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concert. onboard police found a lot of alcohol. they believe the 20-year-old and other minors were drinking. >> was she carded when shut -- she got on the bus? >> party bus operators aren't required to check dirpdz or even limit the amount of alcohol brought on board. state assemblyman jerry hill introduced a bill that would hold party bus operators accountable for underage drinking on the bus. >> the purpose of the legislation was to create responsibility on the part of the bus company, the bus operator and a schapp rope or an adult over 25 years of age who we be required to be on the bus if minors are present and alcohol is being served. >> the general manager of five star tours, which was not involved last night, thinks hill is asking way too much from bus operators. >> it's very difficult for him just to keep himself on the road
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while at the same time he has to worry about others and now you're giving him more responsibilities such as being a security guard? that's not our job. >> lisa: chp investigators are check thing the bus' door to figure out how and why it opened. in san jose. lisa amin gulezian, abc-7 news. >> ama: dozens turned out today to help search for a missing woman who sufers from dim men a, maria janzen was seen wednesday. john alston is live with the latest on the search in pacifica. >> reporter: in a few hours the volunteers will wrap up four days of searching, obviously concern is growing because of the length of time and because of her physical and mental condition, which includes dementia. now, search and rescue teams from san mateo county and around the bay area have been searching the rugged ter explain the thick brush of the san pedro valley park. there are volunteers on hoof,
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horseback, atvs and motorcycles. maria janzen disappeared from her home. he husband was working on his computer around 2:00 when he was done around 4:00 that day he noticed his wife was gone. she would hike the nearby trails with a friend. several times a week. >> a lot of family and friends have been out. once we got the message she is missing, we hiked the trails where she hikes. we've walked through the streets, knocked on doors, handing out fliers, posting fliers out. >> we have been focusing on trails that lead directly to their residence, and in addition to that, we were pinpointing assignments and locations based on her past history of walking the trails. >> reporter: miss janzen is 5'5", weighing 100 pounds. she speaks with a germanning a accident may be wearing yellow croc garden rubber shoes, as
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well as a green pair of pants. i spoke to her husband. he is waiting by the phone and is unaware of any plans for future searches. and we have a not heard from police as far as future plans for the search here in pacific camp live in pacifica, john alston, abc-7 news. >> ama: the effort to find missing morgan hill teen sierra lamar includes the gilroy gar rick festival but volunteers had to settle for a booth outside the festival tor to pass our flyers. organizes say booths inside have been booked since march. sierra has been missing since mid-march. the man charged in her murder has a plea hearing scheduled for tuesday. >> firefighters battling a wild wildfire in mendocino county. you can see a large plume of smoke right there from the fire in this photo from news viewer francisco ortega. the fire pushed more than
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400-acres so far. no structures are in danger right now. >> just days before a planned protest by athiest groups, zoo officials insist this removal was previously schedule the mont as been on the zoo property since 1965 when the area was a state park. the protest has been called off. facebook stock down 11% since thursday, and 38 since may's initial public offering. here's more. >> reporter: it was supposed to be the most successful new company in decade. >> facebook's long awaited stock offering. >> the most anticipated stock in years. >> the buying and selling of facebook stock today was feverish. >> a buzz from wall street to hollywood. >> certainly not losing $50 billion is cool. that's what facebook lost in
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value since going public two months ago. ceo mark suck e'er berg has seen $7.2 billion in net worth wiped out. hasn't seem to faze the young mogul. lives are relatively small lifestyle, marrying in an swim backyard ceremony, dining at mcdonalds and taking advantage of the rate to refinance this mortgage on his home. how did the company made so popular with its users turn into such a disappoint for investors? the big problem is half of the users log on via smartphones and blackberries and facebook can't profit from ad sales the way it has off a desk top. >> at some point the advertisers are going to figure out better ways to advertise on mobile devices and they're going to turn to facebook for that.
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>> ama: apple is turning to twitter for a new investment. apple has incorp operated features of twitter into the software for phones, computers, and tablets. the company is looking to invest millions of dollars in the social media company. still to come, fruit, fly infestation in the south bay. how they're trying to get rid of the pests. >> helping to give former foster kids a chance. >> leigh: the bay area will
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>> ama: state works in morgan hill are setting traps to get rid of a fruit fly infestation. the boreds are compton road, hill road, san martin avenue and oak glens avenue. earlier this week four fruit flies were found and an infestation was declared. the traps have insecttyside and fool the pa male fly into thinking a female fly is waiting for him. >> they have an attractant that is very good, attracts the male supplies to once we eliminate them from the population, we should see the population collapse. >> ama: the oriental fruit fly can damage over 230 kinds of
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fruits and vegetable. >> it took nearly 24 hours but crews have repaired a broken water main in san francisco. the pipe first broke around 2:00 p.m. yesterday. crews had to dig out part of the intersection to find the leak. water service in the area has been restored. and you want to stay with abc-7 news for the latest olympic results. here's hough it's going to work. on air we'll announce a spoiler alert, and on our social platforms we'll be posting results but you have to click a link to see them. you can find us at facebook.com/abc-7 news and on twitter at abc 'news bay area, and tonight, right after the olympics at midnight, switch back to abc-7 for the local news and weather in seven minutes. >> just ahead, mega win for one bay area lotto fan. how washington, dc lawmakers are giving hand to help foster kids. a beautiful day today. but what's ahead for the rest of the weekend? leigh glaser has the forecast. >> mike: i'm mike shumann,
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program is paving the way for adults who grew up in foster care. >> a way to be able to -- >> michelle robs never imagined she would spend her days in the halls of congress. >> talk to me about what you like best about this experience. >> i like how close i'm able to get to the senator. >> this summer she is one of 15 former foster children working as interns on capitol hill. >> so grateful to be here. >> reporter: the interns live in a college dorm and take part in cultural events and weekly dinners so share what they're learning about the workings of government and about themselves. >> my most memorable moments were -- >> robert began 150 miles away in new jersey. then she was known as marshall smith and at seven years old she was taken away from her papers she and her younger brother ended up in foster care where she says she was sexually abused. >> a very traumatic time in my life, and i look back on it now
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and i don't understand how i got through it or how the people who helped me get through it, helped me. >> reporter: she ended up in the home of lisa roberts who adopted her two years later, but she and sean were separated and she hasn't seen him in more than 12 years. >> i know nothing of him now. >> reporter: now a senior at philadelphia's temple university, roberts has been interning in the office of mary landrieu. a louisiana senator who was long been aned a very cat for foster children and orphans. >> landrieu helped create the foster youth internship program who says they get a chance to help shape public policy. >> the find their voice, tell their story and helps the members of congress to understand how broken our foster care system is and how we have to work harder to fix it. >> reporter: roberts want states to do more to keep siblings together in foster care and wants to create a one-stop
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online clearinghouse detailing reresource available to foster you as for her brother? she still searches. >> if i could say one thing to him, i'm here, and i've always been. >> reporter: cnn, washington. >> ama: we want to thank some of the people who are helping bay area foster kids in need by licking us on facebook. some of our new friends include carol from oakland, lisa from santa clara, and rodney from san francisco. you can help make a difference, too. just like abc-7 news on facebook right now and $1 gets donated to the abc-7 sleep train dream campaign. leigh glaser is here checking on the weather. >> leigh: warmer today across the bay area. kind of a sign that things are going to be gradually warming up into next week. high definition suit -- sought -- sutro cam. we have been seeing a little bit of light fog kind of creeching up near -- creeping up near the
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goes, and you can show we have had quite a bit of clearing near the golden gate bridge and look how this is starting to fill in. so westerly wind component going to push that further inland so get ready for more cloudiness. >> -- in the east bay and a possibility of drizzle. 80 in livermore, 61 in san francisco. 74 in san jose. low cloud moving inland, the coastal drizzle. a warmer day tomorrow. and then we're going to start to warm up next week, especially inland with temperatures warm to hot. lows tonight generally in the 50s. count on drizzle near the coast and the bay. and tomorrow morning for those who will be running in the san francisco marathon, you'll deal with the low clouds and fog. temperature 5:00 a.m.,
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53 degrees. around 9:00 a.m. we should see a little low cloudiness peel back to the coast, and by 1:00, temperatures warming up with plenty of sunshine in the mid-to-low 60s. a mild day tomorrow. pretty much the setup. high pressure still bring us a strong onshore wind component so a mild sunday, and once the highs start to set over the entire bay area, tuesday, and wednesday, that's when the sea breeze will be cut off and temperatures will start to warm up, especially in the east bay with day ymca highs -- daytime highs expected, upper 90s, speaking of hot stop, the gilroy garlic festival opens up. temperatures warm into the 70s by 4:00, mid-80s, and and then back the temperatures off later in the early evening. here's a look at the highs for sunday. a few degrees warmer. 80 for san san jose. at the coast, hopefully a little
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more clearing. half moon bay, 62. the peninsula looks terrific. san francisco, 66. hazy afternoon sunshine. 80, petaluma. 82, napa. oakland, 72. 77, fremont. entire east bay, temperatures, upper 80s, northeastern '90s. >> the next seven days, this trinsdz going to be warmer temperatures, especially tuesday, wednesday, thursday, inland highs, mid-up to ever 90s. le 0s around the -- 80s sd around the bay. all in all a nice next couple of days. >> ama: thank you, leigh. a nice date for baseball but the evil dodgers are in town. >> mike: very good, evil dodgers. dodger hacked away at the giants' game lead, winning their second straight today family
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difor the giants. the fun stopped there first inning, matt kemp, gone. two-run shot. 2-0 dodgers. zito allows four runs in five. in the seventh, things get uglier. ellis crushes this to left. 5 or dodgers. still in the seventh. yesterday's hero, hanley ramirez, brings home matt kemp. le dodgers crush the giants, 10-0. now one game back in the national league west. >> you're going to have games like this you. don't like them you look like you're flat, and that usually goes when you don't hit. we need a spark somewhere, and somebody driving in a run or doing something, and we're missing that in the last couple of days. >> it's the major leagues. nothing is easy here. so we're excited so come down to and it we're almost to august. we're excited to come down to the wire, and fired up the next
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two months. >> mike: a lot of time left. a's in baltimore, after scoring six in the ninth to win last night, back today. session bed desswinging but gets revenge in the fourth. two-run shot down the line. 14th of the year. 2-0a's. colon on the mound for the a's. strikes out davis. in another six, chris carter, hit one last night, same tonight. eighth on the season. right now the a's are up a-0 in the seventh. 49ers gearing up nor run back to the nfc title game. training camp underway. throwing on the pads tomorrow for the first time. the defense returns all 11 startersment unheard of in the era of free agency. top three in the league last greer total defense, stopping the run and rushing tds allowed. alvin smith will step into a starting role after 14 sacks. the parttime player last year and now that hey have a year under their belt the niners feel their defense can only improve.
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>> up can actually see the thing cloud did last year and the stuff you need to work on, just implementing the play book, understand what they want you to get accomplished and you can start tweaking your defense. >> typically done well. we don't rest on those. we want to come back out and make it that much better. play that much better. >> mike: let's tee it up. across the pond. senior british open. round free of the same course in scotland. fred couples, shot up the leaderboard with a 6-under 64. able to stick his approach on eight. want it few feet of the hole. will birdie and is one become of our leader. german bernhard langer. drains the bird on 9. 7-under for the tournament. >> lap -- lpga in france. natalie gulbis, her lone title on tour here. she is trailing stacy lewis.
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birdied the final hole, tied with park for the lead at 11-under. the next would weeks we want to give you olympic updates so when you hear spoil alert, look away, if you don't want to know. when the music stops, rejoin us. here you go. ♪ ♪ >> mike: go the webs at abc-7 news for all your results. saber cats in the playoff. >> ama: just ahead, grab your lottery tickets, someone in the bay area just [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: dinner...is...served. tonight, take it easy and enjoy
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