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"abc 7 news" has confirmed that san jose police have found a car belonging to a man that killed two people on on north 7th street. >> the car was found abandoned. they believe they shot two people in a domestic violence dispute. >> medina is still on the run. he is believed to be in southern california. his black maxima was towed and now being held in evidence. >> we'll bring you updates as the that story develops.
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our other stop story the newest casino. >> it's about to open for business. $50 million casino is lit up like a river boat even though the parking lot is vacant and the building is empty but that might not be for much longer. it's off of 101 in san jose. john alston is there live for us. >> reporter: and dan, they are hoping to get this casino open sometime next month. as you mentioned the parking lot is totally empty and building is vacant but you can sigh it's all lit up and that may not be for long because the police chief has given his blessing when certain conditions are met. >> it's quiet now but the owners are hoping that sometime next week these 49 tables will be hopping once gaming control gives final approval. >> we submitted all the documentation we believe they require. so as soon as we get feedback from them, early next week, we
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hope we can pick up the permit and later next week open the front doors. >> the police chief signed off the card room providing they meet certain conditions. it has to test the surveillance system making sure there is off-site tv monitors at the division of gaming control and they want to information tracking devices, showing player activity and how fees are collected and paid. city councilman says the outstanding issues are relatively minor. >> i think there are issues that will be resolved quickly. >> reporter: by law they will have to shut down the other casino in town. garden city card room as soon as this facility is open. casino matrix wants on open gambling salons on the eighth floor which is near the airport but that approval could take months. it's expected to create 300 new jobs. it would be one of two card
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rooms in san jose. >> they generate about $15 million a year in tax revenue. i think we could probably say we'll see 20% increase in that over the next year or two. >> not everyone is thrilled. >> it doesn't sound good. they are getting things out of it. in between the city the casino is not a good idea. >> reporter: vocal opposition was virtually non-existent. plan the is to build a hotel next to the casino and matrix is looking to hire hundred people. >> carolyn: pacifica police are asking for volunteers to join them tomorrow in a search for a missing woman. 76-year-old woman is considered at risk based on the length of time she has been missing. nobody has seen her since wednesday afternoon. police are calling for community
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emergency response team volunteers to help in the search task force will set out from the park in pacifica. >> dan: an east bay woman who is morbidly obese says she was kicked out of the hospital. >> gloria turned 53 on tuesday but another number has put any celebration on hold. >> i weigh 810 pounds. >> because of her weight she has limited mobility and suffers from a host of medical issues. >> i came in because i had a bile infection. >> last week gloria was admitted here to washington hospital in fremont but she says after one week she was discharged with no resources and nobody to provide her with the care he is desperately needs. >> i can't be home sitting on this bed rotting because i
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turned every day my sores get worse. >> this video shows how labor intensive it is to transport gloria. >> i'm not any different because i'm big. >> why should be this washington's responsibility to take care of you. they are not in the weight management business. >> they have more ability more than i to help me. >> washington hospital provided this statement to "abc 7 news." the patient was discharged after she no longer acute care as was discussed with the patient's family. the hospital agreed to supply in-home support care for the patient. what isn't clear what she can do today. her family isn't medically trained and able to help and the clock is ticking. >> the hospital says they will provide her with in-home support
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services for 14 days at their expense. what isn't clear is what she'll do on day 15. >> carolyn: 12-year-old boy crushed by a tree in san mateo park is recovering from surgery tonight at stanford. his family who reached out exclusively to abc7 news says he will lose his right leg. he was camping at memorial park when a 60 foot tree fell on his tent early wednesday morning. a close family friend described what happened next. >> zachary was saying things like, my legs feel like jelly. they are restless, rolling back and forth. maybe we not he was still half a sleep. >> it turns out he suffered a crushed pelvis. they are worried about internal bleeding. >> dan: there is new twist to an ongoing crime targeting the elderly in san francisco. police say these people are putting a different kind of
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pressure on their victims to get money out of them. this is video from a public service announcement from the san francisco police department warning people about the crime but there has been dozens of new victims in the last few weeks. they say strangers approach their targets, elderly chinese women and pray on their superstitions saying they may be haunted. they are touching them the entire time. >> some of these victims are telling us they feel like they might have been drugged in some manner or put under some type of spell from this physical contact. there is nothing we've been able to confirm. >> dan: the victims hand over their money to be freed supposedly from the curse but they are freed from their saving and jewelry. more than $250,000 in cash and $90,000 in jewelry has been taken from victims in just the last few weeks. >> the archdiocese of san
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francisco has a new leader. she familiar face. reverend has been bishop of oakland. the vatican announced he is the selection for archbishop overseeing three counties, san francisco, san mateo and marin. 56-year-old pastor is staunch supporter of prop 8. >> marriage is the union of a man and woman because children can only come about through the embrace of a man and a woman. >> i think every child deserves loving parents. it has a to do with their ability to love and care for a child. >> carolyn: the bishop will be installed in october. >> dan: big day on wall street as the dow jones went above the 13,000 mark since may. facebook dropped over 11% today closing at 23.70. that equals a one billion dollar
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loss for mark zuckerberg. he is still one of the 72 richest people in the world. apple is said to be in talks with twitter recently about making a strategic investment. they say the investment could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. it could put the value of twitter at more than $10 billion. it's worth about 8.5 billion now. apple has been a big success in selling phones and tablets but little traction in social media. >> a disturbing discovery. what a woman found inside a bag of candy. what the company is telling us. >> dan: a concert in memory of a castro valley girl. how her parents hope it will help in the search. >> a rare liver transplant that helped save a woman's life. coming up next on "nightline," london pulls out all the stops for the opening
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>> dan: imagine opening a bag of candy and finding a dull and rusty knife blade. at you can see it's about three inches long and sharp enough to cut someone. karina rusk has the mother's story and the company's reaction. >> amy ate two pieces of the candy when she pulled out a third item that made it scream. >> i was like, there is a knife in my candy bar. he said, what will you talking about? >> the condition of the dull rusty blade immediately made her concern for her one-month-old daughter. >> eating something that was touching this dirty knife. i don't know what i put in my body. >> the mother's bigger worry is there could be other
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contaminated packages out there. she contact the hershey company and since she bought it at a safeway store in santa clara she went to the santa clara police department. >> the fact that the package was sealed, it had candy residue it d would appear that it came from the factory. >> they say the candy is manufactured in brazil. hershey issued a statement, we believe this is an isolated case and accidental in nature. we will be taking the needed actions to prevent this happening in the future. amy says she will only be satisfied if the company review the food safety and packaging procedures. >> they offered me three bags of candy replacement. i don't want anything. i just want to know that kids are going to be safe. >> hershey says food safety is their top priority and because they believe it's isolated incident, they won't be issuing a product recall.
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karina rusk, abc7 news. >> carolyn: musical tribute was held in honor of a castro valley girl killed in 1994. ♪ >> carolyn: more than 300 students who took part in the jenny lynn participated in the concert. they represent 50 schools in 13 cities. cheryl jennings emceed the event and in memory of this woman, an avid musician who was killed in her home 18 years ago. >> we are doing this in memory of jenny. we are also doing this to remind the public that jenny's murder is still not solved. >> carolyn: there is a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this murder. the foundation was created to promote child safety and music
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education. >> dan: stanford doctors have saved a bay area's woman's life. they transplanted a portion of a liver and regenerated into a full size organ. she was low on the list for transplant so they used a piece of her sister's liver. distribution now consider it a success after the liver fully regenerated. >> carolyn: that is remarkable. let's check in with what the weekend forecast. >> spencer christian is in tonight. >> the weekend is looking good. this evening looks good, as well. on the east bay hills, fog rolling in from the coastline. it continues to do so. live doppler 7-hd and hint of some of the fog near the coast beginning to push locally across the bay. these are current temperature readings, 58 in oakland, 60 in san rafael.
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here come the highlights fog moves locally and warming trend begins tomorrow. warmer pattern is going to hold through next week. follow the time line. the alignment producing nice pattern. offshore breeze. notice the fog pushing locally across the bay to many inland locations. by 5:00 in the morning we'll have lots of fog around. drizzle around the coastline. there will be some wet spots. overnight, low temperatures generally in the mid 50s. low 50s expected in the north bay valleys. a little chile yes, sir up in santa rosa and napa. tomorrow we expect mainly sunny skies. there may be lingering patches of coastal fog, high temperatures 60s at the coast to 70s around the bay to upper 80s in the warmest spots.
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we might top up around 90 at clearlake but inland areas mostly in the 80s. a little fog near the bay. santa cruz, 70s there and inland very warm with highs in the low to mid-80s for morgan hill to gilroy. speaking of gilroy. how about the garlic festival that takes place this weekend. it kicks off tomorrow morning starting at 10:00, mainly sunny, temperatures in the upper 60s. noon it will be warming up and by 74 degrees by noon. 4:00 p.m., mid-80s in gilroy and tapering off gradually by 7:00 p.m., temperatures still at 77 degrees which is comfortably warm and great day to kick off the festival. we have great weather coming the next seven days. inland highs around or above 90 degrees from sunday through next
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friday. that inland locations, right around the bay, upper 70s to 80. on the coast, mid 60s and very little change in the range of highs through the next six days. no excessive heat but nice and warm. coming up, rare images of a panda about to be born to show you from an ultrasound image. >> we want to thank everyone who has helped raise thousands of dollars for foster children. three of our new fans are right here. >> you can make a difference, too. just like us on facebook and one dollar will be donated to the abc7 s hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol
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two strikeouts. giants rally. brandon belt, broken bat single and we're tied at 3. sergio you make the call. was that strike three? andre walked. the umpire and newly acquired hanley makes them pay. that is why the dodgers got him. 5-3 the l.a. a's and baltimore. three one shot off of jarrod parker. baltimore up 6-5. based loaded and seth smith brings everybody home. ryan cook gave up back-to-back singles, tie it up at 8. chris davis goes back in front to make it 9-8, a's say never
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quit. norris tied it and weeks knocks in one. they led 14 left hand 9, two men on, deep to right and spider-man josh reddick makes the great catch in the web go. reddick with that contusion he is day to day. >> randy moss, 35 may not seem old but eight years older than any other receiver in the niners roster. and putting pep in his step. he retired at 2010 and he is back, looking fast and hoping to bring experience to this young receiving core. >> we have a young team here. me being a veteran. i've been around the block a few times. trying to bring something positive.
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hopefully it one of those from there. >> aldon smith, he is hundred percent he says after a d.u.i. and stabbing incident and he apologized for his mistakes. >> i feel like incident that has happened and the infants and everybody, i feel i let them down. i'm more focused than ever and i'm ready to go. >> good to get the drama over neu now. >> "nightline" is next. >> we invite you to try out our new alarm clock app right there. >> for all of us, all of utsd
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tonight on "nightline," london calling, great britain pulls out all the stops for the opening ceremonies. our bill weir is there. a very special spectator, first lady michelle obama. let the games begin. and you can be wowed by the world's greatest ath leets. is it talent or persistence that makes them great? if you practice anything ten thousands hours, could you too be a champion? plus, he helped design that show piece olympic stadium and
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