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evacuation today. all that is left is for the people to clean up and reattach the gas line to the home. the tow truck moved the car off of the home gas meter. this started at 12:40 when a car crashed into the home. firefighterred had free flowing gas coming out it for three hours so they ever advantage it people from six homes. they were let back in 30 minutes ago. pg&e crews had to find a play to cut off the gas. the driver was arrested seen doing a toast >> the north bay craws are investigating a two. >> large fire at a gym with a call from the alarm company
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before 3:00 this morning at the high school in healdsburg. we will have a report in a few minutes. >> peg crews are working to restore power to 475 customers if san francisco in the mission district and bernal heights neighborhood. 3,300 customs lost power. pg&e is working to bring customers online saying all power shoulden restored by action. >> 41 customers are without power in santa clara after a fallen tree took down power lanes south of los gatos. 800 customs along highway 17 lost power and pg&e is working to restore electricity to the remaining customers by 8:00 this morning. a man died after amtrak train crashed into the s.u.v. on the tracks. the car was on the advantaged after 10:00 last night. no one on the train was hurt.
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amtrak 14 was headed to seattle and held at the scene while they looked into the crash. they left at 3:00 this morning four hours behind schedule. residents will gather at the city council meeting to push officials to do something about a dangerous intersection plagued with violent car accidents. the intersection is near an elementary school. our reporter has details. alan? >> when the car was hit on sunday morning it wasn't the first time. >> in 16 year i have lived here i have been hit at least ten times. >> a woman across the secret says reckless drivers totaled all of her cars. >> we have had nine accidents since ok. >> in october a car whizzed by a security camera after losing control during a police chase. it slammed into her pickup truck killing the passenger.
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three months later another car slammed into the same truck and two more of her cars. >> i was, like, here we go again. okay, we will get the neighbors together and go to city council on tuesday. the city council says the city council has been asking the city manager to do something about it especially because the elementary school is near the intersection. >> one of these days someone will come down here and do 40 minute or 50 miles per hour because i have seen them at 50 miles per hour and someone is going to run interest one of the kids. >> the city manager did not return our calls. barbara who pleaded with the city council four times before is getting a petition signed and plans to be at the tuesday city council meeting to speak. again. fire damaged these cars when the cab of a trailer want up in flames on interstate 680 in
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martinez. it spread to the hills forcing the firefighters to close two southbound lanes for three hours. the backup traffic was four miles away on to the bridge. >> the coast guard will resume a senator at sunrise for a swimmer would was missing in western marin county. the man was on a family outing can they swam crass the bay and he disappeared on the way back. a helicopter and dive teams and dolings will help. damage is being assessed after a destructive fire near the russian river. flames destroyed a summer cabin and damage five homes in forestville. the fire charred several cars. one person suffered burns. people at the river were forced to evacuate. firefighters believe a propane tank ignited the fire.
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steamboats and jet skis are likely banned from the lake because of drought. the lake water level measure is only a few ims above 400' and when it hits 400 the speed limit will be dropped to only fine miles per hour because the low water level will bring underwater objects dangerously close to the nasa. students and teachers at the to napa schools ready to open are run to class positive the first time since the earthquake. st. john's has significant damage at 6.0 magnitude earthquake nine days ago. some classes and offices have been moved. a charter school will re-open after repairs. the majority of the napa students back-to-school last week. emergency assistance center that opened in napa yesterday plans to remain open for as long as necessary. 100 earthquakes victims came to the napa valley marriott hotel for the first day of the men red
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cross emergency assistance center. workers assessed the needs of earthquake victims whether it is financial or mental health and the red cross says the residents affected bid earthquake need a plan to rebuild their lives. >> >> harvests begin at a napa winery. a week ago the barrels were busted and it was chaos. it took 16 hour days of coneup and repair to be ready. the wine community came together to help out. there is still a need for help in napa. text the word "red cross," to 90999 and ten dollars donation appears on your next cell bill. today is the last day with kids going back-to-school. this morning bundle up and this afternoon not so much the good morning, everyone, temperatures are around 60 in
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the city through the ferry building. financial district is hopping after having a day off year to 60 there. 60's coming across the golden gate bridge and belmont and richmond, santa clara and a couple of 58s in san leandro and palo alto and 67 in walnut creek and 66 in pittsburg. 54 right now in petaluma. we have late arriving clouds into the bay and maybe the lower elevation of the north bay and by noon us of us have sun and more cloud cover and hanging out in the mid-to-upper 60's and low 70's from noon to 4:00 at the bay and mid-80's inland. back to normal schedule for mass transit as far as bart is conditioned with 23 trains running on time and ace train run is on time and look at the green, off to a nice start. good morning, everyone, hope you had a wonderful labor day holiday as we look at 101 headed
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beyond the san jose airport at 65 miles per hour. along 280 in and outside cupertino delays at highway 85 moo-ing along clear. at the golden gate bridge traffic is light from marin toward san francisco. as you can see we have a few more cars southbound direction and northbound traffic is negligible but i have good news, 280, it is re-opened. the hinge replacement project was completed early last might and it is open, northbound 280 from he 101 to king street. 4:38. another terrifying reminder of the dangers of texting and driving and this driver narrowly escaped death after taking a look at her phone. the growing hacking scandal is now capping the attention of -- catching the attention of the f.b.i. >> this is a look at downtown
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covering burlingame, walnut creek and campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. thank you for christianing us on the morning news. a look from the exploritorium camera to the bay and the bay bridge. all is moving along. we continue to monitor weather and traffic. f.b.i. is investigating a widespread hacking accident after nude photos of "a" list celebrities were posted including jennifer lawrence and kate upton showing up on social media sites including twitter and tumbler. apple is investigating to see if the ice cloud service was breached.
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celebreties are more vulnerable because the photos are more valuable. if you deleted photos from the phone they have been uploaded into the ice cloud and you delete them they are still existing. >> security experts say many of us make it too easy for criminals to access our private information. a quarter of wireless network have weak passwords or no protection. some set up fake wi-fi hotspots to entrap you. a full report on how to protect yourself is on america per at 7:00 a.m. a colorado woman learned it texting while driving is dangerous. christina was pull into her daughter's middle school and she look down to make sure a voice text went through and the next thing she knew she slammed her s.u.v. into a guardrail which pierced her headlight can shot straight into her hip and out the top of her buttocks. both ends of the pipe had to be cut off to get her out.
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>> they hud to cut there and behind me because the pipe went through my seat. i could feel it were the vie operation. >> doctors say the 4" diameter hole barely missed vital she says he has definitely learn her lesson. >> attorneys challenging california high-speed rail authority bond funding will hold a news conference and discuss the petition they will file with the state supreme court. last month the state was allowed to resume sellingen -- selling bonds to pay for the high-speed rail. opponents are seening to block the use of bond funds claiming the project failed to meet valid requirements on the measure. preparations are underway in the central valley. >> "san francisco chronicle" reports that bart is funding a special team who will focus on
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cleaning entrances and stairs in san francisco and oakland and high traffic areas starting last week at powell street station. a new ban on sleeping and reclining in stations is helping to boost the level of cleansing. >> there will an public work hop on how restaurants are ranked for safety. the workshop will present information to consumers and restaurant owners on the meaning of the 11 o'clocks and compliance scores. the county is posting rated results for restaurants online and officials approved the combine scoring system early this year. >> from food safety to healthy eating americans and their eating habits have problemmed. americans are eating mother heart healthy encourage including vegetables and fruits and whole grapes and fats for a
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lower risk of obesity can chronic illness but eating among the poor is less healthy. researchers suggest better nutrition education is important workers and fast food restaurants across the country including friend will engage in a campaign to unionize scheduled for thursday. this is a follow-up to the previous demonstrations by workers. many do not make more than $7.25 or $15,000 a year. they want $15 an hour. organizers will not say what type of civil disobedience they will employ. a restaurant association says that the protests are just an of the by the unions to pad their membership. kids are hangingen to your every wore. >> they are still asleep.
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>> they saying, mom, we don't need our jackets to school. >> or, mom, meteorologist mike nicco says it is a snow day! >> good morning, everyone, 21 miles per hour is the wind from the southwest at fairfield. that is twice as fast as yesterday so we have the clouds coming in and they are take over the bay as we speak. that will bring us a cooler breeze this afternoon but it will still be bright and we have to wait longer than yesterday. more clouds tone. light coastal drizzle is possible and steady the next couple of days. you can see dean now and 10:00 it will fade and by 11 o'clock it is gone but the coast it will hang out and you will see more cloud cover than yesterday. cooler today, a lot of the 90's from yesterday are replaced
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byity. mid-to-upper 80's around los gatos and gilroy and 79 in milpitas and low 80's elsewhere. the peninsula starts in the upper 70's and drop to 72 in millbrae and the temperatures along the coast are cooler in the mid-60 and cooler in downtown at 74 yesterday and 68 today and 70 in south san francisco and in the upper 70's to mid-80's through the north bay and san rafael is 79 and senator that rose is 84 and 71 at berkeley and inland, get to 90 in brentwood but that is it. mid-to-upper 80's significantly cooler than year. here is a lock at the baseball forecast, mariners and a's are in town playing evening game at 65 at 7:00 and dropping to 62 by 9:30. the cloud cover is more extensive but we are still in the mid-50's to low 60's.
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here is the seven-day forecast, we have a tropical treasure coming in today and that is picking up the sea breeze. it will stay steady. all the storms stay to the north and depending on the cloud cover and the winds it could be down a degree or two on when and friday and monday. close to average. a steady pattern. but dry. >> the drive teams to be no delays headed in the eastbound and westbound direction of westbound away from hayward to the peninsula. we expected themes to re-open and they delivered, northbound 280 from highway 101 to king street at the 280 extension, the project was completed at 10:00 last night so there are no problems. along the peninsula you can see
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101 headed by fog the drive is clear and 280. we have a little bit of slow but nothing too bad further to the south redwood city and woodside is nice and clear. drive time traffic 580 from tracy to dublin is 30 minutes and highway 4 antioch to concord is 14 minutes and 101 southbound to san francisco is 19 minutes and to the golden gate bridge we have construction wrapping up at action. we are getting a bird's i didn't view of apple's new space ship campus in cupertino because of a man and his drone. >> here are the tech bytes this morning. a new video showing construction of apple's giant space ship two campus in cupertino in california. the poster says that it was shot using both the drone and the go
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pro. >> there are images published over on years with 2.4 million imams added and another 14 million are expected in the coming months. >> and toy talk has developed a high-tech version of pop-up books of twitter including winston show with dialogues back-and-forth with the characters available for download from apple's app could be over but the spirit lives on and we will go to the first and only festival inspired hotel. >> when is a canceled wedding called a "success," our be turned love lemons into love lemonade. >> a small screen at san mateo and eastern span of the bay bridge and traffic in san jose bridge and traffic in san jose looking
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burning man counterculture festival is over but it was a smashing success. the festival drew the biggest crowd of 66,000 people on friday under the 68,000 a cap establish by the bureau of land management organizers were placed on probation for exceeding the limit. the festival was marred by the death of a wyoming woman hit by a bus last week. hotel in reno is cashing in on the spirit of burning man. the hotel is the first burner hotel, someone who embraces the culture of burning man and each room has a theme such aspirin says pony with the guests. the motto is burning man without the dust. >> it looks cozy.
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>> now, how is the weather, >> now, how is the weather, machine machine? >> the golden gate bridge will drop, have the the temperatures are four degrees cooler in san jose and 82 and san francisco is 68 at six and fremont is 78 and double digits cooler in palo alto, oakland and napa and live more. 100s are gone from sacramento and chico and 93 and 99 and 103 in fresno and clouds along the coast in san diego and los angeles and 73 and 83 in lake tahoe. >> labor day is over we have mass transit back on schedule with 32 bart train on time. no delays on ace train one and in san jose, a report of a tree
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on fire at the interchange of northbound highway 87 and 280 so in the area you could see crews there and spectator slowing so be careful. the rest of san jose is moving among without problems. the drive time traffic 680 in walnut creek to dublin is 14 minutes and 101 southbound from santa rosa to san francisco is 15 minutes and santa cruz mountains along highway 17 to los gatos is 24 minutes. i will look at the san francisco drive coming up in a few minutes . not so good news, a million dollar statue in the california state capital rotunda was damaged during the end of session celebration on saturday. dug the party, this is a tradition for lawmakers to go up to the second floor and throw coins down on to the statue and if they get a coin in her crown, it guarantees the governor will sign their bill.
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officials thing one of the coins broke the finger off of the queen and no word on how much it will cost. >> a man who canceled the wedding plans the last second is if you a celebrity after holding the reception anyway. phil turned the prepaid wedding reception into a fundraiser for a charity providing medical care in develop countries. kick -- tickets sold out and people cross the nation donated. the doctor was astounded. >> i thought it was a joke. and i felt like the bride. thank you very much. >> thank you is life, something happens, you roll with it. >> so far, more than $50,000 has rolled in and there could be a personal happy ending for phil, as well, because the story want viral, guess what? he has received autopsy facebook requests from women.
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and he says mothers are trying to introduce him to their daughters and grandmothers trying to get him to met their granddaughters. >> because he is smart. and cares. >> good luck. >> and next at action on the road to recovery the last two schools hit hard by the napa earthquake prepare to welcome students back to class. >> more unrest in ukraine ahead of president obama's european visit. can he help de-escalate the crisis? >> there is downtown san francisco on the big scream and the bay bridge, as well, with the bay bridge, as well, with live doppler hd showing the
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good morning at 5:00 on tuesday. the day after labor day. the day all the kids return to school. thanks for joining us. >> the white patches -- pants and the white shoes go away. >> i thought in san francisco we don't have to do that. >> indian summer. >> good morning, everyone, can you imagine me wearing white shoes? five miles per hour at half moon bay and visibility is...really in white shoes? hold it off, leyla gulen. >> the forecast shows cloud cover this morning with the marine layer
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