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morning. the house will vote on the measure that could be the first step on repealing and replacing the affordable care act. this morning we are already hearing from angry democratic leaders, and they say the plan will have a negative impact on millions of americans. today 216 votes is what it will take for the plan to pass the house. ready to vote after face-to-face ready to vote after face-to-face lobbying by donald trump, and last-minute amendment to help cover pre-existing conditions. >> we brought this to the
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president and we are both yes, sir on the bill. >> the democrats on the attack. >> this is deadly. trump care means heart-stopping premium increases for americans. >> hundreds of leading patient and health groups are speaking out against the bill. the american cancer society calling the changes particularly egregious. people with pre-existing conditions are able to obtain coverage at all. >> if the bill passes it's on to the senate where it will face a tougher fight. organizers are scheduled to rally against the health care bill today in san francisco. the rally will be held at noon and the b.a.r.t. station there in front of dianne feinstein's office. the last step before a jury
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decides he is guilty of murdering. the defense wrapped up closing arguments yesterday. torres is accused of kidnapping and killing lamar five years ago and her body has never been found. and then a hit-and-run that seriously hurt two teenage boys. the boys were walking across the street when they were hit yesterday. the driver appears to have run the stop sign and no word on the boy's condition this morning. police investigated a suspicious package last night, and san fancisco officers shut down the area and offered a shelter in place. and officers gave the all-clear just before 11:00 last night. authorities are investigating the death of a teenager hit and killed by a train. it was near grant and railroad avenues yesterday. the 16-year-old was riding his
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bike near a bridge and his principal says principle and staff are devastated. >> he had a big heart. and he was able to earn the support and loyalty of everybody around him. he will be incredibly missed. we are all incredibly heartbroken. >> police are look into whether the student was wearing ear buds or anything that could have affected his hearing. a community hearing will be held in the upcoming days when a man was shot by the police. two officers were walking when two officers were walking when they saw the suspect employee. the victim is expected to be okay. this is the first officer involved shooting since officer
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scott took over. police have not confirmed if there is footage of this incident. a big announcement from the royal family this morning. prince phillip is stepping down from public life. buckingham palace said he will stop accepting public engagements in september. no word whether this might be connected to his health. he was seen at a public event just yesterday and seemed to be fine. before we knew what the announcement would be overnight there was a social media frenzy, people all sorts of guesses from a desk to an engagement. and police are asking the public to help them find coata, this 14-year-old scottish terrier was stolen along with the car he was in days ago. the owner has put up a $500
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reward and the dog needs medication every day. and then attack victims are suing some of the biggest names in social media. several families filed suit against facebook, google and twitter and they claim the companies knowingly supported isis by helping build its online campus and helping the attacks like the one in san bernardino. similar lawsuits have been thrown out by the coats which found the companies not liable for what users post. can you see a lot more drones flying around san francisco soon, and the fire department, the port of san francisco, and the recreation and parks department and the public utilities commission and the office of the controller and each department will have to draft their own specific policies and reasons for using drones. based on political and public pressure the mayor of
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oakland is backing away from a tax measure. the residents threatened to campaign against her re-election. she wanted to divert tax money to close the city's budget deficit and had a change of heart after getting an earful from the public and the council. officials say this kind of scene is going to last for days. a levee breach on the black river in arkansas left many homes and churches underwater and check out this video that a woman captured. woman captured. >> i'm freaking out! >> yikes. that was a cabin swept away in the floodwaters on tuesday after hitting the bridge and getting hitting the bridge and getting crushed while the rest of the
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side and floated down the river. here's northeast arkansas on live doppler 7. still raining there. good news for those folks, no more rain on the way today. they will get a week to week and a half of dry weather. usually that's where we see emeryville and oakland here, but can't see it because of the clouds. if you are a commute planner, there's patchy and dense fog out there and it's going to be nice and comfortable today. this is probably what you have been waiting for if you don't like the heat. temperatures up to 9 degrees cooler this morning, and that puts up in the mid to upper 50s on the peninsula until you get to the coast side. pacifica, 49, and half moon bay at 50. we are still in the 60s in the east bay valleys and into the south bay. saturday morning, looking quiet.
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by noon we have a few scattered showers across the north bay with the northwest prevailing. see the scattered showers develop during the afternoon hours. and they continue during the evening hours and once the sun sets notice the chance of the scattered showers. a couple hundreds of an inch of rain is paus only a widespread manner, so don't cancel your plans. so far so good on the roads this morning. no major issues to worry about, just the usual spots starting to fill in and slow down here. westbound down. southbound 680 wide open here in walnut creek. we have fog out there, and we'll talk about that more coming up in less than ten. and then activist concerned this morning after new numbers show how much the nsa collected
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privacy activist. according to consumers.com the nsa collected more than 100 million phone records last year, and privacy activist say statistically thinking 151 million records had to come from many more than 42 people. the justification is many records include multiple calls made to and from the same numbers. sparking people's tempers in one district, and abc was there during dueling demonstrations.
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>> an empty storefront in the district, and remnants of a drugstore inside and outside. >> same on you. >> hot tempers and an appearance from a former oakland mayor is in the mist of a san francisco neighborhood fight. they would be the owners of the dispensary. >> did you think it would be think difficult to open a dispensary? >> no. >> no. >> the opposition to our dispensary of hate. >> demonstrators over here, and everything orchestrated. >> i can't understand it. them talk about using it. it's horrible smell. >> among their concerns th
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d dispensary would open near a church with an active day center, and there are worries about drivers under the influence of cannabis. >> what is the real problem with a dispensary in the neighborhood? what problems have they caused compared to a electrhreb >> to be determined. apple complaints it's responsible for 2 million u.s. jobs. tim cook says apple formed a $1 billion fund to promote manufacturing jobs across the country and the company claims all its main products like the iphone and iwatch contain materials from the u.s. or made
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from u.s. suppliers. and ordered to pay off after losing a lawsuit. they say she was harassing and illegally evicting them, and then she was sued and a judge ordered her to pay $2.4 million in penalties and she was ordered to stop having contact with her tenants. new this morning, a southern california family says they are outraged at them getting kicked off an overbooked flight to lax. they say they just wrapped up a vacation in hawaii and everybody was buckled up and ready to go when they were told they would have to give up their son's seat. >> you give up the seat or you're going to jail, and your wife is going to jail and they
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will take your kids from you. >> he says he was furious, because he paid for the seats. he bought the ticket for his 18-year-old son and the teen ended up taking the earlier flight home. they were going to use the seat for one of the toddler's instead and it was not a problem until the flight got full. and we reached out to delta and so far no response. on twitter this morning, people are going wild with this. the warriors are finding out how expensive it is to live and play here in the bay area. arena officials say it's the cost of doing business. the team owners say they are fine with it. the contract requires the dubs to stay in oakland for two seasons and should get final approval next week. and then the warriors took and then the warriors took the 2-0 lead in t
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the jazz. send us your videos and pictures during the playoff, just use the #dubson7. and it's perhaps not the time to wear the sleeveless shirts -- >> we need to launder those anyways after the last couple of days. >> i am working on the tfinishig touches and we will have that forecast coming up in six or seven minutes. you can see on sutro tower, the fog rolling across san francisco. it's back, and that means record highs over. weekend showers, the best chance saturday and seasonal highs all next week. this trough of cold air stretches all the way up to alaska pushing this high pressure and opening the door as it moves off the east to the cooling. upper 70s to low 80s today in san jose, and then in the south
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bay, 80 degrees, specifically in san jose. only 68 in millbrae. temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s for most of the coast today when the clouds will be more dominant than yesterday. look at this in san francisco. 82 yesterday. 65 today. hope to see a lot of smiles and people acting like joey. joey is doing the dance right now. hopefully you are happy with that. mid-70s to 80s in the north bay. we have 71 in berkeley, and oakland, 73. 78 in fremont. still a little warm there. low to mid-80s through most of the inland and east bay neighborhoods. didn't get the cool weather this morning, but everybody gets it tonight. temperatures in the low to mid-50s. here's my accuweather 7 day forecast. over the weekend we have scattered showers. we will take a longer weather at the accuweather 7-day forecast along with the warrior's forecast.
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>> i got my warriors blue on this morning, mike. for golden gate bridge, the flashing lights you are seeing are the trucks, and it's one of those days to slow also have the visibility layer on top of the traffic map, and we are seeing some on highway along the coast and how the of half moon bay, you can see foggy driving conditions. in the north bay as well, 101 and state route 12, keep that in mind, the brighter the white the denser the fog. that's how you look at that. we do have bridge inspections that could slow you down in the vallejo area, and we'll talk about that more coming up next. a class action lawsuit moving forward over delayed baggage fees and how it could impact you. and then just in the game of streaming live football. right no this morning's tech
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bytes. >> google is taking steps to fight a phishing scam. google says if you receive an e-mail from somebody asking you to open a google dock and you don't know the sender, don't open the e-mail. >> and zuckerman is taking steps to remove unwanted videos and they are hiring 3,000 more. >> a majority of households across the country with no land lines in fight. >> 54.8% homes have gone strictly mobile. strictly mobile. >> and that rate raises
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where teams compete to make the right decisions about safe food preparations. our challenge in this round -- read and follow package cooking instructions, and use a food thermometer. let's see how our teams are doing so far -- team 1? we just got 100 points. we separated our raw food from our cooked food. team 2? we got a 100-point green card for proper hand washing before our meal prep. referee: we've reached a critical safety point in the challenge. okay, team 1, let's check this out. uh-oh, not a safe internal temperature for those hamburgers. that puts everyone at high risk for food-borne illness. you get a red card -- undercooked. always read and follow the package cooking instructions and use a food thermometer. let's see how our winning team cooked it safe and avoided problems. well, i just kept focus on the four food safety steps -- clean, separate, cook, and chill. and we followed the package cooking instructions and took the temperature.
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can you cook it safe? ♪ when you recognize something isn't right, make the call to the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. welcome back. i want to show you what i am seeing here at the live desk. this is a live look at houston, texas, in the area right now where a restaurant has gone up in flames. you can see all that smoke coming from where the restaurant once stood. i also want to show you images from just a few minutes ago, and you can really see those flames when they started to pick up and this is in harris city, just outside of houston, and it's a barbecue restaurant to be exact. our sister station in houston reporting firefighters going to
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let this thing burn out because there's not enough water hydrants in the area, and so this is a total loss and as we look at the dilive image, you c see it's just smoldering. no word on if there are any injuries, but i will keep an eye on it. back to you. >> thank you. the east bay man accused of killing his wife pleasded not guilty. the public defender wanted to delay the arraignment until later today. police tracked the man to martinies and that's when a 19-hour standoff ensued. police took him into custody friday afternoon. and then a federal judge ruled against american airlines in a case where passengers demanded a refund for a checked baggage fee. that case stems from 2009, when the passenger flew on us airways
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that became american, and the passenger's bag arrived a day late and she wanted a refund for paying the fee to check it and a lower court rejected the suit and now american airlines is reviewing its legal options. more than 130 recruiters are going to be at a job fair today and it's being held from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the still city college of san francisco's mission center auditorium on valencia and 22nd street. some of the companies will be at&t, and starbucks and, look at that, abc7. san francisco restaurants will be featured on the cooking show. >> this is san francisco. >> cheers. >> and hosting one of the famous irish coffees, and they chowed
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down on chicken. catch today's episode right here on abc7 starting at noon. i have eaten at none of these places, so i need to step up my game. >> the irish coffee. love those. so good. i have not eaten at a lot of those other places either, so we need to get together and do that, maybe today. hi, again, everybody. you can see the marine layer and its influence. oh, my, look at the temperatures. 11 to 17 degrees cooler than yesterday and all of the record highs in san francisco, san francisco, and dublin city and there's more than that, 65 at 7:30 as you are walking into oracle and 58 as you are coming out after another win and that's a promise of a longer look at the forecast. you can see 50s and 60s on saturday and back to average by tuesday and wednesday of next week. i am going to take you to traffic, and we have inspections
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today and tomorrow on the bridge, and today won't slow you down too much between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. will shift one lane of traffic, and you can add to the north just a bit and use the state route instead. tomorrow they will have to fully close that, and so 37 is your best bet for that alternate. we will see how the bay bridge looks coming up. we remember the massive power outage in san francisco recently, and that issue has highlighted into bigger problems. problems. san francisco just approved ♪ ♪
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good morning, east bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is "abc7 mornings." >> it's a thursday morning and we are coming up on 5:00, and look at that picture. if you are tired of the heat, it's out of here. hello fog. i stole that line. hopefully we say cool as we saw record high temperatures yesterday. >> and in the commute you could be dealing with this, a lot of fog. we have a dense fog advisory for golden gate bridge this morning. good morning to you and thank you for being here. mike, this is a drastic change. >> some places up to 20 degrees cooler today and a show of hands who is going to sleep better tonight? yeah, everybody. >> my hand did not go up. i like this. >> i will miss the sunshine. >> we will talk to reggie in a moment. some of the most dense fog in petaluma, so be
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