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gathering the presidents and prime ministers ever at the u.n. he is a look from new york city where wide areas of manhattan are closed to traffic this morning. thousands of police officers and secret service agent are in full force ahead of the holy father's busy day. the agenda including agreementing 80,000 people in central park before celebrating mass for 20,000 at madison square garden. ama daetz is covering the historic trip. >> a new york welcome for pope francis. thousands lined 5th avenue to catch a glimpse of the humble leader the champion of the poor making his way up the most richie street. >> he is about love and
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understanding and toll ran. >> welcome to st. patrick's cathedral. [ applause ] >> in a sunset mass if manhattan he echoed a familiar theme heard throughout his visit to america. >> gratitude and hard work. these are two pillars of the spiritual life. >> the pope continues his united states tour talking to world leaders at the u.n. in washington, dc for abc7 news. >> the holy father will visit the u.n. at 5:30 before addressing the u.n. general assembly at 7:15. at 80 he will take part in a multireligious service at the 9/11 memorial and museum and at 1:00 o'clock p.m. will visit our lady keep of angels school in east harlem. at 2:00 he will lead a procession through central central. at 3:00 he will celebrate mass at madison square garden. >> happening today, the iphone 61 and 6s plus are on sale. fans in new zealand were the
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first to get their hands on the device because of the time difference. folks at home are lined up, some in body, one in spirit the while in san diego hero bought is taking up the 15th spot outside the apple store and hopes the apple c.e.o. will open the doors at 8:00 a.m. and give her a virtual f amy hollyfield will have a look at the iphone mania. >> fans in australia already have their hands on the new iphone. look at crowd outside this store in sydney. a woman used a robot holding her spot since yesterday morning. they are excited about the new features of the 6s which lets users control taxes based on how much pressure they put on the scene. it has photos that add movement to still photos and starts at $649. the plus is $100 extra.
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>> an estimated 3,000 people are now displaced in lake county because of the valley fire. many plan to rebuild and took the first step by attending an informational meeting in middle town. our reporter am long wong reporter am -- reports. >> a middletown native promised to remove the toxic around from the 1,200 homes by mid-december. >> if it was build by 1980 the likelihood of asbestos is high. >> on effort to rewill the community, at 500 people met at the football field to figure how to restart their lives. >> i felt like i have been okay and i pulled into the drive and cry asked could not get out. >> she has to prove her losses to the insurance company, not
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easy. water wells and hazardous trees have to be checked before a building can begin. not everyone is coming back. hundreds of jobs everyone lost after 63 businesses burned to the ground. >> there will be people that do not have the energy to rebuild, they just take the insurance money and buy a house that is build. >> lake county supervisor said that the reconstruction of the community will bring in more jobs and opportunity. with new power lines and more fiber optic cable, middletown could be better than's before. >> look at the images captured by a nasa satellite, the dark red and orange is the burped scar left behind by the valley fire. the photos were taken on monday to capture the wildfire what burned 76 the acres. the scars mostly are around middletown and cobb which is still under evacuation although
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the fire now 87 percent contained. >> san francisco fire chief hayes-white is defending the mutual aid response to the valley fire. firefighters are upset the department only sent one fire engine to battle the blaze when the call when out for more saying it would stretch the city resources too thin. >> this is not a personnel issue. we have 152 trained people. a we were concerned about was stripping the city of the equipment. we would be vulnerable. >> a strike team from san francisco was at the butte fire. sending another strike team meant closing a fire station in san francisco. >> former 49ers defensive tackle ray mcdonald is scheduled to be arraign on felony charge of sexually assaulted an intoxicated woman at his house in december. a grand jury indicted him.
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he was released by the 49ers after being named in the police investigation of the december 15 incident. he was later signed bit bear would cut him after being arrested on may in suspicion of domestic violence and child endangerment. >> a man caught on video hitting another person with a hammer during a black lives matter protest in berkeley is in custody. the attack happened in december with protesters looting and vandalizing a radio shock store on shattuck avenue. the 20-year-old james waller of oakland attacked a man trying to stop the looters. the 55-year-old victim suffered serious injuries. >> volkswagen board is meeting in germany to appoint a new c.e.o. to lead it out of a devastating emissions scandal. the car owners in california of volkswagen were and audi could have headaches because the dmv may not renew registrations of those with vehicles during the
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millions years until the problem is fixed because those cars will not pass california emission tests. they have admitted installing software in 11 million to trick the testers. >> friday is here. the weekend is around the corner. what is going on? >> the cooling is around the corner. you will notice a difference outside san francisco. downtown. mission. mission is 59. ocean beach and sunny side is 58. west portal is 56. through the ferry building, to the financial district it is 60. same temperature in union city. saratoga also, richmond and insan san -- san leandro 61. petaluma is 53. pacifica is 56. from the exploritorium you can
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see the lack of clouds. the sunshine will be off to a kick start. it will make us hot from 87 around petaluma to 95 headed to antic. the coast and san francisco a few more low clouds and 70 at the coast to 82 in san francisco. the high shoulds are thinner for all of us at 82 around the bay to 90 in the south bay. from sutro tower you can see how clean the air is and it is not a "spare the air" with temperatures breaking tomorrow and back to average on sunday and cooler than average on monday. working on trying to find us some rain with the seven-day forecast coming up. leyla? >> i am trying to find something going on on the roads but it is quiet start to friday morning commute. walnut creek is empty. northbound side, too. drive time traffic shows 580 over the altamont pass, green here and highway 34 is
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moving along fine 15 minutes from antioch to concord. san rafael to san francisco is 17 minutes. tonight in san francisco a big event at at&t park and it is not a game, it is acdc concert at 7:45 so expect heavy traffic along the bay bridge. and the surrounding streets. try to use mass transit. car pool, too. have fun. >> a massive stream of water shot into the sky in san francisco last night. you hate to see this during the drought. a car hit a hydrant and sent a large spout of water into the air. san francisco firefighters arrived on scene and stopped the flowing water. >> two men are hailed heroes for pulling a man from the burning home with smoke and flaming touring from the three-story house yesterday afternoon. a city employee and passerby pulled a man trapped inside. he was not abe to walk because he is a double amputee.
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he was not hurt. another man who managed to get out suffered second- and third-degree burns. paying to walk, the pressure on governor brown to kill a controversial pedestrian fee on bay area bridges. neighbors, if you think other concerts are loud look who is concerts are loud look who is about to rock out at at&t
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man was wounded in the incident. our reporter, janet o, has more from san jose. janet? >> it happened right here on monterey road. as you can see, the roads are cleared and back open after it was partly shut down and the was partly shut down and the overnight hours. officer's patrol car. a welfare check caused an officer to shoot a suspect after it escalated. neighbors heard four gunshots. the suspect has been taken to the hospital to be treated. we do not know the state department of his injuries but no one else was injured including the officers who were dispatched to the scene. and the san jose police
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department has fired an officer charged with raping a woman while on duty. the 40-year-old jeffrey gray is accused of raping a woman in 2013 when he drove her to a hotel after a domestic dispute with her husband and he has been in jail since mid-march. >> previouses and motorcyclist never have to pay a toll to go across the golden gate bridge if two local lawmakers have it their way. the governorren urged banning sidewalk tows on the bridges. the highway and transportation district said that charges a fee would help eliminate a deficit over the next five years. the governor has until october 11 to sign or veto the bill prohibiting the sidewalk trillions. >> victory in the battle against the silicon valley tech giants and the contractor drivers. google schultz drivers get wage increases. they make $17-20 an hour and it is bumped town $24 an hour as
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the union continues negotiations with the employer. drivers will get paid extra for split shifts. raise comes after a "san francisco chronicle" investigation showed that several drivers were living in their cars. >> resident whose live near at&t park are hoping ac/dc will not shake them all night tonight. melanie has more on how officials hope to address noise pollution concerns before the concert me begins. >> the free "rolling stone", billy joel or ac/dc concert at hoax could sound nice on the surface, but for this woman it is not, living a mile from at&t park, more than one occasion her windows have shaken for hours including when the rolling rolling -- rolling stones came in 2005. >> it felt like wind.
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>> she is gearing up for the concert and hops she does not have to go elsewhere. >> the concerts that are so loud, you cannot be in your home at night, it is unfair. >> officials agree and say that they have taken steps to mid-gate noise mutation. >> the billy joel we had people in the neigh decibel readings. each tour comes with its own equipment mean sometimes technicians have to reinvent the wheel. >> we can make some adjustments on sight it is not as easy as turning down the volume which unfortunately means some may need ear plugs again. >> i will not say if i like billy joel or ac/dc but this is an issue sound pollution. >> if that wasn't enough critical mass bicyclist hold the ride through san francisco at 6:00 p.m. with drivers being
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advised to avoid using the bay bridge between 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. tonight with public transit the way to go. i am sureeyla gulen will tell you the same and muni will run extra chains. >> with ac/dc tonight, great concert or highway to hell? we have to wait. >> good one. >> rock-n-roll airport noise -- airport noise plus it "just makes if sense." >> the people will be thunder struck by this. >> moving on, shall we? i could do this all day. >> right in my wheel house. here is a look back at yesterday, and did you see the clouds yesterday? my mom who is in from atlanta as we were driving from the airport, she said i have not seen clouds like that in years, just amazing. a nice show. hopefully you had too to enjoy and observe the beautiful world that we live in. sfo is partly cloudy at 58
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degrees. fingers crossed we do not have delays. like yesterday. fewer clouds. the warmth remains. >>. and autumn will return. and october arrives next week. no rain. without the cloud, the fog is not forming in the reporting stations on live doppler hd. two areas of high pressure are stub on like trying to get the kids owe the door to school. we will be fired up on friday with warmer-than-average temperatures. the cooler air will not be denied. it is heavier. it will push this remain wither weather out of way. it changes seasons. it will happen this weekend. here is our temperatures today, mid-to-upper 80s through the south pay, from 85 in milpitas to 88 in san jose and low-to-mid 90 in cupertino and los gatos and gilroy. sound familiar? close to yesterday. on the peninsula, mid-to-upper 80s for the friday afternoon and milbrae at 80. a few more clouds along the coast with southern wind at half
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moon bay at 70 and everyone else is in the mid-to-upper 70s and flirting with 80s downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and mid-70s to bodega bay and upper? to low 90 through the north pay and santa rosa at 93 and heading to sonoma and nap what, about -- napa, and oakland is at 84. we have low-to-mid 90s all throughout our inland east bay neighborhoods with a few air conditioning running yesterday afternoon. here is a look at what will happen: bay area pride, giants and a's at the cove and dropping down to 65. i will have a budge of forecast for area events including the at&t park in the next weather but we will focus on the seven-day forecast. we drop 8-10 degrees tomorrow and by monday we drop another 5-10 degrees and we are below average through next week. leyla? what are you watching?
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>> a lot of stuff. there is going to be plenty of traffic around at&t park and we do promote mass transit and i say take the rock-n-roll train. >> very nice. >> a look at san mateo bridge. traffic is light. and clear. between 880 and highway 101. over to the peninsula we had an early accident. it is long cleared. nothing to get in the way. as we take you over to 880, however, we have a new accident. a car landed on its side northbound 880 at marina boulevard and traffic is not affected and on the shoulder. not blocking lanes at this moment. when c.h.p. and possibly emergency vehicles come on the scene it could block a lane. on the southbound side we have construction. the marina boulevard off-ramp is closed until 6:00. this will be detours in place. davis is a good alternate. >> apple is fixing bugs in the
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new system. >> the iphone 6s and 6s plus are on sale. are on sale. >> new features include starting at $649. and an update on the new apple operating system a week after the ios9 launch with fixes for several bugs. the new iphones already being put to the test. >> drop it in the street. >> that is a hard fall. the people tested the phones and dropped them 6s and it shattered the screen. the plus did better but both still worked. those are the technical today the.
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>> christmas is three months away and most likely 0307 is has this on the wish list, the car named the blood hound, part jet, part rocket, nearly fnished in london and calmed the fastest land vehicle. the job so to smash the current land speed record of 763 miles per hour. the goal is 800 miles per hour which is faster than sound miles per hour in 2017.
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experts have been working on the bloodhound for eight years. >> meteorologist mike nicco wants that. >> no problem i will get him the match box. >> pregnant fan gave birth in petco park's plaza during the game. mom and baby were rushed to the hospital where they are said to be doing just fine. before 9:00, the park tweeted we welcome a baby boy to the world in the plaza this evening, the first baby to born at petco. the little boy was named levi -- wait, that's our stadium of the the giants lost 5-4. >> the baby has his sports confused. >> anyway, he threw a curve ball to his mom. >> wonder if he was wear jeans?
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>> have a drink for me at at&t park for those about to rock. >> dropping to 64. now, we have salsa, food and dancing, 8th annual in redwood city tomorrow. 74 at noon, and 67 when it closes and 80 in the afternoon. taking on the bulldogs, fresno state at 73 at 7:30 dropping to 66. leyla? >> you mentioned rails, we have 33 bart trains running on time. ace train one, also, on time. no delays are reported here with muni. emeryville camera to the eastern span, traffic is flowing nicely, critical mass is today to try to avoid the bay bridge at least between 4:00 and 8:00 and traffic is flowing nicely as you make drive and the city. >> life is a roller coaster and sometimes to is a marriage
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proposal. >> couple was engaged on a wild ride called "the voyage," and asked his girlfriend to marry him on a roller coaster. she had no idea and of course she started crying and the proposal has been seen around the world and shared thousands of times on-line. by the way, the couple did not rule out the possibility of actually getting married on a roller coaster. >> she could have been crying because of the dip. >> the latest on the people's visit to the united states and what is ahead for him this morning in new york city. >> federal regulators explain what is behind the pilot complains of the lights being too bright at levi stadium. too bright at levi stadium. >> things are moving along
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> welcome to friday. it is nice to meet you right there on this from day of the week. i am eric thomas. >> i am kristen sze. >> great to be here and have warmer weather but, still, comfortable. mike? >> that is the key. the sun is setting 2 1/2 minutes early each day. good news for the commute even with the lack of high clouds and no fog forming. look how light the breeze is in emeryville. you know when it is cool this will shake. waking up 50-60 at 7:00 with thin clouds but not like yesterday. it will not be so beautiful. 68 to 82. at 4:00, 68 to 94. leyla? >> as we take you over to the bay bridge toll plaza it is
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