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>> good morning, everyone. i'm carolyn tyler. thanks for joining us on this sunday march 1st. let's start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. >> hey carolyn, good morning. hi everyone. it's a very quiet start to the month. we are looking at a few showers south of monterey. but the bulk of the activity that we experienced yesterday in southern california with the cold upper low, spreading showers from san diego and mountain snow. but for us with the clear sky, mid-30s. chilly. 42 mountain view and san jose. and from our roof camera we are looking at a quiet start as well. numbers this afternoon pretty seasonal. upper 50s from half moon bay to low 60s into san francisco.
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look for low to mid-60s elsewhere. plenty of sunshine. another system on the way tomorrow. we will talk about it and pinpoint the opportunities for rain coming up. carolyn. >> well lisa, this weekend weather has been odd. families in south san jose could not believe their eyes when they looked out their windows yesterday. they saw what appeared to be snow. just a few neighborhoods were hit with the unusual wintry mix. abc7 news reporter tiffany wilson has the story now from the south bay. >> toto, i don't think we are in san jose anymore. it looks like the midwest. and i said what happened? >> this video hose shots the hail. at one point he joked about the need for a snowplow. these kids focused on the no balls, or should we call them hail balls instead? >> have you ever seen this before here? >> no. usually we have to go up in the
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mountains to find snow and now we just need to go in our front yard. >> the snowball fight is a first for this nine-year-old but not the first for the neighborhood. >> it's probably been maybe 20 years since it last snowed. it's been a very long time. >> they loved seeing their car covered and backyard saturated. >> we aren't afraid of a little bit of snow. >> we got in the cars. we said we are two minutes away, le get down here and let the kids play. >> father and son snapped selfies by the snowman and more than a few drivers attempted to take on the souvenir. we will so what the police say about frosty's lack of seatbelt. >> it's a lot of fun. >> they said it's a memory they won't soon forget. >> it's fantastic. we are all having fun. >> tiffany wilson, abc news. >> people are posting lots of pictures on the snow on social
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media. john took these photos of the hail in that city. you see how thick it looked coming down. alyssa took this photo of a lightning strike over the mission district in san francisco. you can send us your weather photos to youreport. and you can post them on our facebook page or share them with us on twitter. windy weather has closed part of the great highway in san francisco. you can see sand covering the southbound lanes between slope boulevard and skyline. it happens frequently. it is expected to remain closed today. firefighters suspect lightning sparked a small fire last night and san francisco's bay view hunter's point neighborhood. it happened west of interstate 280 behind an industrial building on revere avenue.
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one wins sid she heard a loud crash, walked toward the noise and heard lot of crackling. >> i could see the smoke. i went home and called the fire department. they said they haven't seen anything like that in a long long time, and it was caused by lightning. >> san francisco firefighters were able to quickly knock down that fire. the storm brought lots ever snow to the sierra. the first major snowfall in two months. it's causing some problems on the roads. chains are required right now on highway 50. and this picture tweeted by the truckee fire department along with the warning "be safe out there." the storm is good news for ski resorts. this is video from northstar, california. they have received 16 inches of snow since friday afternoon. you can see what is showing up on live doppler 7hd anytime with the abc7 weather app. it's free on apple's app store or google play. we also have more information at
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abc7news.com/apps. this morning a gilroy man is recovering from major injuries of a falling off a cliff and into the ocean in the north bay. you are looking at new video released this morning by the chp. police say a 24-year-old man was hiking with a church group near arch rock when he fell around 4:15 yesterday afternoon. plunging around 60 feet hitting the rocks below before driving into the s surf. he was able to pull himself back on to the rocks and a chp helicopter was brought in to hoist him up. he was taken to the hospital with major injuries, but police say he is expected to survive. abc7 news was there when san francisco firefighters rescued a man and his dog off a cliff. it happened yesterday afternoon. frank stark said he was walking his dog when the dog fell off the cliff and stark immediately ran over to the edge.
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he said the ground gave way and he fell down, as well. firefighters used ropes to full starks and his dog up. both are okay. the mother of a 20-day-old baby boy found dead in a swampy area near the sacramento river has been arrested. police believe 23-year-old samantha green is responsible for her baby's death. we have the details. >> the investigation into the death of baby justice reese took a turn friday night after they interrogated the mother, samantha green. >> she made comments she was there for so many hours screaming and hollering. we are sort of able to determine that did transpire. >> they determined that her tail of events never lined up and arrested her on murder charges early saturday morning. >> we have come to the conclusion that mrs. samantha green was the sole individual responsible for the death of her child. >> it was monday when family
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members reported baby justice samantha missing from their woodland home. the 23-year-old mom was found a day later near the slough. an expensive rescue effort went through the night but no rescue. instead wednesday they found the life less body after newborn baby lying in the brush near the tree. it would later be determined the baby died from either hypothermia or drowned. in the beginning she claimed to have been abducted and her family stood by her side. >> we know from samantha what happened that she was abducted, and the fact they haven't been able to prove that we totally believe her. >> they said they found no validity to the claims, did the investigators. >> we eliminated some of the allegations and some of the comments that were made. and snow stone was left
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unturned. >> samantha greening is being held on murder charges at this women's detention facility. she's on a no-bail hold and investigators say their investigation is far from over. abc7 news. the post office is trying to track down a group of male thieves in san jose. take a look at them in action. staff at villa torino apartments provided abc7 news with this video say they want the thieves captured but they say the police will not investigate. a postal investigator is working on the case. they say mail from four or five boxes has been stolen. well, the weather has been odd, to say the least. >> and we are getting back to seasonal highs which is on the cool side compared to what we are used to. san francisco, no weather problems here. a puff of following newspaper santa rosa. we will talk about the first week of march and the possibility of maybe a few more
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showers to come. that's next. >> thank you lisa. also next the protest against isis in san francisco. what demonstrators are demanding of the u.s. ♪ ♪ >> broadway arrives in san francisco and we get the scoop on what it's like to take nature valley crunchy granola bars give you energy from 1/3 of your daily whole grains. so 1/3 of this commercial is dedicated to what you could do with all that energy. energy to help your dog have his day. think the tree we carved our names in is still here? probably dead... how much fun is this? what? what a beautiful sunset... if you like sunsets. whether you're sweet or salty... you'll love nature valley sweet and
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international space station this morning. we are installing cable and data lines that will be needed for future american crew capsules. n.a.s.a. is paying to develop a spacecraft capable of going to the space station. the first flight is target ford 2017. there's a growing memorial in san jose created by friends of a teenager killed in a car crash early yesterday morning. investigators leave two cars may have been racing at the time. this is video taken by a neighbor just minutes after police say one of the cars crashed into a light pole at hillsdale and anywhere i haddian avenue. bogey drivers left the scene. last night friends of the victim a passenger in the car gathered to light candles and reflect on their loss. >> he was smart. he had a lot going for him. he could have been a mechanic an engineer. >> two other teenagers went to the hospital with serious
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injuries. police say alcohol was a factor in the crash. also in san jose a man is dead after a crash between a car and an s.u.v. it happened just after 7:00 last night on leeward drive and north of the airport. victim was a passenger in one of the vehicles. one adult and five children went to the hospital. firefighters had to pull one of them out of the wreckage. the survivors are expected to be okay. police tried to stop a stolen car late yesterday afternoon in san francisco, but the driver took off and crashed. investigators said there was a brief chase, but police called it off when the driver started speeding and driving the wrong way down a a one-way street. the car sideswiped another car hitting a parking meter at 7th and brandon streets. police arrested one person >> dozens of people marched in san francisco trying to raise
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awareness about the polite of christians in the middle east who are being targeted by isis. abc7 news reporter sergio quintana has the story. >> outside the san francisco federal building, several young men were dressed in orange overalls. a show of solidarity for the 21 christians who were brutally killed by isis in lip yeah and the flag of the syrian people was waved, a symbol of the hundreds of syrians kidnapped by isis. this san francisco group is made up of several eastern christian denominations. all of them say their religious families and history is under attack by isis in the middle east. but the christians as a concert or a group that has been there since the birth of christianity they are not really seriouslyien daneerd. >> among the christians here there was a combined sense of anguish over the destruction of a price
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priceless artifacts that survived for thousands of years. >> you have a bunch of animals with sledgehammers and saws cutting it down. >> he is a board member of a syrian church in san jose. they held a prayer vigil for those who have been kidnapped. >> and now they are hoping some of those prayers might have been answered. cnn is reporting that 23 of the hundreds who had been kidnapped by isis may have been released in syria. abc7 news. and coming up on "this week" more on the threat of isis with secretary of state john kerry. kerry speaks live to chief global affairs correspondent martha raditz in an abc news exclusive. the interview is his first since the identity. jihadi john was revealed. it comes two days of that
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netanyahu addresses congress on the nuclear threats from iran. you can catch it right here at 8:00 this morning. a playground sandbox in san francisco's dolores park will be off-limits to kids for at least another week. park officials closed off this section of the playground friday after finding charreds of glass in the sand. they say someone drinking there late thursday night smashed beer bottles along the retaining walls. the rec and park officials removed the charreds friday and now 20 tons of glass must be replaced. disney tony award-winning musical "newsies" will be putting on a show at the orpheum theater for the next couple weeks. leyland gulen checked out
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rehearsal and got the scoop. >> "newsies" has been a favorite on broadway since it opened in 2012. now for the first time audiences across the country can enjoy the heart-stopping show as it travels on a whirlwind 25-city year-long show. an action-packed show of this magnitude takes months to rehearse in the studios but once the sets are down, it doesn't end there. continuing to perfect their moves before an evening performance, the cast of "newsies" laid it all out for our abc7 news cameras at the lines ballet studios in san francisco. frank dodgson is the fusic director and he's been working in theater for years. >> i love t you see such a sense of enjoyment and fun on people's faces. >> the story is based on the
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news strike of 1989. and to be part of the cast it takes persistence. >> i auditioned for it for three years before i got it, and i knew i was supposed to do it, i knew i needed to do it, so i refused to let them tell me know. >> so i took his advice into twisted their arms into giving me ana digs. ultimately i didn't make the cut performing in the bay area for this actor is like coming full circle. >> i was at san francisco bay and i took class necessary this very studio. it's so crazy. so nuts that i'm here right now. and not dancing and learning but i'm doing a tv interview with you right now. eye like surreal. all of the hours i spent in this studio look at the fog through the window, you know. this made it all worth it. ♪ ♪ ♪ look at me!
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♪ >> in san francisco, abc7 news. >> and you can catch disney's "newsies" through march 15th. for more information or about tickets you can go to our website at abc7news.com. disney, as you know, is the parent company of abc7. lisa argen now. is the kind of strange weather over with? >> it certainly s we have another opportunity for rain, just a slight chance. then it will feel pretty spring like around here. as we take a look at live doppler hd right now. see some green toward monterey and a few light sprinkle. but the main activity that brought the thunderstorm activity and hail is in southern california. wintry weather and the mountains of southern california where they are still going to look at some snow and severe weather perhaps in los angeles down through san diego. so it's over for us and we will be looking at a system upstream
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that really is going to stay closer offshore. it will decrease the chance of precip we will see around here tomorrow. 35 gilroy. chilly, 50 at the coast. looking at 50 in the city. 45 in san carlos. from our facebook emeryville camera waking up to cool conditions, partly cloudy skies. 3 miles visibility in santa rosa. and year 40 livermore. low 40s by the delta. 47 in concord. so it's still cooler than it was yesterday at this time. feeling a little bit still like winter with 5 degrees cooler than yesterday in san carlos and all around the bay actually feeling the chill. from our sutro tower camera we will look for plenty of sunshine today, all across the bay. numbers in a seasonable range from upper 50s to near 60 by the coast. a shower chance will head our
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way tomorrow. you will see where in a moment and we will look for a dryer, warmer pattern as we head through the first full week of march. so our radar and satellite come 'ty shows the area of low pressure. you see it there in southern california. the next system is going to ride off the coast. so that keeps the chance of showers mainly offshore and into the south bay. so through the rest of the day present of sun. here's tomorrow morning. clouds will increase, we will call it partly cloudy, and by the afternoon perhaps a pop-up shower in the chills further south. other than that, it should remain a relatively dry day and the chance will be isolated. highs today ranging from 60 in monterey. look at the cool numbers here with all the shower activity from santa barbaraa, los angeles and into san diego. 40 in the northern sierra. they picked up welcome snow there and a few leftover snow showers throughout the next couple of hours. high temperatures around the bay.
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notice cool from half moon bay to santa cruz today at 60. so 60s for fremont and morgan hill. 61 richmond. you head north and here's where we will see the milder numbers from napa to santa rosa. 66 a piece. 64 in oakland today, as well as san jose. the accuweather seven-day forecast though tomorrow, once again with the cloud cover and a slight chance of showers, we will cool it back a few degrees. upper 50s to low 60s. after this climbing through the 60s, the coast is getting warmer and by thursday friday and saturday we have low 70s around the bay and even 70 near the coast. you see what is showing up on live doppler hd anytime with the free abc7 news weather happen. it's free. we have more information on abc7 news.com/apps. >> so we start this month with maybe a hint of something? >> a slight chance. nothing to get excited about. >> thank you lease lisa.
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>> welcome back everyone. we are starting this half-hour with a look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. >> hey carolyn, good morning to you. hi everyone. from our roof camera it is dark and cold out with temperatures ranging from the 30s to near 50 in san francisco. 35 gilroy, 45 at the san carlos airport. here's emeryville. about 40 in livermore. and for the afternoon a dry and sunny day today. very calm day with temperatures in seasonal range for the 1st day of march. low 60s san francisco mid-60s in the inland valley. another system heads our way
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tomorrow. i will let you know the opportunity for rain in your neighborhood coming up. carolyn. >> lisa, as you know this morning another massive winner storm is barreling straight through the heart of the nation. the storm has caused problems for travelers both on the road, for drivers like these in texas, and in the air. abc news reporter tom yamus has the details. >> snow and ice taking their toll across thousands of miles. black eyes reducing these cars to roadside wrecks in mounds of mashed metal. on i-44 a chain reaction sent this pickup face-first through a metal guardrail. in witch cha, this s.u.v. struggles after sliding off the interstate. at dallas fort worth international airport slurb and ice forced the cancellation of hundreds. flights. it was this storm system that turned an american airlines
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flight from dallas to oklahoma city into a nine-hour no-go that had passengers waiting. >> i'm not flying american again. >> in new england roofs came tumbling down. in this area a youth hockey team escaped disaster. >> it was very scary. >> florida even wasn't spared. this cars stuck in a manhole when the cover floated away and the male in this truck won't reach a mailbox anytime soon. the forecast shows more snow moving eastward across ohio and pennsylvania and into the northeast by monday. as a series of storm system stretches more than 3,000 miles from california to maine. abc news, new york. >> a dallas nurse who contracted the ebola virus while caring for an infected patient said she plans to file a lawsuit against the hospital where she contracted the illness.
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according to the news, she plans to file her lawsuit tomorrow against presbyterian health hospital. the 26-year-old said she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from the man who died from the illness. she said the hospital and their parent company failed her when she cared for duncan. >> fireworks are to blame for starting a small fire at disneyland. fire broke out in a tree just after 9:00 last night. in the backstage area near the "it's a small world" attraction. the flames were quickly extinguished and no one was hurt. the attraction was not damaged. disney is the parent company of abc7. britain's prince william is closing out his first visit to japan. the royal is using his influence to refocus the world's attention on japan's ongoing struggle in the fukushima nuclear melt-down
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zone. he met with children affected by the tsunami who devastated their towns and villages four years ago. they are now just able to go outside and play since radiation levels are down. you see his visit packed withdraw digs like trying en a warlord's helmet and sword. >> i'm ready for action. >> prince william's good will work is reminiscent of his late mother's diana when she comforted victims of japan's earthquake 20 years ago. next up, china to help stop the illegal dragged of elephant ivory. new details, the oakland radars are thinking small when it comes to budding a new stadium in the east bay. according to our media partner the contra costa times, they want to build a stadium with
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55,000 seats. that was the smallest in the nfl. it would keep costs down and cause ticket price toss stay low. he would like to keep the team here but the team is also planning to build a joint stadium with the san diego chargers outside of l.a. if it fails to secure the stadium deal at home >> excitement in san jose as the earthquakes take to the soccer field for the first time at their new stadium. yesterday the team tested out their new privately-funded $100 million home in an exhibition game against the l.a. galaxy. the european style horseshoe stadium seats 18,000 people and has a canopy roof and the steepest seating it in the league to optimize viewing. >> beautiful. we are so excited. >> we have seats pretty high up but the view is great and it still feels like you are on the field. >> it's a great day for the bay area. a wonderful day for quake fans and let's hope it's a start of a
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wonderful seen for all of us. >> the new stadium offers a double sided video scoreboard, the largest outdoor bar in north america and a two-acre fan zone. the quake beat the galaxy 3-2. san jose will have their first regular season game at the stadium on march 22nd. today amtrak is opening its new ticket office after closing its old location at the san francisco ferry building last night. the ticket office and bus stop have been relocated to the temporary transbay terminal at folsome and beil streets, about a half-mile south of the building. starting today people with disabilities can ride muni for free. in january the mta board unanimously agreed on funding for the free rides. the program available on clipper card only. officials say over the past month alone they processed more
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than 38,000 applications for the free muni program expansion. last year the mta approved a two-year free ride program for low income young people. still ahead on the abc7 sunday morning news, a project to help secure water for many people in the bay area reaches a major milestone. and here's a live look from our roof cam showing you the bay bridge there in the background with that fabulous light show. strange weather yesterday with a little hail, a little snow and a little rain in san jose. what's on tap for today? lisa argen with your forecast in just a few. >> customers of comcast, dish and directv can now use watch abc to see abc7 news live. along with new episodes of all your favorite abc shows. on your smartphone, tablet or computer. to get started visit abc7
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. >> happening today a 5k walk in san ramon to raise awareness about prescription drug abuse. abc7 news anchor cheryl jennings will m. c.. participants will carry photos of those who have died from prescription drug-related
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causes. there will also be a health expo and a drug take-back program where police will be on hand to manage the save disposal of unwanted medications. march is prescription drug abuse awareness month. today's event gets underway at 8:30 this morning at iron horse middle school. lisa argen here now with a preview of the accuweather forecast. >> good thing that's today. they had plenty of clouds and rain yesterday. we are looking at emeryville now. 37 degrees. it's certainly cool. we will see highs today rebound into the 60s and another chance of rain coming your way this week. i'll explain next. >> thank you lisa. also ahead deja vu. the sharks' struggles continue at home losing their eighth street in an eerily similar fashion to thursday night's defeat. mike shumann has the highlights here's a new trick for the same old dinner. try unsloppy joes.
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>> this morning water for millions of people in the bay area is flowing through a massive new pipeline in the east bay. it marks a major milestone for the hetch hetchy repair project and only abc7 news was there as officials made their final checks. abc7 news anchor dan ashley has the details. >> workers hang precariously over this 12-story deep hole. at the bottom an engineering feat, now delivering water to more than 2.5 million people in the bay area. >> the bay area is safer today than it was even yesterday. >> the $340 million project is part of a massive plan to secure the water supply in the region. new tunnel replace as pipeline completed in the 1930s. >> on the one side of the turn is this fault and the east said
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is the hayward fault so in a major earthquake there was significant concern that there could be a disruption in the water system. >> not anymore. >> this tunnel is designed to resist that earthquake and continue to deliver water to the customers. >> voters approved a $4.8 billion ballot measure in 2002 to repair and replace the aging hetch hetchy water system. an engineering marvel at the time. the system of pipes, dams and reservoirs carries water 170 miles from yosemite national park across the central valley and into the south bay before going up the peninsula to san francisco. >> the project had a lot of technical challenges inside the tunnel as well as outside the tunnel. >> in 2013 we showed you the view hundreds of feet below ground. that's when workers tore through the final bits of earth to complete this 3.5-mile long tunnel. this video provided by the san francisco public utilities commission shows the moment when miners drilling from fremont met
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another crew from the other side. >> we had freezing ground, heavy ground water intrusions during the work and hot rock and soft rock and everything in between. >> it is dangerous work but critical to securing a reliable water system in the bay area. dan ashley, a. bc7 news. >> the san francisco public utilities commission said it's now turning it's attention to completing it's next big project, a new calavarus dam. prep work on that project is already well underway. lisa is here starting -- talking about the start of month with maybe a whisper of rain? >> that's about it. this morning we are looking at very chilly conditions. the in clinch home ice matt weather of yesterday well to our south. i'll show that you in a moment. right now we see a few light snow showers over the sierra nevada. 6:41 the sun will be up setting
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at 6:03. 11 thundershowers 21 minutes of day light. we've got more sun today but it will still be a little bit cool. but actually those temperatures will be average for this time of year. let's show you where the rain is. just around san luis and points south. high elevation snow. rain in santa barbara and los angeles we are look at pretty good rain. san diego mountain snow and some very wintry conditions here. that lasts for another day. we are looking for a calm start the first full week of march. from our roof camera it's quiet. 50 in the city across the bay a little cooler. good morning, san carlos, 45 for you. 39 in san jose with 35 in gilroy and temperatures continuing to drop at the coast. upper 40s half moon bay. emeryville mid-30s. santa rosa, napa and fairfield 47 in concord but livermore sitting just at 40. could drop another degree. so overall compared to yesterday
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we are still cold. so certainly a chilly start to your sunday with 7 degrees of cooling compared to yesterday. you really didn't warm up much with the clouds and the rain yesterday from the east bay to the south bay. so upwards of a quarter to a third of an inch and even nearly .8 and .9-inch down by carmel yesterday. sunny and seasonably today with a chance of showers. tomorrow a partly cloudy day for your monday and more sunshine takes over with warmer weather before average temperatures returning for much of next week. so we have been warm all winter long. we are going down as the warmest winter yet. 2014 i have 15 with the average temperature in san francisco at 57. normally we should be in the mid-50s. so add that to our unusual stats. so there's the low. it continues to spin. that bring the rain into southern california. another system sliding down the coast. so that's the difference. yesterday's system moves right
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across california and brought all that crazy weather. and tomorrow we will be looking at some clouds. we will call it partly cloudy. here it is 6:00. then with the system off the coast, we could see a few showers here and there. 1:00. but overall the day will be trending dry and we will be looking at warmer temperatures after that. 52 in yosemite. a few leftover showers, snow showers in the sierra. 40 there. 63 with the clouds and rain in southern california. 64 in san jose today. 62 los gatos and low 60s from san mateo to mountain view. 63 downtown with just about 60 a few patches of fog by daly city. warmer numbers here from santa rosa to novato to sonoma. 66 on average. near east bay 62 san leandro and fremont and about 64 livermore. 65 in concord. the accuweather seven-day forecast known as today in the 60s. plenty of sun. slightly cooler with the clouds. maybe an isolated sprinkle tomorrow. then here comes our warming
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trend. tuesday and wednesday upper 60s. numbers rebound inland and then the coastal temperatures come up thursday friday, as well as around the bay for plenty of 70s. >> and those 70s are, i would imagine, above average temperatures? >> right. >> all right. thank you lisa. let's check out sports. the warriors are back in action taking on the celtics this afternoon. tipoff in boston is at 3:00 p.m. our time. they will be without their backup center, he was suspended without pay for one game for initiating an altercation with tonight toe's player after the blowout victory over the raptors. both players were ejected following their third quarter scuffle. last night the sharks battled the senators at the s.a.p. center hoping to avoid a winless month of february at the tank. here's shoe with the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning.
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well, february is the shortest month of the year but it did a lot of damage to the sharks who are 3-7-2 this month. lost 7 straight last month and tried to get back into the race last night against the senators. senators came in with two straight shutouts. tommy wingels scores in the beginning of the game. antti niemi is among the trade rumors. he had two big skate saves to end the first. sharks got a power play. patrick marleau on the rebound. he has goals in consecutive games. just like thursday night sharks blow a 2-1 lead in the fourth. mark stone ties it at two. the shot off the board. mike hoffman drills it home. senators get the empty-net goal and went 4-2. eighth straight loss at home. the sharks longest losing streak since 1995. uss, santa clara and st. mary's are the three teams in the bay area representing the conference.
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the broncos knocked off the gaels last night in santa clara. senior day. pappenfus had brin surgery last week and first career start. classy move. he had two steals and this assist. where is waldo? brad averages 19 points, 9 boards. only 5-7 last night. dishes to kerry carter for three. he had 19. two minutes left. aaron bright, the three. gaels up three. 10 seconds left. broncos down one. lays it high off the glass. still time left. jackson for the win. no good. santa clara the huge upset on senior night 71-70. the wcc tournament begins on friday. usf and pacific. these kids loving the highlights. here they are. he gets fouled hard. throws it high and gets it to go. that was sweet but this is sweeter. the reverse dunk.
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usf wins by 10. thin 7-11 in conference. upset. zags had the nation's longest home win streak at had 1 games and byu didn't care. cougars up three 3. he grabs the rebound. puts in two of his 20. and 73-70 zags. first conference loss this season. cal women on the road facing oregon state. bears down 14 at the half but cuts into the lead. the bucket in transition. 7-9 from beyond the arc. she's 23. jaymee wisener, wide-open three. they made 15 threes. oregon state the pac-12 champs. 72-55 the final. bears finish 13-5 in conference play. that's the way the ball bounces. i'm mike shumann. see you again tonight at 5:00. have a great day. up next, it's almost prom season. how hundreds of high school girls who can't afford a dress
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>> heap are the winning numbers from the power ball draw. the power ball number 12 and no one picked all six numbers. but a ticket purchased in concord at monument wines and spirits matched five. that ticket is worth more than $1 million. wednesday night's jackpot grows to $90 million. happening today, a san francisco nonprofit will be giving away free prom dresses to teenagers in need. the give away is sponsored by the princess project. interested girls must book an appointment online and bring a valid high school i. d. to receive a predress. today is the first of four giveaways in san francisco, with others scheduled for march 7, 15 and 21. the give-aways take place at 2099 market street. the princess project has
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supplied over 20,000 dresses and accessories to bay area students in need since 2002. up next on abc7 sunday morning news at 6:00. wild weather hits parts of the bay area with the unexpected treat for a south bay neighborhood. and a man falls more than 60 feet down a cliff into the surf below. how rescuers were able to save him.
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