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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> his have arrested the suspected gunman in a shooting at a daly city mel building. s.w.a.t. teams remain captured warming in as patients and workers were evacuated. >> employees are returning to work shaken by the gunfire at the daly city medical center. they are so relieved someone is in custody. amy hollyfield has the latest. amy? >> yes, it is business as usual. they are open. they are seeing patients.
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what happened yesterday is on everyone's mind. >> daly city police say they arrested 84-year-old raymond iwase in his home last night. they believe he was the man who walked into this middle center in daly city yesterday afternoon. he fired a gun on the second floor. his next door neighbors heard about the terrifying incident but could not believe the investigation ended here. >> that was him? >> police found a gun and ammunition inside raymond iwase's home. >> whoa, i didn't know, that is a shock. a shock to us. i'mry leaved we they caught the suspect. >> people would work at the center for advanced wound car welcomed the news last night of the arrest as they arrived for work this morning. they say being surrounded by the s.w.a.t. team who had guns drawn was intense. >> worried and scared about the unknown and started traying.
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>> george watched the scene unfold from his apartment window across the parking lot. he cannot believe an 84-year-old man is the suspect. >> sad and scary. >> police have not said what led them to raymond iwase or the motive behind the attack. witnesses say the arrest brings some comfort, the fact this happened here severals as quite a wake-up call. >> feel better but...not content because there are more crazy people out there. >> be on guard. on alert. be ready. >> police booked raymond iwase for attempted murder. we contacted the police department who referring calls to the district attorney and they have not returned our phone calls. developing news this morning, oakland police have arrested two suspects for last
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summer's murder of a 66-year-old woman known as the president nanny. judy solomon was shot in the head while driving near fairfax avenue less than a mile from her home. this was the 56th homicide the year prompting the fairfax neighborhood to demand an end to violence. the oakland police will reveal more of the investigation leading to the arrest this afternoon. we will have the latest at 4:00. police are releasing new details in the shooting death of a young woman in east oakland identified as melisa martinez outside her home at 9:30 last night. officers found her half an hour later a few blocks away in her car. she died at the hospital. police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. most residents burned out of their apartments overnight near san jose state are now back in their units but not everyone.
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one is seriously burned after barely making it out alive. matt? you have details on the escape? he had to run through the flames. the fire department arrived and they are back here checking out the building and collectd equipment. most the students are let back in the apartment and you can see the fire damage around the unit, where it started, and everyone i spoke with is grateful no one was killed. >> it was a normal night at this apartment complex on south 8th. dozens of san jose students who lived in the 18 units were busy doing what college students do: eating, sleeping, studying or socializing. what happened next was anything but normal. >> my apartment was on fire. we heard screams. we figured someone was joking. but we looked out and it was above us. we saw the flames bursting out.
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>> a resident was on the cell phone and he lit a candle and the discarded match ended up on the couch. he went outside and he noticed smoke coming from the apartment and saw the couch on fire. he couldn't get do his roommate in the bedroom so he called him on the cell and the room made had to run through the flames. >> i saw flames on his back. i hope he is all right. >> room made has second degree burns. everyone else in the apartment complex was evacuated to the street for several hours. a horrible night but with a redeeming calculate: everyone survived. >> i'm amazed. i am thankful there is only one injury and the other guy survived and at least everyone is okay. that is all you can ask for, right? >> two units have fire damage and the third has water damage and 11 students were displayed and many told us they are
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staying with friends and families and the red cross was called to help out.. relatives of the teen who stowed away on a flight to hawaii are talking about the boy and why thing they the 15-year-old risked his life to run away from home but there are unanswered questions. katie marzullo joins us from the newsroom. katie? >> the teen's father said his son wanted to return to africa for a visit and there was no family fight but another relative tells abc that the teen was trying to leave "painful situation." >> potentially painful family secret, a cousin of the 15-year-old step mother says that the teen don't know the truth of his parents. >> she is not my mom. i need my mother. >> the teen lives with his dad and step mom in santa clara. teach was only recently told the woman wasn't his more. and his birth mother lives in african on the forder of somalia
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and ethiopia and they were separated when he was two. >> this was conversation that i learned the dad need his mother. the dad admits his son talked of going to africa but he tells a voice of america reporter his son wanted to visit the grandparents who raised him but lick the rest of the family and the classmates, no one predicted he would take a dramatic risk. the father gave an interview in the native somali saying "i much wad analysis of the extraordinary and dangerous trip of my son on local tv and that allah saved him i thanked god i was very happy." the words of a concerned forward but he paints a different picture. >> he was in pain. >> do it parents reject him? ashamed of what --. >> 48 hours after he was missing it was not reported to the police. >> there was no missing persons report and the teen is still? honolulu how hospital and no
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word when he returns to the bay area. thank you. the bay area could be in store for late april showers. meteorologist mike nicco has live doppler 7 hd. mike? >> thank you, ladies. we will look at live doppler 7 hd and you can see the increasing clouds right now as the sea blows has brought back the cloud cover and slightly cooler conditions for many areas. what i am focused on is the radar return to the north, and this is the cold front what will bring us light rain tonight. what you don't see until i get out of the way this swirling air of clouds and air mass is an upper low that will come through tomorrow and bring a chance of showers, thunderstorms, and small hail. i will give you a timetable how were we will get in the big forecast. kristen? >> seven years after a tiger escaped from the enclosure and took a teen's life, the san francisco zoo is facing new questions about safety from the employees.
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for months, we have been investigating safety systems at the zoo after the tiger attack. they interviewed three long time zoo workers concerned about the procedures in case another dangerous animal escaped. >> i am very concerned it is not as safe as it could be. for the workers and the public. >> it cannot be something where the zoo is going to be sigh length about it until something happens. it could happen at any moment. >> we studied hundreds of internal zoo documents and found a struggle over safety that has been going on for years. do not miss the exclusive investigation tonight at 11:00 on abc. >> officials are imposing the first ever federal regulations on e-cigarettes and coming up the new restrictions to keep people safer and protect minors. >> president obama plays soccer
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and the afghan security guard turned the gun on himself but survived and was treated at the same hospital. it is the latest in a string of deadly attacks this career on foreign civilians living in kabul. the food and drug administration is moving forward with the plan to regulate electronic cigarettes. the f.d.a. is proposing to ban e-cigarettes to everyone under the age of 18. the warning label would be placed on the devices. e-cigarette manufacturers would also be required to tell the f.d.a. what is in the products. there is intense debate whether e cigarettes really are safer. users inhale water vapor containing nicotine rather than smoke. this is said to help kick the habit but opponents say they are a gateway to traditional cigarettes. president obama went toe to toe with the latest in japanese technology during the trip to tokyo. look at the visit during the main sentence museum he met the
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honda robot that welcomed the president in english and showed off the soccer and dancing skills. it looks like he is combining the two. later, the president took part in a state dinner at the imperial palace in tokyo and will leave for south korea tomorrow as part of a week-long tour of asia. it is good they were not playing basketball because the robot would have no shot at a rebound. >> make he can do the >> now a look outside from emeryville you can see the low clouds hugging the coast and you cannot see the golden gate bridge and mid-to-upper level clouds will bring a chance of rain today and this weekend and summer heat in the back half of the seven-day forecast. >> a big announcement from paul mccartney the final concert he will perform before a bay area
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covering santa clara, san francisco, east and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. another farewell to candlestick park, a member of the beatles will perform if a final tribute concert. we are at the stick with the who and the when. it is paul mccartney, the mayor says sir paul would made the suggestion back when the two met when paul mccartney played at the outside lands concert last summer in golden gate park
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and it is a fitting farewell tribute because this is where paul and the rest of the beatles played their final concert date back if august of 1966, now almost 48 years to the day, august 14 of this year, his long and winding road leads him back to san francisco and the stick. his gig will bring the curtain down on this football stadium that is being torn down now that the 49ers are headed to santa clara. today, the mayor calls paul mccartney "a class act." >> i have to say, thank you to paul mccartney for thinking the way he does because it is kind of -- it is not about money but it is about history, about relationships with people and properly closing down "the stick." >> thank you was controversy because the 49ers had wanted sir paul to play an opening
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concert at the new levi stadium where the team kick off a new era in the fall. today they were gracious losers issuing this statement: we are excited to hear that paul mccartney will play the final concert ever at candlestick park. it is sure to be a great event for the entire bay area and we are pleased to provide support in anyway that we can. the tickets for the tribute concert go on sale on monday may 5th. we have not heard the price but the mayor says he will work to make them affordable. thank you. that is not the only thing exciting going on there. 49er fans have a final chance to cheer on the all-time greats at candle sometime. jerry rice, joe montana, and mike shumann team up for a final flag football game against a
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team led by ex dolphin great dan marino july 12. tickets are on sale may 10 through ticket matter for $30 to $50. i am sure it will be worth every penny. >> we need a block of tickets for channel 7. >> nice. >> listening, bob? >> a little change in the weather? >> a roller coaster. the temperatures could climb nearly 25 degrees by next week. to get this, it will be bumpy. we will look and show you what is going on. right now, our visibility is low at half moon bay at four miles. we have low clouds and mid-level and high level clouds everywhere today because of the sea breeze. you can see the wind blowing out through fairfield from southwest to northwest at 8 miles per hour and with the breeze it is mild coming off the ocean and temperatures are the same as they were 24 hours ago which is 57 in san francisco, and 55 in
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half moon bay and hayward at 59, and everyone else is in the low-to-mid 60. it is breezy more so than yesterday. here you can see exactly what i am talking about, mount tamalpais and mid-to-upper level clouds from the aetch brothering code front and it will keep us gray in the afternoon with close to acknowledge temperatures and rain comes in with the cold front and temperature we could see fireworks in the form of showers and thunderstorms with small hail all the way through the early evening, and another chance of light rain on saturday night into sunday morning and the hot weather comes in next week. san jose is partly sunny and brighter and you will be the last ones to see the sun take it away by the cloud cover so you will be around 70 degrees and tree pollen and weed pollen and sneezing and grass pollen is moderate and the mold spores and pollution are low and u.v. index is high this afternoon. 70 in san jose, upper 60's around milpitas and low-to-mid 70's elsewhere and well start out 70 at los altos and mountain
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view and millbrae is cooler than the rest of the peninsula. 60's along the coast and low 60's in downtown and sausalito. through the north bay, the grapevines are growing and mid-to-upper 60's and ten degrees cooler at the beaches and mid-to-upper 60's along the east bay shore and ok land at 65 and the grapevine to 71 and 69 in concord and 70 in danville. tomorrow, upper 40's in the north bay and low 50's because of the cloud cover and the light rain will not drop our temperatures were, and it will be warmer than this morning. at action, sprinkles are possible as the front is it will to the north as it comes through we will see the sprinkles turn interest light rain by midnight and the front is through now we have to wait on the upper low. a chance of a scattered showers for tomorrow or friday morning commute and not everyone is going to be wet. we will have a better chance of getting wet as the low approaches and you can see the waves showers during the lunch hour on friday and through the
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afternoon and early evening when the low sinks to the south it will be blustery behind the system and dry air rubs in but it will be ten degrees cooler and it will feel much cooler with the winds. rainfall amounts depends if you get under a shower and if you do you could get .1" to .25" rain with hail. some of us may not get anything. we could be ten degrees cooler tomorrow without the rain. you can see a moderate warming on saturday and sunday and the rain is over by 10:00 on sunday morning so if you have outdoor lands by sunday morning it could be wet and mop, tuesday, wednesday, 70 at the coast and nearly 90 inland and the first time we run our air conditioning this area. >> still ahead, the big surprise for a woman when she gave a bag of food to a man she not was homeless. >> famous person he turned out to be. got to want this
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streets of new york or mean. a woman passing by a man looking for food in the trash could not help but sympathize and offered a bag of food. but the man is worth millions of dollars, because that is richard gere filming his next movie. people thought he was a homeless man on the street and he stayed in character the whole time and ate the food that he was given. >> not the food from the trash. >> does that qualify for an oscar before the movie comes out? thanks for joining us.
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