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radius in berkeley and necessity have not found him. they are trying to tow the car out of this area. and get the area cleaned up. they want to were 100 the investigation. we are at california and hearst. this is writ ended. it started in concord the report came in as a stolen car and a high-speed chase began. he was going the wrong way on highways 4 and 80. at one point he told 9-1-1 tell your people i am not going back to jail. he crashed here in berkeley and he hit a car an s.u.v., and it flipped over. that is upside down in the middle of the street. the driver of that car is okay. he suffer minor injuries. the suspect ran away. they still have not caught up with him. they say for now. they are still looking for him. in idea where he is. they are were whering up their scene here and they wanted to
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check backyards and homes to make sure he was not hiding or breaking into a home but the area is okay and they did not have reports of anyone complaining of anyone breaking in or harassing them so they think he left the area. >> thank you. in the south bay investigators are waiting until dawn to determine the cause of a two alarm grass fire that threatened hopes in san jose. firefighters contained the flames on communications hill east of the freeway at 10:30. the fire burned for an hour and left five to seven acres charred. firefighter say the fire spread up a steep hill toward homes at the chateau mobile home park. crews determined the fire was completely out. >> in the east bay firefighters are trying to determine what sparked a 75-acre grass fire that burned a large area of speaker state 580 near livermore. we were over the scene as the fire burned along center divide
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near the north flynn road off-ramp at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. high winds made fighting the fire difficult and it crept close to traffic. it was likely an accident possibly started by passing vehicles. >> the steering goes out a brake looks up someone is dragging a change, a converter is malfunctioning engine is throwing out embers a number of things that can happen. >> it took crews an hour to put out the flames and officials specific the fire season to be one of the busiest in areas. >> now a warning in walnut creek, police are investigating an attempted sexual assault on a hiking and piking trail that happened at 10:30 yesterday morning on the iron horse trail near creekside drive. sky 7 shows the area near where a 16-year-old girl say a man grabbed her she fought him off and he took off running into the apartment complex. a passing bicyclist may have scared him.
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the firm was not hurt. >> campbell police home this surveillance video and a suspect sketch can find a man would tried to kidnap a girl. this is the suspect's car on saturday police say the girl was walking her dog when the map pulled up in a car asking for directions. here is a sketch of the suspect. the girl told police he get out of the car and grab her in a bear hug and she fought back and he drove away. >> this morning a 72-year-old woman is recovering after being rescued by helicopter crew after she fell off her horse. the woman was knocked unconscious at 11 o'clock a.m. yesterday at mt. diablo straight park while riding in a canyon. the area was not accessible by ground. she regained consciousness and is expected to be okay. the more was not injured. >> investigators have not released the identity of a paraglider who died after
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crashing into a cliff yesterday morning at a popular spot. the accident has left fellow enthusiasts shaking their heads. >> pair glideers come to mussel rock park for a city in daly city the smooth air is ideal. those conditions and the safety precautions most people take make fatal accidents here rare. >> you have to make sure the wind is coming from right direction, preferably west for this area here. you never turn into the hill, you turn away from it. >> something went wrong. crews say a paraglider crashed into the cliff. they got the calm at 9:30 a.m. and said he was dead when they arrived. the victim, in his fist -- 50s was flying alone. most we heard someone who was add a wing collapsed but recovered. we had a friend who hit a cliff and just a broken arm. >> mussel rock beaches attracts
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paragliders from all over the area and beyond. there is inherent danger. we do our best to mit gate the risks. the pay off of flying? so amazing that it is worth some risk. >> for one man it is a risk that ultimately cost him his life. >> death of two base jumpers at yosemite has many in the world of extreme sports stunned. 43-year-old dean potter and his climbing partner graham hunt, jumped from a cliff overlooking the mountain and the spotter lost track of them and could not reap then bereavement search errors found their body. potter was a renounce base jumper known for extreme feats chronicling the jumps with his dog last year. the dog was not this for the fatal jump in yosemite. the 29-year-old help was from
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nearby county. >> the marines involved in this weekend's fail osprey aircraft crash in hawaii were from southern california. one difficulted and 21 were hurt when it crashed yesterday and caught fire during a hard landing in an air force base in hawaii. the osprey takes off and lands like a helicopter but flies like an airplane. investigators are looking for the cause. >> amtrak service has returned to normal in the northeast for the first time since last week's deadly derailment. this is video of the first train speeding through philadelphia this morning rolling out to new york city at 2:30 our time. amtrak is also rolling trains and tracks are in complete compliance with federal safety rules following the accident. eight people were killed and 200 were injured. one of those victims was buried yesterday in hayward.
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he moved back east from the bay area to work for wells fargo in 2008. >> san francisco mayor will reduce a plan to resurvive affordable housing projects to finance 3,000 affordable housing units over the next 15 queers. they will be in the mission bay, transbay terminal and candlestick point area, after many stalled in 2012 when the state dissolved city re-development agencies. >> in a few hours the warriors will hold practice as they are ready for the game one of the western conference finals. >> they will play the rockets. they had a light practice yesterday and las vegas sports book as the warriors as the odds on favorite 4-7 to win the nba championship. >> game one tips off tomorrow at 6:00 on espn. the warriors won all four of the regular season games against the
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rockets and do not for get abc7 is the him for the finals with all the exciting action by going june 4. the warriors against someone from the east. >> so if you have $7 you only win $4. >> mike? mike? i have a betting guy on that. >> that setter than even we are the odds on favorite. ai don't gamble so i don't know. >> we will roll the dice on the weather forecast. >> we take director money and put it down and see what happens. >> remain everyone, we are 50 in west port a.m. in san francisco, and sunny side is 52 and downtown, chrissy feed, bay vie, about 53. and 54 in the mission and the ferry building in glen park. 55 in richmond and belmont and palo alto and union city. 54 in walnut creek. pleasanton. pittsburg. tracy is 55. in the 50s in american can
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the golden gate bridge show light winds compared to later this afternoon. as we head through the afternoon hours, inland is 65 to 70 with a stray shower possible. it will turn from drizzle along the coast to breezy and mostly cloudy at 55 to 60 and pockets of sunshine 60 to 67 in the south bay. at highway 87, near the shark tank stubborn pattern not much change until thursday. a slight chance of a shower. >> morning everyone, hope you had a wonderful weekend we will start you in the north bay taking a look at 101 headed in the southbound direction making the commute we at 580 and the golden gate bridge is not going to find any problems. we will look at drive time traffic, 580 over the altamont pass tracy to dublin is 29-minute commute and in very good shape in the when direction, highway 4, antioch to
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concord 14 minutes and 101, san rafael to san francisco is going to take you 18 minutes. we are heading over to the san mateo bridge and memorial day weekend with another closure for the bridge for continued repaving work the last of the two closures to re-pave the high-rise. it will be closed in both directions and the dumbarton and all the usual suspects are the best way to get around it. >> 4:40. they help whiten your teeth but a move by a state lawmaker could mean the end of microbeads. >> new details in the deadly biker ban shoot out and a dozen officers were there well before the violence erupted. >> right now, use has bay bridge toll plaza with traffic light but when i came across the high wind advisory lights were on the boards so if you cross the bridges, be careful bot life's super
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scary sounds. and sneaking in without moving the bed.
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life's super scary sounds. and sneaking in without moving the bed.
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>> covering daly city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area this is abc7 news. police in waco texas are on high alert. motorcycle gangs are threatening to kill officers after yesterday's deadly shooting about 200 members five rival gangs, met yesterday at a vaunt to discuss turf. now, police knew of the meeting and a dozen officers were there. a fight break out and escalated with gang members attacking each other with guns and knives and clubs. officers opened fire and nine gang members were killed and another 18 were injured. more than 150 people were detained although the number of arrests is still unclear. >> happening today the state assembly will vote on a ban of plastic microbeads found in soaps, and personal care products that are so small they are not trapped by filters and often end up in the ocean. the measure would ban microbeads in all personal care products
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starting in 2020. they attract environmental toxins and are eaten by fish that mistake them for food. >> the kardashians are talking about the transition of bruce jenner to a woman opening up how he broke the news to them during a special episode of "keeping up with the kardashians," last night. kill and her sisters were concerned how the transition was going to impact his ex-wife, saying he plans on living life as a woman that is bruce jenner, very soon, and the special episode is a month after the olympic champion's interview with diane sawyer. >> despite arrests, san francisco police arrest say the bay to break erase was peaceful. >> a mass of humanity 50,000 runners, dashed across the city with thousands more lining the race route to watch the costume and sometimes uncostumed frenzy.
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police joined them to keep the event safe and alcohol free after years of complaints of bad behavior officers arrested 11 five on felony charges. >> we were there when city workers picked up crash in the golden gate park panhandle with many gathering there after the race. police kept a close eye on post race festivities. >> in of it lived up to the reputation. the color costumes. >> part of reputation. >> that part of it. >> how was the temperature? >> mid-50s. >> running normally, not too bad. running if those costumes, maybe a little chilly. >> the birthday costume? >> morning everyone. we are dry. this is patchy areas of light drizzle but they are few and far between and it is cloudy as you can see on live doppler hd.
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off to a great state this morning and notice the winds at sfo are 16 and oakland is 18 and concord is ten and fairfield is 16 and everyone is less than ten miles per hour although we are close in livermore and san carlos and half moon bay. it is going to be the onshore flow and the moist atmosphere with all the cloud cover it never really goes away completely. our brightest area is inland east bay, we will call you partly sunny and the rest of us are mostly cloudy and that is going to be in the afternoon hours of the look at the 60s lining up just about everywhere and we could get to 70 toward brentwood and antioch and 50s along the coast. temperatures are running again about ten degrees below average. down in the south bay, money 60 from 65 in milpitas to 68 in los gatos and notice the cloud cover hanging around we will have sunshine on the peninsula with low-to-mid 60s for you and mid-to-upper 50s along the
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coast and it will now be so breezy as it has been until you get to downtown south san francisco and then north through the san pablo bay and out the delta communities where the breezes are fastest. we will have mid-to-upper 60s through the north by valley and low-to-mid 60s long the east bay shore and inland, air conditioning and wrote needs air conditioning? 70 at fairfield and antioch, usually we are running either by this time on occasional basis. mid-to-upper 60s elsewhere. they have to run the heater a couple of times. it has been 56 in my house. we are holding off. here is tone drizzle is possible on the coast again and upper 40s in santa rosa and napa and low-to-mid 50s. we have a trough of low pressure spinning lows and that is keeping us fairly cloudy with drizzle possible on tuesday morning and maybe not wednesday morning and then there is a slight chance of a sure on thursday and then possibly slightly warmer weather saturday and sunday.
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289 bart trains are on time at the moment and it looks like the golden gate bridge zipper truck in the center of the scene now is widening the southbound lanes so now we are going to have three lanes from the north bay into san francisco so there they go they are going to take a few minutes up to the marin side so be careful if you are traveling in a few minutes because you want to stay away from the center lanes the center divider. drive slow as well. in alamo the crash at northbound 680, it has cleared and we are dealing with residual delays and closer to highway 24, walnut creek, drive time traffic 680 southbound, walnut creek to dublin is 16 minutes and 101, southbound from santa rosa is 15 minutes and through the santa cruz mountains through los gatos is 24 minute come mute. >> "consumer reports" is out with the smartphone rankings and there are surprising results. >> here are tech bytes. >> "consumer reports" has released the latest smartphone
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ranking. >> the samsung galaxy s5 is the top spot and samsung's latest galaxy s6 tied with the iphone 6 for third. >> google is reportedly taking on amazon and ebay and is about to unville a new "buy" button so you can purchase some items from the search page. and more social media satisfactory for chili's changing how they several their food in order to make it more visually appealing on instagram including placing fries in stainless steel and burgers on more photo genik materia >> never understood taking pictures of the food? i know. >> hacking the skies what a
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security expert did that has the fbi investigating. >> dramatic rescue caught on camera as floodwaters surround the family home and a drone helped bring a couple to safety. >> a look at the embarcadero from our rooftop high definition camera, you can see things are sparse right ♪i am beautiful in
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every single way♪ ♪words, can't bring me down♪
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>> it is now 4:52 a big mess for fire crews in novato. before 7:00 last night a truck crashed into a fire hydrant near school and crest road and the water was so high in the air it hit the power lines and we are told more than circuit percent of the water tank serving the residents was emptied and it took an hour to stop. >> the f.b.i. is investigating after a researcher said he was able to hack into a plane's computer system and briefly make it fly sideways. last month, chris roberts tweeted from a united airline
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flight saying he hacked into the entertainment system and the f.b.i. detained him on the ground investigators found boxes under the seats were tampered with. roberts hopes the incident leads to a dialogue with airlines and federal authorities about securityics. sources tell abc they do not believe someone i don't hack a control system while in the air. >> a texas couples would home was caught up in raging floodwaters this weekend was rescued safely because of creative thinking. a volunteer used the drone to fly one end of the rope to the couple who were trapped in their home. they tied it to the house and firefighters used it to pull themselvessed in a boat but the current was too strong and later a national guard helicopter arrived and pulled the couple from the porch one at a time and they made it. >> creative use if the drone. >> now a check with mike and the forecast. mike? >> seeing the clouds overtake part of san francisco. some of the low clouds cross the coast, the clouds are bing to be
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so stubborn it will keep us cooler-than-average temperatures and mold and lucas county are low and grass pollen is moderate we have rain and snow showers throughout the sierra down to the grapevine where it is all rain, one or two of these could come across the north bay this afternoon and mid-to-upper 60s san diego and los angeles and mid-to-upper 70s through the central valley and 52 in lake tahoe. safe travels. >> mike, we are going to take i over to the richmond-san rafael toll plaza where the drive is clear and cars are trickling into the plaza and make their way to the north bay only taking five minutes. as we training you right over to san leandro, davis street on 880 northbound, there is a brand new crash and it looks lie it is on the shoulder not causing delays. we will look over the altamont pass and the south bay if a couple of michigans.
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we 15 years ago the story of elian gonzalez has been given the first ever interview to an american media outlet speaking with abc news. >> to the american people the first i say thank you, love they give me. >> gonzalez gained fame of course after surviving an escape attempt from cue pa that killed his mother. agents then took gonzalez from the extended family in miami so he could be returned to cuba. you can see more of gonzalez interview on "good morning america" this morning at 7:00. >> the c.e.o. of japanese automaker nissan say autonomous cars are ready by 2020, one of several companies working on vehicles that will be able to drive themselves. nissan said they are making good
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progress toward the 2020 goal it is not clear if people can drive them by then. regulators have to approach them for use first. appraises at the pup are rising. california is leading the way. according to the survey, the average price of a gallon of regular gas in california has jumped 53 cents in the past three weeks. that is compared to a 22-cent jump in the average. high demand is one factor but an expected increase in supply means price hikes will slow down or stop in the coming weekends. >> young children in the united states are not getting enough exercise. >> according to researchers, reschoolers only get 48 minutes of physical activity a day and the centers for disease control recommends kids get at least an sure. experts say exercise is essential for a child's development and previce president obesity which is rising dramatically the past 30 areas. according to the centers for disease control 18 percent of kids ages 6-11 are obese
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compared to 7 percent in unanimous 88. nfl team owners meet today in san francisco and at 5:00 am, the message raiders fans will try to deliver. >> drivers be watch with a crackdown to speed up the rush hour commute. >> now a look from emeryville camera looking across the bay. we have live weathe
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. happy back to work monday morning. i am eric thomas.
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>> i am kristen sze. with leyla gulen and mike, the weather is still cool? >> we are stuck in the same pattern with a few areas of low pressure and kick up the drizzle and a x-ray shower across the north bay this afternoon but right now we have one mile visibility in santa rosa and fog is an issue. we have the possibility of drizzle the closer you are to the coast and cloudy and expect some delays. they will let us know in 55 minutes. we will have sunshine by noon at 54 to 64 and the rest of us cloudy at 56 to 68 and chilly at 62. >> on the roads early on monday morning, what do you have? >> we do not have crashes that are too serious just a couple of fender bender and as we look at the tolls, the cashpayers made their way into the city and now just a few more cores paying their

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