actually translating into jobs. >> for so many decades california was the place for movie and television production. but the golden state has lost its touch. with production crews going to cheaper states, even cheaper countries where they are offered millions of dollars in tax breaks. they take with them jobs and other economic benefits. >> there are 100 movies shooting in louisiana right now. that is -- they are projecting that it's billions of dollars in spending that's taking place there. >> i can't imagine being in california without movies. >> the film commission met to discuss how successful the five-year, $100 million a year tax credit has been going. production companies can use up to 25% of qualified expenses to offset tax that is would have otherwise gone to state coffers.
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the program is so popular there's typically a waiting list. >> these are election electricians camera people, drivers, electricians, these are people who are paying tax necessary the state. it's a great economic driver. >> in fact, the film commission is now pushing for another five years of tax credits through 2018 to keep california competitive with other states that offer bigger tax breaks. >> but while hollywood tries to hang on to its legacy, critics say the tax breaks come at the expense of other programs that need to be funded. >> the industry says the tax breaks pay for themselves. a recent ucla study concluded the breaks are providing some economic benefit but not as much of a return to taxpayers as originally claimed. >> we need to get our priorities straight. >> public schools question whether the tax breaks are a wise use of limited public money. >> you take a look at the disinvestment we've had in public schools and the kind of budget cuts the schools are up against, that tax credit over the life of the time they are talking about in total adds up to $1 billion.
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>> lawmakers have until this fall to act on the tax breaks. nannette miranda, abc7 news. >> walnut creek leader aren fighting filmmaker george lukas to build a big production studio that marin county residents bitterly opposed. lucas shocked them last month when he scrapped plans to build a 250,000 scare foot lucas film facility at grady ranch. neighbors complained it would harm the environment and create traffic congestion. the "mercury news" says they have a business park as an alternative. the shadeland's business park has 2 million square feet of business space and sits 80% vacant. lucas films has not responded, but a company website said projects planned for marin county are already underway so a new location is needed right away.
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>> talking about new locations a high-tech company in san francisco is expanding its digs. air b&b is an online marketplace for people to rent rooms or apartments for a short-term stay. the company is signing a long-term lease. a ten-year lease that air b&b says it will allow it to hire more than 1,000 new employees. >> brian is one of three guys who came up with a simple concept. rent air beds in their san francisco living room to out of town guests. what those humble beginnings nearly four years ago they developed air b&b. now a leading company connecting travelers online with people who will rent them rooms in their homes for a couple of nights or so. >> i get folks from australia, europe, south america, central america, all over the place. >> he is part of a movement known as the sharing economy. people sharing their homes cars, and other assets.
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>> it's an idea we can be more sustainable. we can share what we already have. it's more economically efficient, and i think it brings people together. >> air b&b is at the forefront and has outgrown this office. they announce they will take over 169,000 square feet at the showplace square south of market, quadrupling their current space and leading to a hiring spree. >> the job will include web design, marketing and business development. the company says it has connections in more than 20,000 cities worldwide. the company's growth faces a potential hiccup. at a hearing in march the city's tax collector told air b&b participants the city's hotel tax applies to their guests as well. but the mayor says there's ongoing dialogue about that. >> i mean,we acted pretty quickly to save twitter and to save some of the other companies in the city. >> air b&b is slated to move to its new digs next february. >> and air b&b says leasing the
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space will allow it to expand from the current 125 employees to more than 1,000. >> well we have been talking about it, the moon last night was spectacular. this is time-lapse video of the super moon, as it's called. it was the fullest and brightest moon of the year. thanks to its elliptical orbit, the moon is 15,000 miles closer to earth than average so you get a more closeup look. meteorologist lisa argen is here now. you said that that full moon will last until -- >> another day or so. a nice view of it. then we will look for it to begin to wayne a bit but then the fog comes back and that brings changes to our weather. right now a north wind of 28 miles an hour from mount tam. a little breezy. here's where the warmer air is the upper elevations. i will tell you how warm it will get and about the cool down too. that's in our seven day outlook
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next. >> thank you lisa. also ahead the bay area teachers who are turning things around in their classrooms by putting homework first. and late delivery, service call no show, i'll show you how to make them pay.
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>> welcome back. it's 6:38 on this sunday morning, may 6th. this is a leave look from our roof cam hd showing you the transamerica building. a beautiful day on tap. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. sit back, relax and continue watching abc7 sunday morning news. >> you probably already know you can't believe everything you read on the internet. that holds true for facebook as well. consumer reports found that one out of every four facebook users lies on their profile.
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they say they post something false like fake birthdays to try to protect their identity and others use fake or incomplete names to hide from their boss. it's estimated americans miss out on almost $38 billion on wages every year from just sitting around waiting for in-home services like cable appointments and furniture deliveries. that is according it a poll that found most people say they have to wait about 4 1/2 hours for those appointments. it is frustrating. but you don't have to put up with it. here's 7 on your side's michael finney to explain how you can fight back. >> when they give you one of those four-hour windows and don't make it, has that ever happened to you? >> too often. cable, you know. telephone company. >> just talk to people at random and nearly everyone has a story about waiting for a delivery or a repairman who never showed up. >> i recently had someone that was supposed to drop off some
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bypass supplies at my house that i ordered from large retailers and they were supposed to be there before five on friday and they ended up there on tuesday. >> good morning. thank you for holding. >> here at the california state consumer information center in sacramento, they hear from ticked-off consumers. >> we do get a lot of questions about it. so we do our best to answer those. >> now the state isn't going to go out and arrest anyone for being late. but they have given you a tool to stop this madness. >> nobody really knows about it. but if a company with more than 25 employees is more than four hours late in the window they give you, you can sue them for up to $500 for actual damages. >> that's right. wait long enough and you can have 500 bucks coming your way thanks to state treasurer bill lockyer. back in the 80s he was a state senator and heard plenty of complaints so he introduced
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legislation that became law in 1989. >> when i first introduced it, i proposed a two-hour window. and the business world came unglued. >> so the two-hour window was switched to four hours, and businesses by and large backed the legislation. >> i noticed right after it became law there were some folks, like particularly a prominent utility, that did a big advertising campaign about what great customer service they had decided to offer even though it was required by the law. >> so what is the catch? well, with cable and utilities you have to know about the law before making your appointment. >> they are only required to make connection or repair calls within a four hour time period if the customer requests it. >> now you know to request it. >> we all work for a living. i have to be some place and time is money. they know that better than anyone. >> small claims courts are consumer friendly, but before you sue, send a demand letter to
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the offending party and say you would like to be compensated. remember you must have actual damages. an example of that is lost pay for work. if the delay was caused by unforeseen or unavoidable occurrences then the company is not always held liable. there is a lot of fine print so i posted a guide to the law on my web page. you can check it out at abc7news.com. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> thousands of teachers all over the country are shaking their classrooms with a technique called flip teaching. have you heard about this? they are flip-flopping what used to be homework with class work. and the preliminary results are good. abc7 news anchor christian zee shows us what it's all about. >> april tucker teaches high school science in mill valley. she's taught for 22 years. but this is the first year she's flipped her classroom. >> today a new class, reptilia.
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>> instead of lecturing in class, she records it using the camera on her computer. she can use props and diagrams to spice things up. then she puts the lecture on an internet site and students watch it at home. >> which gives them the freedom to rewind them and restart and understand material better. >> but the real key is what happens at school. when teachers don't have to spend class time on lectures. >> i feel like it's a better use of our time. >> we can actually have labs and work with other people and talk to the teacher one-on-one if we are confused. >> science is messy. >> i'm no longer up in front of the classroom, i'm out here with them now. >> some teachers record their own videos. but there's a growing number available for free on the internet. mary werth teaches advance placement biology in marin county. but she often assigns students to watch lectures by a top teacher in montana. >> instead of just having read it, we have this purple blood. >> i created a wicky space where other bioteachers can post their videos and we can share video
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guides and assessments and lab activities. >> one of the most popular lecture websites is con academy based in palo alto with more than 3100 lectures on many subjects. >> the french revolution. >> from that we can subtract a w. >> this is the nuclear membrane. >> there is no definitive research on how it affects student performance but after almost a full school year, april and mary are excited. >> the data shows kids are doing on average ten% higher on the unit assessment this year than previous years. >> they are performing on a deeper, richer level. the students consistently tell me they feel like they are doing less but learning more. and that's the idea. >> the teachers told us flip teaching seems to be work being -- working equally well with both high and low-performing students. the biggest obstacles is making sure students have access to the
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internet to watch the videos after school. abc7 news. and we have links to more information about flip teaching at abc7news.com. click on "see it on tv." san francisco's sunday streets program is expanding. this morning's event take place in the mission district, closing streets to cars so people can get out and play. the route along valencia and 24th street will be filled with live music, food and activities for kids. a new pilot program announce the mayor edmonds leon friday has -- mayor edmonds lee on friday has the mission hosting more frequent sunday streets. they will be held on the first sunday of the month for the next four months. sunday streets is designed to create more open space, promote a healthy lifestyle and support the city's many small businesses. and i remember when some of those businesses in certain neighborhoods were a little bit leery thinking if there were not vehicles or cause it would impact their business but it's
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proven to be positive. >> it looks fun. with the weather cooperating today and the warming trend continuing. as we head outside you will see what a beautiful start to the day it is from our sutra camera. this is the golden gate bridge. we have not only the clear conditions, it is a little bit breezy in the higher elevations but that's the warmer air working down to the surface. 6:08 was the sunrise. 8:08 it will set tonight. it will be clear for the next several nights. it looks like not until tuesday night we will see a return to the low clouds and fog. look at the temperature spread. some 16 degrees from our coast with no wind at all, to that breeze in the higher elevations. mount tam28 mile-an-hour wind guests, 54 by the delta with 65 in antioch. 49 in livermore. 54 mountain view. everyone is warmer than you were yesterday at this hour, as much as ten degrees warmer in the warmer locations.
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with he will enjoy the clear skies. breezy over the hills. warmer today, as much as seven degrees, and with the warmer winds if you are doing hiking or bike you will notice it's the warm wind out of the east and the offshore flow really drying out the atmosphere. we will continue on the trend tomorrow. we are looking at today the numbers come out of the 60s. it was 61 half moon bay. we are talking upper 60s there today. we saw just about 80 in napa but today mid-60s from the north bay valleys to east bay valleys and even santa clara with lower 80 he is here. we aren't done, the ridge continues to build to the east of us w that the air continues to sink. maybe the air quality not so great as we get into tomorrow with very little mixing out there. the atmosphere warms quickly, and we have a little haze. so you may notice that even today, 74 in yosemite. 95 palm springs with the 60s
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up and down from chico all the way down to fresno and still the offshore flow in los angeles. the ballpark in the mid-70s. heading there should be beautiful with a light wind. you really won't need the heavy jacket today. temperatures coming up quickly by the noon hour. we are talking about some 70s over in our east bay hills by the noon hour. so 3:00 this afternoon. mid-80s will be common from concord, livermore and antioch today. 81 in fremont. that's about six degrees warmer than yesterday with 82 in san rafael. more 80s from watsonville morgan hill and gilroy with 78 in santa cruz. accuweather seven-day forecast now, what is interesting about this is usually we have the two-day warmup and the big cool-down but really we are looking for the fog to return tuesday night. so warming up until monday at the coast cooling at our coast tuesday. still warm into our inland valleys, about 90 tuesday. wednesday everyone cools off.
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by thursday, friday and saturday, we are still in the mid-80s. i may even want to change that saturday and keep it even warm into the upper 80s. it's not looking like we are getting a big cool-down. >> and the cool down is still at 83. >> and it's confined in the coast, to the ocean. >> thank you lisa. straight ahead, i don't know if you have seen it yet, the first of the summer blockbusters makes a big splash. arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez tells us if "avengers" is super.
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>> a team of superheros is adding up to some big bucks in the latest movie "avengers." it pulled in more than the movie made up of marvel
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comic superheros pulled in $80 million in it's u.s. debut on friday. it's the second-best opening day ever. the marvel comics action film is from walt disney, the parent company of abc7. here's don sanchez with his review "on the isle." >> war just started and we are hopelessly outgunned. >> that's dreadful. unwelcomed visitors are invading. what will they do to save mankind? a group of superheroes, finally they are here. each has an ego and there are differences of opinion. but when push comes to shove they have to respond. even with superpowers, there's a certain humanity about these guys, and laughs provided by robert downy jr.. >> who are you? the avengers. that's what we call ourselves,
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sort of like a team. mighty heroes start of things. >> the hulk. there are times when the pace flows. and a rest for your eyes from the 3-d business. you get a quick look at the alien destroyer. with this devastation they could have brought down doyle drive in less than an hour. it isn't memorable drama, but you will be overcome by awe. >> the visuals are over the top. more explosions than a kardashian wedding and midtown manhattan destroyed and you have the superheroes fighting amongst each other and then the bad guys. some of the dialogue is clunky. you would think they would have special effects for that and then there's the riveting sound. i think my theater seat was shaking and i lost a couple fillings. it is quite a thing to see. and i am going to give it a handful more than three quarters of a bucket. i'm don sanchez.
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we will see you on the isle. >> up next he's the rookie of the year. former nba all-star shaquille o'neal has a new title to add to his resume. [ mom ] to me, chex is not just a little bowl of cereal it's kind of a big deal. to find nutritious and gluten-free cereals my whole family actually loves? well, the word "wow" comes to mind. and then a friend told me chex has five flavors that are gluten-free. even a cinnamon one the kids love. a nutritious cereal that makes everybody happy? like i said, wow. [ male announcer ] chex cereal. five flavors. good and gluten free.
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check out the winning numbers from last night's $14 million superlotto plus. no one got all six of those numbers. wednesday night's jackpot is
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estimated at $15 million. >> well, it is now dr. shaq as shaquille o'neal picked up his ph.d. in education this weekend at a florida university. the nba superstar, and four-time world champion, movie star rapper entertainer he wore a light blue shirt and a hood would be placed around his neck. he picked up the associate professor who put the hood on him and later, talking to reporters, it was all praise for the university and his parents. >> i mostly would like to thank my mother, lucille o'neal, and my father, harrison, who pressured me to keep on learning when i left lsu early. it is, you know what, you will retire one day but you need to further your education. he plans to go to law school next. lease a, this was not an honorary ph.d., he earned this. it's quite an inspiration.
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>> that's great. >> we are looking at a beautiful day out there. a continuation of our warming trend that got underway yes. you see the breeze from mount tam where winds are picking up to more than 30 miles an hour. that's where the warmer air is and mixing down to the surface allowing for 50s and 60s to key available throughout the hour. but later on this afternoon we have 70s at the coast mid-80s inland. so the range is really from 40 to 60 right now. and we will see probably near 70 in our inland valleys by noontime. so mid-60s by the end of the day, and our warmest day will be tomorrow. >> got to get out there and enjoy it. that is going to do it for us. thank you for joining us. i'm carolyn tyler. along with lisa argen. our next newscast is at 9:00. you can keep track of the latest break being news on twitter atkins abc7 news bay area and talk all about it at facebook.com/abc7 news. good morning america is up next.
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