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abc 7 news starts right now with live breaking news. >> sky 7 hd live over the scene of santa rosa. a jewelry store that at least two people tried to rob. police are searching for one of them after a shootout of the jewelry store in the bennett valley neighborhood. the search is focused on the annan dale and spring lake park. >> police tell us the man they are searching for may be wound t. robberies took place at a jewelers on yalupa avenue. a woman needed to be treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. one suspect went to the hospital
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after being shot. sky 7 hd shows us what police say they believe is the get away car. >> it's a short distance from the crime scene. it appears it was stolen from livermore. this jewelry store happened to be rocked one year ago. one person was sent to the hospital after being shot. santa rosa police recovered one person. now to our other top story, developing news out of santa clara county t. pain roads linking santa cruz and san jose remains cloetsd closed right now. >> the highway could be closed at least another two hours. the accident happened just before 38:00 this morning and brought traffic to a complete stop on 17 near bear creek road. >> abc 37 fuse reporter david lily joins us live near the scene. david. >> reporter: well, if you are wondering why is it taking so
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long to reopen 17? you see right here that is the wreckage of the big rig that caused this entire chain accident. there is still another vehicle there toil to be toad away by a flatbed tow truck. there are sweepers standing by on 17, getting ready to sweep up all the debris. there is a unit here busy working on the investigation and that's what's taking so longer the reese moore was driving one of the vehicles in this major highway accident. she is the lucky one. >> it's life changing. i think i'm okay. >> reporter: shelves driving northbound on 17 ahead of the big rig as it began hitting cars and trucks before jackknifeing and smashing through a rail that separates the highway through a frontage road. the two trailers unhimped, one hit her prius. >> it hit me. it forced me to run into the middle dwierd, into the krevent divide and i got bit again.
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but that was all it was. it was my car got hurt and not me. >> reporter: six other drivers were injured. one critically and the driver in this crumpled car died when he got tangled under the big rick as it lost control t.chp says the driver with the 26-year-old man from santa cruz t. big rig driver was not hurt. he began driving only three months ago. he told investigators his brakes started smoking on the downhill grade. >> coming down at a 6% grade approximately, i was unable to control the speed at which time he started hitting vehicles in the guardrail. >> tires 234r50u off their axels. airbags deployed from the impact of the guardrail t. company owner said the big rig went through a safety check early this morning. >> we checked everything. okay. everything. anything tire, if anything is bad they have to report to us.
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everything is fine. >> reporter: with traffic backing up in both directions. the highway control configures the southbound lanes for northbound traffic to use one of the lanes t. highway patrol is now estimating it will be 6:00 p.m. before they will be able reopen these northbound lanes where chp and caltrans is working. right now one lane is opened to southbound and one to northbound. it will take a few minutes, a half an hour or so for them to untangle that configuration in order to get things back to normal. we will will be staying heave. we will get you updated. >> all right. david, thanks, very much. first and foremost a terrible tragedy, one killed, seven other injured. the result has been terrible traffic that david has been talking about. can you see all the red stretching from 17 from campbells down to the summit and it's going to be like this for some time to come as david just
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detailed for you. because the mess that this accident created has had a ripple effect. we have new details in the case of a woman charged in the overdose death of a goggle executive. they say they searched online for how to legally defend herself after he died. detectives say she left him to do i after injecting him with heroin aboard his yacht. also today, police in georgia reopened a similar case involving her. her boyfriend also died of a heroin overdose two months before hayes did. prosecutors claim she is a prostitute. happening now, hundreds of medical marijuana supporters are rallying in front of san jose city hall. they are protesting strict new regulations that many dispensaries say will force them to close. starting next friday, clubs will not be allowed to do business if residential areas or near schools. sellers will now be required to grow their own marijuana in an effort to keep out the criminals
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and no one under 21 will be allowed to go inside or work at a dispensary. >> i just don't want to see everything shut down and people complaining every day. it's not how it's supposed to be. they gave us something to help us. now they're trying to take away our rights. >> the rally goes until 37:00 p.m. organizers are also asking people to sign a pet for a referendum that would stop the city from enforcing the new regulations on july 18th. the giants may become the first team in baseball to ban fans from wearing items deemed culturally insensitive. >> the team began reviewing their policy last month when two native american fans were offended by sending around a fake head dress. >> nick smith joins live from the ballpark. nick. >> reporter: good afternoon, one of those fans was kim ball bighorse, he has hired an attorney, what he says he wants most is cultural aware inside, it seems as though the organization may be listening.
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>> and we ended up confronting or approaching another fans, group of fans wearing a native person head dress. >> reporter: the giants are considering a ban on fans wearing certain types of clothing to their games. on june 23rd, a fan wore this feather-laden head dress. it was a move that offend kim ball bighorse, a native american and giants fan. >> the fan asked what he could do to make her happy. he said to give lever the head dress. >> reporter: but it didn't end there. >> the police said too we were trespassing according to giants and that we had to leave. >> reporter: bighorse says things took nasty turn when they responded to remove him and his group as guests. >> we assisted behind her. she was removed by her arms. >> reporter: the next day, sfpd said the two were detained while police investigated. the giants organization met with native american groups and
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listened to their concerns. >> they were hurt by the way in which one of the artifacts, someone, secret items of clothing was born by another fan. >> reporter: the team decided to take a second look at the team's code of conduct for fans and make some changes. >> if they wear culturally sensitive attire, they could be subject to removal from the ballpark. so we added a line about culturally wearing culturally insensitive attire to our games. >> it's all ability enjoying the game and remembering we are here for the game and nothing else. >> reporter: some fans hearing about the new rules say politic itself and political correctness should be left outside the ballpark. >> but when you walk in the ballpark, clear your mind about everything else and just enjoy the game. that's what we're here for. you got to remember, this is baseball. >> reporter: bighorse says it's about more. >> we want to do what's right so this can be avoided in the future. >> reporter: at at&t park, nick
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smith, abc 37 news. >> the operators of a san francisco retirement home set to close at the end of the month got an earful today at a hearing at city hall. they have been helping seniors since 1884 t. owners say they have run out of money and sold the property to a private school. 27 low income residents must find a new place to live. >> because of the costs of other facilities if san francisco queer going to have to be forced to move my mother outside of the area. that's why my dad won't be able to see her on a daily basis. >> reporter: the board of supervisors can't stop the sale. today the supervisors da threatened to have the area rezoned only for a retirement home hoping the buyers back out. city officials are offering financial assistance to the ladies's home t. facility operators say it's not enough to keep it opened. >> the maker of monkey parking mobile app is thinking twice about doing business in san
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francisco. the italian based company shut down the service for now, citing a cease and desist order the city attorney delivered last month. the app was designed to telesell to other nearby drivers looking for space. but the city attorney called that illegal and subject to a $3 u. fine t. company says it wants to avoid any misunderstanding. >> another nice day around the bay. >> gorgeous. spencer christian is use live with the forecast. >> enjoy the sunshine and the brisk on shore breeze. let's look at 37, you can see the clouds deepen the marine layer overnight, pulled far away from the coastlynn to allow today to warm up coastal areas and it's mainly sunny inland. we do have low clouds drift out over the bay a. live view from our rooftop camera at abc 37. current readings are 66 in san francisco. lower 70s in san jose. 63 at half moon bay a. few at
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the golden gate bridge with some cloud covering abof the golden gate. 72 in santa rosa. 71 in napa. 80 fairfield, 74 cochrane. here's our first forecast as we give you a view or sort of, from our east bay camera. the view is obscured by the crowds moving inland right now. low cloud and fog increasing tonight. that's rapg height now, obviously. there is a chance of spotty drizzle early tomorrow morning. the afternoon will be mainly sunny, some clouds near the coast. highs range low 60s to the coast inland. >> very nice. spencer, thanks, so much. still o'head at 34:00, responding to a plane disaster. why first responders are learning ability the asiana crash at sso. >> plus the largest collection of babe ruth memorabilia. the unique sale. new after 34:30. >> the word that kept coming up about your trip, was the word
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"reckless"? what do you say to that? >> the california family stranded in the middle of the pacific ocean with a sick toddler. now the parents are telling tear story for the first time. hey, let's take a look at skyway traffic. as can you see, it is moving pretty slowly in both directions. cars on the left trying to get onto the bay bridge over to the east bay. it's a little bit messy this early in the compute.
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covering sandra fael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area. this is abc 37 news.
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nature's power caught on video, torrents caught this landslide in central japan. at least two people died after flooding and mudslide caused by a tropical storm. they did a lot of damage. she has been washing out a railroad bridge. tons of mud covered the streets. some people are still staying in shelters after being evacuated from their homes. much of eastern japan is at risk for heavy rain, tornadoes and mover mudslides like this. last year's asiana airplane crash was recreated. three teenage students from choirn killed in that crash. today's drill contained victims. we have the story from seattle. >> reporter: 300 simulated plane crash victims on the runway at c-tak. >> i have a collar bone injury. my chest is coming out. >> broken leg? get on the table.
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>> reporter: these volunteers are putting first responders to the paces, each with the specific roler that playing. >> i have a compound fracture of the leg and i am screaming for help and trying to find my purse. >> reporter: this kind of mass casualty drill is required by the feds for the airport to keep its certification. >> and it's also great practice for us that we can close down an entire runway and walk through the process with all of our first responders ro. this is the first major drill for our airport since the asiana airlines crash last july. two survivors were killed there when that you were run over by emergency vehicles. crews here hope to put what was learned in that crash to use today. >> it's real interesting. san francisco has been very gracious in sharing all their information and best practices and lessons learned. >> reporter: dozens of responding agencies are taking part today. they say it's critical, today's events will be testing the regional system and one, be able to identify those most injured
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and get them treated the fastest we can. >> reporter: it takes a lot of equipment, over 175 vehicles in all. >> this is something we node to do and a took a day off to do this. >> reporter: these volunteers seleing on the runway is worth it, if one day it saves someone's life. >> i didn't know how to treat trooes these victims. >> extreme training in case the unthinkable happens. auctioneers expect to bring in millions this weekend. >> they are offering babe ruth in the big leagues 1300 years ago. official rapper hit the first home run in april, 1923, but it wasn't the first time ruth swung for the fences in the bronx. >> no, this ball could sell for about $34 million. ruth hit it into the stands after a sports writer urged him to test out the new park on
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valentine's day 1923. >> so they went out. they cleaned off the snow from the pitcher's mound. they cleaned off the snow from the batter's box. you know, he threw down his fur coat and he started taking batting practice and the third ball, he hit for a home run t. construction worker in the stadium brought it back to him, had it signened and inscribed it. the stadium didn't even have a name. >> the babe then wrote new yankee field on the ball. it was the house that ruth built. >> it was, what a legend. cool. let's focus on the weather. i'll tell you who is a huge baseball fan. who knows just about every statistic in baseball. >> he does! >> i am glad babe hit that home run. not much has changed. >> we got mainly sunny skies across the bay area with low clouds beginning to push locally out over the bay, can you see most clouds remain off shore,
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over the sierra, mainly on the eastern slopes, a crust of thunderstorm activity is going on south and east of lake tahoe, still, in effect, the high fire danger from south from lake tahoe northward until 39:00 tomorrow morning. up the north coast until 36:00 tomorrow evening. the concern sheer it's still dry and it's so warm there could be a lightning strike. meanwhile, a live view, blue sky and construction cream down june. we see coastal clouds moving inland tomorrow morning. friday a drizzle is possible. it will be warming up. let's take a look at our water vapor satellite image. you see that center of pressure offshore. >> that circulation is drawing up moisture from the interior southwestern u.s., bringing up that moon p monsoonal moisture, which is exceeding the tomorrow activity. we start our forecast animation
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11:00 tonight during the overnight hours, low clouds will continue pushing inland, patchy drizzle is possible. not only at the coast in some of the higher elevations as wellful overnight lows will be generally in the mid- to upper-50s, a range we have seen the last week or so now. then as we resume the animation but pick up how conditions will be tomorrow noon, highs ranging from upper 70s to low '80s, 80 at san jose. 80 at morgan hill. on the peninsula, we see highs, 78 at redwood city. low- to mid-60s on the coast. pacifica and half moon bay and breezy on the coast as well. look for a high of skating, downtown san francisco the sunset district, north highs mainly mid- to upper-70s, 75 at santa rosa. east bay high 72. oakland 74 in the city. 76 at the valley. the inland eastveil has highs from upper 70s
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by sunday we see inland highs topping out at 90 degrees. monday and tuesday will be quite warm inland with highs in the mid-90s. we see low- to mid-'80s and mid-60s on the coast. temperatures will moderate. although it will remain warm. it won't be a scorcher. typical summertime heat. >> a lot coming up here next a. prime time emmy awards who got the most nominations and the abc shows that were nominated. an few after 34 checkpoint 30. dirty cell phones. 37 on your side tells us how many
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the nominees for lead actress in a drama series are, lindsay cap lan "masters of sex." claire danes kwot homeland" michelle dockery "down june
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abey" juliana margoles "the good wife" robin wright "house of cards." >> carrie washington there. the emmy awards were announced if north hollywood. it was the fantasy saga game of thrones leading all nominations with fine bids, including best drama series. other abc shows with nom nations, "dancing with the stars" garnered eight. "modern family" got three bid, including best comedy series. the show is a fourth time winner in that category and jimmy kimmel live is up for three awards. >> abc announced that rosie o'donnell is coming baaing to co-host a day time talk show t. five-time emmy nominee was on the show from 2006 to 2007. shelves best remembered for her outspoken views and lively debates with guests as well as co-hosts. she is going to join wooppy goldberg this fall for season 18, co-hosts jen my mccarthy and
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sherry shepherd are leaving the show. "the view" airs weekdays at 130:00 a.m. still to come on abc 7 fuse at 4:00 with eare learning more about the shooting rampage that left six members of a houston rampage dead t. link between the gunman and the victim. the bay area lab that test drives your new home before you ever move in. later, practicing social skills, the bay area summer camp that gives certain teens the
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we have some new information this afternoon about that horrific shooting rampage in texas that left six family members dead, including four children. we now know the relationship between the victim and the victim's rather and the alleged gunman, abc news reporter has the latest on this. >> reporter: in the houston suburb of spring, texas, neighbors are struggling to cope in the after math of a murderous shooting that left six people dead all in one family. >> especially the children and i wanted to come by and pray for them. >> reporter: today this man, 33-year-old ron lee haskell is charged with capital murder. he's in custody, held without
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bond for the deaths of the six family members found inside their home. >> you are seeing a tragedy in one family this horrific. >> reporter: the chaos began just after dinner bed wednesday. haskell knocked on the door demanding the whereabouts of his estranged wife. he forced his way inside and tied up several children until other family members returned home. he died them up, too, eventually shooting all of them execution statement one survivor, 15-year-old cassidy, managed to call 3911 despite being shot in the head. haskell fled and police began a case. >> the car is yet to be stopped. >> reporter: finally cornering haskell after 34 miles in this cul-de-sac where he sat two hours sandwiched between armored vehicles, snipers ready. haskell gave up around 10:00 p.m. hand over his head. as for cassidy who played dead to survive, she's now in
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critical condition. >> all we got to do is pray for her. >> reporter: that slain family, they were relatives of haskell's estranged wife, with whom he was going through a divorce. another tragedy in massachusettes investigators want to know what fire alarm itself worked properly after several people died after flames raced through around apartment build. nine others are expected to recover after being hurt. witnesses saw people jumping to safety trying to get out. some handed their children through windows to people outside the building. a possible compromise on what to do with thousands of children who fled america's southern border. that means speeding up the process in central america. democrats for immigrants have opposed such step. republican vts accused president obama of inviting this with policies they believe have
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encouraged illegal immigration. >> this is a problem of the president's own making. he's been president for five.5 years. when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> when it comes to children, from my standpoint, i'm like a lioness. just don't mess with the children. okay? >> the white house wants lawmakers to approve spending nearly $34 billion to deal with the crisis. they said benjamin netanyahu says the white house is willing to agree to a cease-fire. he said it isn't on the agenda. today the they warned they are on the edge of another war. at least 80 palestinians have died as hamas and israel exconditioning attacks. they have been launching rockets using civilians as chooeld
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shields. there have been no reports of israeli deaths, however. it's hard to know how energy efficient the building is until constructed. >> that's true. now a new laboratory can sort of test drive the design of it before construction. >> abc 37 fuse reporter allen long is live at the berkeley national lab where they cut the ribbon today, hi, allen. >> the reason they call this flex lab is because it's flexible. all of the windows, the hvac and materials are interchangeable him check this out, the entire lab rotates with the sun to create the condition in other parts of the country. >> these are lighting sensors, they're measuring the light levels we have them throughout the work place. >> reporter: now the energy efficiency can be combined and tested here at berkeley laboratories. scientists say buildings designed to be energy efficient often end up using twice the
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energy expected. >> right now we got a building under construction. >> reporter: genet-tech used sensors to simulate and test drive a 2350,000 square foot building before taking it to ground. >> we will be able to test the building systems so the electrical systems and mechanical systems. >> the window, hvac, building materials are all interchangeable. the lab actually rotates to mick i mimic the sun and lighting conditions in other regions. body heat is also considered. >> we simulate through an occupancy, though, by making sure we have the same amount of heat introduced into the space a person would, at the same distribution a person would emanate inside space. >> reporter: u.s. deputy secretary of energy says this all ties into the president's action plan to reduce our energy consumption 50% by 2030.
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>> if we don't really bend the curve on efficiency, worry just not going to make the target t. targets are ambitious. >> reporter: americans spend more than $34100 billion a year in energy and almost half of that goes to operate residential, industrial and special building. the research uncovered here will be available for all to use. in berkeley alan long, abc 37 news afternoon. a two-time casher survivor has found plenty of success fighting his passion, fighting the disease and having a great time on the golf course. he provided this video. hammer organized the first golf tournament ten years ago. he set out to raise $2500 that year. instead, he brought in $50,000 hammer now runs two have a ball tournaments every year. >> i went in with this idea that if i went through a golf toumpblths i'd want to go through the line of registration and say that's the best dam tournament i ever went to i went
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with that idea. my goal was to make a single guy want to bring three buddies to next 84. >> hammer survived two bouts with test tick lar cancer. his efforts raised $129 million for objections across america. we have information on abc 37 news.com. the next have a ball tournament takes place monday in danville. >> way to go, fantastic. the evening is almost here. we have you covered. >> we will help you explore where you live. >> a foe for the senses and the soul tomorrow in napa vale, thanks, to them, for the next ten days you can delight and take health and wellness courses by music, theater and dance. >> i was totally preoccupied with getting my first kiss. >> once adolescence are being
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resurrected, for mortified wives. like in a documentary scene here, ons are invited to watch these adult itself get up on stage. star of beetles royalty, is coming to the city national civic in san jose on for all these events, visit our website atp 7 news abc.com. >> lots going on. enjoy. coming up, at 34:00 the rescue of two kittens trying to paddle their way to dryer ground. >> and later, a common travel complaint. the extra space some passengers will soon be getting on a plane. there have been thunderstorms near lake tahoe. a view from the camera shows clouds drifting over the lake
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right now. a bit of a weekend warm-up. i'll have the accuweather forecast soon. >> spencer, take a look live from our camera, checking rask the cars on the far right are trying to get onto the bay bridge into san francisco, not too bad, moving along in that direction. of course, it's the other way that's tricky this
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marine mammal experts used all their might to free a baby beach along australia's gold coast. it weighs between 15 and twrunt tons. it got stuck tuesday. rescue teams attached the whale to a special harnest to push it back into the ocean successfully. biologists continue to monitor the whale. they hope it will be okay and stay off the beach. >> a much more successful story in mississippi. a woman found her kitten after flash flooding swathed her home. they were outside and a few weeks old. she worried they would drouvenl as you saw, shelves happy to find out they were actually pretty strong swimmers. she scooped them up and carried them inside the house. she says that's where the adventurous pair will stay until the flood waters recede. oracles are predicting germany will win the 2014 world cup. two young elephants at a zoo in
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thailand competed in a shootout to predict the winner the 30-year-old elephant kicked with enthusiasm putting the ball in the net three times. sign this thing umm. the ten-year-old elephant wearing argentina's flag seemed more interested in her food. she did not score at all. >> there you go. you can find out at noon, the day before watch the battle for 3rd place on saturday between the netherlands and brazil. >> enjoy. one last time. >> spencer christian has the latest. >> hey, dan, skies are mainly sunny now. they will have low clouds off shore. they'll be pun pushing inland
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the national weather picture for tomorrow shows showers and thundershowers along parts of the atlantic coast. it will be hot in the south u.s. across the state of california it will be warm. that hot in large yeah, 94 chico. 89 in sacramento. 97 in fresno. that's getting hot. 1304 in palmetto springs. here in the bay area, low clouds, we see mainly sunny skies. clouds linger at the coast mid and upper 70s around the bay. warm-up will be over the weekend. >> still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00 stranded, for the first time we are hearing from the parents whose toddler had to be saved by a rescue crew. 7 on you're u your side the germs on your cell phone, you may be shocked at how dirty that
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ice can get. >> here are some more world cup fan holders. these young men e-mailed these pictures from brazil. they group in the east bay and play soccer together. >> you can e-mail your pictures to us. or upload them through our news app or at
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the california family rescued three months ago by a team from moffett field is speaking for the first time in an abc news exclusive. the parents were called irresponsible for bringing their young children on the boat trip. abc news reporter sylvia vega has their story. >> reporter: it was a trip eric and shauna could haveman spent years planning, traveling to new zealand with their two young daughters. >> how long was that journey supposed to take? >> that was ability 3,000 miles. >> reporter: 18 days in, it came to a crashing end. they say they were stranded in the pacific ocean 3900 miles off shore their one-year-old daughter sick and in dire need
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of rescue. >> that's when we realized we had entered a bad spot. >> tirnts now face harsh criminal for bringing them on thatted a venturous sea this morning are telling their story for the first time. why bring your kids on this trip? >> why? why wouldn't you? >> it's not a tripfest. this is how we were leaving. >> reporter: the antibiotics they brought weren't working. it was only getting worst. what did you do? >> we grabbed the emergency physician indicating radio beacon and we activated it and then we sat there. >> reporter: 12 hours after they hit that emergency button, national guardsmen parachuted out of a plane into the frigid waters to save this baby. >> to see people show up to help you like that, it's pretty amazing. >> members of the 129th rescue wing stabilizing lyra. doctors believed she had typhoid or sam fella. the journey wasn't over.
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it took three more days for the uss vandergrift to reach them. only when they made it to land did they learn about the firestorm of online criticism. >> the word that kept coming up about your trip was the word reckless what do you say to that? >> we are both experienced sailors who raised our daughters on a sailboat. we were very prepared. we knew what we were doing. >> reporter: they plan to sue their carrier. they hope any any money in a lawsuit will allow them to pay back taxpayers for the cost of the rescue and to buy a new boat there's sunk after it was damaged in the journey. >> i can't wait to get back. >> yeah. >> it's an amazing lifestyle. >> it's a lot of fun. >> well, good news for flyers who hate checking bags, expect fewer people at baggage claim boeing announced the max planes
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will have bigger overhead luggage bins. they say they will hold six standard size. bins will be lower and deeper. next year, alaska airlines will be the first carrier to feature roomier bins. the airlines hopes fewer people hunting will lead to faster boarding times and keep the planes closer to schedule. >> cell phones have become an essential part of our lives. call, text, browse the web. >> all of it. what you may not know is those phones can carry if you have germs to make you sick. >> michael finney has this story. i think it's making us cringe. >> cell phone, not only signals, but a lot of dirt, you may be shocked to find out how much dirt. researchers say they have more germs than a toilet seattle. they pick up bacteria and fungus from your surroundings and your hands, scientists in new york
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used swabs to measure phone filth. >> it includes maybe food stuff, skin, you know, skin flakes, bacteria, mold, fungus, anything like that is going to show up in these numbers. >> reference say wipe down your phone regularly. don't let others use your device and try not to hold it too close to your face. federal regulators insuring amazon are making sure things are in place to prevent kids from making purchases. they total millions of dollars t.fc wants consumers refunned and claims amazon allowed kids to make purchases with apps downloaded with mobile devices with kindle fire tablets. they say this is done without parent's consent. it can happen when kids play games that allow players to buy virtual items. amazon says it has effective parental controls, though they
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would not comment on a lawsuit beyond that. payday lender ace cash eggs press agreed to pay $10 million in fines and refunds. the hhs outlets, federal investigators found ace used harassment and threats to pressure borrowers into taking on more debt. ace express says most of the violations occurred before 2012 and it has since taken steps to improve the practice. >> thank you, mike. a. well, coming up next, the unique summer camp in the east bay. >> help some special teens practice social skills. >> coming up, new at 35:00, a memorial today to one of the bay area students killed in that deadly rampage near santa barbara. tonight we hear from the family of george chen. plus. >> i don't feel like i'm a hero, no. >> a man do nates his kidney to his ex. it does more than save her life,
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here's tonight's prime time lineup on abc 7. there are a number of summer camps for children who are on the autism section, but few train them to be junior counsellors when they reach the teen years. uc berkeley recreational sports has a social skills program that helps give these teens the cools they need to succeed later on in the work place. >> i'm very honest and brave. >> reporter: at times victoria has been known to have trouble regulating her words. but it's actually quite common for some kids with add or and the autism spectrum to say and do what they feel. >> you know they told the young camper they're not good at basketball.
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maybe the camper is in but the things we learn as we move into teenage years you don't say that. >> reporter: she started the social skills program at berkeley's blue camp 11 years ago. here they teach them how to measure their emotions and behaviors and when and how to talk or interact with others. >> it's so good. >> roh victoria who is 19 is working this summer as a junior counsellor learning from social skills, coaches like mark. >> reporter: soft skills as far as getting along, talking to your group leader, art skills, too, putting out a time sheet, understanding what it means to be on time, if they're sick, calling. >> caught the flu? is there anything can i do? >> reporter: immigration, it's an opportunity to build their work fro file. something many don't have. >> this allows them to not only develop work skills and have somebody to vouch for, they're
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coming on time, they're safe, all the things that anybody needs in ra job as well as developing a resume. >> reporter: she says these past four weeks showed her how to be more empathetic. >> how would you feel? it's like putting the other people in the other person's perspective. >> every teenager wants to feel like everybody else. >> reporter: the program doesn't try to fix the child's weaknesses. it focuses on developing their stress. at uc berkeley, le ann lemon dez abc news. a furry rabbit is having a great day thanks, to its owner. check this full scale blowout. there is fully a rabbit in there. this is a fairly normal occurrence. betty's prize bunnys are known for their long fur, they are the stars of a new film rabbit fever. thank you so much for joining us for abc news at 34:00
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abc news at 35:00 begins right now with dan and cheryl. >> breaking news, police search for a robber involved in a jewelry store shootout. a deadly crash hours after a big rig accident a. critical highway still shut down. right now we are live with the efforts to reopen it. >> i'm abc meteorologist sandy patel, cooler than normal inland this afternoon. that's about to change. the weekend forecast is coming up. abc 7 news starts right now. >> shootout inside a santa rosa jewelry store. one hit, one robber nearly killed. now police are searching for a second armed suspect. >> good evening, it happened just before 234506789 afternoon. abc 7 fuse reporter joins us with more. >> reporter: the police tape is still up. the search is continuing. over my shoulder, you will see
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bennett valley jewelers here in town. let's get right to the picture of the shots fired. police found two people with gunshot wounds, one identified as an employee of the store. the other identified as a suspect in the robbery. both went to the hospital t. employee appears to be okay. the suspect walgs shot in the chest and appears to have life-threatening injuries. for a better description of what happened, here's a witness that saw it all, ricardo catand i don't owns a restaurant. this is what he told us and police. >> the suspect went out of the store, walls told to stop and he was told to stop and it looked like he tried to put it underneath him. there were two shots fired. >> who shot who? >> the owner of the jewelry store shot the suspect. >> reporter: so now the search, which began from this neighborhood and moved on to annandale state park and spring lake state park, police are looking for a plaque male they
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say in is early to mid-20s, large build, last seen wareing a white and played shirt. he may have been injured. they are not searching. thatry searching with helicopters and dogs, police did find the car they believe the suspects were driving, not far away is a red mustang older model with a tan convertible roof. police are describing the suspect or suspects as armed and dangerous they are encouraging them to lock their doors. back live, it is worth noting, this is not the first time this jewelry store has been hit or for that matter this mall, mr. catania told us they hit it before. they are worried that bad guys think that this neighborhood and this mall in particular are shocked. now they know, he says, we shoot back. live in benefit

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