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one of t is that millions of peopleia will qualify for financial assistance. it's important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater financial assistance you will receive. enroll now at coveredca.com. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. off duty accident takes the life of a veteran berkeley firefighter who came from a family with a long history of fighting fires on the frontlines. >> good morning, family and friends are grieving the loss of firefighter tony nunes would would have marked 28 years of service today. amy hollyfield joins us with per from berkeley. amy? >> firefighters put jacket and boots of tony nunes on their
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truck in his memory. they should have been celebrating. >> today would be tony's 28th anniversary with the department. he serves as a firefighter paramedic throughout his entire career. >> he was on the tractor last night clearing his property to prepare for the storm when he went off the side of a legal, rolled 200' and died. the fire got the call and the agency where his brothers work as firefighters. >> i feel for the contra costa fire department out there trying to rescue knowing that it was one of their brothers. >> emergency responders lined the street at attention last night as his body was taken to the coroner. the fellow firefighters say the feeling is summed up in two words. >> devastation and shock. >> his smile lit up a room and he loved talking about his two adult kids but made a point to always ask about others. >> he would remember every child
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at of any firefighter, remember their name and ask about them. >> the department is pulling together to help the family. >> we will set up a liaison from our department, from the labor side, too, and work lows and make sure all their needs are met. >> right now, happening in the central valley, funeral services are underway if two california high highway patrol officers killedded in the line of duty. this is live, happening at the center on the campus of fresno state university. officers from across the state, along with governor jerry brown are attending the memorial for officers juan gonzalez and brian law, both worked for bay area c.h.p. before transferring. officer law began in oakland and offer gonzalez started in san jose. they were killed while heading
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to a traffic accident. >> two men are in critical condition after being hit by an amtrak train. the driver went around the downed arm of the crossing before 10:00. the car landed on the roof. the two men are said to be in their 20's. police say one man is from fremont. the other man is from southern california. >> the train sat on the track for two hours. 14 were on board. >> police are looking for the driver of a black toyota pickup involved in a drag race that killed an innocent driver in fairfield. two cars were racing last night when one of them hit a car turning on to the road. the driver of a blue infinity will involved in the race was injured and taken to the hospital. >> right now, thousands of people are gathered an santa clara university to sea and hear from the dalai lama. the city beaten spiritual leader
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is facing more protesters on the final day of his bay area visit. matt is on campus. matt? >> the dalai lama is speaking right now here at santa clear university. the event is sold out and security is tight around the 4,000 seat event center. he received a loud clear when he put on a santa clara university vicor. he is here if a talk about business, ethics and compassion. santa clara university officials say that the dalai lama has been at the forefront of scientific research of the impact of meditation and compassion on the brain. >> everyone has the right to be happy. generally too much emphasis is on material value. >> a group of 100 protests outside santa clara university
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after the talk at the levee center the dalai lama will have a private meeting with academics and bit leaders. new this morning it may cost. >> dollar more to cross the golden gate bridge starting in a couple of months, with the staff releasing the recommendation this morning and calls for a pay by plate driver to pay $7 in april and a quarter more each year until the toll reaches $8 in 2018. fast track drivers pay $starting in april and $7 by 2018. right if you they pay $5. this is after months of consideration to make up for $142 million deficit that will be presented to the finance committee on thursday. if approved, the increase will go before the full board if a vote on friday. >> there will be another push to get a suicide barrier installed at the golden gate bridge. suicide survivors and family members of those who have committed suicide at the bridge
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are gathering right now on the steps of city hall. they are asking officials to complete funding to get a safety net installed. the abc7 news i-team found 2013 was a record year for suicides 46 reports, with ten in the month of august. >> another memorial service is held today on the uc berkeley campus for a cal football player who died during a work out. the service is held at 6:30 tonight. hundreds turned out for a vigil for the 21-year-old last week. tonight's event is called a celebration of his life. he was widely suspected junior defensive lineman for the bears and collapsed and died after a routine training run. >> the fight over the rising number of evictions in san francisco is moving to the state capital today. state senator is introducing a bill today at the request of the mayor that is designed to prevent speculators from buying up apartment buildings and kicking out tenants and flipping
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the units for sale and only applies to san francisco. it would force buyers to own a building for at least five years before they evict tenants. a state law allows kicking out renters if they take the rental off the rent am market. >> a violent attack on a student at uc santa barbara. >> and a message to justin bieber was much ado about nothing. >> the ingredient inside the yellow color makes it not so mellow and potentially dangerous. >> agoggous shot of of -- a gorgeous shot of the bay area but it will change big time this week. the forecast is
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nnie-o w where a where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. we thought wsurprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennie-o ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. i feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. i think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. yeah. when i eat well, i feel well. anncr: it's time for a better taco. the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. make the switch. look for jennie-o ground turkey in a store near you.
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>> ukraine's acting government issued an arrest warrant for president yanukovich. they are accusing him of mass crimes against protesters who stood up for months against his rule. the parliament has installed the speaker as interim president. they are deeply defined between pro russian and western areas that long for close are ties with the european union. we have stunning news from santa barbara where the sheriff is investigating a violent attack on a 19-year-old uc student. deputies say the victim was
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beaten and gang raped by a group of men saturday night. deputies are searching the campus and neighboring community to figure out exactly where the attack happened. the victim wasn't sure of the location. thousands of students learned of the attack through e-mail and text. >> they have been making a lot of efforts to reduce crime and make it safer for students but it is scary to hear of to still happening. >> this is the second assault in two days. another only was attacked on saturday night outside a house party. >> harold ramis, died, known for his role in "ghost buster," and directed "ground hog day." he died this morning from complications of auto immune disease at 69 years.
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>> a protester to keep justin bieber out of the atlanta was not much of a protest. a radio claim claims it was a prank. the resident whose showed up with signs turned out to be radio station interns. they launched a fake protest on facebook and rumors starting surfacing that happened after it was rumored he was looking to move out of the california. >> one of the smartphones of samsung could be chipped with intel chips with a deal close to include the chips inside of the variation of the flag ship device. samsung has traditionally released the variations of the flag ship device at lower costs like the galaxy s4 mini or the galaxy s4 zoom one of these devices that includes the intel processor if the deal is signed.
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>> netflix reached an agreement with the number one internet service provider to ensure smoother streaming. the deal is with comcast allowing the companies to establish a more direct connection to provide better service. by conducting directly with comcast next work, netflix hopes to boost the quality and the speed of the video streaming. >> menlo park based facebook is moving into its home in new york city, after commissioning an a list architect to design the office, frank geary. here is the building the same building where aol is headquarters. a lost 2:00 power there. >> our immediatology has the -- our meteorologist has the forecast. >> the wednesday storm could be stronger with remain thousands possible. enjoy the sunshine and the dry weather while we have it, it is going to be stormy wednesday through saturday, and i have the latest details in the seven-day forecast.
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covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area, this is use. san jose is aiming to get homeless people off the street and is considering paying to put some homeless residents in local hotels, possibly for years. the plan provides rooms for up to five years while a nonprofit
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provided services such as job hunting and permanent home placement. however, officials say only a fraction of the city's homeless would actually be helped. >> a new study may have you worried about something that usually makes you feel beat and cheery: the color yellow. the alarm is sounded by researchers at rutgers over the chemical in common household products that are yellow such as paper, parent, and clothes, with a chemical banned 35 years ago because of the relation to cancer. it is suggests you wash the yellow colleagues in hot water several times before wearing it. >> the yellow sun is about to give way to gray stormy clouds and the rain is expected to arrive on wednesday in two days. you can track it on your smart phony time with the weather app. >> the transition to the yellow umbrella is curious.
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>> cute, right? >> this brought some flooding. >> probably some urban flooding if the nature of it, which means thunderstorms, develops because it could brief heavy rain so that is a difference we are starting to see with the wednesday storm. good morning, everyone, we will look and show you why we desperately need the rain, our lowest deficit is 7.5" deficit in livermore and highest is 17" in santa rosa, today. we are from 20 percent to 35 percent of average. live doppler 7 hd shows it is hooking void of radar runs and clouds. we have a few high clouds but high pressure is bringing us light and variable winds so far this morning, most of us are less than five miles an hour. well look that is going for the country conditions, running in the upper 50's to low 60's, but for already mid-60's around santa reason, fremont, livermore, san jose, and los gatos. a few high clouds and trails,
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and we are mostly sunny and warm conditions today, wed, breezy and thunder now is possible weapons, and it could be the stronger slower but may not have so much energy or as much rain. stimulus bill it will be spread out over 48 hour rather than 12 to 18 hours with wednesday storm. today, we are going to reach 70 in cloverdale, fairfield, conquer, san jose, morgan hill, at least, and everyone else in the money 60's and at the coast we have mostly sunny. patchy fog possible in the north bay mountains and some will push through the golden gate bridge like yesterday and push over to san pablo bay but it may not make a southward push. here are the two areas of high pressure dominating our weather, with the storm moving to the north and other than a few high clouds it will be another gorgeous day like we had over the week. if you liked the sunshine and warm weather, if not, one, two, notice the storm has more with
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it in the form of rain and energy and, sure enough, it z here is tuesday, tomorrow morning, we start off clear, and watch as the clouds increase with the warm southern flow. by wednesday morning, drizzle, maybe that is it for the morning, and by noon, look at the rain coming in, light-to-moderate rain, and more light-to-moderate rain with the second push that comes in during the evening commute. that is the one that could bring us the thunderstorms. scattered shows for thursday and the next system is on friday. wednesday morning wake up with not too much measurable rain and you can see it really adds up quickly, 1" to 2" in the coast and north bay mountains and above 1,000' we could have three quarters to 1.25up. wednesday is the stronger storm than friday, mud and rock slides and thunderstorms, and wind damage is moderate from both storms.
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the seven-day forecast shows notices will be schooling today and the warm of the is barely in the mid-to-upper 50's and by sunday afternoon that is the better day to be outside, the dryer and brighter day with wet weather coming our way. we need it. >> if you can hire a couple manipulators to make it go your way, would you do it? an ex-con played by christian slater and his unstable brother star if a new series "mine games." >> rather than leashing all the big moments to fate, we could manipulate them with 60 years of research in the human behavior stacking the odds in your favor so when it really, really, really mattered, you came out on top. >> happens all time. >> all the time. we do it with commercial, on tv shows, in politics, we do it -- so many mind games going on we are not aware of. >> in the show and i think this
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is true, we are passengers in our own brain. >> interesting idea. can you catch the premiere of mind games tomorrow night at 10:00 right here on abc7 news. >> interesting. >> coming up next, the new "dancing with the stars" co-host is in stranger to the show. she has tried on her dancing shoes. >> at 3:00 on "katie" the revolution of tattoo art at 3:00 p.m. right here.
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my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day.
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but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)... ...was proven superior to warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke. and unlike warfarin, with no regular blood tests or dietary restrictions. hey thanks for calling my doctor. sure. pradaxa is not for people with artificial heart valves. don't stop taking pradaxa without talking to your doctor. stopping increases your risk of stroke. ask your doctor if you need to stop pradaxa before surgery or a medical or dental procedure. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding or have had a heart valve replaced. seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have a bleeding condition or stomach ulcer, take aspirin, nsaids, or blood thinners... ...or if you have kidney problems, especially if you take certain medicines. tell your doctors about all medicines you take. pradaxa side effects include indigestion, stomach pain, upset, or burning. if you or someone you love has afib not caused by a heart valve problem... ...ask your doctor about reducing
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the risk of stroke with pradaxa. one of the besis that millia is that millions of people will qualify for financial assistance. it's important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater financial assistance you will receive. enroll today at coveredca.com. extreme google glass made if skiers and snowboarders so you can stay connected while you are on the slopes. at 5:00, the investigation underway into a polio like illness that is affecting a handful of children in california including one in the bay area. the family explains what it is like. >> daytona 500 champ dale
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earnhardt is celebrated by joining twitter. he signed up last night and sent out the first tweet writing and i quote, "tonight seemed like as good a night as any to join twitter. how is anyone doing." in an hour earn hard had more than 200,000 followers and i checked just this second and he is up to 400,000 followers. he tweeted out this photo the victory snaps a 55-race losing streak for the named race car driver. his first daytona win was a decade ago. he admitted the win feels just as good as the last one. >> moving on we know who will be slipping on a new pair dancing shoes as the host of the one of the hottest dance shows on tv,
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erin andrews will be the co-host of "dancing with the stars" known for sports reporting and she will join the team when the 18 the season of the reality dance competition kickoff but no stranger to distancing. she competed, number, for the mirror ball trophy in season ten and made you will all the way to the finals. she is a smart cookie. and talented. and legs that go on for days. she is so tall. >> good job. >> that does it for us. thanks for joining us. >> and the rain will go on for days? >> my goodness. >> be ready, you have today and tomorrow and wednesday, thursday, friday, and saturday, it will be wet.
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