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of a motorcycle clubs that supported korea's biker gangs. the driver of the previous was headed north of 101 salt of the hillsdale eight sets. for some unknown reason the 19 year old behind the wheel was videotaping the motorcyclists while driving. he then lost control of his car hitting two of the bikers. multiple biker's surrounded the previous. the driver was hit on the head in front with a knife. no one was taken into custody. the chp is asking for any of the witnesses to come forward.
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>>justine: this morning there were some scary moments in one san francisco neighborhood where a car slammed into a home just before 9:00 a.m. on saturday night. in hit a gas meter retrieve a line and causing a leak. crews were able to temporarily capped it. pg&e says they will have to dig up a section of the street to repair it. >>james: fire was now the only thing authorities found on saturday. craig skalar explains.
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>> the three alarm fire was fully involved by free a.m. forcing firefighters to go into a defensive mode. >> there were 20 ft. flames when we got here. we determined it right away that it was not -- that it was going to be defensive operation. >> in the aftermath it was what was inside that, the authorities' attention. marijuana plants managed to survive. >> we are a pretty collective community, we had no idea there this was going on.
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>> we have to barricade our rise in the garbage areas in order to keep people from urinating in the having alcohol. when the alcohol gets flowing, people did not care how they feel. they start pulling a closed- end in urinating everywhere. >> there were a lot of crazy costumes crossing the start line. >>justine: what was your favorite costume? >> there was a guy that had a lot of body hair and he shaved everything off except what looked like a
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basketball jersey. >> yesterday it was gorgeous all around the bay area including said francisco. this morning, a different picture to date. a lot of cloud cover in the low-lying fog. we do have some areas of fog. the fog will start to burn off around 11:00. as we transition into the afternoon mostly sunny skies. cooler weather with temperatures in the '60s and '70s. as we head into the evening hours, mostly cloudy conditions around the bay.
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see a couple of low 80s here and there but much cooler weather compared to yesterday where we actually saw some '90s. your 7 day around the bay forecast shows pretty warm weather as we head into the rest of the week. slight potential for rain friday and saturday a pretty warm conditions as we wrap up the weekend. we are not looking at any hot spot. the approach to the bay bridge is pretty easy out of oakland towards san francisco with nova metering lights to deal with. the san mateo bridge is a 40 minute ride from end to end. the golden gate is soft in this morning. drive with extra caution.
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chrysler i remember average and italy to take money to make sure it adds or the right person. individual consumers is a growing trend, consider facebook. here is my facebook page. i am a mother of two. these are the ads that pop up. guards are is applying for a patent that would bring individuals tailored advertisements. " recently changed its privacy policy to make it easier to focus ads based on specific consumer information learned from google or you to searches.
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all of this does raise a concern about privacy. a lot of information could be collected on where you have shocked, eats and vacation. one law professor has studied the worst advertising. >> people have said it was visuals >> it did not like the idea of it be manipulated >> the all-star patent just means there will have the option to develop the technology later on. hall of stars says there's no guarantee that all even happen. they say if they do proceed it would only use information volunteered.
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well >>justine: yesterday morning, a toyota previous hit two men who were riding with a motorcycle club. maureen kelly has more. >>maureen: a chp spokesman says more than 20 people were riding motorcycles at the scene of the accident. some of the bikers were hell's angels and others were members of motorcycle clubs that support the notorious biker gangs. celeste's kahane here are members of the kings by clubs loading to of the harleys are to the back of a
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flatbed tow truck. the driver of the car and the motorcycles were headed north on 101 around 8:15 a.m. on sunday. for some unknown reason, the 19 year-old behind the wheel was videotaping the motorcyclists with his cell phone while driving. he then lost control of his car in and hit at least two of the bikers. after the accident, things got uglier. multiple writer is surrounded the driver, he was hit in the head in the threatened with a knife. the driver could not identify her him dead the other bikers were not cooperating. the chp said they received numerous calls about the assault. they are asking for those people to come forward to help identify the suspects. the driver and the bikers were transported to local hospitals with minor injuries in the third biker left the scene, driving himself to the hospital. the driver of the vehicle
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will be cited for driving while distracted air causing an accident. if caught, his assailant's face criminal assault charges. >> in san francisco, a 30 ft. tree branch snapped hitting power lines on the way down. it happened yesterday near the intersection of church in elizabeth. the muni church line had to be rerouted. residents were told to stay inside until it has been cleared in the '80s. >>justine: said declared county is clear to remove about 100 unmarred coffins found during construction at a hospital. it turned out to be a forgotten graveyard for impoverished patients fees from the 1800's-early 1900's.
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the >>justine: the family whose stock was killed by vallejo police speaks out about what it would seek done differently. >> hour nightmare start with someone stealing a checkbook in and it ended with my dog getting shot. there was no phone call saying the police from the way. in a situation where people are fearful walking into an unknown property, they have have lots of options at the disposal. there are other programs and other cities like oakland,
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they have a program that the spca rise were officers are trained to understand a dog behavior in this to be able to recognize a vicious dog from one that is just guarding its property. also: to use things like pepper spray, batons and non-lethal force and to exercise those options before reaching for their revolvers. in this case he made five steps into the yard before pulling out his service revolver. john would like to see the vallejo police department invest in community policing into rebuilding the sense of trust in the neighborhoods they serve. given the fact that so many people, not just in vallejo, but from the country have dogs, it should be impaired if. officer training should include a course in how to understand the dog behavior and how to use all of the options available to them before they use lethal force.
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as we advanced the clock into the afternoon, by 5:00 p.m. it looks like conditions could get more windy. as we head into the afternoon we will see a mixed bag of temperatures. we do anticipate upper 50s along the coastline. the more inland you go, we will pick up 70's. as i show you your 7 day around the bay forecast, pretty unpleasant conditions. we do have a slight potential for wet weather.
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morning. >>justine: mark zuckerburg posted this photo of his facebook page a few hours after saying i do to his longtime girlfriend. he married his sweetheart in palo alto on saturday. she just graduated med school from cal berkeley. guests thought they were attending a graduation party which was just a disguise to get everyone to their wedding. sox
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>> more than 900 million users and 150 billion in connections. 10.5 billion minutes of our lives every day. there were others the the social networking no-space lead facebook broke it, why did my space become a punch line while facebook group? the secret lies in the timing. >> lend my space and friends turk took off, it was before most adults are acclimated to the idea of connecting with each other on the web. those sites were very attractive. >> the guy in the hoodie, mark zuckerburg, the goals of the man at the company were one. >> to him and many take visionaries, it has been more important to make something really cool that it has been to make a successful offering. >> facebook coins public is aside huge success.
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some say the cool factors feeding. with such a huge user base, that may not matter. >> the bottom line is they're going back because that is where their friends are it that is how they communicate with people they know. >> there have been stumbles over the wave like the devolving privacy policy. after a blockbuster ipo, the next milestone of is 1 billion users. >>justine: we still have much more to show you, all of the bay to breakers five from sunday. wait until you see some of these costumes. we will be right back.
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action i love telling big stories about big heroes. but, at the end of the day, real life is better than any story. our service men and women are the real heroes. every day they make the sacrifices for their country; for my country; for my son's country. the uso gives us real ways to support our real heroes. there is a way we can say thanks. you can go to uso.org and make a real difference in their lives today. do it. >>justine: a san jose family is making a desperate plea for help. their daughter is sick and
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all of their pictures from their make a wish trip to disney world or on a camera that was still live off of the airplane that landed tuesday at sfo. as kate thompson reports, the family says that memories are important because of their child up. >> this three-year-old loves anything disney, but she does have a favorite. >> minimills. >> after surviving surgery that removed most of her brain surgery, the make a wish foundation sent her to disney world. they got back on tuesday night from sfo on a virgin america flight 3 05. the family accidentally left the camera on board, they went back 20 minutes later but it was god. these -- this is the only photo they have of the truck. they're asking that the memory card be returned. >> i was literally bawling my eyes out. i am home and i have
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nothing. no pictures. of memories. >> her diagnosis can change at any time and because of that, it hurts us because if that was our last of memories, that is all we would have but someone still that. >> the radcliffe's family is offering a $1,000 reward if the memory card is returned. they're asking that it be sent to the san francisco make a wish foundation. >>erica: it is a foggy start to the morning. we do have low cloud cover situated over downtown san francisco.
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the fog is in abundance along the coastline. case compromise conditions along highway one this morning. pretty good conditions of the fog could become more dense as we headed to the next couple of hours. in terms of temperatures, no surprise. fifties for the most part. check out it's not coming in at 64 degrees. as we check out where the temperatures will go into the next of the day, future cast 4 predicts around 12:00, 60s along the coastline, 70's around the majority of the bay. we do have the potential to see these as we head into the afternoon. that will be few in far
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between. it looks like the majority of the bay area will see 70 degree readings. here is the breakdown, mid- 70s in abundance. plenty of sunshine in the blue skies. it looks like we will be pretty comfortable in the upper 60s with mild conditions coming down the east shores. here is a look at the 7 day around the bay forecast. mild-warm conditions. temperatures will start to trail off. upper 70's inland, low seventies around the bay. 60s for the coast. windy conditions over the next street of days.
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partly cloudy skies reserved for friday. there is a 10-20 percent chance of rain drops of the north bay. overall, a pretty warm conditions as we headed the weekend. here's a quick bridge check to get you out the door. no problem getting to this in detail bridge coming down the nimitz freeway. in the weather center i was talking about the dance hall. you can see that in evidence at the golden gate. i have not seen in the dense fog advisers. all the traffic maps, all is well on the east shore freeway. no evidence of slow in coming of the altamont pass, just typical yellow which
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indicates speeds of around 45 mi. per hour. in the south bay, there are no hot spot look pretty slick conditions coming out of the coyote valley. >>james: as we mentioned earlier there were a lot of great costumes at bay to breakers. j.r stone has some of the best from the finish line. >>j.r.: we have to start with this one. there are not many words to describe what we have going on.
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what also did not go well were people ignoring the porta-potti. many arrests were made because people were now using porta-potti. this guy wanted to run. >>stanley: after him, there was this guy coming out of the bushes. he was also issued a ticket for urinating in public. this guy was caught in the act.
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get this, he leaves me videotaping him last public decency. >>officer: your the one that decided to pull your he is out in public and urinate. >>stanley: there also women who were too lazy to use public restrooms and then blamed me for catching them. what i showed you was not even a fraction of what i saw. believe me, there is more to come. >>justine: something to look forward to of the kron4 morning news. we will take a break at our top stories including the weather in and a look at traffic is just too bad it's a way. we will be right back. with
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>>mark: the top stories we're following, facebook begins its second day of be a publicly traded company. will tell you what to expect. >>darya: please respond to a wrote rage incident involving members of the hell's angels. >>mark: the cleanup is under way after the 101st running of the bay to breakers. we will give you an update on yesterday's race coming up. >> this afternoon, mostly sunny. more on what that means for the week ahead.
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chinese commerce company ali baba. most of that cash will be going back to shareholders. the >>darya: police say a teenage driver was attacked by members of the hell's angels after he knocked down to bikers on a freeway in the belmont. officers said the teenager was shooting video of the motorcyclists when he lost control of his car. when officers got there, there were about 20 motorcycles of the scene. the team was cited for distracted driving.
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he had to motorcyclists retreated from minor injuries. >>mark: here is a look at the men's kickoff from sky 4. the women got a head start in the bay to breakers race. the entire course read from the financial district of some beach. 7.5 mi.. here's a look at the top male competitor. here's a look at this top women's competitor. >>vern: your $37,000 richer. tell us about the race. i know you came in second place last year.
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>> last year came in second place, this year i won, i am very happy to. the >>jackie: of the i am here at where the finish line was in the ocean beach. even 3 1/2 hours after the end of the race people were still pouring in. there were 40,000 raiders officially in the race in the thousands mortally did.
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>>mark: a warrant has been issued for 29 year old mark anthony miller. police say he attacked a victim on friday and sexually battled and threatened to kill the person. a second victim that received threatening phone calls from the suspect. he was identified at award has been issued for his arrest. >>darya: a five-year old boy was killed by car over the weekend in richmond. the boy had been hit by abb
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to the space station. they are not calling it a complete failure. the next one to the terms could come either tomorrow or wednesday. this mission is designed to examine whether or not this private company can deliver cargo to the international space station. >>darya: the effect was a dramatic, the mood in nearly body of the son creating a blazing ring of fire a clips. people across the western u.s. watched the moon passes in front of the son leaving a golden rings around the edge. eventually the load center in covered 96 percent of the sun. a rectifier clips is not as dramatic as a total eclipse , right now the mood is too far from earth and appears to for to black out the sun completely. if you have any pictures, we would love to see them.
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in the north bay there are no accidents reported. flickr cause >>mark: the vallejo family shot and killed said they want to see changes made. the family spoke with kron4 about what it would like to see changed. >> our family has been three nightmare, it started with will still eat that but if it ended with a dog being sought. no one called to say they were on the way. people have to have a lot of options at their disposal unlocking of to an unknown party. oakland has a program now at the spca runs where officers
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are trained to understand it got easier. the use things like pepper spray, baton in that non- lethal force. in this case, he made five steps into my yard before pulling up his service revolver. it should be incurred as that officer's pretty include a course on dog behavior and how to use all the options available to them. smart >> the vallejo police department says they're still investigating a case. last year in oakland was a similar incident. in that case the spca staff
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>>darya: today will be the second day of trading for facebook. there are reports that the golden state warriors are close to announcing a deal to move the team to san francisco. sources say that the team will build a marina on peers 30 and 32 along the embarcadero. the cleanup is under way following the 101st bay to breakers. we will tell you how many
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arrests fee as well as all of the fund. >>mark: james fletcher is washing the forecast is not watching the fog rolling in. >>james: -here is a shot at the golden gate bridge purify this is what it looks like right now. fog along with coast but it will burn off by a around 11:00 a.m. et we will be left with plenty of sunshine. as we head into tomorrow into the extended forecast temperatures will continue to cool. the extended forecast shows a release like a chance of late friday and saturday. third five >>erica: we are noticing a little bit of a backup of the approach to the eighth toll plaza.
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as we did a quick commute of the east bay freeways arm moving pretty well. there currently accident free allowance the peninsula. out of the north bay is a pretty smooth the ride on a 101 repair. the ceo of the nasdaq exchange now says they are horribly embarrassed because of the delay in trading for the face of the ipo. some investors to not work for hours leathern other orders for facebook stock went through. the ceo also said that late order cancellations caused a glitch. " we are continuing to watch facebook stock this morning after its debut at $38 a share. billy closed up 285. in overnight trading, facebook stock is down to $36.95 a share. that is down $1.28, $1.50 below its debut.
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>>darya: a monumental change at facebook today after they started trading, mark zuckerburg changed his status to marry. he posted this picture of his face of page just a few hours ago. he married his longtime girlfriend priscilla. she looks beautiful. she just graduated from medical school at cal berkeley last week. the updated their status
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>>mark: here is a live look at the uss iowa. it was supposed to head off yesterday but weather delayed the ship's departure. everyone is waiting for the final voyage as the 887 ft. long shipped win 58,000 t is headed to the open ocean. off the i a will will be turned into a museum. if we will wait to see if it heads out of the the golden gate ave fifth fanfare >>darya: nato leaders are discussing the future of afghanistan. the summit in chicago comes at a key time for nato countries. just blocks away, protesters
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and police clashed. protesters were hit with batons as they pushed against a line of officers. >> anti-war protests in the bay area to coincide with the nato summit taking over a pedestrian for a bridge protesting against u.s. policy in a first family of the four officials of solidarity for the very 50th flee felt that it was the fourth of the outfit here if >>darya: the 101st date of record is now in the his sleeve both. the annual traveling party across san francisco was all about fun. there were some big cash prizes of life of the serious runners city of
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sirte the entire course land from the financial district to ocean beach, a total of seven and a half mile off. here is a look at the top spot for the men and women. 7.5 mi. in just over 30 minutes. the top female runner finished the race in a little over 39 minutes. >>mark: it was estimated at 55,000 people to place in the race. >>da: the ban on all hall was as laughable as some of the wacky costumes.
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>> there is some of all it is ridiculous. >> san francisco police officers worked nonstop. some say alcohol consumption was the worst in years. many people hit their liquor bottles. some of the the leaving here to hide it. favored coolers full of beer and hard liquor. a drink in the opening and even in front of police officers fifth police arrested this man for finn to what happened in the drinking under the age of 21. as of sunday afternoon, 19 people were arrested. a final number will likely be much higher.
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paramedics took a number of people to local hospitals for alcohol-related problems. for the >>darya: a company in china has announced that they are taking over the amc theater chain. it is a $2.6 billion deal. the already offering a group of theaters in china. this will not create the largest cinema chain in the world.
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prosecutors accused him of masterminding a scheme to use nearly $1 million in secret as he sought the white house in 2008. >> the final date of report questions in the case of roger clemens is accused of lying to congress and to death a would be said he never to still reserve unit growth and holds. >>darya: we're back with more in a couple of minutes. thank you for setting a date with the kron4 is. let's take a look at the
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quarter profit of >>mark: the man convicted in the bombing attack on a panel of late is dead. he was released from a scottish prison in 2009 on humanitarian grounds after being diagnosed with terminal council. 270 passengers and crew were killed in the flight. authorities do not believe he acted alone and are still investigating. >> a deadly earthquake hit northwest italy. it was a magnitude 6.0 in the being described as the worst that region has seen since the 14th century. it killed at least four
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people. 54 injured and millions of dollars of damage or left. >>mark: let least two dozen hostages were being held at one time during a prison riot at this privately triumph corrections facility. when a prison guard was killed and five others injured, this happened yesterday. >>james: cooler is the general trend pretty would be through some of the valleys in the east gate. that is the view outside right now.
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concede the winds have really picked up towards fairfield, concord, it's got into the delta. as edited, and temperatures will be pretty mild. this afternoon, mostly '60s and '70s, this afternoon, ladies. there is a system that could bring it called for by the middle of the week and could bring some cooler air and a slight chance of the sprinkel for thursday and friday.
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if >>erica: would pick up in your accident at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. that is what accounts for this backup. qr have not heard of any injuries associated with this accident but that is the reason why we see the back of stretching passed in the end of the east parking lot. you may want to allow yourself a couple of extra minutes heading out into the city. how the golden gate bridge ride is socked in with all.
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as we turn our attention to the south bay, a lot of green on the road with some answers. >>justine: here is what is happening in the kron4 news room. we know that the president will be delivering the commencement address at joplin high school and misery. when your guts marl the tornado ripped through the town killing one of the 61 people causing a lot of devastation. how her he left och car caught instance and distant
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era warehouse hit brought this morning >> and that already runs a group that a helmet in the face it says he is ok. the oakland a's pitcher bert local lotus it up his first victory in a month. >>darya: a lot of fun at the bay to breakers and flashy of bad behavior. >>stanley: before anyone starts saying that the 2012 bay to breakers was a hallmark of, you were apparently living in a bubble or in a red balloon filled with beer.
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what did not go well with people ignoring the over 200 porter parties or maybe something were to chicken to use them. this time, tickets for being handed out to some that were caught in the act. asked >>officer: give me your i.d.. you know why we're talking. there are hundreds of border parties around. >> where are they? >>officer: there are 20-30 break their. >> all i see is people. >>stanley: after that, there was this guy coming out of the bushes. he was also issued a ticket for urinating in public. >> how much is this citation? >>stanley: watch this guy. he was caught in the act if
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>> can you please take your camera away? >>officer: you are in a public place. >>stanley: he claims that me videotaping it lacks public decency. >>officer: you are the one that decided to pull your penis out in public and urinate. >>stanley: there were plenty of women too lazy to use the public restrooms. all paths what i should be was not even half of what i saw. there is more to come.
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>>mark: robin give all of the bee gees has died after a long battle with cancer. he and his two brothers formed the group of the bidis with hits like staying alive. they began their career in the '60s but it was there soundtrack for the movie saturday night fever that sealed their success. gary gibbs is the only surviving brother. >>darya: donna summer is said to be laid to rest in nashville, tenn. to date. the funeral is going to be private. she died last thursday of lung cancer. she was not a smoker. a representative says the illness was not related to smoking in any way said no details of the diagnosis or treatment has been released. she was 63 years old. >>mark: coming up, the hell's angels are involved in an incident on the peninsula and with the driver of aids liotta. the french prosecutor
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