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with sleep number, now there's an adjustment for that. only at a sleep number store. right now save 50% on the labor day limited edition bed, plus 24-month special financing. hurry ends monday! know better sleep with sleep number. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news >> it is thursday morning at 5 o'clock a.m., we thank you for the company. i am eric thomas. >> i am kristen sze. >> we will check the weather and forecast and meteorologist mike nicco has a cooler day for us. >> absolutely. the breezes were kicking up some of the cooler conditions and we have dry air in there, also, and look at our visibilities just
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about unlimited on live doppler hd. we will move on to our exploritorium camera where you can see it is cloudy. not pretty cloudy, pretty clear with a few clouds. that will be the case. mid-50s to low 60s. headed to noon, mid-60s to mid-70s from the coast inland, and by 4:00, all of us below average, mid-60 at the coast and low 70s around the bay and nearly 80 inland. >> the bay bridge toll plaza shows the traffic is light. we had more cars in the far left hand lane. things have cleared out considerably and now school and back in session, traffic selling. at clayton, we have a failed crash with a sig-alert in effect with no traffic getting through, there will be detours in place as we slide into the altamont pass, 34 miles per hour, and 24
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miles per hour leaving tracy. >> thank you, we have breaking news this morning. a marine has been killed and nine others have been hurt after their helicopter made a heartlanding at camp let jean in north carolina. the name of the dead marine is not released for 24 hours. we will continue to monitor the story and bring you new details as they come in and you can follow us on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> we are learning of the man accused in a bizarre kidnapping of a vallejo woman that police called a home the he is linked to other crimes against women years earlier. janet o is in the newsroom with more. >> f.b.i. report has more information about two home invasions that took place in the south bay. mull certificate a suspect in a 2009 home help vacation in palo alto and mountain view. details outlined revealed he
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drugged the victims and threatened rape. a victim had attended an event at harvard university organize by muller. mull are appeared in dublin court yesterday and his attorney demanding key evidence, a cell phone left behind at a dublin home invasion, be then out on a technicality. >> if you are sending without a warrant you have to make that search clean. >> the cell phone led authorities to muller and implicated him in the vallejo kidnapping according to the f.b.i. affidavit the 38-year-old confessed in an interview to kidnapping denise huskins and claimed he acted alone and suffered from side effect from a vaccine. >> happen now firefighters are watching a fast-moving wildfire that pumped sell hundred acres to lake county. it is estimated the fire has consumed 450 acres and is only
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20 percent contained. it protect out at 3:00 yesterday away. firefighters were hopeful higher humidity would help with containment efforts. the red cross has established an evacuation center for resolution damages who leave their home. >> administrators are asking for help to replace computers and musical instruments and other items dapped in a fire at los gatos school complex. this is more than one fundraisers underway? matt? >> yes, the loma prieta community center is the meetup place here in the santa cruz mountains with a lot people and a lot of groups use it. a fence is keeping people out. there is a big effort to replace what was last. he are pictures from loma prieta foundation website and you can see how badly the fire damaged the builting between the loma prieta elementary school and the middle school in unincorporated los gatos. investigators say a 17-year-old
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boy and the friends were there to smoke marijuana and no one had any they decided to keep warm by lighting the box on fire. the remains were thrown into the garbage can and that led to the near. classes were canceled for the on students for the two schools on monday. community center is used by sift group including a senior group and theater in the mountain. the police had a substation and the rooms were used for music and art and dance classes. the foundation is raising money to help in rebuilding. insurance will help and more was lost including the musical instruments and sports uniforms and laptops and ipad and computers and other electronics and all the theater materials. a community restoring fund is set up with ally on our website at abc7news.com, and you can go there and click on that to get the details. >> a utah man faces charges for
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vandalizing the war memorial in danville in june, the 18-year-old jury road vance was arrested, he and another person used black and red spray paint to deface the memorial. >> the final suspect of a murder in a business has been captured last week. police say the surveillance video shows he and two other arms men terrorizing christopher wrenn last month before killing him. investigators have not revealed a motive the other men are suspects in two separate shootings last in. >> napa police are investigating a sexual assault that happened open college campus. a man grab add female inside a woman's restroom on the campus at lunch and the victim reported the assault to police. the attacker escaped but is described as white and 6' with
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jeans and dark colored hooded jacket. >> we will check on the breezy forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. >> good morning, everyone, we will look at the north where we are going to start with temperature in calistoga at 51 and the warmest in san rafael at 61 and vallejo is 62 and american canyon at 57 along with novato and napa at 56 and petaluma and mill valley and rohnert park 54 and santa rosa at 53. san ramon, good morning, at 60, and alameda and half moon bay at 61, and newark and redwood city and san carlos at 62, and lafayette and san francisco and san jose at 59 degrees. this is how it looks in walnut creek with the 59 degrees and clear conditions. this afternoon inland we are going to see the greatest amount of cooling like we did yesterday, at 76 in the north by to 82 inland east bay, and sunshine winning for the coast and san francisco and breezy at 64 to 68 and breezy around the bay at 70 to 76 in the south
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bay, well below average. speaking of the south bay, san jose is at 59 degrees, and near the shark tank, tomorrow, faster presses, a couple of degrees dealer and the quick turn around, anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees warmer on saturday and we keep warming into the 70s and 80s and 90s on sunday. i let you know if that will hold for the holiday on monday. >> we going to check out i-80 to see how things are moving through fairly. it is great up to the cordelia entrepreneur. i-80 into american can wherein and vallejo, no problems, and 680 across the benicia bridge is not a problem. as we look at highway four it is looking clear at martinez to hercules and i-88, no delays, as you medicine to the hoffman split into berkeley. drive time traffic 580 westbound, tracy to castro valley is 15 minutes and highway 85 to the san jose airport is 11 minutes and northbound 280 from highway one to san francisco is through daly city at ten
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minutes. >> you will not have to wait until this weekend to get labor day deals, the america's money report is next. >> special treat in store for visitors to san francisco's asian art museum and mcdonald's plans to serve breakfast around the clock and may not be so great and it could cost you whether you eat there are or not. are or not. stay tuned. [is the staying awake part...t challeng( gun shot )your day sleep train has your ticket to a better night's sleep. because when brands compete, you save during mattress price wars. and through labor day, save up to $400 on beautyrest and posturepedic. get interest-free financing until 2019 on tempur-pedic.
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>> fremont, palo alto, north bay, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> china is show off the military mite today with a gigantic parade through the heart of capital with a massive procession of tamps and missiles and troops working through beijing commemorting japan's world war ii defeat from seven decades ago. the display comes as the chinese president scaled back the 2.3 million people's liberation army to two million say the technology reduces the need for additional troops. it will still remain the largest standing military in the world. >> when a large ship sails in or out of a bay a bar pilot is at controls and they make an average of $450,000 each last year and now they are asking for a raise that would up their pay to 500,000.
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our reporter sergio quintana has the story. >> the labor dispute at port of oakland cut into revenue for everyone involved including the bar pilots who steer the large ships into the bay. >> the captain said brief shut down is a republican why they are asking for a rate hike but the company said the bar pilots are already the highest paid in the west coast for working only two weeks out of each month. >> they have a great job. each them is important and we are willing to pay them a lot of money to do it well. but that does not mean you get a $50,000 bump in pay because you want one. >> according to figures from the pacific merchant shipping association the average pay per pilot in san francisco bay last year was $450,000 a year. that is more than what they make in seattle, los angeles, and long beach. they say the san francisco bar pilots have gotten every rate
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hike they have asked for since 2006 but in 2007 when the ship slammed into the bay bridge they were under close scrutiny. they expect the pilots to actually make more money with the existing rates. >> each ship pays base on size. a ship gets lapper and they will keep getting larger, they will get paid more. >> rate hike has to be approved by the state. a vote on the hike is expected early next week. >> art is coming to live at san francisco's asian art museum. jap fees and china ink drawings are made interest animation and projected into walls part of the bet of the museum acquisition in 15 years. >> can you look at choose california paymenting and feel moved but this is a different feeling that happens with the technology-based works, an immediacy that is fresh and new
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and innovate i. >> other bars of the exhibit put a contemporary spin on land scales in nature running until october 11. >> really cool. >> now a look at the weather forecast. we will find small branches in the streets? >> from the wind? >> yes, with tree limbs in the streets. that will continue today and tomorrow. now the rainfall deficit speaking of stress, since 2011 you can see we have color coded the state and the key is on left side, we are in the second to your right in the year to year and a half is how of rain we are missing since 2011. that goes from us all the way to the sierra and you can see she gets near fresno and bakers field to los angeles and you start to get into two-plus range and we would have to have double the amount of our normal rain
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the next year to year and a half to make up for that and that does not happen for us. san rafael and mainly clear this morning and temperature is 60 degrees. grab the sunglasses. hold on to the hats today. we will have a lot sunshine and breezy conditions. it will bring us cooler weather and maybe 40's so if you like to sleep with the witnesses open you may need an extra blanket and it will be at this weekend. right now, look at the winds 18 at sfo, and oakland is 15, and hayward is ten, and fairfield is 15, and they are going to be faster. south of bay bridge, across the san mateo bridge and the dumbarton bridge, we are going to have the gusts between 11 o'clock this morning and 9:00 this evening, up around 21 to 33 notes. it will be breezy elsewhere, the same timeframe, we are easy around 15- to 20-miles per hour winds and just about everywhere but around santa resolution and along the coast especially around point raise we could be
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up to 30 miles per hour before they pull become. mid-70s in the south bay tomorrow at 75 in santa clara and san jose and milpitas and upper 70s in los gatos and gilroy. low-to-mid 70s from 70 at millbrae to 75 at redwood city and los altos and mount pain view and mid-60s, and sunset is 65, and downtown not much warmer at 68 and south san francisco, sausalito in the upper 60. mid-to-upper 70s through most of the north bay, and santa rosa low-to-mid 80s and east bay shore, low-to-mid 70s and inland, upper 70s to low 80s. my seven-day forecast shows north by valleys above 50, and the rest of us are in the my 50s to federally 60 with limited cloud cover and tomorrow, faster freezes and cooler conditions but look at sunday and monday, mid-70s at the coasts upper 80's away the bay and mid-90s inland. >> you know how breezy it is i am surprised we do not have c.h.p. warnings on the bay bridges. so far, so good.
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as you cross over the water you are not inhadded an empty san jose, 101, pulling away from the nimitz freeway if you make it up to the san jose airplane, you are look at clear conditions. accident free. the entire south bay area shows slowing over the altamont pass. that will be a hotspot. on the peninsula, clear conditions and at top speed at 65 miles per hour along 101 and between san mateo into burlingame if you have a flight at sfo and southbound direction no delays and 280 we are in good shape. now a look at mass transit, we have bart run on time and muni has no delayed, and ace train is rolling at full steam ahead. >> starting next month, mcdonald's will serve all day breakfast but not everyone is loving it of the analysts say the offer could make america's egg shortage worse. restaurants across the united states are struggling to get enough eggs after the bird flu virus wiped out millions of
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chickens. mcdonald's all day breakfast could mean higher prices for other businesses and consumers. >> stocks are expected to open higher after a late surge on wall street. >> here is america's money. >> good morning, topping america's money the search for momentum with the dow adding 293 points yesterday. nasdaq claimed nearly 114 points and the s&p 500 was up 35. >> the rally was fueled by good news on jobs and markets if asia and europe trading higher. >> labor day discounts are as good as black friday but according to experts, do not buy gas grills and televisions with prices dropping more in the come month. do buy apply ans and cars and mattresses. >> you taco bell is replacing the shell with...fried chicken, naked crispy chicken taco. >> in need for meat because you are holding the meat much it is only available at two taco bell
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locations in central california. >> that is american's money. >> it and 5:20 and we are three months away from debut of new star wars but super fans are counting down and disney is rolling out new star wars toys to promote the new film that are available on the west coast starting at midnight but in some places it is already friday. this video shows excited fans getting their hands on the light saver and lego version of the falcon opening at midnight to accommodate fans. disney is the parent company of disney is the parent company of abc7 news. >> a motorcycle club comes to the rescue of a central california boy bullied at
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>> here are seven things to know before you go. breaking news out of camp let jean -- camp legeune marine was killed during a hard landing and nine were injured. there is no word on what caused the heartlanding. >> fires hope higher humidity will help fight a 450-acre blaze in lake county that is only 20 percent contained. firefighters are being called in from around the state to fight the fire. >> as we look guard the eastern span of the bay bridge can you see the traffic is flowing but we are seeing a buildup but we
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do not have any accidents on major roads but we do have marsh creek road closed off in clayton with details ahead. >> testing on new road signs on the most congested freeway in the bay area begins today. the signs alert drivers on interstate 80 to accidents and congestion before drivers get stuck in traffic. amy hollyfield will explain how they work in a few minutes. >> the big story is the wind and cooler conditions they are bringing with temperatures two to seven degrees below average. that is not the coolest day to week. i do have the summer heat for the weekend with roller coaster of temperatures ahead. >> san jose mayor liccardo will gin other leaders to push for a higher minimum wage. san jose and seven other cities are joining forces to advocate a higher wage for workers to address the gap between the rich and the poor.
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>> s.a.t. stores are at the lowest point since 2005 when the test was last overhauled. the average score for the class of 2015 was 1,4950 out of the 2,400. a new version of the s.a.t. test is out in march making the essay optional, with fewer vocabulary and bring perfect store back down to 1,600. >> a 12-year-old boy who was bullied at school got a special escort, members of the sons of thunder christian motorcycle clubbed stepped in. his grandmother said he was pete up and didn't want to go pack to school. a family friend organized the biker escort and one of the bakers said it is a moment he will never forget. >> he got on and it was a death grip, and then he eased up on it but i knew that this probably was the highlight of his year or his life. >> the club said they wanted
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alec to know he was not alone and all the keith mates cleared when he arrived. >> an alleged crime spree unveiled "the gone girl case," and how the same suspect is accused of terrorizing women on the peninsula. >> a fire guts a community center if los gatos and how you can make a difference for students at two schools that use the facility. >> and a look outside at the embarcadero in san francisco you can see the ferry building outlined with clouds and keeping weather and traffic up during the break. [female announcer] when you see this truck... it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight. because they went to sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic event. through labor day, save up to $500 on select tempur-pedic sets. plus, get up to four years interest-free financing. sleep risk-free with sleep train's 100-day money back guarantee. and of course, free same-day delivery!
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>> i am eric thomas. you pay have her a freeze is blowing through the neighborhood but that is because of the weather. >> it was noisy for some of us laugh night. that is the breeze will bring us cooler weather today. we have cloud cover along the peninsula coast and maybe a little mist hanging out there but mostly you can see it is clear from our roof camera. you can see the flag, yes, it is unfurled on the exploritorium. our 12-hour day planner is 64 to 74 at anyone with total sunshine and 64 to barely 80 from the coast inland with faster breezes at 4:00. grab a coat. you will need it. most of us in the 60s by 7:00. first check of traffic. leyla? >> as we take a look at 5:29 you can see the traffic is looking heavier as it pushes in from 680 to highway 24 through walnut creek and as you make it through pleasant hill you are running along at top speed and only at nine minutes to get between highway 4 and highway 24. when you get there, you can see
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74 miles per hour through lafayette and orinda and the area shaded in white is an indication of cloud cover, with no fog to impede visibility. those are the gusty winds but there is in high wind watching and everything is running on 13 through piedmont and 580 in oakland and 880 to the bay bridge toll plaza move without a hitch. >> there has been a deadly marine corps accident at north carolina camp legeune and janet has the details. >> marine has been killed and nine injured when a helicopter made a hard landing at camp lejeune in north carolina overknit. the chinook helicopter was on a training exercise weapon it went down. a spokesperson said the name of the dead marine will not be released for 24 hours. year, to soldiers were injured after a military helicopter went down in a remote area of colorado. their injuries are not expected
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to be life threatening. the blackhawk helicopter made a hard landing during training, as well. there were four members open board and they are based out of the port carson army base near colorado junes much this is the latest in a string of accidents for camp legeune. this march, seven marines were killed in a crash 50 of -- crash off of florida. >> this morning, caltrain will test out new electronic signs installed on interstate 80 to give drivers information and keep traffic flowing. amy hollyfield is in emeryville and berkeley with the story. >> you have heard of a life coach now you have a traffic coach in the signs placed above interstate 80. they are not on yet but we do have an early look at them. look a this video of officials testing the signs. the signs will figure out what is happening down the road and
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give you a heads up. the idea is to help make your commute more efficient and safer. you will have recommended speed limits and lanes to avoid so it is managing the situation and trying to improve it. >> for example, there are 44 on-ramps along the corridor that have adaptive ramp metering and that will talk to censors along the main line and manage the traffic flow of traffic merging on to the main >> this corridor is the busiest in the bay area. officials hope this will ease congestion on interstate 80. they need to do testing. the signs are not turned on until later this year. they land to demonstrate them this morning.
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>> a fast-moving fire as burned hundreds of acres of wooded terrain in lake county. the blazer returned yesterday afternoon north of upper lake and burned 450 acres. it is only 20 percent contained. the video shows trees turning into match sticks off elk mountain. no structures have been destroyed. evacuations were ordered for several streets. they were lift add short time later. we expect new numbers when we get an update from cal fire in an hour. >> a los gatos fire caused a million dollars in damage at a local school and $1 million in items were destroyed including musical instruments. the community center was shared by self groups including loma prieta elementary and c.t. english middle school. a 17-year-old accidentally started it after setting a car board box on fire to stay warm. we have posted the information
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on our website at abc7news.com to help out. >> new details surrounding a vallejo kidnapping that was thought a hoax at one time. prosecutors charged mathew muller with kidnapping denise huskins in march. he was tracked down using information from a cell phone he left behind during an attempted home invasion in dublin. his lawyer wants the judge to they out the physical evidence from the investigation saying it was found through an illegal search of muller's cell phone. if the evidence is thrown out, the feds may have another card to play in building their case in the vallejo kidnapping. muller allegedly confessed during an interview with a reporter recorded by the jail. both sides are back in court september 16. >> san francisco judge is deciding whether to schedule a murder trial for the map charged with killing a bay area woman on pier 14. a preliminary hearing is set to resume today. francisco sanchez admitted firing the shot that killed kate steinle in july. he said it was an accident. he claims he found the gun
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beneath a bench and it fired accidentally. francisco sanchez is a mexican national deported five times before the shooting. >> bart police want a union city man to face family the murder charges after shooting himself during a confrontation at the west oakland bart station. corey powell is on the ground while two officers tended to him. he threatened to jump in front of a stain when police told him to put out a cigarette. he was tazed and he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the stomach. high is in critical condition. >> there is not a ban on >> there is not a ban on short-term renters in complaints of noise and parking. a new hearing is set october 21.
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now a check on the weather. mike? >> a short-term rental on the cooler weeks ago as summer comes back for the weekend. it is going to be cool when mount diabolo it is 53 and we have cooler conditions blackhawk and antioch waking up to the cooler temperatures and lower elevations at 58 and everyone else is around 60 to 62 degrees until pittsburg at 64. and brentwood at 65 and livermore at 63 and 59 in san jose. los gatos is cooler at 56 and 59 here in san francisco and novato at 55 and napa is 57 and vallejo is 58 and santa rosa is 53. across the golden gate bridge, west wind at 15 miles per hour and temperature of 60 under clouds. san francisco has sunshine topping out at 68 and the peninsula if the east bay is our warmest at 65 and south bay topping out at 76 and barely reaching 81 inland. fingers crossed the clear sky
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will hold through the morning hours and we will not have any delays at sfo where it is cloudy and 61. cooler with faster breezes tomorrow and a couple degrees cooler. a subject of warmth, 70s and 80s and 90 by sunday. i will look at monday and warm weather next week. >> no headaches as you travel through the south bay. at look at san jose, the drive along 280, we have 880 and highway 17 in the background and southbound traffic is moving along not too many cars. between highway 101 to cupertino it will only take you 12 minutes. an excellent start to the morning moving to the bay bridge toll plaza metering lights are turned on and stacked and packed away from the macarthur maze and the drive headed into san francisco will take you approximatelily 14 minutes. we will see how that taxes on in the thick of the commute. we have a stalled car on
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southbound 880 as a street causing treasure through castro valley and along 238 with slow-and-go volume building beyond highway moot and drive time traffic, 101 in the north bay, only 14 minutes. 580 castro valley to oakland, 14 minutes. 101 in the south bay you saw how clear it was at only 16 minutes. >> bay area animal sanctuary is overwhelmed by a mystery at local benches with a growing number of starving sea birds. >> same-sex marriage showdown with the nation watching and what could happen to a kentucky court clerk would refuses to issue same-sex marriage issue same-sex marriage licenses.
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>> walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> good morning, at 5:41 on thursday. a look outside you can see the flag there on top of pier 14 blowing around a little bit with the winds that eric thomas and mike have been talking about this morning in the bay area? this is a cool day and meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> the showdown over a kentucky
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county clerk decision not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples miles into a federal courtroom today. kim davis is exercising her right to religious freezing by refusing licenses to same-sex couples and could be held in contempt of court and be jailed depending on what a federal judge decides. protests have been growing in front of the clerk's office over her decision. >> if we go to another county we are saying skit okay to discriminate and we cannot do that. >> davis has been criticized for hypocrisy after it was revealed she has been married four tim >> instagram is acting strange around the world. it is not working properly for everyone. instagram tweeted it is working to fix the problem. it is not clear what the issue is. reports from users around the world mention pictures not loading and pages not
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refreshing. >> a san francisco elementary school has earned the distinction of being the first to adopt gender neutral bathrooms. the path troops for kindergarten and 1st grade will for longer be for just boys and just girls at loma prieta. they began removing signs at the start of the year to agency more than a handful of students who did not fit traditional gender norms. >> former oakland raiders head coach is sure the team will call los angeles the new home in 2016. gruden is an analyst with espn and said yesterday that he has sources would say the move is inevitable. he called southern california a great place for football team whether it is the raiders, chargingers or rams. gruden was head coach from 1998 to 2001. >> the worse annual back-to-school in the bay initiative tips off today. >> they land to host five events at local schools during
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september the first started at 6:15 this evening at sunset elementary school in san francisco. the goal is to raise awareness of response of education. >> it is incredibly important. particularly when you are a meteorologist and you predict the weather. >> trying to predifficult the unpredictable. this is what we can expect during an afternoon san jose september 82 and 58 the highs and lows we drop to 79 and 55. we buck the trend of oakland in san francisco where this is the warmest. 106 to 35 and not much rainfall, we have had .2" to 2" of the san rafael is 59. under clear skies. south on 101, dry air is rolling in. that will bring sunshine. the breeze is bringing the dry air in. bringing in cooler air mass. you are going to fill it in the
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next couple of months especially when we drop to the upper 40s. summer run in the afternoon hour with real warmth. right now the winds are light. oakland is 15, concord is 14, and hayward is 10 and 15 in fairly and san jose is barely a breeze at three miles per hour but it will pick up south of the bay bridge cross san mateo bridge and dumbarton bridge at 11 o'clock heading out at noon and through the evening commute it will be running perpendicular to you. mid-to-upper 70s with the wind off the cool bay water. upper 70s in los gatos and gilroy and 75 is the popular number in milpitas, redwood city , and los altos. >> half moon bay is the warm spot at 66, in the upper 60's downtown and san francisco and sausalito and not so breezy
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across the authority bay as yesterday. santa rosa is up to 80 degrees and berkeley and richmond at 71, and oakland at 72. and castro valley is 76 moving inland, upper 70s to low 88 from san ramon at 77 to antioch at young and brentwood is 82 and livermore is 80. tonight, 51 at santa rosa and napa with cloud cover along the peninsula coast, and rest of us in the mid-to-upper 50s and the reason why you are getting deeper and deeper into the cooler air mass and we are going to stay below average and breezy through tomorrow and the winds on saturday let up and the temperature eases up but in the 70s at the coast, and 80s around the bay and 90 inland from sunday through tuesday. >> here is the richmond-san rafael toll plaza and a beautiful commute across the water to the north bay where no
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delays. five minutes across to the not bay on 580. the lower deck is clear into richmond. before you get there, you could see a little bit of volume willing but you say what the volume looked like not too much, just a few tars trickling in. westbound i-80 at 62 miles per hour. through berkeley. at the macarthur maze you will find delays. metering lights are on. 12 miles per hour headed to the toll plaza. heading back over to the sig-alert. marsh creek road, that is where we have a sig-alert. some cars are getting law and you are urged to use detours and this is because of an early fatal collision. we do not know when the roads will re-open. it is an active scene and we will take a quick look at the transbay tube closing down with more details ahead. >> a big search is under way in
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a florida community for a big snake. a king cobra slithers away and people could be if harm's way. it escaped from the cage in orlando on tuesday and the owner reported the snake missing to the state fish and wildlife. they are poisonous and can deliver a fail bite in as quickly as 30 minutes. >> an australian ship is more comfortable this morning after he got an epic hair cut. officials say the sheep was so woolly from living in the wild for several years that the life was in danger. the wool was removed, 88 pounds and animal we officials say he was pour to five times the normal side before he got the much need hair cut. here he is now, and the pink stain is okay, it is spray for
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anesthesia. he is now living a healthier life because he could barely walk and having trouble going to the bathroom and with the weight off he is doing much better. i know you are wondering about the wool, it will be headed to a museum. >> 8 pounds. -- 88 pounds. >> upgraded meals coming to some schools and what is making it possible without costing parents. >> they save a man from oncoming train and the honor two lovers getting -- police officers getting. getting. and around the
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>> the abc7 news app on the go on your schedule. >> welcome back, arby's is apologizing when a worker refused to serve food to an on duty police sergeant because she is an officer. the clerk told the sergeant martin he did not want to sell her a sandwich and the manager intervened and martin got food she was not comfortable eating it. arby's apologized to the department calling the incident "isolated." year, a protest was organized outside the restaurant by wives of police officers in the community. >> happening today, the caltrain board will honor two sheriff deputies and the security guard for their heroic efforts. >> dal. thompson was patrolling when
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authorities say he prevent add suicide attempt and necessity made headline after they say the driver of a stalled car was sended from a train. the ceremony is at 10:00 a.m. in san carlos. locals including united states representative jackie speier are expected to attend. >> students head back-to-school and we are saluting the crossing guards where you live. hubert j. lee has been a crossing guard pore 19 areas and in oakland resident since 1973 and retired from a job with the federal government. each day he is stationed at 35th avenue and the kids from laurel elementary and the men indian school and skyline high school get to school safely thanks to hubert we would love to meet the crossing guard where live by sending us a picture. include their name and the school or schools they cover. >> salute to the crossing guards
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andcies are going to school should not face hazards from the weather. >> just breezy and cooler this morning. >> good morning, everyone, look a roller coaster, as we say goodbye to summer we will have 70s at half moon bay. saturday and sunday and monday. the water temperature is going to be dropping as we have a northwest wind the next couple of days. we will not be so warm. 69 in monday dry with sunshine and low-to-mid 80s in chico and yosemite and mid-to-upper 70s around san diego and los angeles with afternoon sunshine. leyla? we will look at the bay bridge toll plaza and we have plenty of company and nice opportunity to make a friend or two as you make it into san francisco, so, right now, 14 machines between the macarthur maze into the city and nows we are beginning to take you to the north bay where travels along 101 could not be better and we are seeing a little bit of slowing with a lost construction happening at the highway and
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when you are beyond that you are at top speeds into novato into marinwood and san rafael and over the golden gate bridge. >> an alarming number of dead or dying sea birds washing up on bay area beaches, because filibuster are diving deeper for food because of warming water. wrong birds can not dive that deep and they are stabbing to death. officials say many of the birds are washing up in the marin head lands. tesla c.e.o. elon musk said the long awaited model three will be unveiled next march. he said our model three, our smaller and lower with cost sedan will start production in two years fully operational factory needed. a few have been spotted taking test drivers. he said the car will sell for about $35,000 and pre-orders start after the patch unveiling. >> around east play chicken is waiting for adoption after the
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eventful day. leyla was talking about this yesterday morning and a viewer tweeted this photo of the chicken standing in the middle of traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. it could have been hot water. a short time later, the highway patrol indicate the chicken but not before it caused extensive traffic delays for thousands of drivers. >> "fouled up," the commute. >> here is the children at the animal shelter there is a twitter account for the brick -- bridge chicken and is getting along with two others. >> maybe it just wants to be dinner. >> this could be the photo bomb to end all, freewayly baby whale makes a splash when he photo becauses the connecticut governor during a news conference at an aquarium. the governor was talking about tourism in the state when juno was determined to steal the limelight. it is then for entertaining the
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visitors with his antics. this was an academy award millionance. ait will get a contract from the chamber of exercise >> how to determine if your child is one of three million diagnosed with adh . >> ronald hurricane donald bust as move and the chance is going viral this morning. viral this morning. >> stay tuned.
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the model year end sales event. it's year end! it's the rear end event. year end, rear end, check it out. talk about turbocharging my engine. you're gorgeous. what kind of car do you like? new, or many miles on it? the volkswagen model year end sales event ends on labor day. so hurry in to your local volkswagen dealer today. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. breaking news at 6:00, a deadly crash landing at a north carolina military base. a marine is killed. nine are hurt. what we are learning right now. >> a call for help to the
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community in los gatos. what can you do to keep two schools running after the fire gutted the community center they share. >> east bay drivers pay attention with new signs being tested on i-80 and how they will help the commute. >> it is now 6:00. it is thursday. i am kristen sze. >> i am eric thomas. we will check on weather and the breezy forecast. mike? >> it will be final to hold on the hats and the steering wheel across the bridges as the frees pick up and run perpendicular. dry air is rolling in. we have a few clouds. no fog. this is as extensive as the cloud deck is long the east bay shoreline from exploritorium camera. we are in the mid-50s to low 60s under clouds and sunny condition and the lower humidity means sunshine by noon and the temperatures are mid-to-upper 60s to low-to-mid
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