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see this man? the director of a gallery says he walks down and he is carrying a pricey piece of artwork by spanish master salvador dali. >> this happened at the dennis ray fine art gallery on union square in san francisco. laura anthony with the story you'll see only on 7. >> it took 32 seconds for the man in the blue t-shirt and cap to walk into a san francisco art gallery and walk out with a $20,000 salvador dali etching in his right hand. >> they just popped into the gallery, probably distract one of my coworkers. >> gallery director angela colette told us another employee was working sunday afternoon when dali's burning giraffe disappeared from an easel at the front of the store. >> it was our showcase item. we have a special salvador dali show right now. and yeah, they just ran off with it. too quick for anyone to do anything about it. >> shown here in a gallery brochure, the frame piece is 20 by 26 inches, created by dali between 1966 and 1967.
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it was part of a larger collection of the spanish surrealist's work. it appears the suspect had an accomplice, a woman who was with him near the front door, but stayed outside. once he leaves with the etching, the man strolls down geary towards powell street, a walk captured by several surveillance cameras along the way. >> the original dali etching would normally have been secured to this easel, but somehow the cable and the lock were unexpectedly missing. it's not clear if the suspect came in earlier, cut the cable or was able to do it in the half minute he was inside the store. this the kind of thing you can put on ebay? >> i think that people will know it's a very small edition of etchings. so the number, we've got it. we know exactly which piece it is. so now it's a very hot item. >> anyone with information is asked to contact san francisco police. in san francisco, laura anthony, abc7 news.
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breaking news. an accident involving a cable car on san francisco's nob hill. five people went to the hospital following this afternoon's collision. san francisco police and mouni are investigating what happened. it damaged the front left side of the cable car. that's where riders stand on running boards. a truck was also damaged involving a cable car headed towards union square on muni's powell and hyde line. new at 5:00, a bay area woman says she violated after flying home from a trip to italy. she says someone went through her and her boyfriend's bags and took a lot of personal things. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow has a story you'll see only on 7. >> lauren del bartow says she and her boyfriend loved her ten-day italy vacation. >> amazing. >> but the feelings began to dwindle when they returned to san francisco and found out their bags missed a los angeles connecting flight. del bartow spoke with delta
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airlines told her a delivery service called roadie would bring the couple their bags when once they arrived. through a link, del bartow was able to track the roadie driver's location. >> the bags were in hayward with a driver. they hadn't moved. >> del bartow said roadie support said they couldn't reach the driver by text or phone call. later the bags were in san francisco and another driver would drop them off. >> my makeup bag was completely empty. clothes, tops, dresses were all gone, purses. and all of my bras and underwear were also missing. >> del bartow says her boyfriend's bag was also missing shoes and clothing. >> you feel violated. the rest of the stuff can be replaced but the bras and the underwear is the most disturbing. >> she estimates more than $5,000 from the couple's bags are gone. in an email to del barto, delta care says it expects the delivery service to maintain the same high standards required of its own people. delta offered del barto a $75
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voucher. >> i want the money for all the items missing from our bags. >> in a statement, a delta spokesperson brings in part we are working with our vendor to understand what occurred to ensure that it does not happen again. a roadie spokesperson says customer care spoke with del barto seven times, and that the company's ceo even called her to address her concerns. in an emailed statement writing in part, quote, we want to reassure ms. del barto that her driver's background check revealed no criminal history and we'll work with laugh as the facts this the case become clear. in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. now to the south bay. the coroner has not yet released the name of the woman who was found dead in a parked car in san jose, but the woman's family says that woman was her daughter. th tech ceo, who had been miss fog are week. abc7 news reporter david louie has the latest. >> a modest memorial is set up on bo's way in the south am dan
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neighborhood where a car with a woman's body was discovered saturday, believed to be 33-year-old erin valenti of salt lake city. she had been missing for five days. it was the parents of erin valenti say a family friend found the car parked at the curb on saturday afternoon and made positive id of who was inside. the body was found in the back seat of the car. joe and whitie valenti told abc7 news that their last conversation with daughter erin was monday afternoon, shortly before she was due to take a flight from san jose airport back to salt lake. she was ceo of tinker ventures, a developer of applications including ripil that helps to share good news articles and encourage kindness. they traced the last ping from her cell phone to an area near the airport. however, her gray nissan rental car was found about 13 miles away. video from a doorbell camera given to police may help explain how she got there. the search for erin was conducted on social media over
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five days. the family said it took from tuesday until late thursday before police issued a missing persons report. during that time, the valentis were worried that she might have had a medical or mental health issue. the coroner's office has not yet issued a cause of death. they could not reach her on her cell phone later that evening after she missed her return flight home. they had praise for san jose police and fire personnel who responded when the rental car was discovered. shards of window glass on the pavement are evidence that they had to break into the parked car. in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. in the north bay, police say a suspected dui driver caused a crash that killed a woman and her dog in santa rosa. official says the driver of a black dodge challenger hit a white mazda and black prius. the woman was sleeping in the mazda where police say he was living along with her dog. no one was in the prius. the suspect has been identified as angel ivan martinez, a 21-year-old from santa rosa. he suffered minor injuries and is now being held at the sonoma
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county jail. this accident happened just before 3:00 a.m. near the intersection of hoen avenue and cypress way. we are on the eve of a plan that could dramatically reshape one of san francisco's busiest streets. this is a big deal. transit officials will vote on a project that will basically close market street to cars. officials say 500,000 people walk on market street every day, and during peak times, 200 buses and 650 bicyclists cross it every hour. safety is an important part of our effort to build a better bay area. lauren martinez is live in san francisco with more on this really dramatic change. lauren? >> that's right. market street is san francisco's busiest transit corridor. the chair of the sfmta says the market street project, the better market street project is about improving transportation and safety.
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on any given day, holiday or no holiday, market street is bustling. the better market street project is a multiagency proposal that will close off the busy thoroughfare to private cars. >> i think it's a good move. i really do. i think it would just be -- open up the congestion and all that feeling that we feel of just kind of like ugh. >> the project will stretch from octavia boulevard in hayes valley to stewart street in the financial district. this is a look at market today, and that is a look at what the plan could look like. wider sidewalk, a dedicated bike lanes on both sides. factors that address safety. >> we have this year 2019 seen an uptick in the number of fatal collisions involving people walking and biking, including on market street. >> private cars can still cross market street, like right here on seventh going north. but they cannot turn into market street. >> private cars will be rerouted to take mission street from
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seventh to first street. ride sharing vehicles like uber and lyft will only be allowed to drop people off at cross streets. for taxi drivers, less congestion and less competition. >> it's going to help us, i think. >> the plan so to make market more efficient place to stay, visit, or travel. >> when i talk to folks about market street, there is nobody that says to me i really enjoy the process of traveling down market street, whether they're walking, whether they're biking. we're taking transit or driving. >> the sfmta board of directors will vote on this plan tomorrow. now the director of public works, i spoke with him today. he says that the first phase of construction is already funded. if they get a bid some time next year, they'll be able to start construction as early as anfran lauren martinez, abc7 news. >> all right, lauren, thank you. there is major fallout from last planned pg&e power
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outage. in a scathing letter today, state regulators criticize the utility's handling of the outage and demanded a fix by thursday. the california puc said pg&e must improve communication with the public, include fixing its website, which kept crashing when people checked on whether they'd be part of the planned blackout. regulators also want pg&e to find a more effective way of distributing outage maps to local governments and first responders. the cpuc also called on the utility to find a which to accelerate restoration times of less than 12 hours. the commission will hold an emergency meeting friday to hear from pg&e's leadership on how they plan to address these problems. meantime, governor newsom is demanding that pg&e pay $100 to each customer affected by last week's power shutoffs. abc7 news i-team reporter dan noyes will have much more on this on abc7 news news at 6:00. still ahead, arson investigators on the scene in southern california. did one of the massive fires start under a power pole? that's ahead.
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plus, the dna test that helped reunite a california woman with a child she thought had died 30 years ago. and commemorating an occupation. activists at alcatraz do something they have never done before. >> and i'm abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma. a really pleasant evening out there. but later this week, we'll find do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.
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firefighters continue to battle the so-called saddleridge fire that's burned nearly 8,000 acres in los angeles county. that fire now 43% contained right now. firefighters from the alameda county fire department are on the front lines. they posted this photo on twitter this afternoon. abc7 news reporter robb hays from our sister station in los angeles has the latest on the investigation into how this fire started. >> when the flames of the saddleridge fire were first
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spotted, they were moving fast and right near homes in sylmar's rancho cascades neighborhood. >> oh my god, fire, big. i got scared. i'm crying. >> it was like an explosion. just up. and the whole mountain gets on fire. >> the homes here were spared, but more than 30 others were not as the fire ripped through porter ranch and other communities. the cause of the saddleridge fire still undetermined, but even as the fire was still burning out of control, investigators were already looking at power lines. >> we are aware of a story out there in the media of a witness seeing fire fall from a transmission tower. o cf1 o >> that was friday. today, all eyes are on this so cal edison electrical transmission tower in sylmar near where the fire was first reported. >> we did determine a point of origin. it appears to be approximately 50 foot by 70-foot area which is directly beneath a power transmission line, and we're looking at all the causes.
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>> so cal edison had de-energized certain power lines as a defensive move to prevent a fire. but utility says the transmission line running through sylmar was not powered down. today a so cal edison fire patrol truck was at that transmission tower, the company saying the system was impacted by the fire, but not commenting on a possible cause. meantime, people who live in the shadow of the transmission tower say there is little question in their mind that the power lines here played a role in the start of that fire. >> this always happens in that tower. it happens in that pole. we saw it, my husband, i mean everybody has seen it. >> robb hays, abc7 news. for nearly 30 years, a mother thought the child she had as a teenager had died minutes after being born. but now thanks to modern technology, a dna test connected that mother to the child believed that was dead that child is now raising a family of their own. reporter marie oettinger tells
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us more. >> tina bejarano gave birth at 17. she was told she couldn't keep the baby. >> the next day she came back to tell me the baby died 15 minutes after it was born and never made it. it was sick. >> for nearly three decades since then, bejarano and her husband have been celebrating that baby's birthday. >> it was hard time every year. >> she would go into major depression for about a week or two. >> i would get depressed. i would cry all the time. >> last year, ages since giving up hope that baby might somehow be alive, she got an email. >> hi, i think we need to talk. it says we're related. and it says you're my mom. >> her long lost kid, kristen, 29 years old, living in new jersey with a wife and a baby. and instead of a daughter, bejarano now has a son. >> i don't care if he has transitioned. i don't care if he hasn't transitioned. i don't care.
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that's my kid. >> we're just glad he's alive. >> kristen was adopted by a loving family five days after he was born. he grew up in las vegas. he could have never known how much his biological mom thought about him. >> looking at him, i just -- it makes me want to cry. he sends us pictures almost on a daily basis of him and the baby. >> been communicating with kristen for a few months now. and, you know, he calls me dad. i call him son. we text him. i text him every morning. >> that's reporter marie oettinger. and she also learned a family reunion will take place next month. that's when tina and her husband expect kristen and her family to visit them at their new home in los banos. a man remains in jail tonight after detectives say dna evidence linked him to the kidnapping and rape of a teenaged girl in sonoma county in 2002.
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smupt sheriff's deputies say he assaulted the girl twice. the victim later identified lopez from a photo lineup, but lopez then went to mexico. madera county deputies discovered lopez was wanted after they arrested him for public intoxication last month. after 34 careers in business, the japanese restaurant mirako in walnut creek shut its doors. a sign posted by the owners read we thank you for allowing us to be part of your lives, sharing your time and families with us. walnut creek, like many other bay area communities has seen many long-time restaurants close as high rents and stiffer competition strain small businesses. a tribe agreed to donate to improve. the upgrades include a talking circle and a remodel of the research center. the facility will be named the indians of rancheria learning center and is scheduled to open
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september of 2020. starting the week on a very nice note. >> really lovely. drew tuma has the forecast. drew? >> we have a really great stretch under way. really nice out there this evening. temperature-wise, we're mainly in the 60s and 70s, but we will find cooler temperatures moving in later this week. my doppler 7 along with satellite showing away from the coast, you are basking in that sunshine, but still have patchy cloud cover. coast to the coastline. our emeryville camera, a live look. haze in the atmosphere. we do have moderate air quality along the coastline right now. and tomorrow, we'll notice that haze in our atmosphere even more around the bay area. take a look at the accuweather highlights. what to expect in the near term. we'll have that thought returning to the coast and the shoreline. it will give way to sunshine quickly tomorrow morning. temperatures near average for your tuesday. by midweek wednesday and epecially thursday and friday, we will find cooler weather moving in as this pattern kind of dips below average for this time of year. but the weekend, it is looking
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sun-filled bright. but a little breezy. especially saturday. the winds will likely be gusting over 25 miles per hour. out there right now, it's cool in spots, especially in san francisco. we're at 58. still 76 and comfortable in brentwood. 71 in san jose. 69 in santa rosa and fairfield, the warm spot on the map is currently checking in at 80 degrees. the story we are tracking, you can see our marine layer right now along our coastlin. will move in and around the bay later on tonight. tomorrow a lot of sunshine, comfortable temperatures. but by wednesday, this cold front well offshore right now is going to swing through california. it will move through here dry. so no rain is anticipated. but what it will do, knock our temperatures down for the latter half of the week ahead. overnight tonight coastal cloud covers and patchy fog around the bay shoreline. chilly spots in the north bay like this morning in the 30s like santa rosa and napa. elsewhere, we'll see temperatures holding in the mid and upper 40s first thing tomorrow morning. show you that fog 7:30 a.m. on your tuesday.
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it's a gray start for a lot of us, but in typical october fashion, the afternoon will have a lot of sunshine, and temperature-wise, really comfortable out there. so your 12-hour day planner show you what to expect. sun up at 7:18 tomorrow. a pleasant day with most spots in the 60s and in the 70s. highs in the microclimate starting in the south bay tomorrow, 79 for san jose. 78 for sunnyvale. 84 for morgan hill. along the peninsula, morning cloud cover, afternoon sunshine. 75 menlo park. 74 menlo. downtown san francisco, a little warmer tomorrow at 68. 70 for south san francisco. the north bay, 81 in santa rosa. 80, petaluma. 78, sonoma. 77 for san rafael. the east bay, some morning cloud cover, afternoon sunshine, 74 in berkeley. 73 oakland. 75 unionsy city. 79 san ramon. 83 in brentwood. here is the seven-day forecast. sunny tomorrow. that cooler pattern kicks in here on wednesday with fair amount of cloud cover midweek. thursday and friday, it's nice. it feels like fall, but it's
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below average as that breezy weather moves in on saturday. the winds calm down on sunday but all in all we love this time here. tons of sunshine and really nice. not too hot. >> one of our best months. >> it really is. >> thanks, drew. >> yep. it was moment that changed the bay area. >> the world series game will be played in candlestick park tonight. >> sportscasters
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on the 50th anniversary of the occupation of alcatraz, native tribes recognize indigenous people's day with a canoe journey around the island. native communities from as far as canada and hawaii gathered at aquatic park at dawn. in 1969, native activists and students occupied that island for almost two years, sparking the indigenous rights movement. >> really felt the presence of the people who went before us, the people who fought for nativ
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are fighting for native issues today. and just being here on the water and the land, seeing the sun come up, it was a very emotion experience. >> the international indian treaty council also marked the day with an arts and music festival at yerba buena gardens. all this week we're marking the 30th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. i was october 17th, 1989. >> all eyes were on the world series game between the giants and the a's when at 5:06, it struck. >> abc play-by-play announcer al michaels was calling the game when suddenly, his years of living in the bay area gave him a unique perspective on this unfolding disaster. >> the sense i got for a split second is that we were going backwards. and in fact where we would sit in the mezzanine, an overhanging booth, we were susceptible to being part of the collapse of the upper deck, in addition to falling down below or having it collapse down below. you're looking now at a shot of
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the cantilever section of the bay bridge. that is not the main section, but that is where what i can tell right now the major damage has been done. it is the primary link, of course, between the cities of san francisco and oakland. and it's graphically illustrated right there. fortunately, and there of course is a car in between the collapsed sections. we have of course from our vantage point here and from what we know, i'm sure you have far more information about that, ted. but all i can say is that very, very fortunately for some 60,000 people at candlestick park, the epicenter was not that close to the ballpark. but certainly as unnerving an experience as i can recall by far in 20 years of living in california. we understand now as you look at a fire in san francisco that appears to me to be somewhere in the neighborhood of the marina district.
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>> the epicenter, of course, near loma prieta peak in the santa cruz mountains. but we certainly had deep impact throughout the bay area. we'll have a special commercial-free broadcast on our abc7 originals documentary, the earthquake effect on thursday at 6:30 p.m. here on abc7. >> you can watch the documentary anywhere you get ab, including the ab news app and amazon fire tv. we hope you tune in. it could end up being the most expensive piece of real estate in san francisco, and it has views that almost justify the price, almost, we say. that story next. but first, we want the thank danielle for this picture of a bear cub this weekend in yosemite. what a great shot. and although the bare looks close, danielle says she was really far away. share your pictures with us with
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6:00, classes will start later in california, but does this mean schools get out 30 minutes later? and what about parents who have to work? one bay area city is taking our phrase building a better bay area literally. the dramatic changes being considered by walnut creek. that's coming up in a half hour on abc7 news at 6:00. a tech couple is selling their home, and it could set a record as the most expensive home ever sold in san francisco. >> it's this 11,000-square-foot mansion in pacific heights. you can see it has its own terrace, looks across the bay, the golden gate bridge and the oakland hills. >> sotheby's international is selling the home which includes lots of beds and baths, a pool room, a pet salon. if it sells for the $39 million asking price, it would tie the record for most expensive home. >> it is being sold by a company who made their money in computer science. >> so they did well. >> we appreciate your time.
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i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. for drew tuma, tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. we have just learned president trump has called the president of turkey, asking for an immediate cease-fire. it comes as president trump says he will also issue an executive order to authorize sanctions on turkey, just one week after president trump's own move, deciding to pull u.s. forces from a key part of syria. turkey then moving in to target u.s. allies, the kurds. now, with the operation spiraling, president trump now talking about those sanctions against turkey. also tonight, what about u.s. troops now caught in the region? how to get them out safely. and martha raddatz standing by on that. in other news this monday night, growing outrage after a woman is killed by police in her own home. tonight, the officer has resigned. authorities apologizing. how did this happen? the deadly hotel collapse in new orleans. tonight, the search for one continuing. more than 100 construction
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