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front door periodically from what happened. what a mess. clothes are still lying around. glass is shattered. police got the call at 3:38. it just happened. they have a description of who did this. look out for two blackmen wearing jeans and bandannas driving a u-haul with a partial license play "ag135," that is some of the license plate number. they headed westbound toward van ness at 3:38. because this just happened, police are still in the gathering mode. they are talking to a witness and waiting for an employee to come down and survey the dam and a sense of how much was stolen. police are in the initial stages of this investigation but they are actively looking if who -- for who did this.
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happening now in san francisco, a group of homeless people and their advocates are ready to move to oakland for a demonstration of the right to rest. the group spent the night outside bart powell street station in a sleep in demonstrating a right to rest for those would have no place to sleep. it is crime in san francisco to lay or sit on saws and they will attend larger protests in oakland starting at fruitvale bart station. new details of another rally against police brutality in oakland. it began at 7:00 p.m. at 14th and broadway and moved to the bart fruitvale station. officials closed the station for 20 minutes. four were arrested. 17 were cited. >> this is the final day of action for the holiday weekend and protests and rallies are scheduled n san francisco the answer coalition has a protest scheduled for 11 a.m. at the caltrain station near at&t park south of the lefty o'doul's bridge.
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demonstrators will hold a rally and take the message on to the train and other bart stations. similar events are slated for washington dc, and new york today. >> the event will coin side with the dr. martin luther king jr. parade in san francisco. thousands are expected to take part in a march from the same caltrain station stopping at willie may plaza and at&t park to commemorate the crossing of the bridge in selma a symbol of violence and victory. >> freedom train rolls for the last time today from san jose to san francisco to honor dr. martin luther king jr. the local freedom train was the last of its kind in the u.s. freedom trains symbolized the march if selma to montgomery, people bam in 1965. a lack of community interest and sponsorship doomed the train. nick will have more on the final run at the top of the hour.
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it is just about 4:33, san francisco mayor will gin schoolchildren to watch "selma," to remember the dr. martin luther king jr. holiday. the viewing and discussion comes after oprah and other stars of the movie marched in selma alabama, yesterday, in honor of king. the proud march to the bridge is where civil rights protesters were beaten and tear gassed by state troopers in 1965. john legend and rappers performed the oscar nominated song "glory," from the film. >> i will a honored to be part of this. i studied the civil rights movement growing up and inspired by dr. king and all those that worked with him. i feel humbled because i know how much they sack credit faced. they did it at the risk of their lives. >> movie tells the story of a three month period in 1965 as he led the movement for voting rights in the face of you have
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length opposition. >> events take place in the bay area to commemorate the holiday. the mayor will be there for the screening of "selma," and speak at community breakfast underway at 9:00. in richmond there is a day of service at the riff mop greenway walking and bicycle trail with volunteers planting trees and cleaning up trash. it is underway at 9:00 on the trail near lincoln elementary. a parade and rally in honor of dr. king begins at 9:30 at dmv parking lot in el cerrito. >> there is in clear indication that the home of vice president biden was targeted in a shooting incident. multiple shots were fired near his delaware home on saturday night from a passing vehicle. biden and his wave were out to dinner at the time. delaware police the secret service and the f.b.i. are all investigating. new details here on the mystery goo that is killing birds in the east bay. the substance is mostly gone
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from the water. fish and wildlife officials say it could be tuesday before they know exactly what it was. they say it was not oil. 89 birds been rescued from the shoreline area. 20 birds have died. >> the coast guard does a fly over and could not see any product on the water so it is really still a mystery and it could be several more days with the holiday before we determine what exactly this product is. >> international bird rescue in fairfield is caring for the surviving birds and autopsies will determine what killed the others. >> the winner phenomenon known as king tides runs to san francisco so get ready for flooding. one of the areas is a section of shorelynn highway in mill valley near 101. they turn the surrounding parking lots into pools. it happens when the sun and moon align which pulls ocean water to opposite sides of the earth and creates extreme high and low tides. high tide in san francisco is
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scheduled to occur at 10:00 this morning. we have fog. we have king tides. cannot get any rain, though. >> you are right. is plenty of moisture but no triggering mechanism to turn it interest rain and make it fall. now, king tides show 9:58 at the golden gate bridge today, this morning, 10:46 tomorrow morning and reaches 6.9 and wrens at 11:36 and on thursday it russia -- shrinks at at the lunch hour at 12:25. it is mild around san francisco and 57 in belmont and union city and saratoga a few degrees of our normal high. when we get rid of the fog which is here through the morning commute we will have slow
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clearing by noon. we will still have high clouds but notice the temperatures are upper fists to low 60. it will be clear and mild this evening the enjoy temperatures in the low-to-mid 50's. leyla gulen? we are looking at san mateo bridge but i want to remind you westbound ace train 7 in the morning and eastbound ace train 10 traveling during the afternoon will not be in operation today and bart. they will run saturday service starting at 6:00 a.m. so we have holiday schedule for mass transit. check with your local transit agency. the san mateo bridge is moving along nicely making it across the water to the peninsula. right around moffitt field that is where we have a fog advisory, so traveling along 101 be careful. we have construction here along 880, between washington and marina, you will find the crews there, it does not appear to be causing slowing and it slows for
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the cones, tracy to dublin is 24 minutes, highway 4 antioch to concord is 14 minutes and 101 southbound from san rafael to san francisco is just 19 minutes 4:38. next alarming findings of the number of kids would go unvaccinated and why so many of them live right here in the bay area. >> happy homecoming for bay area service member with a critical mission the men and women just returned from. >> a look at the bay bridge toll plaza which is light on monday morning. it may not get very prouded. we will keep an cry on the remark and the weather through the entire commercial
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luther king jr. and many places across the united states including here in the bay area celebrate the life of the civil rights heard. a new study of immunizations in northern california reveal locations where a high percentage of children miss one or more recommended doses as measles is spreading in southern california and beyond. the data comes from kaiser permanente's northern california system. it reveals underimmunization clusters among those who turn three in east bay and in sonoma and northern san francisco and southern marin counties, vallejo and an area between sacramento and roseville. identifying the hotspots early could help identify empending epidemics sooner. >> a teen is giving up her sweet 16 birthday party for the great good. after a trip to ethiopia. our reporter has the story.
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>> meet a charming eight-year-old in ethiopia, the catalyst for a sophmore. >> i saw the poverty and all of the children begging on the streets and i thought, maybe i can give up my 16th birthday. >> in lieu of sweat 16 party and gifts she asked family and friends to donate to her cause and add a 5th grate classroom to a school outside the ethiopia capital where orphans stop learning in 4th grade a page on the web site helped her raise over $2,000 in just a in. that inspired her to shoot for $10,000. she hopes to hand deliver this summer when she volunteers at the school. >> the family is getting involved too, by donating their ethiopia art work and artifacts so they can auction them off to
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raise more money. >> especially here living in america we have the world and i think we should expand our minds and thing of those who don't have anything, literally depth have anything. some kids don't have schools and they walk to school barefoot. >> she helps to become a humanitarian lawyer and in the meantime inspire other teens to reframe their self centered birthday plans. president obama is expected to announce tax changes in this week's "state of the union" address. the president is seeking an increase in taxes on the wealth of the americans by raising the capital gains rate and eliminating a tax break on inheritances and use the revenue to fund new tax credit and cost saving measures for the middle clasp the proposals will be announced tuesday.
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you can hear the message tomorrow during a special "state of the union" address and the republican response. that is right here on abc7 with coverage at 6:00 p.m. happy homecoming in san francisco international airport. members of a bay area based coast guard unit returned to air station san francisco located at sfo last night. they wrapped up a nine-month deployment tore guantanamo bay cuba greeted by hugs kisses and smiles from all offed ones. >> very good to see everyone. very excited to be back home. >> how about you? how was it having him gone and back? >> hard. and i am very happy he is home. >> during the deployment, coast guard members worked 12 hour shifts to protect gonna me -- to protect guantanamo bay from
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offshore threats. >> the military do not get near the credit for what they have to do while their loved ones are again. >> congratulations for being reunited, just in time for the fog. >> that is a reason to stay inside and enjoy each other's company. maybe you get to sleep in on this holiday the mlk day holiday. we are up from quarter mile at mountain view to a mile visibility. we have san carlos at three-quarters of a mile visibility. beach park boulevard, a little bit followingy headed up to san mateo we are going to have flight arrival delays into sfo and they not tell us that for an hour and 15 minutes. if you like follow me on twitter and i will tweet that out. petaluma is the lowest at quarter-mile and behind santa rosa at half a mile. look how the wins are blowing offshore to the south bay and this fog is going to move toward
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the coast and also deeper into the santa clara valley. we will head to the north the san rafael camera half-a-mile visibility, three-quarters of a mile here as we look southbound on 101 this morning. foggy in the morning but when it starts to clear the sun is waiting for us this afternoon and it will be hazy because of all of the moisture in the air but it is not a "spare the air" day. those will come back into play on wednesday. along with our warming trend. that could bring us record high temperatures and dry weather in the coming weekend. we will look at the temperatures today where the fog is thickest inland east bay, and antioch at 58 and fairfield is 60 but we have the potential to get low-to-mid 60's everywhere else with the late push of sunshine and the same yesterday. for our mcday of service, in san francisco, 53 degrees and fog. 57 with a few clouds around and hazy sunshine and 57.
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by 4:00 we are sunny and by five o'clock 57 degrees. another mild night like this morning. mid-40's to around 50 degrees. the seven-day forecast shows another day of clean air, low pressure 60's, and low-to-mid 60's with offshore wind developing on wednesday and 70 range likely this weekend the. >> now, across our roadways, it is quiet because of the holiday. if you are travel through santa rosa you are under a fog advisory. so there are dense conditions traveling between santa rosa, rohnert park, into petaluma the area shaded in orange as we traffic weather and traffic together. slow down the speed, continuing in the southbound direction, right through novato and mill valley and top speeds, again watch out for not only the king tides today as mike has been telling us but the fog. in san francisco if you are going in and out of city, 54 miles per hour long 101. drive time traffic 80, albany
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to the maze is four minutes and 880 southbound from fremont to san jose is 14 minutes and 280 northbound from 101 to cupertino is just 11 minutes' commute. >> do you have what it take to work for facebook? >> they are on a hiring free. here are the tech bytes. >> is google looking to take on apple pay by expanding their own digital wallet app? they are looking to acquire a mobile payment company that is co-own by at&t verizon and t-mobile usa. >> facebook is going on a hiring free adding 1,200 new employees a 14 percent increase of the current staff. >> driven by the acquisition of investment in virtual reality goggles, drones internet coming to mars? elon musk hopes to have internet on mars. >> he hopes it will connect
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colony on the red planet with the internet. el long his time. >> coming up, the familiar faces you will see in this year's super bowl. why bay area football pans will still have a reason to clear. >> a pro basketball player gets a lesson in the power of social media because of a high schooler hundreds of miles away. >> a look outside at a beautiful shot of city this morning, fog in many
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overtime for the nfc championship. they trailed 16-0 at one point. >> another familiar face is returning to the super bowl, the negative patriots juneed to an early lead and never looked back they dismantled the colts for the afc championship it is their eighth time and san mateo's own tom brady. >> this team is going to have to win a very important game and leave our legacy. >> the people around you i am grateful god put necessity this place to play with this football team. it is a tremendous honor. >> the seahawks and patriots meet in super bowl 49 in arizona on sunday february 1. tom brady one of many with ties for the bay area and played for the padres in high school and a running back played at cal and the wide receiver played
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with college of san mateo and seattle head coach went to larkspur at redwood high and serves as san francisco 49ers assistant and the wide receiver and the quarterback sherman played at stanford and running bang lynch played at oakland tech and cal he was a beast yesterday for the last four minutes of the game when seattle fought their way back. >> all tough tackle. but to matter how many seattle seahawks are from the bay area, i get the feeling that fans here are not going to be rooting for them in the super bowl. mike? what do i think? >> i don't see 49ers fans rooting for lynch. >> maybe not oakland fans, are they that bitter? >> north pole global
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temperatures was three degrees fahrenheit above the 30-year average and as far as december temperatures near minnesota that was the coldest places on earth at 2.3 degrees below average. now, around the state fed, 73 in los angeles to 80 in palm springs and upper 60 and nearly 70's when the fog returns and 53 if lake tahoe. it looks damp in walnut creek, right? >> it is moist. a lot of moisture in the air. some of it is collecting on the roads. >> you can see it. will careful if you are traveling 680 in the east bay we have fog advisoryies around 101 and the north bay and we have socked in conditions. as far as driver time traffic, highway 4 antioch to hercules will take you 28 minutes and westbound highway 4 i-80 from 4 to the maze, and 87 north from 85 to the san jose airport is seven minutes. thank you, leyla gulen, it
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is 4:54. the killings of two new york police officers inspired a texas teen to go on a special mission. the ten-year-old spent her christmas break writing hundreds of thank you cards to police in new york and across texas. this weekend she delivered those messages to officers in austin. >> to my heroes i say don't stop, don't give up. many do not care or appreciate the sacrifices you make every day. but i do many are standing with me today to let you me that you matter. officers across texas, you matter to me. officers in new york city, you matter to me. officers all across america you matter to me. >> she knows the right thing to do, the right thing to say and i don't even know if she realizes the impact of her words to these officers and to this department. >> savannah wanted to be a police officer since she was a little girl and she is still a
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little girl. while senior in michigan has landed an impressive prom date because of help from twitter. it started when he tweeted the kings rookie asking how many re-tweets it would take for him to go to the prom with a girlfriend taylor anderson and he replied "no chance," but he said 10,000 and that was a big mistake because of a boost by other nab players the tweets reached that number in a few hours. now there is a new prom date and nick has agreed to be there, too, as chaperone. >> the national park service will use goats to get rid of unwanted plants at point reyes graze on invasive plants on 12 acres starting next week. it is a new experiment that has been used successfully in other parts of the united states. officials estimate that 100 goats and eat an acre of vegetation a day.
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now at 5:00 a.m. all aboard for the end of a bay area extra galveston. the freedom train's last ride and the legacy organizers hope to leave behind. >> nasty weather an the united states and the fight merit is causing for drivers who are stuck in it. >> as we head to break we leave you with news now and a last fog out there this morning, be careful if you are driving we keep you on top release a devastating
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king jr.'s birthday. as people celebrate this holiday out there they are dealing with fog. going to be foggy. look at live doppler hd in the north by and on the peninsula. we also have thick fog through the san ramon valley but we do not have the reporting stations. this afternoon, the fog will lift to hazy sunshine and temperatures are mild again and we will be in the upper 50's to low 60 at the coast and mid-60's inland and low-to-mid 60's an the bay. >> we low pressure for a smooth commute. >> so far so good, we have light conditions buses of the holiday and as you take mass transit we have a holiday schedule for most of our agencies. here is a look at richmond-san rafael toll plaza it is empty and transfer over to san mateo bridge the traffic is light. it is now 5:00. breaking news in san francisco, police are looking no two suspects who
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