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been arrested. >> as the sunrises over the city of brussels, 24 hours ago, chaos erupted in the heart of the morning rush hour. the first targets what the departure hall of brussels international airport outside of the security check pop. two palms exploding at 8:00 a.m. on tuesday morning, the terminal filled with smoke and people running for safety. >> many people were panicked and crying. >> explosions so powerful that glass shattered and hundreds of injuries including nine americans including these three mormon missionaries from utah, all seriously hurt and the nightmare did not help. an hour after the explosion, seven miles away another suicide bomb blast. this time near the offices of the european union.
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the aftermath, a twisted mass of metal. >> i was outside i saw two people with their heads covered in blood. all the manhunt for the man you see on the right, investigators identified him as the suspect in the airport attack. the other two men, believed to be suicide pullers. >> unfortunately there were probably more cells in belgium, maybe cells that were kept separate intentionally from this unit. cells that the first cell did not know about could still be out there. >> we are now learning the third man has actually been arrested this morning and this comes as the state department witnesses americans against travel to europe. they say that terrorists are actively planning near term attacks right new. >> is this related to the rest
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of the mastermind from the paris attacks a few days ago? >> natasha it is no coincidence a massive attack in belgium comes --. [ inaudible ] >> it looks line we lost that connection from brussels. >> if you are head toyou will notice security has been benefited up after the brussel attack. the bombing happened before the security checkpoint, law enforcement is focusing now on soft targets. places like the baggage claim and bart entrance. security also is heightened outside the airport inside the lobby and in the restrooms. passers will notice more police, extra k-9 units and more surveillance video. the colors of sfo match the color of belgium flag. >> there is tighter security open mass transit with more officers on bart and amtrak in the wake of the attacks.
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this is in credible threat but police officers are making themselves more visible to feel more safe. they urge you to specific up if you see anything suspicious. >> bay area residents joining the world in showing solidarity with victims of the brawls attack. last night, a vigil in san francisco brought belgiums together living now in the bay area. the group prays together and where messages of support. though opened up about the moment they heard the news. >> the terror or grief, not sure what but...i had to go to work but i canceled. >> at the love very upset and man say they texted their family back at home to make sure they were okay. >> hillary clinton is in the bay area. she will be speaking at a counterterrorism conference today at stanford. yesterday, she said this terrorists and i quote, "seek to undermine democratic values but they will never succeed." >> the democratic presidential candidate was already scheduled to be here for fundraisers.
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her speech is scheduled for 11: 15 this morning. >> they uc students studying in brussels are safe. the professor grew up in brussels and worried about how the attacks will change the city mostly then for diversity and a laid back atmosphere. images of the attacks are painful and personal. >> we devastated. called my mom, she was cry on the phone and everyone was aware that something could help and, still, when you see the images, this is very surprising of the impact and the power they have and the strength they have. >> you can show your support for billion judgment by sharing this image with your friend on facebook, on abc7. stick with us for continuing coverage of brussels under attack. you can get the latest updates downloading our free news app enabling the push alerts.
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>> many of you are still frustrated with the persisting part issues in the east by. we hear bart's 3,000 employees will get benews up to $1,000 each. our reporter, amy hollyfield, is in berkeley to explain. amy? >> natasha, the commuters are telling us they are disappointed to hear this, say they think bart needs to focus on their issues. according to the "san francisco chronicle" employees are set to likely get $1,000 bonus because ridership is up. to bow in us is in the contract bart agreed to this to settle a strike. this comes as service was knocked own between pittsburg/bay point inconveniencing thousands of riders. commuters are questioning this perk. >> the problem with bart, it needs to be fixed any, because commuting back-and-forth with this problem it is trouble i
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have friends that commute, that needs to be fixed before the remain employees get a raise. >> bart board member told "san francisco chronicle" the bonus is incentive for employees to work at full exist. in the number of riders bart has had continues through june, employees are is the to get bonus. thank you. if you take bart in the east by today bart is still running limited planes between north concord and martin news and pittsburg/bay point. passengers have to switch to north concord to continue to go to oakland and san francisco. bart is still trying to figure out what caused an electrical surge last week that put dozens of cars out of service. the system has hired outside experts to fix the problem which damaged 50 cars forcing basketball to close part of the line. >> if you have a memorial for part we went to hear it post it # dearbart. we look for video members are on
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companies. we could use temperature right here. >> importantness for east bay commuters, three highway over passes in alameda are structurally deficient according to a new federal study. though are i-80 over monument building, i-880 in young city, and i-880 over union pacific railroad the it is important to note that structurally deficient does not mean unsafe. a federal spokesperson said the overpasses need only mention or minor repairs. >> another big win for donald trump, the republican presidential candidate won the arizona primary and the winner-take-all condition test. that means an additional 58 delegate are for donald trump and the primary was a week after trump scored big wins in north carolina, florida and illinois. the victories brought him the biggest delegate lead to date. the big win for ted cruz was
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meeting the 50 pbs threshold in utah which hands him the state's 40 delegates the on the democratic side, hillary clinton takes home the big win in arizona and bernie sanders claim victory in utah and idaho caucus and the delegates he received will be roughly the same number that hillary clinton gets from the arizona win. democrats now turn their attention to saturday's contest happening if alaska, hawaii, and washington state. where does it stand? hillary clinton with 1,681 and bernie sanders has 900 delegates and one will need more than 2,300 to win the democratic nomination. on republican side, donald trump has 740 delegates, and ted cruz with 465, and john kasich has 140. to win a republican nomination candidates need,200 -- >> in san francisco, we go from west portal and glen pack at 45 to chrissy feel at 50 downtown in the marina june through the
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ferry building headed to the financial district, 53 degrees. and other neighbors, you can see all of 50s confined to san francisco and pacifica and richmond and pittsburg and 49 and tracy, and american can wherein and pleasanton and santa clara at 42 degrees. the activity planner shows everything is good today. surfing. going to the bench. calmer waters. watch the palmen if you are guard being or mountain bicycling. if you walk the dog we will have no issues. just cooler. this morning. as far as this area, let me go back if the computer can hit the space bar and way will see is our three day planner i put together for you, and it will have a lot sunshine, a few high clouds and notice the temperature are in the mid-60s to mid-70s. i will show you the weekend
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forecast. we have to hunt some eggs. >> we have lit traffic conditions on the san mateo bridge. westbound is looking great. across the flat section and on high-rise. give yourself extra time but right now it is 15 minutes between hayward and san mateo. green is if, we are looking great, a few slow areas from the central valley, that is typical. in the castro valley area, eastbound, they are doing road work until later this morning at 6:00. we will come back and look at the bay bridge approach to morning. >> teetering on the edge of disaster the last ditch battle renters in pacifica will wage to save their homes from the wrecking bull. >> eater weekend plans could include taking in the sights from the golden gate bridge and teaching is everything. >> most importantly we are celebrating "national puppy day" all morning along and this is a
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was precarious on the edge of a cliff? residents want back in and are appealing to the city. the city yellow tagged the building. two other cliff side apartment buildings were knocked down already and although people want back into their homes, the city manager plans to ask a city council to uphold the yellow tagged decision for the safety of the public. >> i feel safe here, 13 other tenants believe this is safe and there has been no change on this bluff since the 25th of beyond >> this was no idea imminent emergency or danger of the bluff collapsing on a large scale. the appeal hearing is tonight at 6:30 with a special committee appointed by the city council will decide how to move failure. >> street vendors and artists in san francisco who lost money because of super city get reimbursed. the san francisco period of supervisors voted to comment them up to $600 each.
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vendors lost money for week when super bowl city shut down at herman plaza and market street. in total they could spend $100,000 in the reimbursements. >> a woman who was lying about being kidnapped and assaulted and later apologized to her, is now suing the police department for defamation. she and her boyfriend say officers inflicted emotional distress when they created a media frenzy by referring to the kidnapping as "gone girl case," about a woman who faked abduction. the f.b.i. later arrested a former attorney for kidnapping tyler huskins. >> this is getting dog owners fired up, people can sound off on a plan to limit off leash land in the golden gate recreation owner. last night owners did not respond well. san mateo property was totally
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eliminated off leash areas under this proposal. tomorrow, the session in marin from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. at bay model visitors center. >> if you have visitors here for easter you may not want take them to see the golden gate bridge. that is because the parking lot of vista point north of the bridge and the welcome center south of it are going to be closed to personal vehicles on saturday and sunday. the closure runs from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day and tour buses and taxis and ride for hire services are allowed to drop off and pick up passengers. >> that lady should not be doing that. if you want an alternate place, i did a story on that you can seven for at abc7news.com. >> pest selle spots. yes, best selfie spot golden gate bridge. >> so, after a minute of weather we are look at a few high clouds across the north bay and that is
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where they will stay the reminder of the afternoon. one or two could dip. it will be mostly sunny. golden gate bridge has a light breeze this morning and though need to worry about white knuckleing. sun returns and cooler tonight and warms highs through easter. now, a look at temperatures, 60 at half moon bay and the warm spot is antioch, morgan hill at 70 and most us in the mid-to-upper 60s and now, tonight, you can see the tule fog developing and fog cross the north by valley and a few high lingering clouds with temperatures from 42 at stand rose, to san francisco at 52 degrees. now, my seven-day forecast shows you will see temperatures remaining in the low-to-mid 60s along the coast and dangerous surf with temperatures in the let 70s through saturday and cooler for easter sunday and cooler on monday and tuesday. unfortunately the transition is looking dry right now. good morning, sue
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>> good morning, we will go to the bay bridge where traffic is light at this hour. a beautiful shot from emeryville camera showing the incline section and the area to the tunnel all moving nicely. behaving. at 15 minutes interest san francisco from golden gate field. the toll plaza is a couple of cars waiting do pay cash. otherwise, you are breezing long with no delays. we have road work out there, traffic is moving nicely, but for a little bit of slow traffic from tracy to the central valley. and we have southbound 680 alamo to pleasanton and various lanes are blocked because of road work and i am not seeing slow traffic here but that should be picked up in the next few minutes. we will look at the north by drive coming up. >> the future of millions of workers left up do voters and their chance to weigh in on giving minimum wage employees a raise. >> the medical [ through at stanford could make your next set of contact lens
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easier on your eyes, but, first, america's money report. >> good morning, topping america's money, investors are cautious after the brussels attacks. >> asian markets were down but europe was in positive territory and early trading. in the united states yesterday, travel-related stock dragged the markets down. all the effect of attacks do not last. >> airlines around world are waving rebooking fees for passengers flying to or from brussels. in general they allow one change without paying a penalty. you need to check with the airline. >> starbuck is going to help the hungry, the coffee giant will donate all of the left over perishable food to chair at this . many locations have been donating extra pastry force years but now the food that need s refrigeration will go to the food banks. the food banks.
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make the call to the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. ♪i am beautiful in every single way♪ ♪words, can't bring me down♪ >> the abc7 news app open go on your schedule. news that lives where you live. thank you to the san francisco spca part of our puppy camera at abc7, a look upstairs from the news broadcast with several pens with puppy whose all need good homes. we will let you know how to get in contact with the amendments and you can take one of them home. >> love them. >> so many wagging tails. now a close look at this guy with the barry, the man that
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police say pulled off bank heists all over the bay area. in the last two months, surveillance cameras have caught this bettered guy at bangs and in each case he passed a demand note to the teller and took off with undisclosed amount of money. the get away car was a blacks ford mustang. >> someone who used to live in the pacific northwest i feel like i can say this is very seattle. 17 hours and counting is how long seattle police have been trying to get a man down from an 80' tree in the middle of downtown. authorities and witnesses describe him as average stated. he has a long beard and wearing a red wool cap which lot people in the northwest. the tree is used by macy's for the christmas celebration. >> how does $15 an hour for
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minimum wage sound? it could be reality if california voters okay a proposal that has been approved for november. the secretary of state said the sponsors of the favor wage act of 2016 gathered more than enough signatures to qualify. minimum wage right now is $10 an hour. measure would raise that to $11 an hour next year and $1 a year until 2021. a recently released gender pay gap reports finds the average gap reports finds the average woman is missing out on $6 among older worker, the pay again is 10.5% more than double the national average. >> happening today, for families who is kids, a new program aimed at get children to explore the outdoors will kick off in
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richmond. it is culled every kid in a park started by president obama. the initiative gives every 4th grader in america a free pass for the families to visit all federally owned lands for a year. the program is expected to bring 1,200, 4th griders to the home front national historical park. >> a look at our california forecast: all the sun. 82 in palm springs. mid-to-upper 70s in sacramento and rain in eureka. look at our snow pack from 101% in the north, and around state we are at 90% for the snow year and 89% a year or 13%. seven-day forecast a little bit of necessity and we are beginning to have to wait until monday and tuesday with temperatures average at 50, and warmer than average on thursday through sunday. take the sunglasses and the sunscreen. sue? >> we are going to san rafael
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southbound 101 beyond north gate mall you are looking at 20 minute ride from -- well, 20-25 minutes from novato to san francisco. we saw the zipper truck on the move with four lanes in the southbound direction and two in the nobody, a color ride through the robin williams tunnel with no delays. we do have road work out there and slow traffic out of tracy and in the san francisco area, southbound, from 1 to southbound 280 a lane is blocked. give yourself extra time they are picking it up at 6:00. back with a look at san mateo bridge if a bit. >> a lot of you wearing as could your tears be the answer to more comfortable impacts? maybe. stanford researchers discovered a prosecute in tears that can create a lens that more mimics the eye that keeps in the moisture. if scientists can create a
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better material, more comfortable lens can be created that did not dry out. >> many of us get chocolate this easter weekend, and a new study finds traces of lead in some of the chocolate. results were released by an organization based in oakland after testing 50 chocolate products and lead was found in drive include from trader joe's and whole foods so many that we buy from, the presence of the slide a violation of proposition 65 which is supposed to protect california residents from cancer-causing comes. republicaners say in amount of lead is safe for kids. >> in belgium there is an arrest in the professionals -- in the brussels bumming -- bumming attack. >> and stopping hate speech, pitting jewish students against supporters of the people of
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