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>> he was knocked out. >> reporter: family posted a message to one of the facebook pages for stephen martin saying they terminated life support. homicide investigators need help identifying the men and women in these photos. >> we know they were part of the second group of people that had the confrontation with stephen martin and his friends. >> reporter: police are looking for more photos taken around the time of the attack. >> we are trying to see if we could get photos of the assault. >> reporter: police are asking people to check their phones and camera because they may have the attack. live in san francisco, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >> the bay area is one of the few places that recorded an increase in property crimes. property crimes scored 27.7% in oakland and 1.6% in san
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francisco. violent crime jumped 5% in oakland. in san francisco it dropped 6.5%. police rookies have 6 hours to apply for the police academy. they received a thousand applicants already. but 55 will attend in august. 15 weeks of field training with a veteran officer before they hit the streets. the coast guard is suspending search operation for a man. he and a friend were climbing rocks, fell and hit his head on the waves. they searched into the night and yesterday, they found the
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back pack but nothing out. robert handa says firefighters are trying to get a jump on any fire no matter how small it is. robert? >> reporter: firefighters say we are starting to see the results of our dry winter and the late rain, they created prime fire conditions, including hot weather. >> reporter: not a place firefighters expect to see a strong active fire. the view shows the difficulties starting after 11:00 a.m., cal fire had to send ground crews into heavy brush and steam terrain. cal fire's unit provided an aerial view and water drops and helped firefighter contain the fire. >> we didn't have a good idea how far the fire progressed.
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they dropped their crews off and allowed the ground forces to circle the fire. >> reporter: the weather fire cooperated. >> been dry, warm and quite a bit of wind. wind gave us a break. >> reporter: the brisbane is the latest fire. the san jose fire department is investigating two grass fires from this weekend, including this 9-acre fire on a grassy hill along highway 87. >> happened so quit and spread so fast. like a lot of dry grass. >> reporter: and the conditions are calm right now. at 6:00, more on how cal fire are dealing with fire season sees. live, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. the hot weather prompted an
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extreme fire danger warning in the national parks. new restrictions for point raise national seashore and the golden gate national recreation center. all wood and car coal fires are -- charcoal fires are banned and no smoking on park trails. coming up, a fire displace as dozen people, what investigators think started it. police found a picasso lithograph worth $30,000 that was missing. it reappeared yesterday. it was left leaning against a fence at the home of ukrainian prime minister pavlo lazarenko. he is serving a prison term for money laundering. we are getting new information about a shooting that claimed the life of a
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young man saturday afternoon. police identified the victim as justin shoemaker. the gunman fled in a car before officers arrived. police are offering $10,000 for information leading leading to the arrest of the killer. police made an arrest in the fatal hit and run of a 72- year-old woman. the victim was struck in san ramon last night. witnesses told investigators the suspect was driving a red ford explorer. police later arrested the owner of the vehicle. he is on probation and has a arrest warrant for burglary. the man convicted of killing three members of a san
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francisco family learned his fate today. ktvu's rob roth is live where edwin ramos found out how long he will be behind bars. >> reporter: the man convicted today of the triple homicide refused to take responsibility for the murders. >> reporter: moments before the judge handed down the sentence edwin ramos addressed the family of anthony bologna. >> there is not a day that goes bay -- >> reporter: he says a fellow gang member shot anthony bologna and two of his sons four years ago, that edwin ramos just drove the cars. moments later the judge handed down had sentence. >> sentence to life without the possible of parole.
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>> reporter: at one point he smirked. >> four years. we waited. so you could imagine today is a good day. >> the judge imposed the right sentence. he will serve the rest of his life in prison. >> justice is served. >> reporter: before sentencing the defense claimed two incidences of jury misconduct in crying of the anthony bologna family influenced the jury. >> they are the victims here. >> reporter: she didn't have much to say. >> nothing that comes out of his mouth is the truth. the defense says it will appeal and ask for a new trial. reporting live in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. friday deadline looming, leaders met with governor jerry brown today trying to figure out how to close the deficit of
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$16 billion. they are trying to avoid welfare cuts the governor proposed. it depends on voters approving a measure that would raise state taxes. twitter announced it is moving into its new san francisco headquarters. officials said their new nest is ready in the mid-market neighborhood. they plan to be a good nar. twitter will occupy three floors of the market square building. coming up a big day for another giant, the unveiling by apple and the new features that are coming. the governor jerry brown sex abuse trial got underway today. the penn state assistant football coach is accused of
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abusing 10 boys. on the stand today, one of the victims testified he gave him gifts and made me feel like i was his girlfriend. he said he feels responsible for what happened to other victims because he didn't come forward earlier. some say many witnesses are not ready to tell their story but are going forward. >> this morning the prosecution opened the door to justice and what we saw was not pretty. >> in opening statement the defense said the victims have a finance interest in pursuing the case. in the roger clemens trial, testimony wrapped up today without roger clemens taking the stand. he is accused of lying when he told congress he never used steroid. the trial is now in the 9th 9th
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week. 46 witnesses so far. closing arguments are set for tomorrow. a pair of earthquakes left three people dead in afghanistan. the first earthquake measured 5.6 and followed 25 minutes later by a 5.4. they triggered a landslide that buried 20 homes and left 80 people trapped or missing. the u.s. open brings the world's top golfers to the bay area, how neighborhoods and other are coping with the big game. >> after a weekend with red flag warnings, things are changing, we have a big cçrrú
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ktvu's david stevenson is live where preps are well underway. >> reporter: the main event is on the asphalt as police direct the thousands of spectators who come for the competition. >> reporter: the 112 u.s. open isn't just bringing the top talent to san francisco, she traveled in from ireland to volunteer. >> we have to support the players and look that u.s. open players. >> reporter: the golf association estimates 250,000 people will attend the tournament and spend $140 million in the bay area. >> done vel well for the sit -- done very well for the city. >> reporter: hotels and food and beverage businesses say the tournament is shining a spotlight on san francisco. >> we are by the beach. bring as lot of people from all
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over the world -- brings a lot of people from all over the world. >> reporter: spectators are asked to leave their cars at candlestick park. the hope is to prevent a repeat of the 1998 u.s. open in which neighbors say the streets were over run with cars. >> you could barely walk in and out. all the streets were packed with cars. >> reporter: it prompted some residents to buy souvenir. >> 1500 worth of souvenirs. getting carried away. the gates remain open through 7:00 p.m. each day this week. police say that means drivers should expect traffic tie ups through 7:00 p.m. every night. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. more details on the u.s. open. this is the fifth time the olympic club played post.
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first time was in 1955 and then in 1966. there was a lull and the tournament returned in 1987 and 1998. the club, the olympic club was founded in 1860 and is the oldest athletic club in the u.s. a one day strike planned for wednesday. the california nurses associations objects for them asking for 100 concessions and many of those would lowther quality of patient care -- lower the quality of patient care. >> they have been closing down community services and they have been taking away many of the -- the things we had before in our contracts that epius to advocate for patients. >> the management says it is the nurses who are compromising care since going on strike four
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times. striking nurses will not be allowed to come back till monday. for many patients getting rest may be a part of recovery but hospital noise could get in the way of sleep. not just the noise level but the type of sound. certain sounds found in hospitals, can wake people up. researchers say it may provide ways hospitals can focus on mitigating the noises. the u.s. commerce secretary suffered a seizure before crashing his car in los angeles. john bryson was arrested on felony hit and run charges saturday. investigators say he rear ended a car. spoke to the driver and then drove off hitting the car again. 5 minutes later he hit another
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car. officers found him unconscious and took him to the hospital. the incident was unique. >> john bryson was alone. not with security detail. on private time which is common. and it resulted in him having a seizure. >> he hasn't been formally charnelled and returned to washington, d.c. -- charged and returned to washington, d.c. the occupy the form protest cost university of california at berkeley more than $380,000. last month demonstrators took over their gill tract. police spent $300,000 on costs including over time as well as pay for officers from other campuses and private security contractors. in addition more than $50,000 gone towards repairing damage from the protest. albany says it spent thousands of dollars in over time. a san jose land mark could
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become closer to becoming a regional park. the board is expected to approve a plan to open it to the public. the station has sweeping views of the bay and the ocean. it plans for tearing down all the buildings except the radar building. if approves they would hold a public hearing in july. children and parents will soon have a place to cool off. officials will open the swim center this weekend at buchanan park. it was closed for a renovation, a dedication is friday at 4:00 and it will open on saturday. >> they can't wait. today would be the day to be getting wet because it is hot out there. >> pittsburg is 94 degrees now
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but temperatures are trending downward because the winds have shifted. i i can show you the winds. i will pop into the golden gate bridge. wsw, west southwest at 17. direction. what is happening, this bowy, that is 18 -- buoy, that is 18 miles per hour. those winds will cool things off substantially over the next 24 hours. we will drop 5-10 degrees tomorrow. after today's very, very warm- day hot day, temperatures trending down. it is still hot out there and the fire danger still remains high. hot day like today and
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yesterday, things get brown. by wednesday you will not be seeing green. fire danger remains up there. over night lows in the 50s. last week 40s. remember how chilly it was? over night lows in the mid-50s. 50s towards antioch. fairfield 60 degrees. warm inland. these are the highs, current temperatures for right now, 90s inland bay valley. tomorrow we push the 90s back. temperatures tomorrow down 5-10 degrees around oakland, hayward, redwood city because the cool sea breeze. golden gate park 60 degrees. fog.
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patchy fog. and then it comes back down the road in the middle of the week. tomorrow morning, patchy fog at the beach. 60 degrees in golden gate park. 79 degrees lafayette. 81 eighty two livermore -- 82 livermore valley. 90s still exist but temperatures coming down. past clayton, hamilton, you will find 90s. but the sea breeze is pushing in. when i come back here we will go to the five-day forecast, look at the bay area weekend and the forecast specifically for your house tomorrow. it will be cooler and you will notice it tuesday. see you back here. a major construction project is about to start. the area in the city where commuters could experience headaches starting tomorrow. >> nadia lockyer's troubles forced her out of office so who
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altrain as -- cal train as a alternative. september 1 they will run 92 trains between san francisco and san jose on week days. currently there are 86 trains. san francisco, and santa clara did not follow through on the threat to cut funding. appointing former union city councilman richard valle to replace nadia lockyer. nadia lockyer resigned from her seat in april after several personal scandals. richard valle plans to be at the office tomorrow. the u.s. supreme court refused to hear the so-called birther argument. earlier the court of appeals said the challengers didn't
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have legal standing to file the suite. two are still claiming the president was not born in the u.s. the president and the state of hawaii dismissed that allegation. researchers have a father's day gift for older dads. a study found those older fathers have longer chromosomes associated with better health and longer lives. older dads past them on to their children and grandchildren. studies found children of older fathers have a higher risk of autism and bipolar disorder. a freeway shooting has eerie similarities to ones in the past. >> a video of a east bay fire, what investigators say was the likely cause.
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complete bay area news coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. >> a woman survived a incident on the busiest freeway, she was shot while driving her car and police believe it had nothing to do with road rage. police are trying to find out who was behind the shooting that left the woman with a gun shot wound to her throat. ktvu's patty lee is live with more. >> reporter: we sat down with police and they said this is the area where they believe that shooting originated. you can see it has a clear view of interstate 80. >> reporter: the sound of gunfire was captured after 1:25 a.m. sunday morning by shot spotter
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technology, evidence supports what sounded like a unlikely series of events. >> received a call from california highway patrol regarding a shooting victim. >> reporter: detectives say a woman was shot while driving in the westbound lanes of i-80. >> she apparently was shot, one shot in the throat. >> reporter: despite the injury she said she drove her car 31- miles to the kaiser emergency room. >> it was scary to know anyone could just, you know, shoot you just for, you know, driving. >> reporter: it is a reminder of a series of shooting on this stretch of i-80 that terrified commuters in 2008. >> there were quite a few within a six month period of time. >> reporter: he says too little
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is known to make any assumptions. but drives should be aware. >> get off the freeway or pull to where there is a lot of people, light, honk your horn. draw attention to yourself. >> reporter: they have looked through the edges of the freeway looking for cases but they haven't found any. they expect more details when they interview the victim who is in stable condition. patty lee, ktvu channel 2 news. new information from police today. they released the identity of a man who was shot and killed. he was gunned down at west 9th 9th and i street saturday morning according to police. a friend says a group of people left a party when two men tried to rob the group. one man pulled out a gun and he
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was shot. a second man suffered injuries. police made no arrests in the case. we know the identity of a man shot and killed outside a bar in san jose last week. police say he was gunned down outside the bar friday morning. after the shooting police identified the suspect's car and arrested three men in connection where the killing. happening right now a commute meeting in san francisco to address concerns about the so-called party buses. they take people to nightclubs and allow them to drink alcohol on the bus. but some operators say many people arrive so drunk they get into fights and at the meeting they are discussing the problem. some back a law that would require chaperons for anyone
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under 21. it is hard to believe everyone made it out okay at the rivershore apartments. as ktvu's lorraine blanco shows us quick thinking saved lives. >> reporter: a raging apartment fire caught on tape by a neighbor. it started in a porch after 1:00 a.m. and spread to three units at rivershore apartments in bay point. >> we didn't know if they were dead or not. >> quick thinking teen rushed to the rescue waking as many as he could. >> i got everybody out of the house, went around the complex, knocking on doors. >> reporter: crews on scene elevated the fire to three alarms. 16 people and 4 units scrambled to safety. >> he wouldn't get up.
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i was screaming. >> reporter: fire ravage two homes and two sustained too much damage they are unlivable. >> no injuries and firefighters made quick work of bringing the fire under control in 45 minutes. >> reporter: investigators are looking into weather a bbq grill is to blame. regardless you need to be careful in the dry conditions. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. police in sacramento say a gang member is the suspect in a weekend shooting that killed four people, including the gunman. the 26-year-old shooter is a parolee who is suggest to supervision after serving time. he was killed at the scene after he entered a home and shot a husband and wife who lived there as well as a 33-
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year-old man. another resident shot him. observers paid a visit to syria. here is video showing the observers in the town. it has not been verified. reports from the u.n. say there is new violence with syrian troops shelling towns and strafing them from attack helicopters. doctors revived hosni mubarak when they couldn't find a pulse. he was given a life sentence 9 days ago and suffering from high blood pressure, depression and breathing difficulties. hosni mubarak is 84 years old and ruled egypt for 29 years. scientists uncurved a link -- uncovered a dark link with death. plus the problem on board the mars rover that could contaminate samples. >> new software and hardware, a
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age. over all there are 14% more people dying on s than those dying on other dies. one factor might be an increase in birthday suicides. a insurance company will comply with many of president obama's healthcare reforms even if the law is over turned. united healthcare committed to the law today. allowing children to stay on their parent's plan till 26 and no life time dollar limits but they will not commit to keeping children with preexisting issues till 18. nasa's latest mars rover is on schedule. it launched in november and headed to a crater and will collect samples to determine if
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the environment could have been suitable for life. scientists are working to fix a problem with the drill that will bore into the surface. right now it might contaminate the examples. a teacher honored by president obama. a math teacher in san francisco is among 97 teachers who will receive the award for excellence in math and science. all the teachers will get $10,000 from the national science foundation. apple showed off new hardware and software today, what was included and what was not still ahead. >> and back here in a couple minutes, highs from today were warm but there are big changes, the winds and the fog and temperatures are coming down. how much cooler for your
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the crowd. which should be easy since the high will be 75 degrees. [ laughter ] >> thank you for that. >> reporter: today apple introduced new notebooks and laptops. better than the best hd tvs at the same or lower cost. new software. iphones will get a new operating system two, where it becomes more responsive to your commands. >> who is taller lebron james or kobe bryant? >> lebron james appears to be taller. >> reporter: and it will give users turn by turn directions, catching up with android systems. >> they don't do -- they don't respond to pressure for the sake of responding. they take their time.
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>> reporter: smartphones are cutting into sales of cameras, gps devices. as we see the intelligence grow it is difficult for competitive devices to keep up. >> they know where you are, what you are doing. not too much of a reach to think of it as sensory extensions. that sounds a little bit far efetched but i don't think we are far -- far-fetched but we think we are far off from it. >> reporter: look for the iphone 5 in septembeber or october. reporting live, consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> we posted the address from the worldwide developers conference on our website www.ktvu.com, look under the video section. filming on a new movie on the life of steve jobs.
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alamedaoklahoma -- ashton kutcher has been hired to play jobs. another film about jobs is also in the works. dozens of people lost their jobs at lodge tech. they laid off opportunity part of a restructuring aimed at cutting operating costs. they plan to cut 450 jobs. they make commute keyboards and mice. the federal reserve says the net worth of americans is at its lower level in two decades. the medium wealth for families was $77,300. that's down 39% from $126,400 in 2007. and the lowest since 1992. a major factor was a drop in
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home equities. on wall street today, a spanish bank rescue led to a strong open but the market slid as the day went on. the dow is down 143 to 12,411. the nasdaq is down 48 at 2,810. the s&p is down 17 at 1,309. chrysler is expanding its recall of suv, recalling 137,000 jeep liberties in addition to the 200 from 2004 and 2005 recalled in mark. the administration says the lore control arms in the rear suspensions can rust and break. they know of no crashes or injuries. a wildfire in colorado is more than doubled in size since yesterday. the fire is growing at 40 feet a second and reached 36,000 acres. firefighters have been going door to door to make sure
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people escape the flames. destroyed hundreds of buildings. it started on sunday and touched off by lightning. in central new mexico another wildfire. 1500 people have been evacuated. it destroyed several dozen buildings and burned 35,000 acres of land. some remarkable video out of florida where floods hit last week. these pictures were taken thursday in jacksonville after a teenager driver ended up deep under water. they were anal to escape by rolling down a back window and getting out as the car sank. the car dealer heard what happened and gave the teen a
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car today to continue his job delivering pizzas. >> that is scary. your car disappears. we don't have to worry about that. one of the warmest days today, mid-90s. you are feeling it. feels like august. first time in a while we are feeling like summer, central valley, vacs, reno -- vegas, reno, it is hot. these are the current temperatures. the cooler curlers, the -- colors, the yellows and the greens, we are getting a sea breeze. that wasn't here yesterday. that will cool things off. we are seeing cooling in oakland, redwood city, 84 degrees. further cooling tomorrow as well. that is where we go. these are the highs from today. warm, hot.
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highs tomorrow coming down 5-10 degrees. we will still see low 90s inland, fairfield, antioch, livermore. oranges are the 80s. along the bay, the greens and yellows is the cooler sea breeze. inversion still shallow. forecast tomorrow cooler but warm inland. cooling trend continuing through the middle of the -- through the middle of the week. weekend with the high pressure and low-pressure system comes close to us. nudges the high away and ushers in the fog and cooler air and, you know, besides sleeping better, drops the fire danger. things are drive but moist air helps. humidity down 10%. tomorrow, 45, 50%. not so bad.
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that is the story. a cooling trend. highs tomorrow, 90 in concord. 91 livermore. fremont, sunnyvale, still warm but not as hot as today. peninsula, chilly half moon bay, pacifica, patchy fog in the morning. there is the five-day forecast with your bay area weekend in view. you can see it will be a nice weekend as well. fire danger and cooler next couple of days. >> thank you. rescuers reunited a family and a serious shortage in san francisco, the one group that the city needs to lend a hand to. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier?
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this is what is left of a navy drone after it crashed today. the drone went down during a training flight. the coast guard set up a safety zone as investigators combed through the wreckage. dozens of people rallied in front of san francisco city hall today on low income seniors. advocates say they face a serious shortage of affordable
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housing. today some who live in the hotels spoke about the challenges they deal with. >> our rest rooms and showers do not have handrails to hold on to so we don't slip and fall. we seniors and disabled are asking for support in addressing the needs of the population. >> the san francisco board of supervisors met to look at ways to improve services for people living in the sros. a widow turned to the internet for help to find pallbearers for the funeral. he died this months after suffering a seizure. he didn't have many friends in california because he was fund the east coast so his wife turned to craigslist. >> my husband was a good man. good heart. and i don't know if i will ever meet someone like that again. i put my story on there asking
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if somebody could record the services and six navy sailors to dress up so they can carry his casket. >> she hopes to get an answer soon to burry her husband. we have an update on a story we brought you about baby hawks that fell out of their nets. they placed a second safely inside a new nest. winds knocked the nest down to the ground. researchers built a new sturdy nest. with the parents over head, the team climbed the tree and put them back in the nest. >> parents of all species. a dangerous mix, in 2 minutes we will track the dry, hot conditions that are increasing the fire danger. here is a live picture in san jose and plus when a cool down
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surrounds the prison break 50 years later. >> the fire fighting readiness on display today. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. >> i am gasia mikaelian. >> i am ken wayne. the cool down has already begun but today was the hottest day of the week. here is a live look, close to 80 degrees today. it is one place in the bay area where fire crews are on stand by because of the heat and dry conditions. ktvu's bill martin is tracking the heat in the weather center. >> this picture tells the story. if you look hard you can see green hew, this time of year it is usually completely brown. we had a little rain last week. we had red flag warnings this
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