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lucky bay area teenager.. getting a chance to watch it the golden state warriors on the verge of making history today. we meet one lucky bay area teenager getting a chance to watch it all happen for free.
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good afternoon, i'm kenny choi, i'm michelle griego. the excitement is building in oakland as the warriors could be hours away from breaking an all-time nba record for 73 wins in a season. kpix 5's jackie ward tells us this will be an especially big night for a local teenager. jackie. >> reporter: this is a great story. his name is dylan lewis a senior at the high school but he is a really great football player. he is a hugebasketball and draymond green fan. tonight will be his first nba game and dill -- and dylan like others is hoping to witness history. >> reporter: it all started with a tweet. draymond green wanted to give kids from oakland a chance to see tonight's big game from inside oracle arena. >> what i said in that tweet, i meant from the heart. give these kids a chance to witness history. >> reporter: they got in touch with mc a teen whose home was
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destroyed in hurricane katrina. >> i wouldn't change it. when you experience something that tragic, it makes you think of life and make sure that you don't want to do anything in your life to be put in that situation. >> reporter: after relocating to west oakland he is a linebacker on the football team with a 3.73 gpa. >> my mother said i couldn't play football unless i had a good gpa so i hit the books and made sure my grades was up to par. >> his advice for draymond green is minimal. >> he has to play his game and they will win. >> reporter: dylan says the couple d2, d3 schools are recruiting him for football. he is not sure where he will go but after that he hopes to open
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up a computer science business. in oakland, jackie ward, kpix 5. >> do you know where dylan will be sitting? >> i do actually. he has two great tickets. he is in section 124, row 22. and each of his two tickets is about $1,100 each for free, of course. parking fees at state parks are a hot issue at a conference in santa rosa. the california coastal commission is considering a request from the state parks department to charge people to park at several locations along the sonoma county coast. they say the fees could discourage people from enjoying the county's coastline. also today, the state senate will take up a proposal to eliminate tobacco use during youth sporting events. it would ban it 250 feet from a game or practice including cigarettes, ecigarettes and
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chewing tobacco. the city of sunnyvale plans to raise its minimum wage to $15 faster than the state. the city council wants the change by 2018. by july this year it will be $11. six months later up to $13. and by january 1, 2018, low wage workers will make $15 an hour if all goes as scheduled. the effort to impose a wise is tax on sugary drinks is dead. a bill to add a 2-cent per ounce tax was pulled ahead of a scheduled vote. the author determined they didn't have the votes. the beverage industry has spent more than $400,000 fighting it. less than a week to go before the next voting contest in the 2016 presidential race and there's a lot on the line. cbs reporter craig boswell tells us the new york primary promises a significant boost in
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delegates for both republicans and democrats. >> our republican system is absolutely rigged! >> reporter: donald trump told supporters in new york that his own party is plotting against him. he is accusing gop leaders of playing with nomination rules to steal delegates. >> you call them shenanigans. those are the rules. >> i know the rules very well. but i know that it's stacked against me and by the establishment. >> reporter: republican national committee chairman reince priebus tweeted that the nomination process has been known for a year. complaints now, give us all a break. his rival ted cruz says trump is the problem. >> donald keeps hiring people with records of dirty tricks, of lies and of threats to violence. >> reporter: for the democrats, new york is home turf. former new york senator hillary clinton is courting the black vote with an appearance here before al sharpton's national action network. the latest quinnipiac poll shows clinton with a 13-point lead over brooklyn native bernie sanders who was endorsed
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by the transit workers union in his hometown. >> we have to stand together, take on the big money interests and neighboring clear that our government works for all of -- make clear that our government worse for all of us, not just the 1%. >> reporter: they will debate in brooklyn tomorrow night. craig boswell, cbs news, new york. >> the latest republican poll in new york shows trump with 50% of the vote followed by john kasich with 27% and cruz with only 17%. for the first time in many years, presidential candidate really care about our votes here in california. >> being the last primary on the calendar usually is often a snoozer but this time, it's going to be the grand finale his. >> we are seeing in district after district just a huge number of republicans planning to vote. >> candidates on both side of the aisle hope to woo unregistered voters. our primary is june 7. a town hall meeting is under way now over an officer-
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involved shooting in san francisco. a homeless man was shot and killed thursday during a confrontation with officers near shotwell and 19th streets. san francisco supervisor malia cohen has asked the state attorneys generals office to start a civil rights probe into the police department. new at noon petaluma police are trying to find a person who threw a dog out of a car found and injured on 101. he is being treated for injuries including a broken leg, pelvis and tooth. anyone with information, contact the petaluma police department. happening today, 36,000 verizon workers on strike after failing to reach new labor agreements. the company says it trained thousands of nonunion employees to fill the vacancies in preparation for today's strike. most of those on strike work on land lines, tv and wireless services. they say they are fed up with verizon outsourcing jobs and
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refusing fair contracts to workers. >> in the last 10 years, it's really changed. it's all about profit sharing instead of, you know, taking care of the customer and taking care of the families and men and women that work hard for the companies. >> verizon unionized workers have not specified how long they plan to strike but say they are prepared to strike until an agreement is reached. how did the fbi crack the iphone of the san bernardino shooter? today we are learning how pro hackers played a role. >> reporter: one of the most well known high-tech moguls does something unheard of, spending a quarter billion dollars of his own money to create a cancer dream team. >> we are going outside right now and look live over the bay area. when you look at this shot, you'll think, what could be better? a little bit of rain? it's on the way. we'll have the forecast for you when we come back.
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mogul plans on donating mils to fund a new kind of cancer research. kpix 5 reporter kiet do... on the ground-breaking new effort.. millions of a bay area tech mogul plans to spend millions to fund a new kind of cancer research. kiet do on the groundbreaking effort. >> reporter: you could say this is a classic sillicon valley approach to fighting cancer. bring together the best and brightest minds and then fund it with a ton of cash. tech mogul sean parker announced he will donate $250 million and now some of the top research cancer centers in the country are involved including stanford. development from parker will go to create the parker institute for cancer immunotherapy based in san francisco. it's relatively new and immunotherapy attacks your immune system to attack cancer cells. it's a major advance in cancer treatment that hacks the body's own immune system to attack
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cancer cells. he has allergies and asthma and families with auto-immune disorders. he hopes to cure cancer. parker told "fortune" magazine, this is very early days for cancer immunotherapy and most of the breakthroughs are comes. this works in certain cancers and now the work of expanding immunotherapy to many cancers begins. currently cancer researchers are fiercely protective of their work. it would help the academic world negotiate with industry to help bring the therapy to the patient and to market faster. the top 6 cancer research centers including stanford and ucsf are all on board as well as pharmaceuticals like merck, bristol-myers squibb and genentech. this is a big goal trying to get the top minds in immunotherapy to work together. we are talking about 40 labs, 300 different researchers all trying to get on the same page. kiet do, kpix 5, stanford university. all right. let's take a look at the big
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board right now and see how the market is doing. looking good. the dow is up about 185 points. a new report sheds light on how the fbi was able to get information from an apple iphone used by the san bernardino shooter. according to the "washington post," professional hackers approached fbi investigators and showed them a software flaw in the phone that was previously unknown. they were reportedly able to crack a personal id number without setting off a security feature that would have erased everything. the post says the fbi paid the hackers a one-time fee. north carolina's governor wants lawmakers to change part of a state law that critics say limits the rights of lgbt people. governor pat mccrory issued an executive order yesterday expanding protections for many state workers based on sexual orientation. many in north carolina are concerned that the growing economic backlash from the law could cost the state tens of millions of dollars. >> i have listened to the
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people of north carolina and the people of north carolina are entitled to both privacy and equality. >> but mccrory is not calling for a change to the part of the law about restrooms at government buildings and schools. people need to use restrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate. there are growing concerns about security lines at airports. kris van cleave reports, checkpoint lines are twice as long at some airports across the country. >> reporter: extremely long tsa lines and wait times heading up to 90 minutes caused spring break chaos. american airlines says in just one week last month, nearly 6800 passengers missed their flights. at seatac the wait was over an hour. the airport director announced tuesday the hiring of private contractors to help with administrative duties freeing up the tsa to focus solely on
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screening as the airport explores dropping the agency altogether. 22 u.s. airports including san francisco and kansas city international use private firms for security screenings. major airports across the country tell cbs news they have seen their security wait times, as well. the lines at phoenix sky harbor can be 45 minutes or longer. in atlanta and minneapolis- saint paul, you could clock nearly an hour before tsa inspects your carry-ons. >> we have very high passenger volumes now. >> reporter: the tsa administrator. >> we are working hard to dramatically improve our ability to move people through shifting resources to the highest volume airports. >> reporter: how did we get here? the number of flyers is way up. the tsa has shifted its focus at checkpoints to enhance screening. and the number of screeners is actually capped by congress. tsa's administrators says he may have to go ask for more bodies. kris van cleave cbs news, washington. a massive 6.9 quake rattled
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myanmar a few hours ago and it could be felt as far as eastern india and bangladesh. residents panicked. so far no reports of any injuries or damage. let's check in with brian hackney for a look at the forecast. >> all right. we have sunshine right now. that's going to be changing as we head into the evening hours. clouds will increase from the north and that will set the stage for more rain in the bay area and we'll see how much we are going to get. not bad. and mostly gone by this time tomorrow. right now with severely blue skies over san jose, the numbers are in the mid-60s. west coast, you can see the cold front on the way from a low getting closer to the canadian coastline sending out a cold front in front and as a result, showers will spread south tonight. so we are expecting nice day today plenty of sunshine. rain will arrive in the small hours of the morning as frank sinatra once put it. sunny warmer on friday. over the weekend as the numbers will zoom into the mid-70s by
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then, futurecast draws a pretty good bead on it. skies lower as we get toward mitt night which is -- it's 1:00 a.m. showers begin up in the north bay. scattered showers further south in time for the morning commute and a few scattered showers behind the initial front. in terms of rainfall amounts, nothing fantastic. on the order of .2" in the north bay and a tenth or less in the south and east bays, enough to wet the ground and a little bit more. sunset tonight 7:45. today we'll be in the mid-60s. about the same tomorrow. then we apply the heat and warm it up as we head into the weekend. you see that on the extended forecast. we get partly cloudy skies for today. thursday we get those showers mostly overnight. liquoring into the morning commute a touch and friday, saturday and sunday, ah, nice. especially after last weekend. >> that's what i was about to
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say. it was pouring last weekend. >> yeah. this will be nice. >> all right. thank you. well, this morning, young scientists gathered from across the nation to present their projects at the white house. the science fair participants crowded the white house lawn to show off their high-tech projects. from robots to zero emission power generators, this is the 6th year the obamas have hosted the fair hoping to spotlight future leaders in the field. four of the bay area's best and brightest are presenting today. 17-year-old [ non-english language ] of san jose, [ non- english language ] of cupertino, and 18-year-old [ non-english language ] and [ non-english language ] of union city. a unique event for injured u.s. service members is under way again in the waters off santa cruz county. operation surf's sixth an u event runs through monday. the locations include cowell beach in santa cruz and several beaches they capitola. operation surf takes injured service members from
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afghanistan and iraq and uses surfing as therapy. love him or hate him, kobe bryant will play his last game tonight in los angeles. he announced in november that this season would be his last. tonight's game will wrap up his 20 year career for the 37-year- old. he won 5 championships with the lakers and he became the nba's third all time scorer. a 400-year-old painting found in an unexpected place. a family's attic. how much it's worth and why it could spark an international custody battle. >> and we want to invite all you pet lovers, send us your questions about their health and well-being. just email pets@kpix.com or on our facebook page, and we'll have our pet expert give you an answer every friday right here at noon. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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and a reminder: if you have a consumer problem or hotline.. so apples are a sweet treat this spring. here's tony tantillo. >> reporter: well, today's tip of the day is going to be is with honeycrisp apples. this time of year apples could be getting a little tired. what i'm trying to say is you pick up, they're little mealy. they are cold storage apples. most of all the apples were picked last fall, they are in storage. they are asleep. then they release them during the year. some hold up okay. some not so much. but the one that holds up great is the honeycrisp. i love these apples all year.
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they are delicious! when you buy them, make sure they have large and make sure nice color all the way around. free from any shriveling whatsoever. and squeeze it. it's got to be firm. when you bring them home, simply store them, here's the key now, i always say they look beautiful in a bowl on the table, but no, store them in the refrigerator right away and then enjoy them cool and crisp. honeycrisp apples, this time of year, they're so great! and i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. and always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. >> the if you have a consumer problem or question, email our hotline consumerwatch@cbssf.com. or call the hotline at 888-5- helps-u. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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for one french family, they stumbled upon a lost you never know what treasures are in the attic. for one french family, they stumbled upon a lost masterpiece. the painting believed to be the work of italian renaissance painter car advantage i don't could be worth $135 million. when the couple bought the home they never noticed the tucked away treasure which had probably been there for 150 years. >> the owners of this picture did not know of the existence of the picture. i sold it because of the face
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like this. >> and finders keepers. the french government is refusing to send the painting back to italy saying it now belongs to france. a bay area teacher out of the classroom this afternoon. what he is accused of doing that landed him in handcuffs on campus. we'll have that story and more tonight at 5:00. that is it for kpix 5 news at noon. >> a great day out ere, right? >> enjoy it. it will be raining tomorrow. >> have a great afternoon. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,
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♪ >> steffy: lay down. relax. >> liam: yeah, okay. >> steffy: here you go. >> liam: all right. >> steffy: can i get you anything? >> liam: uh, yeah, i was gonna get more water -- >> steffy: whoa, whoa. no, no, no, no, no. i can get that for you. you need to relax, all right? >> liam: okay. [ sighs ] >> steffy: relax. >> liam: thank you. [ door opens ]

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