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some say it's not enough eeky ceaseos beings to recycle an iphone can get you $274. to prevent thiefs from cashing in, the company installed security systems. cameras take a photograph and a thumb print is required. transactions are monitored from the san diego offices. we spoke via skype with ryan kooter. >> there is a problem if people don't match that transaction. >> but with epidemic of thefts some agencies are worried they're becoming ropositories for thieves. >> thiefs can get rid of the phones quickly the one at the
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san francisco shopping center has received some 5,000 electronic items and only three were found to be stolen but there may have been many more that were not reported by the victims. >> that is correct. it's difficult to determine whether it's been stolen. >> last year the shopping center said no to a kiosk because the company couldn't get a business permit. police tell us they concluded they violated state bigs and professions code because there is no attendant the mall about d.allow one of the kiosks. but say thieves can use fake picture ids and thumb prints may be worthless.
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>> you can put it on the screen but not in any law enforcement data bases and it's difficult to match up. >> they say having a deterrent is the best. they are working to improve their security. carolyn? >> thank you. we have new details about the hepatitis a outbreak linked to contaminated frozen berries. and are warning they may have been on east 14th.
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target saying we apologize for any inconvenience and concern this issue may have caused. goits ton say regrettably we're not aware of our pharmacy staff members conditions and one customer told abc 7 news she's not taking chances. >> i just gt off the phone with the doctor. he wants me to come in tomorrow to get hep a vaccine. >> target says they'll pay for that? >> that is right. >> the outbreak linked to this frozen fruit mix sold at costco stores. the company behind the berries issued a recall today, more than 30 people have contracted the illness including three known cases in the bay area. latest announced today is a 22-year-old woman who has been treated and now recovering. >> a crash killed a 2-year-old boy and injured parents and still is a major thorough
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fare. sky 7 shows police investigating the crash scene where a red honda struck a tree at speeds estimated up to 100 miles per hour. police say the toddler was thrown from the car and died from the scene. >> the female passenger had to be taken out of the vehicle and immediately transported to a trauma center in critical condition. >> i looked to see if she's okay. she was not unconscious. she was kind of breathing. not really. >> police say no pedestrians were injured. the lanes could reopen soon but so far remains shut down just devastating scene. sad n oakland a drive by shooting and a terrifying crime that had people diving for cover.
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>> good evening. source was the police department tell me that the man they believe is responsible for a violent crime spree through parts of east oakland is still at large. >> this is one here and here. >> bullets that hit the convenience store sent everyone rung for cover. >> all of a sudden shots go o i ducked down. and the car took off. >> the security video that you'll see only on abc 7 news police say their suspect is driving this stolen green nissan. police say he hit the target. >> the suspect shot his ex-girlfriend. she's listed in stable condition and then, later shot the father who is also listed in stable condition. >> their suspect crashed into this light pole. air bags and a busted window
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bullet holes and keys still visible. some of the evidence police hope will lead them to the gunman. >> we've had everything from helicopter to ground units and canine. we're still following up and searching area autos police say they know who they're looking for they've chosen not to identify him to protect both investigation and identity of the shooting victim. >> disturbing testimony in a courtroom today. a father of a young woman gang raped took the stand, zrik whabd to his daughter in 2009. a father'sing aony describing how his teen daughter was beaten and raped.
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he was on the way to pick up his daughter he testified he received a call from the cell phone but a male voice on the other end. your daughter is a great expletive. you do realize your daughter was not at the dance. the father told jurors quote a police officer addressed me by name. can you describe what your daughter was wearing? i started to buckle because i hadn't given my name. the defense attorney for one defendant told his injury the kplint may have been there but evidence will show you r.did he not rape the girl if it looked like he did. >> i expect one hit wit is going say he may have jumped down on top of her while on the ground then said nah. >> saying the dna on a condom wrapper and witness testimony will prove it. >> he was running around the
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area saying where is that condom? where is that condom? searching for a condom that he had used by misplaced. >> at the close of testimony today the prosecution showed disturbing photos of the young victim draped over the support bar of a picnic table, her purple dress hiked up over her waist. police launched an investigation into a traffic stop. a 15 year veteran of the force is highlighted in this group picture and was pulled over last week in the bay view for not knot having license plates on the car. and instead asking if he was on parole. >> those are lightning rofd comments because they speak to a form of racial stereo typing
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in a neighborhood that presumes everyone is on probation or parole. >> adamson says he was a victim of racial profiling. >> a question regarding parole sattus indicates what an officer is allowed to do more than the officer might be able to do in the way of a seech officer adamson is on disibility leave and not been charged but could face several misdemeanor autos for the first time since the death of a team member the artemis racing team was back on the water today. the team took to the water to practice for the sailing competition. the first time since losing one of the sailors last month. they have not decide wld to compete in the america's cup saying the team will only race
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if sailors feel it's safe to do so. >> still ahead tonight a lingering controversy why one popular susan gkomen walk has been canceled in san francisco. >> and how a local park ranger came to the aid of this majestic bird. a rare bald eagle sighting in the north bay. >> a new hap app bringing sounds to your twitter account. 7 on your side coming up. >> some heat is headed
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>> this month's three day walk for the cure will be the last one a cording to a post next year's walk has been cancelled explaining the decision to exit san francisco and six other markets made because of declining participation. komen's president stepped down. >> a start up company is being sued by the city of san francisco for trying to avoid free fees. flight car allows passengers to rent out their car. the city says the company should pay the same fees but the founder says the service operates off site and should
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not have to pay any airport fees. sim already services have been ordered to top operating until the public utilities commission can decide how to regulate them. >> happening now largest union of electrical 1021 holding a strike vote tonight where the stuns will meet the union represents 2500 city workers. the yun union says there is at least a $57 million surplus. >> there is no need to mistreat employees any further, we can have police officers and good services in this city. >> city officials have to the yet responded to our requests fr a response to this but the city has said it faces a deficit. >> san jose taxpayers may be
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asked to pay extra for overdue work the city has been delaying for years. san jose released it's yearly backlogs. there are $909 million worth prof jekts that are now on hold. >> that is going to be a challenging conversation because voters are paying more and more taxes these days so we've got to have an honest conversation in terms of what they expect. and what we can deliver. >> still officials maintain public safety is the top concern. city council scheduled to take action during tonight's meeting. >> apple making its case for building new head quarters in cupper tino. the company hopes to
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consolidate offices in a giant new head quarters in a that looks like a space ship that would have 2.8 million square feet. apple intends to increase payroll from $2 billion to $2.9 billion. purchase woz increase from $5.9 billion to $8.6 billion. and property tax going from $25 million to more than $50 million. apple promising to pay for upgrades bike facilities, parks affordable housing and alternative program. >> a quick thinking park ranger being credited with saving a bald eagle from danger this week. this is a photograph of the adult eagle found in distress next to a fence along novato boulevard.
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saying it appears to be traumatized. >> trying to get away from traffic and stap trapped up against the wire fence. looking like he just wanted to get away. from the side of the road. >> lopez says the eagle with an eight foot wingspan kept hopping into tall weeds. and finally it took flight and has not been seen since. so it seems it's on the way and doing okay. what a beautiful animal. >> gorgeous. >> spencer christian is back now. >> heat come something. >> yes. it s just days away. whit gets here we're going to be worry, maybe. that right now we have mainly clear skies inland. low clouds along the coastline. clouds making a push now over
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the golden gate that women continue there. is a wind advisory until 10:00 tonight for this area near the delta and elections like vallejo and antioch. winds will be gusty there until that expires now, we're looking at gusty winds 24 miles per hour in hayward. 22 in mountain view. nothing close to 40 miles per hour gusts being measured now at fairfield so it's windy out there. a live view now from mount tam. you can see low clouds drifting through moving over the bay. reefdings 59 degrees in san francisco. 68 in mountain view. 66 in santa cruz. another live view from our camera looking towards west northwest. you can see low level clouds as well. western sky it's 64 now in santa rosa. 71 in los gatos.
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may see blue skies here but low clouds drifting through as well. forecast features like like this, wide spread fog prevail. cool to mild and warm to hot conditions arrive friday and saturday. it will be pulling away from the coast but it is a cooling influence around the bay area. a marine layer 2,000 feet deep across the bay and inland areas so temperatures did not rise very today. fog pushing inland overnight tonight. and we're looking at areas of reduced visibility. lows will be into low to
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mid-50s. starting at 5:00 in the morning fog starting to pull back. so sunny across the county area and still cooler an average. upper 70s to near 806789 tomorrow's highs into the south bay, mid-70s. and upper 50s to just above 60s on the coast. north bay highs low to mid 70s and inland east bay upper 70s. this is inland highways up to 98 degrees then dropping off sharply. >> thank you. >> nice timing. >> yes. >> enjoying the weekend. >> yes. >> coming up next some people
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mom... yes honey? dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that's heart healthy. [ dad ] jan? ♪ it's humiliating. an exposting intimate photos online. there are web sites devoted to something called revenge porn
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now lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties and there is a bill to make it a misdemeanor punishable up to a year in skbrail a $1,000 fine. >> they're concerned about going to jail. so this hopefully raises the bar for people to think twice about this behavior, it's ruining lives. >> other states have similar proposals only new jersey has a law making revenge porn illegal. >> tonight money matters legal set back for apple. international trade commission barred apple from importing older devices from china where they're made. the president can veto the ban. the dow jones has gone up every tuesday until now. the dow fell 76 points after news of a widening trade deficit. general moators went up stock in sales force.com dropped a
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bill bit after announcing acquisition of exact target helping businesses reach customers through social media. amazon planning to launch an online grocery service. sources say it will roll out in los angeles this week then in the bay area by the end of the year. 20 other cities next year if all goes we'll there seems to be renewed hope among people looking for work as the unemployment rate continues to drop. hundreds showed up with resume in hand. and companies looking to hire anyone from truck drivers to software engineers. 300 jobs being advertised. a temp agency says businesses are now hiring. >> they're looking to meet more goals and need qualified individuals.
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and to bring them back on to their teams. >> there is more still to come, just ahead sexual assault in the military, no one can decide who should be in charge of cracking down on it taking a look at the tornado that tore through oklahoma. it turns out waits one of the most powerful on record. >> also a technology expo where lines of reality are blurring tonight. a world of
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>> the military chief admitted they've neglected to stop the spread of sexual assaults today, they said they're receptive to change but drew a line at one bill. the top military officers knew what they're up against when questioned today by members of this committee. >> it's almost intolerable we can continue on this path by allowing commanders to be in charge. >> through a survey the pentagon reports that as many as 26,000 military men and women were sexual assaulted last year. that is up from 19,000 the previous year. >> it's shameful. it's repulsive. and we're taking steps to eradicate it. >> command authority is the most critical mek mix for ensuring discipline. >> one sthor has introduced legislation to change that. >> not every commander
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believes what a sexual assault s not every commander can distinguish between a slap on the ass and a rape. because they have merged the crimes together. >> leading the charge has been jackie speier who introduced a bill against abuse in the military. >> taking these cases out of the chain of command has been done by great britain, australia. by israel. so not like we're moving forward in an area that is untested. >> a pormer marine describes reporting the crime to her commander. >> it's like saying a brother or sister assaulted or raped you and your father, or mother deciding the case. i don't think it's reasonable to expect that person can be impartial. >> and republican senator
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expressed concerns about making changes to the military command structure and is a member that have committee but the bill inintroduced has bipartisan support. in newsroom abc 7 news. >> thank you. abc 7 entered an edition of beyond the headlines to see goit to abc 7 news.com. >> and a colorado judge accepted james holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and charged with killing 12 movie goers and wounding dozens moyer in the rampage. also the judge granted access to a notebook holmes sent a psychiatrist before the shooting that reportedly includes drawings depicting violence. >> that killer tornado last
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week was more powerful than first thought. the national weather service rate that had twister an ef 3. now have determine thed it was an ef 5 with winds 296 miles per hour and cut a swath of 2.6 miles wide. six smaller radars were detected by radar. >> a veteran storm chaser got caught off guard last week. sheer his video. he didn't realize he's driving into a swollen creek. take a look at what happened. the car is swept away. a police officer had to pull the dryer to safety. >> well, a new audit shows pg&e has taken m in millions more than it spent on
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maintenance revealing over for man-sh more than a decade prior to 2010 disaster pg&e collected $50 million to upgrade national gas lines. taking in another $200 million for improvements but never spent that, either. pg&e says it remains committed to becoming the safest utility company in the nation. >> nasa scientists will monitor the sun with a satellite that shows views we've never seen before. that will allow how energy and plaza flows through regions of the sun. staff members will control the satellite. >> we have a telephoto camera.
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opposed to a wide angle lens wex look at areas of sun that the community wants to take a look at and investigate. they tell to us look at it for a day or two. >> this mission last twoz years with optns for two more years if needed. >> and this world the lines between digital world and physical one are blurring because of augmented reality. it's taking off. jonathan bloom takes you into the world of augmented world expo. >> it's not every day you go and get to spend a part of the day playing pool. circles and lines tell you where to aim. so even a klutz can look like a shark this, is alled augmented reality. and conference is the world
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expo now in the 4th year. >> a lot of the growth is because we see from the production stage. >> it's found a home in education. >> but the block comes to life. >> you can see we add to it. a green gas is put together we have solved. >> augmented reality is likely to change the way we work. that could be one of the first places it takes off. which bolts need to come out in which order is giving you safety message was the glass autos these epson glasses are one of a dozen worn on the
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face. including google glass. >> we estimate by 2020 a billion users are going to use augmented reality uk use your ipad to buy a sofa. >> so i can place individual items in the room. >> and see how good it looks next to that pool table. >> that sounds fun. >> yes. >> just head sounds of social media. >> that works so well. >> next, michael finney shows you the newest audio skpfs what makes it different from
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the near future we'll all issue sound bytes. robok allows users to send auto by way of twitter face book by a bobok feed. >> why is that needed?. >> you're seeing in your own voice. when you tweet. >> the founder and ceo is showing me how it works. watch abc 7 tonight and find out about latest scam hitting the bay area now we play it back. >> i'm michael fin eye. we watch abc 7 tonight and find out about latest scam hitting the bay area. >> so where did that go? >> on the main screen and shared on twitter now. >> it can be shared on facebook as well. the app is free and available
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on i tunes and is a hit with these students. >> channel 7. >> let's go. >> woo! >> okay here we go. >> beautiful. >> which would you twit using this? >> there are other services, audio tweet is one. shebet is another. it has ability to broadcast audio on its own platform. >> i was tweeting and driving. i put it by people goring to use tweets while driving andlp this is a great way. >> it will be soon embedded in
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new studies challenging believes about causes of acne and whether your diet can make the condition worse. >> every once in a while acne strikes. >> if they're deep they last from a few days to maybe a week. >> she notices what seems like a pattern between break outs. >> i love dark chocolate. i noticed when i have more on any given day or week, i do end up noticing a blemish or two. >> decades thought has been foods have no tloimpk acne. most dermatologists held to that view. but recently some researchers have begun to take a look at the eefdz there are two new
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studies question our old dogma l is really no corelation between diet and break out. >> perfect skin otherwise for that one. >> this san francisco dermatologist treats nelu and says the studies have yielded intriguing results. in one, researchers had test subjects inject varying amounts of dark chocolate and found acne increased and the increase was in pro portion to amount of chocolate they ate. >> i was quite surprised with the direct corelation. >> a second study examined blood samples taken from volunteer that's ate large amount of chocolate. researchers exposed samples to bacteria associated with w.acne they found changes in immune reaction. still, the doctor believes it's too early to draw firm
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conclusion autos the chocolate? is it gli seemic content? is it dairy? these are thing wez need to look at in more controlled trial autos she says she could be influenced but probably not enough to give up chocolate altogether. >> no. but... probably not consume as much of it. >> there is research into potential links between acne and diet in general. >> let's check on the forecast now. >> i'll show what you is going on. in the ocean water a beach advisory. for a long period of swell originating down into pacific waters so be aware of that.
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you may want to stay out of the coastal waters. weather is looking like today. we'll warm up on friday and thursday. highs into upper 90s and a sharp drop off. >> just a warm up thank you. >> let's turn our attention to sports and baseball. >> got milk? he's back this, time as the enemy giants fans going to cheer or are boo tonight? well carolyn is booing.
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players went on to win the world series. today, cab brera apologized to fans so will they boo him or cheer him tonight snoo he helped pus putt us into a position to contend from the beginning season throughout the end. so he wasn't there at the end, he's still something special. i believe how awesome our fan base is. >> and espn reports major league baseball could suspend 20 players for connections to florida-based bio again si sis -- genesis lab. and he shows up on the bay. a's, the a's jumped on brewers in the first. yo, highness a two-run blast.
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a's up 2-0. ryan brawn nice pitch in the 4th and just homered again. so a's lieding 3-0 in the 6th. the man once known as mangenius joined and brings 15 years of coaching experience to the 49ers. he's been a head coach with the jets and browns. and was working for espn but excited to come back on the field. >> and i missed competition. i missed guys. close elements and players how they worked i know trent from my time in new york. and jirjs all of those different things is a huge market for me.
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>> reporting deacon jones passed away last night. jones terrorized quarterbacks in 60s and 70s and coined the phrase "sack". jones led the fearsome foursome with l.a. rams. he was 74. rarely have we seen roger fedderer looked like this. playing in a 36th major quarter final. bottom of the screen here flubs the forhand. this match over in less than two hours. match point coming up for songa here. songa sends the two seat home
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and the frenchman moves on to semi finals. serena williams getting her fingers taped up. ladies top seed controlling the first set. second set looking to go down the line here. the russian takes set two. here is match point as williams advances this sports report brought to you by orchard supply hardware. >> thank you. >> join me tonight at 9:00, cable channel 13 coming up then as travel season gets underway concern about fast food restaurants overseas. you may want to hold the ice when drinking in some areas. >> then on abc 7 news at 11:00 a delicate animal rescue. what it took to capture the brood of orphanned skunks.
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