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mall of the look what crews were purpose against most of the time you were sleeping. it burned for hours. matt keller in san jose. matt? >> yes, reggie. firefighters in the past half hour or so have gotten on to a ladder and are spraying water from above on to unof the hot spots. can you expect them to be here all day long keeping an eye on the strip mall. shear video from this morning. the flames were huge spreading from business to business in south san jose at the intersection of the boulevard. first call was before midnight with firefighters starting with one alarm and it went to four-alarms. crews surrounded the building. on the back side there are several homes. none were damaged but the strip mall is another story and several businesses were destroyed. san jose people are here. some lanes are blocked off but all the roads are open. arson is here on the scene.
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>> it struck us that the fire is similar to another strip mall fire in the south by a few weeks ago. you may remember the video, a final armed fire broke out at shopping center on may 25. we brought it to you on abc7. six businesses were destroyed there. several others were damaged. there is no word on the cause of the fire. >> good morning, it is 5:00, and i aming a age and i am natasha zouves. now a check of weather and traffic. mike? >> good morning, everyone. good news in san jose. the wins are less than five miles per hour. we are clear-to-partly cloudy up north on live doppler hd but nothing is showing up right now. we will have another dry and cooler-than-average and very breezy day with temperatures starting in the mid-40s to mid-50 but only ending up at 58 at the coast, to about significant inland. we will look at the winds and a chance of thunderstorms next.
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>> to the a mass we are at 20 to 30 miles per hour and then it picks up throughism with a 40-45 minute drive from dublin/pleasanton from tracy. we have an accident southbound 680 at the mission off-ramp, and partly blocking the ramp there, c.h.p. is headed to the scene with an update ahead. >> more news we are tracking in the south bay, the san jose police department is mourning the loss of an officer after he died in a make accident. our reporter tweeted out the video you can see the procession, honoring the officer michael katherman overnight. amy hollyfield is at the police headquarters. amy? >> the community is showing support for the san jose police department. there are roses left here at the entrance at the headquarters and a bundle of flowers for officers head into work. the police chief made the announce president last night, that the officer had died. he has been identified at 34
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-year-old officer michael katherman who was married and had two school-age children. the chief said that officer michael katherman was riding his officer north on 10th in san jose at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. a minivan turned left in front of him and he crashed into the van. >> he is an 11-year veteran and worked in motorcycle. that was his love he love doing that. he leaves behind a family. we are very sorry for the loss. >> officers from all over the south bay showed up at the hospital to hold vigil for the officer and when he was pronounced dead they escorted his body to the medical examiner. the driver of the minivan stayed at the scene and cooperated and they do not suspect that alcohol or drugs were involved. >> from san jose for abc7 news. >> we are learning disturbing new details about the gunman who
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opened fire at the florida night club, the investigation is pivoting to focus on person would knew the gunman best: his wife. land that zach joins us with the latest. >> good morning, reggie, we are learning from some of the survivors, from grim details about what happened at the orlando nightclub and the shooter was laughing as he killed people. and from a woman who locked eyes, she did not dare look away. the 20-year-old stared at gunman while he cousin was dying. moments before the two girls and their friend were on the way out when the first shots were fired. people are getting hit by bullets, blood was everywhere. they tried to hide as swat teams stormed. they killed him. i watched him difficult. the swat team pulled them out but kira did not make it. so man survivors watched friends die that night. investigators are now focusing on the shooter's wife, near
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salmon trying to determine in she had information that could have prevented the tragedy, sal salman went with her husband to buy ammunition and suggested to the f.b.i. she tried to talk her his out of hamming anyone. in true, she could face criminal charges. >> investigators are pouring over the shooter's phone look for connections to the gay community. >> the shooter may have actually brought his wife here to the night club prior to the attack. investigators are trying to determine in that was as a patron of the nightclub or to scope out his victims. >> thank you. we have been seeing tributes to the victims throughout the week to the shooting. this is from new york, tweeted by a news anchor in new york city, at the new york stock exchange this morning, a photo of the front of the exchange lit
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up in pride colors today. >> people have opened their wallets and we have been tracking the gofundme page, $5 million goal was raised from the previous goal, look now, more than $4.1 million and that beats the previous record by $2 million more than 90,000 people have made contributions, and we want to share this link with you so look at it i have tweeted it out. >> from the bay area tributes to the investigation, get the latest details on the orlando shooting with our news app. you can get ininstant updates. >> happening right now authority are still searching for the 2-year-old boy who was attacked and dragged into the water by an alligator at disney's resort outside of orlando. a short time ago, florida fish and wildlife said four gators have been taken from the late but none have shown signs of a human attack.
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after 9:00, the toddler snatched from the shoreline by the gater in the lagoon which is adjacent to the magic kingdom, and the far tried to wrestle with the alligator to free his son but was unable to do so. disney is the parent company of abc7. >> happening today the fbi will announce a major reward for the arrest of a serial killer responsible for at least a dozen murders and 45 rapes during the 70s and 80s. we have a sketch of the killer, called the original night stalker, the crime stretched throughout the state from sacramento to southern california, targeting homes in contra costa county, the file will release new sketches today. >> a dead bird in antioch tested positive for west nile virus found on monday. the first infected bird to be found in contra costa county this year. people can be infected through one mosquito bite. the symptoms include fever and body ache. this were continue cases in the
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bay area last year. >> sfo is a place of refuge for san francisco police officers. according to the "san francisco chronicle" more than 400 officers have requested to be transferred to the station that patrols san francisco international airport, usually 100 put in the request to join the 181 officer unit where there are seldom arrests or threats of danger. "san francisco chronicle" report that officers want to transfer because of ongoing police criticism and fears that a wrong move in an arrest or use of force could jeopardize their career. >> now a look at what is going on outside right now. we are hooking and feeling with temperatures at 50 in castro valley to orinda, we are 51 in el sobrante and san lenadro and everyone else around 55. elsewhere, 48 in santa rosa, and 49 in los gatos and 52 in san jose, antioch and concord at 54.
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the wind are breezy but not is aggressive as yesterday. the fastest breezes through the morning commute. fill be 15 to 25 at noon and all the way through the evening commute and into the evening hours. if you are outside, you will be sitting being your son play, or your daughter, have your coat. the activity player looks like yesterday, good for kite subasking not so good with small craft advisory for sailing and i will look at that coming up. >> i will show you a painting from the bay bridge and the three day forecast, showers, thunderstorms, best early tomorrow and the timetable on that is next. sue? a couple of problems cropping up right new as we told you, we have a high wind advisory on the altamont pass and we will check on that in a second, it could explain an accident, high winds and an overturned big-rig blocking right hand lane. c.h.p. is heading to the scene.
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we usually do is slow traffic out of tracy but this will add to that. we will get back to that. we have now a couple of citizens southbound 680 at miss, the off ramp and southbound 880 to five cars involved in the 80 accident. >> the bay area housing market is changing. next, a shift in inventory means something to you if you are trying to buy a home. mark zuckerberg opens up about mark zuckerberg opens up about his
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>> los altos, antioch, petaluma, this is abc7. >> if you smell or see smoke in the south bay, fires are conducting a controlled burn at grant county park off mount hamilton. you could see smoke from san jose and south santa clara valley. cruise are bun off invasive weeds to recollect area from a large wildfire. >> opening statements could begin by today in the criminal trial against pg&e for the san bruno pipeline explosion. jury selection started yesterday in san francisco. the company is acan youd of violating several safety regulations and on instructing the investigation. pg&e faces half a billion fine in convicted on all 13 counts. the blast killed eight people. it leveled most of the san bruno neighborhood. >> there is good news and bad news for the bay area home buyers. good or bad? >> good, first.
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>> let's start with the bad. the good is more homes are on the market. in concord, inventory is up 35%. agents say that is because people see how much their neighbor's house is selling for and want to get in on it. >> we went to be very sensitive to where we are pricing our homes. we don't have the bidding wars we had four months ago. we still have the strong interest from the buyers. that is the important thing. >> machines thinking about selling and the house cross the street sold for way over the asking price and they were super inspired. going on the park coat this weekend. >> buyers coming from san francisco and the peninsula for affordability and from tracy and stockton to cut commute time. >> sales tax initiative to raise $12 for children services is headed for the november ballot which would, expand preschool, child care and health services
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for low income kids. advocates made their case to the board which must authorize placement of the measure on ballot signals their support. an official vote is expected next month. >> the world now knows a little bit more about mark zuckerberg with the first question-and-answer on facebook. jerry seinfeld stopped by and asked probing questions. the billionaire father of one admitted he checked social media website when he wake up. >> look how close they are sitting. he said he is training for a triathalon and brock his arm seconds into the first bicycle ride. zuckerberg likened the noise of his daughter to that of an ancient flying animal. >> how does he know what it sounds like? >> they chatted in the 1957 chevrolet bellaire that he returned and a meeting room.
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>> he has the ability to travel into time, listen to the sounds of old fashioned animals. >> we will talk about that in a couple of weeks. >> the whole time you were talking i thought, imagine jerry seinfeld during social media time, how funny that would have been. >> so different. >> behalf is the deal with the weren't? >> there you go. there is the start. >> good morning, everyone, check out the winds, good news for the fire in san jose only three miles per hour. but, oakland, 30 miles per hour. the entire bay shoreline into dublin, small craft advisory, and breezy and choppy and from the east bay, partly cloudy, below average and breezy and showers tomorrow, and a hot dry pattern on father's day. now, today's temperatures upper 30s at the coast and 60s elsewhere and santa rosa and fairfield and antioch and morgan
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hill 70 to 72 and local 50s and the showers are stepping into to north bay, so in june usually this is the dry time, showers and thunder tomorrow and less than .2" is likely. here is a look at 4:00, all the way through the 9:00 hour, you can see the showers and the moderate hours in yellow, close to north bay with showers scattered more likely down to the dumbarton bridge as we head through the afternoon, they start to full apart. my seven-day outlook shows today is the cool of the day, followed by tomorrow, and we are back to average on friday and saturday and the meet is on away from the coast, sunday, and monday, and even on tuesday we have 100s. >> find a pool. we are waiting for c.h.p. for detail on the altamont pass. just beyond 205. we have some sort of a rig pulling a trailer that is on its side all we know at this point in time and we are seeing very slow traffic back to tracy at 4
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minutes to get to the scene. southbound 680 off-ramp at mission, partly blocked with an accident southbound 880 at the pack we, that is a motorcycle down. and multiple vehicles southbound 680 and san leandro blocking a couple of lanes. >> thing twice before toss, your trash out of the car window because you could be pulled over today. it is lit are enforcement day part of a major effort to enwhich up bay area highways, c.h.p. will look for literbugs, and crews will pick up crash and sweeping and removing graffiti focusing on interrogate 80, highway 4, devil slide and bay area bridges. >> the treasure island music festival has headlines including ice cube,. with a previous festival. this is the last festival. organizers plan to move it but they are not saying why on where they are going to go. the festival takes place october 15th and october 16 with early
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bird tick account prices starting at $159. james make will appear, as well, james make will appear, as well, he is on the new beyonce intrude more into your personal life. >> facebook is tracking you in a new way, the new ads will monitor which stores you visit. they can include a map showing a store's location and facebook will use your phone location services to see if you visit the store after the ad. >> wal-mart is working on a cart that does the shopping for you, that helps customers fine the items on their lit and bring it to the customer so you do not have to push the heavy cart through the door and out and the parking lot. >> we don't want the extra
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exercise. >> no. >> there is more trouble for san francisco start-up that is lay off another 106 people. they sell health insurance and has been embroiled in scandals after laying off 250 people a few months ago. >> if you are a deficit are users you can re-tweet your own tweets. the san francisco company sent out the announcement through a tweet, naturally, and you can write a tweet, send it, ask wait for another perfect moment to send the same message to your followers years from now. >> that is useful... >> a dream with in a dream. >> san francisco giants pitcher could have another career ready when baseball is over. ♪ keep on smiling
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♪ keep on laughing >> legitimate. he broke out on his guitar and sang to the kids at the children's hospital as part of the musicians on call program. after the jam, he met one-on-one with patients and signed autographs and posed for to to -- for photos. >> he already looks rockstar ready. >> possibly a second career in the bag. >> seven things you need to know as you start the day. >> a new program give inmates a start at a high-tech future. start at a high-tech future. all the exploritorium unveil as
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>> san jose police mourning the loss of an on duty motorcycle officer who died after colliding with a minivan. the 34-year-old officer michael katherman looks behind a wife and two sons. the driver of the minivan is cooperating with the investigation. >> florida officials are hoping for the best in the sent for a two-year-old boy who was dragged by an alligator into the water near disney. four gators have been taken from the lake near the resort this morning, and no sign of human attack. all the warriors will announce the aprils of the center m.r.i. on the injured left knee in cleveland tomorrow night ahead of game 6. >> five, breezy today and our cool of the day this week with temperatures 5-15 below average, and i am tracking showers, and even some thunderstorms coming up in the seven-day forecast. >> following the help day commute we have reports of some sorted of a semi truck overturned on the altamont pass, westbound, 580, after 205.
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we are awaiting to hear details. >> look at this ancient bit of butter that was found in a peat bogg in ireland and it is abowed bout 2,000 years old. it is still edible. >> you her the stories of prisoner making licenses plate while they do their time and now from inmates are paid for the 21st century skills while finishing their sentence. the state risen in marin is partnering with a nonprofit to hire prisoners to work as software engineers. eight prisoners have completed a course and some of the machine they earn will go into savings accounts. all the exploritorium in san francisco has several new exhibits but you do not have to go to the museum to check it out on display near city hall. we were at united nations plaza playing with the interactive sound exhibits and the city hopes the installation will make
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the area more welcoming. all the u.n. plaza has been a problem and people get off bart or muni and they walk up to the union plaza and do not like what they see and do not we go further into the tenderloin. >> the city aimed to improve safety in the plaza by deploying extra patrols and more crews and installing additional lighting. >> we have a full 90 minutes of news including the meeting to make sure san francisco pride is safe for all of us. >> we are tracking breaking news in san jose, and the huge fire a burned out strip mall and we burned out strip mall and we have new
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destroyed. matt keller is there, do we have any new information on where the fire starts? >> yes, i jut learned that the fire is believed to have started here at the restaurant on the corner, a mexican food restaurant. you can see the firefighters have a ladder truck up and they are putting water in the area. fire investigators are here on the scene trying to figure out what the cause of the fire was. when we have day light we will be able to see. it was a huge fire, 100 fire personnel on the scene at midnight. this was a four-alarm fire. the fire got in the at stick and came to the strip mall there was not much that the firefighters could do. the flames will spread. they tried to get water on the fire and fought defensively. several businesses were destroyed including a new york pizza, tattoo place, and art
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store, and state farm since, and martial arts center. but a popular ice cream frozen yogurt shop and 7-eleven on the the end of mall are oh case but we are focusing on the restaurant on the corner as they look closer at that to see what the cause of the fire was. you can expect firefighters to be out here all day long. >> there intense flames. >> good morning, i am natasha zouves. >> i am reggie aqui. it is 5:30 on wednesday, june 15. a check of the weather and traffic and we start with meteorologist mike nicco. >> good morning, everyone. good news in san jose, the winds are still only at three miles per hour on live doppler hd, and compared to 30 in oakland, 14 in sfo and 13 at concord. you can see on mount tam, gusting to 40 miles per hour. temperatures in the day planner starting off cooler this morning and we are going to end up cooler this afternoon at 50s and 60s and possible a few
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70s inland neighborhood. sue? looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is starting to fill in here, and metering lights have been turned on and we had a stall on the upper deck, possible blocking a lane of traffic, with church and caltrain on the -- caltran trying to push it on to the on-ramp so it could be slowing. we come back with details in a few minutes. >> thank you. a lot of people in the south bay are reeling from tragedy, a san jose police officer has died following a crash involving a minivan. our reporter is at police headquarters with more. >> wes will fill the community support -- feel the community support. at headquarters people left flowers for the officers as they head into work. the police chief just made the announcement last night that an officer had died. 34-year-old officer michael katherman was killed in a motorcycle accident yesterday
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afternoon. he lived in the county with his wife and two children and worked for the san jose police department for 11 years. katherman was riding his motorcycle north on 10th before 4:30 yesterday afternoon and a van turned left in front of him and he hit the van. he was rushed to the hospital where he died. >> love doing his job. loved his family. tragic. put a uniform on, left to go to work, wanted it see his family when he got off and he did not make it. >> law enforcement officers and firefighters from cross the south bay gathered at the hospital to hold a vigil and escorted the body to the medical examiner's office. the death is a year after the last officer died in the line of duty here in san jose, officer michael johnson was shot and killed last march. the chief said the driver of the minivan cooperated with
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investigators and they do not suspect alcohol or dries were involved. >> our come of the story continues at abc7news.com. download the news app for free enabling the push alerts for updates. >> we are thinking of those in orlando and on the heels of the massive shoot there is now something trending on twitter called pray for oakland. police are still investigating a shooting in downtown oakland that left a 16-year-old girl dead and three injured. the shooting happened at 6:00 people last night is a last people would have been downtown and this caused mass chaos. the photo shared with abc7 taken moment after the shooting near 13th and franklin shattering windows at a chinese strengths. police say this happened during a vigil for two 15-year-old oakland boys would drowned over oakland boys would drowned over memorial day weekend in
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>> and at disney rescuers are searching for a two-year old boy after an alligator attack asked dragged the boy into the that civilian near the magic kingdom. the far tried to wrestle with the alligator to free his son but could not do so. >> we want to search and search and search physical we cannot search. >> at sheriff has all hands on deck arochester to this and we will sent until we find something. >> the florida fish and wildlife say four gators have been taken from the lake so far but they do not show signs of attacking a human. disney is the parent company of abc7. >> now the latest in the attack in orlando, a member of the house of representatives intelligence committee said omar mateen did a considerable amount of planning and scouted potential targets before choose
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the pulse nightclub. investigators are revealing he sought out isis propaganda months' the shooting. federal agents are now focused on 30-year-old noor sal map his wife and her family home right here in the bay area. video obtained shows feder investigators entered the home of the mother of noor and agents believe that near knew of her husband's plan. they reveal she recently accompanied mateen to pulse nightclub and was also with him to by ammunition. >> in orlando the medical examiner has released the bodies of 20 of the 49 victims to local funeral hims. we are hearing incredible stories from the survivors. the gunman shot a man you are about to hear from, three times and approach again. >> i could only here the shotguns, one after another and people screaming and yelling for help. why foe how but by the glory of god he so the to my head and it hit my hand and he shoots me
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again and it hit the side of my hip. >> a large crowd gathered at the university of central florida to hold a candlelight vigil for the novembers. >> the nation's biggest pride event is a week and a half away any, and leaders are meeting today at city hall to discuss safety at the venues locally in gay bars and clouds. some nightclubs have increased security and are checking bags. san francisco police say they have no specific threat at this time against the san francisco event. >> now, what is going on, there is an airport weather warring for gusts of 45 miles per hour until 8:00 today. it will be a bumpy ride in and out of sfo. as far as our temperatures, we are looking at 51 in woodside and 52 at palo alto and menlo park and everyone else is 54 degrees on the peninsula, and if you live elsewhere, 55 in hayward and fremont, and mill valley and santa rosa, 48, and 44 in los gatos and san ramon and 52 in antioch at 54.
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here is wall happen in san jose today, the average high is way up here at 80 and we are stuck in the 60s for better part of the day with 66 at noon, and breezes are going to feel cooler. the beautiful sunrise is developing over the bay bridge this morning, and as i drove by, it was dicey getting blown around because of the gusts. now, a look at the day and the next to days it is coolest with sunshine and tomorrow we have a chance of a shower and scattered thunderstorm with hour by hour look at that coming up next. sue? >> we have high winds over the altamont pass this morning and you will see slow traffic coming out of racy, and speeds of 20 #-rb 30 miles per hour for 40 minutes into dublin/pleasanton and here is a sig-alert, just issued south 880 near washington, three lanes are blocked with a major accident expecting that to be cleared, they hope in 30 minutes is the estimated time of opening the lanes. we will have a detailed update
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in a few minutes and with road work both directions, that should be pick up any time, and we will look at your events happening need could impact the traffic coming up in a few minutes. >> happening today, members of the house will read a powerful let are written by the victim in the stanford assault case after the last vote of the day in the house of representatives. jackie speier said dozen of democrats and republicans have asked to join in on this. he said the victim's letter communicates the agony of sexual assault. >> santa clara d.a. is removing the judge in the stand toward case from a new sex assault trial. the d.a. said he is not confident that the judge persky can fairly rule. this new case involved a male nurse accused sexually assaulten an anesthetized patient. a santa clara prosecutor filed a motion to remove the judge after he unexpectedly tossed out an unrelated misdemeanor theft case. >> they view the riling on the
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misdemeanor case as being off base and they obviously view the we sentence that was imposed in the town are case as being wildly off base, and in a combination of factors is leading them to conclude they do nut want to be before the judge in a criminal case. >> persky sparked outrage across the country after sentencing brock turner to six months in jail for sexual assault of an unconscious woman. persky is up for re-election but is running unopposed. all the race for 2016, this morning, hillary clinton has add more delegates to her lead over bernie sanders, ahead of the democrat convention. she captured 79 part of the vote in the washington, dc primary compared to 21% for sanders. hillary clinton and sand others most in washington, dc works a private meeting for 90 minutes, and her will can company said they focused on "shared common acitizen ask." sanders has not endorsed clinton. >> the california primary has come and go but the ballot counting is going and the sorted press reports there are two million ballots that still need
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to be tallied. one of the reasons is there is such a big number of people would shed up for the election. the votes will reasonable have no affect on the statewide outcomes, with state election laws allowing counties 30 days to complete processes. los angeles, riverside and san diego county have the most ballots to count. >> san francisco supervisors have made a compromise and agreed to open six new homeless shelters in two years after a tour of the shelter called a navigation center. requirements that the shelters would be a place for drug users to shoot up and where alcoholers could drink were put on the back bumper, aliving the compromise to go through. >> orlando strong in oakland, the a's pay an emotional tribute to victims of the tight club massacre. >> a simple tool helps to find this stolen ambulance. the ambitious flop now under way the ambitious flop now under way to see in it (whispering): what are you doing up? (whispering): mom said i could have a midnight snack.
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amounts player and members of the lgbt and that is a basketball coach who tearfully placing a ball on the mound in memory of those who lost their lives. >> i cannot believe there would be any sort of hatred to people or fin that simply is trying to live their truth or living through love. >> at the oakland east bay gay men's chorus sang the national anthem and there was an increased police presence at the reception including k-9s on date to keep the fans safe. >> a former santa clara county jail inmate is accuse deputy of threatening and beating him while he was in custody. he said the attack happened in september a in after another inmate at the jail was beaten to death. he said the jail guards attacked him without reason. >> the paramedics came and the paramedics said, i remember them saying, we have to take him to the hospital, my head would not stop pleading. >> he is now suing the county, and the sheriff has not return
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our calls for comment. >> san francisco supervisors have passed legislation that will require g.p.s. tracking devices in most of the city's 8,000 vehicles. the primary reason is to reduce traffic collisions. officials say the black boxes will hopefully cause workers to drive more responsibly. it also will help monitor how and where the city employee are spending their time and are now in hundreds ofst city vehicles. law help forms have are exempt from the role. all the warriors are in cleveland for game 6 of the n.b.a. finals and this is video getting on the charter flight yesterday at oakland. draymond green will lay tomorrow night after the game five suspension and the left knee injury is questionable for bogas. tickets for the part at the arena are sold out, and ticket holders got first crack yesterday. some are being sold on
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stubhub and the cheapest are $65 and some are listed for $800. >> join us tomorrow for abc7 at 4:00 and then "world news," at 4:30 and the edition at 5:00. at 5:30 getting ready for the game. and then at 6:00 the game starts and then analysis with larry beil and mike shumann foyle. >> now, lock it up, bring it home and we will have a party and a parade. it sounds like fun. >> good morning, everyone, not so fun here with breezes out, and chilly, and i wills sand upon the weather warning. it is for. it is physical 8:00. it is for gusts up to 45 miles per hour. we could have delays. it will be dumpy. gusts up to 41 miles per hour
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the on mount tam but it does not look like summer or fell lick. it breezy and isolated thunder tomorrow and father's day we are turning up the heat and here is today's temperature turning down the heat. antioch and fairfield and santa rosa and san jose morgan hill, a handful of areas that could make 70s today and the rest us are in the 60s and at the coast, it is brisk, 59 at half moon bay, and check out the lows ten, low-to-mid 50s but, also, check out in the north by, that is rain is we will talk about the storm-impact scale. we ranched the consumers from 1 to 5. it is "lite" because it is downat less than .2", yellow and orange at 4:00 moving into the north bay so moderate-to-heavy, can but it will not sit in one area the through the commute, it is north of the san mateo bridge. by noon, it is push down into the south bay. during the afternoon hours you can see it falls apart.
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in the evening, no need to worry. my seven-day forecast shows wind today and coolest, toll, it is chilly, friday is calmer, and saturday is back to average and look at the health away from the coast, 80s and 90s on sunday and monday and triple digits return on tuesday. sue? hotspots to be aware of, first we have a high wind advisory over the altamont pass, and slow traffic out of tracy, for 5 meant drive up and over into the dublin/pleasanton area. also, through hayward and san leandro we have a sig-alert issued, southbound 880 near washington, multiple vehicles in three left lanes blocked here and they are expecting that to clear hopefully by 6:00 am, and the yell row on the screen represents high winds, as well, so through oakland they are getting some gusty winds this could affect the drive. early accidents southbound 680, near the mission 50 ramp has been cleared, and now we have an accident motorcycle involved and everything is on the right
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shoulder southbound 880 though are interesting tow trucks to get it out of there quickly and we check back with thing is alert in san leandro next report. >> a new way at 6:00 to get a pick me up in the day the. >> i am interested to hear. >> you can see a nine- make a record swim in san francisco bay. >> last us injury coffee to get >> last us injury coffee to get going in the morning but ♪ it's time to free yourself from the old way of buying and selling cars. introducing beepi, the radical new way to buy & sell cars, all online. carefully inspected, guaranteed and delivered right to you. ♪ ♪ ♪
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homes. you can see them walking to a home and taking the flag right out, on may 31. police believe the men are in their 20s. watch this. after they grab the flag he tried to hot over the finance and not so slick. clumsy. they stole another flag from another home in the area. >> three people are under arrest in milpitas on cairns of mail theft. witness say they saw two of them going through the pale boxes and taking mail last wednesday. he found van with a third suspect inside the van. though found i.d. cards and credit carts and checks and other items. >> in health news, early use of antibiotics could deaccuracy the benefits of breast feeding, with babies redescribed antibiotics while breast feeding or shortly after were prone to infection and obesity. researchers say the health benefit of breast feeding are how it helped develop a gut bacteria we have, and that antibiotics disturbed that development. >> hmm...ever show up to work so
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sleepy even that cup of coffee does not get you going? now we officially know what is pretty obvious. curing to consumer affairs, caffeine cannot mack up for continued lack of sleep. next, the benefits of caffeine are only effective for two consecutive days. here is the take away. are you ready? get pore sleep! >> not helpful. at all. that is from the journal of "captain obvious." >> coming at today. >> love this story, a boy from the central valley is making history. the nine-year-old james savage. he and his family and friends have a lot to cheer about if san francisco, the young of the person to make the treacherous swim to alcatraz and back to san francisco. >> i thought it would be easy but after i got out there, the tide was pushing me.
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i was about to quit but i kept going. >> crazy. he is crazy. we are very proud. >> i can see why. that is a big accomplishment. this is her playerous, his dad programmed him $100? he made it. he got tired, and he wanted it give up so dad boosted it making it $200; he kept swimming. >> it looks beautiful, very warm, but it was windy yesterday. and, mike, you say the temperature is. 50s in the water? >> 52 or 53, maybe 54 if you get close to the shore. >> incredible. >> great kid imagine trying to haggle with your dad whale you are swimming. >> no $300. no, $400. double it, dad. >> do did you know how much -- wait, wait, wait a minute. >> exactly. that is great. my goodness a great accomplishment. >> we have a lot of activities so we will run through, first,
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the alameda county fair begins in pleasanton under cool continues, we should be in the low 80's, we are going to be in the mid-to-upper 60s with the breezes. watch out for the advantage sunshine, there, and, also, the san mateo county, you will be funded and you will not physical it because temperatures are in the mid-to-lower 60s through the day in san mateo. a couple of baseball bans, the first at at&t park cool and breezy and in the upper 50s with a west wind at 18-25 miles per hour and it will be chilly at the oakland coliseum as the rangers and a's play at 58 dropping to 55. unfortunately the a's lost and the south koreans won four in a row, going for a sweep. >> we have traffic conditions for the ever develops in a second but we will talk about the sig-alert in san leandro area. southbound 80 neither washington before 238 traffic now is starting to stack up to marina, with the yellow on cent is representing wind, windy
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conditions for the commute. you can take 580 as the alternate. they are interesting it to hopefully clear in a few minutes. make was talking about 680 traffic on the alameda county fair it could be combatted. the fair starts at look, day giants game, 80 across the bridge, 101 could be jammed. and going going ferry boats could sell out because a lot forces like to go that way from the north bay and san mateo county fair, 101 will be affected by that. >> more details and the bay bridge toll plaza in the next report. >> speaking of the commute if you are heading through oakland today, listen up, police will be out in force. though are ice coat drivers and pedestrian whose violate traffic laws. they will direct drivers who are speeding, making illegal turns or fail telling stop for signs and signals. it is important because oakland police have investigated 876 deadly or injury collisions
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involving pedestrians during the last three years. >> california's high-speed rail system is 63 million dollars more expensive this morning. officials say it is because of a lawsuit that has tied up the land riches for four areas. the first trains will not be rolling now until august of 2019. that is a year and a half later than planned. the first segment of tracks will run to fresno. >> san francisco is accountingy -- getting serious about claim. >> a new solution for weight loss where you do future have to cut back on eating. cut back on eating. >> a huge fire destroyed a
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>> can you see why the flames are just enormous. it is happening now and matt is on the scene. matt? >> good morning. i want to show you the sign at the shopping center. there are 20 businesses listed here on the sign. sadly, only a few are them were saved from the fire. check out video from early this morning, 100 fires personnel on the scene at midnight. fighting the four-alarm fire. firefighters surrounded the strip mall because there hopes on back side. residents took out the garden hose and sprayed water to help with the fight against the names none of the homes were touched by the flames before the strip mall it was a different story, almost all of them were destroyed, other than a frozen yogurt shop and a 7-eleven. the fire got in the attic and there is not much the firefighters can do the flames spread. a chief said the fire investigars
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