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>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. the measles outbreak if the bay area continues to grow and health officials confirm that two new cases in marin county where doctors state kids actually came down with the disease at good time. >> good morning, if you are the victim, this is no good time to catch the measles but health officials say these two young victims came down with the advisory list when they would have the least affect on their classmates. amy hollyfield is in san rafael. amy? yes eric, there are reports from health officials in marin county the kids were out of the county and they are being kept
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out of school. still this is not the news that parents want to hear. to give an idea of the reaction here in marin county the health officials say they cannot talk to us or answer our questions because they are too overwhelmed this morning with phone calls. look at the statistics, some supporters say it was a matter of time before it hit marin county. 6 percent of kind december guard neithers have personal belief exemptions and their parents decided not to vaccinate them because of moves three times the state average of 2.5 percent. this is at the end of a weak when marin county already made national news on this topic. a man has been asking for son's school to ban children that are not vaccinated. his son, six-year-old rhett has leukemia and and not be vaccinated. his immune system cannot handle it. parents who do not want to vaccinate say their beliefs should be respected but he says kids like his son should be
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protected. >> rather than waiting foreign -- for an outbreak and reacting to a disease get ahead of it and avoid having that outbreak in the first place. >> we live in marin county which is liberal. it is a well educated group of people. it is a thought group of people. as parents accusing name to vaccinate, it is for a reason. >> she used the personal belief exemption from vaccinating her child. getting this in california is now a little tougher and a new law just when into effect states parent must visit a doctor and hear of the benefits before being cleared. back in marin county we are told that the two kids would have measles are in the same family and officials have not said what school they attend or what city they live in. we are hoping to get more information later today. >> the government is putting out
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a measles warning for anyone going to the super bowl this sunday. that is because arizona where the game is being played has a thousand people being monitored for the disease. with tens of thousands of football fan visiting, officials want to head off a major outbreak. doctors are telling unvaccinated people to stay away from public places for three weeks. there are 84 cases across 14 states now. measles is the most contagious viruses in existence. >> a local parent at uc davis medical center is negative for ebola virus. the patient showed up at mercy general in sacramento yesterday morning with ebola virus symptoms. the hospital will not say how the patient may have been exposed to ebola virus. breaking news in san francisco the medical examiner has confirmed that human remains founded stuff in a suitcase are
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those of a light skinned male. the headless torso was found on wednesday. d.n.a. evidence will be needed to make a progress i.d. and police have showed an image of a possible system to homeless people who frequent the area. the images taken from surveillance video. >> also breaking now, san francisco police are on the scene of a home invasion. investigators say someone called 9-1-1 this morning to report the incident near the ocean view recreation center. a. with was tied up and robbed around 9:00 and family and friends say the robbers took off with jewelry and crash. it added town $15,000. an ambulance was called. it is not clear if the woman went to the hospital. police are looking for two suspects, a man and a woman. developing news suge knight is held on $2 million waiting for his first court hear on murder charges. we get our first look at the victim who died. police say 55-year-old carter was a friend of knight, one of
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two men who got into an argument with knight on a movie set. investigators say they forked him to a restaurant parking lot in compton and he intentionally drove over them. cater was killed. the other man, an actor suffered minor injuries. knight's torn said it client was trying to get away from the two men and it was an accident. >> a marin county judge said bail at $160,000 for a doctor facing new charges in road rage. he was exonerated but this week a grand jury indicted dr. simon on charges of negligence and assault for the incident last july. sigh mop shot a retired mortgage broker who followed the doctor into his garage after getting cut off on a street in traffic. simon is become in court accident back in court on wednesday. >> emotional morning for residents burned out of their home in the mission after a massive fire. you can see the power of the four alarm fire. some residents today are allowed
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back in for the first time to see what remains. our reporter is at the scene. nick? >> good morning, it has been tough. we have watched people kind of gather to gather and cope with everything that has been happening in the last couple of days. i will tell you this we do have new information. we have learned that those would live on the second and third floor, could be as long as a month before they allowed back in and help the inspectors with debris and the integrity of the building. take a look, we were here at some of the people who were part of the first group to go in were allowed inside. and right now they are only leading small groups to the first floor and basement. each time it is three to five people in a group led by a member of the building inspection team. the plan is to do this for the day while they have daylight. it is important to mention while they are leading teens into the building they are monitored to were sure residents are only taking portable item they need.
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>> they expect to only get enough to carry, not heavy equipment. they want to carry refrigerator or anything like that no. but a laptop is okay. whatever they can carry. not moving heavy stuff. >> the director of the department of building inspection says senate the decision was made to let businesses and some people collect things because he says although the building is secure, they do not have police standing by around the clock and he didn't want people to lose their things. it is important to mention that the city is offering a workshop for small business owners and workers would were affected by the fire held right new at the mission police station. that meeting is so the people can start the process of insurance paperwork and understanding exactly what they need. they have directors there both speaking english, spanish, and some other languages. they also say that they want
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people to know that it is important they get their documents together and move it quickly. they are hoping, hoping, hoping to have people get everything settled by the weekend. thank you, nick. 18 people are displaced after a fire in san francisco and firefighters are trying to figure how it started at 1:30 last nature at hyde street at post and geary. it took an hour and a half to bring it under control. >> distracted drivers police on the peninsula are ready to cite drivers who are paying attention to their devices rather than the roads. matt is in milbrae with that story. >> this enforcement is taking place in millbrae and in san bruno and only going on for a couple of hours. it start the at 9:00 a.m. and officers have written dozens and dozens of tickets. >> the ride to work creeps along at a snail's pace at times in
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the bay area. why not use that time to update your status on the smartphone? this is why: officers from burlingame police, san bruno police and the san mateo sheriff got money from the state to crackdown on distracted drivers today. seven officers are looking for twitter-ers and facebook and those who talk. >> he has a cell phone and looking at the scene. >> i pulled him over for talking on cell phone. >> guess what? most drivers have an excuse for why they were on their phone. >> he said it was ipad. he was using the g.p.s. he said. >> distracted driving has fatal consequences. the latest from 2012 show 3328 people were killed that year in crashes involving a distracted driver. officers want you to put that phone away. it is simple: if the phone is in your hand it most likely leading to a ticket. >> he asked if i was homing it and i said yes. i was holding the cell phone.
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>> but not to your ear. >> not up to my ear. >> it is not hands-free. if it was on his knee or lap he would have been fine. the violation is a 15 in the hand being distracted because you are trying to multitask. >> officers are very active on millbrae avenue and this person is getting pulled over right there and it and a first time offender and the ticket will cost $130 and up from this if caught again. we are following breaking news in san leandro a vehicle fire shutting 880 all lanes in one direction. sky 7 is headed there and we will have more next. >> plus tom brady had nothing to do with this because he was too busy being awesome. >> bobbying fun at deflate-gate and celebrities standing up and say they are the
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>> breaking news over the scene of 880 with a charred vehicle causing a huge traffic alert. we will have the latest from leyla gulen. >> as we take a look from sky 7 over san leandro northbound side of 880 at washington avenue we now have one lane
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open. for a time c.h.p. shut down all lanes because the truck was giving off explosions. southbound traffic is not affected but look at the backup as we pan for you. you can see how back the delays are coming from. the map is solid all the way from 238 so the drive from hair is going to be gummed up. what you could do because this is going to be around for kuwait some time is use a 80 instead and that is a little bit further to the east and as we often up that view you can see how packed the traffic is with one lane getting by and that is alleviate the pressure and you are advised to take 580 instead. kristen and eric? >> thank you so much. new this morning, mitt romney put considerable thought into making another run for president but in the end he decided to give other leaders in the party a chance. he announced the decision in a conference call with supporters this morning. >> i believe one of our next generation of republican leaders one would pay not be as well phone as i am today one who is not yet taken the
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emergency across the country, one who is just getting started may well emerge as being better able to defeat the democrat nominee. >> the decision not to run comes after several of the former major donors and a veteran staffer in iowa decided to support former florida governor jeb bush instead. >> meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with the forecast. we still have issues with fog and as we look at sfo all of the delays are over and i will show you if the fog is an issue and why it will not be an issue tomorrow and that will lead to record warmth and we will go in search of rain in the forecast. >> some of the biggest names in hollywood admit to being involved in deflate-gate. the tongue and cheek claims they
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>> covering cupertino concord wine country, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. i am the perpetrator. don't want do believe there is nothing i can do to change your mind. i am turning myself in. >> i take a little bit of air out, 11 out of 12 and it does the trick. >> i let out out to release the genie. >> it is taking the internet by storms, a list cast of characters claiming responsibility for underinflating the new england patriots footballs including matt damon steven tyler all proudly from boston and all proud patriot fines provided a spirited against for pick to win on jimmy kimmel last night. >> not to be outdone the seahawk
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fan is getting buzz for showing his pride. his home, decked out in seahawks color is from washington state and now lives in arizona where the game is being played. ashton painted the yard before last year's super bowl so this year he had to step it up and went for the whole house not just the lawn. his roof is even adorned with "12," in honor of the seattles 12th man began base. >> relearning the boston accent you worked so long and hard to get rid of. must be fun. it is worth it if they win. >> what is this i hear about record warmth. >> if we can get the low 70s some areas could set record highs. now right now, we have a dense marine fog advisory and you can see from the mouth of the golden gate bridge and north of the bay bridge through the delta the fog is going to be less than quarter-miler mile visibility so
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watch out on the bay bridge, the golden gate bridge the richmond-san rafael and cartinez and all of those all the way and the delta until 12:00. right now most of the visibility is at our reporting stations and doing okay and napa is light at a mile. here is a look at where the rain is phoenix has been hampered all day by rain and flight arrival delays and you can see snow in new mexico mountains moving up to colorado and, also, nice powder in utah unfortunately, we are missing out on most of that. there is tule fog in the central valley and you can see our fog and a couple of snow showers on the right side of the screen in lake tahoe and unfortunately that will not leave much. year, san jose looked like this, maybe a little fog here but you can see the sunshine breaking through and here we are at the golden gate bridge, the visibility is improving although we have a light wind at five miles per hour. sutro tower is showing how the fog takes longer over water because it is hard to get the atmosphere overturned because
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the water warms slower than land. easy sunshine breezy in the hillside that takes arm most of the fog and makes for a mild night and spring board us for the near record temperature and we are still above average as we head into next week or next month. breezy language the coast low-to-mid sick. mid-60 to nearly 70 for the rest of us today and tonight, mainly mid-40's to around 50 and the fat of the winds are in the north bay and east bay hills. watch them ramp up during the evening hours and especially overnight through 8:00 tomorrow and then they will settle as we head through the day tomorrow we will not be so breezy as overnight. two areas of high pressure one over land and one over sea, storm to the south storm to the west and not coming in because of this area of high pressure. as we head in time you can see we start to get close on monday tuesday, wednesday thursday, friday, finally saturday, and maybe even sunday a chance of
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rain and snow up in the sierra and he is a snow share falling on heavenly so maybe a little bit of powder for them up there. by the time we get to sunday it will be sunny and money 50's. the seven-day forecast where offshore wind and dry air tomorrow, low 70s all the way to the coast and take the such scene with you and sick sunday and monday with the wind shift and 70's are official on tuesday and wednesday before cool weather and the next chance of rain toward friday and saturday. >> friday means you have another hat to put on for the perfect pet. >> peninsula humane society and we will introduce you to "paw s."
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>> coming up at 4:00, do you hate tomorrow marketers. you are not alone. but one is now credited with saving a woman's life. the phone call that made a difference. at 5:00 how would you like to live like a hobbit? we will give you a tour of an unusual house up for sale in the side of a hill. those stories and more coming up at abc7 at 4:00 and action. >> time for friday's perfect pet. >> mike will introduce us to
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paws. sorry for the faux pas. thank you for joining us with paws, a special dog in many ways. tell us. >> he is a dog of modern day, he had d.n.a. testing and usually the staff can figure out what the breeds are but this is behalf goaled us we found out he is a chihuahua american eskimo and a calm and wonderful dog. you would not figure out the three bride -- breeds of dogs. debbie has the treats. he is treat-motivated. he is a very good boy. he is nine. who is your daddy? >> well, the d.n.a. is very simple, the dog is swabbed like
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a person and people can do it, too the public can do it. we get a special rate. i don't know how much it costs, over $100 for the public. >> good to know. >> people out there may not know their dog's grandfather and great grandfather and great great grandfather. >> we all come from somewhere. >> we hope you find a home. just precious. if you are interested in paws call the humane society or one of the many animals they are sheltering waiting for their forever home. >> thanks. >> from all of us, thanks for joining us. have a good day and a great weekend.
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