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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> the stage is set for basketball history. oracle arena is ready for the final game of the regular season. the warriors have this message for the grizzlies: not on our group. i am natasha zouves. >> i am kristen sze. the warriors will take over possession of the record for most wins in a single season if they win the regular season game tonight. fans are excited including a young man going cop -- compliments of draymond green. >> this is will home of the warriors, students in west oakland are cheering on the team
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including a student who is going to the game. >> warriors fans in berkeley were wearing their team colors this morning, excited to watch potential history tonight. >> going to the finals and playoffs was the best. ever. like this game, it is unique...it will be special. and something to remember. all the fans at oracle arena get an exclusive t-shirt that said "not on our group." tickets start at $300. for three underprivilege kids in oakland, draymond green is helping out, tweeting he would buy three tickets toen history tonight. and this is one of the chosen few. >> i am a person who takes education seriously and want to do something for mother so when i graduate i can get a good job and support my mother. >> dillon has 3.37 grade point average and living in new orleans until three years ago and transferred to live with cousins after his mom got sick
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and where a personal essay not realizing it would lead to tickets to historical game. >> if not i would watch on tv or miss the game because we have track practice. >> are you getting out of track practice? >> my coach is letting me out. >> dylan, if he is not nice enough, is going to take his friend, darryl, to the game tonight. you may remember, he is battling leukemia. we did a story about the need for bone marrow transplant and he is a huge steph curry fan. he will see the game tonight with his friend, dylan. >> so cool. how great. thank you. if you want to go to the game it will confident. check this out, we have we have ticket master showing cheapest is $315. up close for history, courtside seats are $2,400.
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>> if you are driving near oracle arena tonight, you will want to plan ahead. traffic is expected to be heavy because the whom game at the coliseum will wrap up not long before warriors kick off, at 12:35 and the warriors game starts at 7:30 at oracle arena. you can cheer on with orphans in alameda, the theater on central avenue is holding a free watch party. fans are advised to debt there early because there are only 750 seats. fans are asked to make a donation, similar event during the finals last year raised $10,000 for the warriors communities foundation. no matter where you watch we want to see your warriors pride. we have been getting tons of great photos and videos leading up to the game so share yours on social # dubson7. you can see them here.
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>> busy day for sports in oak. we will check with meteorologist mike nicco and the forecast. >> mike? >> good morning, everyone. the a's neat love and they lost the first two games. it is a day game wrap or starting at 12:35. 61 to 63 degrees. now, we will go 3 1/2 hours later and walk across to oracle arena where the temperature will be veteran when you head in, and 53, but you will be floating when you come out after we set the report. the breeze will be brisk not going, and notice, no rain in the forecast here, it comes in later on. i will have more on that next. >> thank you, mike. we have protecting news: we have learned a major cross country counterfeiting ring has been busted right here in the bay area. our reporter broke the story open twitter and official say dave -- the santa county clear
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made the bust in cupertino working with police in fairfax county, virginia. they seized large amounts of money and printing equipment. you can follow david on twitter with the full report this afternoon. >> you are look at aftermath of a violent crash in antioch, up believable wreckage. a driver crashed into a road crew. the driver had to be cut from the car but he did have an unlikely guard an angel, the antioch mayor the first to arrive on the scene. amy hollyfield is in walnut creek. >> yes, the mayor said he has not been able to quick think of the victim since it happened last night. the victim who said his name is "mike." he was brought here to walnut creek because his injuries were so severe. the mayor was a former police officer and he said the training kicked right in when he saw the accident. >> it took firefighters 45
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minutes to cut the driver out of the car the can you not tell it was-da s.u.v. the driver waited to be saved he had a guard an angel, the antioch mayor what drove up on the scene and stopped to help and offer support. >> i started talking to him to make sure he wacko here help, telling him he would be okay. >> the mayor was on the way home from the city council meeting as what a city councilwoman whose car was sideswiped bit s.u.v. the mayor has someone grab a fire extinguisher at the gas station because the car was smoking. >> the car crashed into a road crew at 10:30 last night at "a" and texas off of highway four. the fire department said the victims were taken to different hospitals. >> there was a significant impact collision which resulted in the extrath
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because of the length of time it took to remove the patient and the destination which is a trauma center in walnut creek i ma'am the injuries are rather severe. >> i checked with the construction company doing the work an afternoon and the woman said the two employees are fine and are expected to return to work tonight. a firefighter on scrap said it looked like the car that crashed was going very fast. we are waiting to hear back from the police. thank you. new details involving a fail hit-and-run accident corner on the peninsula two days ago. police say that the 27-year-old victim was autistic and lie on the road when hit. he was found on skyline boulevard on monday morning. the first driver swerved in time but the second driver ran over him. police released the pictures looking for the driver of a
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dark-colored mercedes gla similar to this one, possibly with front help end damage. investigators say it is possible the driver did not stop thinking he hit a deer and not a person. >> freeway signs across the bay area are lit up with a silver alert for a missing stockton man, 68-year-old tommy lee carpenter, 210 pounds with agree hair and hazel eyes the authorities are racing to traffic accident him down because he has a medical condition and could be disoriented. he was last seen leaving his home yesterday in a nissan license plate on the scene. if you have any information call police. >> if you live in san jose you have until thursday to comment on a prepared homeless development near communications hill. residents of catalonia apartments are outraged over the possibility of it being next door. the housing department recommends building portals with
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community bathrooms and kitchens for 170s people. >> in our backyard. we don't know their backgrounds. we do not know anything about them. all the speed great with 6,000 homeless people in san jose. only 700 beds. >> we are learning this morning of a $1 million mistake by bart. the "san francisco chronicle" is reporting that bart management hired non-union security guards in 2013 to action as fire watchers while outdated fire alarm systems are replaced in stations. an arbitrator ruled it was a vie ray of the agency contract with the bart police union so bart has to pay $1.1 million to union members essentially paying twice for the same work. >> silicon valley entrepreneur is making the biggest investments yet, donating $250 million to cancer research. our reporter is in the newsroom with more on the big announcement. >> that announcement is taking place right thousand in los
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angeles at a private ever sent to celebrate the future of medical advancement hopefully to help millions of cancer patient. sean parker is then for creating the biggest companies in the 21st century, nap step, facebook, and spotify but now is focusing on fighting cancer. today, parker is pledging $250 million to immunotherapy research the largest donation of its kind. >> this therapy is trying to mobilize the body's own immune system to take care of cancer. >> former president jimmy carter received this treatment and in december announced he was cancer free. scientists point out they are still trying to figure out why some respond better than others. he hopes for parents can be able to access the treatment sooner rather than a last resort. >> i still have cancer to my liver but not my brain.
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it has helped me get better. all the biggest hurdle is come binning competing cancer research centers and leading scientists to work together. >> now, this is a huge collaboration, the research centers include stanford, ucla, university of texas, ander and certain cancer society, university of pennsylvania and memorial sloan-kettering in new york city. parker said research will allow the institute to market therapies for parents. in the newsroom i am janet o. >> thank you. call it the power of love the video you have to see on epic lip lock that stops for no one. >> a 70-year-old woman has a nine day ordeal in the desert. how she get creative to be
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>> a strong 6.9 earthquake struck this morning in myammar at 6:55 this morning our time. so far there are no reports of major injuries or damage. prince william and kate are traveling in india and physical the earthquake. they, too, are unharmed.
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>> nine days lost in the arizona desert. do you think you could five? the grandmother is alive today because she led rescuers right to her. reggie is here with the incredittible -- incredible. >> imagine all you have in the desert are ticks and rocks and bones from an animal that died in the desert and you do this: a sign that leads rescuers to you. >> she had her dog but not much else, a wrong turn in the arizona desert left ann rogers with no food, no water, no cell for nine days. >> i knew how much pain my family and my friend and those who knew me were feeling about the fact i had been gone, missing, so long. all the 72-year-old relied on her mind and used desert items to create this sign. she remembered what she read over the years about other whose survived. eating plants and drinking pond
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water. >> the ground searchers found my note "help i need it now." the instinct paid off and a helicopter swooped in and ann romeer was healthy enough to walk herself to the rescueers. >> age does not many inability. it can mean wisdom. >> enough for a grandmother to live to tell the story of the way she showed rescuers how to find her. what a lady. she said show breakdown in tears weapon the helicopter lands, they took her to the hospital but there was nothing really wrong with her. she said show is ready for her next hike. >> she and her dog. what a lady. incredible. >> dubs nation fever sweeps the bay area and one of our own right here, could be giving steph curry a run for his money. >> we have spring showers on the way. i will give youen on date on
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when they will hit and how much to expect to be followed by summer warmth over the weekend. >> sometimes nothing comes between two people in love, not even an armed robbery. this kissing couple finally c
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>> this is a story that gives new meaning to locked in love. a kissing couple were so into each other they were oblivious to their surroundings even an armed robbery. they are busy kissing, and
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failing to notice that the two masked men holding up the bar pointing a gun at people. the couple just carried open completely. >> they finally came up for air but only when the bartender hit the alarm and the problemers took off. to that we say, love is blind. >> all right...mike nicco is tracking the forecast. >> blinding sunshine out here right now i tell you that so, it is always good when you are focused on something you do not notice, you are in the zone. hopefully the warriors are in the zone, temperatures in the mid-50s, enjoy the game. now, a look at the colorful sunrise, from sutro tower, today is going to be brightest day so far this week and that will change friday, saturday, and sunday, but in 20 we have a chance of rain on done open and it is dry. i am tracking that storm and you can see the mature system shows
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the tail end of that, and the rainfall amounts are low, unfortunately, sparse amounts are falling from mount tamalpais you can see we are going from shoulds to sun and back to clouds by the time we get to the evening sunrise around 7:40 tonight. next storm, it rained tonight and a warming trend will reap the cost by sunday, and today the coast is the coolest with the sun shoop you have the sea breeze keeping you at 59 and san francisco in the low 60s and the rest of us around 64 to 68 degrees and tonight, it will be mild but you can see the green and the yellow, light-to-moderate rain falling upper 40s to low 50s and we have been tracking the storms and putting them on the storm-impact scale to know what to expect "1" is light and "5" is severe, we are in april, 5th or 6th month, depending where you are, we do not get many strong storms and by midnight it is moving into the north bay and as we head into the only commute at 4:00, it is in the hard of the bay and it exits the south bay at 8:00 or 9:00 it is over and we will have
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scattered showers developing across the north bay mountains and across the beaches. but, at the same time, during the afternoon hours, 4-8" of snow are falling at 5,000' in the sierra. take the changes. we will have moderate rain in the north bay and light rain for the rest of us, and no rain, now, in the south bay. the rain shadow is going to keep you down. san jose is at .02". the seven-day forecast shows tomorrow is the cool of the day. notice, we rebound to temperatures above average by friday and the 70's reach the coast on saturday and sunday and 70s and 80s for our bay and inland neighborhood and that will spill interest hopped and we will pull the temperatures become a little bit on tuesday. looking far, this could be the last rain we get for a long-term >> we better enjoy it. thank you, mike. >> new, the dubs are going after a record 73 wins and everyone is so exited. >> watch what happens when matt keller tries to channel his
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inner steph curry
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>> coming up at 4:00, today, south bay residents are fighting back over crime and what they are doing to cut back on ever visions and sky-high costs. >> as we near tax deadline day, should you hire a professional
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or file yourself? "7 on your side" has answered on abc at 5:00. >> number of our own morning team is channeling the inner steph curry. matt keller took the same famous shot that steph curry makes coming out of the tunnel every game. >> it will be bear asking, so, here we go. this is the steph curry shot. >> whoa...so close, right? it looks easy. matt did not give up, though, he went the distance but did not have the right angle. another shot at closer range, bam, we will take it. go, matt, go dubs. the team will go after a record 73 wins. he is so tall he only needs three shots from that angle but, matt's skills...we want to see a dunk next. i posted pictures and video, and
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you can, too, and cheer on our warriors to victory and to a record. thank you pore joining us. have a great day.
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