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20 piece mcnuggets are only $4.99. you offer to share them. that's pretty smart. [ male announcer ] 20 piece chicken mcnuggets now on mcdonald's new extra value menu. . he seas he and his brother were sexually abused by a priest 35 years ago. >> good afternoon, i am tori campbell. a trial is underway for a man who severely beat the priest due to alleged abuse. we are outside the courthouse to let us know what happened so
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far. good afternoon, robert. >> reporter: good afternoon. the hauls of justice showed very clearly the strategy by both sides. this is a 44-year-old trial that will lynch wanted. he showed up with his attorney pat harris and greeted by reporters carrying signs who lunch is accused of attacking in 2010. he said the priest molested him and his younger brother on a camping trip when they were young boys. it showed a bloodied lindner and said who boat the old man. he planned and execute add violent attack for revenge. she called lynch a vigilante and taking the law in your own hand assist not a defense. >> he showed a tv interview describing in detail the alleged molestation and the prosecutor emphasized it proves lynch's motive and lindner is not the one on trial.
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they said the case doesn't end and start with the attack. repeatedly raped lynch and continuously described it as a rape. >> he apologized for the graphic terms and that will be the main message. this is rape. not molestation. it is not about revenge but about a man, a priest lindner who has never brought to justice. he said he will pitch his credibility against lindners. >> ktvu, tv news. thank you, ability. what caused last week's fire that created chaos in the area. >> the natural response team is trying to figure this out today. they are at the site of the fire that destroyed a senior complex under construction and damaged nearby bar tracks
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andclaudine wong has more -- and claudine wong has more. >> they are trying to figure out how the fire started. we will give you a look at this area. you can see an atf agent back there. and up ton, you can see what the fire left behind. and the atf is looking through the evidence and sifting for gold. >> it is careful. methodical and it will take awhile. >> in the shadow of the bar tracks, they began their search. 22 members of the atf response team. >> they with local responders got their first up close look at the mangled mess this fire left behind. >> these are the best. the. >> the team you are looking at is trained in fire and detection. >> they are mappers. fire, and chemical engineers. even lyle la flew in for the job. accelerant dog who can detect
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up to 20 different types of chemicals. find out where and how the fire started. >> he will excavate the entire site. >> yes, if you know what the project looked like. it was four stories above the concrete slab. >> the four stories collapsed down on the concrete slab and now we have to sift through all floors to go through the origin. >> they will ease the financial and manpower told this type of investigation. can take object local agencies. when oakland called, they responded. >> unfortunately due to the instability of the building we had to wait for clearance. we waited and got clearance on monday, we started today. >> this investigation will take days at this point we are waiting for a crane to come in and then the atf says the walls will start coming down piece by piece as this job of figuring out how the fire started officially gets underway.
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>> live here, claudine wong. >> part of an oakland business was significantly damaged after an early morning fire. it happened before four at the kelly moore paint store on 42nd street and telegraph avenue. it was mainly in the storage and receiving area. they had to break into the building because it was locked up for the night. >> they are able to gain interior access and put the fire out. >> the structural damage may be more than $50,000. the chief at the scene said the fire does not appear to be suspicious. former san jose police officer is set to be sentenced after sex acts with two teenage boys. patrick derig go pleaded not contest in march. prosecutors say he met the victims on the internet. he faces about four years in prison and will be required to
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register as a sex offender. san francisco police are investigating two separate shootings this morning. each left a man wounded. the first shooting is 4:15 a.m. at geneva avenue. they are looking for two people in that case. the shooting was a little more than an hour later and 2 miles away in a sunny dale district. the victims are listed in stable condition. >> the oakland city council approved a series of agreements object a billion dollars proposal to redevelop the city's old army base. >> dozens of people urged them to work out a deal and turn the facility into a shipping. packaging and distribution center that would serve the port of oakland. >> they voted 7-0 with 1 abstention for the deal. >> they must hire half the workforce from oakland. the council needed to vote to avoid losing a quarter billion dollars in state funding. ear marked specifically for the
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project. >> i think we got as good as we could get at the moment. i feel good about moving along. it is thousands and thousands of jobs that will come to oakland. >> employers agreed not to ask about criminal record for construction jobs on the project and may do so for permanent jobs at the facility if it is the company's policy nationwide. >> this is day six of the sit in at oakland's lake view elementary school. >> parents vowed to stay put until the district changes its mind about closing the school. the district wants to close lake view and four other schools due to budget issues. they told ktvu told police officers that they told them to leave yesterday. >> others did. and some said they will stay and teach sum are school classes to children. >> the coroner may provide answers stemming from a discovery, the oakland estuary. we first reported this yesterday morning. police found a man's body near
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the aquatic center. there were weights attached to his head. witnesses report seeing a red car parked in the area for at least three days. the coroner said the man who died was 27 years old and not yet released his name or determined how he died. >> we are learning more about a little girl who was hit by a car while trying to save a boy in not did he say toe. >> he is being called -- modesto. >> she pushed him out of the way only to be hit herself. the boy she saved was her older brother gilbert. >> my brother came running in and said something happened to her. and got hit by a car. we were down the street. >> she is recovery at a hospital with a fractured skull. lacerated spleen. two broken ankles. cracked ribs and a broken arm. the driver stopped and he is not facing charges since they
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say this was an accident. >> big changes could be just down the road for san francisco's market street. tonight's warm day on the first day of summer. mark will be here to tell us about a change coming to the forecast. >> i am scott mcpart land. the top law official will be held in concement in front of congress. that is coming up -- held in contempt.
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. president obama said he will not give a congressional committee the documents it wants related to the justice departments fast and furious gun running program in mexico. now they are deciding whether to cite attorney general for contempt of congress. >> scott mack far lane joins us. >> scott in. >> this is a constitutional showdown in the u.s. house of representatives right now and in a few moments, they will likely vote to hold the top law enforcement officer in contempt of congress. >> just before the official vote. u.s. house reason can said the top law enforcement officer. the u.s. attorney general has stone walled this. >> if he did not know about fast and furious before brian terry was murdered or didn't
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approve of the wiretap what is he ex certing privilege for? >> they began investigating the face and furious program. it allowed them to fall into the mexicans hands. >> they subpoenaed thousands of pages of documents in the program and suggested that top brass suggested they bury the truth. >> who knew about this. and how high up did it go and even the president of the united states and when did they know it. >> they said the republicans are waging a political witch hunt. >> you accuse them for protecting documents that he was prohibited by law from producing. >> the white house in an unexpected decision moments before the u.s. house committee voted to withhold the documents and saying doing so would damage the agent's ability to do its job and violate the constitution. >> again, the u.s. house committee. a few minutes away to hold him
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in contempt of congress. the u.s. house as a whole must vote on it. it could happen in the next few weeks. >> scott macfarlane, ktvu news. people are being sworn in today and among them a woman with a.m. i seeing determination. the significant timing of this event. good afternoon, paul. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. things cleared out here and i will tell you what they came in as immigrants and came out as u.s. citizens. more than 1300 people from 112 countries poured into the paramount today. they took part in the swearing in ceremony and one of the people is claudia. a chilean immigrant and now an u.s. citizen. she was a domestic worker in
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the 1990s and the road to get here was tough. >> long struggle with imimmigration and labor. and going through a lot of rough moments. >> reporter: others here agree that it was a hard to get their citizenship and also a proud moment in their lives. >> one woman said she is happy her unborn child will have an easy road to become a citizen. >> so. >> she will be an american citizen as well. >> it comes at an important time in the america's history. >> barack obama announced the u.s. plans to stop deporting illegal immigrants. this is something she wishes was around 20 years ago. and still, it makes her extremely happy. >> that's great. >> that's awesome. > >> to keep things going, a lot of people came out and registered to vote. they are very proud to be u.s.
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citizens. >> live in oakland. i am paul chambers. >> thank you, paul. a sue sid bomber killed three american troops. their afghan interpreter and 17 civilians today. that happened 50 miles southeast of kabul and afghan officials say the bomber rammed a vehicle into a military convoy and detonated the explosive. >> former egyptian president hosni mubarak is said to be off life support. he suffered a stroke. he has been transferred from a prison hospital to a military hospital. mubarak was sentenceed to a life term after he was ousted in a popular up rising last year. his wife and children are said to be at his bedside. we were supposed to learn the winner of the presidential election in egypt. short time ago, authority it is say announcement of the winner
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will be delayed but gave no new date. >> the defense rested this morning in the sex abuse trial of former penn state coach jerry assistant dusky. without calling him to testify. he faces 51 counts of child sexual abuse. 10 men testified that he molested them. they stayed in sandusky's home and others said nothing happened. the case could go to the jury tomorrow the and the jury will be sequestered during deliberations. >> wikileaks founder julian assange is trying to get asylum inside ecuador, british police say he violated an overnight curfew and could be of arrested as soon as he steps outside. he wants political asylum to avoid being extraditeed to sweden where he was wanted for
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two alleged sexual assaults. there is an effort underway to ban cars from market street in san francisco. traffic is already restricted on the major road. in 2009, the governor enact add policy that made he is bound drivers turn right at 10th and sixth streets. now a coalition of city agency assist looking to take it further by eliminating private vehicles between franklin and stuart streets. it is to speed up public transit and make more room for bicyclists and pedestrians. >> it shows favoritism. >> i am against it. any kind of favoritism at all. >> it is a real tight schedule. if we have the cars that way. and it will make it more accessible. >> city officials will hold meetings on the issue next month. they hope to have a plan in place at the end of the year. there is a setback for the
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firefighters battling the fire in colorado. it prompted warnings of more evacuations. the wildfires have been burning since june 9th. it destroyed 81 homes. making it the most destructive fire in history. the fire is now 55% contained. they say it could be weeks or even months before it is finally controlled. full containment is expected tomorrow in a wildfire burning in campo and it is burning since it started on sunday afternoon. one mobile home and one recreational vehicle have been destroyed. >> 150 homes have been evacuated. the cause is still under evacuation. >> well, here in the bay area. >> temperatures are warming up nicely for the same summer solstice. you can see the clear skies we have outside. right now. in fact, san francisco warming back up into the low # 0s.
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it is nice afternoon out there. and clear skies here. and most of the region has lots of sunshine except near monterey bay. you can see the cloud pattern out there. and the patch with pacific grove and also touching parts of santa cruz. and this will be clearing out over the next few hours and nice day towards santa cruz over the next few hours. >> we will call it warm to hot. clouds on the increase with the morning hours and major cooling trends begins. weekend, the cool pattern sticks around and it is strangely chilly for saturday and into sunday. complete opposite with last weekend. we have the triple digit temperatures. >> showing you the 80s and livermore is approaching the 0 degrees right now. it is at # one in san francisco and oakland at # 3 degrees. peeking for today. there is eventual rain for the 70s to 90s and strengthens it for a little bit. >> it is a bigger perspective
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and cool weather system with the area of low pressure. and you will definitely notice the presence as we head into thursday and friday. it is a big drop off beginning tomorrow and it continues into friday and right on through the weekend. >> we are talking about 60s and # 0s as we head into thursday through the weekend period. here is the forecast model. showing you of increase. it is the first thing tomorrow morning. partly cloudy as we head into thursday afternoon and that whipped on buy -- by. >> that is from the 80s and 90s. >> santa rosa is topping around 80s. and livermore 89. and san rafael in the mid-08s. >> here is a look ahead. >> -- mid-80s. and it will fast ball breezy and cool for friday. we will stick with the cool theme into the weekend.
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tori, if you like the warm temperatures, make the most of today with the readings peeking out there this afternoon. >> low # 0s. and doesn't sound too bad. thank you, mark. >> the biggest county fair is now underway. the alameda county fair opened its gates an hour ago. in pleasant ton. and this is the 100th year of the fair and celebrate the offering. it is offering a special deal just for today. >> we kick off our fare with dollar days and dollar admission into the fair. >> new this year. >> a big water slide. this is 17 day event that includes three nights of fireworks and the world's largest outdoor grill. >> it is closed on minutes. >> just ahead -- on minutes. > ed federal reserve took action to boost the economy. >> conservative leaders sworn in as prime minister.
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have they been able to have a coalition government. into juilliard.
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hour. >> chairman ben bernanke announced they are extend ago agency to spur borrowing and spending through lower term interest rates. >> bernanke reiterated its plan to short term rates at record lows and until at least late 2014. however, the fed also sharply lowered it's out look for growth. it now thinks it will grow no more than 2.4% this year. >> new at noon, greece has a new prime minister with a tough job. he was worn in at the head of the three party coalition and promises to get better deals for the buyout his country needs. they need more budget cuts and exchange for bailout loans. the country is in fifth year of recession with rising unemployment. he is a conservative lead ago coalition government. political analysts consider the government quite fragile. today on ktvu news at five.
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we are learning more about a huge raid in the recycling centers. who is involved and what investigators were looking for and what they found. thank you for trusting ktvu for news. we will see you next time news breaks and we are always here for you on ktvu.com.
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