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petaluma with the details. >> reporter: the petaluma boys and girls' club office is right across the street and today i spoke to the ceo here who is very troubled by the request. it's a photo of three young girls, with one young girl specifically targeted. however the site it was posted to is a child porn chatroom. this man, 22-year-old gorke was arrested. >> lots of kids use that program, there's a lot of full-time worki ing parents at that school and a lot of my friends' sons are in that program. >> reporter: goerke took a picture of that little girl and posted it to an internet
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chatroom, a chatroom that police were monitoring. police officer eric johnson says they got notification that the post originated in their justification. goeki allegedly logged in remotely to the boys and girls club system to find the victim's contact information. >> he then subsequently posted that information into this chatroom, then they used that platform in order to either share child pornography or to try and facilitate a meeting or arrange a meeting with victims. >> reporter: the boys and girls clubs of petaluma responsible for week-day programming for k through 8 students. today interim ceo david jackson said this about goerke was
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trusted and respected, he passed all background checks in 2014, and we still think he's a good person who allegedly did a bad thing. now goerke is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow morning, detectives did go to his home and con fis dated a lap top. they say that their investigation is ongoing right now. new details now on efforts to bring ann coulter to uc berkeley. a student group who helped organize her appearance backed out despite the conservative commentator's insistence that she will speak there. she had planned to speak at cal this thursday, but last week the university offered an alternative date, saying a location that was safe enough would not be available this thursday, berkeley police chief tells abc news that they're
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still planning for coulter to come to town. >> coulter may schedule an appearance on her own without the support or backing of my university of political group. just hours ago a san francisco judge blocked an executive order signed by the president that targeted sanctuary communities, the decision stems from two lawsuits, one from santa clara county and one from san francisco. abc news reporter melanie woodrow is live with reaction, melanie? >> reporter: the city attorney and mayor say this is not only a victory for san francisco, but a victory for all sanctuary cities. in san francisco, approximately 1.2 billion to $2 billion of the city's $9 million budget was at stake. city attorney dennis herrera says the court sided with san francisco on every issue in the lawsuit the city filed over president trump's executive
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order on sanctuary cities, also that san francisco would not stand by and have the constitution turned on its head. >> this is why we have courts. to halt the overreach of a president and attorney general who either don't understand the constitution, or choose to ignore it. this is why san francisco had to stand up on behalf of people everywhe everywhere. be they immigrants or native born. >> reporter: a sentiment echoed by mayor ed lee. >> this is not just a victory for the cities, but it is in my opinion, it gives a little more calm to immigrant populations, they're living in shadows, some of them are not going to school or seeing a doctor or reporting to the police because they just don't know what's going to happen to them. >> reporter: the mayor said the city had promised all residents city officials would fight fr their rights and they did. >> abc7 news was in san jose
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today where santa clara supervisors celebrated the decision. the city could have lost one-third of ills revenue. >> today's ruling is a message then that no one individual is above the law. or the constitution of the united states. not even the president of the united states. >> the county has promised to defend the decision if the president seeks an appeal. we posted the court ruling on our website, and we issued alerts on our news app when the story broke, to get breaking news where you live, download the app and enable push alerts. we're learning more about the driver of an suv who hit and injured a faculty member in oakland. the injured woman works as an instructional aid, she was standing at the back entrance of the school outside of a fence when an suv leaving a parking
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lot ran over the fence and then over the woman. we just learned that the driver of the vehicle was an unlicensed 18-year-old female student. >> it does appear as though the person who was driving the vehicle was trying to move it, possibly trying to back it up, and one of two things happened, they hit the brake or drive in instead of reverse. >> you it happened while classes were in session and the victim served severe injuries. the driver is cooperating with investigators. one picture showed a student with a noose around her neck, the page was up for two months before school administrators became aware of it. some parents say they should have been expelled. there will be public comments at
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tonight's meeting. in the past 10 days, five people have died of suspected is heroin overdoses in and around santa rosa. the sonoma county district attorney's office is investigating the deaths. nearby marin county has just started to distribute naloxone a krug that can counter act opiod overdoses. drug overdoses have ranked as the legal cause of drug overdoses in the past five years. san francisco police have arrested a murder suspect more than a month after the crime, but just days after the victim died. on saturday night, police officers found and arrested thomas neil for murder. investigators still want anyone with information to come forward. smash and grab thieves ripped off an apple store last
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night stealing 24,000 worth of products. police say about five thieves, in their teens or early 20s, rushed the store. officers came in the front as the thieves ran out the back of the shopping center. no one was hurt, there's been several of these attacks on bay area apple stores, mostly during the holiday shopping season. still no arrests in that weekend takeover of a b.a.r.t. train in oak land by a swarm of young people. a swarm of b.a.r.t. police chief tells abc7 news that >> reporter: it was a takeover similar to recent robberies where a swarm of thieves suddenly appear at a store and grab what they can and run away. it happened saturday night at the coliseum b.a.r.t. station, dozens of young people terrorizing rider on a b.a.r.t.
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car, snatching bags and cell phones, even beating some passengers into submission, then vanishing into the night. today this meeting of the b.a.r.t. advise roy committee. >> i consider it a safe system to ride. >> that's the message ableson is trying to get across, it's an isolated incident. but former b.a.r.t. chief said that putting more cops on trains would be difficult. >> when you consider that b.a.r.t. runs 50 or 60 trains at any given time, to have a cop on every train and every stargs you're talking about 100 officers there. >> reporter: out of a police force of just over 200, the big question, was it planned or spontaneous? >> to what extent did they have someone on the train, on the
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platform, before the mass group of suspects converged on the platform and train. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. says it's looking at surveillance tapes and working with police and the housing authority to catch these young thieves. they will also post a reward. wells fargo shareholders faced board members today in the first meeting since the unauthorized accounts scandal broke. >> one investor was dragged out of the meeting and he spoke directly with abc7 news about how it happened. and trading one day for another, new at 6:00, the proposal that would have made state workers give up one holiday to take another. i'm spencer christian, we have a few showers headed our way, followed by a big weekend warmup. i'll have all the details in my accu-weather forecast. a woman switches cell phone companies to get a cheaper rate, only to get stuck with a huge fee. 7 on your side g
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stocks reach record territory today, the dow climbed 200 points closing just shy of 2,100, the nasdaq set a record, crossing the 6,000 point threshold for the first time, closing at 6,025. before the recession, the nasdaq peaked around 5,000, in march of 2000, then it plummeted, in march of 2009, it started a
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steady climb frto 2,100 that we see today. a bank stockholder's meeting is usually boring stuff, but not today, reuters tweeted this picture of wells fargo ceo outside a meeting in florida where he and the board were slammed by investors, they're angry over the fake accounts that employees opened in customer's names without their permission to meet sales goals, the bank agreed to a $185 million settlement and refunded $3 million to customers. but a -- he says for demanding that they explain themselves. >> they were like deer in the headlights, they were petrified to answer any questions. so they surrounded me with six security guards and the police. and they dragged me out.
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>> massachusetts senator elizabeth warren tweeted this message, urging shareholder toss vote out every member of the wells fargo board who was around during this scam. in the end, all board members were re-elected, though the margin was slim for some, sending a message of dissatisfaction, the chairman stephen sanger says let me assure that the board has heard that message and we recognize there's a great deal of work to do to restore trust with our customers and shareholders. contra costa county is the first in the country to launch new program. laura anthony has the story. >> reporter: would you be more likely to register if you could do it on your phone? teens told us it might actually get their attention and get them
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involved in the electoral process, by registering to vote on their smart phones. >> do you want to register to vote? >> yes, because i want to complain, because people say if you don't vote, you don't have any right to complain. >> reporter: it's an appa gets kids involved in the electoral process. >> and then the number field, you just type in to vote. >> contra costa county is the first in the country to launch the two-vote program. students simply text their full name to 2vote and they get a link to the county registrar's website. >> since most of us are on the phone every day, it would be a good thing to have on the phone. >> it would be easier than having to go in and mail it in or something, i think it's so much faster and easier, and it's
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just like you're done. >> we have spent $6 trillion. >> reporter: in last november's election 15% of 18 to 24-year-olds were registered to vote, but only 30% of those actually scheduled work would have shut down merit station and led to a bus bridge. now that work will take place the first two weekends in may. and three other weekends going into july. >> good plan. we got another w we're talking got, warmth. >> and with a bunch of ws, it's a win, win, win situation. let's look at live doppler 7. we have mainly clear skies, although clouds are hanging around, but not enough to
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obscure the brightness of the blue sky there, this view from mt. tam, it's currently 60 degrees in san francisco, mid 60s in oakland mountain view and san jose. check out this view of the western sky. gorgeous. mid 60s in santa rosa, napa, novato and liver more. here's a view from our camera, looking back beyond the skyline and is clouds just showing it rather bright for the soon to be setting sun. here's our forecast picture, we'll see spotty showers, mainly up in the north bay, then we'll have a bright sunny day beginning on friday, and a major summer like warmup coming our way this weekend. let's take a look at overnight conditions, we'll see increasing clouds overnight, breezy conditions at the coast, low temperatures will drop only into
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the low to mid 50s, here's a forecast generation, starting at 4:00 tomorrow morning, notice there will be some rain already up around ukiah, ft. ross, it's going to trickle slowly southward and by about 7:00 tomorrow morning, we'll see spotty showers scattered around the bay area, but no heavy rainfall is expected. certainly no extended rain or widespread rain, but there will be some wet spots for the morning commute. we'll see the showers beginning to dissipate into the afternoon hours and by late afternoon into the early evening, it should be all over, and we'll see a little bit of clearing taking place into the evening hours tomorrow. the highs will generally range from low 60s at the coast, up to about 70 in the warmest of inland locations, later in the week vicious talked about the wind becoming a little bit stronger, it will starting thursday afternoon, follow the wind gust animation, you'll see wind gusts on the coast 40 miles
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an hour at some points and by thursday evening, we'll see some of our inland areas around the bay, picking up gusts 25 to 35 miles an hour. as we warm up, we get a wave of warmth coming up from the south, and we get pretty strong wind gusts anywhere from 25 to 35 miles an hour going into the afternoon hours on friday. here's the accuweather 7-day forecast. just a slight chance of some light scattered showers tomorrow, a milder afternoon on thursday and then sunny skies friday through tuesday, and perhaps even beyond with high temperatures getting into the low to mid 80s, it's going to be nice and warm. >> do you think we could get used to that? yeah, we'll like that. are you feeling priced out of the bay area housi
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yes, you will probably have to answer lots of silly questions from strangers. yes, this is a mind-blowing marvel of technology. and, yes, you can buy it today- because the future doesn't start next week, next month or next year... the future starts now. in the hydrogen-fueled toyota mirai. love it and leave it. this animation shows the top markets where home buyers are moving to. seattle is the most common out of state destination, sacramento is the most common in state destination. most buyers are looking outside the bay area.
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no at the at the at the at the a california ranks highest for net outflow, those looking for a home in another state. san francisco is using a technique to keep homes affordable in the city. the mayor celebrated a milestone in the small sites lending program. it provides money for nonprofits organizations to purchase housing units and keep rents low. the san francisco county land trust i -- >> you can preserve as many units as you want to invest in. this is a scaleable, actionable solution for the displacement crisis. >> the program helps deep debby strom in her house of 40 years.
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san francisco's not stopping there, the city has agreed to buy this china town restaurant and convert the site into affordable housing, san francisco will pay for the restaurant to make way for 50 affordable housing units. the coolest new delivery option has now come to san carlos, find out how this-bottlthis robot can get to your door safely without anyone inside. a secret stash, millions of dollars have just been uncovered in a hidden account run by the uiversity of california president.
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said, quote, i haven't spoken to any berkeley students about when and where i will speak because i'm still waiting for berkeley to tell me. the university hasn't announced any formal plans to make that happen, but as we reported earlier, berkeley police and officials are making plans in the event coulter does speech on thursday. a report found that the office of uc president janet napolitano kept a secret budget fund of millions of dollars. >> reporter: the state auditor found that the university of california's office of the president failed to disclose $175 million it had in a special fund. where did that money come from? it was saved because uc spent less than anticipated and yet
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asked the state for budget increases, it also created a budget to serve only some of the reserve funds and in that secret fund were $32 million from a campus wide annual charge, money that should have gone to students. >> we have a difficult time getting even the most basic questions answered, not seeing very much cooperation. >> reporter: no one in the office of the president was willing to talk to us, instead in a letter dated april 5, president janet napolitano said the true a.m. of available and uncommitted reserve is 3.8 million, the rest are earmarked to campus programs and other commitments. other revelations include salaries within the office of the president were higher than comparable state employee salaries, and they spent $21.6 million on employee benefits
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that were not typical in the public sector. and staff levels that were higher than other public universities. >> we give uc a budget every year, and we have seen through this audit, there's one unaccounted for increases in the office of the president. >> reporter: lieutenant governor gavin newsom says it's outrageous and unjust to hide funds. he stated that significant reforms are necessary to strengthen the public's trust in the office of the president. new at 6:00, state lawmakers rejected a bill that would have allowed employees to take a paid holiday if they celebrate the jewish high holiday of yom kippur. a southern california state senator wrote the b republican gaston argued that
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california should follow the example of other states. >> to not feel guilty or be encouraged to work on a day that they're not supposed to work. >> critics of the bill pointed out that state employees of all faiths are allowed to take one paid personal holiday per year. california's dmv says it's fine-tuning the rules for testing and operating self driven vehicles. right now about 200 autonomous vehicles are approved for testing on public roads. existing law require a driver to be present inside a driverless vehicle, but those rules could change by the end of this year. >> years ago, we didn't think this was possible, now we're talking about it as a real possibility. this is that next big step in letting that car have a bigger
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role. >> boosters of driverless cars believe they give greater mobility to those who with disabilities find it impossible to drive on their own. google launched it's first big public test. the company is taking applications for people to test self driving cars in phoenix. the goal is to take a waymo technician will be in the driver's seat ready to take over in case something happens. and now a way to avoid surface traffic completely. you're looking at video streamed by uber. uber kicked off the elevated summit in dallas today. the three-day conference is focusing on small cars, saying that small cars can reduce
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congestion and create highways in the sky. >> barriers have to be brokening for this concept to become as accepted and as familiar as automatic elevators. >> uber doesn't plan to build any aircraft, but someday riders can hail them through the uber app. if you live in san carlos, a robot could come to your door. a plan is under way to see it robots can help ease traffic congestion and pollution. how the robots are catching on quickly. >> reporter: on his very first day on the job, this robot is proving to be a popular site on logan street. the unnamed robot is part of a pilot by online food app post mates, to make office and home deliveries in san carlos. here you see alicia filling a lockable compartment with an order from susies cakes.
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the robot navigates around people and obstacles. it knows to pause at driveways. >> when it comes to a cross street, it looks both ways and only crosses when it's safe. we haven't had any major accidents yet, or any theft or anything like that which we take very seriously. >> reporter: a human is following the pilot for safety. the robot sends a text to the customer upon arrival, however the handler can also assist with the delivery. >> if you don't want to walk outside. we would never run up something widespread to our customers unless we can ensure that the experience is fantastic for everybody. >> reporter: the robot goes down the street about 3 miles an hour. the robots were tested last december, they have the city looking to other uses. >> we're looking to possibly
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new details and now videos are now emerging or understand dechblt -- to make room for staff members who needed to fly to louisville. now a surveillance camera captures dr. dao and his wife and then boarding the plane and then runnings off and back on. and then after the scuffle, what appears to be a bloodied officer exiting the jet way. >> it escalated in his case to physical harm unnecessarily, when he was lawfully where he was entitled to be. >> the attorney says dao suffered a broken nose, a
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concussion and two broken teeth. a newly released police report says dao fell when officers tried to take him off the plane and that's how he was injured. president trump is signing a flurry of executive orders as he approaches his 100th day in the white house. earlier he marked holocaust remembrance day by calling for a halt to anti semitism. >> we will stamp out hatred, we will bear witness and we will act. >> reporter: the white house was answering questions about former national security adviser michael flynn, flynn appears to have broken the law by not reporting payments by rush scha and turkey. ivanka donald trump took part in a women's economic conference in berlin, she
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pledged to push for incremental positive change for women. a comment she made about her father was not received too warmly. >> he's been credited with enabling a new reality. >> trump defended her father saying she knows from personal experience that he has a belief and solid conviction in the potential of women. it's "la la land" day and not just in los angeles. find
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cell phone companies are going all out to lure new customers and that can lead to some good deals. >> but one promotion led to frustration for a south bay woman. she came to who else for help? >> this is quite the story, carriers are offering all kinds of perks, unlimited data, phone discounts, this viewer agreed to switch carriers with a lower rate, but was stuck with a hitten fee. >> i saw is sprint's commercial
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that said they'll pay the disconnect fee, i said, well, wonderful. >> the ad said switch to sprint and it would pay the other company's termination fee. so she cancelled her verizon contract and present the bill. sherry took her verizon bill to the sprint store showing about $1,000 in termination fees for two lines, however she says sprint would not pay the fees. >> it was confusing and infuriating. >> reporter: sherry says sprint told her that the bill was not coordinated in the proper sequence? >> i was like seriously? you can't look from this page to this page? >> reporter: they said they wanted the account numbers on the same line with the phone numbers, so sherry got another printout from verizon but it was
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unacceptable. and that's when verizon started demanding she pay that early termination fee. when sherry returned to the store a third time she got results. the spent said that the bill had all the necessary information. sprint said we're store -- we're grateful that we were able to resolve her refund request. >> it just made a huge difference in my morale. >> sherry says she's not sure it's her persistenceor ours that got results, but sprint says they're doing more training on customer service. the number 415-954-8151. all right, tonight, a san francisco restaurant and lounge
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will bring the oscar winning movie "la la land" to life. la colonial near union square will transform into the set of the movie. these parties are popping up all over for this month's dvd release. it's officially "la la land" day in los angeles. dancers performed on the site of city hall. today is for honoring the arts. "la la land" won six oscars including best director, best actress for emma stone and best original score. but don't all celebrate by getting out of your cars and dancing in traffic. the bay area is a beautiful place to live and abc7 news viewers continue to prove it. >> matthew captured this seagull in mid flight. and it has the #abc7now which is how we found it and we were able
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to feature it on tv. >> spencer christian is here with an update. >> here's a look at live doppler 7, we have a few clouds around, but as you can see, it's been a lovely day, we may may may may spotty drizzle developing, it will be mild overnight. we'll see a few damp spots in the roadways. and here's the accuweather 7-day forecast, a mild afternoon on thursday, then the sun comes out on friday and stays out, except at night. >> that would be weird. >> it will be out somewhere. but we'll have a string of sunny days and warmer temperatures with high temperatures getting up into the 80s inland and almost 70 on the coast. that's lovely pre-summer weather. giants fans, we want mad bum
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back on the mound. >> you'll have to wait for that. >> madison bumgarner had an mri on his injured shoulder, so yes, the fuel is complimentary for up to three years. yes, it has an epa-estimated range of 312 miles. yes, you will probably have to answer lots of silly questions from strangers. yes, this is a mind-blowing marvel of technology. and, yes, you can buy it today- because the future doesn't start next week, next month or next year... the future starts now. in the hydrogen-fueled toyota mirai.
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good evening, this was supposed to be the night that madison bumgarner squared off, instead a dirt bike accident has mad out in definitely. giants did however get some good news on the mad bum front. an mri shows he will not need surgery and can start his rehab shortly. bumgarner may be back in a couple of months. here's the skipper on when the ace can begin his recovery. >> he'll start some real light work, it's going to be slow at first, so nothing major. but, you know, once things are starting to calm down a little bit, no surgery or anything. we're going to rehab this. >> steve kerr is seeing specialists at stanford to resolve his lingering headache
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issues, meanwhile the rest of the warriors have a few days off after finishing off the blazerss yesterday. with kevin durant back on the court, they exploded with a 45 point first quarter, the dubs now earn at least five days off before taking on the clippers-jazz series. >> i think they're better than they were last year. i think they're more versatile, i think they're more explosive offensively. i think they're playing with a purpose. considering what happened last year. so they're formidable. and it's going to take a great series to beat them. >> you ever want to get out in the west, you're going to have go through them. i understand that that's what it is, and they're a champion team and watching and playing against them, it's obvious. >> now the blazers social media team was also blown away by the
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dubs effort. they posted 22 to a lot after the first quarter, 48 more at the half when it was 72-48. in the third, all hope is gone. 80 to enough was the score. they also congratulated chance the rapper at oracle arena who would have been bumped if there was a game five. joe thornton underwent surgery today expected to be ready for next season. but he's an unrestricted free agent. and the same can be said for mr. shark pat marlow, who's spent his entire 19-year career on the team, marlow scored his 500th goal this season, holds the sharks record in every meaningful offensive category and says he wants to remain in san jose. >> we'll see if that's an option
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and just, you know, a lot of time here before this decision will be made. i got more than a couple of years left in me. i still think i can contribute and play and until i don't think i can do that anymore, we'll cross that bridge when it gets there. >> the clock is ticking for the raiders to reach an agreement with retired running back marshawn lynch who wants to come out of retirement. gm reggie mckinz si says it would be difficult to get a deal done after the deadline on. adrian pederson is a two year deal with added performance inseptemb inseptember -- incentives. he has over 11,000 rushing
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yards. the most popular driver in nascar is putting his car in park. he's retiring at 42. he missed much of 2016 with terrible concussion related symptoms but came back and 2017 will be his final season of driving. watch the man we're highlighting here as he goes from hero to zero in the span of 10 seconds, makes an incredible home run catch on a flatbed pickup and needs to be picked up because he falls out of the truck while celebrating his glory. this happened at a southern arkansas baseball game on sunday. >> thanks, larry. join us tonight at 9:00 on kofi tv 20, cable 16. and the device for saving premies at 9:00. and the hate crime
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this is "jeopardy!" please welcome today's contestants -- a retired insurance broker from wilmington, north carolina... a fundraising data analyst from quincy, massachusetts... and our returning champion, a software engineer from santa barbara, california... ...whose 1-day cash winnings total... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. some debuts on "jeopardy!" are more impressive than others. i think alan would qualify in the impressive category.
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$24,000 on yesterday's program, and he didn't get the final jeopardy! right. oh, another contest that is just as equal in importance for you folks at home -- the great galápagos sweepstakes. we already have one couple as our first winner. each day this week, two more people, and next week as well for a total of 20 people traveling to the galápagos islands in october. dan or meike, good to have you with us. let's go to work now in the jeopardy! round. you three get to deal with these categories... followed by... followed by... and finally... alan, start. tv roles, $200.
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