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in the news this saturday morning, august 25th, the verdict is in and it says apple 1 billion, samsung nothing. that's the score as samsung loses its patent battle with apple. and the petaluma little leaguers have a rematch this morning for the championship. good morning. i'm terry mcsweeney, getting ready to start your saturday. let's see what the weather will look like. here's lisa argen. >> good morning, everyone. take a look at vollmer peak. isn't it beautiful?
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sun coming up at 6:34. length of low clouds and fog across the bay. with the marine layer we have the mist and drizzle. it's about 2,000 feet deep and i expect it to continue to transport the cooler air into the east bay valleys today. that will keep us below the average. by noontime we will see 50s and clouds at the coast. upper 60s inland with the sunshine. it will be a mild afternoon with mid-80s. that's well below the average and keeping it cool with the 50s on the coast and the low clouds and fog once again across the bay during the overnight hours. it will bring another cool day for the end of the weekend. i'll tell you how cool coming up. terry. >> thanks, lisa. >> new this morning the chp is investigating a fatal crash on highway 4 at the 6 and 80 interchange in concord. it is clear now, but this was the scene last night around 10:30 when two cars collided. one of the cars crashed into a
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light pole, knocking it down. one person died at the scene. caltran is work to repair the light pole. the cause of the crash is under investigation. we will bring you more details as information becomes available through the morning. >> the loser is samsung. there was a $1 billion patent infringement award by the jury in san jose. samsung is saying they may pull their items from the market. samsung is not the only loser. >> that is a samsung galaxy 7.9 tablet and this is an ipad. you if you can see a startling resemblance, so did the jury. apple won on almost all counts. >> it came out in top on a way that could impact future products and also nets them a large amount of money that comes out of samsung's pockets. >> apple originally asked for $2.5 billion in damages. saying their reputation was hurt, their patents copied and
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their sales were reduced. samsung's attorneys refused to answer reporter questions. >> i'm sorry, i don't have any comments. no comments. we've issued a statement. >> it took a san jose jury three weeks of trial and just 21 hours of deliberations to decide in apple's favor. they say it's a real blow to samsung. >> they have to go back to the drawing board and rethink how some of their future devices work. >> samsung will also have to change many designs. this is a galaxy 10.5, the look is very different from an ipad now. according to some analysts, samsung is not the only company affected by this verdict. >> this also affects google and android too because that's what they are competing against. >> the jury found samsung had indeed willfully infringed on some, but not all, of apple's patents. but this is not the end. they want more blood. they want the products after the market in a court ordered injunction. samsung will fight it. they will also appeal the $1.5 billion in damages said a
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legal analyst dean johnson. >> there is going to be an appeal. when you have a billion dollars jury verdict, there will be an appeal. >> now, on september 20th both sides will be back in federal court. that's when they find out if the judge will award apple an injunction, forcing samsung to remove offending patrollent and designs from the market. shares of apple record highs in after-hours trading yesterday after that verdict was announced. you see apple at 674.95 and now trading in record territory. in west oakland a double shooting left a man dead and a boy wounded. it happened in the 700 block of sycamore street. that was last night. the little boy was rushed to children's hospital oakland. doctors say he was grazed by a bullet and it is not life-threatening. no word on a motive for the shooting. it was oakland's 77th homicide
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of the year, exactly the same number as a year ago. >> in san jose this morning there will be a peace march in response to the city's response to gang killings. many killings are believe to be gang-related. we are told the police department's new plan to deal with the problems. >> 743-740. >> it's a friday night on the east side of san jose. police sergeant leads an eight officer gang team. they patrol streets recently rid he willed with violence. >> it's about the worst i have ever seen. more shootings and more violence. >> and 18 year olds wearing red
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in a norteno neighborhood, he was shot to death in front of this store. no nortenos gathered, asking for donations. >> that's just battling it out. with the spike in homicides. the city leaders announce the activation of a crisis response strategy that will include spending $800,000 to specifically target gang violence. >> the message for the public is you have every city resource, every county resource going to stop it. >> the sergeant said the resources make a huge difference. overtime is a necessity. >> right now you pretty much have maps saturated for gangs out here right now. when we pull back, especially if word gets out, we pull back and the gangsters figure out what is going on, it makes a difference. they take advantage. >> with more officers his teams can make more stops like this one. this mercedes matches the description of one that's been
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used in recent crimes. a search produces a knife and alcohol. when the sergeant dropped us off, there was a chase. there was a small crash and then they eventually found the suspect hiding in a yard and they recovered a gun. abc7 news. in the east bay this police -- this morning, police are trying to find the owner of two dogs that mauled a six-year-old girl in albany. the child was attacked about 8:00 thursday night in a neighborhood near a soccer field next to the community garden. soccer players rescued the girl and retain the owner but he left with the dog before police could get there. the little girl was treated for wounds at children's hospital oakland and she's been released. this morning a walnut creek man is under arrest for indecent exposure at a school. security footage helped capture this man. it shows a 39-year-old man committing a lewd act in front of a student. it was at walnut creek christian academy. the child quickly ran away and got helped. the man is being held at the detention facility on $145,000 bail. two east bay children have the scare of their lives.
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they were home alone when burglars tried to break into the house. the ten-year-old boy and 16-year-old sister were playing video games when they heard someone knocking, ringing the doorbell repeatedly. the fremont police say when no one came to the door the burglars to be that as a sign the house was empty. three men used a crowbar to break in, but once inside they knew immediately someone else was there. >> they were like going through the back so we just walked into the closet and hid. >> i only heard, hey, come out or else we're coming in. >> the sister and the boy stayed on the phone with the 911 operator. help arrived in less than two minutes and all three suspects were captured. they have been charged with home invasion property, possession of stolen property and conspiracy. coming up next the petaluma national all-stars are about to play in the u.s. championship
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it's the little league world series. their love of the game and spirit have captivated the community and beyond. here's don sanchez. >> every time a petaluma little leaguer gets a hit, they erupt in cheers. everyone is fired up and inspired by what these kids are doing. >> we are so proud of these guys. and the fantastic job they have done. >> karen is in taps, where people have gathered to watch the game. but she is here to buy a t-shirt saying the best comes from the west and area code 707. >> a couple hours with my buddy, we came up with the line, and the next day we had them printed. >> he's selling them here at taps where at times they are outselling food and beer. there was a customer waiting before they opened. >> we had them on the wall for sale and i sold the rest out this morning. we don't have any shirts left. that's the only problem i'm having is keeping up with the demand for them. >> petaluma boys are such a part of americana.
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>> everybody is talking about it, everyone is supporting the team, wearing the hat, you know. >> you can see the kids come out as pros possibly and we have one hometown pro, but it would be nice to have a few more. >> he's talking about the a's jonny gomes. he comes to a lot of these kids when they are as young as seven years old and helps with the batting cage. >> if they have the passion and drive and will to want to go out and have fun and develop that skill that they have, yeah. i can't help but to watch them and actually, you know, sit back and be extremely proud of what they are doing out there on the field. >> and while we were there, the team manager, eric smith, called from back east. i told him how excited the city is. >> it's amazing. i would love to be a part of it. >> you are. >> i think you are the focal point, my man. >> everybody has a sense of community here. a lot of organizations have been raisings money to send family members to see the final games in pennsylvania. there will be a big celebration and a parade here a week from sunday.
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in petaluma, don sanchez, abc7 news. >> you can see the u.s. championship game between petaluma and tennessee today right here on abc7. game time is 12:30. abc7 news reporter wade freedman is there live to have a live report for us at 8:00 a.m. so keep it here. >> a massive wildfire burning to our north near reading is about now 70% contained. it's already consumed more than 28,000 acres in two counties. it's destroyed at least 84 homes and buildings. it broke out last saturday. full containment now expected by monday. >> the guy area and silicon valley chapters of the red cross are sending 15 volunteers to florida for tropical storm isaac. the storm is emerging from the
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caribbean. and plans for the national republican convention in tampa continue with contingency plans in place. >> that will be spicing up whatever is going on down there. >> it will be a category 1, yous, winds around 75 miles an hour at times as it grazes the florida peninsula. but we are looking at our usual low clouds and fog. a little unusual this morning is how far they are reaching. right now the look from mount tam. you will see the marine layer, about 2,000 feet deep. you see the clouds from the east bay bringing cooler air all around the bay. i'll tell you how cool next. >> and also the giants and angel pegan staying hot. larry beil will have more with sports.
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moving along. you get an idea we have some overcast in the bay area in certain parts of the bay area. >> yeah. it's beginning to move into the east bay, partly cloudy in livermore. it's clear in concord, but the clouds have moved into san jose. as we head outside right now, it's pretty gray out there. we are looking at a few areas of sunshine closer to the airport. even though the airport is reporting delays of 46 minutes due to the low clouds. here's vollmer peak, almost swallowed up with the low fog and clouds. we look for temperatures to be quite comfortable here in the east bay valleys, but still below the average as much as three to seven degrees below the average today. here's a look at live doppler 7hd. we have the low clouds and fog clinging to the shoreline. in fact, a little clearing at our coast today. that will keep numbers mainly in the 50s. we will look for the cool down to continue into the latter half of the weekend with a warmup coming our way as we begin the work week. so visibility not too bad around half moon bay.
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it's 54 there right now, 52 in the city with napa coming in at 52. but 50 in san rafael. the nights getting a little longer and we are seeing a few numbers drop into the upper 40s throughout the overnight hours. 14 hours of daylight. spotty drizzle and with the cooler air mass a stronger onshore flow. the weekend looks cooler. we look for the numbers to rebounds by monday but that's in the inland valleys. the low clouds and fog still generous along the shoreline. here's look at the culprit. an area of low pressure to the north and west of us. it will hang out here for the next several days. as it does, it keeps the high from building in. that will keep our temperatures on the cool side. so today a couple of 80s. tomorrow even cooler as the low tense to descend to the south. and that will allow for more cool breezes to head our way. so it's been pretty gusty around the bay and that continues today. so if you are headed out to watch the america's cup, 2:00
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this afternoon to about 4:00, the west winds up to 15 knots and temperatures only in the mid-to upper 50s. back home we will see plenty of 70s here. the average high for san jose should be about 78. 75 for san jose today with 79 in los gatos. and pretty cool day for san mateo, 59. fog in pacifica at 58. the joints game today with partial clearing, 60 in the sunset, 64 downtown and we are will 4 degrees shy where you should be this year. 73 santa rosa near east bay. 65 in berkeley today. pretty good afternoon. 70s as you head toward union city. yesterday we were in the upper 80s. we had the west wind out by the delta cooling you off a good five to seven degrees from concord to antioch today. 883 in antioch today.
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81 morgue hills and 61 in monterey bay. and featuring the cooler days this weekend. 84 for our outside numbers today with about 80 tomorrow and you will notice a little warmup come the middle of next week. a few ups and downs here and there. >> thanks a lot. dan harris joins truss new york to tell us what's coming up at 7:00 on "good morning america." good morning to you, dan. >> hey, terry, good morning to you. always great to see you. coming up this morning on gma, breaking news. tropical storm by isaac making a direct hit on haiti. now it is heading straight toward southern florida. will the u.s. be ready when the storm hits? we have the latest coming up. look at this, dramatic video from the shooting that happened outside the empire state building friday. police opening fire on the gunman while he opened fire at
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him while innocent bystanders scrambled for safety. what drove him to commit this act? we get into that this morning. and the missing teenager. she's a cheerleader and went missing a week ago. now police suspect she was abducted right out of her own home and her mom is going all out to get her daughter back. it's a terrible story. we will hear directly from the mom coming up. finally the internet casanova. that's what they are calling him. this guy who dates women online and turns out to steal more than their hearts allegedly. we have the latest on the search for this tv romeo coming up on gma. terry, that's it. >> what was his technique to get all these women to fall in love with him? >> he's a slick man, good-looking guy and he told people what they wanted to hear, and this is what we call a tees. i'm not going to give it all away to you but let's say he had his message. >> i look forward to that.
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believe me, i did. thank you very much. >> all right. >> in sports this afternoon, madison bum gartner go for his 15th win of the season as the giants try to win six straight. the dodgers are still three games back and starting to worry. the giants win last night over the braves. good night. with the dodgers working on a potential blockbuster trade with boston that would land adrian gonzalez and crawford and a a host of others in l.a., the giants go out and keep wing. before the game the giants posing for their 2012 team picture. in atlanta they call the j.a. kid, first inning jason heyward takes vogelsong opposite field. brave up 1-0. and in the second. fred free man, he got all of that. up 2-zip. giants can tie with two in the third and two more in the fourth. the triple for pegan scored blanco. then in the sixth buster posey, he doubles. marco scutaro, a terrific addition, comes in and the
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giants win it 5-3. their 6th straight victory and they remain up three on the dodgers. a's and tampa bay, no sign of isaac just yet. the rbi single scoring. 1-1 game. tied 2-2 in the fifth. b.j. upton, a fair ball. down the line and jose molina struggling home and the rays up 3-2. and here he miss the home run in the seventh. off the wall. tied again, 3-3. in the eighth here it comes and there it goes. out in a flash and jonny gomes knew it. jonny gomes, the pride of p-town. and the a's win 5-4. the 49ers insist they were only evaluating peyton manning the offseason. they really evaluated him from the sideline in preseason
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action. he ended up signing with the broncos after his years with the colts. did they offer him a contract and backtrack to restore alex smith confidence? at this point manning does not care about the history. >> it's pretty well documented how that went down in the offseason. so not really going down memory lane. >> the defending super bowl champion of the new york giants and eli manning against the k. >> and the championship for the little leaguers today at 10:30 on abc7. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> and still ahead, republicans are gathering in tampa for their national convention with the mitt romney having the spotlight all to himself. we will presue that. and the city of san francisco, kids getting a@ñ
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>> topping the news, organizers of the republican national convention in florida are keeping an eye on tropical storm isaac, which could become a hurricane when it reaches the east coast, but there are no plans to cancel the convention, which will draw 70,000 people in tampa. karen traverse has the preview. >> i'm running for president. >> mitt romney has been campaigning for president every day for well over a year. almost five years if you counted his last run.
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in the rough-and-tumble daily grind of the trail, sometimes a candidate's message gets lost. next week as republicans gather for the convention in tampa, romney has the spotlight all to himself. >> the convention is an opportunity when americans are just starting to really tune in to the campaign. for mitt romney to sort of reintroduce himself to the public and really highlight his background and his vision for the future of the country. >> that vision boils down to the main message romney tries to hammer home, president obama has failed to fix the economy but romney has the tools and the blueprint to get the job done. political conventions are highly choreographed affairs, scripted down to the minute. all of the speakers give the party a chance to highlight their up-and-coming start. there will be new jersey governor chris christie and marco rubio, but ultimately it's all about the candidate. >> mostly its an opportunity to flesh out who the nominee is. >> at the top of the list is his wife, ann, who has a primetime speaking spot.
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>> the wife is a reflection on the husband so her job is to tell their stories about what he's like at home, humanize him. >> a role ann romney is uniquely qualified to fill. >> i've known mitt a very long time. since we were kids, we started dating in high school, we've been married 42 years. >> the romney-ryan ticket is certainly to get a boost in the policy out of their convention but with the democrats holding their own convention the following week, whatever bounce they get may be short-lived. abc news, washington. >> at bc7, political reporter will be covering both conventions. >> new this morning, president obama won't be is thing on the sidelines during the republican convention. he plans to campaign in key battle ground state to try to head off any decline in the policy by his republican challenger. president obama will travel to college towns in iowa, colorado and virginia to court
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young vote erstwhile vice president joe biden is scheduled to head to florida on tuesday. the president is also using this morning's weekly address to get his message out on a hot campaign issue, saving medicare. >> i'm willing to work with anyone to keep improving the current system, but i refuse to do anything that undermines a -- the basic idea that medicare is a basic program for people who get sick. americans deserve to enjoy their golden years. >> republicans have accused the president of utility cutting more than $700 million from medicare to pay for their healthcare law. -- actually $700 billion from medicare to pay for their healthcare plan. a.c. transit said 740 job hunters have registered online for today's hiring event. they expect more than 1,000 people to apply for bus operators positions. a.c. transit said they are increasing the number of bus operators to improve service.
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it take place at a.c. transportation center in hayward starting at 9:00 this morning. applicants must be preregistered online to attend. you also need to bring a specific dmv form that shows your driving record for the past seven years and an up-to-date resume. opponents of building a new jail in san mateo county will hold a town hall meeting this afternoon in east palo alto to discuss strategy for halting its construction. last month they held a groundbreaking ceremony in redwood city to celebrate the first jail construction project in five years. local politicians, and judges hale it as a way to ease jail overcrowding. some would rather see the money go toward providing young people with job and education and house to go keep them out of jail. the city of san francisco is helping low income families get a head start on the school year. at garfield square park this morning more than 2,000 students
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will receive backpacks stuffed with school supplies. the mayor's office is teaming up with the economic development agency and target stores of -- to help school-aged children. the event goes from 10:00 a.m. to 1 in the afternoon. it's at the park at 26th street. coming up, your smartphone gets smarter. we unveil a new feature that you are goes way beyond caller i.d.. and we are taking a look at our roof cam. wow. right now we want to thank people who have become a part of the sleep train's deem campaign for foster care. you can help. just like us at atfacebook.com/slash abc7 news. that's all you have to do and one dollar will be good morning! wow.
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celebrating 90 years of mail service just as postal leaders plan to eliminate the postmaster in an effort to save money. the "save the post office" event takes place in the community of canyon, nestled in the wooded hills between veraga and oakland. it will be held at 10:00 this morning at the post office located on pinehurst road. there's a picture of the building. again the town is canyon. there will be speakers will be there and a local letter writing campaign hoping to avoid the cuts. deep budget cuts that laid off firefighters in contra costa county weeks ago will be reversed thanks to a grant. they will get $7.8 million from fema and the department of homeland security. the money will enable the cash-strapped department to reopen three fire stations and rehire 15 firefighters. the cuts and layoffs were made on july 1st after voters rejected a tax measure, but it
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-- that would have raise money to maintain the staffing levels. it's been a while since smartphones got smarter, but one company is aiming to change that. here's abc7 news reporter johnathan bloom with a look. over the years ringtones have gotten a lot cooler, but that's about all that's changed about the phone, part of your smartphone, until now. >> has the telephone really been lagging behind? >> it has. it's surprising. >> but alex, found in whitepages.com wants to help the good old telephone to play catch-up so he has an app for that. it's called current i.d. every time the phone rings the app scans your social network to find whatever useful information it can about the person who is calling before you pick up. >> including their job title and employer, their last facebook status updates, the latest tweets. >> if you don't know the person, it will at least try to get a name and address from whitepages.com to tell you whether to answer and to be prepared if you do.
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>> the conversation is started in ways to get yourself ahead on, you know, what's going on in the caller's life. >> she found a matching trench coat for her cat? >> that's right. >> this is the point where some people get excited and others get mad. the app is free, but it's only available for android phones. if you have an i-phone you can thank apple to prohibit the app from modifying the calling features. >> it's on the blackberry platform. only android is really open and allows us to do this. >> he won't be surprised in apple and microsoft take a hard look at the app because it makes your phone a smarter phone. >> the app is kind ever doing the work for us. in san francisco, johnathan bloom, abc7 news. >> i like that shot from looking out at diablo.
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>> what's going on there and everywhere else weather-wise. >> the marine layer providing the cool down for the weekend. but good shots from above. 44 minute delay at sfo. a day cooler than average but we have a warmup in the seven-day average. i'll show it to you next. >> coming up, we will take you on a boat ride that goes
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>> welcome back, everybody. it should be a nice day down there. what is it going to be like down there? 68 degrees. that's warming up. not terribly warm but it will be a nice day at the beach. lisa will have more on napa and contra costa county in just a few minutes. the art festival has pulled a painting from their website because a marin county resident didn't like what it depicted.
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"jump the golden gate club" was painted by a san francisco artist. it marks the 1,000th suicide. it had been chosen for honorable mention for the american icon competition. it was taken down but a man said it would encourage suicides. there is a new effort by federal officials to expand the monterey bay national marine sanctuary. it's on the central coast. they hope 20 expand it to an area just outside the golden gate where marine life is being seen for the first time since world war ii. we explain the connection. >> the america's cup helped the ocean project with local environment researcher students to take a little trip under the golden gate bridge where harbor porpoises have returned in record levels. >> it's all about the food.
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>> bill has been studying the return of the mammal. before there was almost no, ma'am malls to be had. there was a difficult time spotting any of the elusive mammals but they are back in the bay for the first time since the 1940s. it aligns with a new proposal that makes it part of the bay under the golden gate bridge federally protected water. >> in 1992 the monterey bay national marine sanctuary was established and it goes all the way up to marin county, but many people don't realize the water underneath the golden gate bridge and around it weren't protected, they were left out. >> it would provide more protection for rare and endangered marine wildlife. >> from our point of view the porpoises are proving something. they come in and out to use the bay. to them it's all one habitat. they are stitching it together for us and showing us, look, this is the same thing and
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really if they need protection out in the ocean, they need protection here, too. >> but the sanctuary expansion could also lead to restriction on helicopter flights, fireworks displace and even the use of jet skis and the shipping industry as well. the pacific merchants shipping organization said they have no formal position on the proposal yet. they want to know more about any restrictions and how it would affect ships and places already aligning the coast. >> we were scoping people last night in san francisco, and about have the people present expressed support, the other people expressed areas that they were concerned about. >> the third of three public meetings in wednesday, september 12th. the public comment period closes october 10th. in the newsroom, abc7 news. >> lisa argen here now to talk about not a hot day of summer, but if you want sun, you can get it. >> yeah. the farm reaches of the bay, the north and the east bay, nice and
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mild but a little cool around the bay, certainly for america's cup. >> that is so fine. >> isn't that cool? >> beautiful! >> a liquid-looking slope to the cool whip that vollmer peak. >> you are thinking cool whip? >> what does that tell you? >> 6:34 is the official sunrise. it's pretty cloudy down below. a 2,000-foot marine layer. delays of 44 hundreds at sfo. partly cloudy there with the clouds in san jose. clear in concord and partly cloudy in livermore. as we take you to the live doppler 7 hd you see the low clouds and fog. they will be hanging along the coast, clinging to it all day long. don't expect sunshine here. it will be cool and temperatures around the bay anywhere from two to seven degrees cooler today. we managed some upper 80s yesterday. here's a look at the tropical atlanta. we were talking about tropical
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storm isaac. winds of 60 miles an hour continuing to move to the northwest at 14. right now we have hurricane warnings up for the florida keys and the west coast of florida. here's the track of what will become a hurricane, category 1, that will just graze the coast of florida. so we will look for that storm surge, some very heavy rain as we head on through the middle part of the work week. we will keep you posted on that. back home temperatures are on the cool side. just 52 in napa. 50 san rafael with 56 in livermore this morning. we have spotty drizzle along with the generous cloud cover. look for the cooler pattern to stick around for tomorrow. in fact, temperatures will be even a few degrees cooler due to the approach of an area of low pressure. then we will see the numbers rebound just in time for the work week. we will look for this area of low pressure to hang out here for the next several days and as it does, it allows for a stronger marine layer.
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the low clouds and fog making their way to the east bay and then once to the east of us we will see the highs build in. for the short term we are also looking at the very gusty winds and elevated fire danger for the high country. closer to home it will bring cooler weather and numbers well below average. so across the state then we've got the low relative humidity, the gusty winds in the sierra nevada. 78 today there with 101 in fresno. we are talking about some breezy winds here and numbers just in the low 60s. partial clearing for the giants game today at 1:05. look for a pretty nice afternoon in the city. 67 in oakland and we've got the lake merit walk today. and elsewhere in the south bay it's the sunnyvale centennial down by the monterey bay. look for sunshine. 80 in gilroy. some of the other events, the grand prix in sonoma, and we are
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look at plenty of sunshine for that. the latin festival in walnut creek and lower 80s there. the warmer weather not until the middle of next week. >> again, you don't attend all the festivals but you keep your finger on it so the community can -- >> yeah, yeah, i'm moving around. >> all right. we were thrilled to welcome katie couric to the bay area to week and we are happy to say she was thrilled to be here too. we know that because she sent out a tweet yesterday. she said i don't play favorites about but abc7 was a great end to a great week on the road. lisa is here now to talk >> we had a chance to sit down with her and talk about the life challenges a lot of single moms face, including dating. >> how tough is it personally
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for you to be in that kind of dating realm again? you are a vibrant woman. it's not like you go on match.com. >> thanks for calling me a vibrant woman. i appreciate that. no, i have not gone on match.com. i have thought about it but people don't put their pictures in and maybe not their real name, stay away from them like the playing. but i have a good philosophy. i have the same philosophy in my 50s as i did in -- earlier when i met my husband which everybody is interesting even if there's not a love connection. it's nice to meet people and learn about them and care about their experiences and walk away and say i really enjoyed that, even if it's not an instantaneous attraction. so i try to have that kind of attitude now too. and katie is sending us some preview reports of the kind of things we expect to see on her new show. katie has this look on how
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identity thieves are ruining the credit history of people who aren't even old enough to have credit cards. >> do you know where your kids are going online and who they are texting on their smartphones. internet safety is a lot more than about stranger danger, although that's important. but people who don't have a credit history can have their credit ruined by cells. -- by criminals. it was explained to me. >> ftc looked the at it and they realized about 500,000 kids per year are getting their identity stolen. so there's this very active cyber crime economy and they decide they love kids' identities because nobody is tracking them. >> so what advice do you give kids so they don't become victims of identity theft? >> get the annual credit report so you can see that and freeze your credit. the second is all those pop-up things you get, these little quizzes and you might win an ipad or might not, all those things you are selling out, be
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thinking about who is collecting that data and where is is it going to go, and don't fill it out if you don't have to. >> and people may be buying that data, right, from other companies? >> exactly. >> "katie" debuts on september 10th here on abc and that previews at 3:00 p.m. come up next, the eigh [ taste buds ] donuts, donuts, donuts!
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this morning friends and family members of a former bay area tv reporter will gather at oakland's lake merit to raise money to help low income breast cancer patients. fay was a popular broadcaster. she passed away from 2003 after a long battle with the disease. and ever since friends and family have organized a fundraiser walk around the lake , lake merit, to help uninsured men and women facing breast cancer. it begins at 9:00 a.m. at the lake gazebo. there's a lakeview library branch. for more information or to donate, we have a link on our website abc7.com. let's check the forecast one more time. >> a nice start for all that bike riding, running today because we have the clouds here and temperatures in the 50s. we don't have the receipt to worry about and by the afternoon it's going to be another cool
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