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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. watch out the next time you water your lawn or wash your car. if you waste precious daughter you could be hit with big fines. good morning, happening now state water officials are meeting now in sacramento on emergency regulations to impose mandatory conservation measures and huge fines. eric thomas has that story. an official says this is an attempt to grab people and say "this is an emergency." this year, the governor urged
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water users to cut consumption by 20 percent. most have only managed cuts of 5 percent to 6 percent. the state water resources board will approve fines up to $500 a day for violating the water-saving regulations, and that includes watering the lawn that water flows into the street or on to neighboring property. washing your car with a hose that doesn't have a shut off nozzle. using water to clean drives or sidewalks. a water expert says ground water is quickly being depleted with dire consequences. >> we are going to lose 17,000 jobs, $2 billion worth of state revenue from other crops, and we are going to run down the reserves. >> if approved the regulation takes effect august 1. local agencies would enforce the laws and they can pass stricter local rules.
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we are at the meeting with live reports later on today on the action the water resources board takes. >> on a related note, nestle is bottling water from the driest area in california and people are not too happy. according to the desert sun newspaper, the company has been been trucking away undisclosed amount water from a plant in riverside for the arrowhead and pure life brants of bottle water located on a mission indian reservation. nestle leased the property from the tribe which as a sovereign nation is exempt from oversite biological water agencies and is not facing the same reporting require the months. clouds and cooler weather an the bay area, this morning several places in the bay area were hit with a few sprinkles.
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this morning. meteorologist mike nicco joined us with what is on live doppler 7 hd. good morning, everyone, we will look, first, behind me with the low clouds peeling back to the coast and now we have the mid-to-upper clouds that are full of monsoon moisture and that brought a few sprinkles and light rain last night and this morning. live doppler 7 hd showing more clouds than radar runs. if we go back six hours you can see the radar returns moving from southeast to northwest across our neighborhoods. we had .06" in novato at 11 o'clock last night. down in san jose it is questionable whether .08" fell because it was the only place that reported measurable rain. probably thinking that is not really a fair or precise. there is a break if the central valley and a small bit of energy rolling toward us again and less energy, less moisture, maybe
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some sprinkles tonight and that is it if we are lucky. cooler weather will be the big story moving forward. two men will appear in court in san francisco this afternoon to answer charges in a fight outside at&t park. that fight took place after last thursday's game between the a's and the giants. a 27-year-old woman tried to break up the fight but one of the men punched her in the face and knocked her unconscious. she spent the night in the hospital. police do not thing it stemmed from a rivalry between fans. the two suspects were arrested in sacramento a day or two of the fight. neighborhood activists have organized antiviolence rally at san francisco city hall. this follows the shooting death of a man in sunnydale neighborhood, a youth counselor in nonecy veil -- in sunnyvale after being gun downed in front
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of the we young people he mentored. san francisco is launching a test program to provide relief to if of the biggest problems in the tenderloin. the human and animal waste and needles. amy hollyfield is at city hall. is this aimed at residents tourists? >> for everyone. from kid whose is to walk to school and go through the tenderloin to homeless people who need a place to go this is for everyone. city officials say that the calls that come in requesting human waste be cleaned up, more than half come from the tenderloin. stating today, the city will provide portable toilets and sinks at three locations in the tenderloin from 2:00 to 9:00 when they are closed for the day. people we spoke with say in is a definite need for this and the homeless do not have many places to go but they worry that drug addicts will take advantage of
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the private facilities. >> we need them. it is hard to find a place to use the restroom. what they are used for is doing drugs and whatever and they don't seem to work. the concept doesn't work with the population. >> we will have someone there while they are rating. we will have posted rules. there will be challenges. if we have to pivot and do something different we will. this is a pilot project for six months. we know there are problems and we have to do something. we cannot do nothing any more. >> the pilot program will cost $150,000. this will be solar powered. they will try to keep it from becoming a spot for drug use so people will have a five-minute courtesy knock and after five minutes someone will knock on the door and they can unlock the door from the outside if need be. there will be a place to dispose
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of needles and dog waste inside the facilities. the cost? officials say it cost as lot money to clean up the mess, to steam clean the sidewalks each day so the hope is this will cut back on the emergency calls for clean yes. tonight, the richmond city council will talk about obligations on how to handle people who constantly disrupt the meetings this. the city council meetings are so raucus they are a legend. there is a scale for six month ban on people who cause disruptions. commission is also talking about the possibility new rules to been hate speech from public meetings. >> in richmond chevron is gearing up to appeal a decision by the planning commission that delays the energy joyant billion dollar modernization plan for the refinery. the commission unanimously approved the project environmental impact report and added more than a dozen safety
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and pollution reduction amendments and will make the case to the city council next week and the environmental report should stay the way it was originally approve without the new restrictions. >> the 49ers and santa clara will cut rub born on the if you levi stadium this week. tonight, they are presenting a high-tech traffic plan to handle 70,000 plans. katie marzullo joins us from santa clara with the details. katie? >> when in rome, right? the new stadium is in the heart of the silicon valley so why not use technology to ease traffic and parking when the 49ers play? if it passes it promises to be a completely different experience than what fans encountered at candlestick. >> what a breeze cruising to the new levi stadium in santa clara. granted it is not game day but the city and the 49ers have a land if keep cars moving when the day comes. >> this is silicon valley we have to keep up with the times or be ahead. >> the transportation plan which
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yous a custom experience for fans. your ticket will tell you which of half a dozen off-ramps to take to lead you straight to your packing space and traffic signals will be synchronized hours best game. plus, you guessed it, there is an app for that. >> that is part of the whole concept that the stadium is the most intelligent stadium, if you can say that. >> idea is to disperse drivers so there is no candlestick-style gridlock. there is the public transportation option and special parking for bicycles on top of the 30,000 spaces for cars. it is a plan that has been years in the making. >> we feel good that the 49ers will manage this well. it has been thought out well and worked out well and the patrons and will fans will be pleasantly surprised. >> the city council meets tonight at 7:00 and that is when members will vote. they are confident it will pass, they don't want to anticipate
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but this is a lost input the last three years and they are confident. cheryl mentioned the ribbon cutting, that is taking place on thursday. >> very exciting, thank you. >> still ahead, batkid's lasting influence making sure the hero will be remembered for years to come. we have new details now in the deadly derailment of a subway train halfway around the world and what a city leader is calling for. >> major league baseball is fighting discrimination against gay players and
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the death toll has risen overseas to 20 after a train derailed in now. 160 others were injured, several if critical condition. rescue rationed lasted seven hours to pull passengers aments it is believe a surge caused the train to stop suddenly and jump off the track. the the mayor wants whoever is responsible to be fired. >> israel reported their first death, a rabbi was distribute food to soldiers. >> israel is firing back after agreeing to a cease-fire brokered by egypt but hamas
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rejected it. the militant group's political leader declared victory was near and the israeli military says hamas fired 47 rockets into israel while they with held and binyamin netanyahu announced, then, israel will exert "great force." >> we are presented to continue and intensify our operation to protect our people. >> in the west bank hundreds of demonstrators matched to protest israel's campaign since the outbreak of fighting a week ago nearly 200 palestinians have been killed, can the first israel fatality as we mentioned just announced today secretary of state john kerry will fly back to the middle east in the coming days if needed. he wants time for a cease-fire to evolve. consider league baseball is ready for what could be a game-changing announcement regarding inclusion of gay players. the family of the late glenn burke has been invited to the all-star game in minneapolis.
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in 1982 after he retired, he became the first former accomplish to come out. burke graduated from berkeley while before playing for the dodgers and the a's. the league never had an active openly gay player. billy bean played 60's seasons and is working with the league on its inclusion efforts. >> and a strangely chilly forecast. >> 13 degrees cooler than 24 hours ago. you can feel it. although it is a bit muggy for us. check out clouds, they are opening up and i will tell you when the sunshine will reach the neighborhood and when we are back to a more normal summer pattern in the seven-day forecast. >> shoppers junk into action to save two kids left in a car in 90-degree heat. find out where their mother was. >> the batkid touched the hearts of the bay area and beyond and how you can mark that day, forever, and help other children
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covering daly city, dublin/pleasanton, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. if you are looking for a job, we are sponsoring a job fair in concord, including kellogg and shell all interviewing candidates from noon to 4:00 in concord on clay done road. >> two children escaped unharm because of shoppers who stepped in after seeing them left inside
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bringing the sprinkles that we were dealing with and the moisture will dry up and in the high country you will have thunderstorms and a flash flood warnings for most of the sierra from bishop up toward south lake tahoe and reno, so, the rain could be heavy there at times tomorrow. right now, the best radar return is offshore and moving away from us and here is the clearing i was talking about through the central valley moving into the south bay in the western part of the east bay or the eastern part of the east bay continuing
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clearing from southeast to northwest. it will not clear out come completely but we will see more sunshine as you can see in the san jose bureau with the clouds opening there. in emeryville looking to the west, it is cloudy. now, clouds are opening: humid, cooler breeze today, and clouds tonight and sprinkles not like lie like this morning with minor temperature springs and on a cooling bing the next couple of days and then warming headed to the weekend with temperatures more normal. 78 in antioch and 79 in san ramon and 77 in livermore, and 80 in fairfield, the warm spots. most of us in the mid-60's to low 70's until you get to san francisco at 60. it feels cooler than yesterday. it is up to 15 degrees cooler in san it rose and ten in san jose and double dim its in fairfield and concord and livermore. mid-to-upper 80's in most areas
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and low-to-mid 80's on the peninsula and we hope the sunshine reaches you. mid-to-upper 60's along the coast and low 70's in downtown and san francisco and sausalito and mid-80's through the north bay valley and mid-70's, 74 in berkeley to mid-80's in castro valley and fremont where you will get the sunshine and upper 80's to low 90's in the east bay vietnam and with the humidity, probably have to run the air conditioning to stay comfortable. tonight, cloud cover is back in the form of marine layer clouds and mid-to-upper level clouds but it will be just be clouds tomorrow in the low 60's. from noon to 5:00, the thunderstorms in the sierra will fade, and by 7:00 tomorrow morning we are waking up to mostly cloudy conditions and then you can see tomorrow afternoon, again, that is where the thunderstorms are going to be in the high country as we will be dealing with partly cloudy conditions, a lot like yesterday but more sunshine and a stronger sea breeze and two- to four-degrees cooler on wednesday and thursday, temperatures back to average and so will our pattern saturday, sunday, and monday with near 90's inland and 80's around the
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bay and mid-60's at the coast. an interesting morning and we could have a repeat tomorrow question are the proud sponsor of aids watch san francisco, and will cheryl jennings is interviewing a walker last year and the walk this year is on sunday, july 20, at golden gate park. to register call 415-615-walk or download the aids walk app. the weather is looking nice for sunday in the low 60's. >> thank you for that, mike, perfect walking weather. i will be there again. still to come a record-breaking journey around the world. next, we will meet the young pilot who pulled eight. all by himself
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coming up, changes are coming to the oldest super heroes in the marvel universe. >> for get toxic chemicals or pricey plumbers we have a way to clear the plugs. >> and the youngest pilot flying an the world by himself. he made a smooth landing at the airport in san diego county last night, and the south dakota
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naturist spent a month and a half flying single engine plane on a 29,000 mile journey around the globe making by stops to refuel and see the word. his next goal? perhaps a little more common: finish his degree in mechanical engineering at m.i.t. >> what a kid. >> for all of us, thank you for jointing us today. this is a live look outside: you can see some of the clouds still hanging over the city. kind of cool. kind of moist. muggy. but it will all
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