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>> in the news this saturday morning a san mateo high school swim coach is andy rest facing felony sex charges with alleged contact with a female students and san francisco firefighters will honor vincent perez and anthony vo lehrio, both killed one year ago today in the line ever duty. as you see behind me, looking at the bay bridge, we have fog around the bay right now and maybe elsewhere. here's lisa argen. >> it's definitely a sign of things to come. as we look outside from the roof raw we are looking at the fog in the city and the west wind is growing stronger. wide range of temperatures, main any the 50s. antioch in the low 701 -- in the
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70s. and 52 in san francisco. that west wind blowing at 33 miles an hour by the delta, indicating that cooler air being transported from the coast to our inland valleys today. so no more 90s today. we are looking at some mid-and upper 80s in our warmest locations, and this fog will stay put along the san mateo coast along into the east bay for the morning hours, but more sunshine is on the way and your full forecast a little bit later. terry. >> lisa, thanks a lot. a swim coach at san mateo high school now faces felony sex charges for alleged contact with a female student. 25-year-old joshua david tetra was booked into the san mateo county jail yesterday. jailers say he faces four counts, including sexual assault on a minor and lewd acts with a minor. his bail is set at $25,000. he's been a swim and water polo coach at arragon during the past
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year. the investigation was two and a half weeks before making the arrest off-campus. a victim staggered into a liquor store near ban craft last night with a bullet wound. there were shell casings here by. nobody was arrested. no suspects in the shoot being. today the father of a three-year-old boy shot and killed last august in oakland is leading a community effort to stop future violence. he wants people to turn in their guns at today's all-day community resource fair. oakland residents can turn in unloaded guns and receive assistance. the first 100 people turning in guns and showing proof they live in oakland will receive a $100 gift certificate for a target or grocery store. today will be a somber day for san francisco firefighters as they honor two firefighters
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killed in the line of duty exactly one year ago. ltd. vincent perez and firefighter anthony volario both sides one year ago today. chief joanne hayes white mr. preside over a public memorial this morning at station 26. that's on digby streets just blocks from the fire and that's where both men worked. the ceremony includes a moment of silence at 10:58:00 a.m.. today volunteers will conduct a saturday search for missing teen ager sierra lamar. there was a nature and hope rally held last night at washington school in fremont which she attended before moving to morgan hill in the fall. about 200 friends and family gathered here at the high school. this is where she attended school before moving to morgan hill. this is called a faith and hope
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rally because it seems no one here, especially her father, has lost faith that sierra may still be alive and will some day be found. >> our focus is to find sierra. we around giving up. we don't have anything to tell us otherwise. >> the placard is still being waved and money is still being collect today fund a continued volunteer search for sierra, missing since leaving for school in morgan hill on march 16th. the organizer said she's glad police arrested a man in connection with the possible murder but said the search has to continue. >> i'm grateful they found him but she's out there. we don't have a body. there's no closer. we don't have anything. so we still believe she's out there. >> many of those who came to the rally were teenagers their parents. >> i see her pictures and it reminds me of my daughter. >> her daughter is 16 and says she has a resemblance to sierra. she said sierra's disappearance
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has changed her behavior. it definitely has made me think more about actions and where i go and the people i'm with. >> he said this kind of outpouring helps him copy. he tries not to think of the suspect. >> obviously epotions like anger and questions and, you know, why. >> the rally started around 7:30 and lasted less than an hour but it was also a fundraiser. money was collected to fund the volunteer search center at burnett elementary school in morgue hill. organizers say another search party for sierra will go out this morning n fremont, abc7 news. >> a man was arrested believed to take part in a deadly botched robbery attempt at a jewelry store. jewelry store employee shot and killed another suspected robber, 18-year-old man, when four men stormed into the store on wednesday. detectives say byroo was holding
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a gun. san mateo police arrested man that handed a note to bank officials. officers surrounded the bran and took the same precautions they do when they receive a report as an actual bank robbery. they identified the man as a transyen. a 34-year-old blackman was arrested who disguised himself as a white man to rob several banks. >> the 34-year-old manformer felon who lived in oakland. he is charge with robbing banks in 11 different cities both with and without a gun with a movie quality industry mask. he's held on 1.$3 million gail. next wednesday the preliminary hearing in the brian stow beating case is expected to wrap newspaper los angeles. yesterday stow's friend who was with him when it happened took
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the stand on the third day of temperature. the you judge and not allowing video of the witnesses but we can show you sketches and you can hear their testimony. here's news reporter. >> a friend of brian stow talks about his experience opening night in the dodger stadium parking lot. he said he heard a confrontation. it was attack on another friend, matt lee. >> punched him and caught him on the left cheek. >> after that they tried to move on not between provoke anything but a few minutes later he was struck and then came the more brew at that time attack on stow. >> i saw him hit the ground. his arms were back. his arms were limp like gravity it taken him and there was a tree falling. there was no movement. >> he remember telling people telling the attackers to get out of the area and he saw them. >> one guy was kind of holding his pants up while they were running. >> little the prosecution claims luis sanchez is the one who actually attacked stow. his friend was right next to
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him. earlier this week the prosecution played a video cape of norwood during a police interrogation. he calls his mother using the officer's phone and he was arrested. >> i got arrested with the dodger stadium thing. no. yeah. just to let you know. i don't know, there's really not much i can say about it over the phone. i wasn't involved. >> another one of his friend who was there during the attack is expected to testify when the preliminary hearing resumes on wednesday. abc7 news. coming up, the long-awaited verdict in egypt for former president mubarak for his role in last year's revolution that forced him from power. and the queen's jubilee about to check off in great britain, marking her 60 years on the
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>> developing news, former egyptian president hosni mubarak is expected to appeal the life sentenced to for his role on killing of protesters during last year's revolution. he sat motion less has this morning's verdict was announced but the courtroom erupted in a four roar with victims shoving each other. family and friends quited outside and watched on television. there were skirmishes outside as well. he will begin serving his sentence. he resisted leaving the helicopterrer and pleafully pleaded to be taken back to the military hospital where he stayed during the trial. a judge in florida has ordered suspect george zimmerman back to jail in the shooting death of trayvon martin. the ruling came of that prosecutors accused zimmerman claiming during the bail hearing
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he had no money he received thousands of dollars from supporters. he has to turn himself in tomorrow. it caused a nice wide uprising over race issues. he was not charge for weeks after killing martin, who is black. he claims martin was beating him when he shot the unarmed teenager he claims in self-defense. four bay area hospitals getting find by the california department of hecht for medical errors, some of which resulted in a patient's death. kaiser hospital of san francisco is penalized because surgeons left a foreign object inside a patient. at a chinese hospital it was a feeding tube mistake. patience died at both oakland kaiser and another hospital while aof not using monitoring. >> we have a bill in the legislature right now that would allocate some of these funds to medication errors which is the second-most prevalent type of
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event we see. >> a total of 13 hospitals in california were find for medical mistake. the most common error is leaving objects inside a patient following surgery. millions of people in britain are celebrating the queen's diamond jubilee. the next four days will see a series of street parties, flow till laws and outdoor concerts. she's marking 60 years on the thrown. she was just 25 when she game head of state on february 6. >> 1952. her coronation took place on june 2, 1953. now at 86 she's the oldest person ever to reign over britain. there will be hutch more coverage ahead on "good morning america" beginning at 7:00 this morning. there hasn't been a whole lot of talk about that here, but over there apparently it's all they can talk about. >> yes, of course. we are talking about a cool down, though. it was hot yesterday. >> yeah. >> we had the 90s, and today you can see the fog behind us. with that we are looking at that wind coming in from the cooler
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direction, the coast. high definition emeryville, and you will notice that we have the clouds and temperatures in the 50s. so i'll tell you how cool and the possibility of showers coming up. that's next. >> did you say showers? >> that's what i said. >> all right. also next, major league history that was 50 years in the making. larry beil has the highlights of the feat that mets fans had never seen before. graduation, huh ?
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>> a seattle garbage man helped rescue a baby in a rain way stroller. the mom was running uphill and lost the stroller and it got away from her. he used his truck it block traffic and ran to save the baby. >> i not the brake and ran over there to grab it and when i was hodgeing the horn there was a fed ex truck coming and he stopped as he heard the horn. >> blackburn and a pedestrian stopped the stroller just after it hit the curb e said when he got to the little boy, do you know what the kid was doing, screaming, crying? no. the kid was smiling. the woman arrived moments ago relieved to see her boy was okay. if you are using a volleyer you should have a strap attached to your wrist and the centraler. and they will not find a person who return a book 37 years after it was due. the library received the book in the mail. it's called american cooking,
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creole and acadian. the note came in with a book saying sorry we had it so long. the book was due on november 27, 1974. but that was right around thanksgiving time so i could see the confusion. you want to do some cook around the house and the next thing you know it's 2012. >> nice thing is they returned it. >> after all this time. why not. >> well we had our little summer-like weather yesterday with that 30 to 40 -- >> it's not permanently over, it's going to becology back. >> no. it is. but we are going up and down with the temperatures. this morning we have the low clouds and fog. you can see them. maybe some mist and drizzle out there along the san mateo coast. hears a look at the roof camera. the sun coming up 5:49 and setting at 8:27. we will look for a nice afternoon although it will be a lot cooler. no more 90s to speak of. we have visibility about one
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mile right here half moon bay. 52 degrees and still the warmth is around antioch but that soon will be tempered with the low clouds and fog transporting the marine air. not so much the fog that far east burks at least the delta flow. so we will be locking at fog along the coast and bay this morning. there is a little bit as you head over the golden gate bridge. a cooling trend. temperatures hold steady today and tomorrow and then a big cool down on monday and tuesday. the possibility of showers in the north bay. so this is a pretty strong storm for this time of year. we are looking at the fog and low clouds to do its thing clear back to the coast today with 60s there. not bad, fairly typical, but the cool down around the bay with the morris widespread 70s from the north bay to the santa clara valley and the 60s toward concord and livermore. a nice afternoon, although as much as 10 degrees cooler in some spots. then we will be looking at
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another 10 degrees being shaved off these highs by the beginning of the work week. so it's all because of an unseasonably strong system up to the north and west of us. it will sort of stall out here today. he dig a little deeper and get closer to tomorrow and by tomorrow night it's kind of cued up to the north and west of us and that will set the stanley for our big, big cool down. we have the big ridge of high pressure still holding on this parts of the state, and especially well to our east. that continues to slide on off to the east, and as it does, this low will slide down. and with it just a little bit of moisture. it doesn't look like much of it will head as far south as the golden gate bridge but the cool air all the way through the bay area and we will be looking at temperatures well below normal not only monday and tuesday burke when we do recover wednesday, thursday and friday, temperatures will be below average. so high temperatures today still some 90s, sacramento,
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san joaquin valley, op's along the coast with numbers in the low 60s in los angeles. and numbers in san francisco sunshine, 68 today. that's at about 3:00. for the giants game temperatures will be dropping through the 60s with the wind picking up later on. mid-70s for fremont and palo alto. a couple mid-80s up toward sant% rosa and about 80 in san jose. 60s at our coast. we will see some sunshine there. but temperatures will come downed to all around the bay. still warm in our 80s inland but take a look at the trend. we have really dropped the numbers monday and tuesday. it will be breezy and then we will look at just a modest recovery wednesday, thursday and friday. what a bumper. i mean, it's feeling like summer. >> and we were reminiscing, a year ago right about now the heavy rains, the record june rains. >> that's right. we don't have that in store. looks like some very light, spotty showers, areas of the
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north bay. >> fantastic. lisa, thanks a lot. in sports this afternoon, matt cain will go for his sixth win of the season in a home game against the cubs. last night baseball history made in new york. here's larry beil with the details in this morning's sports. >> good morning. the new york mets franchise had gone over 50 years and 8,020 games without having one of their pitchers throw a no-hitter until friday night. johan santana threw a no-no against st. louis. he missed all of last year with a shoulder injury but in total command in this game, striking out adams, tyler greene the victim there. controversy in the sixth. carlos beltran, the former met down the line. they called it foul. clearly the ball hit the line. that should have been a hit. it was a fair ball. santana career high, 134 pitches. yadier mow lona with a drive. unbelievable catch to preserve the no-no. he had to leave the game. santana two down in the ninth
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facing david fies. >> he's out! it has happened! >> it finally happened. first mets no-no in the hits history. first of santana's career, the third in the league this year and mets win it. this is after the game. >> it is very special. we work very hard. all the things we have gone through, that i have been through, and then, you know, this is very, very special and i knew this means a lot to new york. >> giants and cubs opening a four-game series. in the third melky cabrera can't have a giant highlight these days without the melk man. madison bumgarner on the mound. struck out 11 in eight frames. he was yanked after giving up a couple hits in the ninth. a three-run homer to alfonso soriano. javier lopez to finish it off.
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cubs threatening. gets david dejesus to fly out. giants have to sweat a bit but win it 4-3. a's and royals. cespedes back after hissing it 2 games with a has been injury, 0 for 4. struck out twice. and bartolo cologne. the a's highlights, escobar with a grounder to pennington, jaw mya weeks and the throw to first for the double play. a's, it's hard to win when you score zero every game. that's their ninth straight loss, 2-0 the final. ncaa regional action down on the farm. markka pell strikes out aaron judge. bottom of five austin wilson breaking a scoreless tie. he had three ribbies. 2-0, cardinals. a complete game, four hits, struck out 11 and stanford wins. to the nba.
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game three. chris roth courtside. kevin garnett double-double. 24 points, 11 rebounds. and rondo coming off a career game. i like this move. show and go. that is pretty! 2 is points, ten assists. the celtics led by as many as 24. saw miami cut it to 8 and rondo steals the deal. 101-91. the heat with a 2-1 series game. the cal bears had to face rickets. she grew up in san jose and calani throws smoke. in oklahoma city. a lot of red. sooner names second inning is jolene henderson in trouble. got out of the jam striking out henson. bottom of two, strikes out daniel henderson. in the third sooners strike. the double in the gap. 1-0, oklahoma.
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rickets struck out 16. 20-0 game. here it comes and there is goes. it's casey again. that is gone. oklahoma a winner, 3-0. cal will now have to fight through the losers bracket. tiger woods is a four-champion at the memorial. he's put himself right into contention for win number five. they are a strong second round. but there was rain in the morning in ohio. squeegee time. collins, 1 over 73 on the day. 5-under now. still in the hunt. tiger started the day four back. gained a share of the lead with a long birdie putt on six. he's tough to beat when he's putting well. on is it t. miss the the long bogey. dropped him to three under. sabbatini, 3-under 69. he's in front on top of 6-un. tiger birdied 15 and a trike tee shot on the par 3.
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back-to-back birdies puts him at 95 and one shot off the lead. we will have all the golf highlights and baseball as well at five, six and eleven right here. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> coming up next, almeda county supervisors get ready to vote on a plan to improve mass transet throughout the county but it will drive up the cost on almost everyone you buy there. and the three measured on the san mateo ballot next week that could drive up t
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>> this morning president obama is calling on congress to help returning war veterans find jobs. his message comes from a honeywell plant he toured in minnesota. just as the jobs report shows may adding just 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate going up to 8.2%. >> he he sent congress a jobs bill last september full of bipartisan ideas that would have put americans back to work and helped enforce our economy from the outside shocks. i sent them a plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion in way that's balanced. >> the republicans response is americans face a tax increase of nearly $5 billion unless congress and the president act to reform daxs. president obama returns to
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campaign in the bay area next wednesday, just two weeks after his fundraising visit in the south bay. this is the president's motorcade leaving downtown san jose on may 24th. next week the president will speak at a luncheon held at a ballroom in san francisco's financial district. supporters will contribute 5,000 to $50,000 to have lunch with him. he will be in los angeles by the early meaning to attend a gala at the beverly wilshire hotel. on tuesday almeda supervisors are expected to approve putting a transportation measure on the ballot to increase the sales tax by half cent. if approved, the sales tax in alameda county would rise from a halfsen to full sent. it would bring in billions for transit expansion. and nearly 1 .$5 billion to help restore a. c. transit service
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cuts. at san francisco international airport you can expect delays this weekend. not weather, sfo has chosed one of its primary runways for scheduled maintenance. that's expected to cut in half the number of planes that can land at any one period of time. it will allow crews to modify the lights and seenage on the runway. the project should be completed by 8:00 monday morning. speaking of the airport, what's called san francisco international airport, it's actually in san mateo county and now the cash-strapped supervisors of that county want to tax the airport to balance their budget. jonathan bloom explains. >> san mateo county gets the noise, the exhaust, and the traffic from san francisco's airport while san francisco gets most of the tax money. >> san francisco has an atm of sorts at the airport in which they draw money from. they take out large bills and we just want some change. >> the supervisors are pushing three ballot measures that would tax the hotel, parking lot and
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car rentals around the airport as a way to close the county's budget shortfall. >> if it does not pass it blows a $13 million hole in our budget and we will be force today cut programs for people who are the middle east needy in our county and we will be force today make cuts in public safety. >> similar measures pharaohly lost three years ago. this time they mounted a campaign saying new taxes are their only option. >> we've cut, done everything we can to cut and at the same time we have to do some revenue enhance meant. >> a budget of only $60,000. supporters of the measures take he are being outspent 6 to 1, including by rental car companies. >> the rent tal car company could hurt the whole tourism industry. >> higher tacks means higher prices. when the prices increase for tourism-related products, travelers go to different destinations. >> they commission add study that shows sfo would have the second highest rental car tax in
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the nation after chicago which they say could lead to 100,000 fewer car rental days per year. and. >> the planners, 42% said they would look for other locations to go to and reconsider where they would go rather than come to san francisco. >> the measures supporters aren't buying it. >> this notion that people aren't going to come to san francisco, that's ridiculous. we are a world-class city. we are glad it's our neighbor. they will still come here. >> abc7 news. the election is next tuesday, june 5th. we will have complete coverage on abc7 news starting at 9:00 with the latest election results. coming up next, it's pay back time for an east bay school district regaining hits financial foothold of a more than 20 years of state control. let's take a live look right now from mount tam and that's a gorgeous shot. fogg in the fore ground and the camera bouncing all over the place. lisa saying they are having gusts up there 30, 35 miles an hour.
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truly a mixed bag for this forecast and lisa is going to have that for you in just a few minutes.
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>> welcome back, everybody. 5:37 on this saturday morning. it's going to be a very nice day, lacking out at the golden gate bridge live right now. we, 24 years and 51 weeks away from the 100th anniversary of the golden gate bridge. did you see the 75th? fantastic. fantastic celebration. we are going to get more on when the fog is going to lift, if it is going to lift. we have rain in the forecast, all kinds of stuff. lisa will be up in just a couple minutes. after 21 years the west contra costa unified school district is all paid up. it was the first in california being taken over by the state before nearly going bankrupt. that was back in 1991. this morning, guess what, the district is debt free. abc7 news education reporter lyanne melendez explains how they did it. >> over $8 million.
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>> with this $8 million payment ends 21 years of receiver ship. it means the west contra costa school district will have an extra $1.4 million a year that would otherwise have gone to repay the lone. >> what will that will do is help us make not make cutbacks we otherwise would have made. a number of teachers will have jobs as a result of that that would have been laid off otherwise. >> here's how the district got in trouble in the first place more than two decades ago when it was called the richmond unified school district. >> we did not budget properly. we had more obligations than we could afford and the state cut revenue. >> the financial situation was so bad the entire district and its schools planned to close and to declare bankruptcy. that's what parents, led by tom butt, sued california. >> we prevailed, and the state was ordered to open the schools back up and complete the school year. >> california had to lend the district $29 million. but the interest rate on the lone was so high, 5.7%, the
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district continued to struggle financially. wendy gonzales showed her students today a documentary on a 2004 march to sacramento. she and other teachers win on a hunger strike to demand the lone be refinanced. eventually the legitimate latour voted to lower the interest rate. >> they just didn't march, they demanded action. >> the film was great. especially with the kids out here because that's who we were really doing it for. it's kind of really. >> coming up with the last payment didn't happen overnight. >> the money had been saved up from sale of property over a number of years. and finally the amount that we had in that savings account got equal to what the payment would be to pay it off and that's how we got to pay it off early. >> there are still three school districts in california in receiver ship. they are king city near solano, vallejo and oakland. take richmond off that list n rich manned, lyanne melendez,
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abc7 news. >> down to san diego county, this years the high school yearbook has a problem, a misspelling. if you look closely at the spine of the 2012 yearbook, the word "school" yes, yes, a little problem with the c and the h, which goes first. always confusing. at least for them. nevertheless, students had to fork over 90 bucks for the school book that the students got yesterday. no word if it's the school's fault or the yearbook's publishers, but in all honestly i think that makes the book more valuable. 90 bucks for a school yearbook that will never be forgotten. >> that's embarrassing, though. >> and for the shool book they are having there. and you have everything in this forecast. >> yes we do. the summertime weather kind of behind us. as you look outside right now. >> it was great while it lasted. >> it was warm in some spots. emeryville with the low clouds, the fog. 50s here. we have mist and drizzle to the
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south of us. warmer numbers east. rain, it's all in the seven-day. stay tuned. >> also i head, one of the answers to global warming and the answer facing even the windiest bay area neighbors. automatickic renewals of annual memberrer ships can be a convenience but there can be problems inning a subscription. i'm michael finney. we will take a
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>> the popular foody movement encourages the use of locally grown produce. but if a home cook tries to sell food, that's illegal. david louie looks at an effort here in california to join 31 other states in allowing the sale of homemade food.
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>> this food originated in china 3,000 years ago. it's called the sweet lemon in china. eats a cross between a meander in orange and lemon. >> she planted these trees on her lot by her house. she sells the lemons but what she would like to do is sell home crafted marm laid made in her home. >> people between know that their food is produced with love and when you buy from a small grower or a small producer there's been a lot of love added to that product >> but selling home crafted food products is illegal in california. assemblyman mike has crafted a bill to make homemade food into a legal cottage industry. >> it's great for people wanting to enter the food process business. it is our cute to not hurt that business and to make sure that we don't put forth too much red tape for that small business and allow them to grow.
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>> the prepared and packaged foods you see at farmer's markets have to be made in commercial kitchens. john, who sells tamales and bread, said he will welcome the competition. >> i think it will give some of the businesses a start, which they would not have been able to get a start, and maybe create some new businesses in california that we need. >> what about food safety? not an issue for this family. >> my home is pretty safe and when you have that direct personal contact with the person i feel like there's more. >> the california law will replace a myriad of county restrictions. >> there seems to be consensus here among consumers that the bill is a good idea. it already received bipartisan support in the assembly, maybe the assembly does the whole thing and that might change the whole agage about attract ability in sacramento. abc7 news. almost half the carbon dioxide we pump into the atmosphere comes from generating electric. a cleaner option is wind power
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but where would we put the turbines. >> we spoke to a researcher who has the answers. one may surprise you. >> if it's windy, it must be afternoon on and around san francisco bay. it whips the grass, generates waves. and for a guy like michael, it opens all kinds of possibilities. >> i'm an opportunist, and there can be wind in your sails for free, why not use it? >> by that he means more than recreation. he not only sails this boat, he lives in its limited space. >> 100 square feet. >> it's all quite predictable from a guy who thinks green, who teaches civil and environmental energy at u.c. berkeley. if you visit michael sometime, he will elaborate about how he earned his ph.d. for plotting the best places for wind turban off america's coaches. >> we can get energy especially on the east coast from the the
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time we use all our energy from wind energy. >> he looked everywhere. imagine 19 wind turbines just off the coast of berkeley. he has calculate the that's how many it would take to power the entire city. >> from the northern tip of treasure island past the berkeley pier here. >> wind turbines just off the shoreline of the so-called people's republic of berkeley? that will never happen. >> they are big and on views i have. >> if they can make it attractive looking, why not? >> his turbines are more than 400 feet across. they would lock like these and they would behind cord in shallow water and, yes, they would obscure some views. but the wind comes up here just about the same time electrical demands peak. >> on a strong summer day the winds are blowing, 20, 25 knots,
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the winds would be putting to utility almost 100% of their power. >> seagulls >> hope they don't get killed. >> and that's all right now, just a thought from a forward look environmental ph.d. who knows a good free resource when it hits him in the face. >> well, it's berkeley. >> from san francisco bay, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> i can't help but notice we misplaced the bay bridge this morning. it was there with some lights but i don't see the winds itself. >> you were talking about wind earlier. >> but i don't here about anybody talking about turbines there. >> no, but there were win gusts of 45 americans this morning. >> by the light house? >> yes. >> and we will ten the cool down that started lat yesterday. here's a look at mount tam. you can see the winds definitely blowing and the marine layer anywhere from 1800 feet taller
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in some spots. the sun officially up in one minute. and the roof camera, it's cloudy here and we are looking at the cooling trend getting underway with the delta breeze blowing as much as 30 miles an hour. so cooler weather will be reaching antioch. you can see 70s right now. it's in the upper 50s in fairfield. numbers coming down throughout the bay today. holding steady tomorrow. 52 half moon bay. we have visibility anywhere from half-mile to a mile right here. just 51 in the city, and there is some mist and drizzle down along the san mateo coast. so here's a look at our fog this morning. notice the fog moving across the bay and around hayward and fremont. but it against to pull back 9:00, 10:00, and by 11:00 we should all see mostly sunny conditions and the fog pulls away from the shoreline t should be a sunny afternoon, although definitely cooler out there, as much as 10 degrees cooler. the cooling train for the weekend, and we will look for a chance of showers heading into
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the north bay on monday. we aren't talking about any downpours, just hit-or-miss showers with windy conditions for everyone. and much cooler temperatures. so as we take a look at our pacific satellite picture you notice the counter clockwise rotation with the cold front getting set up to the north and west of us and this sets the stage for the cooler air. it's going to get hung up here and stay stationary for the weekend. so we have a couple things going on. we've got that warm are ridge of high pressure that brought the 90s, the above normal temperatures. that beginnings to move on off to the east. and this cold front just stays there for today. and then by tomorrow it begins to sag south, and by sunday night the cooler air heads our way. taller marine layer and the mist and drizzle. the moisture, perhaps, and then maybe a few showers. temperatures today still warm. we had records at reno and tahoe. 80s and 09 -- 90s yesterday
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there. 92 sacramento, 71 los angeles and back home temperatures will be just around normal today and tomorrow. a nice afternoon in con ford, 86. livermore 75 in richmond and 76 palo alto, and you will notice the fog this morning. but the mild temperatures in the afternoon with some more mid-80s up toward sonoma and napa. 72 in watsonville with 63 on the coast for monterey and santa cruz at 75. the accuweather seven-day forecast calls for the cooling trend today. tomorrow it's inland that will see a little more cooling, and then the chance of showers, spotty showers north bay. win day monday and tuesday. monday looks to be the coolest day and a modest warmup and numbers still below normal by next week. >> lisa, thanks. good news for oprah wind free's fans. oprah's book club is back. she made the announcement
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yesterday on her website. she said book club 2.0 will be an online book club for the digital world. her first pick is entitled wild by cheryl strade. it's a memorial your about her 100-mile hike on the pacific coast trail. here's 7 your side's michael finney. angelo gallo bought an anti-virus protection program for his daughter's computer back in 2009. that laptop is no longer in much use so he called best buy to cancel. but his annual fee for the virus protection had just been charged one day earlier. >> and so i said, oh, shoot, you know. so i called best buy and said i would really rather not have this. it's only been one day, we will credit you. >> a few days later he received this e-mail confirming the
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cancellation. more than a month later he called wondering why he had been received his refund. >> i got a rep, a really nice rep, and she says, well, you know, looks like it's in the cue, but it hasn't gone through and i don't know why. >> several more months passed and with each passing month he called best buy. >> i talked to kailee here originally back in january and i talk to megan and that was in march and then i talk to gina, that was april and the last person i talk to was margaret. and finally the last time i called, this is after like four or five times of calling them, i said, look, i can call you anymore. i'm going to call a consumer advocacy group and just let them handle it. >> he called 7 on your side and we contacted best buy. the company told us the original request was not processed properly. and the refund was delayed. we have contacted this customer with our sincere apologize and
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verified the full refund has now been received. >> i have to have say, you know, i was really impressed. i have never used a service like you guys have. i have seen michael finney, 7 en your side, and i said i'm just going to try it because i have nothing to lose. >> angelo also thanks to best buy, calling their staff extremely nice. now if you have a consumer complaint you just can't seem to get resolve, let me know about it. go to abc7news.com. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. coming up next, something you want to see. a preview of this year's month-long ethnic dance festival in san francisco. it begins today. ♪
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up a few thousand dollars. >> the 2012 looking and white ball tonight is at the war memorial performing arts center. it features prominent musicians and this year is no different. paul simon, cindy lopper and the wall flowers, just a few of the performers. the first black and white ball was held back in is the 56 and it benefits the san francisco's symphony's music education programs. the 34th annual ethnic dance festival officially kicks off today. bay area dancers got in last minute practice yesterday. 30 different dance companies participating in this year's event. the month long venue will be held all across the area and includes dancers from all over the world. come up next at six, a high school swimming coach in the peninsula under arrest after a student stepped forward with her story. and how two fallen san francisco firefighters will be honored this morning, a year to the day
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