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good morning everyone. thanks so much for being with us on this saturday morning. it's 5:00 a.m. and i'm katie marzullo. we have a quick look at the weather with meteorologist with lisa. >> the big story is the wind, a regular flag warning in effect for parts of the north bay. 22 miles an hour oakland hills and up to 30 miles an hour around knoxville creek, so this is where we are looking at dangerous conditions. the dew point right now in santa rosa is at 8 so we have dry fuels, low relative humidity, temperatures range from the upper 30s to the low 60s right
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now. throughout the afternoon we'll be looking at numbers in the 50s and 60s and that wind it can to ease throughout the afternoon and a cooler night will be in store, maybe some patchy frost but we have some good news, rain will return to the bay area. we'll have a look at that seven-day outlook coming up. we begin with breaking news in sue knoll, interstate 680 is moving again after a fatal accident early this morning. the highway patrol lifted a special traffic advisory about 90 minutes ago after three northbound lanes were shut down since about 1:00 this morning, when a corvette hit a mini van that had stalled near vargas road. at least one person died at the scene. actually we know at this point it was a man in a corvette, an elderly man stopped to see if people in a mini van needed help. they had pulled over on the shoulder, and then a third vehicle hit that elderly man, killing him. things are back to normal at lax this morning after police evacuated and searched two
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terminals last night. >> everyone on the ground! everybody get down! >> this video shows police searching one terminal at gunpoint after receiving reports that someone had fired a gun and at the same time an anonymous caller reported seeing a man with a gun in a different terminal. police quickly determined both reports were false. what actually happened was a woman had a medical problem and crashed her suv in the front of terminal five. the sound of that crash and people screaming triggered the false reports of a shooting. >> and that made everyone think that there was gunshots and then somebody in terminal four call and said they saw somebody with a gun so they evacuated the terminal. everybody was outside and chaos. >> police say the evacuation was precautionary. the incident delayed 60 flights and impacted about 4,600 travelers, four arriving flights were diverted to other airports. this incident of course comes weeks after a deadly
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shooting at lax. it was november 1st that police say a 23-year-old paul ciancia walked into an lax terminal shot and killed tsa officer gerardo hernandez. ciancia is facing murder charges. developing news in milpitas, the embassy suites hotel remains open despite a stabbing. 30-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after being found on the third floor around 5:30 suffering from numerous stab wounds. police believe she knewer this attacker. they found evidence she was attacked inside the ninth floor room where she had registered as a guest. developing news from the north bay, wind gusts have spread a massive wildfire in sonoma county. the fire burned the cooling tower at a cal pine corporation geothermal plant. it has been evacuated. nobody's been hurt, but two plants have been knocked
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offline. the fire started at 2:00 yesterday morning north of geyserville. it has burned 2,500 acres. firefighters have it 10% contained. now to the bay area wind storms, people are still cleaning up after strong gusts hit the east bay thursday night. this is a tweet the picture from reporter heather ishimaru. our alan wang has more from oakland. >> reporter: a power line stopped this tree from falling into a house in oakland but crews just got to it. >> with everything that was happening in the city it was really hard to get through to emergency crews. >> reporter: meanwhile, about 170 customers in her neighborhood are without power. >> i don't want another cold shower. >> reporter: as bad as this neighborhood looks, oakland public works says it was not at the top of the priority list. roadways like this one at fifth
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and jackson had to be cleared before the evening rush hour. >> folks are using see, click, fix, an online application where you can use your smartphone and allow us to know where there are counsel downed trees. >> reporter: everywhere debris is pushed to the side of the road, even taking up parking spaces for potential customers at ledger's liquor store in berkeley. >> they said they had 130 calls and trying to and a half along and pick it up as they can. >> reporter: a 50-foot cypress tree is still leaning against this home in berkeley. >> if it was one story it definitely would have come through our house. >> reporter: tree clears crews are working quickly but safely. alanguage, abc 7 news. now is the time to inspect your trees before the next storm. if a tree in your property has been marked with a red "x" it's your responsibility to have that tree removed. thursday night's wind storm took
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the lives of two people in the bay area. in one case, a man was killed by falling branches on austin street near fruitvale in oakland. the tree had been marked for removal but never taken out been. >> it's dangerous, even the branches are still dangling even when there's a little bit of wind. they need to cut that tree down. >> the second occurred on skyline boulevard, a man apparently tried to avoid hitting a downed tree while driving. he wound up colliding with another tree in the center median and died. the winds took down a scoreboard at concord high school. students are worried about next year's football season. schooled amartors said they do not know where to find the money to fix it. 3,000 are in the north bay and power is still out for more than 1,200 customers in the east bay. get the abc 7 news weather app,
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it will alert you to power outages and severe weather. it's free. go to abc7news.com/app. secretary john kerry is scheduled to finalize an agreement on iran's nuclear program. negotiators are all in attendance. the international leaders have been working on an agreement to roll back iran's march toward a nuclear weapon, in return, tehran wants the nation to ditch the economic sanctions it claims are strangling the iranian economy. new this morning, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake has hit the south pacific. it happened around midnight our time, the quake could be felt in fiji and tonga. no reports of immediate damage. the pacific tsunami warning center did not issue a warning saying the quake was centered too far underground. a bay area man held captive in north korea may be the victim of mistaken identity.
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north korean officials admitted they are holding 85-year-old merrill newman of palo alto but there's another korean war veteran with the same name, 84-year-old merrill h. newman from oregon, that newman won a silver star for valor during the war. merrill newman's wife issued a statement begging north korea to release her husband. in the south bay the naacp will be teaming up with san jose state officials on monday to address racial tensions on campus. the meeting comes as a fourth student has been charged with a hate crime and battery against his african-american roommate. police say he and three others put their roommate's head in a bike lock, called him names with slave references and put nazi symbols and a confederate flag in their shared room. stay with the abc 7 morning news, coming up in our next half hour, south bay reporter david
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louie will bring us new details. this morning, convicted killer joseph naso is awaiting transfer to san quinn ten prison having been sentenced to death. at a hearing in san rafael he responded to the judge's decision with an indecent gesture. he was convicted of murdering four women. the judge called him evil and disturbed and told him the world is a worse place with him in it. the death toll in the philippines from typhoon haiyan is up to 5,200 people. two bay area nurses saw the damage caused by the storm firsthand. they just returned to sfo last night, after spending a week assisting with relief efforts. their task was to go into evacuee camps and set up operations for future volunteers. the nurses said the devastation is enormous. >> all of the homes have been blown away because they started out being built with light material anyway. the schools are gone.
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the churches are gone. >> we were dragging our feet when we left knowing there's still a lot of stuff to do. >> both nurses said they hoped to return to the philippines to help with the relief efforts again. this morning a san francisco zoo is remembering the small squirrel monkey that gained worldwide fame after he was stolen from his exhibit. banana sam has died from heart disease. the squirrel monkey's disappearance sfauned a social media frenzy two years ago after someone started a twitter profile on him. police found sam after a person saw him in the bushes in golden gate park. he was shaking, hungry, and cold. banana sam was 19 years old. poor little guy. 5:10, now looking at the weather we have serious stuff going on out there. >> we have a red flag warning to boot on top of the gusty winds in the north bay. isn't this nice, the festism, the holiday tree lighting will be tonight, the festival will be
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the master of ceremonies temperatures ranging from mid-50s here in the city but in the 30s out by the delta. we'll talk about the wind and prospect of rain when we return. also ahead remembering the jfk assassination 50 years later. the events around the country and here at home marking one of the darkest moments in the nation's history. plus an east bay teacher dealing with a personal family tragedy getting a boost from his
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. welcome back everyone. good saturday morning to you. the clock just turned 5:14. you are looking live from our hd roof cam at the ferry building and bay bridge. the lights are on until the sun comes up so we get to enjoy those at this early hour. we have some issues with winds in certain areas, so lisa will fill you in on that in a little bit. stay tuned for that important stuff. much of the nation pautzed yesterday to remember a turning point in u.s. history the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy. in dallas where kennedy was killed the city erected a memorial at dealey plaza with the final paragraph of the speech he was supposed to give that day. tourists paused at the kennedy gravesite where an eternal flame has burned since he was laid to
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rest in 1963. and here in the bay area, john f. kennedy university in pleasant hill unveiled a bust originally made for the jfk library in boston. a popular walnut creek teacher is getting a boost from a couple of former students from a tragedy. >> here get. >> reporter: in walnut creek lots of people know jeff loving simply as mr. loving. just after a trip back home last year from picking up their two youngest children from an ethiopian orphanage his wife brenda was diagnosed with terminal cancer. >> she made it ten months and you know, lost it. >> reporter: she passed away days ago ending their dream of raising their children together. this week, two former students decided to lend a hand. >> when i heard the news, i
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thought there's got to be a way for us to help. >> reporter: when they found out mr. loving would be raising four beautiful children by himself they decided to try to help out and launched a website to try to raise a little money to help out and just a couple days, look at the response they've got, they raised $12,000. ali walsh and lita ibrahimi own a local salon, they posted flyers for a full day fund-raising next month. mr. loving has always been someone they and other students looked up to. >> i think he's going to be just fine. i think he needs a little bit of help now it's a tough time. >> they were wonderful kids then and wonderful adults now and just wanted to find a way to help me so that's, i mean, it makes you feel great. it's incredibly, incredibly humbling. >> reporter: he says he's overwhelmed by the support from these two former students and the rest of the community. >> 5:16.
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lisa argin keeping track of the wind. >> not as windy as it was but windy enough there's a red flag warning in the north bay and it allowed the temperatures to stay mild in parts of the bay. delta the cool spot 37 you translate that to the bay area with all the wind and we are up to 61 degrees in santa rosa so it really depends on where you are, how much wind you're getting and we will look for these winds to continue throughout the day but they will ease up throughout the afternoon in the north bay but still until 5:00 you can see the camera shaking from mt. tam and this is y the national weather service has allowed that red flag barning to continue throughout the day today. 55 in the city. it's 65 in oakland. 41 in redwood city with low 40s in los gatos own an the coast a balmy 54 degrees and emeryville camera, pretty shaky. santa rosa 60. okay, it's 5:00 in the morning and it's 60 degrees there.
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46 in novato with 37 by the delta, 49 in concord. livermore at 43 degrees. as the winds continue to ease up, we'll have a nice afternoon, you can see how festive it looks here from the embarcadero and with our forecast highlights the gusty winds continuing especially in the higher elevations, the north bay, marin, sonoma, napa throughout the morning hours and the afternoon slightly less, sunny, mild for most and this will take us through tuesday. rain arrives on wednesday and it looks like it will be wet for thanksgiving. so here are the highlights then, you'll notice highlighted in red here, we could see wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour with low relative humidity, the dew point is at 8 in santa rosa, so if you think it's dry out there, you're absolutely right, and then tonight with the dry air mass and the winds backing off it is going to be a chilly night with some patchy frost. pretty dangerous still here and for the middle of november, late november, kind of interesting though we have a red flag
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warning so right now, wind gusts to 30 miles an hour up to the north, 25-mile-an-hour mt. tam, so we will be looking at the system could continue to sink to the south and high pressure pull away a little bit further. as it does that vacuum effect will get less and less but for the short term, the windy pattern for much of northern california and then the rain pretty soggy in southern california and we will look for the pattern to change come midweek so here's wednesday, into thanksgiving when this next feature dlingt larry strong, a half inch to an inch of rain is possible wednesday into thanksgiving. the game down by stanford with temperatures in the lower 60s, north east winds 10 to 15 miles per hour and the rest of the bay area, temperatures fairly uniform, 63 palo alto, 64 in livermore and the accuweather seven-day forecast shows the temperatures and the sky conditions staying relatively stagnant or nice i suppose right on through tuesday and here
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comes the change wednesday, thursday and after that looks like high pressure builds back. abc 7 news is another great resource to follow, following live doppler hd, and get video forecasts, spare the air alerts and weather tweets from your favorite weather team. >> power outages have been a big deal this week the last few days. >> it's still quite gusty out there. >> thank you, lisa. black friday is almost here. ahead on the abc 7 saturday morning news, 7 on your side's michael finney will reveal of so some of the doorbuster deals you can expect this holiday shopping season.
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it is a san francisco holiday tradition, and it is a cute one. check this out. macy's in union square with the help of san francisco spca unveiling their adoptable cats and dogs last night in the store windows, dozens of people crowded around to see the cute critters and of course they're looking for homes. over the past nine years the holiday windows have helped the sf spca raise more than $100,000 and find homes for more than 2,300 animals. they will be hanging out in the windows until january 5th. too, too cute. black friday almost here and shoppers have one big advantage this year, "7 on your side's"
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michael finney tells us black friday is no longer a one-day event. >> reporter: this is the black friday scene, shoppers turning into all-night campers, intent on getting the blockbuster deals. >> it's the one day all year where the tables are turned, and we aren't simply reacting at the last minute to marketing. >> reporter: that's brad wilson of brad's deals, who scans the marketplace for bargains. he says we have an advantage, ads tell us who has what deals and this year not all stores open at once. here is a place to start at precisely 6:00 p.m. on thanksgiving day best buy opens one doorbusters like this, a 55 inch lg flat screen television will be offered at half price, just $499. >> that's the lowest price we've ever seen on a tv. >> reporter: 10:00 a.m. friday best buy will offer any mac book air computer for $150 off, or you can get one of these
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microsoft surface tablets for $199, a savings of $150. >> there will be probably between 700 to 900 people in line. >> reporter: here at toys "r" us doors will open 5:00 bm thanksgiving day offering deals that last four hours. this leapfrog computer tablet for kids will be sold at half price just $39.99, until 9:00 p.m. ♪ this "despicable me" dancing day will also be half price at just $24.99. other toy deals last through the weekend, like this roadster half price at $49.99. patrick here gives the toy not just one thumbs up but two. here at target we found a $299 nikon camera that will tell for just $99 over the weekend. and target regulars might like this deal, a new ipad air for $479, that's a $20 savings and
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also comes with a $100 target gift card. macy's will be open on thanksgiving for the first time, from 8:00 p.m. through the night, deals include this $200 five-piece luggage set for just $49. this 11-piece quisinart cookware will be sold at half price just $99 and these $129 cashmere sweaters just 39 bucks. all these deals are offered while supplies last, but walmart is changing even that. here at walmart, customers who are in the store between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on thanksgiving day are guaranteed to get the doorbuster deals, if the store runs out of an item, customers get a voucher. walmart promises to deliver the product before christmas day. >> it's a little funky that they're doing it all within this one hour. the fact that they're offsetting that with guaranteed availability is big time in our favor. >> reporter: here are some of the guaranteed deals, a new ipad mini for $299, it comes with a $100 walmart gift card so if you
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shop there it's a big savings. >> looking at those crowds makes my head hurt and that was "7 on your side's" michael finney reporting. the saturday morning nuts continues at 5:30 with today's top stories including new this morning a visit to the beach turns deadly, a shark attack under investigation down under. and new details of a hate crime investigation at a so
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now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. enroll today at coveredca.com. happy saturday, everyone. it is 5:30 a.m. we start this half hour with a check of the weather. here's meteorologist lisa argen. >> good morning to you, katie. you notice a wide range of temperatures because the gusty winds, we still have not only some gusty winds in the north bay but a red flag warning here. look at the temperature in santa rosa, 60 degrees. it's 54 on the coast. but out towards the delta we are chilly n the upper 30s. so the rest of the winds around the bay area not quite as gusty, from south bay over into the east bay, but throughout the morning hours and even the afternoon we will be looking at some gusty winds, especially the
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higher elevations could gust over 50 miles an hour and we're left with plenty of sunshine and numbers in the 60s today. it will be dry for the first couple of days of the work week and we've got more rain to talk about. katie? >> lisa, thank you. developing news, things are back to normal at lax right now after two terminals were evacuated and searched by police last night. this video shows police searching one terminal at gunpoint after receiving reports someone had fired a gun. in another terminal a caller reported seeing someone with a gun but both reports turned out to be false. police say the sound of an suv crash at a terminal and people screaming were mistakenly reported as a shooting incident. the disruption delayed 40 flights and three inbound planes were diverted to other airports. in new york city, a man was injured after getting hit in the head with a knife at jfk airport. it happened yesterday evening. airport officials say two men started fighting and that's when one man took out a knife and hit the other man in the forehead. the victim is expected to be
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okay. no one else was hurt. no word on what led to the fight. new from australia, a surfer has been killed by a shark. it happened this morning off the coast of grace town. state police say the victim appears to be in his 20s, no word on the type of shark that was involved in the attack. the beaches though are closed to visitors. the area has been the site of three fatal shark attacks in the last decade. we're learning new details about three white san jose state freshmen charged with hate crimes against their african-american roommate. campus police discovered other hate material in one of the student's rooms. abc 7 news reporter david louie has the latest in san jose. >> reporter: the hazing happened on the seventh floor of this freshman dorm, a floor for engineering students. suite 704 was occupied by three whites and one african-american. the campus police report says last week the victim returned to the suite and found a racial insult on a dry erase board in the common area, it was the "n" word. when a resident manager contacted police, officers found
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nazi symbols in one of the bedrooms, and learned of pranks targeting the 17-year-old victim. the victim whose name has not been released told campus police he felt safe in the suite but would stay in his bedroom most of the time. the suite has a common living and kitchen area with four individual bedrooms and two shared bathrooms. the police report also details pranks such as hiding the victim's shoes. the district attorney's office has charged the victim's three roommates with commission of a hate crime and battery. we have confirmed one has surrendered. hose state tells us four students have been suspended. the victim's parents issued a statement saying "as a family we are deeply disturbed by the horrific behaviors that have taken place against our son. our immediate focus is his protection. we appreciate the outpouring of support from our family, community and the efforts of hose state university. due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation we are
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requesting privacy." one student claims she was the victim of racial hazing and even though she reported it she didn't think anyone was disciplined. >> one of them put dish soap in my juice and this was after me, after us having meeting with the rlc and the ras to address the situations that were going on and so after that, the solution was to move me to a different room. >> reporter: in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. the death of a santa rosa teenager is prompting new legislation to regulate toy guns. democratic state senator noreen evans introduced the act yesterday. the bill would amend the law to define an imitation firearm, what it is and what the toy guns must look like to different state them from real guns, the effort comes after 13-year-old andy lopez was shot and killed by a sonoma county sheriff's deputy last month. he mistook the toy gun for an
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ak-47 assault weapon. bart's largest union is considering legal action against b.a.r.t. management after the board approved a new contract agreement which ended last month's strike but it did not include a family leave provision. the union called the move unprecedented and illegitimate. b.a.r.t. management says the provision was mistakenly included. the bay area's dependence on b.a.r.t. was highlighted again yesterday when a computer problem shut down b.a.r.t. service for hours overnight and part of the morning commute. network server upgrade caused the system to go offline, stranding passengers. from southern california, a man who was missing for several days is safe and sound this morning. los angeles police found darwin vella yesterday after he flagged someone down on the side of a road. on tuesday he withent for a walk with his dog. he did not return home but his dog did, along with a bloody leash. police won't say yet if vella was kidnapped. he does have some ties to
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hollywood celebrities and was scheduled to testify earlier this week at a hearing for a man accused of bug lrglarizing the e of nicolas cage's former girlfriend. pixar has laid part of its staff in emeryville. fewer than 60 people were let go due to the postponement of its next animated feature. pixar is owned by disney, the parent company of abc 7. president obama says the u.s. economy is improving, even if it's been overshadowed by political gridlock and the messy rollout of his health care law. in his weekly address the president says jobs have been created, the auto industry is recovering and deficits are falling. he's trying to be upbeat in the wake of his administration's failure to create a functioning health care website. >> our businesses have created 7.8 million new jobs in the past 44 months, another 200,000 americans went back to work last month. the american auto industry has
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come roaring back with more than 350,000 new jobs, jobs turning out and selling the high tech fuel-efficient cars the world wants to buy. >> for the republicans, texas congressman mike burgess says the u.s. should scrap obama care and start over despite the president's promise, some people who like their doctor may lose their doctor. president obama returns to san francisco monday, the president will visit the betty aung recreation center in chinatown to push for immigration reform and he'll attend a fund-raiser at the sf jazz center. the president visited the bay area eight times in the last two and a half years. stay with abc 7 news for complete coverage of the president's visit monday. you can get updates any time on twitter. just follow us @abc7bayarea. tesla's ceo is charged up. the new vow he's making this morning as the federal government looks into the safety of his model "s" sedan.
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console complication, microsoft's brand new x-box is so popular t can't be found on store shelves but customers are already finding problems with the new system. taking a live look outside at 5:38 this morning from our tower cam, beautiful view of the bay bridge this morning, a little bit breezy out there. we've been watching this camera shake a little bit but not as bad as we saw
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the ceo of palo alto electric car company tesla says he's confident his model "s" sedan will be cleared by a federal investigation. in a new interview with the associated press, elon musk says he does not expect a recall. two battery fires occurred in two different models in recent months, large pieces of metal pierced the underbody of the cars. musk calls them extreme cases and added no one's ever been hurt in a model "sr" crash. microsoft has sold more than 1 million consoles in its first day of sales. some x-box owners are already running into problems. gaming blog reports some customer's consoles make a grinding noise when the system tries to read game discs. microsoft is not sure what is causing that. oh, so much disappointment for game lovers. it's 5:41, lisa with the weather. >> we have been so dry, the dew point is down to 8 in santa rosa, with the air temperature
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of 60. now i've been talking about that because it's so dramatic and the winds are still quite gusty in the north bay. from our roof camera is looks pleasant out there. still gusty, offshore winds, low relative humidities and the possibility of fire danger has aloud for a red flag warning, we'll talk about that and when the rain's returning coming up >> thanks, lisa. coming up first, phones on planes. the fcc says it may allow passengers to use them during woah, this k l! the tour. give him the tour. let me show you! soft-close drawers, farm sink! where's my room? we had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. because your kitchen dreams can be big. ikea has it all.
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cell phone calls during flight once the plane hits 10,000 feet. as karen traverse tells us the backlash has been quick and very negative. >> can you hear me now? >> reporter: that guy is ann annoying on the street. imagine him sitting next to you on the plane. travelers can use their electronic devices takeoff through landing but the friendly skies may get more noisy. the fcc is considering allowing cell phone calls on planes above 10,000 feet. the immediate reaction has been overwhelmingly negative. >> people are talking loud i think that might be disruptive. >> some things too personal and you don't really want to know. >> reporter: flight attendants say no way. >> a terrible idea, overwhelmingly passengers rejected that notion and flight attend ants don't want that on board either. >> reporter: if the fcc decides to change the rules each airline could decide whether it will allow calls. many are reluctant worried about
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passenger backlash. delta was adam ant no voice calls. the calls would be made but wifi, not cellular technology. airlines would have to install special equipment to give off the signal. passengers would most likely have to pay a fee to use the service but if you want to avoid the chat y kathy in row ten you have to pay for a seat in a quiet zone. >> if the airlines think they can make enough money off of this, they might go ahead with the plan anyway. >> reporter: even if the fcc approves the change it wouldn't take effect immediately. there would be a public comment period that could take up to a year. for now enjoy the peace and quiet. karen traverse, abc news, washington. so you can probably feel it out there, and that's because of the northeasterly wind so they're still with us and
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creating their own weather in some parts of the bay area, live doppler 7 hd this morning looking at some of the cloud cover that continues to push to the south and we have' got wind advisories across much of the state, but the one for the bay area has expired but we still have the gusty winds and the red flag warning until 5:00, and here's why. you can see the camera shaking from mt. tam, where we have winds in excess of 30 and 40 miles an hour, allow for temperatures to be mild. 55 in san francisco. how about 65 in oakland with low to mid-40s from los gatos to san jose but on the coast it is 54 degrees. so pretty mild there and here is a look at emeryville where we're looking still at some wind but not as bad as in the north bay, look at that, 60 in santa rosa. 37 by the delta. quite a range with mid-40s, napa, novato. concord good morning to you, 49 degrees. the embarcadero part of it lit up looking pretty nice this morning and we will look for the
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gusty north winds to continue throughout the morning hours. they'll ease throughout the afternoon leaving sunny skies for most over the next few days, actually through tuesday but rain arrives by wednesday into thanksgiving day so here's the red flag warning for marin, sonoma and napa, parts of the counties winds up to 50 miles an hour are still likely. now mainly in the higher elevations but even anywhere from about 800 feet at the surface we still have some breezy winds out there so you'll notice the mild conditions but gusts to 25 miles an hour around knoxville creek and you'll notice around the altamount pass and calaveras road things are calmer. the low pressure brought the rain, high pressure building into the north and the proximity of the two pressure gradients allowing for that vacuum effect where we get the gusty winds but the rain and inclement weather from southern california and into the mountains of the southland, so keep that in mind if you're traveling but for the next couple of days, very quiet
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until this feature moves on shore so it's going to be spreading a little bit of rain, maybe a half inch of rain, a little too far out to tell right now. beginning on wednesday, right on through thanksgiving, looks to be over by friday, the beginning of that long weekend or stretch of whole day for you. 42 in lake tahoe today. the wind advisory is lifted as a wind warning but breezy. 66 in fresno. san diego looking at some rain and we'll look for temperatures today in the low to mid-60s for most, and the winds continuing to ease up throughout the afternoon. so tree lighting celebration at pier 39, twith temperatures by 3:00 in the low 60s, dropping into the 50s so more typical evening with the chilly temperatures but notice, today, tomorrow and monday, not much change, even into tuesday, it's wednesday and thursday highlighted there with the clouds and the possibility of rain into thanksgiving, and then
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clearing for the weekend. so doesn't look like a snowmaker though but you know, boreo is always open. >> people have an excuse to stay in and eat, no exercise required. thanks, lisa. in sports, big game today, stanford versus cal, the cardinals heavily favored. you never know what happens when the two teams get together and the warriors plagued by injuries in l.a. >> good morning, everybody. seth curry sat out the second straight game for the warriors in l.a. and much worse, andre igoudala got hurt and it looks bad. curry in street clothes, still experiencing headaches after the concussion earlier in the week. the throwdown, second quarter, barnes and bogart, big man show and go.
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gasol puts him in the torture chamber, up and under, lakers by nine at the half. igoudala felt his left hamstring pop and can't walk. he could be out for a while. in the fourth nick young the night of his life off the steal coast to coast, warriors drop their seventh straight to the lakers in l.a., 102-95 and we'll see what the story is with curry and igoudala going forward. can cal shock the world and upset stanford in the 116th edition of the big game? the cardinal listed as 32-point favorites going in. stanford's won three straight games, face a struggling cal team, 1-10 on the year, allowing 44 points per game. the question for stanford, can they get up for a cal team after having seen the rose bowl hopes vanish in the lost to usc last week? the bears looking for their
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first elusive pac-12 victory but it could be wiped away if they knock off the cardinal. >> this would be a way to end it on a positive note. it will be a challenge for us but our kids are excited, we have a great week of practice, preparing well and we have to go out and play well. there's two incredible academic institutions that have great tradition and great pride and i paid attention to this game growing up my entire life and career and it's what is great about college football. >> the energy seen around campus here and in berkeley before the game is pretty unique and a great experience. probably one of the best rivalries in the country and it's an honor to represent stanford in that rivalry. >> see if cal can shock the world. we have college football today on abc 7 at 12:30, oregon versus arizona and at 5:00 it's baylor and oklahoma state, we'll be on after that with lexus after the game at 8:30 with all the highlights of the day's action
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and of course the big game. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry diehl. britain's prince harry left london for the other side of the equator, ahead on "abc 7 saturday morning news" the good
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britain's prince harry is in an r antarctica this morning, to begin a 200-mile charity trek to the south pole involving wounded
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servicemen and women. harry is part of a team raising money for the military charity "walking with the wounded." he's expected to reach the pole in mid-december. wow. good luck to all of them. the countdown is on for this weekend's american music awards. armando christian perez, better known as pitbull is rehearsing his emcee duties in los angeles. tomorrow night's show will include performances by jennifer lopez, justin timberlake, katy perry, rihanna and miley cyrus. pitbull amping up for his new venture at host. >> never had a hosting gig or job but i wake up and host a world every day. what better place than with a room full of beautiful, sexy, sophisticated, power women. >> all righty then. tomorrow will mark the network prime time's debut of pitbull's latest hit "timber." catch it on abc 7 starting at
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8:00 p.m. a bay area high school has been honored for an innovative program that tackles head injuries in its athletes. student trainers are roaming the side lines of games to keep an eye on players, those with symptoms of a concussion are treated and may be pulled out of school for a week to recover. atlanta o'brien has suffered several concussions on the soccer field. the student trainers are critical for preventing serious head injuries. >> the players, they don't want to come out of the game. they want to be in there even if they can't see straight, they're dizzy, so kids there keep an eye on them. >> north gate's efforts were recognized friday by the national athletic trainers association. congressman george miller was also there, he's sponsoring a bill that sets safety standards for concussions. the abc 7 morning news saturday morning news continues at 6:00 a.m., with breaking news. fatal accident snarls traffic in the east bay, find out what the
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