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after an officer-involved shooting. evidence technicians forecasted the area where a 31-year-old man was shot by police officers after being chased at 6:30 this evening. residents of the area told us offcamera they heard five shots after employs warned the map to stop. >> they kept hearing him say, stop, police, stop. he turns on the officers, produces a handgun, black and silver. the officer, fearing for his safety, discharges his weapon, strikes the subject. >> be okay? >> the man was brought here to san francisco general hospital. the chief says he was shot more than once. described as a person well known to police. >> the suspect is -- has a pretty significant record. >> all again when officers in the vicinity were helping with a stolen car. >> they can hear on the radio and then hear the person with the gun description, and, hey, there he is, and the chase is on. >> reporter: the officer
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involved in the sheeting was not hurt. he'll be interviewed and placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated. the chief says he's going to be holding a community meeting with the residents of the potrero hill project sometime next week to discuss the shooting. reporting live in san francisco, abc-7 news. >> ama: vallejo police are investigating a shooting. at 5:30 someone in a white car opened fire on a house. >> alan: a teenager who has been the subject of a amber alert for a week as turned herself in along with her boyfriend. the two surrendered to police in san diego county. ewan is in sorato disappeared from her home last saturday two men were found shot to death inside the home. her boyfriend, juan salazar, jr. is one of the suspect necessary double murder.
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>> ama: a bit of rain fell in the bay area. >> alan: here's a live look out. let's go right to leigh glaser for a look at the forecast. >> leigh: not a whole lot. much of it was in the form of sprinkles or mist and drizzle, but check out on live doppler 7hd, hundreds -- i'm telling you -- hundreds of lightning strikes moving up the spine of the sierra, right near south lake tahoe. you can notice the arcing of the moisture feed from south to north is moving off the coast. hoarse the bay area and all of it is slowly starting to move to the north of us. we still have some returns, though. go ahead and check it out closer. right over the bay bridge here, heading over to berklee, oakland, a little bit of a return here, may just see heavy mist and drizzle, from fairfax up towards novato, and a little to the west now. between antioch and concord. also, we're seeing some returns,
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the higher peaks towards byron highway, livermore valley area, and we're also seeing all of the activity moving in towards the sierra, extending over towards the northwestern part of the state. in fact the warning is up until 11:00 a.m. for tomorrow, lightning strikes, dry fuel, and the air mass is dry, so a moisture is not reaching the grounds and the dry lightning strikes pose the problem. >> any showers tomorrow? the forecast is coming up. >> ama: in santa cruz county, sakes ache fer fire is under control but firefighters will remain on scene to make sure it does not re-ignite. we were over the scene. the fire raced through a recall area off bear creek road, threatening more than 200 homes. the beckers were ready to evacuate. they live just a mile from the fire. >> we could see flames and started thinking about what was
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important and what wasn't, and started packing up our van. >> we got the computers, of course, decided to look for photographs that were hard copies and put the cats away so we could get them if we needed to. >> the beckers were about to leave but calfire controlled the fire at 12:30 today. >> alan: tonight, wildfire in shasta trinity national forest is 75% contained. burning near interstate 5 and hays charred almost a thousand acres. all road restrictions in the area were lifted. in southern california, 250-acre fire is 20% contained and in riverside county, 25050-acre fire is 90're contained and in million mouth county, wildfire burned more than nine square milesle. >> ama: in oklahoma, ten fires are burning right now, including one near oklahoma city that has
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destroyed nearly 60 homes. here's the latest. >> reporter: and sure enough it was. the extreme conditions turned brush fires into fire storms across several county counties. at least 100 buildings burn to the ground. almost half of them homes. a daycare center was turned to ash. hundred owes vac waited in advance of the flames. >> when i left the fire was right at my back door. >> arson was suspected in this fire near she small central oklahoma town of luther. at daybreak. the oklahoma governor spoke to families who lost everything along dogwood street. imagine managers told her this year could bring one of the worst wildfire breakouts in the state's history. >> this has been a very, very tough situation, when it's over 110 degrees and huge flames and massive fires. >> reporter: this family saw the flames roaring toward them. daughter jessica snapped these shots of flames as their family aban doughed the homes. this family feels lucky they
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escaped with their lives. >> pictures and a few clothes. we had 30 minutes. >> i almost passed out in the driveway leaving. everything is gone. >> next door, casey looked for memories in the ashes of his home. and found nothing. >> in a tornado, you pick stuff up and you dig through and you fine things that are salvageable. you come here and you move anything and it just turns to dust. >> more residents are expected to have to evacuate this weekend as the fires continue to spread. >> alan: downtown oakland is a street fair tonight. for the first time in its 12-year history the art and soul philosophy i running until midnight. sear joe quinn tan that has the details. >> a sea of people, babies with balloons, and sizzling chicken on the grill. >> are you running this? >> yes. >> reporter: those are the basic ingredients in any street fair, but since this is oakland,
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expect a few surprises. like a troupe of teenage acrobats entertaining the crowd, and exotic food you might not find elsewhere. >> what is this? >> tater. >> organizers are happen so many people are downtown on a saturday. >> no doubt in my mind this is a significantly larger crowd for a saturday than we had last year. >> reporter: in an effort to keep the party going, this year's hours have been adjusted. >> this is a saturday street fair. they usually lock up by 6:00 but organizes this year are having it go on until midnight. >> night life in oakland has grope so we're having -- like an outdoor club. >> reporter: staying open until midnight allows for late-hour light shows but poseses a few problems. demonstrate ares on friday bashed in the windowses of president obama's re-election headquarters but event organizes are not worried about anything
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happening during this event and one vendor is hoping for the safe party to continue. >> no breaking of windows, shops, nothing. having a good time. that's what oakland needs. >> reporter: in oakland, abc-7 news. >> ama: someone knocked over as many as 20 crosses at controversial memorial in lafayette that honors fallen soldiers. the vandalism was discovered last night. each cross represents lives lost in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. they were put up by antiwar activists in 2006 and quickly drew national attention. at the time several crosses were pulled down by supporters of the war, who felt they showed an antiwar bias. police aren't sure who pulled the crosses down this time. >> alan: just ahead, gearing up for seven minutes of terror as the mars rover curiosity gets ready to land. how you can witness history tomorrow. >> ama: customers charged numerous times after trying to get a deal on a southwest flight. >> six flags tries to get the
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coaster up and running
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>> alan: the man accused over shooting and seriously injuring congresswoman gabrielle giffords is expected to plead guilty. jarred laughmer has a court hearing and there are reports he will plead guilty for an exchange of life in prison. mental health officials believe the 23 year is now competent to understand the charms against him. the assaults killed six and injured 13 at a gathering last year in tucson. >> ama: swert airline officials are prompt missing refunds to
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customers who were mistakenly overcharged in a promotion friendsy. southwest offered 50% off a round trip on specific dates to their loyal customers. the promotion was to celebrate the airline reaching three million fans on facebook. some customers were charged more than once on their credit cards. >> we have all hands on deck in our technology team, making sure that we identify the problem and that we work toward a solution. if a customer was charged overdraft fees from the bank, we'll refund that. >> ama: some people were charged 30 times for their flights. >> alan: visitors at six flags discovery kingdom in vallejo should be able to get on the superman ride tomorrow. last sunday the ride had a glitch and stranded a dozen people 150 feet in the air for two hours. tested have been performed on the ride all week and park officials say nothing appears to
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be structurally wrong. the ride will be open tomorrow. >> ama: drivers using the benecia martinez bridge will see changes. the two lanes will be closed from 8:00 p.m. until noon. the closure begins tonight and runs through friday, august 10th. fastrak only traffic will be shrifted to the single lane on the far left side of the roadway that bypasses the toll plaza. the lanes will be closed so crews can install a new toll collection system. >> hundreds of people traveled to sacramento and helped out the state. all part of the state's surplus auction. people crowded into a huge warehouse to bid on everything from cell phones to jewelry, computers, and a whole lot more. >> you have to get rid of this stuff, otherwise it just piles up the warehouses. couples are surplus items from state agencies, t sa as, left at
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airports or confiscated by t or california highway patrol. >> the state holds the actions every three months. at the last action the state brought in $90,000. >> ama: probably the get some good deals. >> leigh: absolutely. >> ama: high, leigh. some moisture there. >> leigh: felt like march or february. the overcast sky, temperatures in the 60s and 70s, and painted the picture for you? right now looking from the high definition east bay cam towards emeryville. we have low cloud around the bay area, mist and drizzle reported at the golden gate bridge, and live doppler 7hd picking up a little moisture as it makes its way from southern california, row tate back towards the west, across the bay area. remember the atmosphere is very dry so the green you see on the screen, much of it is -- actually almost all is evaporating before it reaches the ground, but needless to say
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you might see a sprinkle or two out there this evening. in the sierra, you can see all the lightning strikes as this band of moisture holes together and rotates back up through the spine of sierra, ukiah and lake county and exits off the coast. so you can get a sense the moisture is lifting to the north and that we're starting to dry out a bit here. so we'll go with more sunshine tomorrow, and that will translate into warmer temperatures. still mild out there. 64 in antioch. 60, oakland. half moon bay, overcast. mist and drizzle. 5 5. san jose, 62. here is a look at our highlights. scattered clouds and fogover night. we'll take the moisture out. the exception will be some mist and drizzle near the coast and the peninsula overnight. is a mentioned, more clearing, warmer tomorrow, and then get ready for a heat wave next week with harm to hot temperatures
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returning throughout the course of our work week. here's a look at that system. area of low pressure right here '. feeding the moisture to the north and well off the coast. the low will track overnight to the west and we'll say goodbye to the showers and clouds and see the clearing. you can see the timeline here. taking us throw the evening for. 5:00 tomorrow morning, overcast and maybe mist and drizzle near the coast. by 1:00, everything pull back to the coast and reveals sunshine and warmer temperatures for us. lows tonight, we're in the 60s now so probably sip down into the mid-to up 50ers across much of the bay area wishes overcast sky and a slight chance of maybe a sprinkle or two. highs for sunday, warm things up. 78 for santa rosa. i mean san jose. 78 san jose. campbell, 80. we'll get to you, accept rose -- santa rosa. 65 for san francisco.
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sunset district. ocean beach, 60 degrees. santa rosa, 83. napa, 79. oakland, gray to start. then afternoon sunshine. 70 degrees in your neighborhood. 57 for fremont. in the east bay valley areas, that's where temperatures start to warm up. brentwood, 86. 83 for pitburg. 82 for concord, and enjoy sunday. monday, warm day. and then as we head into tuesday, wednesday, check out thursday and friday. it is going to be hot, folks, inland, temperatures near 100 goings. 80s around the bay, and at the coast, close to 70 degrees. so get ready for a heat wave next week. >> ama: thank you, leigh. we want to thank some of the people who are helping raise thousands of dollars for foster kids just by liking abc news on facebook. some new friends are ali d from san francisco, lela from
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pittsburg, and sammy from san francisco. just like abc-7 on facebook and $1 bill we donated to the sleep train dream train. >> 11 innings. the a's were hoping for extra inning magic and a night after exploding for 16 runs the giants hit double digits again against the rockies. stay with abc-7 news for a special midnight edition. all the news you need in just seven minutes tonight after abc-7 at 11:00.
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>> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >> alan: before going to colorado the giants lost seven of their last eight but against the rookies they rediscovered their mojo. giants fans got a rockie mountain high out of this contest. posey with a two-run shot. since the all-star break, posey is batting .471. in thed the mel -- melk man
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delivers. 1st of the season. bumgarner looked solid, allowing one run, striking out sphefnlt pagan had a big night, going 4-6, including this home run in the ninth. giants win it 11:6. over the last two games they have had 33 hits and scored 27 runs. >> at the coliseum. weeks was doing a little p.r. before the contest. griffin got the start but had to leave in the second after feeling tightness in his right throwing shoulder. the jays threaten in the second. the double off the wall bought the throw home is in time to nail sierra. oakland took a 1-0 league as norris playing as the dh drives in brandon inge. just like last night, ryan cook gives up a game-tying home run in the ninth. this time to david cooper. in the 11th.
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encarnacion tries to steal third. the throw gets by inge. toronto gets the lead and the blue jays win, the final 3-1. >> still to come. pro football. six players inducted into the hall of fame. and den nit -- dennis allen tries to fix an oakland [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: dinner...is...served. tonight, take it easy and enjoy your favorite soup, salad and hot, hearty sub. like the toasty big hot pastrami melt. get to your local subway for some dinnertime deliciousness tonight. subway. eat fresh.
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>> the nfl preseason is almost underway. the 49ers start on friday against the vikings and the raiders host the cowboys. their defense was ranked near the bottom. after a string of offense end mined head coaches, the raiders brought in denver defensive coordinator dennis allen to take over. his trying to get the players to be more disciplined. >> pay attention to details. before let you play with your natural ability and play ball. but now it's technique and doing it the right way everytime. when you've get tired in games you go back to fundamentals.
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>> at the pro football hall of fame at canton ohio, chris dole month was among the inductees, playing most of his career with the vikings, downing him were dawson, kennedy, ropes, butler, and martin. a star running back for the patriots and jets, martin played football after his mother encouraged him to get involved as a way to stay out of trouble. >> i'm going to tell you this. i want you to do something after school. it doesn't matter what it is. foocialtion baseball, basketball, join the glee club, the band, whatever. just do something so you're not in this neighborhood 24 hours a day, just to take up two extra hours of your time. she said, because if michigan happens to you, they might as well kill me, too, because you're the only thing i'm living for. >> at the bridgestone invitational, jim furyk is trying to complete a wire-to-wire victory but his lead is down to one stroke. firestone in akron, ohio.
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tiger woods broke par for the first time this week. the birdie on 4 was part of a 68. still 11 shots back. louis oosthuizen fired a 68, but he is just one stroke off the lead. great putt for par here on the the12th. furyk nearly had a birdie on night but the ball hits the flagstick and stays out. 11-under. >> with just oweek to go in the olympics, the -- team usa has -- great grittan has 29 total. and this sports report was bog to you by river rock casino. >> michael phelps, adamant that tonight's event was his last. >> yes, to 22 medals total. a record. 18 golds, probably a mark that will never be broken. >> ama: still to coverage nasa's mission to mars and the seven minutes of terror you can see
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for yourself tomorrow night. >> president obama celebrates his 51st birthday while mitt romney hits the cam paine trail and pushes back about jobs. >> ama: what some discretely placed infrared cameras are teaching us about local critters in the wild.
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. good evening. i'm alan wang. >> ama: i'm ama daetz. san francisco police open fire on a man they say was ban brandishing a gun near the potrero projects. he was shot multiple times and is in the hospital. >> a missing 16-year-old turned herself in to san diego county authorities along with her boyfriend. she disappeared from her family home last quebec in monterey county. two men were found dead inside the house. her boyfriend is a suspect of n the homicide. >> the art and soul festival is in it's 1 year and continues sunday with 50 musical acts of five stages covering several blocks. >> alan: today president obama turned 1551 years ol' and celebrated with a quiet weekend at camp david himself wish may be to grow more jobs in america but the latest unemployment
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report is a split decision. >> thank you. >> reporter: mitt romney calls the job numbers a hammer blow to the economy in indiana, 23 million americans out of work or underemployed of the. >> reporter: but to make his bad news thin herb picked one part of the report, the unemployment rate, which picked up to 8.3%, more than three years above 8%. >> good times for a nation suffering under the president. >> president obama spun some good news that even economists weren't expecting, 165,000 jobs added so he can claim that for more than two years the economy has added private sector jobs every month. >> those are our neighbors and family members finding work, and the security that comes with work. >> reporter: in some key battlegrounds states a poll found that romney has group to make up. he is down six in ohio, down six in florida, and a whopping 11 behind in pennsylvania.
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>> but romney is getting a little star power. clint eastwood showed up at a fundraiser, joking with reporters. >> yeah. >> that after many conservatives question the actors super bowl ad for a car company which some thought was an indoorsment of the president who bailed out detroit but just like dirty harry. >> go ahead, make my day. >> reporter: the republican actor made his intentions crystal clear, he is voting for romney. >> i think the country needs a boost. >> reporter: as for the president, today is his 51st 51st birthday he spent the morning playing golf and then got on a helicopter and headed to camp david. not a bad idea. it's hot and humid here. much nicer up in the hills around camp david. >> alan: the vice-president, joe biden, gave an emotional speech at the disabled americans national convention in las
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vegas. the vice-president thearchgd veterans for their service and for sacrificing their lives to the country. he said he always asks wounded soldiers what he can do for them. >> you know the answer i get. sir, can you get me back to my unit, center i know i can be helpful, sir. >> alan: biden said president obama is committed to making sure troops have what they need for the battle of the future. note. >> ama: a new explorer is heading toward mars. this is curiosity, the rover, preparing for a landing that nasa scientist are describing as seven minutes of terror. we're standing by with a nasa team at their headquarters in pasadena, california. >> reporter: forget the olympics. after 352 million-mile journey to mars, this the lanking to stick.
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during touchdown, the laboratory will hit the atmosphere at 13,000-miles per hour, heating to a scorching 3100 disease before a giant parachute hits the brakes. then, using a sky crane technique never tried before, rockets will gently lower the largest robotic explorer ever. a rover name curiosity. it all happens in what the team calls seven minutes of terror. >> a whole bunch of stuff has to work right to make it to the surface. >> i am rationally confident. emotionally terrified. >> because earth and mars are so different, it was impossible for engineers to test everything they way they wanted before liftoff last november. >> how nervous does that make you? >> incredibly. >> at a time when nasa's budget for exploring the planet is shrinking, the curiosity mission is a $2.5 billion gamble. >> what are the two questions that trouble all humans? where did we come from?
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and are we alone? >> to help answer that question, curiosity will look for signs where martian life may have thrived to help scientists unlock the secrets. >> we want to answer the big questions, like, are we alone in the universe? why did life evolve here on earth? therefore should we expected anywhere else? >> at this point the mission is completely automatic. the spacecraft will land itself so the team here at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory can only wait until the rover touches down and hopefully phones home. pasadena, california. >> ama: curiosity is scheduled to land at 10:30 tomorrow night our time. and get more information anytime on our web site, abc-7.com, under "see it on tv". >> alan: mass says making strides in its efforts to launch astronauts into space from the u.s.
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the space agency just awarded more than a billion dollars in contracts to three commercial rocket and spacecraft develops. i wants to bridge the gap left by the retirement of the space shuttle program. nasa currently pays russia $63 million each time one of its astronauts hitches a ride on a soyuz rocket. >> uses high-tech gadget trito peck into the lives lives of wid animals in the pay -- bay area. >> leigh: thunderstorms continue to move across the lake tahoe area. we'll check out the
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>> ama: stanford researches are using a piece of land and gadget try to peek into the seek secret lives of wild animals. >> jasper ridge is a peaceful place. 1200 acres owned by stanford university and protected from development for more than 100 years. when you stroll around during the day you might not realize this place is packed with night life. ♪ >> you probably guessed we added the music but you get the idea. when the sun goes down, this place is hopping. all these videos and photos are taken by a network of cameras
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with infrared motion sensors triggered by anything that walks by. they catch some animals in action during the day and night vision technology captures life after dark. eric is a graduate student working on the project. >> we can study animals we might never see, and this is important for animals who are too dangerous for a human to photograph. >> animals like mountain lions. researchers now they were at jasper ridge occasionally but humans almost never see them. now the cameras reveal mountain lions are here a lot. trevor is in charge of the camera network. >> when we started seeing basically mountain lons here on a weekly basis, we're a little surprised. >> reporter: researchers say the presence of mountain lions is good news base it shows it's a healthy intact ecosystem, including a top predator. >> a whole series with different poses poses and expressions. it's really quite wonderful.
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>> reporter: the system includes bobcats, who sometimes play with their food. and lots of county tease constantly patrolling. the cameras also trigger when maller animals are present. including foxes, a great horned owl, and a wood rat. the cameras are linked to a network. >> this is a wireless station, powered by solar power and has a wi-fi access opinion on top of the pole there. >> in the old days researchers had to spend many hours traveling from camera to camera to collect photos and video. now the wireless network allows them to watch what is hang from their desks. >> we're looking at a live feed from a camera out a couple miles away. >> this project is examining the interact between hummingbirds, flowers, and mine croaks in --
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microbes in the next tar. the key will be to find how and when animals use verious types of habitat so scientists know what areas are most critical to their survival. >> ama: so cool. you can see more videos and photos from jasper ridge on the web site, abc7news.com. >> alan: a new study that ties global warming to three severe heat waves that have blistered the u.s. and other parts of the world in recent years. the research bay nasa scientist, often called the godfather of global warming, says the extreme heat and drawn seen in the u.s., europe, and other regions mississippi be global warming. the study flames climb change for the drought in texas and oklahoma, the 2010 heat wave in russia and the 2003 european heat wave. >> ama: we're actually in a bit of a cooldown near the bay area. >> alan: leigh glaser is here to tell us more about that. >> leigh: ten degrees cooler today. most locations where we
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typically are for this time of the year, and the reason why is the tropical moisture tire feeding. live doppler 7hd has a good handle on it. you can see the numerous, hundreds of lightning strikes, heading up towards the lake tahoe area. bay area we're cleared travelwise tomorrow across the state, fresno, 100. 108 in palm springs, los angeles, 10 2. tahoe, stray shower in the morning, and afternoon clearing, 78 degrees. it's going to be hoot one in phoenix. 111. 93 for denver. 102 for dallas. thunderstorms expected from atlanta to new york city, new york, tomorrow. 87. here's a look at our numbers for tomorrow. morning overcast, afternoon sunshine. warmer numbers for us. 1080 for santa rosa. 5 5 san francisco. 52 for half moon bay. palo alto, warm 207 5. san jose, 78.
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84 for antioch. 80 for concord. 84, gilroy. and 73, afternoon sunshine forks watsonville. the seven-day forecast, sunday, monday, tuesday, warmer days but they heat will be with us friday, friday, temperatures inland near 100 degrees. ouch, that's hot. >> ama: thank you, leigh. we want to thank some of the people who are helping raise thousands of dollars for foster children just by liking abc-7 news on facebook. special thanks to nancy w from antioch. gay k from martinez, and claude b from pittsburg, and you can make a difference. just like abc-7 news on facebook right now and a dollar will be donate ted the sleep train dream campaign. >> alan: the nfl season is right around the corner. '. >> a former 489ers goes into the pro football hall of fame and raiders safety, michael huff,
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mined head coaches the raiders bought in dennis allen to take over. he is trying get the players to be more disciplined, especially in the secondary. >> attention to details. kind of let you kind of play with the natural ability and just play ball, but now goes to fundamentals, technique, and do it the right way. that way when you get tired you be goh back to fundamentals. >> communication between the coaches and quarterback is crucial to a seem venezuela success to improve that the 49ers have gotten new head sets. the old ones would cut out while someone was talking. offensive coordinator gregol ran felt more like an air traffic koleer in one instance. >> one time when i was doing it, and it happened to be on the same frequency as an airline at -- in a certain city and it was critical situation in the game, and all you hear is southwest pilots talking. >> do you expect more when you come in as a rookie, is there something crazy high-tech stuff
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and if you look in the helmet, and it's not. >> got a triple-a battie in there. >> nfl network thursday night football is coming to abc-7 on october 18th. watch the 49ers host seattle, and then on december 6th. the broncos come to oakland. the pro football hall of fame chris doleman was month the year's inductees, playing most of career with the vikings. joining him were dawson, cortez kennedy, welly yost, martin, and butler. martin played football after his mother encouraged him to get involved as a way to stay out of trouble. >> i'm just going to tell you this, curt. i want you to do something after school. it doesn't matter what it is. it could be football baseball, basketball, join the glee club, the band, whatever, just do something so you're not in this neighborhood 24 hours a day. this u just to take up two extra
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hours 0 your time. she said, because if something happens to you, they might as well kill me, too because you're the only thing i'm living for. >> football proved to be his salvation. by beating the rockies the giants were hoping to gain ground on the dodgers. the cubs were leading in the fourth when kemp gets his 16 home run of the season. putting the dodgers in front to stay. clayton kershaw improved his record to 9-6. struck out seven over seven innings of work. the dodgers got an insurance run in the eighth on this ramirez rbi single. 3-1 was the final. the -- with the a's losing the angels had a chance to gain some room. the angels beat the white sox 6-5 in ten. kendrick's rbi single was a difference so l.a. is a game
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behind oak land. >> kurt suzuki suze -- went 0-# for his orioles debut. it was #-6 nationals. the next batter, bryce harper, sends this ball into the upper deck, his tennin' only the season. washington wins 10-7. at the bridgestone invitational, jim furyk is trying to complete a wire-to-wire victory but his lead is down to one stroke. the weather was okay today but thunderstorms are forecast for tomorrow. tiger woods broke par for the first time this week. this birdie on 4 was part of a 68. still 11 shots back. south africa ya united states -- louis oosthuizen shot a 68. furyk had to settle for an even par 70. nearly had a birdie on nine but the ball hits hits the flagsticd says out. >> with just over a week to go in the olympics, the u.s. holes
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a narrow lead over china in the medal count, u.s.a., 54 medals, great britain is third with 29 total. 14 gold and this sports report was brought to you by river rock casino. >> alan: thanks a lot. >> ama: just ahead on our personal midnight edition of abc-7 news. san francisco police shoot a suspect. what police say he was doing. >> alan: wildfires break out across the state. new concerns about fire danger. abc-7 news will be roig back. release me, momigus!
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breaking news. >> alan: good evening and thanks for joining us for this special edition of abc-7 news. right now, breaking news out of san francisco. police are on the scene of a shooting in the city's western addition. happening on buchanan and turk street. one person was shot. no word on the circumstances surrounding the shooting or the person's condition. police have cordoned off the street traffic in the area. >> ama: a man shot several times by employing is hospitalized. the incident started at 6:30 when police got a call a man was waving a hand folk in the potrero hill projects. loyalty stepped in. residents said offcamera they
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heard five shots after police warned the man to stop. >> kept sayings police, stop. he turns on the officers, produces a hand gun, black andsel very. the officer, fearing for his safety, discharges his weapon. strikes the subject. >> the unidentified man was shot multiple times and is in stable condition at san francisco general hospital. the officer involved in the shooting was not hurt. >> alan: in san jose police are investigate the city's 24th 24th homicide of the year. a man what shot to death around 3:00 this morning near clover oak drive and cedar dale drive investigator are gathered potential evidence at the scene but so far have not identified any suspects or a possible motive. >> ama: the 16-year-old missing for a week from monterey county is in police custody. she and her boyfriend surrendered to authorities in san diego county friday. eunice disappeared from her family's home last saturday. two men were later f

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