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>> a fab farewell to candle stick park. sir paul mccartney will perform coming up in august. it's fitting the final concert held at the stick on august 29, 1966.ym good afternoon, everybody, i'm larry beil. >> abc7g stick right now with what led up to mccartney's÷ú big announceme. >> there are a number of special events planned to say goodbye to the ymstick.
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this will be the last and most spectacular the long and winding road is bringing paul mccartney back to candle stick park lp the beatlesm performed their lt paid concert august 1966. now, 48 years later, the singer, song writer musician will close the curtainw3 on the stick the former home of thezv 49ers dem. sir paul first suggested the tribute here when he met with mayor ed lee, during the outside lands concert in golden gate park. xjú:jiñ to say thank you to paul mccartney for thinking the wayym he does. about history. about relationships with people. and they properly closed down the stick. >> sentiment has a lot to do with iáç
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stone"ñi magazine interviewed mccartney and toured withçjx !. he was there for that final 1966 beatles concert. >> what do you remember about it?x b >> nothing. screaming female fans. >> paulç told mexdlpñr it wasxu know just a buzz, justi=$pwnk noise. you can hardly hear through it. the same for the audien2m- promoter promises the 45,000." concert goersñi a night to remember. >> i thinkç what isç wonderfu about paul mccartney being the final act it's an act every generation with embrace. whether you're 10 or 80, you know, it's just a feel-good show. >> tickets for the august 14th
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5th.w3ç >> april showers expected to be moving into the bay area tonight. >> we've got a live shot from our camera. looks gloomy. really gloomy this morning. >> spencer christian is upñson >> that is a pretty good description. gloomy. skies areç bright but as you'll noticeçnb clouds thickening o theç bay area. greater moisture to our north7ss yo5b(pgçssee here up northw3m bring us showers. right now underw3÷ú dry conditi a view looking atñi clouds over w
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well-meaning resident took it too far. >> we want you to be vigilant, but not a vigilante. >> police now say her efforts to follow the suspects likely got her killed. >> we believe she witnessed a crime being committed by these two individuals she began to record their activities. >> police announced arrest of a 22-year-old stephan lee and 23-year-old mario floyd the 66-year-old solomon was shot to death in her car on fern street in july. at the time, it looked like a robbery gone bad. police say lee was the shooter,
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and had been in custody sometime. >> if you witness a crime, call 911. we don't want you to follow the suspects. >> she was one of the people who was distributing flyers. >> jan knew solomon through efforts to increase security through the neighborhood. >> many of us know we see something, we want to try to take a photo straight away. we've got to be careful. if she was following someone and was seen? oh. >> lee and floyd are expected to be arraigned next week. in oakland, abc7 news. >> city leaders unveiled a partnership designed to make oakland safer, residents can now interact via next door.com. 141 groups have started next door web sites. that represents 84% of the neighborhoods. next door operates across the united states, offering a chance
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to learn what's happening around their homes and share information about the community. >> a police officer went to the hospital after a patrol car overturned during a chase this afternoon. this happened along a hilly stretch of tennessee street. the suspects crashed their car about 300 yards from where the police car wrecked. >> we're learning more about the 84-year-old man accused of a shooting yesterday at seton medical center. he was arrested in his home last night. abc7 news learned the target was a physician that treated him two years ago for extreme pain that didn't work. police say they found a gun, and ammunition inside of his home. no one was hurt in this shooting but dozens of employees and patients had to be evacuated from the building. >> los angeles county prosecutors announced alden
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smith will not be facing charges after making a phony bomb threat he may be charged with a misdemeanor. smith stim faces drunk driving possessions in san jose. that is unrelated case. smith went into alcohol rehab in the fall. he returned to 49ers after sitting out five games. >> officers issued 126 citations, they teamed up to catch traffic law violators on several busy streets after seven pedestrian deaths this year, so far. including running red lights and not giving pedestrians the right of way. >> cell phone video shows flames one resident barely escaped overnight. a third floor unit fully engulfed when fire crews
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arrived. most residents did get out okay. a normal night here on south 8th street. dozens of students were busy doing what college students do. eating, sleeping, studying or socializing but what happened next was anything but normal. >> my apartment is on fire. we're like wait. and then, looking out we're going to see it. it was above us we saw flames bursing the out. >> firefighters say a resident was on the cell phone he lit a candle and the match ended up on the couch. he went outside and noticed smoke. he couldn't get to his roommate. he called him on a cell phone. >> he just spread out. i saw flames on his back.
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i hope he's all right >> the roommate taken to the hospital. another person treated for smoke inhalation. everyone else was evacuated to the street for several hours. a horrible night but with requality, everybody survived. >> i'm amazed and thankful there is only one injury. at least everyone is okay. >> two units have fire damage. a third unit, water death. red cross called in to help out n san jose, abc7 news. >> coming up on abc7 news at 4:00 fda unveiling it's tough stance on e cigarettes. proposals to keep them from kids and protect the public. >> hello, i'm mike shumann live the calm before the storm. warriors, clippers, game three we'll have a preview for you
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coming up. >> and stunning admissions from a supervisor charged with peeping into a neighbor's window. >> at 4:11 skyway just jammed up. remember, warriors everybody trying to go to the east bay on the lefthand side of the screen head together lower deck. it's going to be a long, slow slog on 8806789 back in a moment.
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that is the moose on the loose. a couple men could northbound trouble for a close encounter with a moose over the weekend. avid snowmobilers say the moose appeared on the trail. they expected he would move along as other moose have done in the past. this moose was not cooperating. >> oh! >> it charged at the powells. janice fired her pistol. the moose ran off after that the powells were not harmed they reported the incident but the game warden is investigating whether they were harassing the animal. judging from the video it was clear who was harasser and harassee. >> demand for e cigarettes is growing. fda making a move to control who uses them. >> a look at the fda plans. >> e cigarettes burst on to the
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market in 2006 the federal government has been scrambling to catch up. >> like wild, wild west in terms of what people are doing. products with no oversight. >> there are -- they are a battery-powered device the fda announced it's anticipated proposed regulations if approved the sales would be banned to people under age 18. a warning label placed on the devices. and e cigarette manufacturers would be required to tell the fda what is in the products. dorothy says she and her husband, an atikted tobacco smoker believe there is less harm than a traditional cigarette. >> there is something just pleasant about smoking the e cigarette. i can like between
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being in a wet sauna. >> opponents say they're a gateway to a real deal experts worry the flavors and floors make them appealing to kids. >> we need to understand whether those kids goring on to smoke regular cigarettes as well. >> these new regulation woz not include restrictions on advertising. this is a booming business. analysts say sales jumped to nearly $2 billion last year. >> golden state warriors host clippers tonight in ora cell >> yes. >> the arena is quiet we know it's going to change. >> there is nothing like an nba
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arena. game three series you can see everybody getting warmed up. warriors counting on a raukus crowd to help. game two on monday night, warriors lost by 40 >> disappointing but at the end of the day they don't get two points for beating us that bad. we'll come back with a fresh start at home. hopefully taking care of business the way we expect to. >> it's going to be loud. 48 minutes. that is what you expect in
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playoffs. >> you can see the empty seats right here loud, proud, words are going to dress fans tonight. coming up at kf talking about being a marked man in yes. a big game three coming up tonight. game four is this sunday at 12:30. >> great to have nate thurman back. >> yes. you can call me weather warrior. there on the roof, clouds thicken and rain gets closer.
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you can see it's not raining in the bay area now. we have moisture off shore. and quite a bit more up to the north. taking a look at drought situation one year ago this week. this week, 52% of the state is under drought. and that is not likely to change soon. we'll see spotty light showers tonight. no heavy rainfall. showers increase. there is a slight chance of showers tomorrow. satellite shows an approaching cold front. this trailing system brings us a greater chance of rain tomorrow afternoon. we'll see our forecast this
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evening. spotty light showers. 5:00 in the morning should be mainly dry. maybe a few wet spots on pavement. then by 1:00 more wide spread showers will be pushing across the bay area you can see will be a wet weather picture. into evening hours, showers will be winding down. by 11:00 tomorrow night, we expect rainfall totals to be no greater than half an inch around the bay area. in the sierra, winter weather advisory in effect from 11:00 to 5:00 saturday morning. low hefl dropping to 4500 feet. back to bay area tonight.
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so tomorrow, under mostly cloudy skies, scattered showers tomorrow afternoon. high temperatures upper 50 low 60s inland. check out the warm up. highs near 90 degrees low 80s around the bay. it's going to be dry. >> thank you >> breaking news, we take you live to anaheim nine people have been injured, looks like a picture is freezing up. there are now moving again. well, i'll tell tell you what happened a school bus ran into a tree in or near a golf course in an time we don't have details but there
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has been a heavy response by crews. if we can get a shot there. emergency crews are on the scene. looks like people under that school bus, neighbor kids they're trying to get them out. >> coming up, do you recognize this man? he looks homeless he's worth millions >> where you can go tonight for a lot of happy.
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and a woman brought him a bag of food, in fact gere stayed in character and ate the food. remarkable. >> time magazine out with a 100 most influential people in the world. >> yes. at the top of the list is beyonce. sarl sandberg says the secret is hard work >> alice waters, helping start the major push for california fresh food movement. >> still ahead, a sonoma county supervisor accused of peeping into a neighbor's house. what he said that is raising eye brows this afternoon. >> our family suffered a great
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>> sky 7 is live over breaking news in san leandro a highway crash that may be leaking a hazardous material near harlem street. instructing everybody to shelter in place for now. i don't see materials on the street there. not sure what they're steak checking. police say they have taken a person in custody but not telling us why, yet. we're working on it now to try to get you more information and bring you up to date as soon as we get it. >> now live to breaking news in anaheim a school bus crashed in a golf
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course. we watched someone take an adult away on a stretcher. you can see the bus wedged in between two trees here with damage to the bus. >> one of the three american doctors killed when an afghan security guard opened fire was a pediatrician from chicago the doctors volunteering there to help children. the motive is now under investigation. >> any such attack on a hospital is cowardly. >> u.s. state department condemned the attack. details are now emerging. >> for a decade, he volunteered in afghanistan to train residents and see pediatric patients. >> a beloved pediatrician of 25
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years, he had been tending to the health of afghan children at care international kabul hospital. back home, he was remembered by his wife >> our family suffered a great loss we don't hold ill will towards afghanistan in general. or even the gunman who did this. >> two other americans were killed. a father, son and fema health care worker remains in stable condition after the shooting. >> we're looking to investigate the attack. >> the cruel twist is that the shooter was a security guard hired to protect the hospital the doctors at care hospital tended to him he shot himself. and has been transferred into the custody of the government afghanistan. >> part of what makes this so
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tragic is that the victims were there to help heal children. >> nearly seven years after a tiger escapeed and took a teen's live, they have been asking questions and asking about safety systems installed after the attack. they interviewed three zoo workers. >> i'm concerned it's not as safe as it could be. >> for workers? >> workers and public. >> public as bell sth? >> yes. >> it could happen at any moment. >> the i team studied hundreds of documents and found a struggle going on for years.
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don't miss the investigation tonight at 11:00 >> major league baseball did not waste time coming down on michael paneta, suspended ten games for using pine tar. he's going to miss two no effort to disguise this. normally they'd hide it in their glove or hair. helps them get a better grip on the ball in cold weather. this is after cameras spotted it on his wrist. at the time, boston manager did not ask to check the pitcher because he knows his own guys are also using pine tar. he didn't want to implicate everybody. this 31 years after what had to
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>> don't have you to smile the second you hear that? or see the video? the video has taken the nation by storm now, you can get into the act. >> in this flash mob, you can learn moves. in this online ♪ [ music ] >> the flash mob gets underway at 7:30 tonight. we have a link on abc7 news.com. start practicing. >> i didn't realize there was an official dance >> now, just be happy. >> yes. got an interesting job
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opportunity in san francisco. >> a liquor company looking for a bruncher. in search of a cbo. that stands for chief brunch officer. >> what are they pay something the person would promote the spri spritz. the company selling this as an alternative to mimosa. >> candidates must have insider dodge of the local brunch scene, prolific on social media and have exceptional standards of style and culture. >> that might let me out >> applicants must submit 15 second videos to instagram. >> he's all of this and more. >> that sounds like it's got makings of a happy meal to me.
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this this is a look at the movement at the moment. light showers overnight. tomorrow, weather looks like this. showers up in the mid atlantic and northeast. and most of the he maineder of the 48 contiguous states look for scattered showers and snow. we'll have light, spotty showers. and tomorrow afternoon, widely scattered showers. high temperatures into low 60s inland. tomorrow evening, game time 7:15 it's going to be cloudy, cold. some would call it chilly. i'm going to be bold and call it cold go on, see the game. i'll be watching it on tv, where
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the sonoma county supervisor accused in a peeping case took the stand today he was caught outside of a neighbor's home only partially clothed. wayne freedman has been following this case and joins us live this afternoon from santa rosa. wayne? >> that case is now going to the jury. it was a very contrite efr efrin cariillo. he uttered the words, and i
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quote, i was caught with my pants down. >> in court this morning, the main character took the stand the supervisor charged with peeking into a neighbor's apartment in july while wearing boxer briefs and socks his explanation? >> no reasonable explanation. i'm embarrassed by it. and it's hard. i -- >> he checked into a alcohol treatment facility prosecutor says that does not excuse his actions he admitted that he went into the yard of a neighbor, hoping for sex at 3:30 a.m
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. he looked at the back door, broke the screen and blinds of her bedroom window carrying a camera phone, went into the backyard trying to get her attention. >> you broke in her house? right? >> in closing his attorney argued the jury must acquit for lack of direct evidence and says it's irrelevant vent he was quote, acting like a knucklehead with the strange woman the accused supervisor tells the court he has been remorseful since the moment it happened. caught with his pants down he told the court, he owns that. in santa rosa, abc7 news.
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>> two big names in tech are stepping in to tackle a health issue. looking into premature births. in thes u.s. 11.5% are all preterm. there is new hope for preemies thanks to engineering students at byu. they say it isn't fancy but gets the job done. the students are looking for $25,000 and hoping to get that done in months to begin shipping them to the philippines >> the president received a warm welcome in tokyo from honda's
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humanoid robot. >> he showed off soccer and dance skills he can run a little bit. the president says they're a little scary because they're too life like. first lady did not make the trip and said she hosted the question and answer session with the kids of executive office employees. this is part of take your child to workday the event featured one serious moment. >> we're going to come here. you right here? >> my dad has been out of a job three years i wanted to give you his resume. >> that is 10-year-old charlotte bell showing a lot of spunk there. surprised everyone, including
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her mom who works at the white house, her dad has been looking for a policy job. mrs. obama took the resume with her when it ended. >> there is growing support for state wide ban on single use plastic bags but the industry is pushing back. >> this is already law throughout the state. it would require stores to charge you for paper bags however, plastic bag companies called to reject the ban saying it could cost millions of dollars per year saying they're more useful and sanitary than reusable ones. >> in this era of food safety people should not be mixing chicken juice in reusable bag with other items. >> supporters say the plastic bags clog water ways and
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landfills, and plastic companies say the bag as kt for just 1% of the litter. >> swimming season is approaching and a traj yek death is raising concerns the 7-year-old boy jumped into a pool unaware of a hidden danger he was killed by electrocution the culprit was a corroded pool light that may not have been grounded. figures show 13 people were electrocuted in swimming pools from 2002 through 2011. if you have pool lights check for corrosion. make sure they're grounded the grieving family told their son's story hoping others can avoid a similar tragedy. >> if you hoff morning coffee expect a different jolt the price of coffee beans doubled because of a severe drought in brazil, which produces one third of the world's coffee.
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big companies buy prices years in advance but smaller companies may pass the cost on to you. >> up next, many of us share photos on social media. but what if they're not on facebook? >> in the abc7 newsroom, antitheft technology for cell phones the future of kill switches and how to avoid becoming a vacation victim protecting yourselves from scam artists this summer tr
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cube. >> my character just has a secret. she's stay with us for abc7 news at 11:00. >> sharing pictures used to happen around coffee tables. >> but what about family member who's don't have -- they're not interested in the technology? >> may just got back from a trip to monterey. she took pictures but one problem. >> two parents out of four on facebook. so half of my parents get to see my photos >> she tried to share by e
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i go over there, they don't have a computer or anything like that. >> you're looking at a video for efforts to solve the problem. he calls it flimatic. a digital picture frame that work was social media. >> if you upload a photo in seconds it shows up in the living room of your grand paernts. >> there are lots of frames out there. >> it would have to plug in and work. >> for $169, on the inside, >> the web site your parents or grand see your latest photos
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you can swipe it and leave a comment. >> they need 60,000ses today start manufacturing. >> clever idea. >> yes. >> there is nothing more frustrating than trying to figure out technology. i can see people being interested in that. >> yes. a good way to keep in touch with the family. >> thanks for joining us. abc7 news begins now with dan and
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>> changes are on the way. clouds rolling in and i'll let you know when showers arrive. we might see showers coming up. >> # hours ago a billing was evacuateed and people fersed to leave with their hands up in the air. now, we know this stand off. a shooting disrupted the neighborhood around the seton medical center. good evening we have know the motive for the shooting. abc # news learned an 84-year-old man was angry with a doctor over failed treatment that's left the man in pain. vic lee joins from yous daly city. >> he was arrested there. that is his home behind me.
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showerses tell us police found a shotgun and ammunition in his home but did not find the gun. a resolver. those sources tell us he was a man that lived with a tremendous amount of pain and he was angry and he was frustrated. neighbors say the 84-year-old lived in this home for decades, lived alone and kept to hip self. >> you'd say hi. pretty quiet otherwise. pretty shocking. >> sources say he is a retired postal worker and his relatives live in hawaii. business resumed today here in the building.
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this technology returned to work. >> the most unexpected place it can happen. >> guards told us reporters were not allowed inside but police say there are bullet from aing manies and a hole on a wall near the office of a doctor who was reportedly the intended target. dr. kevin wong, seen here getting into a detective car after the shooting. sources tell abc 7 news he treated him for a virus similar to shingles but it was unsuccessful. that was the motive for the 84-year-old man to go gunning for the doctor. dr. wong said he heard one gunshot as he ran. patients and staff were evacuated. some with hands over their
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