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counts of attempt to sell parts of endangered animals. this crime does not rise to the level of a felony but the d.a. says it is nevertheless is a serious crime. she had a back room operation in the store where she sold illegal items to discreet clients. the store owner sicily hanson came to court hoping charges would be dropped. >> i'm a preservationest, not a mucher. >> reporter: the raid happened in february of last year after an undercover operation here at the vintage clothing store decades of fashion. federal and state game wardens seized 150 items, which they determined were from eng dangda animals. >> leopard, jaguar, endangered toured turtles. >> reporter: hanson appeared for arraignment and said she had no attorney and planed to defend
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herself and she was innocent. hanson showed me a photograph of her mother wearing a leopard skin coat, the kind of item she said was part of her collection and which she presumed was legal. >> anything done before 1972 was considered vintage. >> reporter: in court, the judge advised her to get an attorney. she said she would. the arraignment was postponed. he says the law is simple. >> the section of a body part of an endangered spes scies to selo against the law. >> reporter: he said it would be okay for her to own them but adds it was for sale. >> the warden was actually able to try a leopard coat that was offered for sale at $4500. >> reporter: hanson's defense. >> totally unaware of that so this is not untins nois not uni >> reporter: she'll get a chance
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to argue her point. next at 6:00, the family of a woman killed by toxic tea is suing the shop where she bought that tea. 56-year-old yu ping xie got sick after drinking a toxic tea blend. city officials are trying to trace the source of the tea leaves that contain the plant based toxin. the tea also made another person sick but he is recovering. well, now overseas to the terrorist attack near the british parliament in london that left five people dead including the attacker. additional armed officers are now patrolling the streets. the attacker ran down 40 people and crashed his suv and fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead. dan interviewed san francisco's fbi's top counterterrorism agent and said there is little anyone can do. craig fair says the objective is
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to get ahead of the threat. >> we plan and train with our state and local departments, local police departments and we stay relentlessly prepared for that, but we rely on members of all communities to let us know when there is a threat. >> the fbi has not increase the the alert level here. craig fair says they are always vigilant for low-tech attacks. new legal action today from last june's pulse nightclub massacre, the worst mass shooting in u.s. modern history. family and survivors filed suit against the employer and wife of omar mateen. mateen's widow nor salman han h home and family. the suit filed claims wrongful death and negligence for the attack that killed 49 people in orlando. we are on storm watch all week long. this is a live look from emeryville which looks pretty dry and clear after this morning's storm. abc 7 news was in the park this
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evening. a giant oak tree fell across oak grove avenue just before 6:15 in the morning. it took down power lines and blocked traffic. no one was hurt. the crews chopped it up and cleared the tree from the road within a few hours. pg&e worked on replacing damaged equipment, as well. napa police posted this picture of a tree hit by lightning overnight. look at that just split it in half. no one was hurt here, either. spencer christian is is here with a look at what kind of weather to expect, spencer, for the rest of the week. >> i'll show you what is happening now. calm conditions not likely to last long, maybe about 24 hours, partly to mostly sunny out there now. let me show you a forecast animation throughout the day tomorrow. starting at 1:00 tomorrow afternoon after a mostly sunny day, clouds beginning to thicken up in the north bay and they will start to thicken everywhere into the evening hours. by 11:00 we'll see rain approaching beginning push into
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the north bay. so that means friday is going to be a stormy day. the storm coming our way for friday ranks two on the storm impact scale. it will impact both the morning and evening commutes. we expect moderate t rainfall, .03, up to two inches or more of rain in the wettest spots. winds will gust from 25 to 50 miles per hour. i'll give you a closer look at the storm and when we can expect that to move out of here in a few minutes, dan -- sorry, ama? >> thank you. we're learning about a deadly confeonfeonfeonfeonfeonfe a woman said her ex-husband was chasing her with a gun. when confronted by police, the man shot himself. the woman had a restraining order against her ex-husband. an order he violated several times in the last month. eric thomas joins us live with a look at what, if anything, could have been done to prevent yesterday's shooting. eric? >> reporter: and that's where it
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ended right over there across the street with the suspec ended by him taking his own life. >> sometimes they say the law just doesn't work in these cases. a temporary restraining order was supposed to keep him away from his ex-wife or put him behind bars. it didn't. >> the truth is that studies show temporary restraining orders do act as feature violence. if somebody is not interested in paying attention, there is not a lot one can do. >> reporter: 43-year-old robert iken confronted his wife in the parking lot of her redwood city workplace. he had a gun and chased her firing at least one shot. she was not hurt. when confronted by police, he took his own life. his next-door neighbor says for the past few months he had been drinking and acting strangely. >> if he heard something or
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someone, he'd come outside with a gun. >> reporter: neighbors say police came last week and seized several guns from the home he once shared with his ex-wife and daughter but somehow got another. >> one-third of residents in california shelters have been hurt or harmed or threatened with a firearm. >> reporter: the da's office told me iken's ex-wife did everything right but there is little the system can do when an abuser refuses to obey order. in that case the victim may have to arm themselves or go into hiding. >> it's very shocking. i'm actually shaken because we had no idea. >> reporter: neighbors say they never heard fighting or arguing from iken's redwood city home. eric thomas, abc 7 news. an economic's professor is throwing cold water on the las vegas stadium plan. roger null says the financial projections in the stadium plan don't pencil out.
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he also questions how raiders' owner mark davis can afford to take on nearly a billion dollars in debt. reports today say there appears to be enough votes to approve the move at next week's owner's meeting but at this point the raiders still don't have a lease agreement, and no land and questions remain as to who will pay $450 million in infrastructure costs around the stadium. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is heading to phoenix for the nfl owner's meeting which can determine whether the raiders can return to las vegas. she'll break own raiders news first on twitter at laura antho anthony. happening now, the santa clara water district is talking about changing the anderson dam to make it safer. it could include raising the height of the dam and spillway. the dam doesn't meet current safety standards and must be kept at no more than 68% capacity as a result. currently it's at 85%.
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that is a problem. last month, anderson reservoir overflowed and partly to blame for the flooding in san jose. staying in san jose, interest federal loans are now available for flood victims. in fact, there were lines when an office opened this morning to begin accepting interest-free loan applications. abc 7 news reporter david louie is live and it's not just the homeowners but companies struggling to recover, of course. >> reporter: dan, that is true. all tests here in san jose is a good example. it lost millions of dollars in equipment and inventory in last month's flood. a small business administration disaster loan could help to save 50 jobs here. the 50 employees have little else to do than clean up flood damage. production of circuit boards stopped when coyote creek damaged $6 million in equipment. the owner is eligible to get up to $2 million in an sba loan while he scrabblembles to see w
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insurance will cover. >> i spend all my money, line of credit. >> reporter: you're using your credit to stay alive. >> whoever loan me the money, i use everything to get going. >> reporter: a temporary sba office opened today to help business owners but also homeowners and renters. julie sax owns seven apartment buildings. the loan program eases stress for her. >> you're trying to work as fast as you can, but if you're trying to get a bank loan and be working, each thing seems really expensive and there are more steps than i thought. >> reporter: landlords seen the cash flow stop instantly with no rent coming in and big repair bills ahead. >> it's a big hemorrhage now. money going out. nothing coming in. so -- with the added expense of repair. it's a big hit. >> reporter: sba can lend homeowners and renters up to $40,000 to replace personal items. the monthly payment on a $40,000 loan for 30 years at 1.8% is 140 to $150.
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qualifying is not too stringent. >> disaster was not their fault, therefore if they had shaky credit, we'll work with that, as well. we basically look at the repayment ability. if they can establish repayment ability, we'll basically be able to make them a loan. well, a big water year like one we're in now isn't just a problem for people. >> no, it's causing problems for fish. the helping hand they are getting to swim upstream. trey tables up and laptops stowed in cargo. find out what really is behind the security measures affecting airline passengers also ahead. passw
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a sink hole causing road closures for more than a year will finally be fixed. it opened up last mark. earlier this month someone threw it a one year birthday party. the town got federal money to fix the crater that grew to be 10 feet wide. they anticipate opening closed roads at the end of the month but will take them until may to finish. >> dams, waders and nets, all tools being used to help endangered fish get to the place they need to be to spawn. volunteers moved steelhead trout and fish to niles canyon. leslie brinkley joins us live from alameda creek and leslie, was today's operation successful. >> reporter: yes, it went very smoothly today. five steelhead trout who had been budding their heads up against a concrete barrier for the last six weeks got a lift ticket out upstream to their
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spawning habitat here where it's hoped the endangered steelheads will hatch some babies. five steelhead trout were netted, four males and one female. they may not sound like a lot but for this fishery manager it's a bonanza. >> a sing female can have up words of 8,000 eggs so they can reproduce quite a bit as long as we allow them to go into the proper habitat. >> reporter: that's upstream. these trout keep getting hung up in a barrier by a bart over crossing. >> unfortunately, they haven't been able to get to the good habitat since the late '60s and early '70s when the flood control projects and dams and various barriers went into the creek. >> reporter: they got a little help from human friends as the flood control district inflated two rubber pillow dams midday slow the flow.
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volunteers waded in the one-foot deep water. >> we document them and take photos. we can look at the genetic where they are from and then the park district puts a raid ydio tag o them and move them upstream. >> reporter: up next, construction of a fish ladder here so the trout can migrate upstream on their own there is local money to fund it. now they are waiting for federal permits to build it. pg and a's punish the for the san bruno pipeline explosion is hitting the public phase. tomorrow you'll see 60-second pg&e and other television stations in which the company explains offenses and how it is changing as a result. this is part of the sentence received in january for six felony charges related to the explosion in san bruno. they were put on probation
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required to complete 10,000 hours of community service and under monitoring. >> the battle over the ride sharing services reached an illegal share in san francisco. what the school is doing to ensure safety as more students use the services. >> dan, the urban school is an elite private high school in san francisco on any given morning, some students walk to school. others take the bus but more and more rely on ride share services like uber and lyft. so much so the school put up signs this morning saying no ride share on this block. no pickup or drop off between sonic and ash bury. our partner hood line was first to report on this new rule. here is a view of the blocking question using google earth. this year is the urban school and this street right here, there, that is the block where ride share services are not welcome. they did want to tell us
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something. they didn't want to go on camera but issued this statement. these services tend to stop in the middle of the block often on the very busy crosswalks connecting our campuses creating major safety issues. traffic and parking rules need to be applied evenly. you can't discriminate based on who the driver is. the urban school says despite the sign, ride share cars are welcome to use a drop off zone in front of the school, what you see there, just like private vehicles as long as they follow the rules and don't stop in random places. dan and ama. >> thank you. okay. let's enjoy the spring-like dry spell. live look at doppler seven. a few clouds but dry and pleasant and skies are still mostly sunny as you see in just a second. let me give you a look at live doppler 7 longer. you notice the thunderstorms to our northeast up north of sacramento but we haven't had stormy weather here since this morning. here is a live view from the
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rooftop looking at blue sky over the bay and current temperature readings are 56 here in san francisco and upper 50s in oakland and mountain view and san jose and gilroy and 54 at half moon bay. this is the view of clouds, partly cloudy skies from the east bay hills camera looking at a bright western sky. it's currently 56 in santa rosa and mid to upper 50s at napa, that v n navado and livermore. these are the forecast features. most of the day will be dry and bright and showers will develop tomorrow night and friday is going to be rainy and windy. let's take a look at overnight conditions before questiwe get friday. mainly clear in the north bay with low temperatures in the upper 30s. 37 napa and 59 santa rosa and little patches of fog with low temperatures generally in the mid to upper 40s and tomorrow, bright skies in the southern part of the fewiviewing area an cloudy up north and high
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temperatures from near 60 at the cosast to low 60s and rain approaching late in the day. ranks two on the storm impact scale. storm of moderate intensity for friday, the morning and evening commutes look like they will be challenging with periods of heavy rain, strong gusty wind. winds gusting 25 to 50 miles per hour at times. here is the forecast animation starting tomorrow morning at 6:00, it will be rain free in the early part of the day tomorrow but in the late afternoon into the early evening hours, we'll see rain beginning push into the north bay and by late tomorrow night, better organized up north and begin the sweep overnight through the entire bay area into the midday hours on friday. these areas of yellow represent moderate to heavy downpour so a rainy and messy day throughout the day friday. morning and evening commutes will be challenging because of the rainfall and wind. rainfall totals will range from just under .40 and up to the
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north bay nearly 2.25 and and gust animation at 5:00 friday morning. at that point, most of the windy conditions will be along the coastal areas but by midday friday, winds inland gusting between 20 and 30 miles per hour and the cost between 30 and 40 miles per hour but taper off friday night, as well the rainfall. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. well, looks like we'll squeeze out four dry days out of the next seven but friday is going top raining. sunny and dry on saturday but on sunday and monday, light rain with systems ranking one on the storm impact scale and then we got sunny and dry and almost warm conditions on tuesday and wednesday. >> spring-like. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> because it is spring. the hottest ticket in town went to bay area high school students. next, hear why part of their school day included watching
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"hamilton". cute meter off the charts. tomorrow is national puppy day and we're already in the spirit. thanks to all the of you who have shared these pictures using the #puppieson 7. ama is a huge dog lover. >> there is one getting swifter action there. >> so cute. >> tomorrow at 4:30 a.m., we'll start live streaming our puppy cam, which you can watch all day long and tune in to find out how you can give one a forever home. >> got
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. a few bay area students got the chance of a lifetime invited to watch the musical hamilton at the theater this afternoon. can you imagine? they left full of ideas, encouragement and just awe. >> abc 7 news reporter lyanne melendez spoke to some attendees. >> reporter: student performers took to the stage to show off their skits inspired by the musical "hamilton." you're on the actual stage of "hamilton". >> yes, it's crazy. it kept replaying the sound track in my head while on stage. >> it was cold but our anger kept us warm. am i doing this for my country or the money? >> it was one of several bay area schools invited to perform and meet cast members of the musical like ryan vasquez. he plays part of james reynolds.
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>> both of my parents are coming and going to be wild to have family here and to be seeing a show that they would have seen anyway, but that now i'll be in and so it's going to be crazy. >> reporter: during the q and a portion, they got advice from the pros. many students want to pursue a career in the performing arts. >> everybody always like downs me for like wanting to pursue art, so to hear somebody say it's good, is really good. >> reporter: is that what you want to do? >> yeah. >> persevere through everything. >> reporter: good advice. after lunch, in media. sorry, kathy. only students allowed back inside to watch the musical and get a thrill of a lifetime. >> it was so good. >> it was beautiful. >> reporter: in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. fun for them. >> what a great opportunity.
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governor jerry brown is in washington d.c. today. his plan to fight the looming vote by the house to fight the affordable care act and. >> just unprecedented abuse of federal power. >> strong words and it doesn't stop there. tonight, see how far richmond is taking one fight against president trump. >> chaos unleashed in the heart of london and you'll hear
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we will all move forward together, never giving in to terror. >> a message of resilience tonight from teresa may. right now westminster palace sits in the dark a tribute to the victims of the deadly terror attack. >> five people were killed, terrorists and a police officer, it started on the westminster bridge in central london when the attacker drove into crowds. >> we get the latest from molly
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hunter. >> reporter: chaos on the streets of london, police with their guns drawn as pedestrians run for safety. this eyewitness from utah telling us what she saw. >> we saw a lot of commotion, ambulances, policemen, thought it was a car accident at first and then a bunch of black detective cars came in in a line and that's when we knew it was something more serious than that. >> reporter: police say the driver armed with a knife then attacked an officer who was guarding parliament. the attacker shot by police but not before leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. parliament on lockdown, lawmakers inside posting videos on social media expressing concern. >> all of our thoughts are with the people who have been injured in this attack outside parliament. >> reporter: officials calling it an act of terror. >> the values our parliament represents, democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law, but let me make it clear today any attempt to defeat those values through violence and
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terror is doomed to failure. >> reporter: the white house condemning the attack. >> the city of london and her a m government have the full superintendesupport bringing these to justice who are responsible. >> reporter: police are locking down this area asking anyone with information to come forward as they continue to put pieces together, trying to figure out who that attacker might be. ho molly hunter, abc news london:a deadline is saturday for certain airlines to compile with a ban for laptops and tablets on cabins. it will apply to flights going to britain from six countries. similar security measures for flights from ten airports and eight muslim majority countries. abc news learned new security was prompted by intelligence about a credible threat from isis. >> tonight there is more new information regarding the trump campaign's potential connections to russia. cnn is reporting the fbi has
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information indicating associates of the president communicated with suspected russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to hillary clinton's campaign. monday fbi director james comey acre knowledged the fbi is investigating ties to russia. officials and citizens in two east bay cities spoke out today in support of sanctuary cities and against effort to crack down on them including an order from the president. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony has the story from richmond and martinez where protests made their way into the sheriff's office. >> reporter: it's a demonstration that started outside but spilled quickly into the contra cost to administration building into the office of sheriff david livingston who opposes senate bill 54, which would make california a sanctuary state. >> sheriff livingston has gone out of his way to work for the trump administration. >> is he afraid to meet with us? >> reporter: livingston was
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unavailable but a spokesman explained the opposition to sb 54. >> many state sheriffs are opposed to it. they believe it goes too far and could compromise public safety, specifically, it would prohibit law enforcement from taking to ice. >> it is an unconstitutional act. >> reporter: in the meantime, the city of richmond is going to federal court to stop president donald trump from executing a january order that threatens to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities. >> we're going to go before the third branch of government, the judiciary, who he doesn't seem to like. and we're going to ask that branch to say mr. president, the arrogance has to stop. >> reporter: police chief brown says the city's policy helps his department. >> providing safety in a city really does require actively interact with police and without fear of issues. >> reporter: as it is now, neither richmond police or
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contra costa sheriff's deputies enforce federal ingrammigration laws. >> congress takes the first vote on the effort to appeal the affordable health care act. it is scheduled tomorrow. tonight president trump is calling conservative house members trying to secure their vote. california governor jerry brown was in the nation's capital to rally opposition to the house plan, which would leave an estimated 24 million people without health insurance. >> we're talking about millions of real people getting hurt, getting diseases that will not be cured, having heart attacks, not being able to go to a hospital or get a doctor. >> house republicans are considering a provision to strip essential health benefits provided by obamacare to win over the most conservative wings. supreme court nominee neal gorsuch wrapped up today. the federal appeals court judge
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talked about key legal and political issues. diane feinstein pressed him whether it would influence him to restrict abortion. >> no one is looking to return us to horse and buggy days. we're trying to interpret the law faithfully taking principles that are enduring. >> the hearing ended as supreme court voted to over rule a lower court ruling influenced by gorsuch. in that case gorsuch ruled against an autistic student seekinged a vision ed additiona forget your password, not a question, a statement. >> michael finney explains how far away we are from a password free future. >> they say they have done the impossible and creating jobs in oakland. i'm jonathan bloom with a mouth
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tomorrow's the day besides video games. every day is a gift. especially for people with heart failure. but today there's entresto... a breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren.
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if you've had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, don't take entresto. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. tomorrow, i'm gonna step out with my favorite girl. ask your doctor about entresto. and help make the gift of tomorrow possible.
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and makes it better for the environment. they hope to get these on sale in the next tofour years. >> there is one animal alternative you can eat today, if you can find it. >> yeah, last october the impossible burger rolled out to a few restaurants and now they announced they are building a factory in oakland and hiring local folks. >> abc 7 news reporter jonathan bloom explains why it could be a sizzling force in the local economy. >> it's like meat. >> reporter: oakland city leaders can't get enough of the impossible burger. >> that looks like a burger. it smells like a burger. it tastes like a burger. it feels like a burger. my god. look at this. >> reporter: the major isn't just excited about the sizzling patties made from plants. she's excited about the plant where they will be made here in oakland. >> i really do think of it as kind of the birthplace of a new indust industry that s industry. >> reporter: the stormer stanford professor says the
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factory will appoint 80 people to start, host lomost local and more jobs. >> do you call it meatless burger, fake burger, a plant-based burger? >> a burger. [ laughter ] >> certainly not the first plant-based burger the chefs who cook say the impossible burger is fund mentally different because of how it behaves in the kitchen and in the mouth. >> traditional veggie burgers don't cook up like meat and change as they cook. they are precooked and you're basically heating them up. this actually changes as its cooking like meat does. >> reporter: that's why she says people from all over the world have come to try it. >> we use it for meat balls, we made stuffed peppers and we made sauce. >> reporter: the company's goal is to make plant-based versions of every meat just as good as animal counter parts. >> without the environmental damage of using animals to produce it. >> reporter: the major says that mission of sustainability makes
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all right. are you tired of trying to remember all of your passwords? almost impossible. >> seriously. we have good news. michael finney says big changes are coming to passwords. >> do you use a password easy to guess, say, one, two, three, four or a single password over and over again? there are a lot of us like that. >> i use the same password. so i remember it. >> reporter: when it comes to using passwords, there is a continuing from using that single one password to downloading password managers that remember pass words for you. >> i have one password that i remember, and then that's a master password that i use to access everything else. >> reporter: but no matter how you deal with passwords, you are now dealing with a system that's getting a bad wrap.
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>> well, the password is actually a pretty bad security measure. >> reporter: she says that's why logging in is changing. you've probably experienced it yourself, logins that start with a password but then demand more. >> what we have right now is factor aught then case. you might be asked a security question. you might be sent a code to your mobile phone that you enter in. >> reporter: these are actually little baby steps towards a password free future. >> eventually, we'll get to the point to skip the past word and jump on to that next level. >> so what is that next level? facial recognition, fingerprints, and the like. the hold up, companies want to make sure they are secure, consumers don't want them to be a hassle. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. at&t, verizon and other majored a
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suspending. brands are among videos of extremism and hate. they made ad policy changes but the controversy could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. blue bottle coffee is expanding to the south bay. the business journal reports blue bottle will become the first tenant in a historic build income downtown san jose that's currently undergoing a major renovation. there is no word on when the doors will open. all right. let's update the forecast nice outside but changing. >> spencer is here with the latest, spencer? >> things are always changing. here is a live look at doppler 7. clouds increasing and rain will be here in about a little over 24 hours. overnight look for low temperatures under dry conditions, mainly in the 40s although upper 30s in the north bay where it will be a bit chilly. tomorrow, clouds will start to thicken in the north bay but most of the rest of the bay area will be bright tomorrow with high temperatures in the low to
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mid 60s and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. storm stretches move in late tomorrow night friday storm ranking two on the storm impact scale. we can expect rainy and windy conditions for the evening and morning commute and dry conditions on saturday in mainly sunny skies but on sunday and monday, we'll have weaker systems moving in ranking one on the storm impact scale with light rain and showers and finally spring weather next tuesday and wednesday. sunny skies, dry conditions, high temperatures climbing into the 70s. >> very nice. you got something else you've been waiting for, spencer. shared something special on facebook that's getting a lot of attention. >> that is true. this is a picture of my newest grandchild. my grandson zackery. this is grandson number two for me. he arrived yesterday morning weighing 8.11 pounds and i can't wait to get to where he is and give him a big hug and squeeze. my facebook page is spencer christian and you can check out more on zackery and his big
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brother noah. can't wait to see how noah reacts to having a little brother to kick around. >> congratulations. >> you still kick around your brother. >> i certainly do. he deserves it. [ laughter ] on to sports. >> larry beil is here. >> some people kicking around cal because the bears need a new coach. who is cal going to hire for their basketball vacancy? great question after the top two candidates have told the school they are not interested.
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good evening. a lot going on at cal as the school looks for a replacement for the basketball coach. two of the top candidates aren't interested. randy bennett says they never really pursued the cal job and eric muscleman decided to stay at nevada. steve lauven is interested and jim les. whoever gets the job won't be coaching ivan next season. he decided to leave after his sophomore season. he surprised a lot of people when he didn't go proafter his freshman campaign and came back and cost himself a ton of money because he did not play well, at least not up to expectations. averaged 14 points and 11 boards. he's 6'11" forward projected to
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go in the first round but not the lottery pick he would have been. the ncaa sweet 16 tips off tomorrow in san jose. go gonzaga and west virginia will play at 4:40 with arizona and xavier. the wildcats and musketeers familiar. they played in the sweet 16 two years ago. arizona got the win in the game. >> to be here in the suite 16 round two of the last three years against these guys, you know, i wish it was different, but it isn't and now that i've said that, you know, the focus clearly is on both teams, the players, the great players on both teams and i think, you know, both programs vying to stay alive and trying to advance. >> the warriors finally found their groove without kevin durant. they won five straight and will host the sacramento kings on friday. last night in dallas, very encouraging signs durant was working out before the game despite a heavily taped knee. he was able to put some weight
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on that sprained knee. did some running, took some jump shots, really seems to be progressing. it's been three weeks since his knee injury against the wizards and he will be reevaluated next week. the worries hope k.d. can return for the final couple games of the regular season. nba quick to handout punishments in the brawl between the bulls and raptors. two suspended for a game for throwing punches at one another. neither landed and raptors assistant coach also fined 15 grand for pushing a player while trying to break up the fight. barry bonds all smiles talking about his role with the giants. he's a specialed a ed a vadvis ceo. san francisco's home and feels this is where he's supposed to be at this point. it's been ten years since barry played for the giants. he served as the hitting coach with the giants, he'll work with young players and serve as a community ambassador. >> sometimes you, i believe, you need to get away from the game as a player, as well and regroup
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on everything. you know, think about all that's gone on, what's gone around you and, you know, you need time to mature yourself and realize what is best for you. and, you know, i've been away for quite sometime and i have -- i had opportunity to coach for the marlins and stuff and i really -- i feel like this is ee what i'm supposed to be doing. >> giants and brewers in cactus league inning. denard span crushing it off of jimmy nelson here. two-run blast and giants down 3-2 at that point. dennard says he thinks he'll have a better year this season than a year ago and in the in th seventh, wa ng pinch hitting an giants win 6-4. how about the a's playing the white sox? first inning. steven vogt knocking in ryan heelly and khris davis. the a's win it 5-3. i bet you barry bonds could step in right now and probably out homer just about anybody. >> yeah. >> i mean --
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>> he looks great. >> over 50 years old. i put my money on bonds against anybody. >> thanks. >> join us tonight at 9:00 on coffee tv 20. new life for some old christmas trees. how they can help rebuild a wet land habitat. on abc 7 news at 11:00, terror in london as passengers board their flights despite today's attack on the westminster bridge. here is the lineup tonight on abc 7 at 8:00, the goldbergs followed by speechless, modern family and blackish. at 10:00 p.m. an all new designated survivor and stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00. >> at 11:35 is jimmy kimmel live. that is this edition of abc 7 news here at 6:0 och0. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. for all of us, thank you for being with us tonight.
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