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san francisco, open your golden gates ♪ >> a sure sign that san francisco gay pride weekend. this year's celebration theme, equality without exception. an ideal thought that is closer to reality tonight after that historic ruling on same-sex marriage. hello, i'm katie marzullo. you see here the pink triangle asell build at twin peeks, a shining beacon of day pride even more poignant after the supreme court decision
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legalizing same-sex marriage. cornell bernard is in san francisco with the latest. >> reporter: seems like everybody is celebrating pride. there's a huge party going on here at market. the dike march which started in dolores park just ended here and you can see a responsible tapous dance party just broke out. this has been a pride weekend, have to tell you, like no other. there is jubilation over the supreme court ruling. all across san francisco. a champagne christening for the pink triangle. today's dedication is historic. >> we have a law across the land. now we join ireland and 18 other countries to move this movement forward. >> reporter: the supreme court ruling granting marriage equality for all is amazing and surreal for patrick would created the giant pink triangle
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20 years ago. >> the supreme court is a marvelous way to start pride weekend. but we need to remember where we came from. >> the pink triangle was use by the nazis to shame homosexuals in world war ii and is now a symbol of pride. >> the festival is on at civic center. the theme happiness and equality for all. they're from san jose. >> this one came running in, jumped on me and said we can get married. we won! >> this family brought their daughters to celebrate. >> we're allowed to get married, everyone else should be. what's the difference? >> the dike march roared into the castro for a pink saturday party, preview of the pride parade on sunday which could be the largest in history. in san francisco. cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> a heckler interrupted the dedication ceremony by trying to
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shout down the san francisco supervisor. the crowd shouted down the heckler. show respect. police escorted him away it does not appear he was antigay. >> steadfast activists say traditional marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman, and they're vowing to back the rights of religious objectors and fight back politically against the ruling. two states louisiana and mississippi, are not yet issue ago marriage licenses to same-sex couples and some counties in texas say they won't until they receive more guidance. here's a quick look the decision that made marriage equality the law of the land. supreme court justices voted 4 ruling the constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage. the decision came in the case of obergifeld verse hodges. he wanted to marry his dying partner but was enable to because of ohio's ban. in the dissent yesterday john
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roberts said the constitution had nothing to say on the subject same-sex marriage. >> the big pride paradees tomorrow going up market street to beil and get underway at 10:30. bart will be running extra trains. we hey detailed information on the pride events on our web site abc7news.com. we invite you to share your video and pictures of the pride events with us on social media. post them with the hash tag abc7 now. now to breaking news in sacramento where there are reports of a fast-moving grass fire. reports it has burned some homes. this is in northern part of the city. the fire started at five acres. it's growing and there are evacuations. firefighters working to protect other homes and buildings. we'll stay on top of thus story. an activist temporarily removed the confederate flag at
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the south carolina state house. a woman from north carolina climbed the flag pole today and removed the flag. she now faces a fine of and possible prison term of up to three years. the flag was raise again 45 minutes later. there are calls to remove the confederate flag since nine black church members were killed and what police, whichize as a racist attack at a south carolina church last week. >> to at the latest on the man point for a fugitive in upstate new york. searchers now focus on the escapee partner, mobilize as massive search effort near the canadian border. >> reporter: on the run and now on his own, david sweat is believed to be still hiding somewhere in this heavily wooded area. about 1200 officers are working around the clock on the ground and in the air combing through a 22 square mile perimeter set up in the towns
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malone and wayne in new york. >> they're hunting. >> the shooting death of his son, deputy landed sweat in prison for life but sweat has not been seen since break out of prison on june 6th. he believes fining sweat will be no easy task. >> he is more active than the other guy. he knows the ropes more. >> the other guy, fellow escapee, richard matt was shot and exiled by police yesterday afternoon in the woods near the cabin that had been burglarized in malone. >> five minutes. all we knew that somebody was in the camp and we didn't know who. so we decided to call. unbelievable. >> he is relieved the hunt is over for one, and admits he is nervous for what is still on the loose. >> we'd like to see him caught. >> richard matt's body is in albany for an autopsy and officials vow they will not rest
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until david sweat is caught. abc news, new york. >> san jose police are investigating two shooting deaths that happened within hours of each other. officers say a 17-year-old boy was shot around the 10:30 last night. investigators tell us the teenager died on the sidewalk. several viewers called saying there was a large police presence at the scene for hours. about five miles away a second shooting happened at 2:30 this morning. police have not made any arrests in either case. >> words of caution for people in san mateo county where there are two new reports of a mountain lion sighting one near park elementary school. police say the records came in between 10:00 last night and midnight. it's believed to be the same mountain lion that was also spotted by police but not captured. a group of great white sharks was spotted in the water half mile from a competition for young lifeguards. this is facebook video of the
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sharks. competition organizers rushed into the water to pull out junior life guys who were taking -- lifeguards who were taking physical tests. >> it was amazing. i've been on the motion for 20 years and never seen anything like this before. >> researchers say the sharks are too young to bite people and were not acting aggressively. warning signs at the beach were removed yesterday. ahead, how a plan to keep the raiders in oakland may give the team reason to leave. and pest defense the battle on tonight in the south bay against an invasive insect. later, setting a wedding record. why an east bay couple's nuptials will be one for the record books. >> i'm abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma. sunshine giving way to clouds and the sun will fight to appear on sunday.
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thumbs down to the latest stadium proposal for the raiders. part over the deal calls for raiders to sell a 20% stake in the team to the project developer. the bay area news group report thursday readers would get no money from housing, office and retail building on the property. the raiders are considering a return to los angeles where they played from 1982 to '94. an effort is underway to save crops in the bay area from an invasive pest. oriental fruit flies were found. they're macing bait stations at the top of trees and utility poles the maggots feed on the pulp of more than 230 kinds of fruits and vegetables. >> a san francisco history lesson. ♪ >> a look at how defendants of some of the first residents of san francisco honor their
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♪ >> music set the tone for a celebration at the presidio of san francisco today. descendents of the spanish settlers who arrived in san francisco in 1776 gathered to honor their heritage. the trust wants to learn more about the 240 people who arrived with juan bautista. >> they were here when they were excavating the original colonial site they built in 1776.
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>> many of today's participants wore costumes that resembled the uniforms and fashion worn by spanish settlers. >> a celebration today at the livermore pleasant ton fire station number 6 for a might bulb, they're marking a million hours of service nor longest lasting light bulb on the planet. it has been on for 114 years. the long life is attributessed to low power, dedicated power supply and near continuous operation. happening tonight many a brides maid and just one bride. abc7 news was in oakland where 200 women hoped to set a guinness world record for the most brides maids for one bride. the quest comes as the bride is renewing her wedding vows with her husband of 28 years. the wedding party will include 425 people and about 1500 guests. the current world record is a
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mere 128 brides maids set two years ago in sri lanka. well done, lady, very pretty. let's send it over to drew. a lot happening this weekend including record-breaking brides maileds wedding, pride, nascar. am i missing thing? >> i think you have it -- oh, levi's stadium. so a lot to get to and a lot to talk about for sunday. today start off a lot of sunshine. live doppler 7hd right now showing you it's a rather quiet scene over the bay area but i will take you to lake tahoe. we have a couple thundershowers that popped up. over the past hour, live doppler 7hd has estimated 144 lightning strikes and this cell is moving to the north. so, lake tahoe over the next hour you'll see a thundershower with vivid lightning so take note. take a look at current temperatures. 67 downtown san francisco. 79 in fairfield. 82 fremont. some of these temperatures are 20 degrees cooler today than we
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were this time yesterday. so it is a lot cooler to start off the week. we'll look at the evening planner. see a few low clouds. by 7:00 we'll call it's mixture of sunshine and clouds. sunset at 8:36. and by 11:00 we see the clouds clinging, temperatures cool with the breeze in he mid-fives in to lower 60s. live doppler 7hd, showing you a pin off the coast. it it's a weak piece of energy. it's pulling clouds and moisture up the coast and that's why the sunshine is going to have a tough time coming out for the second half of the weekend. future weather has you covered tonight. low clouds, fog and that's how we start sunday. 6:00 in the morning, a cloudy start across the entire region. by 10:00 in the morning not seeing breaks in the cloud cover. it's the later afternoon and early evening hours that the sunshine really breaks out from west to east. so. it will be a cooler day on the
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way for sunday but rather comfortable for june. so looking at levis stadium. the grateful dead will be playing a second night. a cooler breeze by 10:00. the pride parade in downtown san francisco tomorrow will have clouds for the first half of our day, by 10:00, shortly before the parade begins, city cloudy 60 degrees. sunnier skies by 2:00 and drop to 63 in the evening. then at sonoma, race day tomorrow. same story in the north bay. clouds the first half of the day. sunshine by the afternoon. and sunny skies by 7:00 and a temperature of 70. so overnight tonight the clouds are moving back in. lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. highs on sunday, in the south mainly upper 70s to lower eights in. along the peninsula, downtown
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san francisco, 67 tomorrow. and to the north bay 80 santa rosa, east bay, a mixture of 70s. 71 oakland, 77 fremont and one final spot. eights on the board. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast clouds and sun tomorrow, sunny and seasonal monday, and there you go tuesday, summer scorcher on the way, wednesday, very high uv index. then fast forward to saturday july 4-inch, call indications -- 4th. all indications it's going to be seasonal. >> good timing. rick quan is in with sports tonight. >> both bay area teams at home this weekend, the a's try to even their series with the royals and another rocky outing for tim lincecum as he gets tagged i
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>> coming off the shortest outing of his career, tim lincecum was pitching for a spot in the location. this couple was celebrating their anniversary. not much love for lincecum in the first as the rockies scored three times. timmy would leave in the second after a shot off his right pitching arm. the giants were able to get the out but lincecum left with a forearm contusion. that has to hurt. x-rays revealed no fracture. trailing 5-3 in the fifth. matt duffy cuts the lead to one with this solo shot. it's his seventh home run of the
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season the joints tack the lead in the seventh the clutch bases loaded double. that will clear the bases. 75 the -- 7-5 the final. buster posey is moving to first and brandon belt to the outfield. >> the more an dry plays -- drew plays i see his confidence growing. he is a threat at the plate, and certainly came through with the hit we needed. >> we're feeling good. everyone at this point is big. you don't want to get into a big slump. you have to keep an even keel but winds are big. >> it was throwback day at the coliseum as the a's place host to the o's. 1-0. after kansas city ties it, the a's regain the lead in the
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fifth. this team is cobarr with the bad throw, allowing eric sogard to come home. but the royals get to scott cass mr. in the second. kansas city wins 3-2 kazmir takes the loss. the sharks will have a new starting goalie next season. today they traded the rights to anti ante neimi to dallas. his numbers were declining and he was set to become an unrestricted free agent next week. >> nascar makes its annual stop in sonoma tort with the toyota save-mart 350 and martin luther today a.j. allmendinger captured the pole with a top speed of 96.3-miles-an-hour. he is awaying a reputation as one of the top road course
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drivers. jeff jordan, who will be retiring after the season, will start in fifth place. at the women's world cup quarterfinals, defending champ, japan, got by australia. it was scoreless until the 87th minute but a scramble in front of the aussie net results in this goal for japan. japan wins 1-nil and will next play either england or host canada in the semifinals. tonight at 6:00 u.s. southeastern open golf highlights from sacramento and we'll hear from tim lincecum about taking the shot off his arm. >> painful. >> going to leave a mark as they say. >> up next speaking of leaving a mark, a rare bear encounter face-to-face with a grizzly when abc7 news at 5:00 continues.
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this grizzly bear got into their car. they got away with only a few scratches on the car. welcome to "world news tonight." the hunt in overdrive. one escaped killer still on the run. officers on high alert in the air and on the ground. inside the final hours of the prisoner finally taken down. >> i have never been so scared in all my life. couples racing to the altar to say "i do." that historic ruling lifting the ban on same sex marriage. tonight, the states still saying "not here." and not here, either. a climber pulling the confederate flag down at the south carolina state capitol. the raging debate tonight, as more victims of that church massacre are laid to rest. and, the warning for anyone about to fire up the barbecue. what this x-ray revealed. the danger that could hide in your backyard burger.
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