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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. tenants in this san francisco apartment building are furious about a note say they have to prove they 18 at least $100,000 a year to stay in the building. good morning, i am kristen sze. >> more than two dozen units are in the building and the tenants are trying to figure out if that demand is legal. amy hollyfield has the story. amy? yes, an attorney tells us the landlord is taking it too far. they say they are seeing a lot of that these days as rents
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continue to go up. >> residents say it was a rude awakening to get a letter slipped under their door from the landlord. >> that is a little strange. they could not believe that the minimum income must be $100,000 to live there. an apartment building located at height at fillmore. >> kind of a joke. i am a resident, you can't change anything. but it sets a bad tone. >> the a woman who lives in another building worries she is next. >> will i get kicked out? i will not bible -- i will not be able to afford living here. i am a teacher. >> residents do not need to panic. >> there is nothing in a law that requires them to show their income or credit. >> she says the rental market is
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so hot right now she was not surprised and landlords can make demands on future tenants. for new tenants there is nothing that brother hints requiring of certain income requirements and credit level checks. she says her office has been more busy this year than before but you can only be evicted for 15 reasons in san francisco. if you feel like your landlord is bullying you, check with the san francisco rent board or an attorney. as far as this landlord goes, we have made several attempts to reach tout him and ask about this but he has not returned our calls. fresh fears for pet owners in san francisco after another instance of tainted meet balls was discovered in the city. the latest discoveries with made yesterday morning near the sunset reservoir at 24th avenue and ortega, a woman found
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a paper plate of large meat bulls stuffed with pills and coins on it. doc owners are worried and angry >> its is terrible. this has happened in other areas of the city. we have talked about it here, the people i see in the morning but we never expected this to happen here. police do not know yet if they are connected to other tainted meet balls found near twin peaks this year and investigators have sent the meatballs to a lab for testing. >> police are not looking for a gunman on the run in the case of two men found dead in a town home. matt keller joins us from san jose with more on the tragic story. this is unusual with san jose homicide debtives looking to interview people associated with two men found shot to death in a close knit neighborhood. ought sadness of a neighborhood is expressed in the small
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memorial outside a town home where a sign says "rest in peace, kevin," kevin and another were killed by gunfire, neighbors heard the shots but no one called 9-1-1. >> there was a game or something or cinco demayo or...but...not >> it was a might their at 3:30 yesterday afternoon. a neighbor says weapon june's girlfriend discovered the body inside the home along with the body of her ex-husband who was suffering from terminal cancer. police say both men were in their 50's and had one gunshot wound. officers are not looking if any other suspects and believe they wered only people involved we in what appears to be a murder-suicide. kevin was a nice behind and leaves behind three daughters. detectives are try to determine what led to the shooting. >> we are talking to people who are familiar with the two. they are known to each other.
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again, i am sure there is a lot of if that has been provided to the detectives and they are working through all the details before though go ahead and make a final determination. >> right now, a death is considered a homicide and the other a suicide so the homicide count in the city of san jose goes up by one, to 14, one ahead of last year's pace. thank you, matt, the teen who snuck on a hawaii-bound flight is back home but not in the clear. the police will interview the 15-year-old to determine if a crime was committed when he stowed an on the flight to hawaii. he returned to the bay area this weekend and he has not seen his family and under the care of child protective services. that is according to our media partner, and has been in hawaii, if a hospital, for two weeks being treated for breathing problems. police want to know how he made it on to the runway of mineta
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san jose international airport and say charges could be filed if investigators determine that he broke the law. 840 pages. four years in the making. the new national climate assess ment report paints a bleak picture of global warming or climb disruption. katie marzullo has specific findings for california. >> california falls under the southwest category when you breakdown the report by region and finds the region climate could affect health and tourism. >> overall, scientists fine that the past ten years have been the warmest decade since records have been kept and that temperatures are propertied to rise another two- to four-degrees fahrenheit in most areas of the united states over the next few decades. >> the best climate scientists from across the united states, not just in the public sector but private sector have worked
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for four years to produce the report. >> california is the hottest hod driest in the united states and the southwest will only get hotter and more severe droughts, more wildfires, and potentially, a hit to tourism. scientists say reduced stream flow and a shorter snow season influences everything from the ski step to lake and river recreation. that is in addition to let water if cities and ecosystems. it is hazardous to your health increasing the risk of breathing stress from poor air quality, heat stress and the spread of food borne and insect borne and waterborne diseases. the report also says that it is not too late to prevent the worst. the white house spokesman touting president obama's climate action plan. >> he has been moving forward on the climate action plan to reduce carbon pollution. for example, influence the rules on power plans.
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also, to make federal lands available if renewable energy production. to support innovative andens have ad fossil energy. >> we posted the report if you would like to read right. president obama is coming to california tomorrow in his three-day trip which ends with an energy event in san jose on friday. happening now, the sonoma county board and meeting to discuss the fate of a colleague acquitted of peeping charges. officials will decide if any action should be taken against the supervisor, efren carrillo, who was acquitted of peeping through a neighbor's window while wearing only his underwear and socks. he admitted he was drunk and looking for sex but blamed the insurance dented on a problem with alcohol. some officials plan to push for his removal from the board. still to come an academic first for a bay area college and what it says about women breaking the glass ceiling. >> monica lewinsky breaks a deck
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aid -- decade of silence and what she wants to do with the famous blue dress. a look outside right now of the embarcadero if san francisco and the ferry building with the skies clear. still, rather chilly and meteorologist mike nicco is of using toothpaste to clean a denture. but dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can grow and multiply. polident is specifically designed to clean dentures daily. its unique micro-clean formula kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains, cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. that's why dentists recommend polident.
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>> monica lewinsky is breaking silence for the first time since the mid-in knew's affair with former president clinton. in an article for "vanity fair," she writes "it is time to bury the blue dress," the famous piece of stained clothing after an encounter with the former president and wrote of the humiliation she has endured since the affair which she writes was consensual, and was inspired after the 2010 college student who killed himself after the room made filmed him kissing another man. our history was made at the university of san francisco maiming the first dean of the school of management, dr. davis is the first woman to run the program in the 90-year-old now a dean at the university of new haven in cut cut and will take the reigns in august. he started as a researcher at duke and rose to become c.e.o. of the national disease research interchange which has a location
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in san francisco. commercial salmon fishermen hauled in quite a cash, a fleet of fishing boats unloaded thousands of pounds of fresh california king salmon a few hours ago. it is the first catch since the commercial salmon season opened south of mendocino county. the fish will be sold at restaurants and high-end super markets and salmon will be headed out when the winds die down. >> last night we from filed the work of some amazing service dogs trained right here in the bay area. now we want to introduce to you a member of the organization and his dog. first, a quick look at what makes the dogs trained by dogs for diabetics in concord, so unique much the dogs will alert people with thy -- with diabetes when their blood level is dropping. we joined by dr. wolf from dogs for diabetics and his service dog. >> thanks for having me.
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>> absolutely, so, you are diabetic. how long have you been together? >> i got kermit in march of 2012. >> we talked how the dogs are changed to signal when they smell a change in your body chemistry. >> come here, come here, boy. the signal we believe is released from the liver and he picks up on any drop in blood sugar, more than ten percent in ten minutes he gets up to my breath. good boy! when he grabs that, my signal is to say let's see and when i say that, i test my blood sure enough, if it has dropped, he get as reward.
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>> he does, it was 180 and now i am 163. >> nice, nice, good boy! good boy! >> he predicts and beats the devices? >> he alerts to any drop of more than ten percent in ten minutes and presticks that within 30 seconds. my pump takes 30 minutes to catch the same. >> we don't have time to go into details of the one time he really saved your life but i will write about that on facebook so folks can get it this and for folks interested in helping out or to get one of the amazing dogs, they can go to our website because we have a link to dogs for diabetics. >> thank you, steve, and thank you, ker. in it. >> good bio! >> fan floridan
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good morning, everyone, total sunshine after a few sprinkles and light showers in the eastern part of the bay we have another chance of light rain before a big-time warning for mother's day with the details coming up in the "7 on your side". >> a study explains how college can help buy happiness and college. it is not what comes to your mind.
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>> breaking news from san jose where a shooting along extra and kelly roads, a big police presence is in the area right now with traffic allowed to move through but we have a dozen cop cars right there and right now the police are looking at a silver s.u.v. pulled over near a corner, a small navy car and a red sedan across the street. they have seen blood on the ground near the area. we will continue to follow this story for you. we want to push our attention to the weather we are having. meteorologist mike nicco, this is cool for this time of year, right? >> a little. especially considering how much sunshine we have right now and right now the winds have calmed but they will pick up as we head into the afternoon as the storm system finally passes to the south. it is still lingering around the high country. check out lake tahoe this
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morning. it is still snowing and the winter weather advisory until noon with another inch or so at noon. much needed snow but too little too late but it is something. with the winds picking up later today, sfo is going to have an airport weather warning from 1:00 o'clock to 9:00 with west winds gusts to 40 knots so landing will be bumpy. right now, with the low that brought us the scatter scattered light showers it has moved to the south but it interrupted the flow pattern for the next hour and it will start to pick up around 1:00 o'clock and it will be breezy like yesterday afternoon. our temperatures under the calmer conditions, maybe a degree or two higher than this time yesterday, with mid-to-upper 50's at half moon bay and san francisco and elsewhere, low-to-mid 60's until antioch and fairfield and 67 and 69. check out lake merritt looking nice from the east bay hills camera and total sunshine and
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breezy and a chance of light rain open thursday and it will be dry and warmer than average for mother's day and maybe some good beach water. san jose, good morning, you are going to be three degrees warmer today, at 70, and all of us are one to seven degrees warmer with san rafael at 72 in here is what is going on upstairs we are stuck in a bell of cooler air and unsettled weather. systems will develop on the back side of the low and slide down the jet stream toward us and that is going to happen on thursday. right now we are between systems but with the low hanging around we will keep our temperatures at or below average with the breeze s at dropping to 65 in millbrae and nearly 60 at the coast and mid-60's downtown, and south san francisco and sausalito and low-to-mid 70's through the north bay valleys and mid-to-upper 60's look the east bay shore and low-to-mid 70's into the east bay valley. if you headed to the game, almost as cool and breezy as its was last night at 7:05 first
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pitch and 61 dropping down to 57. we will keep dropping down to the mid-40's to low 50's and tomorrow evening at 11:00 you can see increasing clouds and by thursday morning we beginning to -- going to break out in drizzle with scattered and light rain and it is gone on friday and warmth on saturday, sunday and monday we could be in our 90's and 80 around the bay and 70's at the coast the rain on thursday will not be much but it could be enough near the coast and some of our higher elevations will be slick for the morning commute. we will keep an cry on it. >> a new poll finds that the most prestigious schools do not produce the happiest or best workers. it found inspiring professors who believed in their students make more of a difference in a graduate success and happiness. thest kid posted in the "wall street journal" looked at 30,000 graduates of all ages and found that only 39 percent of college graduates feel engaged at work and 11 percent report they are thriving with financial ability
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and sense purpose. >> abc7 is hosting a job fair from noon to 4 at the hilton garden inn. employers will hire for more than 500 positions and with details on our website check out abc7news.com. >> we have a shopperiods' alert, at home at 30 percent to 70 percent off the regular prices or to limited sails. if you have something that needs to be returned you can mail it back or return it to a store. >> the bay area backyard turned into a thrill ride making kids' dream
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has ator afib.rillation, 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. 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.
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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 the risk of stroke with pradaxa.
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re i look,.. and a congress standing in the. way. their budgets are late; jobs bills are stalled... and special nterests run rampant. as an economics teacher at stanford, i know education means good jobs. so here's my plan: i'd start teaching computer coding in public schools right away. open doors for women in science and technology. and prepare young people for middle class manufacturing jobs. i'm ro khanna and i approve this message, because change starts with us. >> coming up, the hollywood biggest names are turning their backs on the beverly hills hotel. at 5:00, in time for mother's day, "7 on your side" reveals what you need to know about buying flowers online. >> east bay dad could be the coolest dad in the world. here is why. he followed through on a wish of the sons to have their own
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roller coaster in backyard of their orinda home. for six months, he has spent countless hours, thousands of dollars building a ride that make as loop 180' around. >> he could not think of a good reason to say "no" when he asked if they could turn the backyard into an amusement park. >> how about neighbors coming over at all hours asking for a ride? you have new friends. >> how fun is that. >> for all of us, thanks for joining us today.
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