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i lost my two children to preventable medical errors and i don't want anyone else to lose theirs. the three provisions in 46 will reduce medical errors and protect patients. save money and save lives. yes on 46. abc7 news begins with breaking news. the breaking news is happening right new in san francisco. you can see an evacuation is underway in the mission bay area at a building near third close to at&t park where the giants are about to host the nationals in game four. this building houses a drop off box office after a suspicious package was found at the loading docks there. the s.w.a.t. team, san francisco
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fire and police, all are on the scene. >> so far, no word on what is in the package. we will bring you developments as they come in with brag news as they come in with brag news continuing on twitter@ >>awoman brule tally push add woman in her 80's to the ground if no reason. >> as stunning as the attack appears on video many are not at all surprised. amy hollyfield is in berkeley with the latest. amy? kristen, she is okay. she was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. she has been released. people in berkeley watchedded video and say this is an indication of a bigger issue. >> surveillace camera captured the random attack, 85 years old woman walking with a relative at
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night and another woman shoved her to the ground the victim was seriously hurt and staken to the hospital. >> i don't know anyone can do something so horrible. >> police released the video in the hope of finding the attacker as people watch it, reactions are full of outrage and disgust. >> i feel sick to my stomach and scared. i just turned 65 so 85, it is getting closer. a comment that came up, the number of mentally ill people wandering the streets of berkeley especially in the area where the attack happened. >> this looked to me like an elderly woman assaulted by a homeless person. >> there are more people on the street in this town than there used to be. a lot of people have mental problems. >> one interview was interrupted by a man screaming profanities.
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>> you [blank], you are [blank]. >> mental illness. >> people could be drawn here because they do all they can to help the mentally ill. >> it is a double edged sword. we want to provide services. you get more people. >> thank you is called "terrible," but the exception, not the norm. >> i don't think it is getting worse, it has been like this for 20 years. unfortunately, it is bad but getting better. >> he talked about a program that puts eyes on the street and after seeing the video what happened to the woman he will have to redouble the efforts on the ambassadorship program. the head master of a resolution technologious north bay school has resigned after being caught in a motel room with drugs and an unconscious young woman. the 54-year-old thomas woody
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price stepped down after the arrest on felony drug charges. deputies found him at a motel room on friday with large amounts of drugs including heroin and methamphetamine and cocaine the deputies also found a 21-year-old woman in the room passed out. her boyfriend tipped him off. price currently is free on bail and is due in court next month. >> a large fire broke out at a home in vallejo. firefighters found smoke and flames coming from a home around 8:30 this morning. investigator say the house was vacant and was boarded up. homeless people were living inside. a man and a dog were pulled from the house. he was treated for smoke inhalation. >> a heads up for drivers, a jackknifed big rig is causing major backups on the peninsula. our traffic reporter is here with the situation. yes, good in us is that the sig-alert canceled moments ago. the damage is done. we have very heavy backups as
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you head into belmont. southbound side of highway 101 at ralston avenue with spectator slowing in the northbound direction when five vehicles involved including a jack knifed big rig to start blocking the lanes and that caused major delays from burlingame. we are still looking at a bit of a wait, giving you extra minutes to tack on to the commute but the gauze in is 280 is clear and at top speed for the alternate. the ebola virus is developing as two patients receive care in two united states cities. we are learning more of a nurse who is the first person to be infected outside of africa. our reporter is tracking the developments. >> hoping to save thomas duncan in the hospital for nine days doctors are turning to an experimental antiviral drug. experts say the drug has never been tested on humans. but with his condition getting worse over the weekend, the
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f.d.a. approved this option on an emergency basis. >> it could make a difference. but, still, experimental medicine. >> in nebraska it is unclear what doctors will use to treat american journalist who now is in an isolation ward at a hospital in omaha after contract the virus in liberia possibly while cleaning a contaminated car. >> he looks strong and walked off the plane waved and we saw him from a distance. he is tentative and frightened. >> the first person to contract the virus outside west africa is more alarming showing the disease can spread in developed nations. this nurse in spain testing positive for ebola virus as a madrid hospital after treating a fatally infected priest who was sick in sierra leone. three more people now are quarantined at the hospital. >> it was not a real good idea to bring back home those priests
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or doctors from africa to madrid. they could be treated locally with the same effectiveness and probably with more humanity. >> in order to keep americans safe, president obama is considering beefing up screening methods for passengers traveling from west africa and in the united states. a spokesman for governor jerry brown says the re-election campaign has returned donations to pg&e executives. the governor says it is the prudent thing to do while federal prosecutors investigate five years worth of back channel communications between company employees and the public utilities commission. the e-mails allegedly show pg&e executives secretly negotiating with officials on matters related to rate hikes and financial people ats. this comes as the commission is weighing more than $1 billion in fines against pg&e for the san bruno pipeline disaster in 2010.
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>> you see this plane? it will be rocking in a few hours. >> thank you is when the giants will try to wrap up the division series we and send the washington nationals packing home to washington, dc, empty handed. >> fans are getting their gear ready to cheer on the team. matt keller is at at&t park. matt? >> another home playoff game means people can buy their gear here at the giants dugout and the most popular items of course are anything that has post-season 2014, always october shirts selling well and post-season hats selling well, and the giants hat with the traditional sf and the tag that says post-season 14 on the side is selling well and the giants' fans are big customers around the work. people are welcoming the fans to come to their areas, businesses
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like restaurants and grocery stores putting up paint on their windows to say, come on in. spend your money here. this sign, though, is proposal not that welcoming to ticket holders. a parking garage charging $100 a car for the game. the owners could be the only ones around here happy the giants lost because they had a chance to sweep the nationals chance to sweep the nationals been -- but an error led to a >> the win could happen today. it is going to happen today. >> the giants play against the nationals at 6:07 people and the giants just told me that chris issaac is singing the national anthem but you have to wait the first inning for the surprises.
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thanks, again, the game is at 6:00 at at&t park and if a game five is necessary, the series will return to washington for the deciding game on thursday at 2:00 p.m. >> check out the giants have a panda, giraffe, and, now, a tiger. check out this picture posted on ureport@kgo-tv.com, a three-year-old decked out in orange and black. and another photo of a giants' fan holding adorable baby niece. that is at at&t park. where they had the statue, with orange and giants temperature shirt. they don't get any cuter than this. e-mail your fan photos to ureport@kgo-tv.com or tweet them to us. still to come, a four-year-old brings hundreds of bags of her written to day care. how that happened. >> through the department of veterans affairs, they are firing as they investigate
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problems at v.a. facilities across the nation. >> why your d.n.a. could be to blame for the amount of coffee you drink. >> a look outside from sutro tower camera looking down on san francisco. just a gorgeous shot. just a gorgeous shot. leyla gulen 8 be back with the
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>> a bay area business is asking for help for thieves that stole
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studio production equipment in fremont. this surveillance video shows the robbers stealing more than $150,000 in confirmment three nights ago. the production company is offering $10,000 reward to anyone who can identify the people responsible. police have arrested a woman whose toddler took hundreds of packets of heroin to day care and handed them out like candy. the mom, 30 years old, has been charged with drugs and child endangerment charges. her four-year-old daughter took the wrong backpack to school and opened the bag and saw 250 of these packages inside and thought they were candy and began passing them out to the classmates. fortunately the day care provider what was happening and took they will away before the kids opened the packages. say the department of veterans affair is firing four senior officials. the move comes amid allegations that allege long wait times and
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coverups of treatment v.a. facilities. several heads have been accused of neglect or conduct and manipulating data. >> how much coffee do you drink? one cup? two cups? if you find it takes more than that to get you going it could have something to do with your d.n.a. the way people react to the same amounts of coffee are tied to six specific genes. researchers say the gene difference explain why some get a buzz from one cup and some need three double espressos. some of us are just more caffeine resistant than others. >> you need a sand pile to slow you down. you will perk us up with the weather forecast? >> with our hours we become immune to coffee, but, anyway, we are not immune to this gorgeous view from mount
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tamalpais looking to the bay. it is a beautiful day today and we are now starting to see blue sky and this is going to be the trend for the week making for a perfect fleet week stage with the full seven-day forecast straight ahead. >> looking forward to it and a rare lunar eclipse happening with the best time to see the blood moon. we have the star of the new hit star "forever," an interview with leyla gulen and why he does not think immortality is a very not think immortality is a very good
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tell tom torlakson to keep fighting for a plan that invests in our public schools.
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covering benicia, san ramon, san mateo and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. happening now, nasa's first spacewalk in more than a year and underway at the international space station this morning. two astronauts, an american and a german are moving a broken pump the size of a refrigerator into the proper storage location. this video is from nasa tv. the space washingtons were curtailed in 2013 after an italian astronaut nearly drown because of a flooded helmet. it was solved with the water cooling suspect of the suit. the walk will wrap up in the next half hour. >> you still have a chance to see a rare sight but only if you get up really early. there will be a total lunar, clips at the same time the sun starts to rise for an hour at 3:25 a.m. nasa says the moon will turn a zip red because of sun line scattered through the atmosphere of earth and a band
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of turquoise visible before it is eclipsed by the shadow. >> we will see it. >> while we are driving. >> exactly, driving into work. >> look at that moon. >> now leyla gulen has the forecast. >> there will be a showered marine layer so hopefully we will have an ought why ensure that can see the sight, however, for us closer to the bay it could be tougher. right new, it is not too tough from our emeryville camera, that is san francisco in the distance and we have blue skies and we have cloud cover that is lingering around and we have a shower and marine layer today, as well, and the fog we had earlier has burned off and as you look at live doppler hd, we are bringing in the returns off to the pacific and that is all going to burn off and it will reveal beautiful days that lie ahead especially for fleet week and this is exciting, as we look from our camera, current temperatures in san francisco
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are 62, and 64 at oakland and san carlos and 68 in san jose and 71 in morgan hill and 61 at half moon bay. as we take a look at the bobby douglas, still we have clouds in the distance but it will bun off and current continues are 59 in santa rosa and 69 in napa and 66 in petaluma, and concord, as well, and 75 in livermore. we have a game tonight, the giants are taking on the washington nationals and we will start at 6:07 at 68 for a starting temperature and ending at 64 degrees so it will be chilly and more seasonal for san francisco with a moderate u.v. index and the satellite show as ridge of high pressure which is hanging over california and it will push off to the east by the end of the week but not before democrats get a little bit warmer. our highs today in the south bay are 84 degrees in san jose and 82 in sunnyvale and the if
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peninsula and beginning to be in the lower 70's for san francisco and the north bay and the mid-to-upper 80's in the east bay and checking in, mid-to-upper 70's but as we move inland we will see the warm conditions and in the lower 90 for some of us with lows and fog is rushing so you may not see the full noon lunar eclipse but we have temperatures that are going to be chilly in the upper 50's to lower 60's and my seven-day forecast shows the warmup starts tomorrow and then it ranked up by sunday and cooling off to seasonal conditions next week. >> you are not done. you will tell us something exciting happening tonight with millions of viewers tuning in to watch crime drama "forever." >> i haded pleasure of speaking with two the stars about the show including dr. henry morgan, medical examiner with a secret he cannot solve the mystery to his own mortalities. >> the central question, immortality, a blessing or a
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curse? >> i think in henry's case it is most definitely a curse. if you can imagine meeting the love of your life, falling in love, spending a lifetime with that person and then...passing on to the next life and you remain frozen as a 35-year-old or however old he is, i can imagine that being torturous. >> the new episode of "forever," is tonight right here. is tonight right here. >> why vacuum pet hair off the the cat? rachel ray produced by her own viewers from her outfit to her dinner recipe, tune in to her dinner recipe, tune in to see the results of your
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, , , ,, it's about getting to the finish line. her dinner recipe, tune in to see the results of your in life, it's how you get there that matters most. like when i found out i had a blood clot in my leg. my doctor said that it could travel to my lungs and become an even bigger problem. so he talked to me about xarelto®. >>xarelto® is the first oral prescription blood thinner proven to treat and help prevent dvt and pe that doesn't require regular blood monitoring or changes to your diet. for a prior dvt i took warfarin, which required routine blood testing and dietary restrictions. not this time. while i was taking xarelto®, i still had to stop racing, but i didn't have to deal with that blood monitoring routine. >>don't stop taking xarelto®, rivaroxaban, unless your doctor tells you to. while taking xarelto®, you may bruise more easily and it may take longer for bleeding to stop. xarelto® may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. xarelto® can cause serious bleeding, and in rare cases,
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reveals how you can get secret savings on car repairs even after your warranty expires. >> every pet has a quirk. but one cat's ritual is becoming the latest viral video on out tune. >> most cats are terrified of vacuum cleaners but this cat isn't. rather than grooming himself he lets the owner do this with the hand-held vacuum. the owner says when he was a kit were he would play with the brush on the end of the hose and he put the brush on the cat's back but quickly discovered that the cat loved it like a spa day for the cat. >> and no hairballs. thanks for joining us. thanks for joining us. >> go
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