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sunset reservoir in san francisco. the meatballs were stuffed with pills. this 90 the first time this has happened in san francisco. police are investigating to see if this case is related to past cases dog owners are sick one would do this. >> it is disgusting. someone hates dogs. some sick person. who knows why? horrible. >> here are meatballs found in the twin peaks neighborhood in february. a dog did eat some of these and the vote forced dog to throw it up and that dog was okay but hundreds of meatballs were left out and a dog named oscar died. there is a $5,000 reward being offered for anyone who can lead police to the person who is
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doing this but so far no arrests have been made. 4:31. a technician at the crime laboratory has been reassigned after faulty tests were performed on 2,500 methamphetamine cases. the wrong chemical was loaded into a machine used to analyze the drugs. the faulty tests were done between january and march resulting in seven false positives. the d.a. says the defendants in the cases is died, were not charged or pleaded to other charges. >> there is a sketch of a man who forced his way into the home of an elderly couple and robbed them. this man terrorized an 83-year-old woman and her 91-year-old husband on saturday forcing them to give up wedding rings and other jewelry. the robber got away. the victims were not physically injured. two bodies were discovered
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in south san jose. police say they do not believe there is a suspect at large. police say two men were found dead in gunshot wounds at the town home on cherry view lane at highways 85 and 87. they have not said if it was murder-suicide or released identities of the victims. >> i-15 will be closed until this afternoon after overpass caught fire and collapsed causing a traffic nightmare with cars backed up late into the night following the collapse yesterday afternoon. this is the main link between los angeles and las vegas. we caltran is demolishing the overpass and work to repair the damage will take six months. >> the sonoma county sheriff is investigating a pursuit involving the highway patrol ending in a crash that injured they. it was off highway 12 in santa
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rosa last night. c.h.p. was responding to reports of possibly suicidal driver. officers say the driver refused to pull over and ran a red light. the driver slammed into an s.u.v. and a second vehicle and three people were taken to the hospital. one was in critical condition. >> a new restaurant with a growing reputation for tasty food is in trouble over parking problems. the city has concerned over building violations. we have the latest. >> millbrae has never had a 267-seat three-story restaurant like this. the zoning commission approved parking at these different lots as far as two blocks away but patrons and employees find it easier to park in the neighborhood. >> i came home for lunch from work and no parking. weekends are worse. >> restaurant owners are proposing to increase the number of parking spots from 111 to
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148. >> everyone knows with any business, any type of infrastructure there will be a few glitches here and there and we are trying to smooth it out. >> the city planners says the restaurant build the loud kitchen fans in violation of the zoning plan. they were supposed to be on the third help story roof. >> it is driving me crazy. >> this neighbors get the smell of chinese food blown into her home. >> i have nothing against it if we are eating chinese food. >> we are not cutting families. we are working with the city. >> this property stood vacant for a decade which is why the commission wants to make it work giving the stunt two weeks to come up with a plan. the father of an oakland toddler missing from his car last summer has committed suicide. according to a family member the 50-year-old talk about taking his own life for months after
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the disappearance of his 22-month-old daughter. he was found dead on friday we. his daughter disappeared in july. he said she was taken when he left her in the car with his mother who suffers from dementia >> despite problems in past, cinco demayo celebrations remain peaceful yesterday. santa clear street known as a trouble spot was trouble-free a stark contrast to sunday when police arrested 21 people and issued 32 citations. police beefed up patrols with officers focused on the downtown area specifically for santa clara and east san jose at the enter says of story and king road. >> the berkeley city council will debate whether to arm police officers with tasers. the miss union has favored the use of tasers in cases like last month where a mentally ill man beat an officer unconscious near
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the park. the city council will ask the city manager to investigatory police department boast practices and protocols for when to use the tasers, it has been an issue in berkeley where many citizens oppose their use. >> the specifics of a plan to raise $1.5 billion to improve the san francisco transportation system is expected to be presented to the board of supervisors today. city leaders recommend three ballot measures for the november election that provide funds to improve muni repair and maintain city streets and make pedestrian and bicycle improvements. if the board puts the measure on the ballot, voters decide on a born and measure to increase the state vehicle license fee for san francisco residents only. those fees are committed to city continue projects. a start-up company based in rome wants to help san francisco folk find a parking spot but the app and the plan to turn a profit is ruffling feathers.
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the app allows driers who are leashing prime parking spots throughout the city to auction off their spot for $5 to $20 for drivers circling the block looking for a space. critics donned like the idea of a company earning profit off of city owned spaces that may not be legal. they have to explore that more. the app maker says he is just "facilitating the parking search." >> drought conditions are causing implementation of tough water limits with dublin approving the land last night. if a household uses more than 639 gallons of water a day, it will first get a warning. if it happens again, there is a $250 penalty. a third and fourth violation bring $500 and then $1,000 penalty. the goal is to get people to cut their water use by 35 percent. >> mike? it is colder this morning.
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i noticed breezes. >> the brees are out there but we will look at the rainfall departure to see why we are in this mess. we are 8"" below normal and from 10" to 11" around sfo oakland and san francisco and more than 20" in santa rosa. the temperatures right now in san francisco 54 through the ferry building and 47 for the coolest spot. upper 40's around american canyon and 46 in petaluma and everyone else in the low-to-mid 50's and palo alto at 51. and belmont at 52. everyone is two to four degrees cooler than yesterday. we will hang out in the 40's and 50's through 7:00 with increasing sunshine and breezy conditions and the upper 50's and nearly 60 at the coast.
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upper 60's at noon. mid-60's up to 74 inland. >> we have construction remaining and it will stay with us until 6:00 this morning as we head into the east bay again, as you make the drive into dublin, eastbound 580, that is where we will have a couple of lanes taken away for construction work. if you are headed along in the westbound direction, so far, so good, we are looking at decent speeds over the altamont pass from tracy. it will not take you any more than 23 minutes from tracy to dublin. as we take you over to our drive this san jose, a live picture, northbound 280, away from 17, the cars passed by and skit dark with not too many commuters southbound, where it is wide open. >> it is 4:39. the efforts to bring new life to a mandatory kill switch for smartphones in california. >> more than football, big
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attracts before the new stadium is opening. >> a dad makes his son's wish come true but first tech bytes. >> today, apple making stockholders happy, shares of the giant opened this morning above $600 each for the first time since late 2012 and analysts wonder if the buzz means the release of new products will happen. the same technology used in the dating app could land a job which gives job seekers current postings and recruiters a list of potential candidates. if both express into the app brings them together to chat. kevin spacey is entering "call of duty," and will star in the next popular video game called "call of due, advanced warfare," on sale in november. cassette tape is not dead yesterday. sony has a new cassette that holds 185 bytes of data equal to
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60 million songs. those are the tech byte
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>> covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. this is a scary scene near denver after a small plane towing an advertising banner crashed into a home. no one was inside the home. the pilot was able to parachute out and call for help. "usa today" reports he made sure no one was hurt and used a garden hose to try to put out a fire caused bit crash. >> san jose police will interview the teen stow away who hid in a wheel well of a jet. he was treated for two weeks at a hospital in hawaii. police want to know how he sneaked on the runway as mineta san jose international airport. he returned to the bay area this weekend and he has not seen his
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family and is under the care of child protective services. the airport is adding additional security cameras this response to the security breach. a bill to crackdown on smartphone theft gets another shot this week, according to our media partner, lawmakers will reintroduce a bill to require kill switches on all cell phones. the proposal launched by two votes several weeks ago, and law enforcement officials say more than what of all robberies in san francisco involve cell phone matching and that figure is up to 75 percent in oakland. >> with three months to go until levi stadium opens fans can check out the stadium because the team will offer tours year round for $25. that is a lot less than the minimum game ticket price of 895. the tour includes a walk through the stadium, a visit to the locker room of the gold rush cheerleaders and a copy of the
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office of bill walsh and a museum will be open each day so fans can check out exhibits. a dad may just be the coolest day in the world. he followed through on the son's wish to have their own roller coaster in the backyard of their orinda home. so for six months will has been spent thousands of dollars and countless hours building a ride that make as loop 180' around. he could not thing after good reason to say "no" to his two kids when they asked if they could turn their space backyardo an amusement park. >> i bet the neighborhood kids want to have their party this. >> dude you set the bar incredibly high for the rest of us. >> your trampoline doesn't cut it? >> no, trampoline, hot wheels
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track. michael? >> jumpy house. >> that doesn't equal roller coster. >> batting cage? >> good opens. an option to stay warm. the stay inside out of the breeze that is out this. let me go over here and see if i can get the computer to work. morning because of the winds. we are doing fine. here is the visibility on live doppler 7 hd pretty much unlimited at seven miles so haze at half moon bay. from sutro tower this is how it looks, you can see how clear the air is because of the series of weak waves that have cleaned out the pollution and the humidity
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and will keep us breezy and clear the clouds hanging around. light rain on thursday, and dry and warm is consist i for mother's day weekend. temperatures today are going to run one to seven degrees warmer than yesterday and closer to average with mid-to-upper 60 at hayward and san francisco and oakland and low-to-mid 70's around san jose and san rafael and danville. the area of low pressure over us, spinning around, and notice where the prevailing wind is coming from alaska so it has been cooler-than-average and it is why the air is so clean. upper 60's to low 70's in the south bay today and mid-60's to nearly 70 north and south on the peninsula and upper 50's to nearly 60 along the coast and 64 downtown and south san francisco and sausalito is 65 and low-to-mid 70's through the north bay valley and along the east bay shore we have upper 60's and will touch the 70's and
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everyone is breezy today. we are in the mid-40's to upper 40's in most neighborhoods and 50 around san jose and low-to-mid we oakland and san francisco and half moon bay. slightly warmer on wednesday and cooler with a chance of a shower on thursday and temperatures above average open friday through the week. >> we have 129 bart trains running on time so if you are headed to bart you will not be delayed. ace train one is one minute early. in the east bay at alameda we have a closure until 5:00 this morning and westbound from antioch to concord is 14 minutes and 101 southbound from san rafael to san francisco is 17 minutes.
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the bay bridge toll plaza shows traffic is moving smoothly from emeryville with no delays there and, certainly, the cashpayers have their money in their hands. >> an important change is going to affect come mights who use the golden gate bridge on saturday from 1:00 o'clock to 6:00 a.m., northbound highway one is closed from lake street to the bridge so crews can shift traffic on to a temporary road. it is part of the parkway project. over the next month, highway 101 northbound will split before the toll follow and you need to be in the right lane before the split to take the last san francisco exit. that is, if you don't want to get on the bridge. >> yummy, yummy, the best of the best, a major national honor for bay area restaurants. >> a sweet welcome, a special treat that passengers at oakland international airport are in for today. >> amazing new video of a daring stunt off new york's freedom
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tower and what three daredevils will
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>> good morning, everyone, on tuesday morning, a look from our roof tom camera you can see the flags blowing. there was a high wind advisory for the bay bridge and we will check with mike and the forecast ahead. >> we have an alert for job seekers, with a job fair today that abc is hosting, running from noon to 4:00 at the hilton garden inn in emeryville. employers will fire 500 positions. check out abc7news.com. >> san francisco's indoor restaurant is the winner of the james beard award for national outstanding restaurant of the year. it pete out two new york finalists, one from chicago, another from birmingham, and "slanted door" is located in the
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ferry building and picking up an award is patterson of big chef in the west at a restaurant on broadway. "shed" won for outstanding restaurant design. >> new yorkers may soon find it is cloudy with a chance of...grilled cheese with plans to bring a parachute-delivered grilled cheese sandwich to new york city as soon as this month. how do you get one of the sandwiches? you order by pay pal and stand on a designated x and a sandwich drops from the sky. >> you got all choked up thinking about that. mike? >> maybe it would be nice if they felt at the coffee tonight
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but it will probably not happy. maybe the home runs will bring a breeze. dropping down to 57. if you were there last night, dress the same. showers in the high country and that is where they are going to stay, a few over the coast, and upper 70's around chico and sacramento and mid-to-upper 60's around san diego and los angeles and through the when slope, another 2" of snow possible until noon today and winter weather advisory continues. we have congestion over the altamont pass so this is a patch of red with brake lights over 280. construction will last until 6:00 with two lanes from eastbound highway 24 from broadway to the caldecott tunnel so into orinda from oakland you will find that situation. the eastern span of the bay
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bridge is bouncing because of a high wind advisory. be careful. >> through details of a computer glitch that grounded flights in southern california, nevada, and arizona. the f.a.a. confirms a spy plane was responsible for the incident. the system responsible for tracking passenger jets thought it was flying lower putting the flight plan in conflict with normal air traffic and the computer re-routed so many flights that the computer crashed. the flights were okay. the computer crashed. that firsts the cancellations of dozens of flights and hundreds delayed. the f.a.a. has increased the processing power of the computer. >> in celebration of national travel and tourism week organizers who visit oakland get sweet treats at oakland aiport. officials will greet inbound passengers at the bargain claim in terminal two and hand out doughnuts.
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1,700 travelers will be the recipients from 10:00 to 11:00. oakland city hall was turning 100. the building first opened to the public in 1914 and 324 feet the first high-rise government building in the united states with the mayor proclaiming city hall senator ten criminal day and happy birthday is sung and cake and punch served. the birthday celebration is from noon to 1:00 o'clock. amazon made shopping as easy as a tweet and now you can link amazon with twitter. when you see a product you can remy to the tweet with hashtag amazon cart and they. add it to the cart as twitter looks for ways to grow and am gone looks for ways to entice customers. >> three daredevils parachuted off the freedom tower in new
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york city and posted another video and will be arraigned tomorrow. to mark the occasion they released the last of flee videos from september on youtube showing angle not previously seen in usually videos, all money earned from the videos benefit the families of 9/11 victims. >> a big embarrassment for santa clara law enforcement and at 5:00 a.m., the crime laboratory error that called hundreds of tests into question. a three for help to find hundred agreeds of kidnapped girls in africa. >> a ballot error
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news it is action on tuesday morning. thanks for starting your day with us. first up, a check on the weather forecast. a few degrees cooler as i stepped outside. >> absolutely. that is because of this little disturbance pulling in the cooler air right new and notice the radar runs are moving through the eastern section of the contra costa and alameda county and a few sprinkles of detected through the altamont pass and some of the wind mills if you are traveling through that way maybe you are getting wet. the first forecast shows we will be mostly sunny, 65 to 71 and 75 inland. up to 64 into san francisco.

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