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by three dogs. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard just spoke with neighbors who witnesses the attack. sounds just horrible. >> reporter: eric, it is. those quick thinking neighbors may have saved the lives of that mother anson from that terrible attack. the details of this case are graphic. >> that was the worst thing i've ever seen in my life. >> reporter: doris hutcherson and husband steve were the first to hear screams coming from next door. >> i saw her laying on the ground screaming and just fighting trying to keep the baby away from them. they were yanking on the baby. she was pulling the baby. the hutchersons say these three pitbulls were attacking a mother and her 3-year-old son. >> her right ear was partially missing. > steve grabbed his golf clubs to try and distract the dogs. >> i kept beating on the trash at the dogs from imracirtention.
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b teheylehr, gast the oth mr anson rushed to the hospital. animal control took the three dogs to the shelter in fairfield where they are in quarantine. police say the animals recently moved into the house with a relative. neighbors didn't know they were there. >> i feel really sad for them. i didn't know they had pitbulls over there. >> i just pray for those who got involved to just go through a quick recovery. >> reporter: the hutchersons are glad mother and baby survived but they are still haunted by what they saw. >> you see someone that's fighting for their lives, you know, it's pretty rough. >> reporter: police say mother anson are in stable condition tonight. after suffering multiple d bis.'s sti ea whate animals rem
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unclear. police say the owner of the dogs co cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> we first sent out the alert about this story through abc news mobile app at about 11:19 this morning to receive breaking news updates, enable the push alert feature. >> in the north bay an injured woman spent 12 hours alone after the vehicle she was in careened down a ravine. it happened sometime last night near fort ross. a man who was behind the wheel of this truck was killed. both he and the woman were ejected from the vehicle. the white patrol says the woman suffered a leg fracture but managed to climb back up to a dirt road. >> we're unsure exactly how far she had to crawl up. r hpver 12 hoursbere a pserbyer called 911. then she was airlift to a hospital. >> he says it was foggy and wet
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last night which made for daneither the passenger nor the deceased driver were wearing seat belts. in the east bay, police crackdown on drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians not sharing the road responsibly had abc news was in concord where police issued 67 citations to 27 pedestrians it, 33 drivers and two bicyclists. the reasons include unsafe lane changes, failing to yield and not being on the correct side of the roads. one officer we spoking with said people forget it's not just driver who have rules to follow. >> people riding bikes have to adhere to the same rules of the road that any other vehicle des. they have to stop at top signs and use signal lights like anoa >> reporter: police say following simple rules can mean life and death differences. pedestrian deaths are up2012 an bicyclesist killed is up 25%.
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>> yesterday's falling concrete that led to the closure of some lanes of the richmond-san rafael bridge was not related to a similar incident that happened in february. the agency says thursday night repair work on one of the 31 sliding joins on the bridge knocked loose concrete causing is chunks of debris to fall on to traffic lately. cal trans is monitoring the bridge in case any more come close. traffic was stopped for hours friday while crews inspected the deck. >> the weekend's here. for some people it started with a rain. guess what, there's a chance for more rain tomorrow. >> i think i've shane to forecast before. >> you have. unsettled is the word this weekend. it's not a lot of rain. we'll be dealing with some drops especially overnight tonight. fair amount of cloud cover to start out your weekend. breaks for some sunshine, but still, it's a mainly gray sad evening we have on tap. future weather into the evening
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hours, you can see the cloud cover still fully intact. shortly after midnight tonight and into tomorrow morning, there again, we start to see light showers enter the picture, mainly in the north bay to start our day on sunday. a lot of runners headed to the city tomorrow. rock 'n' roll marathon features overcast skies temperatures starting out in the 50s. right noud you could encounter a little bit of drizzle around 7:00 in the morning. we'll look when the wet weather will finally get out of here and the full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you. a second test for the oroville spillway set for tomorrow morning. this past tuesday, the spillway sunday went its first test by the department of water resources, the first time the nation's tallest dam was put into action since it failed two years ago and forced around 180,000 people to evacuate. tomorrow flows will be increased to 25,000 cubic feet per second and it will remain there if all goes well because of a growing
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snowpack. today is derby dan at the santa anita racetrack. the race is overshadowed by the deaths of nearly two dozen horses. maggie ruehle tells us about the protests going on outside the track. >> reporter: protests it at the race in santa anita park. a $1 million purse and the winner qualifying for the kentucky derby. >> just to see these horses running like this it's really something special. >> reporter: but the track is underscrutiny. 23 horses have suffered fatal injuries since december. >> we've got a lot of these beautiful animals are dead now. s who going to answer to that. multr condio. saty rules conmedica >> horses should only be allowed to race when free from the influence of medications or or substances. >> reporter: and banning riding
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crops on training and racing days ruling jockeys can only use the whips for safety measures and not to spur the horses to run faster. >> the racing industrial is constantly talking about improving its image to the public. well, you can't do that if you keep whipping horses reporter. the owners of the park say they're working to implement the reforms releasing this statement. the fact that horses running in america are five times more likely to suffer a catastrophic injury than horses running in international venues is unacceptable and must immediately change. the board still has to vote on the new corrective measures after a public comment period. maggie rule i, abc news, los angeles. >> a workout at the gym turned into the scare of a man's life. he was on the treadmill when this happened. we'll hear from him call. narcos comes to live for an alameda coast guard cutter. the huge cocaine bust they took part in and burning pan's
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glass knocking one man off his treadmill. >> loud crash, and the glass came flying and i got hit here by the treadmill and i got shoved back. and i went flying, and i rolled to the side so i won the get crushed. >> personal trainers rushed over to check on him and so did the woman driving the truck. she told a police officer working out at the time that her brake pedal didn't work. nobody was seriously hurt. >> a coast guard crew from alameda helped seize million worth of cocaine. the haul was unloaded yesterdayness san diego. it weighs in at a whopping 14,300 pounds. it was seized off the coast of mexico central and south america from six different boats. the crew from the u.s. coast guard cut ker waish seized nearly 2900 kilos of cocaine. >> and you can call this the southwest effect. how the bargain airlines new service to hawaii from
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a bunch of new regulations have the organizers of burning man asking festival goers to launch a letter writing campaign. the bure of land management put out a report with several new requirements for the event. some of them include paying to fix the main road and reducing light pollution at night. the new regulations could mean the ends of the festival as we know it and asking people to write to the blm to get them to recore some of the requirements. now may be the perfect time to finds deals to hawaii. according to the los angeles times, airfare between california and the hawaiian islands has dropped 17% since southwest launched service between oakland and honolulu march 17th. that's among all the airlines that fly there. the average round trip coach fare is about $412 compared to $500 this time last year. by the way, southwest starts flying between oakland af /*.
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>> a health and fitness expert drew crowds in san francisco today. we were at pier 35 where the latest in running technology, o featured. the event they would ahead of toorls's half marathon where 7,000 runner will race across the golden gate bridge. local bands will be also perform live along the race route in the marina. >> drew tuma sometimes runs half marathons. >> the weather tomorrow going to feel real nice force run persons mainly cloudy skies much of the race. temperatures in the fifties. good luck to all taking part. love dop 7, we started with early morning shower. now we're still left with the cloud cover overhead. we also have rough surf along the coastline. a beach hazard statement in effect til00night.ig 11 to
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risk is there of sneaker waves on the coastline. take note of that if you are headed to thehi evening. sutro tower getting breaks in the cloud cover. late evening is sunshine soak thing scene line right now. we look at at accuweather highlights and plan the next couple days. tonight mainly overcast sky will keep temperatures mainly in the 50s. for this time of year, that's mild overnight. a morning shower likely tomorrow morning and the best chance of finding one of those showers will be in the north way bay. it's not till wednesday of the upcoming week we find a drier pattern starting to prevl.tayss coupledays. temperature wise right now, a lot of 60s on th 65 in oakland is, 6 in s jo,cio a bit cooler right now, currently a temperature of about 59 degrees. a lot of clod cover tonight, an the next 12 hours and again,
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temperatures are going to drop into the mid 50s over the next 12 hours for a lot of us. live doppler 7 along with satellite, the big picture and what we are tracking. a front staal right on the border of california and oregon. and that's not going anywhere over the next 24 hours. what that means for us, that cloud cover will linger for much of our sunday. there's the chance the front will likely bring us a sprinkle first thing. we'll stop the clock 7:00 in the morning, a little bit of green on the screen in the north bay where there's light showers popping up. any shower activity decreases midday and we'll like sisi a few breaks in the cloud cover tomorrow afternoon.de cud cer f thing, temperatures mainly in the 60s if not 70s in our warm spots tomorrow. highs on your sunday, 2 in concord, 63 in san francisco, 74 the high in san jose tomorrow, 72 in fremont. 66 in san to rosa and san rafael after a morning shower and 68
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the high in vallejo. if you're taking in the ball game tomorrow, not a bad day. sun and clouds out there, first pitch temperature around 62 degrees. by 4:00, we'll round out a temperature of 63. the seven-day forecast, there's that a.m. drizzle tomorrow in the north bay. monday that front sinks south and brings us a light shower. the best chance of finding that light shower will be in the north bay. a little bit of morning driz to sunshine on tuesday. then we start to seats drier skies prevail midweek. cooler temperatures finish us out on friday and sated. >> now sports from abc7 news. >> the warriors all-time winningest coach is going to be immoral tallized in the basketball history books. al attles elected into the class of 2019 going in as a contributor. along with being a coach, he's been a player, gm and community ambassador. the 2-year-old attles has been affiliated with the franchise for nearly 60 years.
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he is one of only five warriors to have their number retired. the ceremony will be take place in september. a little history at the ballpark. the giants getting their first official "w" at oracle park. the giants taking on the rays, third inning, brandon belt knocks in joe panik with a two-out single and san francisco takes a 2-1 lead. the rays answer in the fifth. g-man rips a double to the left. willie beats the throw and tam kelead back come the giants in the bottom half of the frame. steven duggar smacks a double to right. panik scores so doe conner joe, 4-3. duggar with 3 rbis. next batter is brandon belt, he belts it out of the yard, his third of the season. the giants score a season high six runs and win it 6-4. the a's taking on the astros, orbit having fun with mark canha before the game. hit.
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gore gurriel with a shot that allows a run to score. fifth inning, brooks going inside to george springer. mistake, he takes that for a two-run shot. three batters later he goes inside on brantley. mike the brantley. he hits a home run. brooks five innings, nine hits, five runs allowed. right now the astros lead it 6-0 in the seventh inning. tonight is game 82 out of 82 for the sharks. they're hosting the colorado avalanche. it's been a tough few weeks for team teal. faebl good news. they're getting healthy. meyer left the oilers game in the third period after this collision. peter deboer said will be ready for game one of the playoffs. erik karlsson hasn't played in more than a month with a lower body injury. >> it's not easy when you miss, i think he's been out a month now almost. so it's going to take a little
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while. this is the first step and just get back and comfortable. >> the timeline that we expected. i think i beginning we were hoping that it would move quicker but you know, this is the realistic time. we're happy with that. the tampa bay lightning won their final game of the year against the bruins tying the nhl record for most wins in a season with 62. they tied the '95-'96 red wings. kucherov scored his 41st goal of the year and 87 assists for 128 points. these two teams will likely see each other in the second round of the playoffs. next week the mass terds. this week augusta tag hosted its first ever women's amateur tournament. jennifer cup show would take a lead into the final hole. birdie on 18. oh, getting the jar and becomes the first augusta targ national women's amateur championship.
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>> the valero texas open, this is nick taylor, his tee short on 13. the rest of the group starts walking. they want to go back and give him a high five. that is going in for a hole in one. wow, nice shot. kim is the leader at 15 under. he knows a thing or two about aces. yesterday he had one on 16. today on 16 he comes this close to getting another one. wow. he finished the round with a 3 fund 69. a one-shot lead heading into sunday's fly ball round. in the ncaa final four, virginia beats auburn and michigan state is currently taking on texas tech. we have those highlights coming up tonight on the news at 11:00. >> thank you very much. watch your step. an asian elephant decides to go for a stroll but the youngster quickly learns the mud wasn't playing along.
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t bums.e fog to, who else, ka. i leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition. that you do everything in your power to preserve and protect them. with love, california. tonight at 11:00, governor gavin newsom is headed to el salvador tomorrow better understand immigration. we talked to experts and salvadorans what they think will come of the trip, good or bad. plus, hundreds of people hit the pavement for the half marathon tomorrow. one within tells us how 0pods.n their feet when young. do you need proof? here you go. zoo in
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australia, the calf does all right at first but perhaps trying to negotiate the mud wasn't so great at this age. he starts sliding and loses its footing. and this won't be a problem when it gets bigger. that's what they tell us. we'll find out. that's it for abc7 news at 6:00. we'll see you right back here at 11:00.
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