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only from xfinity. >> live from the kgo broadcast center, this is abc7 news. >> the beginnings of a bay area heat wave. this is a live look from our exploratorium camera. it is still warm out there. >> oh yeah, and it will be so hot. a heat advisory has been issued and people are having to figure outweighs to stay cool. the temperature is going up. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jennings in for carolyn johnson. sandhya now with how long the heat will stick around. >> we are looking at at least three days for the bay area. we will see changes on the third day. live doppler 7hd right now is tracking mainly clear skies. we do have the heat advisory starting tomorrow afternoon at 1:00. it covers all of the bay area in the monterey bay with the exception of the north bay coast and the san francisco coastline. it runs until wednesday at 8:00 p.m. we are expecting warm nights in the hills and highs in the 90s for the bay.
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mid-nineties to low 100 ace -- 100's inland so we are looking at heat-related illnesses. as you look at the current temperatures we are still holding on to low 70s. san francisco, livermore, antioch just a sign of what is to come. i'll be back with a look at that hot forecast in a few minutes. cheryl? >> sandhya, thank you. the heat could be a crucial factor when cyclists race up mount diablo tomorrow afternoon. >> cheryl if you find knee high stockings along the route of the race it is being used as ice bags. you may see them. the climb is tough, but the heat could be the biggest challenge. temperatures could be in nineties. it will require cyclists to
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drink about 20 of these bottles during the race. >> in a single hour if they are not gulping as much possible, they are never going to make it. >> for the first time they will have this neutral hydration car supporting every racer. >> if are you in a group you need the neutral car. >> they don't drink. they gulp. >> they created a special formula he describes as sweat in a bottle. >> if you have a little sugar and sodium with a drink you are actually going to be able to move water faster. >> and the next two days will be spare the air days when the high temperatures bake the exhaust into a toxic smog. commuters are being asked to leave their cars at home. >> i am riding my motorcycle. last week i road my bicycle in. it is a 10-mile commute one way. i am doing what i can. i drive a hybrid regularly 1k3 1k3 -- and i carpool with my wife. >> it is not supposed to cool off until the end of the
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week. alan wang, abc7 news. >> you can track the weather anytime world trade with the abc7 news app. breaking news police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who rammed into a car and left two injured people behind. it happened at lincoln avenue and 23rd street. video shows the victims being pulled from the crumpled car. the injuries are considered serious. the hit-and-run driver left on foot and left his ford truck full of construction materials behind. a big change to the golden gate bridge. they are passing a testimony pour rear -- temporary exit. it is closer than the exit they are used to taking. cornell bernard is live at the golden gate bridge with how this change is really throwing people off. you have seen some wild maneuvers out there today. >> it has been incredible.
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change is not coming easy to many drivers. the last san francisco exit has been reconfigured. and you will not believe the crazy risks people are taking to avoid crossing the golden gate bridge. watch as the driver of this bmw actually stops in the middle of northbound 101. bypassing the dividers and the cones to take the exit ramp. he takes a dangerous right turn and then drives the wrong way down an on-ramp almost colliding with an suv. we saw this happened with confused drivers over and over. cal trans moved the last exit before the golden gate. it was a thousand feet south due to construction on the presidio parkway. the exit is clearly, mad. marked. >> if you miss it you are going across the golden gate bridge. it is unfortunate. it is a learning curve. we need people to know the exit has moved. >> chp was on duty to stop drivers from taking the old exit, but when we saw officers
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leave we saw cars stoping in traffic and even like this guy backing dune the on-ramp -- backing down the on-ramp. >> people know the way. when you change it it is confusing for the people driving. >> the chp will be citing drivers who try stunts like this. cornell bernard, abc7 news. a hiker injured trying to climb a water fall had to be airlifted to safety. the 20-year-old called 9-1-1. he said he was a mile from fairway drive west. he fell 25 feet and broke his leg. the chopper pulled him free so he could be taken away in an ambulance. a man in sunnyvale interrupted a break in at his own home. it happened on east el camino real. police say the man heard a commotion and confronted two men and then chased them outside. he grabbed one of them who pulled a gun. during a struggle it went off. the bullet hit a metal railing
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and no one was hurt. but it was that close. witnesses saw the men take off in a red mercedes suv with white lettering on the back window. new details about an on-line fundraiser started by san jose police. it has now raised more than $48,000 for the family of a murder victim. lam left behind a wife and two children, one with severe autism. they have no other family in the u.s. lam worked seven days a week to support his family. police are searching for the man who shot and killed him during a road rage incident. >> dozens of people gathered in palo alto to bring attention to the. jeer yen girls -- to the nigerian girls. they report a well-known civil rights activist made a surprise visit. >> in the heart of downtown palo alto, the sound of drums called the community together. some even brought their children. >> it is a very important thing for them to learn when something evil is happening in
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the world we are called to respond. >> they are respond together kidnapping of the nigerian schoolgirls. this video shows some of them reciting prayers in arabic. they say no one will see the girls again unless the nigerian government releases prisoners. he decided to spend his free time at this event. >> these girls being captured, the innocence of the girls has touched us. >> organizers say this is the beginning. they plan to hold these events regularly until the girls are brought back home. in palo alto, lilian kim, abc7 news. >> it is the underground market place where you can buy anything, anything. guns, drugs, you name it. >> dan noyes investigated what
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is called the dark net. what he found was so scary. >> all it it takes to access it is a computer and internet connection. kids are having a hard time keeping up. even more shocking is who designed it in the first place? >> and incredible video of an explosion that literally blew the doors off of this home. >> and video of a deadly hot air balloon fire that a killed four people. first, here is jimmy kimmle. >> here is some of the magic waiting for you after the news. >> unless you won a grammy you can't even touch -- oh my god. >> i touched it.
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this dramatic scene in new hampshire. it all started with a domestic disturbance call. the responding officer was shot and killed when he entered the home which then caught fire. the gunman died inside the house as well. officials say he lived there with his elderly father who was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries. new video shows a hot air balloon shortly after it burst into flames. it hit a power line in virginia. witnesses watched as two people fell screaming to the ground. the pilot also died. investigators are trying to determine if weather was a factor. that's awful. we rarely if ever can say a story affected every person who is watching, and we can say that is true with this i team investigation. >> whether worried about violence in schools or children using dangerous drugs
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or credit cards getting into the wrong hands. >> you will want to hear what dan has found on the dark net. >> dan and cheryl, this one really hit home. after i started researching the story i discussed it with my 12-year-old son. his answer, oh yeah, my friend went on the dark net during school a couple days ago and found an ak47 for sale and how to hire a hitman. it is real. we all should know it is out there. i met a college student in hollister just south of gilroy last week who describes himself as an anarchist. he protests against government. he shows me how to use the dark net. he used a special program to log on anonymously and pulled up his history of psychedelic drugs, lsd and dmt. he used them using bit coin and the drugs arrived by mail. he said the dark net is freedom. >> it is like an amazon for
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contraband. if there is something i want and i can't get it on the street which i try not to because it is dangerous to get that from the street. >> reporter: the dozens of market places on the dark net have all sorts of drugs, illegal ones and ones that require a prescription and guns. here is an ak47 for $2,200. no background check required. you can buy a bulk pack of working credit card numbers for $10. rent a hacker to ruin's someone life for 280 or hire a hitman for $10,000 with a few exception. no children under 16 and no top 10 politicians. the college student defends most of it, but not the exploitation found on the net? >> how about the child porn? >> that's a whole other story. i am not condoning child pornography. actually we know a group of people that are dedicated to taking down all of the child porn on the dark web. >> it is like the wild west. >> it has been equated to that. the wild west at least had
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guns and there was a sheriff. the problem is there is nobody supervising what is going on. there is no lone ranger protecting people. >> he allowed us unprecedented access for a seminar by law enforcement about the dark net. >> we need to get them in a position they reveal who they are. >> they have made some arrests. a florida teen picked up for selling a deadly poison to undercover agents he met on a dark net market place. 14 men busted in march for their child porn site so the dark net. the most famous case, arrested at san francisco's glen park library last october for running the largest dark net market place, silk road. >> and silk road is back up? >> yes. it came back up within like two weeks. >> local police are having a hard time understanding the dark net activity and finding the time. >> law enforcement has so many
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other things to do that spending that amount of time is difficult. >> a key to making the dark net possible is a program built by the government. the i team came to the naval research laboratory in washington washington, d.c. to meet one of the founders of tor. it stands for the onion router. >> overall it is two steps forward and one step back. but it has been growing steadily. >> in his first television interview he explained that he and two colleagues designed tor for military application. >> suppose somebody is in a hotel somewhere and they need to communicate back to their home base, and they don't necessarily want the local isp to know who they work for. >> 5,000 people around the world volunteered their computers to act as relays in the tor network. the program randomly chooses three of them.
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as the communication moves along it is changing its appearance. and the idea is that there is no single point that can see both where the communication started and where it ends. >> in one of our sessions tor shows the last computer was in germany. there is no way to trace it back to the bay area. they realized early on that it needed to be an open source. anyone can look at the computer code and use it freely. >> if you use a network just for the government anything popping out is known to be coming from the navy and anything going in is going to the navy. >> the technology and former cia employee edward snowden used tor to leak thousands of pages of classified documents. still, the department is one of the major sponsors of the project. the nonprofit in boston that
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now oversees the program. >> one of our funders is the state department. they are all about democracy and human rights and training labor activists on how to get on-line safely. >> for example, the iranian opposition used tor to up load video of an unarmed woman killed during the 2009 protest sparking international outrage. the tor director says they are in arms race with iran, china, syria and kazakstan and others. >> they all rolled outweighs to investigate tor and block tor. or at least discover who is using tor and when. we have a team of researchers who think about these things all day long. >> on the one hand the state department funds tor. but homeland security is trying to catch those who use it to break the law. officials decline to be interviewed saying these investigations are new territory and we don't want to give too much info to the bad
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guys. one other thing. he pled guilty and is scheduled for a hearing. >> scary. >> wide ranging and used in ways good and bad. >> amazing story. thank you so much. let's turn our attention back to the heat that is here and will intensity. >> and last awhile. sandhya? >> the temperatures will sore the next two days. today we were on the warm side. we got to the upper 80s and low 90s. we will get into the hot territory. live doppler 7hd is showing you mainly clear conditions across the bay area. looking at clear skies across san francisco. air quality is going down so a second spare the air has been issued for tomorrow. this is the second of 2014. santa clara valley will have to deal with poor air quality. there is no fog in san
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francisco. we are not going to see it for a few days. 63 in san francisco. 64 oakland. near 70 degrees in redwood city and san jose and gilroy. half moon bay, are you one of our cool spots with enough of a sea breeze to knock the temperature down to 51. upper 50s around novato and we are at 70 degrees in livermore. the visibility is looking good across the bay. mild morning for most areas. record highs possible during this time period especially on wednesday. you look at the satellite and radar and you look at the curvature of the clouds. strong ridges developing and this ridge is what will bring us the heat. it is the heat you expect to see in our inland areas in july. the wind will switch directions and it swings around and it will bring the
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hot weather with it toward the beaches. you are going to warm up at the coastline as well. looking at the temperature trend for the week ahead. san jose tomorrow 94 degrees and then 97 and then dropping off and back to the cooler territory. until then it will get hot. tomorrow morning most areas in the 50s. starting out mild. a few upper 40s in the north bay and along the coast. most of you can do without that extra layer tomorrow afternoon. it is going to get hot. los gatos, 90 throughy in sunnyvale. 93 mountain view and 84 on the coast in pacifica. that's warm for you. 88 downtown san francisco. 85 daly city. north bay low 90s. head out toward the east bay and you are going to feel the heat there. 90 in oakland and san leandro and inland spots are getting toasty. 95 fairfield and93 in pleasanton. just in case you decide to head to the coast, long periods of southerly swell
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will raise the risk of rip currents as we head to the time period. accu-weather seven-day forecast strip -- triple digits on wednesday. we will drop your numbers in land on thursday and a lot more at the coast with the fog returning. and it is much cooler for the week end. carolyn and dan, 70s by the weekend. >> it is time for sports. >> meek shumann is here. >> they like the weather. the giants bench was tested. he says, i got this. g men return home with a big win over the braves. ♪ ♪ thank you!
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brandon belt broke his thumb and will be out six weeks after surgery tomorrow. michael moore started at first base with colvin replacing him. bottom of second and third game with the giants. first start. see ya. all the way to the cove. the first of the season and 1-0g men. tim lincecum's best start and 11 strikeoutsouts and in seven and two-thirds innings. two men on and a triple down the line. sanchez and crawford score. the giants return home with a 4-2 victory. a's hosting the white sox. top two and jesse chavez pitching. a's third homer of the year. strikes him out and one of his seven k's. and then donaldson deep shot and his eighth of the year.
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t's the pete in today's economy?r kidse woman: a well-rounded education that focuses on science, math, and career training for students who don't choose college. man: and that's exactly what superintendent of public education tom torlakson has been working on. woman: because every student needs the real world skills for the jobs of tomorrow. man: torlakson's career readiness initiative is helping schools expand job and technical training across the state because it makes a difference. woman: so tell tom torlakson to keep fighting for the career and technical training our students need.
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lillard said no way. 25 points and acrobatic lay up. they got the bounces. wesley matthews throws it up and in. he survives to live another day. spurs up 3-1 in the series. ducks and kings in anaheim. tied at one and smith-pellly scores back to back goals. fourth and fifth playoff goals. anaheim has won three straight, 4-3 your final. i'm usually busy -- an unusually busy monday night.
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