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morning at the substation, you can see a streak of light and the muzzle flash of rifles and bullets hitting the fence around the substation. 100 shell casings were found at the seen and a former f.b.i. agent said it was orchestrated planned and looked somewhat professional and someone dropped into the vault and cut phone cables interrupting service to most of gilroy. it took a month to bring the substation back to full operation. today a public workshop is held by the california public utilities commission to talk about the attack at the substation and to draft physical standards. a discussion will take place in san francisco. the meeting starts at 10:00 this morning. fire crews spend the night in antioch after a fast-moving grass fire came inches of homes and left one person recovering from smoke inhalation that broke out after 7:00 last night in an open space and races up the hill
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to holes. firefighters ran into the back yards and homeowner said they got there just in time. the crews stopped the fire before it reaches the houses. amy hollyfield is on the scene with an update. firefighters spent the night in oakland hills making sure a string of suspicious fires didn't flare-up again. three possible arson fires burned five acres in dime canyon park. a viewer sent video from ureport@kgo-tv.com and investigators consider the fire "suspicious" because there was little wind. with the help a chopper and 300 feet of hose the flames were out in less than an hour. neighbors pitched in to help keep their homes safe. >> there was a fire down this and this was a fire right down here, as well. it was frightening.
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it moved so fast. >> firefighters remain at the park this morning. >> firefighters in newark kept a grass fire from reaching homes yesterday afternoon. we were over the scene at thornton avenue and ash street. trains were stopped and the fire department says the wood were ties caught on fire. >> as we move into the heart of the fire season experts remind us to keep a space around our homes by clearing loose brush. in marin county you can dispose of waste from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and bring branches and grass to the yard and it is accepting waste july 12 and 13th. an inmate who escaped from san francisco county jail is back in custody this morning. authorities say the 40-year-old was found yesterday at a homeless shelter. it was june 7 a deputy escorted him to take out the trash and he ran out a door and escaped.
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he is serving a sentence on drug charges and was scheduled to be released july 24. fremont police will soon have a new weapon to fight crime. the city council last night approved $300,000 for surveillace camera and license plate readers to be installed. there will be a dozen in all mostly near 880 ranches in -- ramps in hopes of tracking servers with license plates data kept for a year until it is used as evidence in a crime. hayward police want to have officers wear the video cameras and holding a meeting to get feedback. another meeting is scheduled for june 26. police officials say the material recorded from the wearable cameras could be useful when they investigate crimes. oakland and bart police already use wearable cameras.
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>> there will be budget hearings tonight but a majority of the city council have approved a major spending decision, the report is that the city council approved a $1.4 million increase to the police department last night bringing the budget next year to more than $48 million. reporters on the city council say that the city budget outlook has briton enough to justify returning the police department to baseline budget levels approached by voters 10 years ago. two city council members question the move saying it was premature and should have been made in the corn text with the rest -- context with the rest of budget. >> police in san rafael are cracking down on traffic violators after a waive of pedestrian injuries and fatalities. four pedestrians have been killed in san rafael streets in nine months. the drivers will be stopped if they do not yield to pedestrians in crosswalks and pedestrians will be cited for jaywalking and crossing against the lights. officers will focus on the busiest intersections two day as week from 7:00 to 11:00 in the
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morning and from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the evening. badly needed road unionments -- improvements are coming to sonoma county with a plan to spend $20 million over 10 years to improve 700 miles of roads. a transportation official says that nearly 7 a percent of the county's in 380 miles of roads are in poor conditions. which roads are repaired and where the money comes from is yet to be decided. supervisors will discuss financing in the next few weeks. >> professors taking a stand against the delivery of an upscale home furnishing retailer s' massive catalog, returning the restoration catalogs which consists of 13 books and weighs 17 pounds. the company says the sides was meant to be a greener approach to catalog mailing with one delivery opposed to several a year. profits say the giant catalog is
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a big waste of paper. the world cup is called the social media cup because it has been so popular on facebook, twitter and other sites. during the huge united states win against ghana fans were on facebook and tablets with 10 million on facebook having 15 million interactions during the game and twitter had 4.9 million tweets. fans say the world cup is an experience you want to share with other fans and friends no matter where they are. >> look around and everyone has their phone out and tweeting, facebooking or instagramming and sending pictures and comments about the wonderful experience. >> we want to see your world cup spirit. here is support for italy, and here is a young woman dressed now brazil gory. e-mail your photos to ureport@kgo-tv.com. upload them through our news app, or at abc7news.com.
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espn is carrying the world cup matches australia playing the netherlands at 9:00 a.m. and spain and chile are at noon can cameroon takes on croatia at 3:00. it is nice soccer weather but it is great baseball weather. we have the a's playing at home today. mike? >> it will be warm, low-to-mid 70's and total sunshine. take the sunscreen. if you are headed to oakland, three game series wrapping up, and we have low-to-mid 50's for the south bay and some exceptions, and san jose and los altoses hills at 57 degrees. 58 at mountain view. and santa clara and campbell, and cupertino and saratoga around 52 degrees and los gatos at 54 and a lot of mid-to-upper 50's around the bay shore into the north bay valley and we have 50 in dan victim for a cool spot but out highway 4, brentwood is 70.
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look at the lack of clouds at the coast, half moon bay is 41 degrees. for most of us, the temperatures are warmer than we were yesterday. still, though, very comfortable stepping outside. the next 12 hour we will stay in the 50's to nearly 60 through 7:00 and hazy sunshine at noon and 82 inland, and we will top out in the mid-to-upper 80's around 4:00 and drop to a warm 80 at 7:00 and we will be in the low-to-mid 70's around the bay for the better part of the afternoon down to 66 and you may need a light coat in the evening and low-to-mid 60's along the coast for the better part of the afternoon with our sunny of the day at the coast. cooler clouds are coming and i will tell you if it makes it inland in the forecast. >> we have 24 bart trains running on time right now and ace train one is two minutes early. we do have some construction here in the east bay and of course the maze is a big project and it will cause a little bit of a hiccup in the commute if you are trying to make it to the bay bridge. westbound 580, eastbound 80 it is shut down and it will re-open at 5:00 this morning so there is
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a detour if place. it will get you there. the san mateo bridge shows things are moving along just fine as you head out of hayward into foster city, no delays, no high wind advisory, and a nice calm condition up to 101. thank you, 4:39. quick thinking couple rescues a four-year-old boy found face down in a south bay pool. we will hear from the heroes. >> fair season in the east bay and what is coming back to alameda fair. but, first, tech bytes. >> amazon is entering the phone wars. they are expected to launch the first senate phone today. it will likely take 3-d photos and have a shopping app. >> if you lose car keys, check
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the blue tooth that is hooks to the keys for, extraing. >> helpfully it will be built into all of our stuff but right now the devices is worth a try especially if you lose things in close proximity. >> 250 new imojis have been unveiled. they are available for download in apple and droid devices in july.
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covering santa rosa, berkeley, san jose, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> a four-year-old boy is alive because of his neighbors. they spotted him face down at the bottom of a pool and reacted instantly. abc7 news reporter has the story from sunnyvale.
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>> the couple are loving and attentive so when she looked through the window and saw something strange in the swimming pool she reacted. >> i was scared. i took my pool keys and went in there. >> she saw a little boy, face down, at the bottom of the pool. the fore of two who doesn't know how to swim jumped in. >> that was my mother instinct. i was thinking of my baby, like if my baby was there, what would i have done? >> soon sh." etal arrived from work and rushed to help but based on what he saw he wasn't hopeful. >> he looked white, his entire face and tummy was bloated and we did mouth to mouth breathing and after that he started breathing a little bit. >> medics rushed the victim to the hospital. they reinforcing the gate because it is not clear how he got in. it is not that hard.
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>> it is closed, it is simple. pull and get in. >>the boy's parents would not talk but the police stopped by to ask for questions and neighbors are proud of the couple. >> i said, you are a hero. >> they are waiting a few days before check on the little boy they saved. >> in sunnyvale for abc7 news. san francisco voters get a chance to decide on a ballot measure that tackles the high cost housing, details were unveiled at a rally year at city hall and the proposal apply as transfer to ex to anyone who boys property, does upgrades and shes quickly and pay a 24 percent tax on the resale price if they sale the property a year from purchase time. speculators are making more than 100 100 percent profit on selling buildings and along the way they evict tenants, increase the cost of housing.
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the real estate transfer tax drops to 1 percent after five years and disappears after that. the tax does not apply to owners of single family homes, condos, and new construction. oakland home prices are skyrocketing, the median home price upped 23 percent to $478,000 in may a faster rise than san francisco, berkeley and alameda. rally experts say the high price is in san francisco are that is sending people across the bay. san francisco's median home price is over $1 million. that is double the median price of observe land. >> today is the run of the alameda county fair, with a treat as officials announced plans to bring back the fourth of july fireworks spectacular. today, attendees can enjoy dollar admission and dollar rides. leann rimes will perform and the fair is running from 11
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o'clock each day through july 6. >> fair food! >> fried everything. >> deep fried oreos, snickers, funnel cakes, absolutely. >> mouth is watering. >> then you can walk it off. >> we will show you what is going on. >> a lot sunshine and temperatures start in the upper 70's by 11 o'clock and end up in the upper 80's in the afternoon. falling back into the upper 60's by 11 o'clock. we will look at the visibility with haze but no clouds on live doppler 7 hd. you can see from our camera how silent the flags are on the ferry builting on the left side of the screen and how clear it is. we will have hazy sunshine today but not a "spare the air" day with more clouds and cooling tomorrow and summer arrives on saturday and pretty much normal high temperatures. the area of low-to-upper is
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still very stubbornly moving from idaho to montana and sneaking in behind it is the warm air mass yesterday and today will be in the hat of it. tomorrow, we will start to push the air mass arm and we will see more cloud cover and a little bit of a sea breeze developing. that is why the temperatures start dropping. today, we will head to the south where we will be nearly 90 in gilroy and upper 88 in morgan hill and los gatos and low-to-mid 80's elsewhere with cupertino and san jose at 84 and sunshine at 76 on the boardwalk and a lost low-to-mid 80's on the peninsula until millbrae at 74 where it is pool weather. mid-60's along the coast to low 70's in downtown and 72 and 73 in south san francisco and 72 in sausalito and mid-60's along the north bay coast and mid-to-upper 80's in the valleys. topping out at 80 in oakland and everyone else in the home 80's and inland we are in the upper
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80's to nearly 90 degrees. hopefully the house is cool so you do not need to run the air conditioning. >> the game at 12:35 is 71 and warming to 74. that is conservative. tonight we will drop back and the home 50's and notice the cloud cover developing along the coast, that is the high pressure giving up and we drop about two to six degrees tomorrow and a couple more degree on friday and a couple more saturday and saturday is a cooler day although summer starts. have a good one. >> we have a crash in hayward and this is the first of the morning commute, it is traveling along 238 where we will find it coming up to 880 and it is blocking one lane, so for we do not have delays leaving castro valley but watch out for that, it could develop into a little bit of a bunching up of traffic. drive time traffic, 80, when, from albany to the maze is a short four minutes and 880 southbound from fremont to san jose is four minutes and northbound 280, 101 to cupertino
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is 11 minutes. outside, the golden gate bridge is moving along find out this and it looks like a fairly hazy-less drive only taking you five minutes. a deal to secure an expansion of yosemite national park according to our media partner, the mercury news, law mays are at odds over efforts to ad scenic parcel of land that is owned by a bay area conservation group. some say the land should be kept if private ownership for ranching, mining and other uses. if a deal to expand yosemite isn't reached by end of year the nonprofit that owns the land will have to sell it. >> coming up, life in california's heart land, the historical art of workers in the central valley on display in the bay area. >> a dog that appears to have
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found his way home after being lost two winters in the ñ [ g ever. worst morning ever. [ angelic music plays ] ♪ toaster strudel! best morning ever!
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[ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. toaster strudel! ahhh! what is it? there are no marshmallows in this box of lucky charms! huh weird. seriously? what? they're magically delicious!
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s. a retired master sergeant has come home for good after 21 years moving around he wanted to settle down. so he bought a house. but it needed work. so he thought. here is the big surprise. there were many, many flags lining highway 12 in solano county that trailed to the home that looks nice how but when retired marine corps iraq veteran and plaster sanctionent showed up in a limousine with his family...that is the last thing they expected a. >> welcome home, brother, to the same home that was a mess when they bought it in january. >> we choose it because it is the only thing we can afford. >> the home they expected to spend time and money to make it right. the marine asked his buddy to
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watch it. >> so isn't this above and beyond? >> it is. it is. but it is the right thing to do. >> after a long plane ride from japan, the miracle that the sergeant and his family found: $70,000 worth of donated materials and labor, new floors, new carpets, new fixtures, a new kitchen and in the backyard... >> nice. >> don't step on the grass. >> after 21 years living in military housing, this is the nicest place they have ever had. we are proud of our service and ...those guys that didn't make it back...and those guys...that didn't make it in one piece...they deserve this, not me. >> master sergeant your best friend and a new community beg
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to differ. welcome home for good. >> we will not move anymore. after so many years of moving around. >> happy for him and the family. >> one of the largest installers of rooftop solar systems has plans to buy a fremont based manufacturer, with tesla c.e.o. announcing solar city will acquire a company for $200 million in stock. solar city officials say the company will build one of largest solar panel production plants in the world after the acquisition. the lants would be located in upstate new york. >> the walls of san francisco city hall are transformed. 100 photographs are on display taking at look at rural workers in the central valley including exhibits on pictures of farm workers and farm labor leaders and captures contemporary life
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in california's heartland. the works of nine photographers are featured. one man spent years documenting life in the small town of lost hills. >> i'm lighting and trying to portray the same tools at i use with celebrities to show every day with the same kind of honor and suspect. this exhibit is located on the bottom legal of san francisco's city hall and runs until mid-september. >> a family is hoping a golden retriever found wandering through a camp ground is the dog they lost on a catching trip a year and a half ago, five years old was separated from the family during a camping trip to the lake tahoe national forest in october of 2012. a couple of weeks ago, a stray was spotted at a campground 11 miles from where he disappeared. is it murphy? could he have survived all that time? families is they are 99 percent
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sure it is him but are running d.n.a. tests. >> maybe someone took him in? >> we need to interview that dog plame. >> turning things over to meteorologist mike nicco. tell us about the temperatures. >> the alameda county fair or pleasanton, it is 70 at 11 o'clock and 87 at 3:00 and 78 at 7:00 and a mild 62 and cool by 11 o'clock. no clouds. if you traveling around the state the clouds will stay off the coast and look how much warmer in the central valley, mid-90's, and low-to-mid 70's waiting for summer in san diego and los angeles and 99 this palm springs and 83 in yosemite. it should be dry. >> a solo vehicle crash is leaving one lane blocked northbound 238 at 880 so we are
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not seeing delays and it is usually in the commute. it is there as you make the commute from castro valley. further to the north, northbound at marina and village parkway all lanes are closed until the next few minutes and the drive coming from lafayette to orinda to the caldecott tunnel is moving along fine and the couple of lanes will be taken away. >> at 5:00, fire concern in the east bay a fast-moving fire comes inches of homes. >> also, measuring the state response to water conservation, and how the bay area compares to the rest of california. >> the obama administration get as suspect in the deadly attack on the united states consulate in beach gaza. i will tell you about it.
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> it is 5:00 on wednesday, thank you for joining us. i am katie marzullo here for eric thomas. >> we want to get you out the door with a check on the weather how are you doing? looking live doppler 7 hd? you can see a few clouds and they are well off the coast, just some haze. you can see the clear sky and the air is clean but it will be hazy as we head into the afternoon like yesterday but not a "spare the air" day. warm to hot inland from 84 in the north bay to 92 in the east bay valley and coast and san francisco are cool to mild and 63 to 72 and around the bay,

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