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good evening, i'm kristen sze. >> oak police and federal officials say what happened at the home involved potential crimes against children. >> laura anthony is live at a house. laura, a demonstration is just getting started. right? >> reporter: that's right, kristen. there are a few people here as we speak, we can show you behind me. this is 27th street in west oakland. they are here because they're concerned what they saw this morning looked like an immigration raid. but local police and federal officials say it was something that was motivated by something much different. >> my family is devastated. they took two family members. >> reporter: gloria says she was asleep when federal agents convernld on her families home in oakland on 27th street and took away her brother-in-law and adopted brother. >> we we heard noise i woke up, everyone went outside. >> reporter: oakland police were on hand to do traffic enforcement.
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they say the raid, itself, was performed by homeland security investigations, a division of u.s. immigrations and customs enforcement. >> they were serving a federal criminal search warrant. that federal criminal search warrant is in connection with human trafficking. now, human trafficking with children involved. >> my family is a hard working family. >> reporter: she says her family is from guatemala, runs two businesses and is not involved in illegal activity. >> they're my neighbors. they're a good family. they were working on my cars. they run a janitorial service. they're good people. >> reporter: the involvement of homeland security prompted protests by activists concerned that this morning's action was an i.c.e. raid, oakland police says as a sanctuary city they would not have participated if it were a deportation action by the next. if oakland, laura anthony, abc 7
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news. an oak cupsome hours away from being deported. there appears to be little hope to change. that highland hospital cancer nurse mendoza sanchez and her husband are set as to board a plane at sfo to mexico. last night immigration officials denied their latest request for a stay. immigration attorneys say the sanchez' entered the country illegally and fell victim trying to play by the rules. >> had they never sought to obtain a formal benefit, we wouldn't know the family existed and i.c.e. would likely not know about their whereabouts or enforce the laws against them. >> the couple's 12-year-old son, a u.s. citizen will go with them. their three daughters, ages 16, 21, 23, will stay behind. today senator dianne feinstein said, quote, this is a travesty, plain and simple, and evidence that donald trump's immigration
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policy is nothing more than a hateful deportation program, targeting law-abiding families. feinstein vowed to keep fighting for the family to bring them back to the u.s. well, this was the scene last night. flames racing through a mobile home. we now know the fire killed three people, including a girl visiting her friend. it happened yesterday at the golden wheel mobile home park. abc 7 news reporter chris wynn has identified all three victims. pictured here are ten-year-old linda van and her best friend and her uncle also died in the fire. here's chris' report. >> reporter: a artie broken family, trying to find the strength to carry on. this afternoon, ten-year-old din i linda van was identified as relatives as one of three victims in yesterday's tragic fire at the golden wheel mobile home park in san jose. >> i want to say i love her and miss her a lot. >> reporter: speaking on camera, only to abc 7 news, her oldest
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brother says she was getting ready to enter the 5th grade t. first in the family to be born in america. >> she liked to dance and singing and set like temperature, but with ler and her friends. >> reporter: tragedy struck just after 12:30 tuesday afternoon, after neighbors reported an explosion and saw the flames. >> it shot like pow, pow. not, when i we heard the pow real loud, i we heard screaming and that's when i ran out. >> reporter: some attempted to help. but the scene became too intense. >> i tried to pull hoses from everybody's yard, everybody says you got a short hose. i went home and grabbed a spout with power to spray. >> family members say van was visiting her best friend, a young girl who lived in the park being looked after by an older relative they are trying to see if the home had working smoke
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detectors. >> when a fire, you know, is ignited in a mobile home par par goes up quick. >> for now it's too early to pinpoint the causal me da county fire posted this oinsta- it scorched part of a hill. a helicopter and two air tankers and two dozers joined the fire department at the scene. it chard about 6 acres toempblts an overturned tanker truck spilled gas and diesel in sonoma county. last night they responded on highway 1 in timber coffee wet of hills bumplth you see the tanker rolled on to its side, ruptureing the tank filled with 8500 gallons of fuel t. cleanup lasted well into today. crews punctured the tank and
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transferred fuel to a recovery truck. well, in santa rosa, residents in nearby homes are calling out the fact some unwelcome neighbors have moved. they were homeless and firmly planted on a city-owned hill. not anymore, wayne freedman is live with the story tonight. >> good evening, anybody that lives in the city knows this is a universal problem, homelessness and camps. this hymn right here, this time last week was filled with people. not anymore in santa rosa. the fire department called it a disaster waiting to happen. the police department said, this was a cesspool, creating crime. now the city of santa rosa is declaring this a victory. if you've ever wondered how messy human beings can be, take a look from drone view 7 of this notorious terrain above santa rosa, the place they called homeless hill. >> is it good that it's gone? >> i think so. >> reporter: today the 28
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residents who lived on homeless hill as late as yesterday are in a shelter, miles removed from the workmen and police and firemen, who spent the last month coordinating a plan to reclaim this place and maybe also the desperate people who filled it. by convincing them to leave for their own good. >> you saw a moment ago. we walked past a bucket of dead rats and a pile of vomit with bees on it. so the health concerns were extreme. >> reporter: the smell of this place is overwhelming. the terms of describing it, we'll leave it at that. this is the lower sx. it goes on and on. you get a sense, the size of the place, you need to walk it. about 100 yard up the hymn, this is the top. imagine tent after tent a few days ago, we're talking acres, fought days to clean this up but weeks. the city committed half a million to this cleanup on the human side jenny lynn homes coordinated it for catholic charities. >> is there a model for it?
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>> i think we're creating it. >> they left willingly, as of now, all remain on the sam jones hall center. they include amanda freedman, who has lived on and off the streets since 17-years-old. is this a better place we ask? >> it's a community. it's homelessness, it's not great. we have heat. >> reporter: now no people. for the first time, in 15 years. from homeless hill in santa ro sarks wayne freedman, abc 7 news ampbts santa rosa man faces gun charges following a traffic stop a. sonoma county sheriffs deputy arrested 27-year-old cory upchurch after finding two rifles in his car. both have flash suppressors and pistol grips, making them illegal to possess t. deputy also cited upchurch's girlfriend after allegedly finding syringes and a small amount of methamphetamine in her backpack. san francisco police
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arrested a security guard today after he shot a suspected shoplifter during a scuffle yesterday. police say the two got into a struggle at the burlington coat factory store at 5th and howard streets. the fight spilled out into the street. the guard shot the man in the leg. he suffered non-life threatening injuries. the highway patrol hopes witnesses come forward after another shooting put lives at rick along the bay area freeway. the latest shooting happened late last night near highway 92 in hayward. one person was injured by broken glass. this is the 100th shooting like this on bay area freeways since november of 2015. investigators don't know if last night's shooting is linked to one along 880 in san leandro. a man remains in the hospital after being shot in the head in that incident. what turned out to be a fatal mistake. the shooting death of a movie
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scout in san francisco. his family wants someone held accountable. >> my brother had to die to prove that the system is >>. also ahead, the phone battery recalled because it could lead to a fire. and prepared for the solar eclipse. area builders who won't be blinded by the light. >> i'm meteorologist sandy sandy patell. plus a
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♪ ♪ isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can. family and friends of a photographer killed on twin peaks say they want accountability for the mistaken release of custody, one of the accused killers days before the fatal shooting. ed french died after being shot during a robbery at the popular
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lookout last month. vic lee is live in the newsroom with the story. vic. >> alreadiry french says she is considering legal action to make that accountability happen. with all the proceeded going to the film-making community, which her brother loved so much. >> my brother is dead for all of their screwups. >> losing somebody to such an insane error. >> reporter: lori frin contractor french and his good friend, they still can't believe le monte mims, one of the two murder suspects was mistakenly released five days before the shooting. the city's pretrial diversion project uses a form with nine questions to assess whether one should be released or go to jail of an arrest. mims was to be arraigned on firearms charges on july 11th. the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney met with pretrial diverse staffers who showed their their risk assessment store for mims.
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question, did mims have a prior sentence for which he served time? response, no the correct answer should have been yes. he had served three months for violating probation on a felony burglary conviction in san mateo. relying on the accuracy of the assessment, the judge released mims with certain conditions, five days later, the murder of movie scout ed french at twin peaks. >> ed was essentially ambushed and killed for a camera over a one-popt error on a math test. >> reporter: they're angry at the prosecutor and the illegal process. >> nobody opposed it. that's thank you, d. a.. and then the psa just to come out and say, yeah, we made a terrible mistake. >> reporter: lori french is referring to this letter sent yesterday by the led of pretrial diversion to the judges saying if the assessment was correct, they would not have recommended release. >> a planned free speech protest
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march on the google campus has now been postponed t. rally's organizers says they have been receiving so-called terrorist threats demanding they not hold the march t. protests were organized after the firing of google engineer, google maintains his memo arguing women are buy logically less suited to working in tech, violated the values. the march was supposed to happen on saturday on the rally's facebook event page. they called the threats credible. so the smauch postponed for the time being. residents in one north bay city can expect to sigh their garbage rates go up by more than half. santa rosa customers will pay more than 60% more under a proposed contract. a typical customer would see their bill increase by under $10 per month to $27. these new rates are set to go into effect january 1st. >> at samsung galaxy phone is
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under recall again for risk of catching fire. >> this recall comes nearly a year after samsung pulled its galaxy note 7s off the market. some caught fire or exploded. >> michael finney is here with more on that. >> on and on. this one is different, though. this recall involves refurbished phones that may be with counterfeit batteries. they can cause a heat and catch fire. last year, they recalled note 7 phones after some caught fire or exploded. the blamed defective batteries. this time more than 10,000 refurbi refurbished. they are recalled, because batteries may catch fire. they had been distributed by a fedex supply chain. they received one report of an overheated phone and found that that battery was, indeed, counterfeit. that was enough to prompt today's recall. it affects only phones given out under an at&t insurance plan
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from last december through april of this year. i have all the information, if you want to look up your phone, go to my facebook page. if you have a robo-call, i should say, if you received a robo-call promising you a free cruise, having a hard time with this, who hasn't received one of those? you may get $900 for putting up with these calls t. resort marking group and several cruise lines, settled a lawsuit claiming they made millions of illegal robo-calls as a part of the settlement. the companies will set up a funds of more than $12.5 million. apple had claims of unwanted calls from 2009 through 2014. anyone who received an illegal robo-call can claim $300 per call up to three times per phone number. now you can check eligibility by entering your phone number into a claim form. i have, of course, posted a link on the facebook page. so you can see if your phone number is included.
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the federal trade commission charged a grown-up of marketing companies with illegally taking money from consumer's bank accounts. consumers thought they were applying for pay day loans. they enrolled them in discount coupon programs. the ftc says they took automatic withdrawals from the victim's bank accounts. they say they took initial fees up to $99, monthly fees up to $19 bucks. none of those were authorized. the customers for the most part did not use the discount coupons. >> we need your form, thanks. well the great american eclipse is days away now, it's creating an unusual demand. >> we went on to welding goggles for about a week now. sorry about. that good luck on your journey. >> scott bay runs a welder's supply company in walnut creek and calls for goggles and welders class, he is totally sold out.
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they have the gear to do it. but they warn that not just any welder's glass will do here. you need welder's glass number 14. >> and this by itself would not be good for looking at the site. >> so you think -- >> you would have to take this into some other shield to safely look at the sun. >> yeah. take it from a guy who knows how to stay safe. >> you know, abc news will have extensive coverage of the solar eclipse, including live local reports. which begins monday at 10:00 a.m.. now your accuweather forecast. >> and i know the million dollar question is, will you be able to see it here in the bay area? we will talk about that in just a moment. right now bs let's talk about the solar eclipse. it begins at 9:01 monday morning.
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maximum eclipse takes place at 10:15, 75% of the sun is eclipsed. here's a breakdown of where you can see totality. have you to go to salem, oregon. if have you the ability, head up there. you will get a great view. as you look around the west coast here, we are right sort of in the middle of it. 75%. so we should have good viewing conditions inland. here is a rough idea of what's going to happen in terms of the cloud cover. so 7:00 a.m. monday before the eclipse begins. there is a system that will be parked off our coastline. it will throw up some clouds. we will see low cloud cover before the eclipse begins at 7:00 a.m.. notice the bay will be dealing with the cloud cover so if you are inland, that will be your best bet. we go into 11:00 a.m. the thing with this is the more precise models will be coming in over the next day or two.
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when we have those, we will give you a much better idea. overall, you get the general idea. away from the coast line. when you take a look at our abc 7 at pire 16, san francisco sitting at 67 degrees, in the 70s from mountain view to san jose. half moon bay, santa rosa, along with fairfield the '80s for concord and livermore. it is a little warmer today. we will continue with that theme. live doppler 7 showing you, most of you are dealing with sunshine, there are a few spots where we are seeing cloud cover. in the sierra, we are seeing thunderstorms t. area of low pressure, is heading off to the east. this is what we are getting out of it. it is pulling up moisture, a beautiful view, looking at downtown san francisco, fog near the coast and the bay in the morning. we are looking at cooler weather sunday and monday.
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here's your hour by hour forecast, ifge into tomorrow morning's compute. there will be some fog around the bay as well as the beaches. we head towards 10:00 a.m., most of you will be seeing sunshine, we go through the afternoon hours, i think the coast will be not as clear as it was today in many parts. you have to deal with more fog lingering. temperatures in the mid-50, some of have you gone back to school. some of your kids have gone back to school. obviously, this was a good idea to make sure you have the layers. it starts off cool tomorrow morning. for the afternoon, get rid of the layers, upper '80s to low 90s. it is a warm day inland, temperatures in the 60s. you can download the accuweather app. keep track of the hour by hour, minute by minute temperatures and check out the accuweather 7-day forecast. temperatures near average, mid-60s to low 90s. we bump up the numbers a few degrees around the bay and inland. then the second half of your
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weekend, you begin to see the transition to a cooler pattern, solar eclipse day monday. it's going to be below average again, low 60s to mid-80s. we will duplicate that tuesday before our temperatures bounce back on wednesday. so kristen and dan, all eyes on the solar eclipse monday. >> hopefully. bait and switch off the
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and abc news viewer september us this picture of dead fish washing up on the shores, this has been going on for a while. there was another dieoff last week. two weeks after the one before that. water officials say a shortage of oxygen from algae and warmer temperatures are to braham. pets and kids are advised to stay out of the water. as long as people have been dumping plastic trash into the oengs. sea creatures have been eating
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it. scientists at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration say it's because the smell of plastic also smells i can food. researchers say this is the first real everyday the capital signature of plastic debris is attractive to marine life. each are known to be malnourished and have bad livers. >> google las a chance to win an international prize depicting emojis in a variety of professions, london design museum has nominated them for its design of the year contest. google created the new designs last year, that followed criticism that google's emojis showed men, but women performing tasks like painting their fails. apple plans to heat up its competition in the online video streaming game. cooperty no based apple intends to spend $1 billion in the next
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year on original programing. apple hired two teleinvestigation executives to oversee the buying and creation of this content. the immortal bruce lee. >> martial arts icon and how his
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♪ ♪ isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can.
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>> coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00. the i-team talks to an organizer of a right wing rally coming to san francisco if ten days. prepare to be surprised. it may be easy now. it wasn't always, a look at decades of eclipses and the work done by a bay area team to bring each of them to us live. >> that is the third time the charges of 7 on your side tried to get a delivery twice. didn't have her furniture. >> that is coming up on abc news at 6:00. kristen, dan. the san francisco hospital where bruce lee was born is getting a bst from a new movie
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based on lee's legendary fight with chinese kung fu master wong jack man. >> i'm the future. >> are you the past? >> it's irrelevant. >> i will accept your challenge. >> the film "birth of the dragon" is set against the backdrop 1960 san francisco. today the director and star presented a commemorative plaque to where because lee was born in 1940. >> the birth of the dra gone was here. having the press conference also brings that point to life and we want to have the community and have people do nate so they can further help the community. >> tonight's premier of birth of a dragon is a benefit for chinese hospital t. film is set to be released in theaters nationwide on august 25th. >> bruce lee, a fascinating man there nice choice to play in. "world news" is next.
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>> from all of tonight, president trump dealing with a ceo exodus. several ceos bailing on the president's business councils after his leadership on charlottesville. as the number mounted the president now saying he has disbanded the councils and tonight the president's chief of staff. was the white house blindsided by his most recent comments? also the hurricane along the american coastline turning deadly. the warnings up at this hour. the flight crew sickened. the third time in a week. jetblue crew members falling ill. tonight, the airline on what it blames this time. the explosion on an american highway. the big rig crash erupting into flames. and the major medical headline tonight on cancer. can a blood test now find cancer before the symptoms start? od

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