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arrested also have criminal investigations. telling abc7 news that the arrest number again more than 150 people and is quote way more than normal for this kind of enforcement operation. this coming three days after oakland mayor libby schaaf went public warning residents. sanctuary jurisdictions like san francisco and oakland shield dangerous criminal aliens. and i have to believe that some of them were able to elude us thanks to the mayor's irresponsible decision. among those arrested, a napa man taken into custody on sunday. i.c.e. telling us armando nunez
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salgado is a documented gang member. at the time of his arrest his family told abc7 news he had done nothing wrong. in the news room, the most destructive fire storm in history burned down buildings and killed 44 o one sonoma county super visor nearly brought to tears. >> reporter: there are some first responders who described it as a fog of war. >> where is the fire? >> there are fires in so many places. >> reporter: one among thousands of emergency calls.
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describing in a report as being part of an uncoordinated response to a massive impossibe task. >> not one person received the alert. what the hell are we doing here? >> reporter: today the sonoma county board of super supervisors tried to make a fix. >> i have no interest in pointing fingers. >> reporter: as the fire burned it took down communication systems hindered by a bottle neck of information. the sheriff's department sent reverse 911 but no on authorization to use an amber alert. it is a problem saying the county's executive director. >> if this happened again tonight, would the county be better able to respond?
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>> i don't think. >> reporter: sonoma has a lot in common with other counties. difference is sonoma suffered a fire storm. >> just because we are in the middle of the class with 40 or 50 other counties doesn't make it better. >> reporter: what will sonoma county do about it? no santa rosa wayne freedman. lawmakers took a hard look at california's mutual aid system. according to lawmakers, the recent north bay and southern california wildfires proved that the 60-year-old system is due for an update. >> as we see more and more fires occurring, greater intensity, our mutual aid system is being pushed to the max. >> some of the changes suggested
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include retrofitting emergency vehicles to make dispatching faster and aircraft like drones to help fight fires. a central valley was arrested for trying to join isis. jonathan bloom talked with his neighbors to suspected that something might be going on. >> i am in shock. >> reporter: neighbors were hardly prepared to learn the second stanislaus county was living on their street. they tell us they believe berna bernard augustine tended -- the
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blue mustang belongs to one of them. other teens sometimes came over. >> he had a girlfriend but i don't know who she was. >> reporter: according it one neighbor, a pension for mustangs tends to run in the family. >> the younger guy i had seen him in a mustang type of car. >> reporter: you may notice the house has extra parking. >> there were a lot of cars there. parked up on top of the lawn. >> reporter: and then what? >> and then they were fwgone. >> a tow truck got them all. >> reporter: and then came the movers. >> big trucks. the weeds were like taller than me. >> reporter: the house is clean and the lawn is slightly overgrown. and neighbors have question. >> creepy. that close to home.
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you expect that in the big cities. >> reporter: in keys jonathan bloom abc7 news. extra police officers patrolling. officers didn't find any additional indication of any imminent threat but decided to close school early today. a proposal to hold a summit came before the board of supervisors and there was no opposition. >> reporter: for some, leading the charge to end gun violence is a silent picket line. five people holding signs urging a ban on assault type rifles.
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>> i want to see background checks expanded so they include red flags when there is the kind of severe mental health issues or background that have already been diagnosed. >> reporter: gun violence is a reality in san jose. three years ago san jose police officer was shot and killed as he responded to a report of a suicidal man with a rifle. a relative said at the time he may have had an undiagnosed mental health. >> impulsivity, anger, traumatic life event and problematic alcohol use are all stronger factors for gun violence not mental illness. >> reporter: we reached out to an attorney who represents
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people in the firearm industry but he was not available for an on-camera interview. >> we need to do something about gun violence. >> reporter: a student who is with march for our lives supported the summit. >> regarding action, for gun reform and school safety. >> reporter: the summit was proved by unanimous vote. new at 6:00, mark leno filed a complaint in court today. he said it would mislead voters in the june 1st election because ms. breed is no longer acting mayor. no still covers bay area hillside. today's sky 7 through
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mt. hamilton and santa clara county. two days, ranking two, immediating moderate on the storm impact scale. cornell barnard gives you a tour of the snowfall. >> reporter: you could almost swear it is the high sierra, but really a super snowy bay area. check out livermore wine country. the snow started falling here tuesday morning. instant winter wonder land. the snow hung around for a while sticking to the trees and cars. >> hopefully it will stay for three or four days. >> reporter: expected to bring us much needed rain. crews making emergency repairs
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on this section of r eechlt bli road in santa rosa. >> hearing from an inch to 2 inches. >> reporter: santa rosa is preparing for rain. >> reporter: these gravel bags and orange waddles are now the first line of defense. >> we know we are going to be testing our storm drain. >> reporter: dozens of storm drain which are melted in the fires have been repaired. the new challenge keeping them free of debris. >> we are bracing ourselves. >> reporter: the national weather service has said santa rosa has received last year at this time 52 inches. let's check in with abc7
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news spencer christian. >> storm ranking two followed by a second storm also ranking two. all of the details coming up. >> find out why one san francisco car break-in is getting a lot more attention than thousands of others that happened every year. a rapid response. here from the new head of the humane society of the united states about the sexual harassment scandal. a woman rushing to a connecting flight leaves her ipod on the plane. any chance she will see
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there are roughly 85-car break-ins every day in san francisco. and one of the latest victims has called out the mayor of san francisco. >> abc7 news carolyn tyler has the full story. >> reporter: his third car break-in. and this latest one happened in broad >> it is amazing. and i was thinking too, my alarm must have been going off and nobody said anything or did anything. >> reporter: city is fine, no problem here. and included the mayor.
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some saw that as a dig. but o'connor says he just wants the problem solved. mayor mark far rel says up coming budget should help. many in tourist areas like along lombard street, in japan town olympic skater had her costume stolen. and the neighborhoods are suffering. residents in the inner sunset have made their own warning signs. the auto glass company on brant street has seen a tremendous up tick in business. >> every five cars that come through my shop, at least three to four are broken into. >> reporter: the mayor says one answer he and the police chief have discussed is more staffing.
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>> doubling more foot patrol. created a central unit focused on car break-ins. a solano county mother wants more than an apology. she believes a teacher should face criminal charges after slapping her son. >> reporter: six-year-old son famous is a first great special education student at vallejo highland element school. >> i was notified that my son may have been slapped by a substitute teacher. >> reporter: hashe told us she wanted to speak directly with the teacher but the teacher already left campus.
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>> monday he broke down crying. >> reporter: this statement, the teacher in question was identified as a substitute and immediately pulled from the site. this matter is currently being investigated by the vallejo police department and the district is cooperating in the investigation. hawkins hold us she filed a police report. abc7 news did reach substitute teacher patricia holcombe. she told us the boy was over turning desks. >> my son i never heard of my son flipping chairs and desks over. like, nice
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against sal haveva have va hav a all of this comes after two patients sued one of the locations. courtyard care center? san jose saying they were pushed out. turning our attentions back it the weird weather. >> it is going to get weirder. look at live doppler 7 right now. i guess you would call this not weird, normal. well, no such thing as normal anymore. it is calm. live view, looking towards the
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golden gate. 49 degrees in san francisco. low to mid-50s in mountain view. this is the view from our south beach camera. we have upper 40s at novato. these are our forecast features. rain will arrive tomorrow afternoon continuing into the evening. that storm will intensify thursday morning and then on friday and saturday, a wintry mix of cold rain and high elevation snow. so a lot of different weather elements coming our way. the storm arriving tomorrow will rank one on the storm impact scale. producing a lot of intensity. brief downpour with the storms. and tomorrow 12-hour planner looks like this. calm and bright early in the morning with increasing clouds
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midday. chance of showers developing by late afternoon. it will be windy. we will see gusts by 3:00 a.m. thursday up to 30 miles per hour on the coast and around san francisco in fact even higher at times so, rainy storm and a windy storm which will intensify to a level 2. moderate to heavy rainfall. start the forecast animation 1:00 scattered showers. by 6:00 more wide spread rain. it will be wet in other spots. and then a wide spread moderate to heavy rainfall by midnight. the thursday morning commute is likely to be a challenging one. strong gusty wind. pooling and puddling. and that storm will wind down a bit thursday night and it will
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be followed by yet another storm which is going to rank two on the storm impact scale. rainfall totals by generally 1 1/2 inches to inches. expecting three to five feet of snowfall from this storm from these two storms. some locations could see up to seven feet of snow with powerful wind gusts. accuweather forecast. thursday through saturday going to be quite stormy. very active wintry weather. on sunday, oscar sunday things calm down. and milder pattern developing on monday and tuesday. >> academy award for best forecast. >> i would gladly accept it.
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amazon is expanding its home security business. buying ring which makes wi-fi connected cameras and doorbells. the ring acquisition helps amazon better compete with googles nest which also makes camera. excellent or good. approval has been going up every year since 2010. counting buses and trolleys, light rails and cable cars, there are 80 different routes through the city.
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i am supportive of the women who have come forward and i believe the women who have come forward. >> the new head of the humane society of the united states reacts into complaints of sexual harassment at that organization. women who say they have been warning about problems. >> they tell me they reported sexual harassment at hsus but didn't go public at the time for fear of losing their jobs. remembering her 17 years at the
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humane society of the united states. >> if the new hire was hot, that was the topic of conversation she had big boobs. he said, oh, so and so likes this sexual act whatever that was. and i was like what? how do you know? and he said oh, we have pictures of it. >> reporter: she said the pictures circulated among the staff. she left settlement. >> went to hug me and i tried to step away and he kissed me and so at that point, i did break away and left and he grabbed at
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my breast. >> reporter: burry told me she had handled advances before. but claimed an advance was shocking. >> take one for the team. >> reporter: do you think he was kidding, half kidding or serious. >> i think half kidding. >> reporter: but there was a message there? >> yeah, do anything for the cause. >> reporter: six women complained by inappropriate behavior by shapiro in different years. shapiro that once public face of the humane society declined an on camera interview. he sent a statement that reads in part, i sometimes acted inappropriately for which i am deeply sorry. i engaged in sophomoric behavior. i should have known better.
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accusations also surfaced about the humane society ceo. >> alex, what is that phone number thrk is what happened to me four years ago. >> reporter: the "washington post" reported that several former high ranking women warn warned -- e-mailed me never did i intend to make any colleague feel uncomfortable. i am very concerned that some individuals apparently felt way. i do however deny that i took any action that crossed the line. >> i can't believe i had to fight the organization i loved to try to safe its soul. >> reporter: jennifer worked closely with passeli.
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>> there is no legitimate excuse for tolerated men predatory behavior. >> i would not be signing that contract and affiliating with hsus until they had a complete leadership change. >> reporter: the nation's largest animal protection organization is scrambling to recover. >> reporter: what have you done or hsus done for concrete change. >> i would like to think the first concrete step is highering me. >> reporter: the new humane society acting ceo contacted me to say the nonprofit is under going internl reviews to address the complaints. >> anyone out there that has concerns please come in i want
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to know. >> reporter: and i am posting the complete statements at abc7news.com. i am already hearing complaints from other animal rights groups and will be checking those out. >> thanks. we are following breaking news coming into the news room for the north bay. that missing child is gone exact gonzales. he is age 4'10". fastest growing industry is construction. the city is hoping to train more
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apprentice laborers to begin filling in some of those much needed jobs. for that, they -- for what they are searching for is young people in under served communities. lyanne melendez attended their graduation. >> reporter: she saw herself as an unlikely candidate for a job in construction. >> when you are coming from sunnyvale or bay view, you have a lot of doubters. don't want nobody to see you achieve. >> reporter: today she graduated as a laborer apprentice. it wasn't that long ago that construction jobs in the bay area were hard to find. today builders can't hire enough workers to get the job done. the city says it has a moral obligation to train people who live in rural conversations like the bay view. >> do we rest on our laurels or press forward ahead to make sure
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every single san francisco resident has an opportunity to be a part of our workforce in our city. >> reporter: willy woodson enrolled in the academy construction training program. and eight weeks later, he too is an apprentice which will likely get a union job. >> get working and support my family. >> the city is able to offer short-term training programs that quickly move people into employment. >> reporter: many of them will end up working for the san francisco utilities commission or public works. tey can earn up to $20 an hour plus benefits and after that they can get more training. more training will eventually guarantee a higher salary. the next train begins on monday. coming up here, lost and
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tomorrow the kevin spacey foundation uk will shut down because it's work is no long viable. some of those accusations come from incidents in london. spacey's reputation is suffered and lost work. no to paris where disneyland is about to get a $2.5 billion boost. the money will create three new lands featuring characters from frozen, star wars and marvel movies. tweeting this photo of their meeting, disney is the parent company of abc7. minorities actually accounted for the majority of ticket sales for half of the top
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ten films worldwide and movies with a diverse cast outperformed movies that did not show racial diversity. u about 14% of film leads belong to minorities showing there is still a long way to go before hollywood reflects real life. speaking of, we are less than a week away from the oscars. this is where i will be live with reports starting on friday. you can watch the oscars hosted by jimmy kimmel here here here e news. and be sure to have the abc7 news apps to get the custom
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with boeing. the deal will apparently save t taxpayers $1.4 billion. ready by have you dashed off a bus or an airplane and left something behind. >> that is the worst feeling. >> yeah. and michael finney "7 on your side" helped get this object back. >> were you halfway up the gangplank? you were a lucky one. it happens every day. to this viewer, testifidevastatn she left her ipad on the plane and wasn't sure she would see
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again. flight attendants say it on arrival. >> i had to hurry. >> she was halfway across the terminal when she got an uneasy feeling. she had stuck her ipad in the seat back pocket during the flight and forgot about it. there wasn't time to go back. and didn't know if it mattered. >> reporter: she arrived in mexico and immediately filed a report. >> i got an immediate answer saying we got your report and we will be looking for it. >> reporter: which sounded promising. >> it was of no use to anyone. . i said it is an ipad in a black cases and she said we have a thousand in the houston warehouse. they said, yes, we have that
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serial number and somebody will contact. >> reporter: however, no one did. >> they said we haven't found it yet and i said, yeah, you have. >> reporter: no one could tell her how to get it back. >> i called "7 on your side." >> reporter: we contacted united airlines and within hours they located her ipad and shipped it directly to her. united said we are looking into this matter with our team to fully understand what caused the delay. we returned this customer's ipad and apologized for the delay. >> it was a relief. >> reporter: thousands of items are left behind on airplanes every single day. now, one way to reduce chances of losing your stuff, book an itinerary with plenty of time between flights so you don't have to rush. i want to hear from you.
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if you have a consumer problem, call my hotline. f (415) 954-8151 if you don't like to dial, you can reach me on facebook and abc7news.com. check it out, these snow capped hills. the result of yesterday's storm. all of these pictures have #abc7now. >> share your pictures with us. >> we may see more snow in the hills in a few days. conditions are calm but they won't remain that day. overnight it will be chilly again. we will have a storm moving in tomorrow afternoon and evening. producing mainly scattered showers with a few isolated downpours. here is a forecast animation for
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the storm moving in. scattered showers moving into the day. and then, the storm intensifies by thursday to a level 2 on our storm impact scale. it will produce moderate to heavy rain. gusts up to 40 miles per hour. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. two consecutive days of storms ranking two. cold rain, high elevation snow, that may continue into sunday, mainly sunny skies. >> spencer, thanks. >> a lot going on in sports. larry beil joining us. >> took a pass on the white house and instead took kids to a museum in washington.
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on his instagram page. >> rewarding experience. i can't tell you how proud i am. >> that is chuck >> one of my friends said they don't like you because you a snake. >> you were defending me, right? >> yeah, don't talk about steph curry like that. the school kids were from kevin durant's hometown. before the visit kd was talking about a tremendous day for these youngsters. >> don't get a lot of opportunity to be if front of championships. so hopefully it inspires them. >> white house is a great honor, but there are circumstances
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where we are not going to feel comfortable going. we are going to hang out with kids. >> sharks acquiring kane from buffalo. he has never made the playoffs hoping to help the sharks make a run to first stanley cup. >> just what the doctor ordered. he is already the second leading scorer on the team with 20 goals. he is very excited to be a san jose shark. >> opportunity to push for the post season and join a group like this. just really excited for myself. it makes it easier knowing quite a few of the guys and the coaching staff from previous other tournaments playing under them in past years. so for me, it is a lot of familiar faces which is nice and makes the transition easier. >> one of the few power forwards
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in the lead which has capability of scoring 25, 30 goals. plays with a ton of speed and a lot of physicality. you can count a number of guys that have those dimensions on one hand. >> you can see the skill and the power that he has. out here today, you see the shot of the person and it carries weight. so i am excited >> in san jose mike shumann. about to sign a deal with the texas rangers. former giant and two time award winer. made nine starts and went 2 6. wasn't the shot it was comedian
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and long suffering john stewart's mcgee changed his account to stewart's reaction. >> my producer is going, larry beil you a snake. >> thanks. an update on the breaking news from earlier, that missing child has been found. join us tonight then close calls at sfo have taken off. demanding answers on capitol hill. coming up tonight, at 8:00
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this is "jeopardy!" please welcome today's contestants -- a physician from millington, new jersey... an editor from chicago, illinois... and our returning champion -- a librarian from cleveland, ohio... whose 1-day cash winnings total... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. welcome, everyone. many of you have wondered about what the contestants and i talk about at the end of every program. well, at the end of yesterday's program,
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we were talking about the dismal start that all three players had experienced. and as a matter of fact, i mentioned that maryann, at one point, was in the lead, and she was $200 in the red. [ laughter ] let's hope that today plays out differently with amy and paul. good luck. here we go. categories, please... ah. "x" coming up in each correct response. followed by... maryann. i'll start with "x" in the city for $200, please. maryann. -what is oxford? -that's it. "x" for $400. amy.
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