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santa rosa's "maya dirado"... goes out on top... in the most emotional swim of her life. =janelle/2-shot= our complete olympics coverage starts right now. good evening and thanks for joining us, i'm janelle wang. =raj/2-shot= and i'm raj mathai. some of the best stories -- are unexpected. and tonight -- was the most unexpected night of the olympics so far. =boxes= it starts in santa rosa and ends in rio. we have team coverage... we start tonight -- w/ nbc bay area's colin resch. colin? =colin/touch= maybe maya dirado should re-think her impending retirement...the stanford grad made it known going into these olympics that her first would also be her last...
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=vo= give her credit, she's going out on top...the santa rosa product makes it 4 medals in 4 events...2 golds...the one tonight - all her's...dirado in dramatic come-from-behind fashion in the 200 backstroke...she edges favorite katinka hosszu at the wall by 6 one-hundredths of a second...she couldn't believe it...either could her youth swim coach, dan greaves who i spoke to just moments later... =sot= outcue=...it was fabulous" trt=:10 =vo= then, there's katie ledecky...her 800 freestyle, the opposite of dirado's finish...the incoming stanford freshman was racing against her own world record - not the rest of the field - and she got it - with ease...by nearly two seconds...her 4th gold in rio... =vo= ledecky's roomate in rio...fellow cardinal simone manuel...after her historic victory in the 100 free thursday, she followed it up by qualifying for the 50 free semifinal tonight...
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=vo= as for the men...all about cal friday...anthony ervin - what a story...he won the 50 free 16 years ago in sydney...he does it again all these years later...fellow cal bear nathan adrian takes the bronze...at age 35 ervin becomes the oldest swimmer to win an individual olympic gold... =colin/touch= michael phelps vying for a 23rd gold medal but he came up just short in the 100 butterfly...he ties two others for silver and now has 27 total medals to his name... =janelle/1xvid vo= team u-s-a's first gold medal in track and field was won tonight by san jose native "michelle carter". carter won the shot put, with her final throw, upsetting the 2- time defending gold medalist. =vo= carter is the daughter of former 49ers defensive lineman, michael carter. michael played 9 years with the 49ers from 1984 through 1992. he not only won 3 super bowls with the niners, but also ed in tefensive lineman, michael he wod nine years with÷ú the niners from 1984 through 1982 he run.three super bowls but
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t maeted in the 84 olympics also so muock, but he won the÷ú silv medal. >> an end to amazing run, team usa soccer is out and the team 's ianting a lot of heat for post match comments, so much so the bay areaç soccer land chastain is weighing. d medahis is upsetting a lot of people. >> yeah, many saying it's poor sporting man ship, others say it's çunderstandable, i mean, 00-1ng that this women's team played for a gold medal in every olympics for the past 20 years until now. an historic runyrding in heart break, the u.s. women losing to sweden the first stumble in two decades. >> we just weren't lucky today. >> emotional comments turned downç another mack, goalkeeper saying, i'm very proud of this team, but i also think we played a bunch of cowards, the best team did not win today. the headlines"sq another shock wave through the soccer world, former u.s. women's team member
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and native brandy chastain denouncing the comments. >> i hear theç frustration in r comments it's unacceptable, you go there to compete and do your best and they did a better job. >> solo was talking about thezv swedish strategy and not them personally, chastain's husband and women's soccer coach said she could do better. >> it's disappointingç when we don't show respect to our opponents also, i think, we give somebody a little bit of hall pass when it's moments right after devastating loss. >> the teamzv moving forward, t captain tweeting this one hurts, i am proud to be a part of this team. i am not stopping and it will be more motivated in 2019 and 2020. it's o çwork, soon enough. 1:20kull nbc bay area news. coming up later, jessica 's as vq from rio and shows us
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that small advice giving olympians a big edge. new tonight police want you ring fe a good look at this suv, =boxes= it's key piece of n-b-c b eandro attacks. attackspect, a 13-year-old boy firing from the backseat. nbc bay area rickym boone is li in front of the sanleandro headquarters, it actually hit a woman in the head. >> yeah, it was very dramatic attack for that victim tonight, lues. doing aç little bit bett. the residents not so great themselves because they got a lot of fear and concern. you know they thought these attacks along east 14th street, !ey wrote but now it appears they're back in action and this team, yeah, a team is the one who is doing the drive byes. >> that's crazy, man. where are his çparents. >> drivers stunned. police say a 13-year-old is taking shots at people from this 2013 jeep suv.
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the latest victim attacked here along east 14th street near 159th avenue a woman was hit in the back of the head with a bee bee. 1ñ something should be done about it. >> witnesses say the bold gunman was hanging out the window from the backseat picking his targets. it comes months after a similar bee bee gun attacks that terrorize the area along east 14th street costing $60,000 in damage. it shot up and one pell at hit a > we don't know the reason why they're doing this. it really makes no sense as to why people wouldç randomly dri around the neighborhoods and shoot windows out on cars for no reason whatsoever. >> right now, police are not linking the two similar shootings but residents are now forced to÷ú brace themselves again, when they thought for months it was safe to walk freely and not thinking they
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would be shot. >> now, the attackers inht that earlier attack, they still have not been arrested. this as police are now still looking for that teenager along with that female driver, that's why they want you to check out the pictures and they're trying to get better pictures of that license plate. you can help them out, go to web site at nbc bay area.com, the pictures are there, willç t's t this kid off the street and stop the attacks. it's so important, this street very busy, it's like a highway out here, anybody can be out here at any given time, playing with a bee bee gun is not a game. we're live, rick boone. >> thank you. retracing his brothers steps and -yeking for some clues, tonight of family of man found dead at the west field san francisco center is helping with the investigation, 28-year-old frank ent found dead inside of a (sqáh @r(t&háhp &hc erstannesday morning. his family traveled from l.a.
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=sothis brothers spent the day cia sag with sfpd. luis says heç doesn't understa why it took so long for mall security to find his brother. >> that's what i fear, that he was just there over night for hours and possibly breathing÷ú s last breath. >> he says he also met with his brother's coworkers hoping to pop more clues, frank worked as a chef at the popular sons÷ú an daughters restaurant in san francisco. down e aren't saying how he was killed. a trip to popular park turns into an emergency for a san francisco family. a largz! tree limb snapped whathing down on a mother below. gene has more from washington square park in north beach. >> this playground was closed for hoursym after a tree limb snapped, landing on to have 0 a need a who was watching her children play. ont evastating beyond words and obviously our primary concernç
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right now is this woman who is in critical condition. >> has a serious head injury, a large tree limb fell on top of the 36-year-oldç woman as she t watching her two children play at washington square park in north beach. police say the nine and five-year-old children witnessed horrific incident. >> when wezv arrived, the victi was in and out of consciousness. we were able to get medical assistance quickly and off to the hospital she went. >> police released the kids to her father. ñ obviously a tragedy. >> super visor aaron and other city officials met at the park to consider the safety of the island pine tree. trying to figure outç why a li, 60 feet up the tree snapped, the park says a private tree company trimmed the trees two years ago, and the tree that lost that limb has aç history of good health. >> the true was last assessed in 2008 and then updated in 2010 in both of those assessments, it
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shows the tree to be in good ÷ú condition, a healthy tree. >> despite the positive reports, a mother is fighting for her life. nbc bay areaxtnews. >> absolutely. liable'm saying is common sense. it's a no brainer. up next we investigate a serious threat to the east bay, jefa major earthquake strikes. how cities plan to fight fires without a reliable water source. >> members of the seat community outraged, tiuy say that someone desecrated a holy book, i'll tell you why police are saying their hands are tied. and good early morning, i'mh chief meteorologistist jeff, mostly clear in san jose right now we're tracking fall for the morning commute and a hotter weekend ahead. i'll have details in just a few minutes. a man apparoached a group of
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sikhs -- and ripped pages
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from their holy book of scriptures. =boxes= police would like to talk to him -- even though -- he didnt break any laws.. nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is in union city w/ reaction from the community and a u-s congressman. cheryl? =janelle/cu= controversial tech mogul "gurbaksh chahal" plans to >> congressman is very upset, membersç of the seat community hurt and confused. police here say that they know about the situation, but they say they can't do anything about it. >> they're very angry on what happened here on tuesday, just like today, elders were holding a dailyç meeting when someone walked up and desecrated the holy scripture book right in front of him. >> why he did that. we didn't say anything to we didn't say anything to anybody, so why they did thata
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us. >> he and his brother tried to tackle the man before he got away. he and his daughter explained what happened. >> first he wasn't speaking because, i guess, he didn't wanç them to know what, you know, what was his nationality. but when -- when he saw they were coming after him, he ended up saying -- he saidç i'll pic it up. >> he did not pick up the pages, the eldered showed us the holy book similar to the one that was torn in front ofv: them. >> he was told of the incident and responded by saying this act and responded by saying this act wasa city police tonight says even though the incident was a disturbing act, no crime wass committed. >> he had first amendment right to do what he did. >> nbc bay area news.
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>> controversial tech moç bowl plans to fight a one year jail sentence handed down today. a san francisco judge said he violated the probation stemming from a incident in 2013. video÷ú captured him punching a kicking his girlfriend but the evidence was thrown out when the judge ruled the footage was illegally obtained. he ended up making a plea deal and sentenced top three years probation. in 2014 he was accused of attacking another woman, so today the judge sentenced him in 12 months in jail. this e's free on bail while his attorney .-i-mez his appeal. >> seismologyist tell us the next big earthquake will happen along the hayward fall. it's the fires that follow. >> largesquake may cut off the water supply and there won't be enough water to fight the fires. here is investigative reporter jacksonville. >> it's aym huge danger. >> at 81 mrs. smith has been organizing her birthly neighbors
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for more than a decade to respond to a disaster that she knows is sure to ÷úcome. >> what was the original motivation for me, i didn't want to be stupid when something happened and i hadn't done what i could. >> while smith works to help stock up supplies and trainç ordinary citizens, emergency officials are behind in efforts to deal with the main risks after a major earthquake, fires. >> it will be losses of potentially calluses. >> charles is an internationally recognized uc berkeley researcher studying the fireñ danger. he says the areas in vivid red on this u.s. geological survey map are greatest risk for large wake on -- quake on the fall. they mayç also be prone to pos fires. they fear that crews will not have the water they need to douse the many fires, that's because the water system in east bay is vulnerable to massç failures. >> after really major event, we
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would potentially see thousands. >> the east bay municipal utility district's headç engineer. he said cast iron pipe accounts for one third of the more than 4,000 mile water supply system and could easily rupture. >> perhaps the greatest risk.)% here in the hills of berkeley where the hayward fault runs straight through the center of the uc berkeley stadium. >> after the devastating÷ú 1991 oakland hills fire, berkeley voters approved a boond measure to install a network of pipes in the city. along with several 50,000 under ground hillside÷ú reservoirs li this one being built in san francisco. but that plan went nowhere, he says that was largely due to neighborhood opposition.  wants strip built up in front of their business or their house. >> instead the city bought a portable water supply system pioneered in holland. the idea is to pump waterht outf
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the bay or nearby lake in the hills and distribute it by a six-miles of 12 inch thick hoses. >> that would protect the downtown area, it will protect the campu'a it would go -- it would protect most of the flats and to exsome extent protect the portions. >> he says the state should upgrade its post quake÷ú water supply system and get specially outfitted fire trucks each with a mile back up fire hose, one truck for every 25,000 peoplejj% the city. >> it's in the similar into -- absolutely. what i'm sayingç is right now oakland has just four and there are a dozen bay area wide. scott says fire officialsym generally support his plan. >> but if you pardon on their busy putting out fires. they have a lot of other things they have to deal with.
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>> berkeley's assiç(0nt fire chief says the city has just seven fire engine companies. >> if we have a more severe earthquake on the hayward fault, it will provide us water thatçe will not otherwise have, but if we had multiple fires around the city and we lost our water, you know, we wouldn't have a problem. >> minor routine smith k has made progress. >> it's much better prepared than most and it's still not anywhere near what it needs to be. >> jackson, nbc bay area news. or anyone else, we urge you to give us a call, 888996 tips or you can send us an e-mail directly to the unit at ymnbc b area.com. the weekend is here and we're starting it off with another spare of the air day the smoke of the fires down south. >> the temperatures are going to get close to triple digitsç for parts of the bay area tomorrow as we get a look at it this morning if you're up watching
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the olympic coverage, it's 12:21, you'll see the view right that fog in place, that will be impacting our forecast over saturday and sunday as well. 55 degrees, humidity at 86% and tracking some of that drizzle ç with, again, that increased moisture in the atmosphere. another location here with clear skies, though, liver moore the interior vallies 67 you'll be dropping into the 50s asmy we hd through tomorrow morning into about five and 6:00. again, the fog and drizzle for san francisco and 52 for the north bay 52 and right across we have high pressure building offshore, that's helping to bring the heat. there's hot air associated with it. the one thing we're not going to be able tov: get rid of here th fog and immediate coastline. this is going to over ride the hotter air and really help to bring us here widespread temperature extremes if you're be classic summer day coming our way if you're hear visiting
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you'll see a huge amount of temperature swings here and short of amount of time. san joseym expecting 91. half of the bay at 61 degrees, and then san francisco into 60s for the north bay, east bay and valley÷ú hottest temperature he at 97 degrees oakland at 75. how do the temperatures trends look over the next severalzv da low 70s and÷ú. >> kids go back to school next week. >> it's going to be good for the parents. >> all right. >> thanks, jeff. >> well, stillb ahead the sweet taste of success, small local bakery hitting the big time and ends up in the national spotlight. we'll show you where. ym and happening now in our
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home page chinese olympic swimmer has tested positive for banned substance. she finishedzv fourth behind ba area star bay area. matthew mcconaheay has been cheering on team usa, check out some of the selfies with team usa. =vo=
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someone is chopping newly planted asian fringe trees along meridian avenue...this i not once, but twice a bizarre case of vandalism in sanjose, someone is chopping down asian french trees. it's an up÷ú scale of the willo glenn neighborhood. last month the same thing
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happened on the same streets the city council member say the city paid about 50,000 bucks to plant and care for theseç trees now while police search for a suspect, city crews will replant the trees and also install surveillance cameras in this area. >> san francisco has a new swee! spot, local bakery has been named the best new bakery in america. the bakery opened last year in the inner richmond district. today lines stretch for more than a block. the owner said he used to manage mutual funds until he turned to baking. he learned about the announcement when a friend called to congratulate him. >> ÷úreally, i feel like i have responsibility. i mean, there's a huge number of people waiting in line. >> if you decide to swing by, try their most popular item,ç e butter croissant. >> see you in about nine hours in line. >> okay. up next, the football season has kicked off. we'll show you what the raiders did tonight, stay with us. the raiders -- kicked off the
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preseason tonight in not to be overshadowed by the olympics, are you÷ú ready f some football? the raiders kicking off the preseason tonight in arizona. raiders and cardinals this might be the youngest member of the raider nation. the startingzv players didn't py very much, couple of series, it was all about the back up. the son of the raiders' legend, george çatkinson, iii. the raiders beat the cardinals
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31-10. the 49ers, by the way, kick off the preseason sunday in santaym clara. >> back to technology that's revolutioning some of the way olympians train including members of team usa volleyball. >> usingmy sensors to measure h high and how many times they jump and it's changing the game. jessica joins us now from rio. >> reporter: the idea is to train smarter, not harder. thezv athletes wear a wearable device called vert, it's not any bigger than a v stick it may be giving them an edge. the women's volleyball took ons italy and won 3-1. with every bump, set and explosive jump, the usa women's volleyball team is buying for they began tracking the height and number of vertical jumps in 2014 when vert came out. >> the players always seem to because they're not as gassed.
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>> founder martin works closely with team usa's coach who cut the numbers of jumps during practice in half. >> it'sç really exciting, they found out about our tactics then they go into the fivb world championship games and they won for the first time pever. >> on that winning team and on the current olympic team as former stanford player. >> two and three people on the team who canç duck on the bask they touch way up in the tens, she's ridiculous. she just flies. >> stanford coach john adopted the çtechnology. >> we knew we had something very special when we ran across that. >> reporter: he says when his players reach 120 jumps that day, they're done. >> çnow, it's like, just a roct ship taking off, how to help athletes achieve what they want achieve without having such a body in th
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long term. >> reporter: team usa isn't using the technology here because vert is not a sponsor they are using itç in practice. for the women the next game is sunday and they'll play china. >> thanks. up next legendary rock band is returning to the bayç area r charity concert at an old school venue. >> pretty cool.
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