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>> terry: in the news this saturday morning, may 19th, n.a.s.a. scrubbed the launch of a commercial rocket bound for the international space station just before, i mean just before liftoff. and a noro virus's makes more than 100 kids sick in the bay area. good morning, i'm terry mcsweeney. let's look at the forecast. here's lisa with that. >> hi there, terry. good morning with some low 50s out there. we have gray skies in emeryville but things will brighten up throughout the afternoon, and the marine layer is a little over 1,000 feet. with that we have some chilly conditions. we were clear earlier and that's why numbers dropped into the lower 40s in the coast. 50 in fremont, as well as livermore. hears a look at the rest of your
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day. we will be looking at numbers ranging from the 40s and low 50s with some of that fog drift through the city. sunny skies, no 50s to about 60 by noontime. by the afternoon we have more low and mid-80s in the inland valleys. cool cool by the coast with low 60s and patchy fog. a look at the rest of the week coming up. terry. >> terry: thanks a lot. break being news in oakland where crews have been battling a commercial fire just off of interstate 580. big flames burning through the roof of a storage warehouse on the 3,000 block of broadway. the first alarm came in just after 4:00 this morning. firefighters of are are trying to keep the flames from spread to go adjacent buildings. details not available on how it started but you can see the oakland fire crews have their hands full this morning getting this thing knocked down. so far no reports of any injuries. we will keep you posted throughout the morning. developing news at cape
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canaveral florida where a little more than three hours ago space-x tried to launch the first rocket ever to go to the international space station. watch listen how things went on the launchpad. 3, 2, 1, zero and ---liftoff! we've had a cut-off! one of the nine rocket engines showed too much fuel pressure. the launch sequence automatically shut down half a second before launch. the falcon 9 spacecraft named dragon remained upright on the pad and was safely shut down. space officials said they will try again to launch on tuesday. >> assuming whatever we see is repairable, we will go in and try another day on the 22nd. we are looking at a backup day on the 23rd, as well. n.a.s.a. has already taken a look at that day and it's go. we need to make sure the range is available, though. we don't currently have the 23rd with the range.
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>> terry: the space-x chief executive milan musk was cofounder of paypal before starting space-x a decade ago. he's vowing to have a man on mars within ten years. there were flu like symptoms for more than 100 elementary students. most the cases are at ocean shore elementary with a few reported at ortega elementary since the outbreak began on may 8th. reporter nick smith talks about the father of two youngsters who caught the bug. >> they have a policy here if you throw up you go home. >> and that's exactly what happened to his son. >> after the health department sent a lab sample to the state it was confirmed there was an outbreak of noro virus but he knew something was up because it didn't stop with his son. >> my daughter, she got t she stayed home. same thing. >> to date there are at least 105 student affected from flu-like symptoms. ranking from diarrhea to stomach
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cramps. tyler said he avoided getting sick because he listen to the teacher. >> you touch anything that might have germs you have to go wash your hands. >> most of the students that got sick were students at ocean shore elementary but there were shore elementary but there were a few cases at ortega administrators say the students from the two schools often play together and signs of the virus first appearance around ten days ago. since then they have worked feverishly to rid all surfaces of the virus, giving everything a scrub down. >> we are swabbing down desktops every day, chairs, anything used by multiple children. >> a school-wide cleaning, steps they are happy to take. >> it's a community and we all try to do what we can. >> two things. one teacher tells me they have stayed open the entire time, both schools, because parents have been proactive in keeping sick children at home. second thing, they say if you have any symptoms of the virus to stay symptom free to 48 to 72
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hours before you send your kid back to school. nick smith, abc7 news. >> terry: search efforts for a missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar continues at 8:00 this morning. volunteers working out of the old burnett elementary school will conduct searches at various times throughout the day until 67:00 this evening. volunteers ever welcome. go on down if you are interested. santa clara county sheriffs investigators continue sorting through tips that came in from last week's episode of america's most wanted that profiled the case. the spokesman said some callers reported having seen the now recovered volkswagen jetta that is tied to her disappearance just over two months ago now. others suggested specific locations for volunteers to search. this morning a bay area attorney is under arrest, suspected in a fatal hit-and-run. spencer freeman smith is charged with vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of an
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accident. 56-year-old bo hu was killed tuesday while walking with his bike in dublin. police determined the vehicle was a new mercedes, possibly be longing to smith. police say they found smith's mercedes inside his garage with extensive front end damage. facial recognition software is now being used to track which bars and night clubs are hopping, even displaying the current ratio of men to women but the app is raising privacy concerns. abc7 news reporter gets reaction to the app called scene cap now being used in san francisco. >> very creepy. it's a very creepy idea. >> this is what matt thinks are creepy. these cameras in the bar are identifying the ender and -- the gender and approximate age of everyone who walks in. it uses what start yu scene tap calls anonymous detection facial software. it feeds the information to this app. rachel didn't know she was being monitored in the bar.
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>> but rebecca of the electronic frontier foundation said using facial recognition to determine who is in a bar and when should cause concern, especially regarding privacy. >> is it sensitive enough to track you from bar to bar. >> she's worried if she stores -- if scene tap stores any of the recognition data, it could be accessed by others. the application is the brainchild of coles harper. he thought it would be useful so people would determine what bar or club to patronize and business owners can determine what attracts certain age groups or people. he said the only information they keep is gender and age. >> it tracks 12 data points as opposed to 36 which is facial recognize, but do we keep it, we do not. >> he makes every effort to assure people their privacy is not at risk. >> i'm coming clean on everything we are doing, whether it's overtechnical or not. >> he said the san francisco launch has been the toughest of the seven cities they operate. originally 25 businesses signed
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up, but because of some privacy concerns, only 19 remains. he hopes after this launch those concerns will disappear. in san francisco, abc7 news. >> terry: coming up next, the latest twist in the story ever the blind chinese activist and the end to a month-long diplomatic battle between the united states and china. also a health crisis. the blood test the government now wants all baby boomers to get and where you can get one today.
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>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> right now a blind chinese activist is on his way to the united states, ending a month-long diplomatic tussle that tested u.s. relations with china. 40 hours ago he boarded a united airlines flight in beijing with his wife and children. they are headed to newark, new jersey where they are to arrive this evening. the activist received intense international attention after making a daring escape from a house arrest in his village last month and seeking protection inside the u.s. embassy inside beijing. >> terry: new this morning, quarantines have now been lifted on two central california dairy
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associated with mad cow disease of a federal officials found no link between the illness and food supplies to dairy cows. they tracked down two offspring. one was stillborn and another was found in another state and euthanized as a precaution. it tested negative for madden cow. today is national hepatitis testing day. for the first time the government is proposing all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis us c. they say anyone born between 1945 and 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have that liver-destroying virus. one in thirty baby boomers is infected with hepatitis c but according to the the cdc, many don't know they have it. it's being heliat the asian heritage street celebration. it will be held in the healthy living pavilion. the street celebration here in san francisco on larkin street
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between grove and ellis from 11 to 6, and admission is absolutely free. lisa joins us now, and we have a knows golden shot behind us there. >> lisa: isn't that pretty? >> terry: very nice. >> lisa: earlier we saw a range from upper 30s to 60s but not anymore. with the sun coming up temperatures are a little more uniform. look at this. >> terry: we are showing off. >> lisa: that's what we do best. a look at the bay bridge where numbers are in the 50s in the east bay. the warmup continues throughout the weekend and i will explain next. >> terry: also next, barry zito is showing off helping the giants beat the a's with his arm and at the plate. can't really say with his bat. anyway larry beil has the highlights from the opening game of the bay bridge series coming up in this morning's sports.cl
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>> nine days after being lit the olympia flame is on british soil. it land there aboard a special flight from athens. the flame will be taken on a 70-day, 8-day tour around the united kingdom. it will arrive during the opening ceremonies of the games in london. this morning we have a brand new world record and the oldest
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person to climb mount everest. tamae watanabe of japan has reached the summit from the northern side of the mountain in tibet. she held the record when she made it to the top ten years ago at age 63. she was just a kid back then. the oldest person ever to climb it is a 76-year-old nepalese man. today you can catch a partial annual solar eclipse. it occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun, blocking everything except the sun's tore owna, leaving a visible ring of fire. the bright ring is also called an annulus, thus the name annular solar eclipse. it will begin tomorrow about 5:15 p.m.. prime viewing about 6:30 in the bay area. we will see a partial one, more like a sea rather than a halo. 84% of the sun will be blocked. look at the pictures. that's nice.
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as tron mist warn staring at the sun is dangerous. lisa was saying another way to do it was to see what the sun looks like on some object behind you, you know, in front of you but with your back to the sun. >> right. a crescent shape. it should be pretty cool for that. we are looking at a gorgeous start to the day. you see the sun behind us. but there is fog out there. it is drifting around but from mount damage you can't see any of that at all. in fact, a very nice start to the day. boy, to the north around alima, temperatures have dropped into the 30s. and another vantage point from the suit draw camera. the fog is up to about a 1,000 feet in some spots. you see mount tam in the background. a pretty nice start to your saturday, to your weekend. plenty of things going on. and the weather certainly cooperating. 49 in fremont. it's 49 livermore with 41 on the coast. patches of fog. you saw them there. warmer for the weekend.
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and that's about as warm as we are owing to get for the next seven days. we do have another trough in the offering that will bring cooling by the beginning of the work week and by the middle of the work week even cool we're windy conditions once again with temperatures really coming down into the 70s. so enjoy it if you like the warmer days. today temperatures a couple degrees above average. one of the many things going on today, baseball at at&t park. low to mid-60s with lots of sunshine. 1:00, 105 game time. a beautiful afternoon here. we are also looking at tomorrow morning some fog for the beta breakers. numbers in the low to mid-50s, a southwest wind. perfect condition for runners, not that i am one. they like the cooler numbers. another nice event tomorrow night will be the eclipse, where you will see about 84% of it obscured, and that will allow
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for the peak coverage at about 6:33 at night. really from 5:13 to 6:33 allowing for the viewing. much of the rest coast, and a little bit above the bay area, further north of the bay, the best viewing. looking pretty good here tomorrow night. but we do have high pressure. as it builds in it allows for the low clouds along the shoreline. that's the mild conditions. and the warmer weather, we will see that today inland. temperatures coming up a couple degrees and that will take us autofew degrees above average. we should see upper 60s san francisco. we are looking at 70s at you're coast and the fog burning back to the coast. so despite some of the patchy fog this morning we will see some sunny beaches but it will still be cool there. 100 in palm springs, 92 vegas with oakland today. 73. 84 in concord and just in the low 80s for san jose. 77 for fremont today. 84 livermore with 9 in san
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rafael. it should be a nice looking afternoon down by the monterey bay, 64 there with 86 in gilroy, 70 in salinas. without the winds it should be pretty nice this afternoon. getting warm in some of the try valley locks. mid-and upper 80s there, 70s around the coast. the cooling comes in monday with a little more fog. and tuesday not much of a change but it's wednesday, thursday where numbers come way down. 50s at the coast, low 70 #* 70s inland. a nice looking weekend. >> very nice. lisa, thanks very much. we are joined from new york to tell us what is coming up at 7:00 on "good morning america." good morning, dan. >> good morning to you. happy saturday. coming up on gma, a state of emergency in your half of the country as these wildfires in colorado and arizona spread and then rage out of control. entire towns are being evacuated right now. hundreds of firefighters pouring in. it's only may. so what does this pour ten for our potentially long, hot and dangerous summer. we are covering the whole thing
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and failure to launch. just a few hours ago an attempt at space history was made, an unsuccessful attempt. it was the first-ever commercial rocket that was supposed to be sent up to space but it didn't take off. what went wrong and what is the future of commercial intergalactic space travel? perhaps not so bright. we will have more on that coming up. and look at this. will smith slapping a tv reporter who tried to kiss him on the lips on the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie in russia. so did he overreact or are stars being pushed too far by journalists and paparazzi. hers a question. when it comes to your pet, how much love is too much? for example, would you, like this guy, pay 100 grand to clone your chihuahua? he did it not once or twice, but three times. he spent 100 grand on this. are the clones anything like the original? you are going to meet them coming up on gma. terry, would you clone your pet? do you even have a pet? >> i do have a pet.
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i have a pet alligator lizard. >> a what? >> a pet alligator lizard. >> that is unique. >> it is unique. very unique. and small lizard and i would not clone chompers, as we call him. >> chomper. i love it. we learn something new about you every weekend, terry. chomper, the alligator lizard. i love it. >> and what you are learning is not positive. >> no, very, very positive. >> thank you. >> and it's an amphibian, just for the record. in sports the 147th running of the preakness stakes is about 9 hours away. kentucky derby winner, i'll have another is trying to win the another leg of the triple crown. and last night the giants tried to beat the a's for the techth straight time. here's the highlights of this morning's sports. good morning. the giants and a's opened the 15th year of interleague play last year. would you believe it, barry zito, the hitter, came through. sort of.
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the melk men on hand for the battle of the bay celebrating a good night tore melky cabrera. josh donaldson came in hitting 0.82 and crushes one off of zito. a solo bomb. justify the second of his big league career. 2-1 game. things would quickly unravel for the a's. crawford heating up. giants up 3-1 in the third. now 5-1 and jerry blevins in for parker facing zito and he walked him with the bases loaded, walked in a run. zito walked twice in the game. they fear zito's bat. giants led 8-1. but donaldson coming through with bases loaded. a three-run double off steve. it close it to 8-6. donaldson five rbis. ninth, a's with two on and two out. they get weeks to ground out and that ends it. giants hang on to take the series opener with the athletics 8-6. ncaa softs ball. cal is number one in the nation. they open with an 8-0 victor
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iona. the mercy rule was invoked. cal will play arkansas today at 3:00 p.m. in berkeley. in the nba after blowing game two, desperation time for the lakers. it was a must-win scenario against oklahoma city in game three of the playoff series. a little physical. russell westbrook and meta world peace mixing it up. they call a double technical. to the hoops. kevin durant. down the lane here. 31 for the durantula. kobe bryant in the fourth taking over. high off the window. kobe with 36. lakers take the three-point lead. was it on a pair of kobe's free throws. durant for three and the tie? no. and then the block by andrew bynum. lakers take it 99-96 but still trailing the series two games to one. game four, sixers and velez -- and celtics in philly. rondo, behind the back to himself and feeds brandon bass for the jump better. in the third, paul pierce.
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celtics up by 18. you figure game over, right? wrong. here come the sixers. andre iguodala burriss the three and then the step back. iguodala with five big points down the stretch. 92-83 and the sixers tie the series at two games a piece. stage six, tour california, pretty rough. sylvan georges said he was starting to go cross eyed and was racked with cramps and he was the winner. 115 miles. palmdale to big bear lake. georges was outs in front in the mountain climb. he won it just over five hours and then almost collapsed. peter sagen bounced back after a rough stage 5. he took second place, american david zabriskie holding on and ahead by 34 seconds. holding on to the leader's yellow jersey. finally, kerry wood remember he burst on the baseball scene in '98 and throwing smoke for the cubs? went out in style. battled through all sorts of injuries in recent years
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he was on the disabled list. came in and faced one batter last night. struck out a player of the white sox and retired on the spot. his kid is out there to hug him, his teammates came out. kerry wood saying good-bye in style. a great scene in chicago. that's a rap on morning sports. mike shumann will be here at 5:00 p.m., 6:00 and 11:00. a wrap up on the preakness stakes. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> terry: coming up, here's something you probably haven't thought of, how facebook's new status could affect weddings and divorces in the silicon valley. two industries who may boom from yesterday's initial public stock offering. and silicon valley goes old school. we will report on a local start up that turns a board game into a learning experience that won't leave you bored.h@
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>> terry: new this morning, president obama is urging congressional republicans to finish implementing wall street reforms. the president said the staggering trading loss by jpmorgan chase illustrates why his financial overhaul of 2010 is needed to prevent future collapse of the financial industry. >> unless you run a financial institution whose business model is built on cheating consumers who making risky bets that damage the whole economy, you have nothing to fear from wall street reform.
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>> terry: the president said for the past two years the republicans in congress have been waging an all-all battle to delay and dismantle wall street reforms. republican wisconsin senator ron johnson gave the response, faulting a do-nothing senate under senate majority leader harry reid. after all the hype the ipo of facebook was more of a fizzle than a pop. [bell ringing] yesterday morning founder mark zuckerberg, wearing a hoodie, rang the opening bell from menlo park along with some of the company's newly-minted millionaires, but the stock ended where it started at 38. still it turned facebook into a $104 billion company. so much new wealth among facebook employees has certain industries gearing up for what is bound to happen next. abc7 news reporter shows how wedding planners and divorce attorneys expect to cash in. >> wedding and event consultant looked into her crystal ball -- >> i would definitely see lavish
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weddings and lots of flowers and big gowns. >> now that facebook has gone public, some employees are in for a windfall and couples who perhaps had been wait to go get married because they couldn't afford it may now make that leap. >> i have an event within three months because the bride and groom have come across the financial help. >> she says the average bay area wedding for about 100 guests costs between $40,000 and $50,000. but some people prefer an affair in the $200,000 to $300,000 range. >> people are getting comfortable in spending a little bit more money. >> the wedding industry may not be the only one seeing a boost. >> money is the hugest stress >> yvonne is a family practice attorney. >> without question in the family law setting we see a relationship between financial tensions and increasing the risk of divorce. >> she says new wealth is a wonderful opportunity that allows a person to leave out
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-- to leave out their dreams. but couples have to communicate. >> you know, i encourage them to talk about what their goals are so that they don't have to, you know, pick up the phone and call someone like me. >> sele doesn't expect to see a dramatic increase in divorces. what she is it expect to see is a lot of modifications to child and spousal support as the newly rich adjust for their new income. abc7 news >> here in the heart of tech country it's not everyday you get a start-up devoted to a product that is decidedly low tech. there's a local entrepreneur who is helping kids laugh and learn. as abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom explains, with no batteries required. >> turtle? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> shark. >> chris is handing out game pieces for fins and flippers, a game about the ocean that has no controllers, no 3d animation, in fact it's played on a board. >> one, two, three, four, five. >> i always played board games with my kids.
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we had family game night. i think we are losing touch with each other and our children and we are always on the computer. >> so she took a radical departer from her background in electronics. >> how do you learn how to design a board game? >> i just did. i was determined to do it and i started sketching it. >> sketching it on a piece of paper and testing it with the neighborhood kids for more than a year. >> six. one, two, three, four, five, six. >> help with the ocean. >> two! >> and though they may not realize it, the kids are learning. >> octopus. >> a group of fish is called a swirl, a mass, a school? >> a school. >> yes. >> and nemo. >> and they aren't just learning about the ocean, they are learning about a new way to play that's actually not new at all. >> it was really fun. it was actually different. >> what do you mean?
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>> like it was different because computers you have to tap and games you can play with your hands. >> and though the game is low tech, durant's company, animal matters, embodies everything about silicon valley minus the silicon. she launched her first game, fur and feathers and now she's launching fins and oceans. -- fins and flippers. >> and she's building the game right here in the us. >> if we can make small changes and if everyone would try, we can make a big difference. >> in pleasant hill, jonathan bloom, abc7 news. new this morning the world war ii battleship the uss iowa gets a final send-off tomorrow as it is towed to southern california to become a museum. crews have been restoring the iowa at pier3 in richmond. it was originally launched in 1942 and served the u.s. navy until 1990. it is scheduled to depart with much fanfare about 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. president roosevelt's yacht the
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u.s.s. potomac will escort it until it passes beneath the golden gate bridge about an hour later. a little sad to see it be leaving but it's not going away, it's just going down south. >> kind of cool, though. >> yeah. >> letter. we are looking at a cool start. 40s and 50s outside right now. >> terry: i like that. >> lisa: isn't that nice? things are bright opening up all around the bay. some fog in the city. also in oakland we will talk about how much sun, how much warmth throughout the weekend and that's all next. >> terry: also ahead, neighborhood concerns over this year's beta breaker's race. you will hear from one man with a plan to prevent a repeat of last year.
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>> terry: more than 250,000 university students around the world are getting help with their homework. and it's all thanks to a young woman who defied tradition and launched her own high-tech company. in this morning's assignment report, abc7 news anchor dan ashley tells us brains and a bright idea overcome a clash of cultures. >> she's expecting a baby in july. at the same time she is giving birth to a new company. a silicon valley start-up called piazza. >> it's going very well. >> but her path to ceo is unusual. she was raised in a traditional indian family. they lived in canada and when she was 11 they moved back home to rural northern india.
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>> a place my dad to told me you never speak to boys and boys never speak to girls. >> her father believed in education and she got a good one. she ended up at indian institute of technology, an elite university. she was only three girls in computer science and she struggled. >> because i was too shy to ask the boys in my class for help. >> she eventually came to the united states and earned a masters degree. she ended up as a software developer at oracle and then facebook. but her personal life was dictated by her father, and in her culture, that meant an arranged marriage. >> 3 1/2 years i tried everything, trying different ways of communicating with my partner, with his parents. >> she finally got the courage to get divorced. she was also accepted at stanford business school. during a class she came up with an idea for piazza which means a gathering a place in italian. she remembered long nights full of homework in college, stuck on a large problem with no help. >> i started with a problem
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three years ago. how can a student who is stuck get unstuck at 4:00 a.m. and we solved that. >> it's a website that links students online. professors at any university can register their class and then students pose question. jacob uses it at stanford. >> it's a big study group and people helping you out. >> students, professors and teaching assistants, whoever happens to be online, can all post answers. the information remains up for the whole class to see. >> it's more helpful to be able to see what previous students asked because a lot of your questions are questions that other students have asked. >> the idea took off. piazza is used by a quarter million students at more than a thousand colleges. >> students are logging on there every night are spending four hours. if they are doing their homework, particularly in the evening, piazza is open as a third tab alongside g mail and facebook. >> it has employees funded from
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$6 million by blue chip capital venture companies. it's still not clear how they will make money. >> it will be a focus of ours a year or so out, but not today. >> for now they are just working to make the product better. and as for her personal life. she's happily remarried and planning for a new phase of life as a working mother. >> that was abc7 news anchor dan ashley reporting. her family did finally accept her decision to divorce and her father is delighted by her success. and the grandchild is on the way, of course. we have a link at abc7news.com. boston has its marathon, and there's the running of the bulls, and in san francisco we have beta breakers. 101st edition of the most unique footrace is tomorrow. arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez has a preview. >> the world's best runners, a 7 1/2 mile run? followed by thousands of others in or out of costume.
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we met the elite runners. a kenya runner has won it twice and holds the record. he will face a challenger. >> the race is unique. did it last year and a lot of people come here and have a good time and enjoy it. i get to be a part of it. >> kate has been on the two-time national cross-country team of stanford. ice her first race. >> i don't think it's a factor during the race. you start the race and you are in your own mine at that point. >> there are changes to take advantage ever bay area tech. >> people can interact and say call me. i encourage people to download the app and check it out on race day. >> this is hayes street hill. or hard rank hill. it's a place that separates the elite runners from the wannabee runners. also there's prize money for the first man and the first woman and cross over the hill. >> what greeted party runners
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last year after the race were police, crashing down on drinking. >> last year we drew a line in the sand and are continuing with zero tolerance on alcohol and people must be registered to run the race. >> but by the time they get to the panhandle it is wild and messy. many take to driveways or gardens to relieve themselves and homeowners have reacted. >> my dad has plants with a whole barricade up, making it look like a construction zone. it's to deter people from want to come back here. >> words of advice. >> we always say come naked, come in costume, just don't come drunk. >> well, those choices certainly had some decision making now for the race. the winner of this 101st edition, the first person across the finish line gets $25,000. the mobile phone appear is -- app is called mobile balking adventures. of course, it is also on facebook. abc7 news. >> none of those runners used the word moderately and i don't
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think people going there know what that word means. >> seasonable, that will be the weather for the weekend. >> terry: very good >> lisa: yeah. and we are looking at sunshine now. not everywhere. low fog is here in santa cruz where temperatures are just in the 50s but a typical beach day there with low to mid-60s later on. closer to home we are looking at the marine layer allowing for a pretty shot here. you see tam in the distance and some areas overnight with the clear start had dropped into the 30s. not only half moon bay, but also up towards alima. also we are in the low 50s in some of the warmer locations with 52 by the delta, 52 oakland. good morning, san carlos, 50 for you and 41 half moon bay. patches of fog. you saw them. some warmer days this weekend, but then temperatures are going to trend downward and we will look for windy and cooler conditions once again the middle of next week. temperatures will be well below normal. many things going on this weekend, and one of the ones you
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want to highlight is the giants game today with 60s and a lot of sunshine. so a beautiful afternoon there at the ballpark. we will be looking at more sunshine for the game tomorrow, as well. so running tomorrow, well, there may be a little bit of fog with numbers in the low to mid-50s from the beginning to the middle of the race. and then the great highway later on you will see a little bit of fog here at our beaches, but that should be allowing for temperate conditions. tomorrow night we have the path of the annular eclipse. the best viewing just north of the bay area with the coverage up to about 84 to 88% at around 6:33. a really nice sight but remember not to look directly at it. you can also look at the shadows on the ground with the crescent shape there really indicating that the eclipse is all around throughout that about 45-minute time period. through the weekend, mild to warm conditions as high pressure builds. we are looking at the marine
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layer staying at our coast. so it won't be traveling in. we will see it drifting from time to time, so at the early morning hours and the late evening hours. but otherwise lots of sunshine from the north coast to southern california with numbers in between. some comfortable 70s, los angeles today, 76 in yosemite. and 88 in sacramento. so temperatures in san francisco today, a little bit above average. about 66. 73 in oakland. normal high this time of year should be in the mid-and upper 70s around cupertino and campbell. 81 today in san jose with 82 in napa. san rafael, 9 and 84. so mid-80s for concord. and 75 santa cruz with 64 in monterey so the marine layer will be lifting and we will be looking at a nice, sunny afternoon at our beaches. the look ahead. you will notice that the warmest weather is this weekend, today
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and tomorrow mid-and upper 80s inland with mid-70s around the bay, low 60s at the coast. and just a typical sea breeze but then the breeze kicks up on monday. you notice by midweek we have the wind back, we have much cooler temperatures and back into the 50s at our coast. low 70 #* 70s inland. >> terry: what is normal this time of year? >> lisa: normal is like today. san francisco, low 70s oakland. >> terry: lisa, thanks a lot. coming up next a young woman whose employer didn't send her a paycheck until after it had expired. better late than never. but 7 on your side's michael finney finally gets through.
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>> terry: a young san jose woman got paid for her job, but it turned out her paycheck wasn't worth the paper it was written on. she turned to michael finney and 7 on your side for help. >> savannah jensen worked at the hollister shore in san jose's oak ridge mall last summer. she was confused over her final check and never picked it up. it wasn't a lot of money, but hollister sent it to her home, and that's where the problem was found. >> it's expired now. it was void after 180 days. >> here, look for yourself. the check was dated 8-19-2011.
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that's automatic 19th. it says the check is void after 180 days which means it expired in mid-february, and yet it wasn't even mailed out until 4-03-2012, early april. >> frustrating. >> savannah figured she would get the check reissued. but what seemed like an easy task turned into an insurmountable challenge. >> we left them five voice messages to their payroll, and theft and fraud, everyone we could get a hold of we left them a message. >> listen to the frustration in her voice. i said do you have a super advisors are, he said no, a general manager? he said i don't have any of that. i don't have control. call back the number tonight paycheck so i did. put me through all of that and they don't have a general manager, no supervisor we can talk to, they don't have anyone we can talk to but just the payroll that never answers phone calls, never returns any phone calls. >> they are going to call me back. >> less hope so.
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and they did after multiple phone calls, several e-mails and running into an odd corporate policy. >> the public relations company -- department doesn't take calls from the media. >> but eventually i do make contact, explained the situation, and savannah finally got her call back. the check is being reissued. >> i could have done without it but it's the principal. it's my $100 that i worked for. >> if you have an issue with a paycheck or any other consumer problem, let me know about it. go to abc7news.com. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> terry: coming up next, how thousands of people plan to celebrate the golden gate bridge's 75th birthday in just a few hours from right now, well ahead of next weekend. more elaborate festivities. [ virginia ] i do have a healthy diet,
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>> terry: have you been over to the palace of fine arts here lately? you moot want to take a trip. newborn swans to see. the six were brought out by their mom and dad. that's blanche and blue boy yesterday. this one hatched on thursday, but already we are told had the run of the park. that has to be one heck of a sight in person. looks beautiful just with the pictures. as the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge approaches, organizers plan to organize a human chain this morning in the shape of the golden gate bridge and the number 75.
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this is your chance to become part of the historic salute to the landmark span. a live look at the beautiful bridge right now. up to 3,000 people wearing orange or red clothing to match the color of the bridge will be gathering at 9:00 a.m. three hours from now. be there. a human banner expert will organize everyone and put them in place pour a photo to be taken at 11:00 sharp. the image will be captured by aerial photography for future generations to admire. you can be a part of that. nice weather for that, i'm thinking. >> lisa: yeah, the baby -- >> terry: you are still on the swans? >> lisa: yeah. a couple 8 tos inland today and we will hold the forecast. the warmest days out of the next seven are today and tomorrow. looking good. >> terry: thanks for joining us. the next newscast at 8:00 a.m. keep track of the latest breaking news on twitter or talk about it on facebook. good morning america is next.
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