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he was like so scary and the neighbors are screaming. fire, fire. flames engulf a san francisco home. tonight the whipping winds that made this fire fight all the more difficult. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm ken wayne. frank somerville is off tonight. tonight firefighters are still in the scene of a three alarm fire that burned in swift winds this afternoon. news chopper 2 is over the debose triangle area. the fire started around 2:00
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this afternoon on walter street between debose avenue and 14th street. ken pritchett is there now with the extra precautions that have firefighters still on the scene at this hour, ken. >> reporter: right now if you look into that center building the one damaged most by the fire. you can see clean up crews there on the second floor. securing this structure. this fire has been out for several hours now. but if you look back here on the street. you can see san francisco fire remains on the scene. they are here because of the nature of this fire the close proximity of the dense neighborhood. the buildings here and also because of the wind. so they're going to remain here overnight just in case. firefighters say the fire climbed the back of one home, aided by a whipping wind. villalobos first smelled the smoke. >> it was so scary, the neighbors are screaming, fire, fire. >> reporter: avalos was working in the backyard of a near by
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>> reporter: despite the windy conditions making the job all the more difficult for firefighters. >> i think it was really great. i mean i am really proud to be -- to live in san francisco. because they were just great. all of them. >> reporter: these three damaged buildings are split between seven housing units at least half a dozen people have to find another place to stay. the cause of the fire remains under investigation. one firefighters suffered injuries here. we're learning more tonight
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about a santa clara teen's motivation to sneak on to a flight in hawaii. turns out maui wasn't his destination. heather holmes is live with the story. >> reporter: a source is telling a hawaiian outlet that the boy was hoping to get on a flight to somalia to reunite with his mother. we now he was undetected for several hours what was supposed to be a secure area of san jose airport. >> reporter: it was a major breach of airport security. ktvu has confirmed that the 15- year-old who climbed up in the wheel well of a wheel well did so hours before the plane departed. this picture shows authorities
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looking over the 757 and the cramped area where the teen hid during the flight over the pacific ocean. authorities say the surveillance video shows the teen after he scaled a fence at the airport walking on the tarmac near airplanes. six or seven hours before the plane went for hawaii sunday morning. it wasn't until the flight landed in maui 5-1/2 hours later that the teen was discovered. the boy remains in the care of social workers in hawaii. we checked with the department of social services and said that the boy was resting comfortably at honolulu hospital. and that officials are arranging for a flight back to california. >> i'm just worried about his family. >> reporter: back out here live at the family home, it's unclear tonight julie and ken
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if any relatives are with the teen in hawaii and it's unclear just when he will return here to the bay area. as for why he chose that particular hawaiian airlines flight, we're told it was the first plane he came about. he's not facing any charges neither in hawaii or san jose. i'm heather holmes, ktvu channel 2 news. new developments in that horrific crash that killed two people. a mother of a 17-year-old student who died in the fiery crash has filed a lawsuit against fed ex. it alleges that fed ex trucks have a background of catching
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fire. santa clara county medical examiner's office identify the victim at megan yang. she was in a mazda mini van. also inside a 6-year-old boy and 45-year-old woman. a jeep wrangler left the road and hit the honda where it was hit by an suv. the poi and jeep wrangler driver suffered major injuries the woman minor injuries. police are looking for a man who forced a dog to attack a woman at a popular park. it happened sunday evening at people's park. the 22-year-old victim told police she got into an argument with a group of people and a man walked up to her. kick her and told his dog to bite her. she got away and was treated for a dog bite wound at the hospital. the man is described as a plaque man with dread locks and
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triangle tattoo on his face. prosecutors have announced the arrest of a man in connection with a murder. family members say she had a three-year-old daughter and was studying criminal justice. tough talk on california drought. some bay area residents face a tough fine for those who don't cut back. the water district wants to cut water by as much as 60%. and tonight we hear how the water district plans to do that. jana katsuyama has the story. >> reporter: julie, this yard might be green now but probably not for long. the meeting just wrapped up and they spent more than three
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hours discussing how to get more recycled water from ponds. >> reporter: this water is what might save homeowners. >> you can only take money out so out so long then you can't take it out. the district has created a large tap for people to use recycled water for a small fee. >> it's drinking it were every recycled drop could save water for people in the area who won't get the usual sources from the state water project. tonight that prompted the board
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to shut down city fountains. >> it's an unimportant use of water. once a week in the spring and fall. twice a week in the summer and no water through the winter. >> most people think they use most of the water at home. that's wrong. 50 to 75% of your water bill is irrigating your outdoor landscape. >> the board did not make a decision on the ordnances tonight. they're expected to do that next month. but if those ordnances pass, then repeat violators could face fines up to $1,000 or have their water turned off. reporting live in dublin, jana katsuyama, ktvu channel 2 news. for the first time ever east bay mud plans to pipe in water from the sacramento river to ensure it's supply. plans call for the utility to use a new canal running between the sacramento community of
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free port and east bay mud supply acuadu kr, t. about 5 billion-gallons of water will feed through. east bay mud does say its customers have responded to a call to conserve. from february of this year to february of 2014. officials use customers cut their water by 11%. so far in the 20 days of april they've cut water by 10%. another company is expanding it -- the professional networking company plans to use all 24 hours when the building is fin teurbed. linked in sees the new building should accommodate 100,000 workers. tesla is also expanding in
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the disease also known as protusis typically starts with cold like symptoms. >> it's a miserable disease. it can be weeks of coughing, gags after uncontrollable coughing fits. >> reporter: the principal notified parents friday that the student has whopping cough, was treated and is doing well at home. parents are asked to watch for symptoms. >> it's highly contagious. it's good that they let us know, we really appreciate that. >> i was just hoping that, the inoculations that my daughter's had would be sufficient. i know they get another one before seventh grade. hoping that's doing the trick. >> reporter: health officials say one of the biggest concerns right now is with the youngest of patients. four babies have been hospitalized with whooping cough in contra costa county so far this year. that's twice as many as all of last year. >> especially in little babies, they may not have a lot of
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coughing. they can just have episodes where they stop breathing and turn blue or purple. that's why they're concerned. >> reporter: because babies don't build immunity right away with the vaccine, the current recommendation are for pregnant women to get immunized and to get a booster shot with the initial vaccine. right now contra costa county has 19 reported cases. officials say whooping cough tends to be cyically cal peaking about every three to five years. they also say 2010 was the worse year in decades with more than 200 cases county wide. live in martinez, cara liu, ktvu channel 2 news. more details now the center's for disease control recommends infants get vaccinated with prothank pro -- protussis. and it also recommends for adults that spend a lot of time around children to get the
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vaccine. san francisco teachers rallied for raises tonight after they say they've gone years without pay hike. they staged a noisy rally on franklin street before a board ruling. the teachers are asking for a 21% raise over the next three years. they say they need it because many teachers are finding it hard to live in the city. >> it's getting more and more expensive to live here. as i'm sure you know. and it's impossible to pay our rent and our health care. >> reporter: the teacher's union said the median salary of teachers is less than $60,000 a year. not even close to what's needed to buy a home. the contra costa county sheriff's department is asking for the public's help tonight in finding a homicide suspect. authorities released this picture today of 20-year-old
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kyle navarro. the district attorney has filed a formal charge, murder charge against him for the shooting death of 24-year-old nicholas callon. callon was killed on march 21st in an unincorporated area of pinol. investigators took another man, michael mcqueen into custody in connection with that deadly shooting. he's been held on bail. it's official the warriors today announced it's buying 12 acres of land in san francisco's mission bay for a new state of the art arena. and now we're getting our first idea of what it'll look like. >> we are thrilled and excited for this opportunity. >> reporter: the team's today released this video. the privately funded arena is slated to be built on private land skwráut -- just south of at&t park. officials say they're looking forward to the move. but as rob roth explains, not everyone is on board with the plan. >> it's just to me one city of sports and why break it up. >> reporter: the message on the back of this fan's t-shirt says
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protect warrior's ground. he means oakland not san francisco. >> i'm a season ticketholder and i will not renew my ticket if they move. >> reporter: the golden state warriors have been playing in oakland since 1971 but never adopted the city's name. although some say losing them would be a punch in the stomach for oakland. >> i would be very upset if they move to san francisco. >> reporter: chris dobbyn serves on the governing board of the project. >> we can offer them a better site, a better price to keep them here we'll keep them here. >> we're looking forward to the balance of our seasons at oracle arena. we're going to welcome those fans and workers to our new arena. >> reporter: the team pays $100 million a year and provides
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full and part time jobs. at least one oakland a's player said he would be sorry to see the warriors move across the bay. >> i know a lot of our guys on our team are pretty, you know pretty good warriors fans and know a lot of players. they'll shoot around sometimes. definitely sad. >> there's been fans around here that have been faithful. i am bummed their leaving. i wish they would stay. >> reporter: major jean quan said negotiations are still ongoing. and she also said if the warriors owners change their mind about moving, the door is still open. in oakland, rob roth, ktvu news. the oakland's a's responded a short time ago on twitter to a new lease officer to stay in the coliseum. the oakland alameda said they offered a 10 year lease. the a's tweeted the the offer did not address all their issues.
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the team also said they did not want to negotiate through the media. pretty windy out there today. wind gusts up to 40-miles-an- hour at the san francisco airport. still blowing in nevato. the cool air came this morning with that light rain shower. then the wind die down. then you're going to wake up to 42 degrees. you go north or east to the rincon valley you will find your temperatures in this area in the north bay upper 30s. that is really cold for this time of year. so tomorrow morning even in fremont you're at 45 degrees. could see some frost on windchills. just know when the kids go to school, some of the strongest winds in a while. we'll see you back here. the ski season is winding down following a disappointing season. but today kirkwood wanted skiers and snow boarders to see this. the ski resort received about 5-
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that their loved one's truck was here and that a body was found inside it. >> there was a man with zip ties lying on the ground next to his trailer. >> reporter: the trailer is registered to big d. the driver is nguyen was headed to salinas and stopped at the parking. >> he told me last night buy food for him and i came here to buy him the food. >> reporter: his family and friends have not been able to reach nguyen. >> i'm scared. because i don't know if it's him or not. >> reporter: san jose police said he had visible injuries. >> don't know whether or not he was beaten. >> reporter: the complex is home to several trucking companies and for hours big riggs were turned away as authorities processed the scene. so far no witnesses have come forward and police have identified no motive. but there are surveillance cameras here. >> hopefully the surveillance cameras will provide us with
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some leads that we can follow up on and hopefully we can find who is responsible for this. >> reporter: the truck has since been towed away. but those who work here say it had been parked here on and off throughout the last several months. ann rubin, ktvu news. new information tonight about a man who was shot to death in east oakland yesterday evening. he has been identified as lewis montgomery. montgomery was driving down the street in oakland near the san leandro city line when shots were fired from a passing vehicle. the first distress call from the south korean ferry that sunk last wednesday was not from a crew member but from a teenager on board. the boy called the equivalent of 911 from his cell phone to say the boat was sinking. it wasn't until three minutes later that the crew sent out a
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distressed call. it's not known if that teenage boy survived. more than 100 people died. nine crew members including the captain are now facing charges. divers say visibility inside the ferry is so bad they're searching for bodies by touch. >> we want to acknowledge we've been having audio problems with our newscast. hopefully the bug has been fixed and we're okay. >> hope so. all right, we're going to continue on now though. [doorbell rings]
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new at 10:00, a new call to keep trains and buses running later in san francisco. the goal to serve a city that runs 24/7. supporters say it's more than just a matter of convenience. ktvu's amber lee is live now in san francisco with why some say it's also a matter of public safety, amber. >> reporter: julie, i'm in downtown san francisco where b.a.r.t. and munni service slows down of dark: but that's when some businesses ramp up and workers tell me more service is needed during the overnight hours. san francisco, a city with an entertainment culture that's as varied as its neighborhoods. >> yeah, public transit is just so difficult at night when so much is going on. >> reporter: a bartender at
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virgil sea brook, and a waitress at another establishment, laura adkins get out in the early morning hours. it's not just those who work in the night life industry. no matter how you slice it, the co-owner of mission pie tells me the lack of transit between the east bay and san francisco early in the morning especially on weekends has made it difficult to hire bakers and other staff. >> i have one attractive resume after the other but all of them lived in the east bay and none of them could get here by 5:00 a.m. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. currently starts service at 5:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m. on weekdays. >> i don't really like to see my friends drinking and driving. if you have to catch a train at
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11:00 at night and you miss the last train you're stuck in the city. >> it's a real hole in our system. >> reporter: scott weiner proposed a resolution to form a task force to come up with solutions which he says will involve the help of b.a.r.t., ac transit, munni and others. >> lots of people would like to see b.a.r.t. run 24 hours, or at least longer hours on the weekend as a minimum. >> sometimes it's 45 minutes and that's just too long. especially at 3:00 a.m. that's way too long. >> reporter: supervisor weiner says the entertainment industry brings in $4.2 billion each year and that the region cannot afford to ignore the problem one that affects many people in various parts of the bay area. live in san francisco, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. the supreme court today dealt a blow to affirmative action and it's decision could have implications here in california. the justices ruled 6-2 to
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uphold the ban on affirmative action in michigan on public emissions. -- public admissions. the justices did not rule directly on affirmative action but on a state's right to ban it. justice anthony kennedy wrote for the majority quote this case is not about the how the debate of racial preferences should be resolved it is about who may resolve it end quote. he added it's up to voters. a bay area group trying to get california's affirmative action call overturned called today's decision racist. the group by any means necessary talked about the decision at ac berkeley. they said those in power are out of touch with minorities. >> we're immediately demanding the doubling of minorities to incoming class. >> reporter: the university of california said it was admitting more hispanics and whites for the first time.
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latinos account for about 29%, whites 27% and blacks 4%. asians were the largest group at 36%. today marked six months since the deadly shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a sonoma county sheriff's deputy. authorities say the deputy fired because the teenager held an air rifle designed to look like a ak37. today friends of andy lopez master -- andy lopez marched out of school tonight. those students told katie utehs why they're frustrated with what's being said inside their school. >> reporter: these students missed a day of school. >> mad because they still talk about him even though he's dead. >> reporter: alex mendoza is one of several who organized a protest in honor of his friend andy lopez.
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the 13-year-old shot and killed bid a sonoma county sheriff deputy six month ago today. lopez was carrying an air rifle. >> we're going to do it for 30 minutes. only 30 minutes but then they locked us out of the school. >> reporter: the more than two dozen students marched to the high school. the prove prompted a lock -- the move prompted a lock down. >> it's been six months and half of the kids their grades have dropped. because they have so much going on in their minds. >> reporter: the kids finally gathered at the location of the shooting trying to overcome sometimes hurtful comments made about their friend. >> why does she need to say her opinion. just outloud. like especially when it hurts so much. >> reporter: police tell us they're reviewing possible criminal violations for the adults who walked on to the high school campus today. we also reached out to the school district for a comment.
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they told me the superintendent will be releasing a comment tomorrow. in santa rosa, katie utehs. there's a controversy brewing in the east bay where some people want to convert a high school to an independent charter school. dossier middle school is one of the highest performing schools in the district. the district denied the request and instead decided to convert it to a dependent charter which would leave the district in control. >> we don't have the funds. they don't give us our share because they say, these are the schools that need it. the test scores have not gone up at those schools. >> it took more than the 23 teachers that are petitions to create what it takes to create. >> reporter: that hearing is set for next week. the teachers will also go in front of the county board of education to appeal their
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request of an independent charter conversion. aol says it has changed its policies after its e-mail system was hacked. many aol e-mail users have been complaining that spam has been sent out. spamers use e-mails that are called spoofing. stock markets are on the row with a sixth straight day of gains. nasdaq gained
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a 26-year-old modesto man is in the hospital recovering from a fall in yosemite. it happened in yosemite's cathedral range. he talked about his fall and his rescue. >> slide left 10. >> reporter: rescue video shows a rock climber who fell 30 feet from a granite wall. 26-year-old blake parkinson of palo alto landedden a ledge 1,000 feet above the yosemite valley floor. a chp rescue and park rescue service were tasked with rescuing him off the ledge. >> i have never taken a fall like that before. >> reporter: now in a hospital bed, parkinson is being treated
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for spinal fractures, in time he is expected to recover. >> i hit my back on a boulder. that was protruding off of this ledge. it had been a climb that i had wanted to do for quite a while. so i'll have to wait to finish it up another time i guess. >> reporter: his climbing partner ben knew immediately there was a problem. >> normally when a climber fall, right away they would say i'm okay i'm getting back on it and you would feel something moveing with the rope. but since i wasn't getting anything from the rope and, he was not responsive, it seemed like something had gone quite wrong. >> reporter: at the time the two were attempting to scale a spot known as higher cathedral spire. chp and paramedic brown helped pull parkinson to the helicopter. >> he was more responsive than i thought. he gave me a thumbs up and thanked me and the other crews
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what we had done. >> reporter: in the same way, he gave me a thumbs up when i left his hospital room. showing a sign of optimism and hope for the future. for moving ahead with a plan to build a pond at shark park golf course. that golf course is in pacifica but owned by the city of san francisco. officials say the pond would help with the red leg flog and guarder make. but the save the frogs organization say it would be toxic to wildlife. there's no word when a judge would rule on the matter. video of an attempt to capture a leopard seems frightening but we have to tell you it ended in a good way.
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thank you! thank you! dedicated bankers born to go the extra mile. you've been such a big help. it's what i like to do. so you can choose a bank where helping people comes first. chase. so you can. surveillance video shows thieves breaking into a walgreens. it happened around 4:00 friday morning. police say they were alerted by an alarm but the thieves were only inside the store for two
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minutes. by the time officers arrived, they were gone. an unusual target for thiefs in san francisco, plants being ripped out of the ground at golden state park but those plants aren't being sold. ktvu's david stevenson learned what they're being used for and the threats to those who take them. >> reporter: the birds, the bees and other creaturers are facing competition these days as they forge for food. >> i think it's unfortunate. >> reporter: this man lives across the street from the park. he says he confronted four elderly women about a month ago loading what appeared to be wild ginger plants into kitchen garbage bags at the recreation head quarters. >> they were stuffing them into white bags and i walked over to them and said what are you doing. they started to slowly one by one leave the area. >> there's a variety of forging activities that might be seen in the park. >> reporter: the park has wild
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raddages, dantiloin leaves but forgaging. >> the health could be an issue. >> berries hanging there, yeah maybe you grab a berry but you would never take a plant. >> reporter: they're ready to make field trips to city park to catch plant thieves in the wild. david stevenson. the wind out there today stirred up allergens for many people in the bay area. the problem is made worse by urban trees. experts say the vast majority of trees are male and they're the ones that produce pollen. ktvu confirmed today the city
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of berkeley suggested only male mulberry trees to avoid the problems of dropping fruit. >> quite backfired because everybody is allergic to all the pollen that comes from the male trees. i guess that's what you get when it comes to messing with mother nature. >> male no litter trees are a bigger health threat because they cause more allergies. they're asking the city to pick more diverse trees to reduce the kind of suffering many people are seeing today. it was windy out there today. temperatures cooled another 10 and 15 15 degrees in some places. today further cooling. 66 in antioch. 66 in livermore. 67 one of the warm spots in morgan hill. look at san mateo and san francisco. just in the upper 50s. now the wind are still going out there. you got a few clouds moving through right now. we had some rain drops this
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morning. .02 of an inch. very light. more rain comes up in the five day. i'll show that to you in just a minute. current temperatures are cool. that cool air moving over the top of us today. overnight lows in these north bay valleys are going to get down there. the winds are still blowing but these wind backed down. they're already starting to back down in the oakland area. san francisco airport you're still gusting to 97. but those winds will die down. temperatures are really going to drop off. by the time you get going in santa rosa and napa and vallejo, low 30s. perhaps low 40s and upper 30s. so san jose right now it's just 52 degrees. so it's chilly in san jose right now. you wake up in san jose at 46 degrees. that is cold for this time of year. 63 at lunchtime then you warm a little bit tomorrow. then we warm a little bit more on thursday in time for weather systems to change and the chance of rain to come in.
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wednesday, thursday, temperatures come up. a weak system shows up. a more robust system that we saw this morning that could deliver an inch of rain in the bay area. rain likely on friday. your weekend appears to be spared at this point. looks like this thing is going to get out of here and the weekend is going to warm up nicely. not warm up but clear up nicely. 70 in antioch tomorrow. 70 out in the brentwood area. 72 in gilroy. it'll be nice to get some rain out here on friday. it looks like that will happen. the rest of the weekend looks like it's spared with temperatures by sunday the nicest day in the upper 60s and low 70s. slightly warmer again, temperatures come back down, snow in the mountains. they may get 8-inches of snow on this thing on friday. saturday might be a very good ski day if there's anybody left open. isn't kirkwood's closing. >> they said sunday. they're supposed to get more
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snow. >> squall valley is probably still open. more snow on friday. rain for us. >> if you like to ski get up there quick. >> yeah. the national football league is facing a federal lawsuit because a las vegas man said he could not buy tickets to this year's nfc championship game. the seahawks limited tickets sold in california. the lawsuit claims that is unconstitutional and tickets should be available to all because most stadiums are built with public funds and the nfl pays no federal income tax. the nfl has not yet responded publingly to that lawsuit. >> mark is here now with sports. the sharks did it again. this time they made it a little bit interesting going into overtime tonight. >> a different rout to victory. not a rout on the scoreboard but victory in extra time.
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a change of scene and yeah, dream on steven tyler if you think the sharks are going to lose as they take the lead early. burns kind of a dribbler. gets past jonathan quick 1-0 san jose in the second. and we're tied at 2-2. but in the third period. down again. tomas hurdle punching it home. his second career play off goal 3-3 in overtime the kings actually dominate. but watch marleau with the back hander at 13-45 left. and they were actually the sharks outshot 5-1 in the ot but they too prevail and go take a 3-0 lead for game four. they get to the ninth
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inning with a lead last year. another tough one tonight. 3-3 in the fourth. coco with a shot to right. falls in there. josh redick scoring. the lead they take into the ninth. one out away from a save but josh wilson deep left. almost a home run instead of double. rbi double that tied it 4-4. then it's michael choice a former a came over in the craig gentry trade. right back up the middle. wilson will score. the game decider second consecutive night. the a's lose on a former oakland a getting the game
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pulosiki way gone off baumgartner. it's a solo shot in the fourth. 1-0 lead. and the kid is not paying attention. he says i got a ball man. hunter pence one of eight san francisco hits tonight. but it's just a solo home run. as a matter of fact the giants are 0-8 with runners in scoring position. 1-1 and the kid is still staring at his ball. the decider, loser balm it's arrenado with a solo shot and heartbreaking loss for the giants but they're getting used to it these days 2-1 but the kid is still happy. meantime 500 home runs is quite a club to belong to and we had another member joining it tonight. albert pujols. >> just another throw over, no it's a whole pitch and there it goes to center. and that's number 500 for pujols. >> number 500 as a matter of fact he had two tonight. he's the first big leaguer ever
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