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oakland. >> reporter: they are working hard to get ready for all of those people, and this is being built south of lake merritt. this is where the rally will be held and players and coaches will give speeches and pose with the trophy, and they are working fast but you can see it taking shape here. and if you are taking b.a.r.t., skip the lake merritt and instead use 19th or 12th of the because crowds. officials are expecting so many people they say you need to choose between the parade or rally, and you won't be able to get to both. >> i can see the parade i can turn on the tv and watch the rally, and they have the music playing and confetti
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replying. >> reporter: look at this map. this is a new look from city officials on the impact zone, and from mlk boulevard over to interstate 880, this is the area you will see no parking signs and street closures, and driving in this area starting tomorrow morning will be tough. avoid this area if you can and are not planning on attending the parade. early birds will get to see beautiful lit up buildings throughout oakland, and you are looking at the courthouse, and the whole city seems to be excited about this team and tomorrow the parade is scheduled to start at 10:00 in the morning, and the rally will get started here at it's all hands on deck as the city plans for the
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>> they are going to have additional staff on hand to accommodate, and others will stay closed for the entire day. the stars of the show are getting ready for their second parade in three years. >> and already people are talking about who is going to win next year's nba final. the cavs are second best at 3-1. and the makeup of the warriors could be different, and they head into the offseason with several different free agents. and the parade will start at broadway and 11th and head near harrison and grand and wind its way to the convention center. and we are calling it dub nation celebration and it will all start at 10:00 a.m. what could be controversial with streetlights? >> the capability of lights to
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actually watch you. matt keller is live for us in san jose. matt. >> reporter: the l.e.d. lights are on here on blossom hill road and making it easier for everybody to see but those lights may soon have the capability to see more, because the city council approved a new pilot program last night. it will replace streetlights with the more cost-affective l.e.d. lights and that comes with a device to approve cell center and car counting sensors, and the devices are camera ready if the city should choose to activate that feature. what if the cameras on the streetlights were activated and aimed at things other than cars? the mayor says that's not happening. happening. >> we have no
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deploy cameras during the pilot program. >> other council members say they want to have have camera component completely disabled. the pilot program will last one year. matt keller, abc7 news. and then in court today, and this time mark peterson will appear before a judge as a defendant. this is a rare proceedings that could end in his removal of office. the judge has to appoint a prosecutor from another county to handle the case and try it in front of a jury. last year peterson admitted to spending more than $66,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses like movie tickets and clothing. and then parts of one school
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were vandalized. irvington high school principal said she is embarrassed and the responsible students will be able to take part in their graduation but not will receive graduation but not will receive their duh the attorney general under oath and in the hot seat. >> the suggestion that i participated in any collusion is an appalling and detestable >> at times, spaurbrks he recalled details of the now
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infamous oval office meeting when the president asked everybody to leave and asked james comey to stay alone. senators asked about the controversial request trump made allegedly asking him to go easy on michael flynn. >> i believe it was the next day that he said something that expressed concern about being left alone with the president, but that in itself is not problematic. >> sessions recused himself and he later signed on to recommend the man leading the investigation be fired, but tuesday repeatedly refused to answer questions about conversations he had with the president. >> i believe the american people have had it with stonewalling. >> i am not stonewalling. i am following the historic policies of the department of justice. >> attorney general sessions
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said the president has not exert exerted over his testimony. and he will provide >> this morning the notes comey gave to a friend to leak to the media are in the hands of the fbi. comey told the senate committee last week he orchestrated the leak so a special be appointed. and then we found out yesterday a 22-year-old became ill with botulism and then fell into a coma in 2016. he had been sentenced to 16
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years of hard labor for stealing a political banner. and then santa cruz county health officials say they have had nine new cases of hepatitis in the last two weeks. most cases are in homeless people in 20s and 30 and free vhepatitis can be spre through contact, contaminated food and drug use. and then controlling the cultivation and sale of marijuana. that job would be to come up with rules on where pot can be grown, sold and used in the city to prevent children from exposed to it. happening today, the f
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of a public over the next 20 years the island is expected to transition from a largely disused plot to a fully functional housing neighborhood estimated to house 20,000 people. good wednesday morning to you. we are waking up to clear skies and we'll talk about temperatures really coming up today. you may have felt it yesterday, a little breezy, but right now in the mid-50s in walnut creek and in and around the north bay. warmer for you in mountain view and san jose. so we're up anywhere from three to seven degrees this morning, and that sets the stage for a warmer afternoon. getting set for the parade on thursday, mid-60s at 10:00, and low 70s by the afternoon. let's skip ahead to friday, and we have an excessive heat watch.
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temperatures will be up to 20 degrees above average, and sizzling inland, near 100 degrees, and father's day, no relief, upper 90s to near 100 degrees. we will be looking at the low clouds and fog away from the coast the next several days, so we will get into a comfortable pattern at night, and we will talk about a detailed forecast for your next few days. looking at the roads this morning, one issue working at the moment and that's getting out of tracy. once again a. route that doesn't take much to slow it down. westbound 205 heavy, and we are getting word of a two-car crash on grant line road, but it looks like we are getting slowing there, maybe onlooker delay, and no word on injuries yet. and bay bridge, no metering lights yet and just under an hour until that happens. i am hearing we have a problem on 680 and the fremont stretch
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bay area firefighters hope this isn't a sign of what's to come this summer. crews were called out to battle two grass fires that broke out about the same time. this happened in areupb duh, and this was a tough one because of power lines and tough terrain. the second fire in vallejo, it burned dangerously close to homes. look at that. it's close to the hidden brook golf course. the fire rushed down a hillside toward a house. fire crews managed to turn back the flames. the fire scorched nearly ten acres, and cal fire and two nearby fire departments help fight the flames. and then the uber board directors made this contact. >> there's a lot of data when it shows there's one woman on the board, there's more likely to be a second woman on the board. >> the board discussed a culture
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shift at the kay struggling to deal with the claims of sexual harassment. a short time he apologized and then resigned from the board. >> and then before that, uber ceo said he is taking a leave of absence. the move came as a list of recommendations as a list to improve uber's culture. they include limiting spending on alcohol, and prohibiting the controlled substances, and banning office romances. and then federal and state law requires employers to provide lactation breaks, and it goes a lot further than that, and it provides a surface area and clean area to be provided for a best pump.
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a pwepblgut includes a policy that would guarantee on a spot to high school students as long as they meet the admission requirements. more than 31,000 students were rejected because they applied to overcrowded schools, and they are going to be now redirected to another campus that has space. and then finding out where they are going to spend summer working. they are taking part in the intern ship and most of them just 17 years old. they are applying for paid summer intern ships at over 100 silicon companies and every one of them is guaranteed a spot. >> i'm a bit nervous for my interviews and everything. >> but you have been preparing for this? >> yeah, i went through a couple classes on internships and
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resume writing. >> i am impressed by their skills, and they could be helpful for us going through the summer program. >> these 17-year-olds have their lives together. >> i was at chuck e. cheese then. >> i was working at a beauty shop. >> they will work 20 hours a week with a max of 100 hours over six weeks, and you. >> lisa, what was your first summer job? >> i was working at a ski shop and i lived in so i was getting ready for the ski season. go figure. we have a little snow here but we are go into a warm period in the next few days, and a heat watch has been issued by the weather service. right in time for the weekend, friday into sunday. it's 57 in mountain view with 49
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in gilroy. so it's clear and temperatures are slightly warmer today than we were yesterday. looking at 49 in santa rosa with 61 in concord. your forecast highlights calling for temperatures to continue to warm today and we are looking at summer-like heat at the end of the week including the weekend and triple digits saturday and sunday for father's day. here's a look at san jose where highs today should be about 80, near average, and then friday, mid-90s into the weekend, and hotter than that inland and in the north bay. and 67 in san francisco, and look for 65 in san mateo, and we will look for temperatures today at the ballpark, mid and upper 60s. and the 7-day forecast shows nothing but heat for the next several days, and maybe a little too hot. alexis has details on a crash in fremont. >> yeah, just a new problem on southbound 680, so if you are leaving sunol we can see a little slowing on southbound
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680, and this before you get to vargas road and it involved two vehicles and there weas a lot o debris in the roadway and then two other vehicles hi we want to touch on the parade for the warriors. a few tips for you to highlight right now. use 19th or 12th street stations, and avoid lake merritt station, and get your tickets today and those lines will be long tomorrow, and fur not going to the parade, you are going to want to make sure you start your commute early tomorrow. a marine biologist in santa cruz county is showing what he learned about more than two dozen juvenile great white sharks living off the beach. they were attracted by the warmer ocean temperatures, and they head to the cold
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to feed and then come back to the warm waters. when they are young, they only eat fish. >> i will still be staying away, but good to know. american airlines reverses an airline on placing more seats in. and then clearing up conclusion about his return to cal. first this morning's tech bytes. >> boarding a plane with just the touch of a finger. >> tsa is testing a system to identify a passenger with a fingerprint more than boarding passes. people are taking part precheck system are only eligib eligible. the tech giant is on an autonomous system.
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through the weekend following a massive rock slide. officials are trying to decide how to remove the debris and in the meantime anybody getting into the park will have to take 41. a man is now accused and i custody for stealing a ferrari from a dealership. take a look at the car. san rafael found it on sunday when officers found a manpowering gasoline on it. he approached them asking for money for gas. yeah, that car was stolen. american airlines is giving back an inch of leg room on their new planes. the airline was planning to reduce leg room in economy class two inches from 31 inches to 29 inches, and it ditched the plan after a big backlash.
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now american says it will provide an inch less than what they had before, but an impro improveme improvement. on southwest, they have 32 inches of leg room. and lisa and i are tall people and need every inch we can get. we are looking at temperatures, judge u.s. a little warmer this morning, setting the stage for a warmer afternoon. 57 in oakland and 48 on the coast, and half moon bay, and right now the winds are calm. i'm showing you this because it will play significantly in your forecast on the peninsula. looking at numbers going up in the upper 80s over the weekend. tomorrow for the parade, we're talking mid-60s at 10:00, and lower 70s by the afternoon, and alexis has an update on how to deal with mass transit tomorrow. >>. it's not going to be easy, and we talked about b.a.r.t. a few minutes ago but i want to
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focus on ac transit right now. bus lines will be rerouted and some of those start today. there will be at castro street and there will be ambassadors to assist tomorrow. on top of that, if you are trying to take b.a.r.t. for your normal commute tomorrow, i mentioned going before 7:00 a.m., and there are lines assisting with the parade and then half the trains coming from fremont tomorrow morning will not go to san francisco but stop in oakland and then return and go back to fremont. i put all this information on my twitter and facebook pages if you want to check that out. we have a crash in the fremont area on 680 and we'll talk about that at 5:00. and then the san francisco base-ma kulic sank.
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the wreck was discovered 300 feet below the ocean. the coast guard released this video yesterday. it was a fixture on the west coast before that collision, and the ship and the crew aided relief efforts after the big quake. the coast guard has no plans to move the mack. and then a list of students going to summer school for a day, and this photo said summer school, day one, and a whole lot of people took that to mean he was back at cal to maybe work on his degree. rogers cleared it up and said he was just visiting the campus and the football staff there and he is way too busy with the nfl to finish his degree, and he was majoring in american studies and considering going to law school. a stinky problem in one neighborhood that is ruffling
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news special report. now reporting, george stephanopoulos. good morning, we are coming on the air because there are early reports of a shooting at a park in alexandria, virginia, where members of congress were playing baseball. we have video right now showing police coming in on the scene. that is the -- there are the helicopters coming in. reports of a shooting. one report the gunman is down. all the latest from our senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: well, george, we're trying to get additional information from law enforcement and rescue officials, again, early reports about a possible shooting at this baseball practice. again, we don't have additional details at this point but we are making additional calls trying to get some information. but based on
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