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dead. >> it happened in oakland's chinatown. >> sue thompson joins us with more. >> reporter: good morning. that is the latest this morning from oakland police. two men are still at large here in connection with this fatal home invasion. it happened in the heart of oakland's chinatown. right across the street is the building. as homicide team continues to work to process evidence, what they found inside has added a new twist to this investigation. at 4:40 this morning, gunfire in oakland's chinatown. police arrived to this home at the 300 block of 7th street. >> upon arrival they found within individual deceased apparent gunshots. >> reporter: the homeowner is now being questioned. police say he apparently shot and killed one of three suspects that forced their way inside. the homeowner's dog was
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killed. a second dog did survive. inside a twist, as police uncover a marijuana growing operation. the question now, whether it is legal? if the homeowner can prove it? >> there would be certain legal documents. just because you have a piece of paper doesn't mean it is legitimate. >> reporter: the lieutenant says if the marijuana operation is legal police can't confiscate anything. one local business owner in chinatown for 10 years can hardly believe it. >> a big surprise for me. a big surprise for this area. >> reporter: a lot of questions on this investigation still remain, including the biggest one, whether the homeowner will face charges in connection with the shooting. oakland police are not commenting on the weapons used in this home invasion or on those suspects that are still
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at large. sue thompson, abc7 news. richmond police are looking for a second suspect in the fatal shooting of a high school football player. the 16-year-old was shot last night. katie marzullo is live at the scene. you spoke with the victim's family? >> reporter: i did. that family is in shock this morning we're standing where the shooting occurred about 9:30 last night you can see the memorial set up. he did not live in these apartments he lived in a home with his family across the street. his family cannot figure out what he was doing here or why something like this would happen to him. 16-year-old ulysses was shot and killed at an apartment complex on mcdonald avenue. his cousin placed flowers this morning. >> he loved his family, he lives right there. everyone knew him.
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we weren't expecting this. >> reporter: his family shared these photos aspiring professional football player. >> he was going to kennedy high. he was going to get recruited. he wanted to play for the nfl. his coach wanted to help him. he was such a good kid he never hung out here. >> reporter: police are still working on that. they have one in custody for the shooting. they will only say he's a man in his 20s they are looking for a second suspect but will not identify him. >> we are still developing leads trying to get answers this is an ongoing investigation. we don't want to compromise this investigation. >> reporter: police believe the man they have in custody has gang ties. the family of the victim says ulysses did not. >> loved to make friends and the only mistake he made yesterday was to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and wear the wrong color. but he was never involved in any gangs or anything.
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he was a good kid. and i'm really gonna miss him. >> reporter: richmond police officers have been coming and going from this apartment complex all morning. lyanne melendez is at the high school the entire football team has shown up to grieve together. katie marzullo, abc7 news. right now all lanes are clear on highway 238 in hayward after a deadly morning crash trapped a car beneath a big rig. the accident blocked several lanes during the morning commute. it happened south of the hesperian boulevard off-ramp. the car collided with to big rigs the crash pin add that sedan under one of them, the driver was pronounced dead at the scene. a roll over crash in pittsburg off highway 4 sent eight to the hospital, including two babies, all members of an antioch family.
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the chp received calls about a woman holding a child on the side of the freeway. officers arrived to find the vehicle flipped over. chp says four adults, two teenagers and two infants were taken to local hospitals with minor to moderate injuries. chp is investigating how many were in seat belts. new details about the man who killed six people at a wisconsin sikh temple yesterday. he's identified as 40-year-old wade michael page. police say he was an army vet and may have ties to the white supremacy movement. the fbi is leading the investigation. officials are not aware of any other threats to the sikh temple of wisconsin. page lived five miles away from the temple where he walked in and just opened fire on worshippers during a mid-morning service yesterday. page used a semi-automatic handgun, killing six and
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wounding three before police shot him. >> we can say that he was in the military. 1992 to 1998, had a general discharge he was ineligible for reenlistment. right now, he is the only shooter that was involved at the temple. >> the southern poverty law center says page used to play in heavy metal white power bands. a few hours from now are more than 2,000 union janitors plan to march ahead of a possible strike their contract expired last week they've agreed to stay be the job for now while negotiations continue. the janitors have authorized a strike if talks break down. sticking point is the cost of health care janitors clean over 400 buildings in san francisco. san jose police officers' association will
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meet tomorrow to discuss whether to ask members for a no-confidence vote on police chief chris moore the head of a tempt that has slashed jobs and has fewer cars on the street some officers question moore's ability to lead effectively. a department spokesman defendants the chief's record in-- insisting moore is doing everything he can. still ahead, how the eyes could be a window to a person's sexuality. perfect landing and a risky mission. nasa's curiosity begins an investigation into the red planet's past. we'll show you the first we'll show you the first images from mars.
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nasa scientists are preparing for the rover to begin digging into the red planet, next up, after the one ton rover made an impressive landing yesterday. these are some of the first images curiosity as beamed back with more to come. karen travers has the latest. >> reporter: it was a rocket celebration at nasa overnight as scientists let out a huge sigh of relief when the rover named curiosity reached mars. eight months, 352 million miles and a tense seven minutes as curiosity approached the red planet
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ending with a flawless landing. a feat in engineering. curiosity zipped through the martian atmosphere at 13,000 miles per hour before the finish line it slowed to a crawl of two miles per hour as cables carefully brought the rover down to the surface of mars. >> that rocked. >> reporter: as it approached for landing the rover transformed six times, 76 explosions that needed to be executed in perfect sync. curiosity sent back these black and white images from inside the martian crater you can see wheel and shadow from the afternoon sun. it was a huge victory for nasa, an olympic moment for the scientists and engineers who spent years working on the mission. >> we were not sure we were going to win. this was a goal. >> it didn't come cheap a whooping 2.5 billion dollar gamble nasa hopes will payoff with new discoveries. >> we are trying to understand
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the gee logical history of mars. -- the geological history of mars >> reporter: the rover will be looking for new clues as to whether life existed on mars or still does. karen travers, abc news washington. >> lots of jubilation here in the bay area. [ cheering and applause ] >> big crowd at the research center in mountain view cheered when the rover touched down this was at the space and science mu people in oakland where hundreds flocked to watch that successful landing. very cool. stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage on the mission to mars. you can keep up with the mars mission on abc7 news.com as well as twister and facebook -- we hear some kids saying can't wait to find aliens or signs of them. >> it had already landed before they knew it was going through the atmosphere in the
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proper way. amazing what they did. a lot smarter than me. the clouds are back to the coast warming trend on the way we'll talk about that and sfo is on time now after delays this morning. a personal plea to the bay area to reach out and help mothers of children starving in west africa. how you can help. what secretary of state hillary clinton is
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international relief agency is making bay area plea for help for children and families in west africa. a long term drought and civil unrest has plunged the region into a humanitarian crisis affecting a staggering 18 million families are at risk of severe malnutrition or starving to death. the vice president of the program told met the situation is heartbreaking. >> -- told me the situation is heartbreaking. >> people who are so resilient so strong who survive in the face of such adversity still struggle so much to be able to feed themselves. >> she will be joining congresswoman lee from oakland and me tonight to talk about the crisis at the an world affairs council auditorium.
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secretary of state clinton visited south african icon nelson mandela today. these photos show secretary clinton with the 94-year-old mandela in his home village. he no longer makes public appearances. secretary clinton will head to the first u.s.-south africa business summit after she learned local dance moves while visiting malawi yesterday. blue skies now finally, warmer temperatures. >> if you live in the east bay valleys you might want to count pennies now going to get maybe near triple digits. >> the ac bill. >> yeah, unfortunately. the price we pay for those few days when it gets hot. coming up on 11:19 a few clouds from the mort west of sutro tower this morning you can see golden gate park clear
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as is san jose just a few clouds left as we look at that beautiful blue sky. with all the clouds you got th know live doppler is showing how dry it is we had a little mist this morning, few and far between and it is over now. let's show what is going on. look how quickly clouds retreated even away from the coast starting to move out. you will see sun and warming trend will get to you also. right now everybody in the 60s until you get to los gatos, fairfield, east bay valleys, monterey bay low to mid 70s. watsonville roy, all that sun in low to mid 60s. we are seeing faster sunshine today, won't be as cool as yesterday that fall forecast or fall flavor we had over the weekend gone for a while less cloud cover tonight, mild overnight getting hot inland and warm around the bay in the latter parts of this week. today everybody going up two degrees in san francisco to 66,
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fremont 79. san jose 81. concord 85. santa rosa up to 82, 11° warmer than yesterday. 62 pacifica, 10 degrees warmer today in oakland with more sun and 72. as i need the east bay valleys, 92, 20° warmer in brentwood now other areas in the east bay valleys that may hit 90 today, antioch this is the area we'll see hundreds thursday and friday, 79 fremont today south bay upper 70s sunnyvale and milpitas. peninsula made to upper 70s, millbrae 71°. mid 60s coast downtown san francisco 70 south san francisco and sausalito low to mid 60s pockets of sun north bay along the coast upper 70s to low innateties inland mid 70s watsonville, santa cruz low to upper 80s
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inland around the state 90s to 100 central valley 110 in palm springs today near 90 in los angeles. we've got a game tonight a's and angels a few games behind the rangers 63°7:05 first pitch dropping to 56°. tomorrow 50s, clouds along the coast a few will pill into the bay inland areas should be mostly cheer. hot high pressure to the east is retrograding and coming back towards us that's inland valleys are going to get the hottest two to three degrees warmer tomorrow, by thursday near 100 inland friday around the -- 90 around the bay. temperatures taper saturday and sunday still warmer everywhere except at the coast middle 60s. in health news f you want to know a person -- if you
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want to know a person's sexual orientation stare deeply into their eyes. men and women watched erotic videos pupils only dialated when seeing sexual images of women. pupils of bisex sexual men widened for men and women. director woody allen spending the day shooting part of his new romantic county in marin county. he will be filming a daytime party scene in an undisclosed location shooting started next week in the pacific heights neighborhood. the san francisco film commission says the movie is about a woman trying to make it on a budget when she moves from san francisco to new york city. no title yet, just being called woody allen's summer project. we want to thank some people helping raise thousands for foster children by liking
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botox for your feet and other medical procedures women are undergoing in step out in style. later today at 4 and 5. i guess it is wearing sandals weather at least it will be later in the week. >> some place. >> not a bad time to break out those shoes. out of my realm. [ talking over each other ] >> here's one area that does concern me. as we start to heat up the stagnant air east bay valleys could get iffy with the air quality thursday and friday. here's the reason why, when the temperature hits 100, the air is stagnant coming from the central valley which has more pollution than our air we'll keep you advised if the
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air quality does get bad, 90 around the bay head to the coast it will be in the upper 60s to near 70 when those days are the hottest. that will do it for now thanks for joining us here on abc7 news. >> who wants to be a millionaire is next. >> we wand to remind but the alarm clock app for the alarm clock app for the iphone. [ male announcer ] if you're ready to get more from your tv service, now's a great time to get at&t u-verse tv. make the switch! [ megan ] call now to get at&t u-verse tv for only 29 a month for six months -- with a total home dvr included free for life. plus add hbo and cinemax
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