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>> this is the abc7 saturday morning news. >> in the news this saturday morning, may 26th, within of the bay area's bridges is closed this weekend as caltran works to retrofit the dunbarton bridge. and a judge denies ross mirkarimi's request to talk with eliana lopez by skype who is in venezuela with their three-year-old son. good morning.
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i'm tray mcsweeney. let's look at the long weekend forecast, a big birthday bash for the golden gate bridge. here's lisa argen. >> good morning, everyone. here's the view from mount damage. we have a marine layer. you see angel island in the distance. we will look at more sunshine today and not quite where we should be this time of year. still some instability out there. some of the moisture could continue to pile up in the form of higher elevation clouds here. and that could lead to a sprinkle. we have sprinkles in livermore earlier. 50 in the city, 47 in redwood city, and we will be looking for numbers to climb through the 50s this morning with partly cloudy sunny conditions. cool still with numbers mainly in the 60s today. 50s at our coast. i'll show you where had shower could pop up this afternoon and when our warming trend begins. terry. >> thanks very much.
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this morning at 8:00 caltran will give us a progress report on the dunbarton bridge which is closed for the weekend. the bridge is expected to stay closed until 5:00 tuesday morning. the overall retrofit project is scheduled for completion early next year. in san francisco construction work has parts of the jay church light rail lines closed for the next nine days. muni will be providing bus service along those routes. our exclusive waze smartphone map can help you navigate traffic. you can get it through itunes or android market. details at abc7news.com/waze." police agencies are looking for a green compact car connected to a shooting that brought freeway traffic to a halt in redwood city last night. the shooting actually happened in menlo park but police finally located the victim in his car on highway 101.
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traffic backed up just south of woodside road while police and paramedics attended to the victim. he said the green compact was weaving through traffic trying too catch up with him. >> pulled up alongside of him and started shooting at his vehicle. he continued driving, made some phone calls. one those people he called called 911, called the police and were able to help locate where he was at. >> the victim was taken to a nearby hospital with nonlife-threatening wounds. the gunman in the green car got away. palo alto police will process the car for evidence, hoping to learn more about the gun involved in the shooting. there will not be a volunteer search today for missing 15-year-old sierra lamar. her parents are asking volunteers to take time off from searching for their daughter this holiday weekend. last night a concert was held in gilroy in support of the find sierra lamar fund to raise money for future search efforts. people gathered at the jason stevens winery for a live auction and music. sarah vanished on her way to
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school more than two months ago. police believe she was murdered they have arrest the 21-year-old anthony garcia torres on kidnapping and homicide charges. the family of a man who drown on memorial day last year in alameda while rescue crews stood by is now suing the city and county. the 53-year-old waded into the water off crown beach and he was suicidal. has sister and brother are accusing the city of negligence in a wronful death suit. the city said rescuers could not go in the water because the water rescue program had been defunded. they will hold a memorial at the beach this afternoon at 4:00. spelling of rescues, memorial day weekend is just beginning and we've already had a couple of rescues at san francisco beaches. a struggling young swimmer was pulled offshore off crissy field. this is the bay. no dangerous surf here. and they held a stranded climber off the rocks in the seacliff area. the coast guard is expecting an increase in those kind of calls this weekend as people head for the water.
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>> reporter: this is the kind of cliff rescue that's becoming much too common in the bay area. at about 1: firefighters were called to 300 seacliff avenue in san francisco. on the stretcher a 13-year-old boy and a friend started to climb the cliff's face. >> they both started climbing the cliff. the one stuck was further up. other one saw he was stuck and went down and called 911 to get us to respond. >> both boys were fine and checked out at a local hospital. these photos of the rescue were taken about 2:45. see coast guard swimmers plucking a teen out of the bay on east beach. bibby saw the teen splashing and said the next thing he knew a coast guard helicopter was hovering overhead and he was brought ashore. >> they put him immediately down and he looked a little dazed. he wasn't being questioned or nothing was happening. he just looked like he was on his side and child. 30 -- and chilled. >> this young man was also taken
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to the hospital for evaluation. these two incidents show the need for common sense and water safety this memorial day weekend, according to the coast guard. >> we anticipate there will be a lot of people on the water. we also have a scheduled tow of the uss iowa. >> the battleship iowa will go to its new home in southern california and will attract many boaters on its way out. the fireworks scheduled for the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge will also bring out a lot of people on boats. this couple will be on the water this weekend and doing exactly what the coast guard suggests. >> we will make sure everyone has a life vest, we have a radio, flare, horn, make sure the boat is in good condition. >> the coast guard wants all the boats that go on the water this weekend to be seaworthy. they are also asking people not to drink and boat. abc7 news. san francisco police have released a new video taken moments before an assault at golden gate park that left a man in critical condition. they juan to take a look at this. if this scene looks familiar to
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you, police would like you to call them. this is sharon meadow on the eastern edge of the park near the old stadium. police believe a 31-year-old victim was here just before that attack last sunday. he was dressed as a troll doll. he was out celebrating with friends following the bay to breakers race. the man was knocked unconscious during an argument. we are posted the video on our website if you want to get a closer look. abc7news.com. this morning san francisco's suspended sheriff is still not allowed to talk to his wife. yesterday a judge turned down ross mirkarimi's request to call his wife, eliana lopez, who is now back in venezuela with their three-year-old son. mirkarimi hasn't spoken to her for four months because of a restraining order in their domestic abuse case. >> it's political and they are doing everything they can to try to break me by underninth the integrity of my family. >> abc7 news i-team's dan noyes
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traveled to venezuela last weekend to interview his wife and to see dan's exclusive interviews with her and with mr. mirkarimi go to abc7news.com and look under "i-team." coming up next why the state of california is refusing to hand over its supply of the drug used in lethal injections. and bridging generations. the family of local iron workers with the legendary tie to the golden gate bridge.
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>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> new this morning state prison officials are refusing a federal court order to return a drug imported for use in executions. the drug, sodium thoepental, had to be returned when they stopped making it. they received a new supply from the plaintiff before a british government before the british government banned its export, but the judge ordered the import return because it was never inspected by the fda. today san francisco chronicle reports state corrections officials are going to hang on to that drug while the food and drug administration challenges that judge's ruling. there aren't many people in the bay area who can look at the golden gate bridge and said their grandfather worked on it, and far fewer can say he fell
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from it, survived and then went back to work. here's news transportation worker heather ishimaru on such a man. >> al was already a seasoned ironworker which the time this picture was taken on the san francisco bay bridge project in 1935. he cut his teeth on the original karkenus bridge in 1927. >> that was one of the first spans in the bay area. >> from there he worked on jobs across the western states not just as an ironworker but a bridge men work at dizzying heights, driving rivots. >> dad would say, especially if he had a drink or so it took 90% guts, 10% no-how. it was from the bay bridge he spotted his next job across the bay >> he could see the towers going up on the golden gate and he said, his gang said, these bridge worker, the iron workers, they want to get on the big jobs. they want to be able to say i worked on that job. you know, later they become monuments. >> he almost didn't survive that job. a safety net broke his fall but
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he still crashed into the marin headlands and spent weeks in the hospital with shattered bones. then went back to work. he was a founding member of the halfway to hell club made up of those who survived falls from the golden gate. >> he said he had been halfway to hell and halfway to heaven and neither place wanted him so he kept on working. >> al's son was one-year-old when al fell. against his mother's wishes, eventually dick too became an ironworker and union leader, then so did his sons, dick jr. and don. and now a fourth generation are ironworker apprentices. >> every job site i go on i'm told i have big boots to fill. >> his great grandson is working on the new san francisco general hospital project and spent one week a month at the apprentice training center run by his uncle. these days the apprenticeship lasts four years. in great grandpa's day there was no training except what you got on the job. >> the training has evolved.
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the wages and benefits have increased dramatically. the bottom line, it's still hard-ass work. there's no getting around it. >> the golden gate bridge was the first all-union bridge project. now grandson, don, is an ironworker union leader. >> in the day when they built the golden gate, there were probably in the thousands of workers, now building of the new bay bridge, it's maybe 10% of the amount. >> like the bridges he worked on, later in life al became a kind of icon himself. representative of the iron workers who helped shape the bay area as we know now it. in 2003, just around the corner from where he spent his entire life, a new karkenus bridge replaced the original that started his career. he died just a few weeks before it was officially named after him. >> gramps was the best. there's no replacing that man. >> his family is the living legacy, four generations and counting.
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heather ishimaru, abc7 news. the golden gate bridge celebration take place tomorrow from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. there will be concerts and proceedings all day. the main event, though, folks, the fireworks show at 9:30 tomorrow night. they are closing the bridge for that one. we have a link to all the details at abc7news.com. just click on see it on tv. >> the question is will they be sewing it in person or will the clouds be so low as to block this celebration? the pressure is on lisa argen. what's up? >> we will see some sunshine throughout the weekend but today will be the coolest day of the next three. and we've got definitely a lot of other things going on. look at that. snow from yesterday where temperatures are in the 30s. 32 in truckky, 34 at the tahoe valley airport. just in the 40s there and we will be below average too today. i'll explain next. >> and up next, tim lincecum is
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still searching for answers on south beach as his struggles continues in miami. larry beil has the details ñ
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>> it's pretty cool but even the bay bridge is gold nen honor of the golden gate bridge's 75th birthday. >> we are starting out cool and will warm up the next several days. that includes monday, the holiday. a live look outside from emeryville where we have some sunshine. the sun was up this morning. 5:52 setting, 8:22 setting. a rain yesterday in monterey, napa, oakland. we will still be below average today but numbers will be warming up as soon as tomorrow. holding steady on memorial day and then a bigger warmup into next week. it's 50 mountain view. redwood city, 46. good morning. look at mainly clear skies or some clouds are being held along the peninsula and our inland valleys. still the chance of an isolated shower in the highest elevation of our east bay. so we will be looking for the clouds that to thin on out throughout the afternoon today. that will allow for more
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sunshine. although it will be below average, anywhere from 7 to 11 degrees below average today. but milder as we head into tomorrow and monday and the warm pattern sets up mainly wednesday and thursday of next week. we go in closer the computer animation shows moisture along the peninsula here for mist and kriz toll start out. we will see lots of clouds throughout the early part of the day in parts of the bay but then we look for increasing sunshine. and around the east bay hill, santa cruz mountains, and maybe an isolated shower here today but nothing like yesterday. fear will be getting more stable throughout the later afternoon. and there's an area of low pressure that continues to head out of town. but for today the showers in the sierra nevada, upper elevation snow and we could see some hale. so the rough weather heading into the sierra nevada and southward. but we will look for increasing high pressure to build on in tomorrow, into memorial day and that brings a milder day,
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temperatures coming up to where we should be this time of year in the warmest locks that will be the upper 70s. but still cool if you are planning on any beach time. numbers there will just be in the upper 50s. locally a little further south, big sur, mid-60s. los angeles 69 and plenty of 70s in between. notice the moisture from northern sierra, southern sierra, snow level about 6,000 feet as you head toward yosemite and king's canyon. otherwise le look for warmer weather in the days ahead. if you are headed for the coliseum, mostly sunny skies. upper 50s to the low 60s a southwest wind will keep it on the breezy side. 55 oakland. 71 concord. yeah, kind of cool once again with 57 at our coast, 61 in the city, 66 in san rafael with 63 watsonville. look for tomorrow at the golden gate bridge, typically school. we will see numbers starting out
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in the 50s. the marine layer will be with us but we will see less of it. a partly cloudy day. 60s for high and dropping back into the 50s. the fireworks we shall will see just a little bit of fog and temperatures will be cool. so dress appropriately. we will see the warmup, a slight warmup tomorrow but the big warmup comes the middle of next week. yeah, it maybe a lot of bike riders heading to the beach. >> and the party tomorrow night. thanks a lot. well, we are joined from new york to tell us what is coming up at seven on "good morning america." good morning to you, paula. >> good morning. happy birthday for the golden gate bridge. it looks great for 75. >> hanging in there. hanging in there. >> coming up, we have ripple threat of weather. wild weather from coast-to-coast. a tropical storm slams into land out west and another massive storm heading to florida. and a brutal eat wave in the eastern half of the country.
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and also a scandal that is rocking the vatican this morning. the pope's personal butler is now under arrest accused of leaking secret information to the media. we will see if the butler did it. and plus a decades long dream of skydiving for this 80-year-old woman quickly turned into a nightmare. your heart just goes out to her. her terrifying jump from 13,000 feet. it is all caught on tape. we will show it to you. and a penguin that scaled the walls his aquarium two months ago, it's so cute, he's been rooming free ever since, he's back behind bars this morning. how was he able to survive out in the big city for so long. it's coming up this saturday morning on "good morning america." hope you can join us. again, happy birthday to the golden gate bridge. >> i will pass that along. is the bird considered a flight risk? >> no. good joke there, though. very funny. a jailbird, though. >> have a great show. >> thank you, terry.
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have a great saturday. a great holiday weekend, too. >> thanks very much. in sports this afternoon, native c.c. sabathia starts for the yankees against the a's at the oakland coliseum while the giants send madison bumgarner to the mound in miami. here's larry beil with the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning. it's now officially panic time. tim lincecum has gone from fearless, two-time cy young pitcher to frail, vulnerable pitcher. more question last night in miami. timmy trying to stay focused and locked in on every pitch. third inning, angel pegan swinging. giants up 2-0. timmy went more than 50 innings without allowing a homer until the marlins stanton hit the hideous monstrosity into center field. giants still up 2-1. in the fifth melky cabrera cranks one down the line. got melk.
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3-1, giants. timmy haunted by one bad frame n the sixth, chris coghlan was hitting .104. 7-3, marlins. timmy 35 two-thirds, gave up six records and record 2-5. giants get within a run in the ninth. runner on. cishek freezes to end it. giants fall, 7-6. the a's open up a weekend series with the evil empire. the new york yankees and player bloated payroll in town. former athletic nick swisher left his mark on this game. talk about a guy who left his mark. reggie jackson in the house. tyson ross on the mound for the a's. mark teixeira in the third. crushed. yankees take the 3-0 lead. a's get on the board in the fourth. josh reddick, he's on fire lately. his twelfth homer of the year, his eighth this month and makes it a 3-1 game. hard to outmuscle the bronx bombers. in the fifth, robinson cano, high, deep and aloha means good-bye. solo jack. three batters later, nick swisher's turn.
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swisher down the line that. ball carried and carried. the former a on opposite field. homer. two-run jack. and yankees win it. 6-3. manny ramirez making his debut. on a rehab assignment. ing. 's hitting as a river cat. he's eligible to join the a's next wednesday. we have another edition of toyota after the game after the celtics game. have a great weekend. i'm larry beil. >> just ahead, boy scouts and others will continue a plate to thetic boy scout tradition in a dates back more than 50 years. >> the senate passed a law requiring drivers to give bikers three feet when passing from behind. the idea is to help get more
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californians on their bikes.
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>> in sacramento an effort is underway to making riding a bicycle on california streets a lot safer. the goal is to better protect those on two wheels than those on four. here's capitol correspondent nannette miranda with the story. >> you have cars passing from behind, and that's actually the scariest part.
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>> reporter: 16-year-old high school student nathaniel knows it can be hairy to share the roads with cars. he got hit from behind going to class recently and ended up with bruising. >> my bike started sliding under me like this and i had to push myself up off the car and i fell alongside the curb. thankfully i wasn't hurt. >> the california state senate just approved a bill requires divers to give cyclists at least a three feet safety zone when there's no bicycle lane or shoulder when they are passing from behind. the buffer could help reduce fatal collisions and dangerous fall. the idea is to give californians more confidence to ride their bike since about half of their trips are typically three miles or less. >> but they are afraid to because they know that if they get hit from behind, the chances of them surviving are not good. >> 40% of bicyclists who die in vehicle collisions are hit from behind.
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a youtube video shows a recent crash in berkeley, a prius hits two men but they survived. some told me privately the proposal could aggravate the already tenuous relationship they have with drivers and drivers aren't sure how it would be implemented. >> i'm not sure how they would measure that or enforce that or as a driver when you are driving by how you would know the distance of three feet. >> it could be an infraction which could count as a point on your driving record and the fines are expensive. >> $35 if there are no injuries. $220 if there is. when you add in local and court fees, that's almost $1,000 for the most serious offense. nathaniel would welcome the three foot safety zone. >> which would be about my arm length from here to my fingertips. three feet would be a lot more protection. >> the proposal heads to the assembly. about 20 other states have similar legislation. abc7 news. >> this morning president obama is setting politics aside to
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salute all americans who gave their lives protecting this country. he will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the arlington national cemetery in virginia. in this morning's address he's asking all of us to pause and think about the sacrifices made by men and women of the armed forces as we enjoy the holiday weekend. >> no words can ever bring back a loved one that's been lost. no ceremony can do justice to their memory. no honor will ever fill their absence. but on memorial day we come together as americans to let these families and veterans know they are not alone. we give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. after laying the wreath at arlington, the president and mrs. obama plans to visit the vietnam war memorial to help observe the beginning of the observance of the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war. a different kind of observance. it will last 13 years until veteran's day november 11, 2025.
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decorating the graves at golden gate national cemetery begins with a ceremony this morning at 8:30. this is a big job make sure each and every grave marker gets one. there are 138,000 of them. this year the boy scouts of pacific skyline council need volunteers to help them out. you can register at the cemetery beginning at 7:15 this morning. that's about 45 minutes from right now. that's at the golden gate cemetery. coming up next, the bay area historic earthquakes from the great quake of '06, we will show you how you can experience them for yourself. and we've got a forecast coming up, a warming trend. a perfect evening for the big bash right there at the golden gate bridge at the celebration of her 75. we will tell you all about it coming up.
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>> a great new exhibit opens up at the academy of sciences at the golden gate park. it's an informative and realistic risk we live with every day in the bay area. here's dan ashley with the details. >> reporter: scenes like this are not only part of our past, but with certainty our future an inconvenient truth that obligates us to prepare for the next big earthquake.
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>> at the academy of sciences, the finishing touches are being added now to a new exhibit that's as exciting as it is educational. >> what is your hope, scott, for visitors to take away from this exhibit? >> it is to understand that earthquakes are actually part of a bigger process. >> a process that has continued for hundreds of millions of years. visitors will get a dynamic look at how earthquakes affect our planet. over the eons the shifting plates beneath us have had a profound effect on the evolution of all kinds of life and more recently on human existence. >> san francisco is famous for earthquakes, so what better way than to actually be a -- in a san francisco victorian and actually experience the 1989 earthquake and the 1906 earthquake. >> the new earthquake visitor takes you back in time. >> san francisco, a city built on ancient hills. >> where have i heard that voice? >> i her it too. >> i'm delighted to be the voice of the new earthquake visit and impressed by the experience it will give visitors. first, the quake of 1989.
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>> when the earthquake struck -- >> oh, my! i have to hold on. >> yes, you do. >> so this is very much like we experienced, the same level of shaking. >> yes, yes. very, very similar. >> that's good. >> even in the chaos, this voice is consuming. >> yes, he is. [laughter] >> joking aside, the experience is quite realistic. to a point. the great quake of 1906 was actually three times longer than the 30 seconds in the simulator and much, much more powerful. >> thirty times stronger than this shaking? >> yes. >> that's terrifying. terrifying. dan ashley, abc7 news. penss today. we have a link to the schedule at abc7news.com under "see it on tv." the second look through it looks
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kind of fun. reminds me of a fun house that used to be at the beach. they had the shaking thing going on out there. >> kind of scary. >> it is scary. brings back memories, but it's all controlled, we like to think. >> yeah. never mind. okay, 50 degrees right now in san francisco. we do have a west wind. you see the flags blowing from our roof camera and the on shore flow keeping us cool in the city. just 61 today. below average around the rest of the bay. i'll have the forecast next. >> also ahead, time to sing happy birthday. number 75 to the golden gate bridge. look at how the iconic span has been immortalized in the movies. >> your cell phone may one day literally reach out and touch you. i'm michael finney ahead on 7 on i'm michael finney ahead on 7 on your s switching to progressive could mean hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today.
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>> we are ready for the golden gate bridge 75th anniversary last night and we are told it is going to be clear when they shut down the bridge at 9:30 tomorrow night. happy birthday. looking good. >> doctors at packard children's
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hospital have performed three heart transplants in just three days. the hospital normally performs about 15 transplants in an entire year. abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom talked to the young people who have been given a new chance at life. >> it's a sound 17-year-old william will never take for granted again. hospitalized since april with a failing heart, he got the sudden and unexpected news. he was getting a transplant. >> i was jolted. >> after twelve hours in surgery he has a new heart that beats on its own. >> sounds different. >> but what william didn't realize when he came here for surgery was that he would become one of three young people in just three days to receive a new heart at this very same hospital. all three transplants were monumental successes. >> i thought i was in a dream. >> amanda was asleep in her dorm room when a nurse call at 4:00 in the morning. she received a new heart and a new liver. >> you look uncontrollably happy. are you? >> yeah! it's -- i'm a roller coaster,
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but finally i feel like the roller coaster is coming to an end. >> but amanda shed a tear when we asked about the person who donated the organs. >> i feel horrible for the family who lost that person who was close to them. and god bless the doctors. >> doctors who by sheer chance also found a heart for young athlete and giants fan james spencer, whose first request is to meet the donor's family. >> i feel so grateful and i hope down the road in the next several months they would like to be able to talk to me. >> he wants to go on to be a baseball coach. amanda is looking forward to getting back on her snowboard and william wants to be a rocket scientist. they are making plans for a future born out of someone else's generosity. >> check that box and think of organ donation. it saves lives. >> eric: in stanford, abc7 news.
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well, on this 75th birthday bash for the golden gate bridge, let's remember it has become a symbol of the city on film. one shot of that shot in a movie and audience across the world immediately know where that story is set. here's abc7 news arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez with some of the more memorable clips. ♪ >> kim novak jumps into the water to be rescued by james stewart in "vertico." it inspired an actor for a film "sentar." >> i love the image of it being a mysterious steal harp. sort of a siren call, calling people into a world of sensation. >> in "dirty harry" a bus filled with hostages crosses in a showdown with clint eastwood. in larkspur. and lauren bochal hides him. , humphrey boogaard in her car.
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move to "the rise of the planet of the apes" and these guys have their own way of commuting. the bridge has been the setting for plenty of action. james bond hangs from an airship. it plays a supporting role in the greatest car chase ever guilt remembered in "bullet." and there are talks about the bridge and films. >> san francisco, and i think also of its vulnerability. in so many films it gets attacked. >> in "the last stand" they undo all the work of the '80s and -- ever the '30s and connects the bridge to alcatraz. you have to love the animated take in monsters versus aliens where the bridge provides fiber for the diet. but everyone's favorite has to be "it came from beneath the sea." where the sea monster engulfs the tower and heads to the embarcadero. some films paint a pretty bleak look at the future but all is not lost. in "bicentennial man" the bridge has two decks. there have been so many more
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films and the bridge never plays a supporting role. whether it is filmed from above, below like here or alongside or traveling, there is no bad angle for the golden gate bridge. in san francisco, don sanchez, abc7 news. >> and just standing there you get such a beautiful, beautiful feeling for that bridge. >> never get tired of it. >> yeah. this one is not bad either. >> no. it's nice and sunny right now. we do have clouds around and still a threat of a shower. here's our high definition emeryville camera where it's nice and sunny and temperatures on the cool side. a few light showers in the livermore valley. we will be looking at temperatures once again below the average today, but not for long. we will warm up tomorrow, into our holiday monday. right now still some 40s and airport delays of 55 minutes at sfo. the ceilings there are pretty low. we are looking at the low clouds to burn back later on this morning at the coast. 51 in oakland. 49 in fremont with 51 in
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san jose. we will look for temperatures again today as much as 11 degrees below average around mountain view and san jose. so we could see the possibility of more like mist than drizzle from the peninsula on south. otherwise we have the sun and a milder day tomorrow, into monday. a warmer pattern sets up for wednesday and thursday. so as we take a look at our computer animation, you will notice that we've got a few areas of green here from half moon bay, the san mateo coast but as we go on into the 2:00, 3:00 hour notice what happens in napa county. still some moisture here. you will notice some of those cumulus clouds in maybe the higher elevations down around morgan hill. we could see an isolated shower. but otherwise the atmosphere becomes more stable as this area of low pressure, this upper level low begins to pull on out of the state. so it is right around tahoe this morning. so we are looking at the possibility of not only snow showers in the higher elevations but the rain and hale possibly
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from the northern to southern sierra. but then after that we've got more stable arrowheaded our way. low heading out today. still temperatures cool, a few clouds around, but then higher pressure build be on in as soon as tomorrow. that begins our warmup with numbers mainly in the 60s to upper 70s again. so 73 in fresno, as well as sacramento, with 60s on our coast. so we will be looking at a few more clouds around, call it partly cloudy this afternoon. the a's hosting the yankees with numbers there in the low 60s. maybe an isolated shower with temperatures warming to the mid-60s there. 71 in concord with 64 in palo alto. that on shore flow keeping it breezy along the coast. 57 half moon bay with 71 in santa rosa. looking for something to do, there's the airshow in hollister today. the 33rd annual mushroom festival in morgan hill. temperatures will be a cool 67 there with 58 in monterey and,
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of course, we are looking at the celebration tomorrow under a mostly clear sky. a few clouds around. 50s to start off tomorrow morning. a marine layer but then we will look for a mostly clear evening with temperatures dropping to the 50s again. a little breezy though. the look ahead, our warmup tomorrow into memorial day and more of a warmup wednesday and thursday. so it should actually be pretty clear for tomorrow night's fireworks. >> tony: that is fantastic. lisa, thanks a lot. well, weather they are smartphone or tablets, many. us are more attached to our devices than ever. the technology changing so fast. well now there's a way to let your body receive signals from your cell phone. folks, this is out there. here's 7 on your side's michael finney to show you how it works. >> the creatures from star trek give us a frightening notion of humans turning into robots. maybe now it's not so far-fetched.
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>> it's the beginning of the convergence of human beings and technology. this co-evolution. >> futurist and high-tech author is talking about an intriguing new technology by cell phone giant nokia. the company has applied for a patent that others see as the future and others see as plain creepy. >> you will have a body experience and receive the e-mails are being able to make phone calls. >> nokia's invention is a tattoo attached to your skin that would vibrate when you receive calls, e-mails, messages or alerts on your cell phone. the patent diagram shows how a signal from your phone would beam magnetic fields to your skin. it may alert you to incoming message, phone call, alarm or launch of an application. >> we will be living in a blended reality where information and biology merge. >> he says this isn't really that extreme.
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after all, we are already plugged into our devices. they talk to us, show us video, play back sound. why not touch us too? >> what if you can reach across the world and hug your husband or wife when that person is halfway around the globe? >> that's professor jeremy, researcher at stanford university virtual human interaction laboratory. he's working on twices that can transmit touch through computers. this one let's users send a signal to a remote location and actually tickle a baby at the other end. he said physical sensation is the next step in connecting humans through machines. >> the popularity of social networking, the obsessive texting that goes on. we know people like this digital connectedness. it is inevitable that we enhance this by giving somebody a sense of touch. >> most consumers we spoke with didn't like the idea of being tattooed to their cell phone. >> i think that's pretty terrifying. >> it's just too close to my
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body. >> i don't want to become a cy board. >> so we came to a place where tattoos are already popular. what if they could receive calls too? >> it would irritate me having a buzz in my skin. >> she wouldn't want to start vibrating with every facebook alert. >> i would feel like a robot. >> everyone here had a phone and a tattoo, yet no one wanted to connect them. >> it sounds horrible to be constantly wired. >> there's a dark side for every good technology. >> already they are thinking about computer hackers and tell marketers might abuse the technology. >> there will be people who will figure out how to mine information that is inside of our bodies and to be able to even try to control it. and that could happen. a forecast. >> we asked nokia how they would use the technology. the company said it's against their policy to discuss inventions and for now this is just an idea.
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i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> coming up next, on the weekend we celebrate the golden gate bridge's 75th anniversary. the state's largest annual multi-cultural celebration also being held in san francisco this memorial day weekend. we will look ahead.
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[ virginia ] i do have a healthy diet, but there are foods that i had no idea had so much acid in them. my dentist said that the acid in fruit, or fruit juice or fruit teas softens the enamel so that then it can potentially erode.
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once that enamel is gone, it's gone. my dentist recommended that i use pronamel to help harden that enamel so that it's not brushed away. pronamel protects your teeth from the effects of acid erosion. i don't have to cut out the things that i love in my diet. i can have the best of both worlds with pronamel. >> one of the many things to do? holiday weekend is to celebrate
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carnival this week nen san francisco. the 34th year. it's california's largest annual multi-cultural event. it showcases diverse cultures from around the world. all kinds of food, music, dance being, art effortry and it runs today and tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on harrison streets between 16th and 23rd. that's a big party. tomorrow the festival kicks off with a 9:30 parade on mission street led by a grand marshall, and all of that and sunday night, you are saying looking good weather-wise? >> looking good. kind of on the cool side today with temperatures topping out in the low 60s in the city. right now airport delays at sfo. and mount damage mainly clear where the skies have allowed temperatures to drop into the 40s. elsewhere numbers in the 50s this morning underneath more clouds on the peninsula. this afternoon we thin out the clouds for partly sunny condition with temperatures
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ranging from the mid-50s at the coast to low 70s. inland valleys as much as ten to eleven degrees below average. it will warm up tomorrow and much more the middle of next week. so happy memorial day. happy birthday, right? >> right, the wgb. thanks for joining us on the saturday morning news. the next newscast at 8:00. keep track of the latest brain being news in the bay area on twitter and talk all about it on facebook. the golden gate bridge
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