>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. happening now, tense contract talks underway in oakland aimed at heading off another bart strike keeping their fingers crossed the trains will run had time next week. good morning, everyone. >> the strike dead line is midnight on sunday but there is optimum the trains could roll beyond that deadline if negotiators making progress. >> abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield joins us outside the talks. >> today is a big day in the

negotiations. they are going to tackle the tough subject of wages. we asked a union spokesman her thoughts as she headed into negotiations. >> can you tell us what you expect snowed. >> very important, we expect on get some work done. reach an agreement. >> can you give us a sense of some of the riders? >> we are doing this for the riders. you at the to sides are fall apart on wages, and offering 8 percent raise for four years and the union is asking for a 23 percent raise over three years and the contract that is in place is set to expire on monday, and bart spokesman said they are hopeful it will be resolved by then but today they are going to start planning for a possible strike. we are working with a huge regional conference call today and trying to get more happens on buses for the stations and we will add an extra location for

pickup and we want more direct service to the city with the bus services. last time we had some buses go straight to san francisco. we learned from the last time ought last strike was during the holiday week, the week of july 4 but commuters told stories of long lines for buses, clogged freeways and taking twice or three times as long to get to work. officials say they will try to improve the process of how they move people around without trains. they hope it won't come to that and we expecting another briefing on how the negotiations are going later this afternoon. >> bradley manning charged with giving u.s. government secrets to wikileaks organization has been found not guilty on the most serious charge of aiding the enemy. he has been convicted of five espionage counts, five theft charges and a computer fraud charge. this is video of manning

arriving at the courthouse in fort meade, maryland, acknowledging giving wikileaks hundreds of thousands of field report, and diplomatic cables and videos in early 2010. the charge of aiding the enemy could have landed him in prison if live. the sentencing begins tomorrow. >> the remains of a true her rove the korean war have finally come home to his bay area today as bay area family, 62 years after he died. the coffin of army sergeant first-class i don't -- gentleman >> at this funeral home the remains of of the veteran. the family never gave up pushing for self decades do bring the

native san francisco man home. the journey for army sergeant first-class joseph steinberg finally reached the bay area after he was missing in action for more than 62 years, a plane carrying his remains arrived this morning at san jose international airport. tineburg -- steinberg was captured during the korean war in 1961 and presumed died or killed in captivity. >> i'm kind mixed emotion. it has been 62 years. we grieved for 62 years. i'm elated. it is great we are bringing his remains home. >> a procession of venezuela on motorcycles and san jose police officers led the way on 880 to 17 ending in los gatos where the casket was brought out in silence. family members were then taken need and in private were able to see the remains of joseph steinberg. outside, we witnessed a special

moment between the patriot guard riders and his nephew. >> the cones extremely important to us and we want to give one to you and your family in recognition of your relative's service and sang -- sacrifice. >> we as a nation green with him. >> the prisoner of war announced the remains were identified may 30 of this year matching dan samples given by his niece and nephew. the family says their story should bring hope to thousands of others unaccounted for, from world war ii, and the korean war and in southeast asia. >> keep hoping. they are out there. they will find them. >> the funeral for the sergeant is on thursday at the golden gate national cemetery in san bruno and buried with full military honors.

>> new this morning, police are trying to figure out who is behind a pot growing operation inside a burned out home in visitation valley if san francisco. fire broke out at the home on tucker before 1:00 o'clock this morning and no one was home at the time. investigators found pot growing equipment in most rooms. happening now, voters in district two of santa clara county are casting ballots for supervisor with a special run off election. the winner will fill the seat vacated by george shirakawa who is expected to face sentencing in the fall for illegal spending public money. >> happening now in the east bay, funeral services are underway for an 8-year-old girl slot to death during a friend's sleepover after opening the front door at a friend's house two weeks ago. two other children and their grandmother were wounded in the shooting in the diamond district.

a $25,000 reward is offered for information leading to an arrest. >> today the oakland city council is expected to approve plans to set up an expanded surveillance video program using $2 million in federal funding and consolidate hundreds of camera fees away the city to a command post that is monitored by police and firefighters. the project is designed to help first responders find and deal with emergencies while in progress but privacy advocates worry about the abuse of the collection. >> a vandal caused the collapse of a radio communication tower in the east bay. we show you what is left of the tower at the park. police say it appears someone cut six support lines to the tower yesterday morning causing it to crash to the ground. officials say it is not affecting radio communications because other towers are used. the damage is estimated at more than $1 million. >> richmond is launching a ground-breaking plan to help

homeowners who owe more on their homes than they are worth. the city will buy certain upside down loans and will use the imminent domain authority if necessary to buy the loans. leaders will help the homeowner refinance their old loan into a new loan for the home's current value and that action could dramatically reduce the amount that is owed. city lowers say 46 percent of all homeowners in richmond are upside down in their mortgages. >> a report out this morning shows the real estate market in the bay area is hot. friend home prices have subjected nearly 25 percent in the past year. the biggest increase is in seven years more than double the nation-wide average of major cities which went up 12.2 percent. the s&p 500 index ranked metropolitan cities with san francisco seeing 24.5 percent jump from a year ago. las vegas reported the next biggest jump at 23 percent. followed by phoenix at 21

percent. >> next on abc7 news a rare look from inside a tornado. the stunning video from need the storm as it swallows an office building taken by workers would refused to leave. >> it is a european daredevil brings his

>> a tornado caught on camera in italy near milan.

the storm hit the area yesterday. you can see swirling debris. you can hear the roar of the wins through the windows. more lick a whistle. can you hear that? tornadoes are fairly common in italy as they it is in a transition zone between warm humid air and cooler northern european air. >> in florida, massive propane gas plant explosion was likely accidental and the fire chief says human error is likely to blame for the blasts. in orlando, eight people were hurt and four of them were critical. witnesses say the explosion felt like fireworks, one boom after another. >> new details on the deadly train derailment in spain. authorities now say that the train conductor was talking on his cell phone and slowed down to 95 miles per hour when he crashed, almost twice the speed limit. a spanish court says information from the black box data recorders revealed he was talking with a company official and looking at a document at the time of the crash.

the conductor faces 79 counts of homicide for each of the people who died. >> the 51st state could be northern colorado who are fed up with what they call a lack of representation in denver. issues such as gun control, water rights and education are driving the push for secession. even if people in colorado vote to split the state it would require an act of congress, lit rail, to make it official. puerto rico has toyed with the idea of becoming the 51st state. >> the skies of wisconsin have not seen this before: a adventurer made his first public flight in the united states, taking flight above the planes in wisconsin long side a bomber where a custom built suit to propel through the sky at 190 miles per hour with four evening ins and he controls it with a hand throttle. you can see landing is

different. he use add parachute. he described this as "total freedom," part of a demonstration at the week long air show in oshkosh a famous show theyfully in from around the world to attend. >> but for the landing part. >> he did land safely. >> a landing you can walk away from...is a good landing. >> a little fog? >> a little bit. hazy. we will talk about it. another "spare the air" but a health advisory is out this, and you cannot even see mount diabolo. we will talk about the fires bringing us that and if summer ever returns to the seven-day forecast. >> plus, the rumor mill is calling: could this be the first picture of a new low cost iphone? >> i am leyla gulen the morning news traffic reporter. want a smart solution if your commute? check out abc7news.com/contest and you could drive away with a brand new smart car. we will announce the lucky winner on friday, august 2, on

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>> covering daly city, dublin, los gatos and all bay area this is abc7 news. >> new details on what is reported to be the next new iphone. apple is ready to introduce a new low cost version. it will be called the iphone 5c with a plastic back cover. estimated cost is $350.

and new cases have already popped up on amazon. >> could we see another round of hazy skies like yesterday? fires burning in oregon made a mess of the skies across the bay area and the orange haze clouded oakland and the bay area air quality management district says that smoke moving along the california coastline is pushed inland by the winds. drivers on the san mateo saw this during the evening commute. haze levels will be high again today but not so bad as yesterday. i was bad. >> it was bad. if you can capture one of the pictures, send it in and make the best out of a bad situation. now, i will give you the set up and what happened yesterday. here is a look back at high resolution image you can see all the grayness throughout the bay

area and spilling into the central valley. here is the fire, west of medicine for southwest corner of oregon prevailing wind from the northwest sliding it down the coast and we make the left turn into the bay area and that is where the smoke went and it vented into the foothills to round its way back to northern california yesterday. no advisories today. we will turn our answer to the hawaiian islands with doppler rotating there and picking up a few showers although flossie has moved off the last island and is now down to 30-mile-per-hour wind. you can see the fastest wins there at 23 miles per hour in honolulu, only at eight miles per hour and at hilo at five miles per hour. it was more of a rain event. there were some power out averages but they are back

together. you can see the forecast is moving away and weakening so not a big deal unless you are trying to guilty there with flights still delayed. there is a recurring theme, the colder than average stretch with bay win at 15- to 25-knots from 2:00 to 9:00. the winds less than ten miles per hour but fairfield is at 17 miles per hour. the north bay, especially, look how stubborn the clouds are and the rest of us are slowly clearing from south to north and you can see where the temperatures have cleared and let to mid-70's at antioch and livermore. and 67 in mountain view and san jose and 59 in novato. san jose looks gorgeous and not so blue as we are used to but we will have beautiful sunrise and sunset with the below average temperatures and a slow warming trend and we will get back to average starting toward the

weekend. from emeryville this morning, our highs are from four to eight degrees below average. we will start in the south by where san jose is having 78, and that will be good gauge on how below average everyone will be if we still spree the area of cool air stuck on top of us through thursday and we will get to the 80's around los gatos and morgan hill and mid-60's around mill bay and san mateo and low-to-mid 70's for the rest of the peninsula and mid-60's in downtown and south san francisco and low-to-mid 60's through the north bay and low-to-mid 70's for the rest of bay shore and free air conditioning in the east bay valley up to the low 80's. the a's and blue jays, it will be cool start at 61 and ending at 57. clouds tonight and drizzle along the coast. temperatures are back in the 50's. temperatures fluctuate a couple of degrees on wednesday and thursday. you will probably not notice it. you may notice it friday,

saturday, and sunday when we fall back to average. >> the life stream is now available in the bay area the first local station with abc the first broadcast soviet work to bring a live stream of your local news and your favorite tv shows and now you never have to miss a minute. you can bring abc7 news wherever you want to be. it is a special new benefit brought to you by abc and comcast at no additional cost. you can go to abc7news.com to find out how to access to download the app. >> new video of the stars of the real housewives of new jersey entering court today on federal fraud charges.

authorities say one couple are charged with exaggerating their income while applying for loans and hiding their for tunes in a bankruptcy filing. they could spend 50 years in prison. >> this morning we have a new photo to show you of the first giant panda twins born in the united states in a quarter century. here they are. the photo posted on face book shows them sleeping. the 14 day old baby pandas are named cuba and b. very thoughtful. they have been growing quickly, and cub a was smaller and now is the bigger one by one gram. they still weigh less than a town but they could grow up to 250 pounds. no word on what their official names are going to be. >> they are cute. but i like the receiving blanket which is cuter. >> next, the most famous

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>> later today at 4:00, is it healthy with a legal battle brewing over vitamin water. what you should know about that. and michael finney did the homework for you, find out where you can get the best deals on back-to-school supplies. >> watch out starbucks, a new brand with a million fans is getting in the coffee game. >> it comes from a cat. internet sensation grumpy cat will have a bottled coffee drink branded with the frowning face

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