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>> it seemed to us that the chancellor in some ways was ill served by the folk in the leadership team. >> reporter: katehi says she ordered police to remove tents erected by protesters but not the use of pepper spray. >> i never wanted force used but with 20/20 hindsight. i know the actions were well intended but wrong. >> reporter: one student says it's good that the chancellor accepted responsibility. as for meaningful change, time will only tell. >> reporter: that independent report is not laying blame on any individual. the chancellor said a report will be released in the coming week. just about 90 minutes ago, alameda county sheriff's officials released new information about the first
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homicide of the year in castro valley. sheriff deputies found the body of a young man in his 20s. this afternoon, sheriff officials said they received a number of calls about criminal activity at that house. a group of people who was in front of the house scattered when deputies arrived. the deputies knew someone on probation lived in the home. but when they arrived no one answered the door and had to force themselves in. >> there was blood, it looked a like a fight or something had occurred. >> reporter: the deputies then discovered a body in the garage. the cause of death and name of the victim will not be made public until tomorrow. deputies hope to interview those who were outside of the home last night. a san francisco judge said
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that a still photo from a video may be used. lopez attorney argued that making the entire tape public would violate her right to privacy. >> you don't want to protect eliana, they don't want to protect her rights they are so out of their mind to get ross mirkarimi that they don't care who they step on. >> reporter: mayor ed lee filed the ethics charges after mirkarimi pled guilty to false imprisonment in the new year's eve domestic violence came involving his wife. just a few minutes ago, a 5:00 deadline passed for candidates who want to apply to replace nadia lockyer. just last week lockyer who is the wife of bill lockyer filed a restraining order against an
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ex, she claims abused her. ktvu's rob roth is here and tells us what leaders decided and what it means, rob. >> reporter: frank for marin county administrator who had gotten in trouble for per forming same-sex marriages, today is a call she calls historic. reverend jane celebrated with her supporters after leaders from marin to the oregon border refused to sanction her for performing same-sex marriages. >> today, today is presbyterian says, we're equal. >> reporter: the elders administers within spar's presbitary rebuked the filing.
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>> so many people think that it's no to gay and lesbian people, this is a place that said yes. >> reporter: they voted to ignore the national presbyterian rebuke and stuck with spar. some disagreed with the vote. >> by overturning the rebuke you're overturning the constitution, you're overturning what many people deeply think as scripture. >> reporter: for the lesbian, gay couples that spar married, today was a win. the heat may now be shifting from spar to the regional presbytary who could now face a rebuke from the presbyterian church. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. the legislature took its
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first look today at governor brown's newly released revised budget plan. they are going over it carefully and sending it through committees. they heard from the department of finance and analysts office. the $92 billion spending plan relies on cuts and services to the poor and state workers and rising taxes through a november ballot measure. >> this is no time to say stop. don't fix our roads, don't build new schools, no we have to keep building for the future but we have to keep building for the future but adjust our balance sheet. members of california's five legislative caucuses held a press conference to call attention to potential budget cuts that they say unfairly target low income african americans and latinos.
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the groups acollude the black, latino and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender caucuses. they are worried about what will happen if governor brown's tax initiative does not pass in november. >> we're talking about addition tax cuts to our welfare program, but most importantly we're talking about cuts to education, particularly k-12. could mean three weeks less of school for our children. >> members of the caucus also vowed to work to help pass the governor's tax plan. this morning facebook increased its ipo price range in a regulatory filing, the company says it now expects to sell its stock from between 34 to $38 billion share. that's up from the previous range of 28 to $35. our consumer editor tom vacar is at the facebook campus in palo alto and tell us why the ipo is front loaded for the rich and famous. >> it'll be thumbs down for
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small investors but most definitely a thumbs up for rich investors on friday's facebook ipo. >> this is the ipo event of the year. bar none, literally almost the ipo of the decade. because you know facebook is 24 century company. and they are communicating in a 21st century realm. they are totally changing it. >> the billionaire investor warren buffet says facebook is no exception. a survey of 1,000 americans find, that facebook is a passing fad. >> i think the question is not so much whether it's a -- i don't think facebook is going away, it's still growing. it's a question whether it can grow revenues and if that will continue to grow. and nothing grows to the sky. ultimately things do slow down or reverse. >> reporter: half of those surveyed also think the initial offering price which has been raised since the survey was taken was already too high. >> it can be a great company and it can be growing really
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with strong prospects but if it's not priced appropriately, you might be buying too high. that's the big concern the pricing. >> reporter: even before the initial shares will go to pricing, they will go to the public offering mainly large stock funds and wealthy investors, but says financial planner schneider. >> there are funds out there that have preipo stock in their portfolio. it won't be the whole portfolio. it's not like you're buying just facebook, it'll be some where between 10 to 20%. >> reporter: the big test will be friday to see if buyers will take it easy or stampede on stocks. in a move that could affect facebook stock, general motors plans to drop all paid advertising on facebook. the story quotes gm marketing executives as saying paid ads had little effect on consumers. general motors is the third
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largest advertiser among companies spending more than a billion dollars last year on ads. more details on the facebook ipo. facebook is selling 180 million shares. another 157 million are coming from existing stockholders including the earliest investors and stockholders. zuckerberg will still control facebook. at an expected value of $38 a share, the ipo will generate $13 billion, that will value facebook at roughly $38 million. j.m. morgan chase's ceo took the hot seat today. occupy protesters demonstrated outside jp morgan chase in tampa today as shareholders
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arrived for their annual meeting. the u.s. justice department and the fbi both announced today that they have opened investigations into the company's $2 billion losses on large complicated trades involving something known as derivatives. the firm released recorded meetings as the ceo apologized again for what happened. >> we ended a strategy that was flawed, complex, poorly executed. this should have never happened, i can't justify unfortunately these were self- inflicted. >> the jp morgan losses prove the need for stricter laws. near four month low as strong economic reports failed to reflect the latest break down. at the closing bell the dow was
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down 63 points. nasdaq was more than nine points lower. s & p closed down almost eight points. a large scale market could receive a boost for upgrades. the san francisco wholesale produce market in the bay view supplies fruits and vegetables to many of the city's restaurants. the city owns the property under a new proposal a 60 year lease with the city would help fund a $100 million project for upgrades and an expansion to an adjacent city owned parcel. the project would be funded by rent revenue from the dozens of businesses that lease the space. in washington today, president obama honored the memory of law enforcement officers who were killed in the line of duty. >> god shine a light upon the falling and comfort if mourning, may he protect the peacemakers who protect us every day. >> mr. obama attended the annual national peace officers memorial ceremony. one of those who's name is on
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the memorial is jim capoot. a look at the officers who were willing to risk everything for a complete stranger. a federal judge ordered the release of a man charged in a violent sting operation on the condition that he read and write book reports. u.s. district judge gonzalez rogers stayed the order to appeal her decision. as it stands, 28-year-old otis mobley will be able to leave so long as he reads an hour and day and write about it. whales are migrating along the coast. that means some of them are getting caught up in fish lines. we'll tell you the danger it presents to whales and how some are trying to rescue them. we had a warm up today.
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occupy the farm protesters are meeting right now in albany to figure out their next move. we went by the former occupy the farm encampment and this is what we saw. university police were back on the field and a tractor was working. you may remember, uc police cleared the protesters. the berkeley city council is set to meet tonight and is expected to vote on police policies. activists are calling a rally. say changes are needed to protect civil rights.
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the council is set to consider issues including mutual aid agreements. two entangled whale sightings today are drawing attention to manmade dangers in the water. robert handa is live after watching a recuers helping the whales. >> reporter: some can be rescued others head out to the open sea with the dangerous lines attached. it has been an active day, gray whales are migrates north with calfs and visitors are here trying to get a glimpse. >> it's just fun to see the spouts as they're going along. >> reporter: scientists say whales can get tangled up in crab pot lines and fishing gear as they travel along the coast. there were two reported sightings today in monterey
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bay, a hump back whale tangled in a fishing buoy. >> the gray whale is entangled around the body, maybe around part of the head as well. >> reporter: there had been eight reports of whales getting badly tangled in california this year, three in may. as we reported on may 5. a crew was able to t free a trapped whale and yesterday a rescue team from a mean mammal rescued a juvenile gray whale in bodega bay. >> it took us about 32 hours, we were finally able to cut the gear line. there was one line trailing through its mouth and anchoring it to the floor. >> reporter: the team from noa is still trying to help the gray whale. >> we will either try to disentangle or track a buoy to it so we can monitor its
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movements for an attempt later on in the week. >> reporter: the entanglement team uses special tools for the rescue. more debris from if japanese tsunami last year. more than 2,000 fishing floats like this one many with asian writings and logo have been found on land. an official at a national wildlife refuge says he's concerned about what else may be found. now to the wildfires in arizona. the national weather service issued a red flag warning for parts of arizona today meaning a combination of strong gusty winds, high temperatures and
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low humidity are creating a dangerous environment for fires. well let's talk about our weather now, nice day today. and tomorrow even nicer. >> that fog will return tomorrow. so coastal fog still a player in the forecast. temperatures did warm a few degrees today. maybe five to 8 degrees. some areas almost 10 but it was just a little bit warmer than yesterday. tomorrow's highs back into the low 80s. so a little bit warmer still. here's the fog along the coast, it has a little good foothold out in pacifica. we'll back up one click and we'll pop in the buoys. you can see the winds are blowing fairly strong. you see the fog out by the precidio. they will keep the fog pointed in our direction. tomorrow morning like this morning when you wake up there will be poll and low clouds in many locations. as we go through time you can
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see that system. this one brought sprinkles and thundershowers last night. that's where we are kind of right now and through the day tomorrow. tomorrow is going to be a really nice day with temperatures back into the low 80s. forecast overnight lows, about 48 in santa rosa. 52 in concord. these are kind of chilly. 50 in pacifica. clouds are going to make their way out into the north bay, i think you will see some fog in concord. i think you will see fog in fremont, i think in san jose and mountain view you will have clouds that burn off at 10:00 in the morning. paul will be here at 4:30 in the morning he and sal and they'll be tracking the fog and traffic. we have the forecast takes us to tomorrow morning and you can see there's a pretty good push of it. here's 6:00 a.m. really consistent along the coast. west side of town in santa cruz has clearing. as we go into the afternoon hours, just like the last
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couple of days, fog recedes a little bit. i'll see you back here. he's 88, a former secretary of state and he's also won a noble prize. in a moment we're going to tell you what happened when he tried to go through security at an airport back east. looks like people won't be heading the road in high numbers, why high prices are not the only reason for that. new at 6:00, passengers in wheelchairs rescued from a burning van. >> i had to do something. >> hear more from the good samaritans at 6:00. what's in in the name and why a city wants to spend tax money changing that to this. also at 5:00, we told you about the increasing number of whales the caught in fishing line, now at 6:00 --
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san francisco nummi wants you to know about an extended closure from friday may 26 through monday june 4. construction crews will work around the clock to make the improvement and promises access to local businesses, residents and driveways will be maintained. california lawmakers today took up the question on whether to approve $6 billion in state and federal money to start the high speed rail project. costs have ballooned from 40 to $60 million. palo alto state senator joe semdian says not so fast. >> before we take this next step which really starts us down the path of $60,000
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expenditure, we need to make sure that we do it with eyes wide open. >> reporter: senator simitian says he's concerned if the state can everyone afford the plan, whether the plan is sound and whether there's a management team in place to get it built. economists, tourism experts and others are giving poor predictions for summer travel. they say many americans are still worried about the economy and their jobs. of course here in california gas prices are still high. aaa is providing some optimism it predicts 35 million americans will take trips of at least 50 miles that's up 1.2% compared to memorial day last year. it appears that not even an 88-year-old former secretary of state in a wheelchair is able to avoid getting a full body pat down by airport security. henry kissinger was spotted on friday standing with his suit jacket off receiving a full
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body pat down. a freelance reporter witnessed this search and said it still took place even after kissinger confirmed his place. he did not seem to be disturbed by the procedure. kissinger was apparently in a wheelchair because it was a long walk to his gate. what the engine tour means to all these riders. this willingness to risk everything for a complete stranger -- >> president obama remembers fallen officers among them one from the bay area.
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today cyclists in stage
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three of the amgen tour of california took on a tough climb up mount diablo. even driving up those windy roads could be a little tricky, but that did not stop bicyclists. john sasaki is live. >> reporter: we're standing on 2,500 feet of elevation where the amgen tour crested. the bicyclists came down danville and headed down to walnut creek. hundreds of spectators road up mount diablo to see some of the best. >> they train every day, just to see what the human body is capable of. >> reporter: the leaders made their way through the ranger station. >> it's obviously one of the best hills to climb in the bay area. everybody comes here to do it. >> reporter: a small break away group of racers sped past of
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us. the lead won a mount diablo jersey. the rest of the pack some 100 riders wowed the crowd. >> i think it's so exciting to see them come right here in the area basically where you live and have a really huge race. >> reporter: many of these spectators often ride mount diablo. >> what did you so in them that you don't see in yourself? >> about 20 years younger. >> it's nice to see on their face what that look like and feels like. because we know what that's like every time we come up here. >> reporter: having this sporting event take place is encouraging for the group, save mount diablo. >> it brings attention to the mountain, it's a great way to showcase this great mountain and what it means to our community. >> reporter: this is a line that the racers had passed to win the mount diablo jersey. with the amgen tour smart phone app that i have right here,
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sebastian salas won today. john sasaki, ktvu news. stage four will see ridings peddling through the gold country. the race runs along highway 41 more than 130 miles to clovis in fresno county. it could be the longest and most challenging leg of the entire tour. you can also scroll down to the south bay news section that is also on the home page. the amgen bicycle race is part of a very busy weekend for the staple center in l.a. and the people who work there. there could be six play off games between thursday and sunday. two of them will be on the ice. the staple center will host the play offs and the kings and nba players with both the lakers and clippers.
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on top of that the amgen bicycle raise ends outside of the staple center on sunday. needles to say arena employees are bracing for what could be the longest week of their career. the nation's commander in chief and thousands of police officers gathered in washington today to honor those who have fallen in the line of duty that included one of the bay area's own. >> james capoot. >> reporter: the name of officer capoot rang out as his family honored him. his memory is now immortalized in the national peace officers memorial. 21 of his fellow officers traveled to washington to attend today's ceremony. >> he was just, he was just an all around good guy. he was one of those guys that i don't think anybody even suspects that may have had to been arrested by him had anything bad to say about him. it's a deep wound for our police department. >> reporter: president obama
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told the gathering the nation is forever in their debt. >> this willingness to risk everything for a complete stranger is extraordinary. and yet among our nation's law enforcement officers, it is also common place. >> this year the names of 362 fallen officers are being added to the national law enforcement officers memorial there in washington, d.c. that new inscription includes all of the officers killed during 2011 plus almost 200 others who died in previous years but who's stories of sacrifice had never been documented. former president george w. bush is the latest high profile figure to offer his endorsement of mitt romney. it's the first time we've heard george w. bush speak publicly. he made his remarks after speaking in washington, d.c. today. his father, former president
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george h.w. bush has endorsed romney so has his brother jebw. bush, the governor of florida. romney held a rally with about 200 supporters in des moines. he said america is facing a financial crisis after four years of the obama presidency. romney says as president he would put out what he called an inferno. >> we will stop borrowing from foreign countries we're never even going to visit. i will work with you to make sure we put out this spending and borrowing fire. >> the white house responded that federal deficits have been caused by tax cuts. and the white house said romney wants to enact old policy that is led to the rescission in the first place. two former presidents and a speaker of the house have come together to raise money for a
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memorial for united flight 93. former president george bush and clinton and boehner is headlining an event. the money will go toward completing a memorial that's currently in the way at shanksville, virginia. the goal is to raise $10 million during today's event. breaking news now our news chopper 2 is over the scene. we understand these are people either with or supporters of the occupy the farm movement and we are told that they are actually moving back to that occupy the farm encampment site. this is that uc piece of land that protesters had been camped out planting their own crops saying they wanted to make it a community garden. but uc fought back saying this is our land, we are doing research here. there are research prompts prompt -- projects as well as millions of the dollars at
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stake. and police cleared up all but one protester. this group of people is marching back to that occupy the farm site which uc owns and has kicked people off of. what's going to happen when they arrive certainly we don't know. but we are staying on top of it and we will let you know if anything changes with this developing situation. coming up what a south bay doctor is accused of selling right in her office that landed her in jail. also, texting and driving, next our ktvu camera captures an example of why it's such a bad idea. and the disease that's on the rise, in fact, it now affects one out of every 10 americans.
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high school students in san francisco got a graphically visual warning today about the serious dangerous of texting behind the wheel. >> you use the gas and break and steering wheel. >> at&t wants teens to stay connected but not behind the wheel. so today the company brought a visual simulator to give teens the risk of texting and driving. special head gear is linked to a cell phone, the car and a video monitor. if the driver takes their eyes off the road for too long the
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simulator has the car get into a virtual crash. it's kind of a silly look here but it drives home a very serious point. >> the bottom line is cars appear, pedestrians come out of nowhere. they run people over and they get the message that texting and driving is dangerous and i shouldn't be doing it. >> at&t says one text takes your eyes off the road for five second. they're on a tour from spokane to san diego and then will take the simulator across the state. a 59-year-old doctor is facing charges that she ran a pill mill out of her office. dr.mrdjen is accused of selling pills to patients without
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reviewing their records. one person died of an overdose. if convicted she could spend up to 12 years in prison. new government figures shows u.s. asthma rates are at an all time high with the disease affects millions of the americans. the centers for disease control says the proportion of people with asthma increased by almost 15% from 2001 to 2010. one in 12 americans was diagnosed with diagnosed with asthma. the disease accounts for 3,000 deaths every year. asthma is one of the most common lifelong chronic diseases. lawmakers in capitol hill are -- this census bureaus american community service provides information such as how many families do not have health insurance and how many people are living with disabilities. last week house republicans passed a bill that would do away with the survey saying it's too expensive and raises
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privacy concern. the survey is vital toward the appropriate number of people. that bill now goes to the senate. a wealth of pressures here in san francisco. an inside look at the u.s. mint celebrates an anniversary. news chopper 2 following breaking news in albany. what you see here is a group of protesters, they have in the last few minutes arrived at the occupy the farm site. we have the forecast it's going to warm up. i'll show you which cities become the warmest. passengers in wheelchairs, rescued from a burning van. >> i had to do something. >> hear more from the good samaritans at 6:00. >> then -- >> what's in a name and why a cash strapped city wants to spend millions changes that to this. >> we told you about the
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increasing number of whales caught in fishing lines, now -- >> we'll show you the dangers presented to the whales and how some people are trying to rescue them. >> tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00.
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more now on the breaking news, the occupy the farm protest going on right now in albany. what ewe see -- what you see here is a number of protesters test gathers gathered. it's going to impact people trying to get home from work tonight. again this is going on live at san pablo, right across from where occupy the farm protesters had taken over a field owned by uc berkeley. as you recall yesterday morning, those protesters were kicked out by authorities and if you look closely you can see authorities have lined against the fence to try to keep these protesters from jumping the fence and occupying that farm area if you will once again. we should also note here that just an interesting little side bar, this happens to be about a block away from the albany police station. there you can see some of the
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police right there. we're going to keep an eye on this, see if anything develops right now. but again the headline at this hour, protesters it appears have stopped traffic on at least part of san pablo. very close to the intersection with marin and what you have right now is essentially a stand off between those occupy the farm protesters and the police who are lined up behind the fence. today we got a rare glimpse inside the san francisco mint on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. david stevenson live in the city with the changes coming to the change in your pocket. >> reporter: gasia that's right, we got inside one of the nation's most valuable piece of real estate and learned new information about the coins that will be coming out of here in the next few weeks. these coins are 99.9% silver bullion. they are being turned into expensive collectibles. ktvu got a rare tour inside the u.s. mint in san francisco as
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it celebrated its 75th anniversary today. >> this is our 75th, we're making history right now. >> reporter: with millions of the dollars worth of silver bullion on trays, and buckets security is tight. >> on par with the world airports, if someone gets treated with say for instance chemotherapy, the alarm is going to go ob downstairs. >> reporter: the mint is minting these commemorative eagle coins. >> we look for any flaws, any defects making sure everything looks good. >> reporter: mint operators are also excited about a plan to market a special series of quarters marked with an s for san francisco under in god we trust. in an age to get people excited about collected. >> there hasn't been s mint marked since the early 50s. it's nice to have these early mint mark back in circulation.
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>> reporter: the san francisco edition of the american eagle goes on sale june 7th. the cost of the set will be determined on silver prices close to the release date. san francisco police tonight have scheduled a community meeting aimed at stopping public dumping. bernal heighting has been ground zero for dumping for years. san francisco department of public works says large amounts of construction debris are being left in the neighborhood. says this has been happening almost every month since october and is very expensive to clean up. tonight's meeting starts at 7:00 at the engle side station. not long after frances' president took office, the president's plane was hit by lightning. no one was hurt and the aircraft was not damaged, mr. olan and staff eventually
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boarded another plane for the trip to germany where he met with that country's leader to discuss europe's debt crisis. let's talk more now about our weather. if fog is the best thing we're talking about i guess we're doing pretty well. >> yeah, we're doing pretty well. temperatures tomorrow in the inland valleys it'll feel a little warmer like the low 80s. still cooler than it was last week. wind is ushering a cooler temperature pattern into concord. 75degrees in concord. check the animated wind gauge there and you have 22-miles-an- hour coming off the cardenas straight there. winds blowing pretty heavy into this area. what it's doing is transporting the cold air into the valley. you will notice it overnight lows tonight are going to be on the cool side again. 40s and low 50s at best. as we head into the long range just a mild weather pattern: tomorrow should be the warmest day of the week. tomorrow it's warming nice.
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grasses are combing on as well but i said this a couple of weeks ago whatever is blooming outside of your house, that's what's bothering you. everything is in bloom right now. as we go through the microclimates tomorrow, 70s, mid-70s, upper 70s. you're going to get into the low and mid-80s at best. 85 toward modesto and stockton. for the giants it's going to be a good night for baseball. it's going to be breezy at the ballpark. about 54 degrees for that start time. 81 in clear lake, 76 in sonoma. forecast highs, we were doing in the upper 80s. still a nice day, danville 80, livermore 80 degrees. good air quality. that's because of the strong winds coming off the bay and
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off the ocean. santa cruz 68 degrees. fog is going to be there, it'll be there all night. make a big push tonight inland. there's going to be a lot of fog in the inland bay valley. hayward ways up with fog, just like today. the bay area weekend in view in the five day forecast. >> thanks, we'll see you at 6:00. >> sure. next month the world is going to get an inside look into the early days of facebook. katherine lasia assistant to founder mark zuckerberg is releasing a new book and is promising to release the ventures. the book is titled the boy king, a journey into facebook. with data breakers set for this sunday, we'll tell you how much fun you can have and still make it across the finish line.
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california senator barbara boxer wants to know what's going on at the san onofre power plant. senator boxer asked the commission for details on how the agency is looking into the matter and what design changes
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are being proposed for the generators. san francisco will hold its beta breakers foot race and today police layed down the rules for having fun and staying safe. >> it really is about the spirit of san francisco and capitalizing on all the positive energy that comes to town. >> the famous san francisco event phone as the beta racers is part serious foot race, part costume race and costume party. but in the past there's been problems especially when the alcohol flows freely. this year police will be out to make sure to deter activity that deters from the fun. >> that includes drinking in public, selling to overintoxicated persons. rule number one being have a great time. rule number two is respect, respect the city, respect the
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neighborhoods which this race runs. >> race officials also gave the beta breakers civil service award to jimmy servaner. the beta breakers runs 7 miles through the city from the embarca -- embarcadero out to the ocean. the burn order came after a worker died in north carolina after riding his mower and that riding mower fell more than 140 feet down an enbankment. the mowing suspension will be in place until individual parks review their own safety. the stories of heroism from two men that ran into danger. the small change some say
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will make a big difference in one town.
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two disabled adults were saved just moments before this
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van burst into flames we talked to two men who put their own lives at risk to save strangers. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. >> happening right now, supporters and protesters who started a farm marched back to that contested site within the last 30 minutes news chopper 2 has been bringing us these scenes. protesters said they wanted to grow food on that near by track property but the university owns the land and says it uses it for research. so authorities cleared out all the protesters expect for one protester that remains in a tree. these protesters have returned to occupy the site and are blocking a road. a cab driver and construction worker are be

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