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at the time, complaints about noise and garbage seemed to be big issues but now, two months after music died down it's about people who work the he scent still haven't been paid. >> i put video games back stage for artist entertainment. >> bottle rock own owes this man $2500. >> i dream of being paid. i don't know if i expect to. mine is probably the last person to be paid for entertainment. i'm probably the bottom of the food chain. >> we've heard a lot of talk about people owd money. some taking it through a civil process. >> estimates is that the promoters have $2 million in debt. several bay area companies have filed lawsuits, two have reported bounced checks, and the city of napa is still owd
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$106,000. today saying quote we're close to partnering with someone well known that would allow to us honor obligations and claims it ows him millions of dollars but the partners for that group says it overestimates sales and has been given a fall kting. >> we're not going let napa crush us like they crush wine. >> disputes continue, nathan can only wait. he has been owd $108,000. >> i hope it will get resolved soon but this is coming out, bad checks and fraudulent charges and lack of payment. it's just like anything once it goes through the court system, nothing happens too
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fast. >> tickets on sale for next year's bottle rock. i'm told city and importantly the state-owned napa elf po may not support the event if all bills to this year's event are not paid. >> laura, thank you. a girl being treated for rain ease after being bitten by a rabid bat at the oakland zoo. the apparently sick bat from outside of the zoo bit her. because it was captured the girl can be treated early. officials plan to canvas the zoo to distribute rain ease information kits. in case anyone else might have been infected. sheer look at the bat. a mexican free-tailed cat. they my great during winter time this, was the third case of the infection this year. >> breaking news tonight. police search for a missing 9-year-old boy last seen at
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home around 11:30 this morning arguing with his father about a pair of sneakers. his parents say he has no history of running away. and is nine years old, last seen wearing a black tee shirt, yellow skb green shorts and green and blue converse sneaker autos novato police are searching for a stolen bus saying someone took the bus around 2:50 this afternoon i was a 2003 owe ryan model. >> new charges for sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl and possession of child pornography have been filed against a child care worker in morgan hill. the 20-year-old faced new charges. >> the suspect had two more charges filed against him when he appeared in court. one alleges a sex wakt a child in the bathroom at ymca child
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care center on lacrosse drive. he worked here for summers in a row. the other charge is possession of child important grog yog graphy. >> charged with using a child, inducing a child to pose for child pornography, basically. >> l police say photographs were discovered on a cell phone. ymca has a strict policy of two adults per child. >> we still don't know how this could have happened but we're going to find out. >> police have identified four victims plus a 17-year-old not connected to the nc -- ymca. the ymca hired a private agency to determine what happened. the child care sent jer one of 108 operated by ymca silicon valley.
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the chief operating officer called him a well loved employee. >> we can't live in a bubble. you know? we need to put ourselves out there and look for the best. >> the prosecutor feels for lhermine's pirnts you find out he's been doing things that are horrific. >> the mother works for the ymca here in morgan hill, but not at the child care center. she's on a leave of absence n morgan hill, abc 7 news. >> more people are in the hospital tonight after a serious head on collision in san francisco. take a look at this photo of the accident posted on findery.com. you can see firefighters there clustered around one of the two cars involved this, is new video just in. the accident happened just after 3:30 this afternoon at hays and steiner streets. we apologize and are having
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issue was video. witnesses say one car may have been speeding. a bicyclist who struck and killed a 71-year-old man last year agreed to plead guilt dwree felony vehicular manslaughter. the district attorney says it's the first conviction in the country. but the cyclist won't do any time for the crime. vic lee is in the newsroom with details of the settlement. vick? >> d.a.says as far as he foes it's the first time in the country that a bicyclist has been convicted of vehicular felony manslaughter. he know there's will be critics to be sure he gets no jail time. he says this offender swril a chance to rehabilitate himself. >> i believe justice has been served. he has been held accountable. >> the district attorney said waits the right outcome. he had a a.agreed to plead guilt dwree felony vehicular man slaugtder. he and his wife were in the
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crosswalk last year when the bicyclist killed a 71-year-old man. police said security video taken from the tavern shows him going at a good clip. he was charged with felony vehicular manslaughter. gascone announced today he pleaded guilty in exchange for a thousand hours of community service and three years probation. the d.a.explains it would have been a tough case had it gone to trial. >> we have evidence to file this case the we we did. we also recognize that there were risks involved in trying this case. >> last year after the accident abc 7 news spoke with the news anna who runs the travel agency. she said the family was relying on prosecutors to dot right thing. >> the d.a.says her son is
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satisfied with the agreement. >> believe that incarceration would have necessarily provided a good outcome. >> gascone said conviction sends a message to bicyclists. >> i just need to understand they're held accountable to same standards anyone else operating vehicles i believe we've achieved that in this case. >> now after six months the judge can reduce felony to manslaughter if he is doing well. he'll be sentenced next month. vic lee abc 7 news. >> same-sex marriage faces another legal challenge. california supreme court rejected a request by san diego county to put a stop to gay marriage. the county clerk argued the supreme court decision on proposition 8 should only apply to alameda and los angeles counties where the couple who's challenged the ballot measure live. the seven-judge panel rejected
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the petition that asked for more information on the issue. >> and we may learn names of the officers shown in this video. today the state appeals court rule there'd is no reason to keep names confidential. several new organizations stopped identify tiz of the police officers interviewed about this incident. the union has 40 days to appeal. >> this week expect to see more law enforcement on interstate 80. there is a patrol crack down aimed at reducing avoidable fatalities. this effort stretches from here all the way to new jersey on i 80. we're live with more on this crack down. >> we're in oakland at the base of the bay bridge either the very beginning or end of interstate 80. if you get on 80 here east, you'll pass through iowa. and that is where iowa bat troll got the idea for the crack down realizing an
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increase on i 80 was in the their problem alone. >> expect to see more of this this week and if you take major thoroughfare beyond california borders expect to see more of other state law enforcement as well. chp says a study shows fatalities during summer vacation months. law enforcement across the country is working together to bring down those numbers. in the bay area we know 80 is a busy major east bay route. >> everybody is nauls a rush. >> chp says here, and beyond, 30% is related to out -- 22% speed related and 4% distracted driving. >> these include things that are avoidable. >> drivers being reminded to be on their best behavior you know families in the car so you didn't do anything crazy. >> yes. >> so...
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>> yes. yes. >> i you can't get in. >> this driver has a theory about how some of the leading causes of fatalities might cancel out. >> you're going to go through a windshield probably not going to make it. unless you're drunk. >> here i 80 is a major road but in parts of the country only two lanes each way l there are different driving styles as weston found out just moving here. >> there is a different types of driving styles. california is pretty good. >> pretty good but with room for improvement. >> you'll hear from the artemis racing team and a look at dangers of modern sail boat racing. >> we'll continue with clouds, sunnier weather sont way. i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up in just a moment.
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billion last quarter down 22% from last year. revenues grew but that is the lowest growth rate since the debut of the iphone. never theless apple stocks down almost $300 a share shot up more than $15 in after hours straiding today. >> during an emergency pleeting today the union high school district decided to sue to try to get students advanced test scores. the board threw out results of 324 high school students after discovering they were sitting too close together. school officials say students were supervised and confident there was no cheating. the tests when passed give credit without that, some will face more time in college. >> to pay $60,000 or $30,000 for another year or semester
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does affect me. >> students have been told they can take it again but the district is hoping to have this issue resolved within days. >> we received phone calls about a small earthquake in the north bay. our callers described it as a sharp jolt. no damage has been reported. >> turning to forecast now we've had muggy kind of overcast humid days here. >> it's moving out into our pattern getting back to a normal pattern that won't happen until tomorrow, here is a look. we do have clouds hanging around. low clouds, some mid level clouds and then, a moisture is there. you can feel it. over into sierra foothills enough moisture to produce sprinkles and we've had some
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sprinkles here but they've been isolated. downtown san francisco looking at clouds over the bay. 61 degrees in san francisco. 6 in oakland. 70s in mointin view. 70 in santa cruz. another live view, beautiful sky looking west. reflection off bay waters there. 73 napa. warm in fairfield and livermore, 83 degrees there respectively. and beautiful view of clouds over the bay from our mount tam camera. forecast features partly cloudy overnight. warmer tomorrow and mild to warm conditions into weekend so more typical summer like pattern about to assert itself. but notice this low pressure system moving away from the coast. our radar image counterclockwise circulation has been pulling this wrap around moisture and clouds up
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into central california and across the bay area now. we're going to get a different flow moving northward and evidence tomorrow as a matter of fact animation 7:00 evening clouds hanging around beginning to dissipate overnight. then, had sun burns through we'll find our self was sunny skies drier conditions by afternoon z of course, warming trend settling in. tonight mild with that flow of mild air coming in from the south. lows into and above 60 degrees then tomorrow, daytime warm up begins into south bay. sunny skies with highs into low to upper 80s upper 70s around san mateo. low 80s in mountain view. low to mid-60s on the coast. 70 degrees in downtown san francisco.
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north bay valleys mainly mid-80s farther north 90s in clear lake. east bay, highs range from 75 in oakland up to 82 in fremont. inland east way warmer with 90s in walnut creek. here is the accu-weather forecast. mild pattern stays with us warmest day thursday with highs into mid-90s, low 80s around the bay. mid-60s on the coast. lovely july weather coming our way. >> we'll take it thank you. >> okay. >> did you know san francisco is the biggest city without a consistent curfew? >> up next a proposal to do
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san francisco is the largest city in the nation without a standard curfew for parks. an advocate with homeless coalition warns of unintended consequence autos we'll see a displaced amount of homeless people to downtown streets because we zront room and shelters and then, back in the park. >> we have a huge problem with vandalism and dumping at night. in our parks. it costs our department more than $1 million per year.
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>> under the plan violators could be ticketed or face charges but the measure includes an exception for bicyclists traveling on sidewalks and streets throughout the parks at any time z speaking of parks supervisor mark farrell will announce a plan to provide free wi-fi service at 31 plaz dwras and space. >> tonight money matters a security upgrade. cisco announced a $2.7 billion deal to buy a company called source fire making pro doukts help fend out hacker attacks. ford said plans to hire 800 engineers this year because of growing demand for cars and said it would end a joint research project and develop systems for trucks and suvs on its own. >> wall street dow added 22 points today. wendy's shot up after
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announcing it would lower costs by selling 400 restaurants. and starbucks joining greek yogurt craze replacing cups with yogurt parfait was dannon. now, it accounts for a third of all yogurt sales. >> we have more still to come tonight in 30 minutes. former congressman anthony weiner confesses to another lewd sexting affair. >> here is the shot the world has been waiting for. brand new prince of camebridge making a campus -- debut. >> campus cops keeping a school safe
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yesterday. he kind of flexed his hands almost looking like it was waving at the crowd as the family walked out to talk with reporters. the new parents appeared happy and relaxed and said they're deciding what to name the boy. >> he's got a good pair of lungs, for sure. he's a big boy. quite heavy. but we're still working on a name. we'll have that as soon as we can. but first time we've seen him, really. >> he also joked his son has more hair than he does. they left for ken kington palace with an suv. stay with us for a special edition of 2020. barbara walters ampkors the royal baby, heir to the throne. how will he be influenced by princess diana. plus a look at his inhert tense and the kids that will be his play mates. >> new york city mayoral candidate anthony wean jer in
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full damage control mode again appearing with his wife this afternoon admitting he does exchange racy photos and text was a woman online. his latest corresponds reportedly took place in august last year, lasting six month autos there is no question what i did was wrong. this behavior is behind me and grateful she's worked through these issue was me and that i had her forgiveness. >> now, for her part houma says it's taken a lot of therapy to get over the incident but in the end she she's sez this is between her and her husband. >> i love him. and have forgiven him, i believe in him. as we have said from the beginning we're moving forward. >> weiner says he has no intention of dropping out of the race. you'll recall he resigned from congress after it was revealed he sent lewd images to several women. >> after obstacles yacht
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racing officials and fans are hoping america's cup starts to fick up momentum now. italian team's rudder was stuck in the mud. we're seeing a new evolution in yacht raigs because of record-setting speeds. mark matthews is live at the america's cup park with that story. mark? >> first america's cup i covered was in 1988. dennis conner raced in that one. at the time nobody thought that would happen again n dark ages the boats were mono holes and the guys in the back looked like this, older, heavier. they didn't have to be fast and strong. >> sort of lounge around and talk tactics but now, it's very, very different. >> how different? the youngest guys aren't the grinders but may be driving
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the boat. artemis's wing drim trimmer is the youngest on his team. >> giving kids the rungs at the moment. >> what is that like? >> awesome. you know? >> it couldn't be either wise. driving an $8 million boat across the bay, yeah, that would qualify as awesome. to be fit enough to do that, teams hired olympic trainers to run individual workouts for every sailor on board. >> we do a lot of fast work. agility. >> imagine running across a trample yeen going 45 miles per hour down a dumpy road. you don't want to think about where your feet are but your job in spite of the fact the wind is roaring. not a lot in common with boats of the paflt. >> sort of flying as opposed to up into a convention and then, as soon as you turn to go down wind it pops out.
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then you have a good feel for and good reflax flexes as to what is going to happen. >> that is why kids are driving the boats n this one it's a sea change in 162 year history. and we're the first to see it. >> mark, thank you. a group of african american sailors has gone to court demanding a chance to join the competition they filed suit claiming the yacht club rejected the application of their sailing cindy kit. -the case thrown out of court but an appeals court reinstated one of the claims. the group may seek an injunction that could delay the finals in early september. >> federal wildlife officials have come up with an unusual plan for protecting a threatened owl species and want to send in hunters to
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shoot and kill one type of owl so northern spotted owl can reclaim it's territory. the bart owl is listed as it's number two threat. igs u.s. fish and wildlife service will take a special exemption under the migratory bird act prohibiting the killing of any nongame birds. >> their patrol cars may be black and white but one new addition to the fleet is all about being green. as abc news reporter jonathan bloom found out koit have advantages when it comes to fighting crime. don't adjust your set. these are the quietest motorcycles you've seen. the only noise is this one. for police, they may be the best tool yet for curving
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crime on campus. >> it's smaller. it's more maneuverable and quiet. so we can approach people. >> this captain was hired to start a motor unit. could have gone with a sheet but went with these zero motorcycles made up the road. this model goes up to 75 miles per hour gets more than enough range for a 12 hour shift. officers aren't complaining. >> they move like any other motorcycle. especially downtown. we can get through traffic quickly and can get up and going when we need to. >> the bike as tract a lot of attention. police say it's the kind of attention they're looking for. everywhere they go... someone has a question about their knew nu rides. >> my favorite thing is
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answering questions when people come up and they're in disbelief there is a electric motorcycle. most people have not seen one. >> criminals may in the see one until it's too late. >> we do from time to time have crimes that occur. guys can get on motorcycles and they can sneak up on them, they can not be seen, or heard. >> still to come on abc 7 news bay area doctors using microwave energy to fight cancer.
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doctors refining a technique to kill tumor was out major surgery. for patients this new technique is proving to be life changing. >> up coming through. and up on the toe. >> yes. >> golf is a passion for gwen and her husband but discovery of a cancer spot on her liver force thord shift focus after surviving pancreatic cancer the news the cancer spread to her liver represent aid battle. >> at the time, it was almost
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you know like a death sentence. >> this is the liver this, bright spot is where some of her tumor has lodged into the liver and grown. >> glenn's doctor turned to her doctor. >> i could encompass this tumor plus tissue around it first, dr. wong uses imaging to guide placement of two probes into the tumor. >> no incision is necessary. just a couple small pokes into the skin. i bracketed this tumor with these two needle autos the device known as sertis 140 applies a gas heating sis imtim to the probes. dr. lakicky is director of clinical affair was the company that manufactures the
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system. you need to be able to put down a lot of power to treat the tumor he uses imaging to gauge how much of the tumor is being destroyed. bubbles produced by the heat are visible as a milky area. >> that gives me a good approximation of how large kill zone is. >> the team will confirm the area has been treated before removing the probes. >> thoughts? >> okay. >> this is great. >> for gwen it's part of a wider plan to fight her cancer. together allow herg to return to her favorite past time. >> i am enjoying life. my husband and i are getting back on the golf course. golf is our life. >> the research team hopes this could be applied to other
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imagine getting on your plane with a dog. not your own plane but a plane only to find out the dog didn't make it with you f you had your own plane you'd know where the dog was. >> in this case a military man got separated from his pet. >> michael finney got it straightened out. >> josh is a bay area native served in the u.s. navy three years, he was headed back stateside but after he landed he got the disturbing news about his dog. josh and his wife have had congo since he was a puppy. josh is a navy petty officer
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and has been stationed in guam three years. ina lives here in the bay area completing her nursing degree, gt word josh was being transferred stateside. >> just amazing i run out and give him a hug and never want to let him go after that. >> it's okay. >> when landing he twont reunite with his best friend. >> they said he wasn't there. and they didn't know where he was. >> i was thinking someone forgot about him. >> josh felt helpless waiting for news about congo. >> we were -- he's like my sochblt you know? my best friend. >> i called and i kept calling and was on hold for hours. >> finally friends suggested
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the couple call 7 on your side. they did. we contacted united within hours, the airline was able to locate congo. congo found in high high united told us we aim to offer our customers service and refunded him that fee. >> and he was happy and seemed fellwell fed. they played with him. >> he said several employees went above and beyond to help find congo. the couple was thankful for 7 on your side. >> and definitely 7 on your side. if it wasn't for them we'd probably still be looking for congo. >> according to department of transportation six dogs have been reported lost in three and a half years in this case united says a paper work snafu
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caused the mishap. congo went to a nicer vacation spot than i did. >> he was at a lauau. >> grape growers say they're facing one of the earliest har vests because of the dry, warm winter. some say the harvest could come three weeks early this year. grapes in parts of the valley have begun to show color. an early harvest is hardly normal. it happens only about 10% of the time. >> and a man who knows his wine. >> you bet. >> they'd be making earlier visits this year, here are is a time lapse view. clouds traveling over the bay they continued their journey throughout the day will be out here by tomorrow. here is a look some low clouds around but no precipitation at the moment and don't expect any tomorrow. state wide a mainly dry day and warm one.
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there will be few spots into higher terrain up north. there may be showers. highs into 90s in chico and sacramento. here in the bay area, high temperatures mainly into 70s to around 80 or low 80s, mid-60s on the coast low 90s inland. here is the accu-weather forecast. cooling friday. temperatures dropping off inland over the weekend. nice pattern into next week. >> the sun will return. >> yes, it will. >> and we'll cheer it. >> yes. >> don't forget watch abc is a new way to experience abc. you can enjoy your favorite programs on your smart phone, tablet, computer. both live and on demand. >> this is a special benefit brought to you by abc comcast
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and at ask tu verse. go to abc 7 news.com and find out how to access watch abc. next enter your account information and then go, to watch abc live stream or you can search watch abc to down load the app. >> sports is coming up next. and this is a weird deal tonight. giants home team and road team. >> all in one day. >> they will change uniforms. let's hope game two goes better than one against reds. sports is coming up next. >> hey, everybody. want a smart solution for a commute? check out abc 7 news.com/contest. you can driveway with a new smart car we'll announce the winner friday, august 2. so be smart and enter now. enjoy news and live traffic ñzñt
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upfor the july 4th game that was rained out. lefty just called up underwent tommy john surgery. still trying to get back to his former self second inning hangs a slider. they brought eight batters to the plate in the second. eight more in the third. gone, again. reds just feast on giants pitching. opposing pitcher is a little bloop makes it a 7-1 game. a run-scoring single. more of the game another bomb, 9-2 reds right now. giants will be the road team in the night cap. which can't be worse than this
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one. brandon moss a liner off the mat of matt dominguez. bases loaded one out, moss a roller to atuve. donneddaldson tagged out there. a's take a lead and now they're in the 5th still clinging to one-run advantage. and now a $100 million man, red sox agreed on a seven year contract extension with mvp dustin pedroya. it will pay the second baseman roughly $14 million through 2021. 34-year-old jermaine o'neal says he has gas left in the
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tank playing with the suns last year averaging eight points and five rebounds a game. o'neal came into the league as a teenager out of high school. warriors will be his 17th in this, his 18th season. >> when you play as long as i've played it's all about ending it the way you want to end it. it's about the player. you know? if you can wake up and look and say you know what i did? all i can do. and feel good b.it. that has been my focus you know? last two years. >> nfl training camps opening this week. niner veterans will report tomorrow. rookies like eric reed are already on the field. and feeling behind. >> they're fine guys when veterans get out here they're
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knowing what's happening before it happens so i have to get up to their pace. that is why i'm glad we've got three weeks before preseason starts. and hopefully i can get adjusted to the speed. >> mr. obama with good natured rib goinging on. among gifts a jersey and a louisville slugger bat pit continueo says can be used in hostile press conference situation autos we got a chance to cap off a great season and meet' president that is well loved so we're excited one thing is missing is if michelle was here they'd be off the hook. >> everybody wants to see michelle. >> yes. >> and just got word giants will be visiting the white
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house monday. >> cool. >> join me tonight at 9:00 how one town is about to get an artificial sun. >> then at 11:00 getting suns off the streets. two guys using internet to make the bay area a safer place to live. >> that does it for this edition of abc 7 news. thanks for joining us. >> from all of us here have a good night.
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this is "jeo" introducing today's contestants -- a project coordinator from chicago, illinois... a fundraising intern from palo alto, california... and our returning champion, a preloader from sheridan, wyoming... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to "jeopardy!" a last-second change of mind in final jeopardy! is what enabled patrick geary to win over $23,000 and become our champion on yesterday's show.
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will it happen that way again today? let's start finding out as he faces sarah and david. welcome aboard. here comes the jeopardy! round. and here come the categories for the three of you. next we're dealing with the biblical jacob. alex: patrick. let's go with the americas for $200, please. david. what is british columbia? yes. a son of jacob for $200, please. david. who is joseph? correct. a son of jacob for $400, please. david. who is benjamin? righ $6aplease. jacob for , david. what is reuben? good. please. david. of jacob for $800, what is reuben? good. please.
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