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good morning, it's saturday, february 11, i'm cornell barnard in for chris nguyen and let's start with a quick look weather with meteorologist lisa argen. good morning to you. here's live doppler 7. we do have a few light showers that are passing through, mainly southern marin county and through san francisco right now. it's a weak boundary that will sweep on out of here and allow for this, a big ridge of high pressure to build in today, and that means fair weather for the entire weekend. highs will be mild, but lows this morning, a really mild as well. it's not that cool with low 40s and some cloud cover around the bay from fremont, 45 in hayward, 48 in the city and your forecast today calls for sunny skies. the sun up after 7:00 and by noontime, low 50s to the upper 50s, highs today will be in the mid 60s up around napa, boy, everyone needs a chance to dry out. clear tonight, a little chilly and we'll look for almost a carbon copy tomorrow. how long will our dry weather trend last? i'll have the answers coming up.
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breaking news out of milpitas where police are investigating a possible shooting death that took place at the elara apartment complex on south main street. that's where police responded to a stolen vehicle call just before 11:00 p.m. that caller said a man had gotten out of the car with weapons and ran into the apartment complex. officers thought they heard gunshots as they arrived. they saw a car speeding out of the parking structure. they pursued it. the car crashed and the driver was taken into custody. police searched the parking structure and found a dead body there. no other details have been released. the fight continues to keep a 100-year-old woman in her san francisco home. sheriff's deputies evicted iris canada from her fillmore area home yesterday. canada said she had no warning the eviction was going to take place but san francisco sheriff vicki hennessy said canada wasn't even living in the apartment. abc7 news reporter elissa harrington has the story. >> reporter: protesters
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confronted sheriff vicki hennessy outside her office in city hall, demanding she redesign after deputies carried out a court order to evict a 100-year-old woman from her fillmore area home. the battle has dragged on for months. the owners granted her life estate but things soured when they say she stopped living there full-time and she refused to sign a document to allow to building to be converted to condos. the slet threat of eviction sparked ugly protests by tenant right groups. the locks were changed. >> they locked out a 100-year-old woman, locked all her medication in the apartment, her wheelchair in the apartment, the woman is locked out. >> we don't want to evict anybody and especially somebody that's 100 years old. >> reporter: sheriff hennessy says she's following the court's order. >> throughout this whole process, she's been offered services. she has -- including the adult protective agency. we've also -- it's been my
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understanding from the very beginning, she did not need or want those services because she is in the care of her niece. >> reporter: canada's niece also named iris denies this. >> whose responsibility is she now? how does she get her medication? >> reporter: she insists her aunt has lived in san francisco since the 1940s and says now she's been left on the streets. >> what do we do now? this is a life or death situation and you have just handed her a death sentence of some or the. >> reporter: she says the fight is not over. their attorney is filing an appeal. elissa harrington, abc7 news. the southbound lanes of highway 17 back open in the santa cruz mountains where the risk of dangerous falling debris has caused problems for weeks. the northbound lanes remain closed indefinitely. the rain yesterday exposed another problem on a major roadway not far away. here's abc7 news. >> reporter: the earth opened up, swallowing a large chunk of i-35 in santa clara county. sky7 was above the crater as
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crews inspected the damage. the roadway is closed indefinitely in both directions until the county figures outs how to fix it. engineers face a similar problem on highway 17 in santa cruz county. >> you can see a little bit of movement. >> reporter: caltrans shut down the busy highway in both directions near vine hill road fearing another slide. >> there's so much saturated saturated earth that's up top. they've been trying to remove it and remove it. but the danger is if the top part comes down, the slide, it could go right into the southbound lane. >> reporter: about eight miles of roadway remain closed while geologists track the hill's movement with sensors. they determined it was safe to continue work clearing the unstable hillside. this is a dangerous area where slides took out a truck earlier this week and hit an abc7 news van last month. >> there have been cars that have been hit, but the drivers have walked away. >> reporter: abc7 news. we've received new pictures of a worker who was killed thursday trying to clear the slide. a truck ran over robert gill, a
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54-year-old from los banos. he was working alongside his son at the time. his employer, graniterock, set up a you caring page that's raised more than $47,000 for his family. a busy roadway in marin county will remain closed for two more weeks. sky7 shows highway 37 in novato yesterday. it continually floods over near atherton avenue. caltrans spokesman bob haus explains the issue. >> two privately owned levies gave way. they broke and the water's been recurring through the road just goes down into a depressed area and it's completely flooded out. at the deepest point, it's 4 feet deep. looks like a boat launch. we are pumping as much as of the water out as we can. >> short-term solutions include more pavement and installing bigger pipes. caltrans wants to work with the county on long-term solutions. a warning now if your weekend plans include a trip to lake tahoe. on the left, you're looking at a
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landslide that closed down interstate 80 for ten hours yesterday, on the right, another slide on highway 50 that buried a jeep. luckily the driver is okay. caltrans reopened i-80 eastbound at colfax. you can see a long line of cars slowly getting through. highway 50 also remains closed in both directions just east of pollack pines and it won't are reopen until later today. governor jerry brown has requested federal disaster assistance from president trump to help the state recover from storm damage caused last month. there are several major highways that are still damaged and shut down because of flooding and mudslides from those january storms. a reminder, stay on top of the weather and the damage from the recent storms with the abc7 news app. download the app for free, and enable push alerts to get breaking news updates as they happen. new details now in a story we brought you thursday night. the armed robbery of a girl scout cookie stand. union city police released this sketch of a suspect. they say he's between 16 and 19
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years old. on wednesday, people say he went up to a 12-year-old girl and her mother in front of the safeway on dakota road after asking about buying cookies, he showed a gun, stole their cash, and ran away. president trump made news on board air force one yesterday when he hinted about his next move regarding his controversial travel ban. as abc7 news reporter katie marzullo explains, this is adding to the confusion facing many bay area families. >> we also have a lot of other options, including just filing a brnd new order on monday. >> reporter: a new executive order on travel restrictions could be coming. >> we need speed for reasons of security. >> reporter: immigration attorney merle kahn said it's a good idea from a legal perspective. >> if he is truly afraid of immigrants from these countries and asighlies and refugees from these countries, the thing to do is go back and recraft the
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executive order. >> reporter: she does not believe the immigrants and refugees affected by the order are a threat to the united states. billy alabsi is caught in the middle of the confusion. he recently sponsored his mother-in-law's visa from yemen. now he has no idea what's happening with her case. >> all of a sudden, you get an order to stop. so what he would do with that finally would put it back and start all over. >> reporter: and now anothe twist, this one from the 9th circuit court of appeals. an unnamed judge is asking if the entire eleven-judge court should review the three-judge panel decision not to reinstate the travel ban. >> there might be dissenting viewpoints or concurrent viewpoints. >> reporter: it's another level of uncertainty for billy alabsi and others in the same state of limbo. in san jose, katie marzullo, abc7 news. lisa's here, finally we get to put away that umbrella. >> we still have some minor flooding around the russian river, mark west springs and here in san francisco, a passing
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shower from our sutro tower camera. good visibility, though. temperatures in the upper 40s here, low 40s towards fremont and out in livermore, what's with the showers this morning. we still are on tap for semi-mild afternoon. i'll explain next. tensions between mexico and the u.s. heating up. why mexico now warning its citizens living here to take precautions. but first, burning cars and thick black smoke, the unsolved mystery behind this massive fire that could be seen all over the bay
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it's a great morning on the san mateo brimg. take a look at that traffic, actually, lack thereof. no traffic, smooth sailing to hayward over to san mateo no matter where you're going. beautiful weekend. little rain in the far distant future there. lisa argen's going to have your forecast coming up. health inspectors have found several serious violations at a richmond auto yard where more than 200 cars were destroyed by a fire back in december. the county has found three new violations, including an open hazardous waste container found underneath a car crusher. investigators do not believe the violations caused the fire. in fact, the fire was so destructive, they may never know the cause. mexico has issued a warning to all of its citizens living in the u.s., take preoccasions following thursday's deportation of a mother in arizona. there were no more details, but as abc7 news reporter lyanne
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melendez explains, mexico has been asking people to have their papers in order. >> reporter: the mexican government felt it was necessary to warn its citizens living in the u.s. after an arizona mother of two was deported on thursday. it did the same in november after the presidential election. mexicans living in the u.s. are being asked to have their papers and documents in order. this lady came to renew her mexican passport. what are your concerns? >> my kids. my kids and my family. that's all. >> reporter: the mexican government points out those who don't have dual citizenship should fwin the process now. passport offices have seen an increase in the number of applications. and it's not only mexicans applying. >> also just coming in and saying, we want our passports not tomorrow, we want it now. >> reporter: in the case of the arizona mother, she had been arrested and convicted in 2008 for using a fake social security number. >> i.c.e. did what the laws and the procedures of the immigration laws of this country
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have prescribed for it. >> reporter: immigration custom enforcement, i.c.e., said her immigration case underwent review at multiple levels of the immigration court system, including the board of immigration appeals and the judges held she did not have a legal basis to remain in the u.s. regardless, many mexicans fear anyone can now be a target. of course i'm afraid, says this san francisco mother, but if i have to leave, my daughter will come with me. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. an emotional arrival yesterday at san jose international airport involved a 17-year-old refugee from eritrea who came to stay with a foster family from catholic charities. we're blurring her face to protect her identity. the teen burst into tears after being greeted by a friend she had made in ethiopia when they were both at a refugee camp. >> they want to say hi, they want to welcome, they want to let them know that this is going to be okay, that they are having
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a great time here, doing well, just to make sure they feel a little bit better. >> the teen lived at a are refugee camp for many years. her arrival was delayed by president trump's executive oefrd on refugees which was put on hold by the courts. a martinez man who has been in custody for white-collar crimes is speaking only with abc7 news about the new and much more serious offenses he's now facing. charles waldo is accused of conspiring with other inmates to put hits out on witnesses genls him. the 39-year-old was originally arrested in 2013 related to his work as a manager at a martinez recycling company. late in 2014, a grand jury indicted him on ten additional felonies for allegedly soliciting two fellow inmates turned informants to murder nine people. >> it's completely false. >> reporter: is there a hit list? >> the hit list that they made in their own handwriting. >> but according to prosecutors, there was a hit list, and a proposed method including staged car accidents, drug overdoses,
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and robberies that had gone bad. waldo's trial starts tuesday. he's chosen to represent himself. a celebrity lawyer is now involved in the case of san francisco's tilting and sinking skyscraper. we've covered the millennium tower, located on mission street and fremont streets, for many times, in fact, in the past. homeowners aren't seeing -- aren't happy seeing their property values drop as the problems with the building become public. abc7 news reporter kate larson looks at the new lawyer's main goal. >> reporter: amongst telling cracks along the mission street siewalk, attorneys meet outside san francisco's millennium tower to discuss a lawsuit they intend to file soon. the puddles and pits, a reminder the tower has subsided at least 16 inches since it was completed in 2009. >> the goal of the lawsuit is very simple. to get the money from the responsible parties to fix this
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building. >> reporter: the millennium homeowners association board hired dan petrocelli to litigate their case over the now infamous sinking skyscraper. the homeowners largely blame the poor design of the building for the problems. >> you do trust a builder to do the right thing and to do the safe thing. and it appears that that trust has been violated in this case, and that's what we're going to vindicate. >> reporter: the hoa board heerd petrocelli, who in 1997 successfully represented the goldman family in the wrongful death civil suit against o.j. simpson and most recently represented president donald trump in several cases involving trump university but some homeowners like the dodsons do not think petrocelli is the best lawyer for the case. >> we would definitely want to have a construction defect attorney, someone who's got the knowledge and the experience to be able to try this very complicated case. we're not looking for an attorney, and we don't believe in an attorney that has a high-profile is going to win this case for us.
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>> reporter: dodson is in a group of 50 unit owners who filed a separate lawsuit for fraud against millennium partners, city departments, and transbay joint powers authority saying they all knew about the building's defects before they sold the units. in san francisco, kate larson, abc7 news. well, expect 15 to 20-minute delays on b.a.r.t. today if you are taking the pittsburg boy point line between concord and pleasanton hill. right now, crews are removing a tree next to the tracks. the train's speed is restricted for workers' safety. that work should be completed by about 3:00 p.m. good morning, everybody. live doppler 7, there are a few showers here. you probably won't notice them and they'll sweep through the bay area in the next, oh,30 minutes or so and it's this, a big dome of high pressure that will be building in to the bay area today allowing for fair weather, sunny skies, and mild temperatures. but we do have some advisories
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to pass on to you. this first one here, sonoma county near mark west spring, still some flooding and the russian river around johnsons beach so the flood stage is at 32 feet. it's at 33 feet, so there's some minor flooding. the river will continue to recede and we're looking at the sacramento region and also around clear lake where we're getting some flooding. keep this in mind. a lot of these rivers, creeks, and streams still running over their banks and around clear lake, just about at capacity, so this flood warning until just about to expire so we will look for still some problems, mainly in sacramento and of course the earth continues to move, which is so saturated with perhaps some more mudslides as we need several days to dry out. 38 in san ramon, it's 46 in concord, elsewhere around the bay it's 41, santa rosa, 46. in mountain view, 48, in san jose, so starting out with some clouds, that's allowing for the temperatures to stay not as cool as they could be this morning so with 11 days into february, it
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has rained every single day. you may have noticed in our percentage of normal starting at 203% of normal with over 46 inches of rain, 180% of normal for livermore, look at san francisco and oakland, and 136% in mountain view so doing just fine, more rain is in the seven-day outlook, though, and from our exploratorium camera, the sun up after 7:00, it's a full moon out there, just about, an isolated shower this morning with dry conditions today, tomorrow, take it into monday, perhaps tuesday, and then rain returning late wednesday, doesn't look to last into friday but things are early. 59 half moon bay, low 60s in santa rosa, 62, palo alto, the difference between today and tomorrow, there isn't any. sunny and in the 60s so enjoy the weekend and in fact, 3:00 this afternoon, in the city, look for more sunshine with the clear conditions right on through the evening, upper 50s to mid 50s by 9:00.
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so, we're going to fast forward into thursday where we're looking at the rain pushing through the bay area. right around the evening hours, it begins to pull on out. this is friday, and we're looking dry. so, planning ahead, the accuweather 7 day forecast, upper 50s to low 60s and isolated shower this morning. otherwise, it's fair and a spring-like pattern with upper 60s perhaps near 70 on tuesday in the north bay, 60 sz at the coast and a 2 on our storm impact scale on thursday. this also could change, but looking at at least one wet and breezy day this week. we really earned that sunshine, haven't we? for sure. great weather for the parade tonight too. a big milestone for one of the worlder's largest exhibitions of books. where you can find thousands of antique books and talk to scholars. in honor of black history month, we're using our @abc7newsbayarea instagram feed to recognize people where you live. shirley gordon is a volunteer
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board member with the professional businesswomen of california. the organization's annual conversation is next month in san francisco and it's happening thanks to people like gordon. we have more information on afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me.
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controversial travel ban. could the white house draft a new executive order here? this has the president entertains japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago down in palm beach in florida. plus trump's national security adviser facing increased security this morning over a conversation he had with russia's ambassador to the u.s. before the inauguration. did they discuss u.s. sanctions against russia and was that against the law? also this morning an abc7 news exclusive, john keldy touring underground tunnels. what secretary kelly is saying about the security administration's plan to secure our borders. all coming up on gma. see you soon. this weekend is the 50th california international antikwarn book fair. thousands of book lovers, dealers, and scholars came together at the oakland marriott city center for day one, that was yesterday. it's recognized as one of the world's largest exhibitions of rare and antique books. it's a great opportunity to
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good morning, happy saturday to you. we're starting this half hour with a look at the weather. herer's meteorologist lisa argen. hey, lisa. hi there, cornell. good morning to you. here's a look at a few showers off the coast but they are dissipating and live doppler 7 will be looking at that lack of cloud cover, though i do want to pass on to you a few watches and warnings for the russian river at minor flood stage, it's at 33 feet. the flood stage is 32 is also around mark west creek where we're having some flooding there. also clear lake, lake port, at about 9.8 feet, the flood stage is 10 feet. so, creeks and streams continue to run high. it is 47 in oakland, 44 in fremont, but with a dry forecast for the next several days, we are looking at some better conditions. 50s by noontime, upper 50s for you in parts of our inland valleys and then by the afternoon, looking at mid 60s
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so, looks like a beautiful weekend for you to enjoy the outdoors. we'll talk about how long our dry weather lasts coming up. president trump is vowing to press ahead with his plan for what he calls extreme vetting of those who might be terrorists. despite two big setbacks in court, he's suggesting a new executive order could come as soon as monday. here's abc7 news senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. >> reporter: the president alongside one of america's strongest allies extending a big welcome to japan's prime minister. >> prime minister abe, on behalf of the american people, i welcome you to the very famous white house. >> reporter: but at their joint press conference, the big question for president trump, what's next after that ruling? the three-judge panel refusing to reinstate his controversial travel ban. the president promising to continue fighting in the courts. >> and ultimately, i have no doubt that we'll win that particular case. >> reporter: but he is also making it clear he's not waiting
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on the courts. >> we'll be doing something very rapidly, having to do with additional security for our country. you'll be seeing that sometime next week. >> reporter: later on air force one, the president talking to reporters. >> we have a lot of other options, including just filing a brand-new order on monday. >> reporter: a white house official tells abc7 news that is exactly what the administration is working on right now, an order related to terror that address addresses some of the concerns raised by the court. the white house also keenly aware that the president's own past statements could be used against him in the court battle over the travel ban. comments like these. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> reporter: the president striking a different tone. >> we will allow lots of people into our country that will love our people and do good for our
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country. it's always going to be that way, at least during my administration. i can tell you that. >> reporter: diplomatic words on a day when the president's international outreach was on full display. in the oval office, a very long handshake with the japanese prime minister who will spent the weekend with the trumps at their winter white house, mar-a-lago. new this morning, president trump said in thinks weekly radio address, his administration is committed to america's security. >> which is why we will continue to fight to take all necessary and legal action to keep terrorists, rad ral and dangerous extremists from ever entering our country. we will not allow our generous system of immigration to be turned against us as a tool for terrorism and truly bad people. we must take firm steps today to ensure that we are safe tomorrow. we will defend our country,
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protect our constitution, and deliver real prosperity for our people. >> mr. trump also said he met this week with law enforcement officials from around the country and pledged he and newly sworn in u.s. attorney general jeff sessions will stand with them. there are new questions about president trump's national security adviser, michael flynn. he denied reports that he had discussed sanctions with russia's foreign minister just as the obama administration was putting them in place. now he's accused of misleading the public, even the vice president, about his conversations with the russian ambassador to the united states. on the very day in december that president obama imposed sanctions on russia for meddling in the election, flynn told the russian ambassador the incoming trump administration would review those sanctions. elected officials and cabinet members are feeling a backlash from angry voters. newly confirmed education secretary betsy devos was blocked from entering a washington, d.c., school and some members of congress have been forced to cancel town hall
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meetings. abc news reporter mary brace is on capitol hill with more. >> you do not represent anything that they stand for. >> reporter: a rough start for the new education secretary, betsy devos. protesters physically blocking her way as she tries to enter a d.c. public school. a security agent escorting her back to her car. devos is one of president trump's most controversial cabinet picks, confirmed by the senate only after the vice president cast a historic tie-breaking vote. she's been criticizing for never attending public school or teaching at one but she's not the only one feeling heat. frustration with washington spilling out in town halls across the country. republican congress members facing the backlash. in utah, republican congressman jason chaffetz met with boos. chaffetz led some of those
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investigations into hillary clinton, posting this picture shaking hands with her on inauguration day, with the caption "so pleased she is not the president." now confronting 1,000 fed-up voters angry with the new administration. >> given the choice that was before us, by far, donald trump was the better choice. >> reporter: similar scenes playing out from tennessee. to illinois and georgia. in california. congressman tom kmk b mcclintock coming out but with police protection. the common thread, concerns about obamacare and what might replace it. >> and you want to take away this coverage and have nothing to are replace it with. how can i trust you to do anything that's in our interests at all? >> reporter: we asked the house speaker. are you concerned that you need to not just present a plan but sell it to the american people? >> look, we cherish the first amendment and people who are concerned and anxious, we want them to know that we want to listen to their concerns.
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we're going to be going out and talking about what our plan is. >> reporter: mary bruce, abc news washington. feeling resolved, one woman says the san francisco women's march inspired her to do more. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow shows us she's leading the way for other women as well. >> reporter: inside this home. >> i wanted to do this event as an easy entry point into civic engagement zblrks dita tow invited 80 women-a lot of us are feeling like we're not doing enough. >> reporter: to do more with a pen and a postcard. >> and i'm concerned about reproductive rights. here's why. my body, my choice. >> it is going to be so important to stick to these principles for as long as 45 is in office. >> please represent your constituents' wishes. >> no matter what they're feeling, there's probably somebody in this room that is feeling the same way. >> reporter: she says she felt inspired after attending the women's march in san francisco, the first of ten actionable
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items suggested by organizers after the march was to write postcards to their congressmen and women. >> we could sit at home and write these postcards on our own but being together and doing it and seeing all of these faces and knowing we're all in this together really helps us push forward at a time where things are very dark and painful for many of us. >> reporter: guided by a few tips hung on the wall, including to write whatever touches your heart, tow says she hopes each women here discovers her voice. >> it is not so daunting to be engaged in politics. >> i feel like we do make a difference, ultimately. >> reporter: one box full of postcards at a time. in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. still ahead on abc7 mornings, something in sunlight could help stop the spread of age-related diseases like altamont pa alzheimer's. here's a live look if the east bay hills camera. beautiful shot, san francisco,
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the bay bridge, sunrise just a few minutes ago and lisa argen's going to have what are you doing up? mom said i could have a midnight snack. it's not even midnight, it's ten forty-three.
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well, let's have a ten forty-three snack. quietly, though. okay. yeah. mmmm. shhhh. hey i'll share my yoplait custard if you share your yoplait dippers? deal. deal. mmmm. the family favorite. yoplait.
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good morning. could be a beach day in the making. santa cruz camera, beautiful shot of santa cruz beach there and might be a great day to hit the beach, right? no rain in sight, at least for a couple days. lisa argen's going to have your forecast in just a few minutes.
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happening today, san francisco giants fans get to celebrate their love for the team today. put on our orange and black, head to at&t park for the 24th annual giants fan fest, free event offers fans exclusive access to the field, photos with some of their favorite players and tours of the team's clubhouse. attending fans will also get first dibs on this year's single game tickets. lines will be long so get to the park early if you can. fan fest starts at 10:00 a.m. and ends at 3:00. going to be a great day for that. sunshine all around. yeah, vitamin d for everybody. we all need it. good morning, everybody. we're starting out with plenty of 40s. here is mt. tam with the sun up at 7:03. 44 in livermore. so this sun going to stick around all weekend long, but the second half of the upcoming workweek a different story m i'll explain next. also next, draymond green, making nba history and only scored two buckets.
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winter wonderland up in lake tahoe. gorgeous shot of heavenly. but getting to tahoe right now is a little tough. highway 50 is closed in both directions due to a mudslides and 80, well, eastbound lanes are open.
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westbound lanes remain close because of a mudslide there. so, may want to put off that trip, at least for a couple of hours. lisa argen's going to have your forecast coming up in a few minutes. in sports, kevin durant returns to oklahoma city tonight for the first time since leaving the thunder for the warriors. tonight will be golden state's second back to back road games. this is abc7 is your home for the warriors showdown with the thunder, catch all the action in oklahoma city from the comfort of your living room. coverage starts at 5:00 p.m. that's followed by "after the game" tonight here on abc7. last night, draymond green made nba history against the memphis gridslies. larry beil explains in this morning's sports. good morning, everybody. draymond green scored only four points last night, but became the first player in nba history with a rare triple-double consisting of rebounds, assists,
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and steals in memphis. it was defensive draymond who came to play. take away, leads to a klay thompson three. klay on fire early, had 14 finished with 36. now, steph curry in the corner, gets hit on the shot, four-point play, did you say up 7 after one, curry 18 on the night. draymond had seven steals until the first half. seven, rips it away from marcus saul and throwing it down. did you s dubs up 13 at the break and the steal here gives green a warriors franchise record ten steals, amazing, as draymond becomes the first player in nba history with a triple-double without the points. 12 boards, ten sisters, ten steals, five blocks, four points, warriors one 122-107. here's draymond before heading off for kevin durant's return to okc. >> any time you can be the only one of something in nba history of something good, i think it's amazing. >> that's as dominant a
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performance as i've ever seen from somebody who scored four points. so, remarkable. >> jack del rio, had a pretty remarkable season with the raiders, two years left on his original contract, but after a 12-4 season and a return to the playoffs, the team has torn up his contract and given a new deal. jack certainly a huge part of the raiders foundation of success. the pebble beach pro am continuing thankfully better weather. bill murray feeling amorous. a little kissy for you. jordan spieth plying spy glass at minus 10 tied for first. not everybody finished round 2 so they're starting bright and early this morning at 9:00 a.m. giants fan fest today, at&t park, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., free and less than two weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting, including buster posey. he will turn 30 at the end of march but the 2012 mvp and
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four-time all-star always looking for ways to improve. >> part of that has to do with being aware of your peers and looking around the league and paying attention to the guys that do things well and figuring out how they do it and deciding if it's something you can implement into your own game. >> and the abc7 news team has a new member, emer son pratt was born on friday afternoon, the daughter of our producer casey pratt, so congrats to casey, his wife danielle, little harper and new baby emerson. that's a wrap on morning sports. do not forget, warriors, thunder, here, 5:00 p.m. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. good morning to you. another ten minutes about for the official sunrise. we had a few sprinkles off the coast earlier. here's live doppler 7 picking up on what's left of that but also a big dome of high pressure. you can see carving out over the pacific that's going to move all over california eventually but for the bay area, today, it's
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nice and sunny, still some advisories to pass on to you, though. the russian river, minor flooding. flood stage is at 32 feet. it's at 33 feet and also we're looking at mark west creek that continues to be a problem with some low-lying flooding there. these advisories through the morning or afternoon hours and also clear lake at about 9.8 feet. flood stage is around 10 feet. so looking at right around flooding and flood stage there. but also the sacramento region has a lot of streams and rivers that are overflowing their banks right now from our sutro tower camera, looking at san jose with temperatures in the upper 40s, 44 in gilroy and oakland and from the beach, nice afternoon today with temperatures right around 60 degrees here in santa cruz. so, lot of nice weather to enjoy. it's 44 in livermore, 46 in concord as well as novato with 44 in napa and a live look from mt. tam where we're looking at cloud cover, a weak front passing through earlier this
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morning, but that's behind us, and we have lots of sunshine to look forward to, not only today, tomorrow, monday, perhaps into tuesday, and then looking at some rain, looks like one day we're pretty certain with the rainfall. 64 degrees will be the high under sunny skies in concord today. 62 in san jose with 63 in napa, 59 half moon bay, wow, it's about time. we have several sunny afternoons to look forward to. so the chinese new year parade today if you're headed into the city, 60 degrees at about 3:00, clear sky at 6:00, upper 50s and into the mid 50s by 9:00. we have many years where it's rained. good luck if that happens, but really no rain in sight until late wednesday in the north bay. by thursday, it looks like a rainy day. we'll see a pretty good system head our way with wind as well but then by friday, late thursday into friday, it looks to move on out of here so with a clear sky tonight, it will be chilly. overnight lows dropping off into the upper 30s from santa rosa,
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44 in santa cruz, 38 in morgan hill, 42 in fremont, and concord. the accuweather 7 day forecast, sunshine and 60s all the way through tuesday. in fact, it gets even milder as the ridge heads east and then here comes our rain, looks like a 2 on our storm impact scale for wet and breezy conditions, but it looks to move out of here by friday. so, haven't seen one of those outlooks in, oh, months. >> love the sunshine. i feel my mood changing already. could a well known vitamin you may already take help slow down aging? a study right here in the bay area has turned up intriguing new data on vitamin d. cheryl jennings has details. >> reporter: we absorb it from sunlight, just by walking out the door. and vitamin d has long been known to help strengthen bones. but could it help fight off the ravages of aging as well? >> these guys are only about two days old. >> reporter: if you happen to be a nematode worm, the answer is definitely yes.
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gordon lit go and katie are researchers at the buck institute in novato. they were using the worms to study proteins that degrade with aging. >> so in alzheimer's disease there's a particular protein that gets sticky and starts to become toxic and so if you have that protein in a worm, the same thing happens and the worm gets sick. >> reporter: the damaged proteins clump together and appear as fluorescent blobs in the worms which are genetically engineered to mimic human diseases and since researchers could track that process, they decided to perform a high speed screening for drugs that mght slow or even reverse it. >> and then we looked at what those drugs actually were and found that one was vitamin d and that's when we get role excited because we know that vitamin d has been related to age related diseases, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence that this might be an interesting player. >> reporter: they say the vitamin d not only slowed the deterioration, it also extended median life span in the worms by nrn 30%.
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they believe it works by affecting genes that impact both longevity and age-related diseases. now, worms are far from people but the results are intriguing enough that the buck team now wants to study the vitamin d effect in small animals and ultimately to learn how it might work in people. >> the big hope of this research is that we will find new ways to treat age related diseases and try to extend health span. it may be that life span comes along with that but the absolute aim is to make people healthier for longer. >> reporter: if they're ultimately successful, at least some credit will go to some very colorful and very useful worms. cheryl jennings, abc7 news. vitamin d supplements are already prescribed routinely to many elderly patients. researchers say that one reason is as we age, our skin loses ability to produce vitamin d from sunlight. coming up next, it's one of the biggest celebrations of the chinese new year, san francisco's annual parade ready to go for the year of the rooster.
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asian culture outside of asia with more than 100 groups showing off elaborate costumes, drums, dragons and colorful floats. if you've never seen it, you've got to go. abc7 news was at pier 54 yesterday as builders put the finishing touches on the floats that will be featured in this year's parade which starts at 2nd and market streets at 5:15 p.m. leave the umbrellas behind. >> you wanted to say that, right? you got to say it. >> i went a few years ago and it was just pouring rain. >> yeah. >> not this year, though. >> we got it all out of the way for a really nice weekend. upper 50s today for you in half moon bay. yeah, check it out. ponder this for a while. 61 in fremont, oakland, richmond, 64 concord, we're looking at a sunny and mild day tomorrow. a few more clouds on monday and by tuesday, we're even milder with more clouds and the wettest day and the only day so far looking pretty wet is on
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thursday. it's a 2 on our storm impact scale. breezy winds and some pretty heavy downpours. but we can handle that. >> we can and for now, we can enjoy the sunshine. lisa, thank you so much. thanks for joining us on abc7 mornings. i'm cornell barnard in for chris nguyen along with lisa argen. the news continues online on twitter, facebook, and instagram. abc7 news continues at 8:00 a.m. "good morning america" coming up next. gorgeous shot of the golden gate bridge. hope you have a great weekend, everybody. you may know what it's like to deal with high... and low blood sugar. januvia (sitagliptin) is a once-daily pill that, along with diet and exercise, helps lower blood sugar. januvia works when your blood sugar is high and works less when your blood sugar is low, because it works by enhancing your body's own ability to lower blood sugar. plus januvia, by itself, is not likely to cause weight gain
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good morning, america. new overnight, new executive order. president donald trump weighing his options this morning after that new setback in court over his controversial travel ban. >> we'll win that battle. but we also have a lot of other options including just filing a brand-new order. and as the president focuses on diplomacy this morning, the calls for national security adviser michael flynn to be suspended over a phone call. what did he tell a russian diplomat? immigration ring. the roundups across the country targeting certain undocumented immigrants. abc's jim avila has an exclusive interview with the new homeland security secretary. >> men and women of i.c.e. and homeland security in general are doing this completely legally. plus, the underground tour into the winding tunnels reportedly used by

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