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san francisco man is over. ending three miles from where it began. ryan kelly chamberlain is if san francisco county jail after being taken into custody laugh night at crissy field. >> this cell phone video of the dramatic arrest, a long time political operative and media consultant was on the run since saturday. that is when the fbi agents found explosives in his apartment in san francisco. authorities knew he was in town after tracking him in the height where he used an a.t.m. at a bar. they got a tip his car was in the parking lot at the marina. he reached out on social media yesterday postage long letter on facebook that many interpreted as a suicide note. in the letter he flames online sevens for the saturday f.b.i. raid and betray l as by his mom,
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girlfriend and best friend left him depressed. >> he never exhibited any peculiar behavior or did anything to raise our suspicion that he might be involved in nefarious activity. >> on twitter he tried to defend himself saying he was not armed and no one was ever in danger. matt keller will have a report at the top of the hour. >> developing news which could be bad for commuters, muni employees could sage another sickout. efforts yesterday tripled the bus and train service. amy hollyfield is at the muni station. >> i got a text from the muni spokesman "100 additional vehicles are on the street today but significant impact to riders remain." it look like you will want to rethink your commute if you use muni and maybe it will not be as
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bad but it doesn't sound great. >> officials have raised the stakes saying if they call in sick they better have a doctor's note if they want to get paid but some could city be staying home of the commuters crammed on the few buses and trains running with all of the workers or a lot of workers calling in sick. some waited an hour for a bus and some commuters reached their boiling point. >> i would fire every muni bus drive. >> it is humiliating. >> here is where the because sat. most of them were in the yard, two-thirds of the muni vehicles did not go out on the street. the union did not comment only saying they did not organize a sickout but there is a contract dispute going on between labor and management and a lot of the
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employees called in sick yesterday. we will be at the west portal station watching to see house commute goes. >> we will have continuing coverage of the muni sickout on air and on twitter. follow us with the latest heading out the door at abc7 news. >> a primary we will watch is the mayor for race in san jose including the candidates is vice mayor and santa clara county supervisor, and a city council man, and a councilwoman, all competing for a run off position in the november election to replace outgoing mayor. two have seen huge backing by political action committees.
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>> speaking of rose herrera she was hospitalized yesterday after dizziness and elevated blood pressure during a forum on mound and taken to the hospital where she stayed overnight. doctors thing she may have had a virus resulting from an inner ear infection. it is not clear when she can return to work. >> medical marijuana dispensaries are offering a discount on pot to nose would prove they voted in the primary. collectives are handing out a list referred candidates with predictions of the lowest voter turn outs in history the silicon valley cannabis coalition hopes the weed for votes campaign increases turnout. >> in san francisco, voters will decide the fate of proposition (b) which is aimed at protecting the waterfront and requires developers to seek future voter approval to build luxury condos or towers on property along the waterfront. >> other races we will watch include the south baconnal race
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between seven term democratic incumbent and democratic challenger. in the east bay district 11 four democrats and a republican are fighting to replace george miller who is retiring after representing that district since the 1970's. voters today will decide the state senate race between east bay assembly man and form assemblywoman who now is on parole for shoplifting. >> governor brown maintained a huge lead ahead of the primary and will likely face one these two republicans in november: assemblyman donnelly or neel kashkari. brown is seeking up police denned fourth term as governor. polls open at 7:00 and close at 8:00 tonight with election results as soon as the polls close and on twitter found at twitter@abc7newsbayarea with
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coverage at 9:00 on "coffee 20" and news at 1 with complete results tomorrow here. the coast guard is searching for a person missing from a sunken sailboat near sausalito. the coast guard received a distress signal at 4:30 yesterday morning. crews found the partly sunken vessel. is the scene near the golden gate bridge with investigators believing there was only one person on board and the better was headed to hawaii from alameda. >> four sheriff deputies involved in the deadly program page in isla vista are running to duty. they were placed on routine leave after they were involved in two gun battles with elliot rodger may 23. elliot rodger shot six people and 13 other victims. three were students from san jose and fremont. >> kidney transplant is schedule
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today for a petaluma couple who found their birthday is a match. the relationshippened after -- relationshippened after eight years. 18 months good morning her kidneys failed and her name was place on a long shot list of donors and he was the perfect map. he sacrificed going on a national tour so he could give her his kidney. >> would you like a debriefing, mike? >> no moisture coming in this morning. >> good morning, much, here is a look at the winds, all blowing onshore. we have construction out there.
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now, what amy hollyfield reported about muni, they will add 100 additional vehicles but expect delays. we are still going to expect lots of delays on muni today so plan ahead. maybe use a different form of transportation to get where you need to be. along 80 westbound direction between buchanan and powell we have construction that will last until 5:00 this morning when you get on the bay bridge, we have construction in the westbound direction and that is going to wrap up at 5:00. the san mateo bridge is clear and you can see it is not so hazy. the last several mornings, as you make the drive across the water from hayward into foster city, you are looking at telephone-minute commute so it is clear, eastbound traffic has no delays. katie and eric? >> wal-mart and the federal government head to court in oakland with what the feds accuse the giant of doing to some workers. >> rebound is in only listened
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this morning on the first leg of a european trip making a special anniversary. >> is there such a thing as storm sexism? the name of a hurricane could put people at risk. but, first, tech bytes. >> good morning, apple unveils new products at the worldwide developers conference. it is packed with lots of new features including health and activity tracker that, ons your fitness activity and the "wall street journal" reporter has that report. >> people will notice changes in the messaging app, you can have video or voice message, and changes to the keyboard that predict your text, and new photo-editing features. >> new call this "underwhelming." >> apple unveiled the new mac rating system, which more closely resembles the enter --
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interface the iphone and ipad
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>> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> it is tuesday morning. overnight we have had some cooler temperatures and maybe mist and drizzle. a hearing is underway under whether wal-mart disciplined or fired workers illegally for unlawfully threatening and trace palestinianed and fired workers for taking parts in strikes and protests when they walked off pushing for better pay and benefits in 2012 and 2013. the case involved 60 wal-mart workers and 19 were fired.
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wal-mart claims the ass were within their rights. >> president obama arrived in warsaw to commemorate 25 years since poland emerged from communism after touring a hangar with the polish president he defended the prisoner exchange to secure the release of bowe bergdahl saying we do not lieberman men in uniform behind. he'll stop in brussels to speak with g7 leaders and wrap up in normandy on friday to come memorial rate the 70th anniversary of d-day. >> bowe bergdahl continues to recover this morning after five years in taliban custody. he is expected to see his parents tomorrow in san antonio but the re-entry interest seven life could be especially challenging given the controversy surrounding hisry lease. >> sergeant bowe bergdahl is hospitalized in stable condition, some of the fellow soldiers are making stunning accusations about his capture by the taliban.
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>> he walked away. he walked off the base. the fact is, he deserted us in the middle of afghanistan, to go and fine the taliban. >> when bowe bergdahl arrived, his fellow soldiers say he began complaining of the united states role in the war and the pentagon never said on the record he walked away from the post but months into the deployment, he disappeared leashing his body arm, weapon and helmet behind. the united states launched a massive search that bowe bergdahl team leader former army sergeant and others say resulted in the deaths of american soldiers. >> people calling him a hero and calling him this great soldier? it is a spit in the face to the soldiers who died we as a direct result to him leaving. >> also, there are questions about the price of bowe bergdahl's freedom. some say it was too high to security hisry lease, the obama administration freed five high-risk taliban detainees seen in this video arriving to a
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hero's welcome in qatar. >> these are very seasoned we strategic leaders of the taliban. >> republicans say the prisoner swap was a bad deal. >> you have to be concerned not only about the principle of negotiating with terrorists. >> the white house says trade for sergeant bowe bergdahl was right thing to do. >> he is treated in germany and will travel to a san antonio medical center and reunited with the family. we have fought heard his side of story. sexism could put people in danger, from hurricanes. researchers at the university of illinois fund storms with female names were three times more likely to kill someone than those with male names examining death tolls from the last six decades, and feminine sounding names averaged 42 deaths while the meal sounding name were 15
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deaths. female themes seem less threatening so people are less likely to seek shelter. >> anyone care to weigh? >> when it is 180 miles per hour wind, i am seeking shelter. >> the ins are variable, i hope they look at other program step not just whether a woman's hurricane killed more than a man. >> you are so deep. >> a deep meteorologist. >> you are throwing out that katie kills more people than eric? >> with kindness. >> moving on, yes, we will move on. here is live doppler 7 hd with the cloud cover over most of our neighborhoods and the cloud cover came in quicker but i
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don't think it is so thick this morning so hopefully we can get sunshine quicker. here is sfo, something we will keep an eye on with the clouds hangover it and maybe some delays this morning, and we will have afternoon sun and temperatures are close to average and yesterday was probably the coolest day this week. our nights are lets cloudy as the high pressure takes over and that is going to bring the summer heat as we get deeper into the forecast. as far as today, you can see by 7:00, all of us have clouds and maybe more broken as you head down to the south and to the east bay but it will be more than yesterday. by 10:00 or 11:00 the clouds are at the coast and the coast will see more sunshine but the winds keep you stuck in the 60's and 70's and a few more 80's are possible inland. >> we will tart to the south where we have 80 as los gatos and everyone else is in the mid-to-upper 70's and cool spot is milpitas at 72 and santa cruz at 68. we will have low-to-mid 70's for most of the peninsula and milbrae at 66 and 61 at half
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moon bay and everyone else is in the upper 50's along the coast and mid-60's downtown, south san francisco, and sausalito. ten degrees warmer through the valleys with low-to-mid 70's and a lost 50's hang on at your coast where you will see more sunshine and upper 60's to low 70's along the east bay shore from 67 at berkeley to 72 in castro valley. inland we have upper 70's around walnut creek and san ramon and low-to-mid 80's for everyone else. headed to the coach? we just beat the cardinals in st. louis, and eric popped up -- what? what? >> the cardinals are back. low-to-mid 50's tonight. the seven-day outlook shows temperatures hitting 90 inland and still 60's at the coast.
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>> now the updated information from muni, we do know there will be 100 extra vehicles added to the fleet today so rather than 200 out of 600 we had yesterday we will have 300 out of 600 so that is what of what we normally see. also, cable car service, tourists, it is not going to be in effect and we will not see the service today. bus bridges are in place instead. keep that in mind when you though work this morning. you may want to car pool. in the east bay we have a few problems on 880, one a construction project southbound 880 from davis street to marina boulevard with lanes blocked up lasting until 5:00 and we have a big rig stalled in the number four lane. in the northbound direction along 880 at 23rd avenue, another big rig has a blown out tire and they have stopped in the lane and we are seeing delays. eric and katie?
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>> big improvement coming to golden gate ferry service getting $6 million from the federal government to be used to refurbish the ms sonoma dating back to the mid-to-late 70's part of $63 million in federal greens going to 114 ferry operators across the nation. >> in swiss listen -- switzerland the first flight for the solar impulse two an aircraft that is better version of a plane that took off from the bay area last year. it operates on solar power using 17,000 panels to soak up the sun's energy. solar impulse two spent two hours in the air yesterday on the maiden voyage. here is the video, and the founders hope to fly around the world next year. >> it is 4:50. a new study shows what you can
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do today to savior life. >> facebook is letting users celebrate gay pride month in
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idl. teacher layoffs. and a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. that's what john perez faced when he be speaker of the california assembly. so he partnered with governor brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. for the first time in thirty years. today, the deficits are gone and we've invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. democrat john perez for controller.
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>> an ordinance could allow food trucks in the plaza in the limited industrial, general industrial, and water-related industrial zoning districts and the city attorney will look into whether existing food trucks could be grandfathered in at their current locations. >> if you have a dog with never ending energy you will be very interested in this invention. >> the dog owner is an engineer, and a genius, built this to allow his dog to play fetch by itself. the terrier puts the ball if the contraption and uses his body weight on the other end of the
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lever and, billion, the ball flies and the dog gives chase. >> here comes, ready drops it in. push down. bling! >> video is calling itself a new blog about awesome stuff. this qualifies as "awesome stuff." >> think of the trouble he is saving his owner. >> he comes in and the owner goes to sleep. >> a genius, like meteorologist mike nicco. >> you are as smart as the dog. >> not right now, in july we plate cardinals, not in june. right now they are in cincinnati playing the reds so don't go to at&t park. >> joey helped me out with that. oakland is 70 and 55 where we
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start off and warm up to 73 and 57. we do not get much rain, less than .2". san francisco is 66 and warms to 9 by end, and down to .16", and what to expect down in south, 77 but up to 82 by end of the month, and, still mild overnight with .1" of rain at the most. >> thank you is a mistake i would make but why think mike was comforted by that notion. >> appreciate it. >> all right. we will look at what is happening in san jose, we have clear conditions and we are accident-free and no construction along 101, 280, and 5 so top speeds for everyone. tracy to dublin is 3 minutes and highway four, antioch to concord, 41, and a look outside at 680 the drive from pleasant hill to walnut creek is moving
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along fine as you make the push to highway 24. >> a new report finds teachers and some of largest public school districts are considered chronically absent. the national council on teacher quality finds 16 percent of teachers are out of the class 18 days or more. the average time out is 11 days and that amount of team could be hurting the progress of their students. the group fines that for those in line with the average of 11 days, 71 percent of absences were for illnesses or personal leave with the rest for school business. >> medical news, scientists have solid evidence that screening of the colon saves lives. it is found that 500,000 cancers were prevented during the test period because of screening tests and, also, the number of people scened skyrocketed while cancer rates plummeted.
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>> menlo park-based facebook is celebrating pride month with new stickers to share with your friends. there are rainbows and cartoons featuring same-sex couples. the network says the stickers are another way to make facebook a place where people can name their sexual identity. >> here we go again, a muni sickout threatens to step into day two with the ultimatum by union leaders this morning. >> f.b.i. gets their man in san francisco with the manhunt ending suddenly. the most expensive political races is being decided in the east bay with a negative ad campaign that the candidates sa
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right here. my parents were immigrants. and they taught me that with hard work, anything is possible. i earned a scholarship to mit. and worked across party lines to get things done. i'm alex padilla. i'll protect voting rights for everyone. and make it easier to start a business. so we create jobs and opportunity for all californians. what should we order? (announcer) alex padilla. secretary of state.
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good morning, everyone, at 5:00 a.m. on election day. i am katie marzullo. i am eric thomas. >> we will share tuesday with everyone. >> mike? we start with live doppler 7 hd. the winds are blowing on shore again. in fact, the cloud cover is more extensive this morning than this time yesterday. it is also thinner. hopefully, we can get sunshine if here maybe an hour quicker than yesterday and that will push the temperatures inland 71 to 82 which is close to average. clouds this morning and sun in the afternoon, 66 to 76 away the bay and more sunshine along the coast and

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