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we have reached out to bart and waiting to hear back. >> a 37-year-old man with ties to santa cruz is scheduled to be arraigned for starting a massive fire in the sierra. the king fire is now 73,000 acres and only 10 percent contained. 2,600 people have been evacuated from homes with 2,000 homes threatened in pollock pines. the fire was started by a man named wayne huntsman now held on $10 million bail. this is not the first run in with the law. we are in santa cruz at police headquarters with details. >> he has an active arrest warrant in santa cruz for incident that took place this year resisting arrest. look the at most recent mug shot after the arrest. in el dorado county on wednesday. this is wayne huntsman at 19,
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career criminal or convicted criminal. he did time for assault and grand theft. the sheriff are too familiar with the 37-year-old arrested in 1996 for stealing a car. in 2001 for battery. in january of this year, resisting arrest. he worked for a construction company last year and the police say the arrest was a mistake. >> frustrating for the community in the sierras this individual has been arrested a number of times and now he is out committing crimes and has been involved in this fire. >> my brother would never intentionally do anything to harm the forest or wilderness or housing. >> huntsman is held in jail on $10 million bail. the criminal compliment says he is charged with arson and aggravating factors. he will appear in court this
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afternoon. >> evacuation orders are still in effect for weed, california, with a thousand homes lettened. 150 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. firefighters got a break yesterday light rain. this morning the fire is at 479 acres 85 percent contained. cal fire is offering $10,000 reward for information leading to the cause. we will physical the fires on air and online. what now people are laned up outside apple stores in the bay area waiting to get their happen on a new iphone. two versions of the phone, the 6 and 6 plus are on sale at 8:00 this morning. in downtown san francisco some are camping out since when night. a record four million people pre-ordered new phones in the first 24 hours and apple says a limited supply is available in stores for walk in customers.
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the phones, larger cents and faster processor and battery life and cameras. >> there are long lines at apple stores. this is a look outside an apple store in chicago hundreds have been camp out for days or weeks to be the first to get their hands on a 6 or 6-plus or to sell their place in line. service workers would clean and maintain technical facilities are outside the apple fors to protest for better wages is gives. members of the union plan to demonstrate across the nation including at four bay area stores, one in san francisco, palo alto, santa rosa and burlingame. a spokesman says the workers ask tech companies like apple to support good jobs for worker who contribute to their success. a major about face for oakland, giving back a $1 billion garbage collection deal to america's largest waste hauler, waste management.
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a smaller company won the contract last month and california waste solutions currently checks 60 percent of the recyclables and some felt it was not prepared to handle the larger job of all of the waste collection. california waste solution will handle the entire recycling collection and the city council is expected to sign off on new agreement at a special session monday. alameda police believe they are narrowing the search for a car linked to vandalism at a baseball field. surveillance video captures a silver again 20 or 2008 mercedes near the dime at the college of am a made in late july. the pictures do not she the license mate. a vandal broke six sprinklerheads used by the babe ruth baseball league and 100,000 gallons of watered inned the field causing $10,000 in damage. >> fast food managers had it with rowdy teens we gather after school and get into fights.
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parents and educators met to find a solution. this video posted on youtube shows the alarming common occurrence at the lazy in antioch teens getting for fights after school. this was the paing lot monitored by police and security guards. >> it is like a zoo. wild kids. >> some changes are taking it a step further horsing their doors after choose. after school for to hours this taco bell does not let anyone. service is limited to the drive through. >> a mcdonald's plans to take a similar approach and close the diner around 3:00 to discourage rowdy teens. terribles met with parents and faith groups to discuss a different issue, funding for high needs students. they believe some of the services could also tackle this problem. >> conflict resolution, a small
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task force. >> the superintendent says their jurisdiction is limited but he has some ideas. >> this is opportunity that could be more...motivational for the students to allow them to want to stay at school and participate in activities. >> he wants more academic and social support services so students can be successful and stay out-of-control on and off campus. scotland will remain part of the united kingdom after all. voters rejected the idea of breaking free from the u.k. 55 percent to 45 percent. a record high 86 percent of registered voters turned out. it would have ended the 307 year union with england. most in glasgow voted favor but it was not enough.
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>> president obama invites vice president biden say "it is open us," a campaign to bring aware misto sexual assault on college campuses aimed at men. white house officials say that is because the research shows men are less likely to speak out about violence against women because they believe other men accept it. the president and vice president say they hope to set an example by speak out to change that social norm. now the weather today and the weekend. drew? >> we are starting off dry. live doppler hd shows a different picture than this time yesterday. we are tracking the rain. it is out of here and this morning we are dealing with partly cloudy skies. 64 at oakland and 68 in san mateo and 59 in san ramon and concord and 61 this morning in concord. note low clouds along the coast
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and the immediate bay but that will pull back and by the afternoon we are expecting a lot of sunshine bay and inland loan the coast, though, we could hang on to cloud covers and temperatures warm up. highs for friday around the bay area, 80 is the high if vallejo and 73 in richmond and san francisco at 72. 74 in san mateo. highs from five to eight degrees warmer than this time year and plenty of sun across the bay area and a warm finish to the work week. >> good morning, everyone. there is a construction project in oakland up to broadway so we have four lanes taken an causing a bottleneck. when you get beyond the construction everything is moving along well approaching the maze. it will losen up at action weapon all the coaches will be removed. 680 walnut creek to dublin is 15
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minutes. southbound 101 from santa rosa to san francisco is 53 minutes and dry through the santa cruz mountains and traffic is dry from highway one to los gatos at 22 minutes. >> homeowners are blocked from pulling their green yawns have a new weapon. >> homeowners want them gone, a woman going out to save dozens of
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covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. fremont police are warning residents of a scam. investigators say man posing as a city animal services officer struck up a conversation on wednesday with the elderly man. the victim asked the city worker for help to measure for the
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and then someone bull particularized the health. a safe was missing from the bedroom. >> the fake city workers was hispanic at 5' 7 with average build and dark hair with a tattoo on the left side of his neck a dark colored problem with three dots. this is no christmas of the accomplice. the governor signed a pill to prohibit homeowner associations from penalizing home owners who install drought resistant landscaping. in january they will be barred from taking action against homeowners replacing lawns with drought tolerant plants. they will still be able to establish landscaping rules if they allow for low water plants. water use accounts for 35 percent of all urban water use and a quarter of the residents living in a hoa community. they are prevented from imposing
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fines on residents would reduce or stop watering landscaping when the governor declare as drought. that law goes into affect immediately. a woman is waging a campaign to save a colony of ground squirrels. she is squaring off against her neighbors who say they are causing problems in their home. >> patricia is on a mission to save the group squirrels from storm -- termination. >> she fed and helped propagate the rodents that are tunneling behind her home in danville. >> i only had four or five they had names when they started multiplying this were too many. >> homeowners association wants to pump gas into the tunnels. they are threatening the foundation of a woman's home so she called in a construction company. >> he says if they get and do
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damage to the foundation it is a minimum of $20,000 which is my responsibility. >> she called in biologists and the humane society which favor nonlethal methods such as growing vegetation. >> they love this type of dirt. if we fill this in with ivy and water it they will not like the hill. >> the homeowners association need to take quick action. >> how many do you estimate? >> 300 or 400. >> the association says this is to badly riddled with tunnels it is in danger of collapsing during the rain and now all homeowners cast a ballot with a decision made open october 1. the giants have a big weekend series in san diego as they try to pick up more ground on the nl west leading dodgers. yesterday they were off and los angeles faced the cubs and
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chicago was up 4-1 in the 7th and the dodgers exploded with five runs. los angeles was put ahead with a double and the dodgers beat the kubs 8-4. san francisco holds the top wild card spot by two games with ten games remaining in the regular season. >> the a's were swept by last place rangers yesterday. five singles were give up in the first inning and texas led 4-0. the worst team in baseball outscores the a's and rangers pete oakland 7-2. mariners rallied to beat the rangers. a's beat seattle in final wild card spot. down one game. ten remaining. katie marzullo's breakfast is a piece of cake, can we not
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that? >> i knew you would call me on that. >> i admit. >> you were struggling, our stage manager has removed it. that is why you do not see it. >> we will prove it. >> the weekend has only three days left summer and it will warm up across the bay area. live doppler hd showing the sweep across the region coming up dry. right now most spots were in the low 60 and 62 in san francisco and 64 in oakland and 69 in san ramon and is livermore at 61. we will show you a little bit of low-lying clouds along the coast and the forecast features clouds and morning fog and warmer into to weekend and autumn officially arrives monday at 7:29 in the evening. we are tracking an area of low pressure responsible for the rain yesterday. that is getting pushed to the south. the high pressure is building. the high pressure will bring plenty of sunshine over the weekend.
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early clouds and sunshine and a day of transition with the high pressure for the welcome. we have low clouds and fog along the coast early and sunshine by the afternoon and bay and inland. headed to the a's game taking on philadelphia at the coliseum, 70 at first pitch and by 9:30 we have fire work after the game with temperatures comfortable in the mid-60's. improve a light jacket. highs for friday, 84 is the high in concord and 77 in fremont. san francisco topping out at 72 and 77 in san rafael and 73 in richmond and 80 in san jose and santa cruz has a high of 74. the seven-day forecast will show you early morning gray skies turning to sunshine and in the 80's inland and 60's along coast, and sunday is the last official day of summer with autumn on monday.
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we will track a chance of more moisture on when night into thursday of next week. now the traffic. >> good morning, i cannot believe the summer is over. >> too quick. >> too quick. >> in san jose, not teach is happening we have top speeds everywhere, and steering clear. but the north by we have fog at quarter-mile visibility on 101 and to the south you will find construction slowing things down and northbound along highway 101 around lakeville highway so want out and only slow for the cones. tonight at 10:00 p.m., eastbound and westbound highway 37 between highways 121 and 29, vallejo, we will have a full freeway shut down so you will need a detour. notice the fog, the area shaded
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in orange through american canyon and half moon half mile . use the low beams. >> the next generation of iphone is on sale today but will they live up to the hype? here is the tech byte. >> today, launch day for apple, with a new subjected exterior. the new devices live up to the hype. >> both bring better cameras, the upgrade to the mobile operating system software, and bigger scenes. >> prices start at $200 for the iphone 6 and the plus started at $300. samsung now has pre-orders for
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the 7" camera with a signature s10 available october 17. those the technical bits for friday. apple lovers in australia are the first to get their hands on the iphone 6. this young man waited if line overnight outside the store and was the first to get his iphone. he pulled the box apart and the expensive new gadget went flying! a loud gaps and the news crew and the other customers waiting if line in disbelief. but it appears that the phone survived the fall. >> close one. >> president obama nominates a new ambassador to mexico and close ties to the bay area. >> amid the ashes of a devastating weed, california, fire, a woman is still able to celebrate her wedding day.
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>> president obama is nominating a berkeley professor as the next ambassador to mexico and would the first woman, the policy is program development director at the chief justice earl warren institute on law and social policy at uc berkeley school of law and a former deputy chief staff to president clinton. she graduated from stanford and received the law degree from cal. a northern california woman who lost everything in the devastating fire in weed, california, is happy as can be. >> she has her wedding dress. hardly anything else made it out of the flames including pictures. she lost her home when the wildfire rushed through her neighborhood on monday. her fiance scrambled to save
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what he could. >> the wedding dress. the wedding rings. i was, like, i don't know where they are, and that is the wedding dress train. what is the first thing you think of at a wedding? the dress. >> they are just days to spare until wedding day. people have a last thing to be thankful for. she says the outpouring of support is pore she could have imagined because people are donating so much. just's the wedding day. congratulations. they okay. >> yesterday, we got help from mother nature. not a lot but any rain will help to douse the fire activity. >> no rain on the sweeper and getting dry across the bay area and you do not need the umbrella.
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temperature wise we are in the 60's in most locations and 64 in oakland and san ramon is upper 50's. the next 12 hours, hour by hour, we start off with clouds loan the coast and total sunshine by the afternoon and the summer spread 80's inland and 60's loop the coast. traffic from leyla gulen. >> we have a new crash over the altamont pass. of you get to the pass. eastbound 580 at grant line road a two-car crash and two lanes are blocked and we are seeing backup building through tracy and along 580. in the pass you can see the congestion at 38 miles per hour is the top speed. wide open when you get to north flynn road and clear through livermore. here is walnut creek, southbound 680 moving along. engineers pore secret -- for jetblue are trying to figure out what happened to the engine
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that had to make an emergency landing. this is video from inside the plane as emergency masks were deployed. smoke poured out of the engine and went into the cabin 13 members into the flight. passengers say it sound like the engine blew. they evacuated the planes at long beach airport. jetblue says one passenger was taken to the hospital for observation. >> they expect more and bigger cruise ships arriving if san francisco. the 3,000 passenger was the first vessel to berth at the terminal at the pier 37. they can turn off their engines and this is a large ticketing area and now immigration agents will have their own inspection area. you do not have to be a passenger to enjoy the terminal, there is a 3 1/2 acre public work next door. did you know today is a holiday? it is parking day 2014.
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that means in san francisco, san jose and morgan hill, artists and designers and others are trance forming metered parking spots for temporary public parks. the goal is to urge the cities to remember the response of green unban public space. park days began in 2005 and include how park installations in 180 cities and 36 countries and six continents. >> the price to park is still the same, unfortunately. the apple faithful have their day. hundreds are in line including these in san francisco. and they are the first to snag the new iphones. a suspected arsonist is behind bars accused of starting a huge wild
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning, everyone, on friday. >> meteorologist mike nicco is not here and draw is here. how is the profit? a different picture from 24 hours ago with dry conditions. and the rain is at home and start out in the 60's. 64 in oakland and 62 in san francisco and 66 in antioch and concord and 61 degrees. the bus stop forecast, dry skies and cloud cover along the cost and san francisco and the bay with starting temperatures in the upper 50's to 60. leyla gulen has the traffi
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