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in santa clara. >> it did. the end of the road further 49ers season and the end of the road for the coach 49ers stadium. it could not come without a little bit of controversy. mike shumann reported sources say c.e.o. let his players know before the firing that could only happen during his post-game press conference. it towns out either three was a great actor or was the last to find out. the team finished 5-11 after going 8-8, and the worst finish for the 49ers sensitive 25. a family feeling nostalgia for the past. >> reneed a new coach, we need harbaugh or montana. he would be an excellent coach. >> who could actually replace him? a big name is floating out
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there, espn is reporters the 49ers will explore hiring new orleans head coach peyton if he is made available and york will meet with the media later this morning. >> thank you. the raiders may is played the last game representing oakland, the team owner will file relocation papers with the nfl today to move the silver and black back to los angeles. oakland, day oh chargers and st. louis rapes are all vying to move to los angeles and will propose sharing a new stadium. raiders lost yesterday to kansas city. >> an investigation is underway in pleasant hill after a terrible crash left two people dead and another fighting to survive right now. police say these people were in the car when it ran into a rail on the 680 off-ramp at 8:00 last night. a 69-year-old man behind the wheel and a 68-year-old woman
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both died at the hospital. a 78-year-old woman is now in critical condition. officers closed the off-ramp for several hours to investigate. they re-opened it at 1:30 this morning. >> woman is recovering from being shot in san francisco's mission district at 19th after 10:00 last night. the woman went to the 4079, officers stopped the traffic to look for any evidence and the shooter took off. there is no word on the circumstances surround the shooting or how badly the woman is hurt. >> san francisco police are asking for your help to find a man who stole $400 from a gas station. check out this surveillance video from december 13. showing a man paying for an item like normal and the clerk opened the register, he pulls a gun and points it. he walks behind the counter, takes the minute from the register, $400 cash in all. police describe him as african american, 30-40 years.
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if you recognize him contact the san francisco police. >> it will be a tough day in san bernardino the governor is going to attend a private memorial service for the victims of the shooting, the site where the shooting happened will re-open today. employees go back did work at the regional center for the first time since 14 people died there after the shooting last month. counselors are on hand to meet with 600 workers not back since the attack. this is no word when the conference center where the shooting took place may re-open. >> president obama is expected to take action on gun control this week. we have learned that the president will announce executive action tomorrow and he will meet later today with the attorney attorney general about this which has presidential candidates mocking those would want more control and promising immediate action. >> if you are for gun control will you allow me to put a sign on your front yard that says
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"this home does not own a gun." they never say yes when i am elected president on the first day those orders are gone. >> the president is expected they announce strengthening gun back g.d.p. checks which is an idea republicans strongly oppose. >> tracking a situation in oregon right now where armed militia men have taken over a federal building and the armed protesters are refusing to leave. we are tracking story in the newsroom. the group said they prepared to continues themselves? >> thank you is right. now the f.b.i. is working with oregon law enforcement and hope to bring a peaceful resolution. the stand off began on saturday. dozens of armed men seized control of a federal building at a national wild lie refuge in rural oregon. the demonstrators have man add guard tower and set up a road block protesting the arrest of two oregon ranchers, who have served jail for setting fires on federal land to prevent the growth of invasive species but a
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judge ordered them back to prison ruling their sentence was too short. the bundies said they are prepareed to defend themselves. >> when people department their rights that is what we have to stand off and be willing to say, look, we will do what it takes to defend our rights and if we are not will to do that they will be taken away. >> bundy and his father were involved in a stand off with the government over grazing rights two years ago, the video you just saw. and the ranchers convicted of arson are expected to report to prison today. the hammond family torn said that the protesters do not speak for them. >> an interesting story. in india, at least anyone people are dead and more than 200 have been hurt from a massive 6.7 earthquake. this is in the northeast region on the border with myammar. the earthquake struck before dawn. it trapped people in their homes
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and the shockwaves have crawsed power outages and severed telecommunication learnings and victims are complaining the government has been slow to respond. >> a few minutes ago mike told you about self of the el nino that are hitting the bay area and residents know how pad the flooding can be. our reporter has how many are already preparing for the waste. >> there were light sprinkles throughout marin county communities but this is a storm that is expected to deliver a sustained soing of the region and clearly quit a few business owners have heeded calls to "be respected." we saw places with sandbags already set up or they were packed and ready to put in place >> preparation is the key. do future do this weapon the rain comes but do it before the we have seen a lost people peopling. just in case. >> resolution damages can help them self to sand and sandbags. the chief said that they have not had to deal with any major floods so for this season.
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but they are ready. >> it usually happens when we have back-to-back storms with a lot of rain causing more problems you so far that is not the case. >> local authorities warn residents do prepare for the will coming storms and the sausalito police department issued an advisory of forecasted strong winds and rain the next several difficulties. they are asking residents it get ready for continued commutes and other weather-related issues. the more severe storms are expected the next few days, so authorities in marin county are reminding residents there is a lot of time and a lot of sand bags available if you need them. >> living in san francisco, fog is a way of life, right? and maybe you think it is beautiful and deal with it but now scientists say the fog carries toxic mercury. according to scientists they say the fog deposits a toxin that is at a concentration about 20
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times that rain. burning coal and other fossil files convert that into toxin mercury which is then blown into to fog which it is deposited on the cost. a santa cruz professor said the mercury levels are close do not cause a health concern. at least not yet. >> troubling. not how i wanted it start the new year but we are not in danger yet. >> mike, what do you think of this? >> glad we are getting rain not fog. what is the safe bet. >> the bright side. this summer? well, it will change. good morning, everyone. grab the umbrella. you will need it. every day this weak but for possibly on friday and saturday. the storm door will re-open next week the we have been talking, wait it will john, wait until january. john is leader and so are a last storms. a parade of storms and the bestiary car return between the san mateo and the bay bridge and
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headed to the dumbarton bridge and right here on the richmond side of the rich research bridge you can see the light rain and it and wet. temperatures today are 52 in the north bay the rest us around 55 to 56 degrees with the steady and height rain this morning, and you can see the light rain is diffusing the picture as we look from the east bay hills to the bomb bay bridge and the embarcadero center. rain will be heavy in the morning with serious issues with wind, same thing on wednesday morning, and scattered showers on thursday and i will round out the seven-day forecast. it is wet this morning. sue? yes, look at the golden gate bridge you can see the rain on the cameras, wet roads, and today is the first day where they will have three lays bothys for the commute and inon thursday and friday, they will switch this back to 4 and 2 and right now it is town minutes from highway 37 to the golden gate bridge, at novato, and
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raining with slick roads and rain on the camera, but no delays. that is good news headed interest san francisco. no problems overall at all. we are seeing a little bit of slowing with the yellow out of tracy and the green on the maps, here county that is rain over the altamont pass and i a not seeing slowing through theism area. well look at the highway 4 commute after this. >> company us are getting back into the normal commute this morning, right, but you will notice bart fares are up. expect the right to be 10-15 cents higher with the increased starting at going of the year. the 3.4 percent increase was approved in the spring to fund new rail cars and new criminal system and new maintenance facilities in hayward. our reporter, amy hollyfield, will have a live report at top of the hour. if you drive the golden gate bridge you will also notice changes. the current lane configuration is not helping traffic in the evening so crews will shift them only twice a week rather than
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each day. monday through when the lanes stay the same, three lanes south, three going not, thursday and friday, one northbound lane is added so there are four northbound and two southbound lanes from 4:30 to 5:30. >> happening today the large of the caper ship ever to visit the united states will leave the port of oakland. sky 7 was over the benjamin franklin when it arrived open thursday. it barely made it under the golden gate bridge and had to lower the antennas it do that at 1,puppet feet long so it is the 10th largest container ship in the world. oakland is among a handful of ports able to handle such a large mega ship. it was something to see it go through the bay last week. >> hillary clinton shut down a heckler during a recent rally. >> is many us making resolutions in the new year, facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg including, and his is more ambitious than the rest of us
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twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> you can expect higher gas prices soon. a direct result of the tension between two major oil producing countries. saudi arabia cut ties with iran after the execution of a clear -- clerik and new there are rising concerns of a potential supply instruction. the wife of bill cosby will be deposed by lawyers for 15 women who accuse him of sexual assaulting them decades ago attorneys tried to get the subpoena therein out for camille but it did not work in federal court. a judge ruled she failed to rule she was preby massachusetts marital disqualification law. camille cosby is scheduled to be deposed on when. >> democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton is. coming to the bay area for two campaign fundraisers this week. she will tapped a conversation with hillary on friday, and then at a reaccept in palo alto. one ticket for either event runs about $2,700.
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the last trip was in november. bill clinton is in new hampshire today and hopes to boost her chances in a few weeks, resident s will cast their vote in the primary. >> you are very rude and i will not call on you. thank you. >> that is hillary clinton shutting it down a heckler in new hampshire popped up yesterday and she started taking questions during a down hall a g.o.p. state representatives stood up and started shouting and most of supporters booed the woman down and she said she was trying to ask her about her husband's sexual impropriety deck aids ago. >> donald trump hits the airwaves and it will be his first tv ad. >> he will build a wall on the southern border that mexico will pay for. >> the campaign calling the ad great, said to reach the great if the united states must prevent muslims from entering the country and build a wall on
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the border with mexico. some say the hard-line stand is extreme and un-american. he maintains a double digit lead over his nearest competitor in a recent poll. renewed worry along parts of the flooded mississippi river as some locations are still rising. if most places the water is recedeing where 14" of rain fell last eke. it caused major flooding throughout missouri and illinois. 25 people died as a result in both states. the tax shifts now to arkansas, kentucky and tennessee and a few other southern states where flooding is expected to get worse. >> we are grateful not to have that problem. >> we do have rain on way. hopefully we see the pattern of winter storms. >> the jet stream is at us diving right toward us but, yes, that is what we are seeing, a good observation. here is a look, 100 percent chance of rain today, tomorrow, wednesday, and 50 percent on thursday, and friday is dry,
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sunday, the storm door opens again and here is a look at what is going on around milpitas and that is where we have the light sprinkles in the south bay and dumbarton bridge to the richmond-san rafael is where we have the best radar return with scattered light rain through the north bay with the best right along the coast from bodega bay, point reyes and here are the better radar returns, rolling into san leandro in the next 5-10 minutes so watch out on 580 and 880 and it will climb over the east bay hills and head into the san ramon valley where right new walnut creek as we lack south into the san ramon valley it looks dry and there are pockets of wetness from early showers. we will have light rain and scattered light showers today. wet and stormy through thursday and the small break on friday and saturday and today the storms will have light rain this morning and scattered light showers and the rainfall amount at .1" to half an imof rain a "1" and we we will see how it plays out.
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a few yellows in the north bay and they fall apart as they head to 9:00 and we have scattered light showers through the lunch hour and maybe another wave moving in cross the north bay during the evening. the rest of us are dealing with drizzle and the heavy stuff, it comes in around midnight to about 4:00 in the morning, and we wake up at 5:00 in the morning and it is over and scattered showers develop again on tuesday afternoon and a clap of thunder. tomorrow the storms have more wind and rain and possibility of flooding so it is a (2) -- >> wet conditions on monday morning after the holiday week, into san francisco, if your travels take you westbound 80 a nice road at 11 minutes and hopefully we can keep that go throughout the rest of the morning. to san jose, beyond the s.a.p. center this is highway 87, the headlights headed in the northbound direction, in delays here. maybe some slightly wet roads. we are looking good with subsequent slowing out of tracy
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and it is very typical and the ride westbound four out of antioch is great and we have the drive teams if you are leaving this morning before 5:00, right here, coming back into view. natasha zouves and reggie. >> mark zuckerberg making an ambitious new year's resolution, the facebook c.e.o. said the goal for 2016 is far and above what he has done in the past, creating an artificial intelligence system basically he want as robot butler. he posts this on facebook, he will build a simple a.i. to run his home and help with his work. thousands of people commended on the resolution including this grandmother named darlene who said "i keep telling my grandmother to date the nerd in school he could turnout to be a mark zuckerberg." is she calling mark a better to courage them to be the nerd so be the next successful
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inventor. he can get behind that. >> great. >> coming up, a when california will allow residents to buy over-the-counter birth control without a doctor's prescription. >> teach sugar is not so great for your health and after the break, how sugar-rich do its are linked to breast cancer. but, first, the tech bytes. >> it is a 989" television. >> lg will announce the tonight line 98 time the resolution of a 46789k tv but no word on prize. >> if you are tired of the sound from the phone ear buds it could be the boom stick that improves the audio quality at $99 less than top quality headsets and much smaller. >> finally, this is the busy time of year tore on-line dating sites including match.com say the use numbers skyrocket of at
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>> california is one of to states that will allow women to buy birth control without a prescription. it became law in oregon on friday where women 18 and old we can buy birth control over-the-counter. california will follow suit but without any age restriction. patients have to fill out a questionnaire before receiving
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the year-long supply of birth control. >> there is new research that shows a sugar rich western diet increases the risk of breast cancer and the spread of tumors of the lung. according to the study from the university of texas fructose found if table sugar and corn syrup accelerate the growth of breast tumors giving more wet to other research that suggests western difficulties can put you at higher risk for cancer. >> if you wonder when the rain from storm storm will pour interest our area, the answer is, now. >> all month. we have a great chance of wet weather all in. we will have breaks but get ready. what we have wanted is now opening up. here it is, all across the state today where we have 48 in and scattered showers across southern california and well look at what will happen in the sierra at 10:00 tonight through 10:00 tomorrow night up to 1' and 1-2' at the highest so
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getting to lake tahoe is treacherous tomorrow through the day. 13" at donner and 19 at kirkwood every system day but open friday there is a chance of snow with the heaviest snow tomorrow into wednesday. >> we will go outside right now and we have light conditions loan the bay bridge and headed into san francisco and if you are traveling from 80, golden gate feel into the city over ten minutes and we will come back next report and look at the toll plaza but right now conditions are light, roads slick, folks, and because we did have rain identity there. as mike has been telling us in the forecast, the overall you have is looking good for monday morning commute, so far, with only minor slowing from tracy and we have an accident with a car in the ditch in san mateo on highway 92 by 280. you can see the green on the map
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it represents rain. >> thank you. natasha and i are surprised we are at work because we assumed we who wins powerball over the weekend and no it hasever to an estimated $400 million because anyone claimed the $334 million prize. the prize could exceed the size of the 6th largest rise in the game's history, the odds of winning? really high. 1 in 292 million. >> you say the numbers yet i thought we were going to win. >> i know. >> as did every person at homening. >> that is the problem. >> we are happy to bring you good news for the favorite elephant seal who stopped traffic in sonoma. she gave birth to a new pup, and point reyes national seashore posted the pictures of mom and baby rate after the delivery and the scientists moved the 900
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900-pound mammal last week. they stopped the traffic. >> now the baby is screaming. >> like mom, like baby. love it. >> she will be engaged tul >> and the 49ers fire coach tomsula. tomsula. >> stand tomsula. >> stand our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. our amex helped us fill the orders.
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sickness and health. love and heartbreak. and covered california is there for it all. not just to help keep you well. but to make sure the cost of being unwell doesn't ruin this whole life thing. because it's more than just health care. it's life care. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning, you are waking up to a wet monday, and it will be wetter as the week romes on by. i am reggie aqui. >> i amnesia
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