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>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> bad discovery at a goodwill warehouse. thanks for joining us. >> terminators are set to help root out bedbugs after they are found at two nonprofit facilities. we we are in burlingame good will with the latest. >> they found the bedbugs in the warehouses. not the stores. the stores are still open. customers are stillshipping while officials try to figure
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how to make the god will bed bug-free. workers at the goodwill discovered bedbugs in san francisco and burlingame warehouses. some of the customers find the news unsettling. >> shocked. i mean...they should be checking their stuff. if you are selling to the public. >> an terminator says what shocks him we don't hear about this more often. >> it is so widespread much we fine evidence of bedbugs in hotels, in movie theaters, planes, trains, boatses, everywhere. we do cruise ships, we do libraries. >> spokesman says that the nonprofit has thrown away enough donations to fill a tractor trailer. he says they also steam cleaned hundreds of items. they plan to bring in an
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exterminator today with a pest-sniffing dog. >> just lick a drug dog, they will identify where the issue is in the facility and it can be addressed locally without doing the whole facility. the dogs are very impressive and they can detects up to one bed bug egg. >> this will cost the agency hundreds of thousands of dollars because selling donations makes up 80 percent of their income. officials say they have not found bedbugs any of their stores. the terminator says you should inspect items like bedding or tables for bedbugs before buying them. >> he says check the cracks because the bugs tend to hide. they say please hold off on donating for a week or two. they are going do need some time to get rid of the pests and get up and running again. breaking news from san francisco, police have made an arrest in the brutal robbery and
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betting of a woman during pride weekend. we have video of attack. it is very graphic. 23-year-old was taken into today last week. police say he attacked and problem add 28-year-old woman on market street during early morning of june 30. they used this horrifying surveillance video to help identify the suspect. police are investigating whether he was involved in other robberies and attacks in the area. >> developing news from nevada, a small victory for o.j., the former nfl star has been granted parole but he is not getting out of jail. the 66-year-old seen last week at hearing got parole for some of the convictions for remain ad robbery and kidnapping from 2008. he faces at least four more years in prison on sentencing that remain ordered to run consecutively. police are looking if witnesses in the case of a man shot while driving through hair -- hayward last night. the victim was found after he
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crashed in other cars. he told police he was shot a few blocks away. he is in critical condition this morning at a hospital. >> man and woman are in the hospital this morning with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed in golden gate park at 2:30 this morning just snowed the east end of the park. the victims were stabbed in the cleft and stomach. police are looking for the attackers described as two men in a maroon car and one of suspects has dreadlocks. new this morning the oakland city council passes two controversial new laws aimed at making the city safer but some don't see it that way. we lend about the battle at city council. >> as you will see and hear in the recording of the meeting people were shouting down speakers as they defend the two measures. one makes eight crime to bring a tool of violence to a protest. the other expands the use of surveillance cameras. after midnight they passed the
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first of two new laws. motion passed. >> that was in response to the plan to build a domain awareness center, a central hub for surveillance video. cameras already in place at the pot of oakland will be re-purposed to cover other parts of the city. homeland security is giving oakland $2 million to make it happen. >> the most important purpose of the senator is to save the lives by coordinating real-time information to our first responders. >> there was a lot yelling and public comments. >> when we are in public in our city we should not worry about being watched. >> and the second ordinance that passed at 1:30 this morning. the oakland police can detable a protester caught carrying a tool of violence at a demonstration. such as hammers and bicycle looks, items we saw used this month to break windows and smash a waiter in the head during a march for florida teen trayvon
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martin. >> some of us come to trash and hurt others and we are making excuses about what is happening. we buried a young girl. tomorrow it is a grandmother. >> councilman introduced this ordinance and the aclu says it is too broad the way it describes this. >> it is not unusual for me to have a screwdriver or hammer in my backpack. >> it passed 5-0 with several absent or abstaining. >> this morning, two california men suspected of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and keeping her as a sex available are due in federal court in san francisco. authorities say the 30-year-old >>brian: and 24-year-old patrick pearmain kept her in a metal storm box and kept her in
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captivity for three weeks if lake county in april. authorities say the victim was sexually abused and force to work as a marijuana growing operation. a judge said to appoint an attorney to defend the men at the hearings. >> now the bart strike threat that could happen on monday. right now, bart officials and union leaders are back at the bargaining table. we have new video of negotiators arriving in oakland for talks this morning. the two sides are stuck on wages and benefits. that means the threat of another strike is still very real. our media pan, the mercury news, reports that transportation officials are wanting the number of overall commuters could jump 10 percent because many were on vacation for the 4th of july. sunday at midnight is the deadline and the unions will give 72 hours notice if they plan to strike. >> shifting gears, the bay area little league team begins a new quest and an excited peninsula community came out to dear them
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on this morning. abc7 news reporter matt keller is there. >> rally and fundraiser were held here and you can see how successful it was. the boys left about 45 minutes ago and any are headed south hoping to make history. >> pressure? what pressure? the all-stars will shine in the national spot light, but they are still just kids. the team is made up of 12, 12-year-olds and one 11 years. they have grown up playing together dreaming of making it to the world series for kids. >> we could go on in a conversation for hours and have fun. >> this is the last game layed by the belmont all-stars, beating santa cruz to win the northern california championship to advance to the western regional. organizers say no other peninsula team has ever gone this far in the little league world series. we said from the beginning we were out to make history and
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they cooperated. they did a great job. big cheers from the crowd sent the boys on their way and the bus had a police escort to 101 with the final destination the city of san bernardino facing off the best teams from arizona, utah, nevada, and southern california and hawaii. >> we hope to compete in san bernardino. we have a pretty good chance of winning. >> the parents want them to swing for the fences. >> the goal is to win? >> absolutely. >> if they win the western regionals they will go to williamsport, the first game is this friday. on espn 3. can you imagine? >> we have more ahead. a submarine designed forant architect can cannot even make it out of california. why a deep-sea diver is
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serious charge, aiding the enemy which would have meant life in prison. he could testify today about his plan to expose military wrongdoing by sending classified information to wikileaks. >> an update from a story from a couple of weeks ago about an unmanned submarine being tested at lake tahoe. the submarine was going to explore lake tahoe at a depth of 1,000' but it had problems with the motors. it i don't not finish the dive. the testing would have brought us high definition images of the earthquake fault that could produce a 7.1 earthquake and 30' tsunami every 4,000 years. it has been 4,000 years since the last earthquake. the submarine will be sent to antarctica for research. >> facebook c.e.o. zuckerberg and investors have something to smile about for the first time since the rocky initial public offering, more than a year ago,
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they passed the $38i.p.o. rice and this morning the shares surged 2 percent at 3828 and it appears stocks are trading at $36 why 88 a share. >> soon, coffee will not be the only thing you can pick up quickly at starbucks, teaming up with google to somebody up the wi-fi connection at all 7,000 united states locations. google says customers can surf the web at speeds continue times faster than the current power by at&t. it will take a year or maybe 1 1/2 years to complete. >> meteorologist mike nicco and the wait for summer. >> keep waiting. >> exactly. i found it, and alaska is setting record highs for length of days they have had over 80. we need it to come become home. come home. i will show you that in the seven-day forecast and you can
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see more sunshine than yesterday. >> plus, lawmakers want to know what going on in our nation's airport, are t.s.a. agents literally falling down on the job? >>guest: i am leyla gulen your abc7 traffic reporter, if you have to drive, be smart the check out abc7news.com/contest right now and you could drive away with the brand new smart car. well announce the lucky winner on friday, august 2nd on the morning news. be smart. enter now. enjoy me for live traffic alerts an
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>> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area this is abc7 news. homeland security meeting will meet over reports that some transportation security administration agents could be compromising airport security. several lawmakers are accusing the agency of letting the employees get away with violations such as stealing from passengers and sleeping on the job. a report by the government accountability office released year found cases of misconducts in the t.s.a. rose 26 percent between 2010 and 2012. >> mother nature's fury and the beauty combined into one site yesterday looking at a waterspout here you can hear the thunder and the high winds, the national weather service received reports it lasted 15 minutes with damage reported at a motel.
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no word on whether the waterspout actually came ashore. that is impressive. we do not see tornadoes in the bay area usually, we were treated to this amazing sunrise, a time-lapse video from mount tamalpais camera at 6:15 and the sun is rising over the dense cloud cover. when will it go away? it is trying and doing okay. here on the bay. absolutely, a little warmer today. but when you follow me on twitter@mikeniccoipostalotofthe twitter@mikeniccoipostalotofthen getthemtofacebookbuticannot don natodaybutunthereareincredible su nrises that we get and maybe we will see some sun sets at the cost as we try to get rid of the cloud cover five miles visibility at half moon bay and everyone else is okay and you can see how the cloud cover as we look at live doppler 7 hd showing the clouds and the radar runs, just how much more broken it is today than it was this time yesterday leading to a
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couple of degrees of warmth today. small craft advisory on the bay waters and in the delta waters, also, today at 2:00, to 9:00 p.m. with winds up to 25 knots. we will see more sunshine along the coast and the winds are faster. we have a small craft advisory for northwest winds at 15- to 25-knots and from 5:00 this afternoon to 3:00 tomorrow. most of our wins are below ten miles per hour until you get to fairfield where it is 24 so we have a sea breeze blowing through keeping our temperatures below average today and right now, look where the sunshine is antioch at 76. 74 in los gatos, and everyone else in the 60's until you get to santa rosa at 58. and san francisco is 55. and half moon bay, the same with 57 degrees. the visible satellite, can you see how quick the clearing is taking place and the little tongue of dry air trying to get close to our beaches and bring us more sunshine.
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it made it down in san jose, a lot of sunshine, and a little bit of smoke but it continues to see a little bit cleaner air move in and the smoke is caught up in the northeast wind and moving to the northeast away from us. cloudy and misty tonight near the coast and it will be cool and it will be slightly warmer as we head into the week. today, the temperatures are one to four degrees warmer than yesterday, we are still a good three to eight degrees below average. here you go, a bowl of cold air moving over the to which us and because of the area of high pressure steering cool weather our way. we stuck in neutral and the pattern has not changed this week and it will not in the next couple of days. the temperatures will fluctuate but get used to this being below average and absence of summer. low-to-mid 80's around gilroy and mid-70's for the peninsula
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and millbrae upper 60's, though, and low-to-mid 60's along the coast and mid-60's downtown and south san francisco and sausalito. only low 60's at 9 beaches and upper 60 at berkeley and oakland, and low-to-mid 80's into the eat bay valley. day game, grab the sunscreen, it will be bright. mild. 63 at 12:00, and a's and blue jays and 69 by 3:30. we have soccer match at at&t park tonight at 8:00 and make sure you have your sweatshirt with temperatures in the 50's. the seven-day forecast shows temperatures are steady through sunday and slightly warmer. >> the watch abc live stream is now available in the bay area, and abc7 is the first local station and abc is the first broadcast knit work to bring a live stream of your favorite abc tv shows. you never have to miss a minute of the news and shows you love
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>> this afternoon at 4:00, new revelations of princess diana's secret love affair that wasn't an easy relationship. and at 5:00, the local blood drive taking place today where a bay area leader hopes to lit the ban on gay men becoming donors. >> they are coordinates and entertain the crowds at sporting events. to do that it takes practice. we are not talking about the athletes, but the mascots. they travel to mascot camp. they have to prepare for their upcoming sports season. the camps are a way for mascots to learn new moves and network
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[cheers and applause] >> hello, everybody, and welcome to millionaire. today's first contestant, believe it or not, has tried out more than eight times to be on our show, gone to six different cities. it was his ninth try in toledo, ohio, that got him here today. from east lansing, michigan, welcome, the very persistent dave ellis. hey, dave. [cheers and applause] my, gosh. nine times altogether. >> nine times. >> six different cities. kept getting the rejection letters, the cards we give to you. >> brought 'em with me. >> you brought them with you here? so you saved every one? >> i always took one with me as motivation for the next time that i took the test. say, "look, i'm gonna show you guys. you're gonna pick me one of these times here." >> and look at you now! it paid off. >> now i have the ninth postcard that says, "congratulations. you're in the pool." and now i've got something even better.
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