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the >> there are heaters and insulated paneling to regulate temperature. the virus is spread by breeding in air contaminated with urine from rodents for feces and or their saliva. one and three people died. officials are scrambling to make sure that all of the cabins, as grizzly those signature tent cabins are extra clean and free of the virus. charles cliffords vocal the local doctor about the dangers of this relatively new deadly virus. >> dr. warner green is the director of immunology and virology at the gladstone institute. he says cases of hantavirus are rare in the united states. >> there have only been 500 cases documented since the outbreak in 1993. >> he also says there is no known cure or anti virus that can stop the disease. doctors can treat the symptoms but the virus must simply run its course. >> there is a 35 percent mortality rate.
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it is serious. you do not want to get infected. >> there are 21 on the variations of the hantavirus worldwide. he suspects the cases in yosemite are from the hantavirus that is only spread through contact with rhoda feces or urine scanned softening people here if >> if you do not want to stay in a place where there are rodents. essentially, that is the key, to avoid rodents in of their secretions. that is where the virus flies.
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>> wednesday marked seven years to the days since hurricane katrina killed nearly 2000 people and caused a $10 billion in damage. officials say this time, they are ready. for the first time, new orleans is closing the flood gates built to protect the city after katrina. the mayor says he is confident they will do the job. >> a $10 billion of investment has gone into building a
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category three levee system that is 300 mi. and a very robust at this point. we are not expecting as a consequence, it paterno's like event. >> no one is predicting that the city will escape any damage when is it arrives tomorrow. >> if there is a large amount of water that falls in a short period of time of parts of the citadel's lead serious >> the situation has already turned grim. >> the wind speed has fact decrease dramatically and wind gusts have intensified as well for. >> the winds have already reached 100 mi. per hour. thousands of people are without power and thousands more heating the president's warning. >> now is not the time to test a court dismissed official warnings. you need to take this seriously. fan of the national hurricane center says that is it has slowed down. it could take as long as 36
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hours to leave the normans area. >> a warning going out to cafe and restaurant owners in one bay area city. we will tell you where fleas are saying to keep eye and hand on all of your electronic devices. bay area gasoline prices are up since the chevron refinery fire in richmond. >> the republican national convention votes for its presidential nominee. we have the highlights and controversies ahead.
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but some of months >> it is a quick and ready cash, eds burglar starting patrons of outdoor cafes. open the officer janu watson says thieves are looking for distracted owners of electronic devices. if the >> victims have an electronic device like a cell phone. while they are engaged in a reading, eating, the suspects are grabbing the electronic device in the taking of a bit. >> investigators say there has been a wide variety of suspect's of all ages and ethnicities in these recent cases. the locations have been all across north oakland. >> telegraph, the piedmont, rock ridge, >> oakland police say the robberies are occurring in the early hours even for victims of tried to conceal their vehicles -- their property while dining.
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if mammals one young woman tried to conceal with a newspaper, it was a valuable to the suspect. the suspect grabbed it off of the table and ran off. >> we're asking you be aware of your surroundings. we have increased patrols and our cry
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fas > 1 gas expert says there is much more going on and then the fire. >> year in a berkeley, our regular is selling for $4.15 a gallon. it was backcast prices keep going up every day and it has been like this for the past several weeks. one gasolene expert says do not blame the refinery fire at chevron for all the pain at the pump. >> the price at the pump after the chevron refinery went up because people were uncertain about supplies and every fire was out there tried to grab all they could. since then we have also seen the world price of crude oil increased. as we found out of the chevron refinery, it is probably not going to cut back out that much the price of the crude oil everywhere in the country has gone up. that has kept our prices high.
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>> he adds that it will probably continue to be bad for a while 3/8 " or >> we might see production from the refineries drop. >> as far as as the trade conditions would display any type of price fixing or anything else gone on he says that is an unlikely reality. >> i do not think it is likely to actually find any misdeeds during his i think even if that did happen it would be extremely difficult to uncover. >> here is a live look outside from the bay bridge toll plaza. a beautiful afternoon, not a cloud in sight.
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gorgeous sunny skies in oakland and at the golden gate bridge. we have not seen steady cloud coverage. has been clear all day. temperatures are warmer today as we expected. our inland valleys in the upper 80s and low 90s feared it we have been in the '80s in the south, 81 in san jose, ¢ , at redwood city. for eighties in the north bay as wealth. 70's along the coastline. we can expect at least one more day like this and probably thursday as well as his athens left its from northerly winds are responsible for keeping the fog out of the forecast in keeping skies clear, helping to keep temperatures warmer. it also leads the high her car. henhouse there's the, the computer model shows wind out of the north is staying with
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us, strong have to keep bob out at least for the first half of the day. we will see warm conditions again on thursday but friday, let's take a look at tomorrow afternoon's temperatures. we will see 88 and morgan hill. 80s and low 90s for our inland valleys. much of the same that we thought today. same thing in walnut creek. 74 our east bay stores. 75 in hayward, 73 is oakland serious stuff for 60s for the coastlines of live in income if a mild day cost side. the north bay will also be warm and in the '80s.
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you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. ha >>catherine: bay area police shoot at home after a suspect climbed onto the roof. reaction from witnesses who were mobile as a jewish and nfold. the republican national convention
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>>pam: heat to violent attacks on women in the san francisco russian hill neighborhood. in both incidents, women were pepper street, beaten and robbed. >> these two crime victims did not want to appear on camera because they are afraid the suspect's could come back and hurt them. there were turning from
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pacific on the leavenworth just before midnight when a man and woman attacked them. >> the pepper spray has simultaneously and funston neighbor in the face. the woman started attacking me, to grab my first. >> they got as it down to the ground and defense and punched us. >> both victims suffered cuts and bruises during here are their descriptions. they got away in a car driven by a third suspect whose description is unknown. >> this is the second robbery involving pepper spray in recent weeks. back on august 20th at around 10:30 p.m. around larkin and credit in woman told police she was pepper spray by one suspects. when that did not work the man and hunter in the face and head he grabbed her in the three
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player, credit cards and money before jumping into a tan car and driving off. at this point because vehicle descriptions are different both cases, police say there is nothing definitely be to cross. they do stress that it is important for people who are being rocked to give up their property because it is not worth getting injured. >> one man is dead after police say he led them on a chase through nancy ott never it. officers say they opened fire on the suspect while he was on top of someone's home, on their roof. >> the suspect was ultimately shot and killed on the roofs of felt like a greenhouse roofs
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>>will: the suspect eventually cause of the roof of one the homes out here. the people living inside did not hear him. the officers apparently told of the council of and lower his wife said. that is when shots were fired. no one inside the house was hurt. the toddler was on injured as although the dollar was taken to thoughtful. thirdthird half and the fear is another look at the home is
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suspect climbed onto. investigators used a ladder to examine the exterior of the hall. you are looking at vallejo on the roof area. imagine being inside and the hearing back of the lessons on the outside the two young men inside tell us what it was like >> i heard gunshots and i hit the ground. i heard 15-16 gunshots. then, i waited for the police. cahow call them i heard the officers tell the suspect, could your gun down. i have seen movies and i know after they say that as a search shooting. >>will: how many shots of the year? >> over dirty.
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there were a lot of shots. >>will: you probably look at yourself and thought, and i hit at all? >> i was on the ground like this, i was looking for my brothers. there were on the ground also. >>pam: dan, the the suspect was killed but no one else was hurt. >>catherine: decision 2012 with one eye on hurricane is it, the party has started in typical florida. if her sultan's have officially mean mitt romney your choice to reclaim the white house from the president and the democrats call roll call to make it more of the nominees an official and the republicans were off and running. the party's national chairman said the town with a swipe at the president. >> the president has never run a company. fee has not even run a horse sale or seen the inside of a lemonade stand. re-bath ask for ron all delegates, they were not loyal slightly. he showed up wearing a late
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and tailed by supporters. they later chanted usa and allowed him tuesday. there were upset about a change of party rules if that limit what future inserting candidates can do together delegates at conventions furious all of the fuss is essentially a build up for tonight's to headliners. the candidate's wife and romney and new jersey gov. chris christie. highlights of an all season and eyes are has an enemy conceive more likable years she was asked earlier of her big seas. with >> my speech is heartfelt call with all and i think many of you know me long enough, i have never gone off of a written text siri >>nichole: there are clues as she's called the bible the highlight a rock
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>> in lot of what happens at conventions follows tied scripting or dull speeches. but job of kris christie is to wake everyone up. >> he is going to try to make the case that the president's policies have failed america. as for and romney, we're getting some exercise of her speech. she will say the president will lift up america if elected and staying that he will not lead us down. >>pam: joining me to talk more about today's action at the convention, michael gawky is here. now >> let's talk first about who is not speaking. >> this is about trying to get that 5 per cent or 6% that is
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in the undecided column. they think they have locked in their base with paul ryan. and this is all about trying to make a persuasive case for the undecided groove, the moderates and independents. especially the people on the fence about mitt romney. they do not think he relates to normal people. >> if the convention is kind of force in modern facing the nation, but the nation is aware that the right of the party is really leading the charge in this election cycle, the thing that those undecided will be swayed? >> in think it is a question of right now, what are those other sides concerned about? >> their concern about the economy. the question is whether or not in this election mitt romney will be the person to get the economy going for this group of people who are in the undecided column. the number one problem that
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they have, the romney campaign has is the eighth relates to those people. in terms of whether they like him and not to let tim based on his policies, that is a this is about. >> all wives of candidates are used to humanize their husbands in these situations. can this really make a difference? >> i think it is a nice a warm-up act. the fact is, she is going to talk about herself, our family and how they have gotten together and as she stood by her during her breast cancer. rough
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>> ron paul is a relatively ignored at this convention. >> he is making a lot of noise it is the only drama in the campaign right now. >> the gop is going to have much more money than projected that the democrats come far. will that money to the scales on that is the have? >> that money is going to be there early and often.
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a lot of it is coming from california. the question is will the american people to the negative advertising? >>pam: you are back at 6:00 p. m. to talk more about the unfolding of the convention. figgie. we do have a reminder, you can watch uninterrupted commercial free coverage of all the speeches from the republican and democratic conventions on hornets 247 news channel. we will be right back. cost
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>>pam: the stock market hovered near break-even. the dow jones dropped 22 points to close at 13,001 zero three. the nasdaq gained four points closing at 3077. och the soviets of the lost one point closing of 49. regarding the two mixed economic reports, once said that housing prices are up across major u.s. cities with the of the report says that consumer confidence has dropped to its lowest level since nov. house
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>> a number of places in the upper 80s. your inland valleys of 90 degrees in fairfield. 85 in sunnyvale. mild along the coastline as well. we are in for another very nice day against the mark. here is a live look outside for our roof camera. downtown san francisco showing some new style of fog in cyprus that is things to win out of the north which is keeping the fall well offshore and out of the bay area keeping us on the warmer sides of our audience interested. a fall will be near the coast line. we will see warmer temperatures through our inland valleys. the inland valleys once again in the upper 80s and low 90s.
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not warmer weather sticking with the somalia and through thursday. but the wins out of the north will stay with us into thursday morning in partially into the afternoon to hear if big changes coming friday and into the weekend. strong sea breeze when clinton a mean estimate of the giggling on friday against saturday with temperatures below average for
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is to be set on nothing not the chair not a toy is nothing not to furniture nothing only major feet >> wesley shermantine along with lauren herzog were known as the speed freak killers. they were responsible for as many as 20 deaths in 1980 and 1990's.
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herzog committed suicide after shermantine started talking about where bodies were buried. prison authorities have been pressed about letting shermantine not to lead police to his victims. j.r stone has details on the release of shermantine in order to help authorities. >>j.r: the fields and linda in california may not look busy but it is where the speed free killer wesley shermantine was taken this past weekend. location is 95 mi. east of san francisco, within eyesight of where authorities have already died in recover human remains, and specifically the remains of three women. >> i can hardly believe it. >> this is the california assemblywoman who pushed for the release, one that had been talked about but not executed until last weekend when the death row inmate was taken on as president and into his own thoughts stomping grounds. >> i told them a dozen times,
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do not take anyone on a field trip, if there is nobody there, did not take a chance. the >> leonard padilla is the bounty hunter the has been in talks with shermantine and promised the money at once life in exchange for a victim of state officials laws save money has been given but we do enough that some are very fees that the deals are now turning the eighth >> i a.m very pleased. we have received calls from several families in the last 24 hours who have been waiting see something happening. >> at this point it is unclear if shermantine will be taken out of prison. other agencies have requested his health. we do not know if it and went digging is going to start. there's also talk of digging in a sacramento applications as early as next week. >> did they have any idea victims there will find? >> in the talks between
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shermantine and the deal if they have talked about the award different wells but they do not believe any had hit and possibly as many as 70 or 72 bodies buried in those wells. we have only recovered three bodies at the one well that took a week or two to uncover. there is still a lot of work to be done. >> is a moral service tonight? stanley yes. for joanne hobson, one of the victims that was recovered. we will have more on that at 8:00 fury if >> is a city crews have tried to restore water service following a massive water main break earlier today. according to the into watertight doors at sunnyvale ave near the palace. dan kerman shows us the damage caused by this break. >> we are here in the valleys, the crews are currently to
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working to resurrect the pipe can't get the debris out of the whole to look into the pipe and restore water service to. at this point, the cause is unknown but it has done quite a bit of damage and left quite a bit of mass. >> at the intersection of sunnyvale and some also forgave will shortly wintu water pipes below the surface rupture. >> we speak at this point a 42 in. pipe gave way and that output of its height in the process. we do not know why. it will take a while to investigate. but kite breaks created a crater and sent water streaming down the street flooding homes and our lady of visitation school. >> it was like a rushing river it just kept coming and coming. the >> of the school's 270 students were forced to evacuate to the visitation
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valley playground were notified parents were waiting. >> i was called to pick up my child because they were evacuating her school. >> the impact of the pipe break did not stop there. the water streamed down sunnyvale all the way to be sure all of our flooding businesses and shutting down the road. by 5:00 p.m. the work crews continued to remove debris from the holes with a bid for fear of heights and restore water service to 14 homes of some of the court. call >> at this hour those 14 homes remain evacuating. as you see, they're still working to restore service to those of 14 homes. electricity was cut off to those homes at this minute. as possible causes basis there has been construction the ball on the water main pipes said pg&e hives as well as the favorite in the area.
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>> here is a map of the area in visitation valid. the water main break was here a long thin named dale avenue. this is bay shore boulevard and the cow palace. here is a break at the intersection of sunnyvale. some of the water flowed down to naso. >> this was the school that was applauded. >> of how let's go live in toccoa á the. she is tracking united airlines flight at sfo.
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the airline suffered major computer problems earlier today have the flights resumed? are things that normal? >> flights resumed hours ago but has been slow getting all of these planes on time. lucas we're going to show you, there are really leading on planes to get here on the ground. is it hot >> the longest delay ic is l.a. . it was a three hour delay. the lines here at terminal 3 were united operates were so long. how thousands of people waited to the major computer glitch. everything came to a screeching halt and nothing could be done. people were left waiting on line until the computers came back. it took about two hours.
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been good on pepper, and batteries starting but >> for the first time new orleans is closing the floodgates to build the protect the city after katrina. the mayor said he is confident it will do the job. >> a $10 billion $10 billion o has gone into building a levee system that it 3d mile mile in very robust. we're not expecting a katrina like a bad.
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>> no one is predicting that the city was given the damage when i sixth arrived. >> at a large amount of waterfalls and a short period of time, parts of the city will flood. >>catherine: wins have now reached 100 mi. an hour and expected to generate a storm surge of 12 ft.. kopp all gulf coast casinos have closed. >> now is not the time to tempt fate or dismiss official warnings. you need to take this seriously. fan of the national hurricane center said that is it has slowed down. we could take as long as 36 hours to leave norland.
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copper case on >> the republican national convention is in full swing. the main players are in tampa and key speeches are scheduled for tonight including the candidate's wife farah and romney. she will be speaking later as well as kris christie. of this is what is happening right now at the convention.
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as expected, mitt romney secure the nomination today during roll call of the state delegates. he is scheduled to make its formal acceptance thursday night. scott also -- scott walker from massachusetts also spoke earlier today. joining us now to talk more about what is going on in tampa, michael yankee. they are giving the theme of tonight, rebuilding. >> monday night was supposed to be the obama bashing night. tonight is going to be in, we build it. that is in response to the president's speech of you did not build that in terms of roads and infrastructure. q
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>> a fall >> is it is bringing heavy rain to the region. it is moving very slow, dumping heavy rain for hours.
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sphere >> it is going to weaken as it moves and into thursday down into a tropical depression. right now it is battering norland as a category 1. >>catherine: as you just heard
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jacqueline's, hurricane is it did make landfall. it happened in the southeast louisiana. it happened at 90 mi. southeast of the city. people in the world's seventh took calmly waiting of the store. banks >> hurricane did in a devastated in the region seven years ago. this is a chilling coincidence. the evacuations have been ordered in the coastal counties and 12 casinos has disclosed. >> here in san francisco, to water pipes are representing tens of thousands of gallons of water down the street flooding businesses, homes and schools. at this point, crews are still trying to repair the rupture that happened shortly after a 11:00 a.m.. one dozen homes remain without
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water. >> at sfo, united airlines flights are getting off the ground once again earlier in the afternoon. if a major delay, a computer glitch shut down the system for about two hours. passengers were left stranded. airplanes and did not leave the airport. that was nationwide. flights are grounded in a work in houston. now, the issue is getting planes to the airport. >> health officials have announced that a second person is believed to have died after catching hantavirus after a stay in yosemite national park. they also announced that a fourth person is believed to have contracted the disease. so far, two people have died. the national park service is issuing warnings to 1700 people who stayed after june this past
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summer. >> continuing coverage on the speed freak killer case, wesley shermantine is on death row at san quentin state prison was actually taken out of prison on sunday and taken to linden, california which is 95 mi. east of san francisco. human remains have already been found in that area and basically shermantine was there to point out new locations where there could be more human remains. right now, he is back behind bars. >> in san francisco, there have been too violent attacks on women walking at night in the russian hill neighborhood. both cases if both women were pepper spray, beaten and robbed the first incident happened here at the corner of malarkey and greenwich. if the second incident happened at the corner of the civic and a lot of work. in both cases the suspects got away in cars if the because the vehicle descriptions are different in each incident, police say there is nothing
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definitive lead linking these two cases. >>haaziq: the oakland police department and are warning people in the area about the rise of electronic theft, laptops and cell phones. >> to agree what we are seeing is an individual had a reading activities. before they know it, there cell phone or electronic devices have been taken. we're asking to be aware of your surroundings and conceal those devices. >> and and other big story, a u.s. senator is asking the federal trade commission to launch an investigation into california's gas prices. she says of that ever since the chevron refinery, prices have escalated as the, and she wants to know if there is any price-fixing going on. she says that prices have gone up despite the fact that
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several gas executives have said that there is an excess of gas on the west coast. >> in san jose prosecutors are increasing in the ante in the war on graffiti. felony charges are now being brought against some attackers in efforts to crack down on a problem that police say is getting works all the time. >> i think that would help a lot. before is a slap on the wrist and a fine, but now, six-eight months in jail and probation and if you violate probation you go to prison. >> of the essential sense is for felony vandalism convictions could run from five years-22 years in state prison.
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> they are fresh off of it granted $21 million facelift. seismically retrofitted, is eating has been reduced from 72,000 to 63,000. after 21 months the bears are fact at berkeley. this fifth fifth family safely hard for. it is not just about their offense even though their offense was difficult to stop when we played them before. this deed itself is difficult to stop. we have our hands full. we will have to be very disciplined. >> in the eroticas the last american to win a grand slam singles title. ellis nine years ago. one u.s. open back in 2003. eddie on thursday. today, he breezed through the first round. he defeated fellow american ryan williams. he won the last 16 points and closed things out with 127 mi. an hour. here is a look at the
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scoreboard, robert 163-64 and 64. >> if you have a question, comment or anything else, e-mail us. >>pam: hurricane is it made landfall earlier this afternoon >>jaqueline: you can see the yellow and orange indicating
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heavy rainfall moving into the world that this hour. the storm is moving very slowly. the heavy rain is going to linger over the area which is definitely flooding threat. there is already storm surge of flooding occurring. we will keep you posted all through the evening. now, on to our local weather. a gorgeous day. temperatures on the warm side through our inland valleys but now unbearable. 90 degrees in napa, look at those temperatures near the coast line. as we take a live look outside from the bridge, we are seeing clear conditions. it is going to be sunny and warm again out there tomorrow. winds out of the north are keeping it nice and clear with warmer conditions continue into thursday. 80s and 90s for our inland valleys, 70's for our east a shorts. upper 60s for the coastline
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will coverage of hurricane isaac overshadow ann romney's highly anticipated speech at the rnc? >> as mitt's family pulls out all the stops, getting candid in the press. i'm brooke anderson. >> and i'm kevin frazier. "the insider" is on. losing a baby, i said, mitt, you got to take me to the hospital right now. >> his wife on her miscarriage and how he handled her diagnosis with m.s. >> could a candid ann be mitt's secret in the media? >> reporters love her. how hurricane isaac could impact an rnc celebration. and if that levee breaks again --

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