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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> we woke up today... and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. >> the governor of south carolina choking back tears after a white gunman shot is killed nine people inside a historically black church in charleston. a suspect is finally in police custody. >> morning i am eric thomas. cheryl jennings and kristen sze are off today. the suspect was picked up 250 miles away from the crime scene this morning. our reporter is in the newsroom
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with the latest details. >> among the dead are a beloved high school track coach and a state senator. those two were also reverends at the church. also, a recent college graduate was killed and a long time librarian. the department of justice has opened a hate crime investigation into the incident. >> police arrested 21-year-old deliberate roof during a traffic stop in shelby, north carolina, around 250 miles from charleston, south carolina. where he is accused of gunning down a group of worships at a weekly bible study. that awful person, terrible human being who would go into a place of worship where people were praying and kill them...is now in custody. >> this happened at emanuel ame
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church last night the oldest black congregation in the south of police say the shooter attended the prayer service for a full hour and met some of victims before he oned fire. among the dead is the church pastor, reverend clementa pinckney, and also a state senator. today a black cloth covers his death. surviving told police that shooter went on a racist rant and reloaded his weapon several times. in facebook picture he is wearing a jacket with pro party hide flag. thousands have been gathered for prayer vigil as churches across the united states. president obama said the country has had to endure tragedies like this too many times. >> we don't have all facts but we do know that once again innocent people were killed, in part because someone would wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. >> a family member told reporters that roof's dad gave him a gun for his birthday in
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april. he was previously arrested on drug and trespassing charges. >> thank you are have much. >> other news, investigators are waiting for a search warrant to get into a home where a man was injured by an explosion of homemade fireworks. a bomb squad detonated some of the materials prompting an evacuation. anthony stewart was making fireworks for the fourth of july when they went off. stewart was taken to the hospital with life threatening burns. three truckloads of materials were removed and taken to another site to be set off. >> san jose is worried of the dangers posed by illegal fireworks and officials have a tough new ordinance to expand the city of city workers who can enforce fireworks law. that is not all. matt keller is in san jose with
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more. matt? >> you have the fire danger the threat to people and fireworks are just plain noisy for neighborhoods. this proposed ordinance could make it easy for the city to stop the explosions. san jose is a booming city in more one. >> we have heard from our residents loud and clear that they are very concerned about the use of the illegal fire bees would. >> stopping illegal fireworks was the follow behind the news conference with mayor liccardo and council members and police and fire officials. they are behind a proposed ordinance giving authority to more city workers to give citations to people possessing or using illegal fireworks. >> we could not possibly put out enough officers to stop the fireworks. we want to leverage people using fines and sanctions and using many of our employees who are not sworn. >> if the city council sets this issue as a top priority for san jose at the next meeting the propped ordinance would authorize another 80 or so park
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ranges and code enforcement and community service officers to write citations for fireworks violations treating it as a nuisance case with no need for an area witness from a seven or firefighter. fines are town $1,000 with the possibility of more for repeat offenders and large quantities. in june and july of last year the city received 2,000 fireworks could minutes. >> it is worse every year. this are explosions. last night it was going on after 11 o'clock at night. can we please go to sleep now? >> the city leaders are providing alternatives for residents three professional fireworks shows are held in san jose over the fourth of july holiday. in the east bay, a memorial outside the building where six young people lost their lives continues to grow. countless candles cover the ground below the apartment
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building on kittredge in berkeley. many were irish students working summer visas. to separate moment services were held last might and hundreds turned out at civic center park many who did not necessity the victims but were compelled to pay respects. dozens gathered for a memorial mass at oakland's cathedral of the christ light. the balcony the young people were standing on collapsed during a birthday party. seven are recovering from injuries. >> we have learned this a construction company that built the balcony was paid more than -- has paid more than $million to settle lawsuits over rotting roths including two in millbrae and san jose. they said "segue has build 6 the apartment units and never had an incident like this in its history." a number of experts believe that the berkeley balcony wasn't waterproofed properly and the wood supports rotted through.
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>> there is a gofundme page to help the families of the victims that was started late yesterday and it has raised over $1,400 to this point. if you would like to help out we have posted a link on our website as abc.com. >> driver escaped a bad accident this morning and we were over the scene at san jose avenue at arlington street after 10:00 a.m. you could see the car rolled over on to the tracks in the middle of the road. police say it was hit by a muni light rail train. there are no injuries at this time. there was a person briefly trapped inside. >> a wild fair in southern california forced the of evacuation of 200 children with campers evacuated from several sites after flames brought out in a remote location in the san bernardino mountains and is only
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a percent contained. a lack of wind is hoping battle the place. >> we are less than 24 hours away honoring the golden state warriors. klay thompson tweeted this message "still in shock we appreciate all the love bay area and can't wait to celebrate tomorrow." amy hollyfield is in san francisco where they are racing to finish the floats. amy? >> look behind me you will see them hard at work the float on the right -- they just stepped away. a crew was putting blue and gold touches on this one and the threat on the left is the mvp float the orange will start to look like basketballs. they still have a ways to go working quickly. they are used to building floats in a hurry but this parade does come with its own sent of
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challenges. with a lovable team like this coming up with float ideas for the championship parade is not a problem. >> they told me of the flash brothers and the other major themes so i work up some ideas that we are working with. >> the challenge for the float making company in san francisco is the timing and logistics. >> we are build six floats in two days. >> they have to be done quickly and have to travel across the babe bible the floats are not unusually freeway ready. >> we do not take an entire parade across the bridge. that is exciting. >> the good thing is next week is the gay pride parade and they decided to transform some those floats into warriors floats. >> one behind us here is home to the bay area's warriors and we had this house which was made for a pride float which we will going out when it goes out for
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pride. >> this is for the splash brothers and they have a way to go. some are still if development. we build three yesterday and we are building three today. those will have to be a surprise. >> i have my staple gun and my supplies. they have a ways to go and they think it will be a late night and they will be back here at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning to start getting everything across the bridge but they think they will get it done. they say it will be a great parade. >> bart is expecting record numbers for the parade with two stations along the route and a third near. bart will run ten car trains at rush hour frequency through the day. to avoid congestion people using the fremont or dublin lines must use the lake merritt extradition to return home. buses in the area will also be affected. >> count can on abc7 to bring
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you the best parade k. it started at 10:00 a.m. with cameras and reporters stationed along the route and at the rally. we will be streaming it live at abc7.comso you can -- abc7.com. a san francisco company goes public and how much fizbit jumped after the i.p.o. open "wall street journal" and move over, alexander hamilton the foam leader may have to share the spotlight with on the face of a ten dollar bill. a look outside right now, meteorologist mike nicco is coming up with the
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>> fitness tracking company is off to a branch start on the first day of being publicly traded with stock in the company opening at $11 a share and jumped to nearly $31 a share by midday. they make devices that can be warn on the wrist or clipped to clothing. a "7 on your side" investigation this year exposed how some of the devices are linked to remarks in some users. >> the ten dollar bill is getting a face lift but now without controversy. the treasury -- announced last night it would replace the main image of hamilton with a yet to be chosen woman.
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hamilton is the founder of the united states treasury would were on the bill in some way. this morning, many are sounding off on social media that the first woman on paper currency in 100 years should not have to share the spotlight. others say it is long overdue. >> finally. it has been a long-term that should have happened. women have contributed so much to america. >> and they will go into circumstance place on 2020 and you can weigh in on who should be the new female face on the bill. >> meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with our forecast. >> morning, to you. morning also from the top of the broadcast center. i am monitoring a lot of sunshine but a breeze is going to undercut and keep our temperatures below average which could be the case headed through the weekend. i have changes for father's day coming up in the "7 on your side". >> thank you.
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acrobatics and the sons as you can see is adorable. >> she is adore an. would you like a back seat like that? >> in that plane but from what i understand when you were with the blue angels not so much. >> got me there. some things are better left kept down. to live doppler hd we still following bill causing all sorts of problems in the mid-south and heading to the midwest with flash flood watches still from brownsville and corps christie houston, dallas tulsa, all the way to st. louis and memphis. the winds are the big story and look how much faster they are double digits at sfo and ten in concord and 16 in napa and fairfield is 21 and that is going to increase as we head to the 1:00 o'clock hour east golden gate bridge and north of
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the bay bridge the small craft advisory for the 21 to 33 knots wind until 9:00 this evening and small craft advisory along the coast has been extended physical action tomorrow morning. you will notice the winds there coming from the northwest are starting to clear the coast and we will see sunshine, an area that will be the last is pacifica and toward half moon bay and you can see some of the clouds clinging to the san francisco cost as we look from emeryville back across the golden gate bridge which is hard to see right now. san jose is an area that will get total sunshine but be below average because of the cooler frees and warmer the next few days and the temperatures will start to slide on father's day into early next week. here is the difference, the area of low pressure to our north is inducing a faster show and pulling the cooler air over the ocean water and we are about 30-5 degrees below average and satisfy is 77.
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mid-80s around morgan hill. low-to-mid 70s on the peninsula today and san mateo is 71. we will be crisp along the coast upper 50 to mid-60s in downtown and south san francisco and mid-60s to low 80s through the north bay with napa around 80 and loan the east bay shore and richmond is 6 and oakland is 69 and castro valley and fremont is the warm spot at 74. if you are working inland around the house, it will not be too hot low-to-upper 50s with a list of things in town. as far as the baseball forecast, 12:35 and 62 warming to 67 degrees. take the sunscreen. you will need it. you will need it at the county fair in alameda falling back into the low 60s this evening. as far as the lows tonight you can see the 40's in the north bay like this morning and the rest of us in the low-to-mid 50s and we have to talk about tomorrow morning in oakland, a great start and 57 and the clouds will start opening as
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parade begins at 61 and mid-to-upper 60s through the rest of the morning and the afternoon. you will need the sun screen were we warm four degrees tomorrow as we relax the sea breeze and we will drop two degrees on sunday and summer starts with seasonal temperatures on father's day on sunday and our cool of the day will be monday with a little bit of a warming trend next week. it looks nice weekend for you and me, eric. >> if you look for something to do this father's day weekend, look in further. leyla has successes on what to explore where you live. >> where else can you take dad to have free concert with headliners like the beach boys, and brian mcknight than the alameda county fair. general admission includes extreme entertainment include monitor truck and extreme rodeo and fourth of july with the symphony. bring the kids and enjoy the carnival fair such as rides and games and delicious food. the heart of wine country is
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picking fertile ground for summertime entertainment with a season of "broadway under the stars," tomorrow. take a picnic and enjoy the outdoor theater for "oh what a night." there will be standards and favorite tunes. >> it is time to drop anchor for the pirate festival put on your best and join fellow pirates filled with hand craft and hearty ales all on our website at abc7news.com. >> a trend that everyone is talking about with the creator of the sandal bats came up with
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>> the governor goes to hollywood a rank arnold schwarzenegger pulled for a good cause. >> better audio for cell phones, the new option that could change the way we communicate. >> now, what some are calling the most bizarre fashion statements. ever. someone has come up with cowboy boot sandals. a missouri company called redneck boot sandals can make you your own pair posting these
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